School of Law Administration CONTENTS Dean and W. Frank Newton Professor of Law Jack Wade Nowlin

Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law Alison Myhra Dean’s Message 5 Associate Dean for Student Life Sofia Chapman Associate Dean for Bar Success and Professor of Law Catherine Christopher Associate Dean for Assessment and Strategic Initiatives Dean’s Year in Review and Professor of Law Wendy-Adele Humphrey 6 Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law Alyson Outenreath Associate Dean for Administration and Finance Frank Ramos, Jr. Associate Dean for Digital Learning and Graduate Education Pioneers on the and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor Victoria Sutton 12Frontier of Law Associate Librarian of Law and Interim Director Message of the Law Library Jamie Baker Tornado Memorial Assistant Dean for Academic Success Programs Amy Jarmon 19 Assistant Dean of Alumni Relations and Communications Ashley Langdon Gateway Project Assistant Dean for Admissions Danielle Saavedra Assistant Dean for Career and Professional Development Paula Smith Giants of Law School Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration Brian J. Uline Greetings from Lubbock! We’ve had their support for the school. We have 20 Assistant Dean of Academic Services and Registrar Janessa Walls a wonderful year at the Law School, always put our students first, and the including our very special 50th success of our graduates throughout Our alumni network is 8,000 their careers is the best measure of anniversary celebration. strong and I look forward Leaving a Legacy the school’s success. On that front, we 28 We have accomplished so much since have more to be proud of than we can to personally meeting you Editor-in-Chief the beginning—fifty years ago. possibly say. Ashley Langdon, Assistant Dean of Alumni Relations and Communications during my travels. Please The key to our success has been simple: Moreover, our great work with students Go for Gold! We always put our students first, and we today would not be possible without the contact my office today and Staff 35 focus on the real-world practical skills generous support of our alumni. Our let’s get to know one another. Lisa Green, Chief Operating Officer of the Texas Tech Law School Foundation that every lawyer needs. That has been graduates believe in giving back. They Karen Holden, Director of Development and Donor Relations know what a difference their generosity Oscar Natividad, Assistant Director of Design and Communication the Texas Tech Law tradition since we Alumni News first opened our doors in 1967, and we makes to the school. In countless 36 do it today better than ever. ways, our students benefit every single Reach out to Karen Holden, Design and Production day from the support we receive Director of Development and Promofuse Solutions You can see it in everything we do at from alumni. Nothing has been more the Law School, including the many important to us than that. Donor Relations, at Erin Agee, Owner and Publisher Senior Link Magazine Faculty Updates Jane Bromley successes highlighted in this magazine. 41 Marilyn Garrett I am pleased to say that 93.9% of Texas We look back on the last fifty years with [email protected] or Tech law graduates pass the bar within great pride, and we look forward to the two years of graduation, more than next fifty years with great enthusiasm. I 806-834-4910. Contributors any other public law school in Texas. know we will achieve so much together. A Strong Foundation Terry Greenberg, Greenberg Media Management The Law School has also continued We will build an even greater future for 44 Staci Semrad, Portico Communications, LLC to improve in national rankings, and this Law School and our students—the Sharon Ellman, Ellman Photography our legal writing program was recently next generation of Texas Tech Lawyers. ranked 16th in the nation by U.S. News, Donor Honor Roll © 2018 Texas Tech University School of Law. All rights reserved. the highest ranking of any Texas law 46 school. We are also very pleased with ~Jack Wade Nowlin our excellent employment and judicial Dean and W. Frank clerkship outcomes. Newton Professor of Law Most of all, I am proud of the many, many achievements of our alumni and 4 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 5 [Left to right] Jesus Cano ’18, James Tuck ’18, Bailey McGowan ’18, Emily Shanks ’18, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht, Alexandra Brak ’18, Nicole Amos ’17, and Jordan Fowler ’18 Energy Law Program

Texas Tech Law’s energy-law program provided students a wide array of opportunities to expand their knowledge YEAR th and gain skills necessary to enter the energy-law field. In the classroom, the energy-law program offered Anniversary classes in oil & gas law, water law, Texas land titles, agricultural law, environmental law, electricity law, HUFFMAN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER international petroleum transactions, and many others. 50 The Texas Tech Law Review welcomed Supreme Court of in Texas Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht as the 2017 Huffman Outside the classroom, students heard from six guest Distinguished Lecturer. Chief Justice Hecht discussed changes lecturers in the 2017-2018 Energy Law Lecture Series. in the legal profession and Texas judiciary. This lecture series works to cover a wide range of topics within the energy industry while still focusing on current REVIEW issues. The lecture series included a visit from Roderick E. Wetsel, a partner at Wetsel, Carmichael & Allen, LLP in Sweetwater, Texas. Wetsel is the newest member of the Energy Law faculty, teaching Wind Energy Law and 7TH ANNUAL ALUMNI BARBECUE Policy and Texas Mineral Titles as an adjunct professor. The Annual Alumni Barbecue kicked off a yearlong Wetsel is board certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, celebration of the Law School’s 50th anniversary. Over and co-author of the first treatise on Texas Wind Law. He 200 alumni, faculty, students, and staff enjoyed game- also serves on the Texas Title Standards Joint Editorial day comfort food, a photo booth, and a symbolic Board of the State Bar of Texas. groundbreaking using the five-handled shovel used when ground was broken for the current Law School building in 1968 and for the 2004 groundbreaking of the Mark & “This lecture series brings in impressive speakers DECEMBER 2017 HOODING CEREMONY presenting on energy topics that are both current and Becky Lanier Professional Development Center. Keynote speaker Justice Judy Parker ’85 of the Seventh Court [Left to right] Texas Tech University Provost Michael Galyean, Texas Tech meaningful,” noted Professor Bill Keffer, Director of the of Appeals challenged graduates to practice professionalism. Energy Law program. “It’s a great way to expose our University President Lawrence Schovanec, Texas Tech law alumnus “If we, the professionals, do not show respect for the courts, law students, as a whole, to the many aspects of, and Mark Lanier ’84, Texas Texas Tech University System Chancellor Robert opposing counsel, or the law, we can never expect the public to Duncan ’81, and Law School Dean Jack Wade Nowlin opportunities available in, the energy law field.” do the same,” advised Justice Parker. Students interested in energy law also had the benefit A VISIT FROM JUSTICE GUZMAN of six Nuts-and-Bolts workshops throughout the year. On October 3, 2017, the Hispanic Law Students These workshops teach students about practical Association hosted Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva applications of energy law and give more real-world Guzman. Justice Guzman spoke to students about civility in the law and different clerkship opportunities examples of what practicing energy law entails. with the Court. [Left to right] Taylor Guerrero ’18, John Garcia ’18, Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman, and Ruby Boone ’18

SEVENTH COURT OF APPEALS For the sixth consecutive year, the Seventh Court of Appeals, which usually presides in Amarillo, heard oral argument in the Texas Tech Law School Hunt PUBLIC INTEREST AUCTION REVIVED Jack F. Maddox Professor of Law Emeritus Bruce M. Kramer, former School Courtroom. Texas Tech law alumni Aaron R. Clements On February 15, 2018, the Public Interest Auction made a of Law oil and gas professor and current counsel at McGinnis Lochridge ’96, Jeffrey S. Ford ’07, and Justin M. Stevens ’17 argued strong comeback since it was last held in 2012. Law students law firm in Houston, speaking to a packed auditorium as the February 2018 before the court. and the Lubbock Area Bar Association got into the bidding Energy Law Lecturer. Kramer discussed “State & Local Regulations of Oil & spirit with winning bids totaling more than $13,000. The Gas Operations: Recent Developments & the NIMBY Syndrome.” money goes to fund stipends to support students doing invaluable, unpaid work with public interest groups.

6 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 7 14TH ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP GALA The evening brought together almost 300 alumni, students, and friends to celebrate the Law School’s anniversary and honor individuals who played OUR NUMBERS ADD UP TO SUCCESS an important role in Texas Tech Law’s journey over the past 50 years. Judge Les Hatch ’88, a 2015 Distinguished Service Award recipient, emceed the evening. Fourteen members of the law school’s inaugural class and Emeritus Professors Dave Cummins and Rodric Schoen were in attendance. Members IN THE of the first class, who never had a graduation ceremony, were presented with graduation hoods by Dean Nowlin. Former Journal editors, advocacy NATION champions, distinguished award recipients, and Texas Tech Law School Dr. Nathan Wright, Assistant Professor of Political Science IN THE AMERICAN BAR Foundation Board Members were also recognized throughout the evening. at Texas Tech University, kicked off diversity week ASSOCIATION COMPETITIONS Attendees really went to bat for student scholarships. Everyone who donated discussing “Liberty and Justice for Whom?” CHAMPIONSHIP [Left to right] Darryl Vereen ’92, Texas Supreme Court over $2,500 received a baseball bat. People circulated the room to get their Justice Phil Johnson ’75, Suzan Fenner ’72, and Mark bats signed all night. DIVERSITY WEEK Griffin ’79 Texas Tech Law celebrated the importance of ULTIMATE BAR PASSAGE diversity with faculty, staff, and students gathering 54TH IN THE NATION BY ABA throughout the week to hear from great speakers presenting on a variety of topics dealing with diversity MOOT COURT in the legal profession, including Texas Tech law PROGRAM alumni Emma Shinn ’07 and Chris Prentice ’86. TWO-YEAR IN NATION BAR PASSAGE BY BLAKELY RATE OF TEXAS ADVOCACY PUBLIC LAW INSTITUTE 2018 SCHOOLS BY ABA Advocacy LEGAL IN THE NATION WRITING The reputation of Texas Tech Law’s advocacy program continues IN 2018 FEDERAL JUDICIAL PROGRAM CLERKSHIP REPORT OF IN THE NATION BY US NEWS to grow after placing second in the inaugural American Bar RECENT GRADUATES Erika Sparkman and Benjamin Falk comprised the negotiation AND WORLD REPORT Association (ABA) Competitions Championship. team, while Kristen Gavigan, Rachel Holland-Hadjis, and Davinder Jassal made up the appellate advocacy team. A COMMUNITY DESIGNED FOR IMPACT To determine the Competitions Champion, points are awarded for the overall performance of law schools across the U.S. in Tech law students also added two national titles to the school’s FALL 2018 CLASS the ABA Law Student Division’s four practical skills competition already illustrious record. categories – appellate advocacy, arbitration, negotiation, and FIRST YEAR CLASS SIZE 149 client counseling. The law school with the most points through Alex Pennetti, Andrea Nfodjo, Kristen Gavigan, and Brian team participation and advancement in the four competitions Burkhardt claimed the school’s 41st national advocacy earns the ABA Competitions Champion title. championship at the National Pretrial Advocacy Competition in MEDIAN GPA MEDIAN LSAT Gulfport, Florida. 25th Percentile: 3.18 · 75th Percentile: 3.64 25th Percentile: 152 · 75th Percentile: 157 The ABA established the Competitions Championship to

recognize law schools that go above and beyond to prepare The tournament, which combines brief-writing, moot-court-style 55.7% 44.3% students for practice. MALE FEMALE oral-argument, and mock-trial-style witness-examination skills, 32.9% STUDENTS simulates a three-hour, federal-court pretrial evidentiary hearing. OF COLOR “I’m particularly proud because this ranking is the first to The team prevailed over a field of 15 other teams, earning Texas recognize our program as a whole, not just moot court, not just EMPLOYMENT Tech Law’s third title at the competition in the past four years. CLASS OF 2017 negotiations, not just any one competition,” said Robert Sherwin, (AS OF MARCH 15, 2018) PRIVATE PRACTICE Associate Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs 14% 63.25% Gavigan was named the tournament’s best advocate in the LUBBOCK for Texas Tech Law. “My only frustration is that this is the first preliminary rounds, and Burkhardt was named the best 27% GOVERNMENT year they’ve done it. Had they started this last year or the year DALLAS/FT. WORTH 22.23% advocate of the final round. The win marked the second national before, I’m about 99% certain we would have been the inaugural BUSINESS/INDUSTRY championship for both Burkhardt and Nfodjo. 16% 11.45% champions instead of second place.” AUSTIN Ryley Bennett and Jordan Fowler brought home the school’s MAY 2018 HOODING CEREMONY 7% PUBLIC INTEREST The majority of Tech Law’s points in the competition this year SAN ANTONIO 8% 1.20% 42nd national advocacy championship at the National Health David Copeland ’82, Executive Vice President and HOUSTON came from its efforts in negotiation and appellate advocacy. Tech EDUCATION Law Moot Court Competition in Carbondale, Illinois. The duo General Counsel of SM Energy Company, delivered Law finished second in the regional negotiation competition 1.81% also won every top award en route to their championship, with the keynote address. Copeland encouraged graduates 4% and third at the national competition while winning the regional SOUTH TEXAS Bennett winning best advocate for both the preliminary rounds to treat people with respect and to practice with appellate advocacy competition for the 10th straight year and passion and purpose. “If you approach your career and final round, and Fowler’s brief taking first prize. making it to the final eight at nationals. the right way, you can make it something special,” RESPECTED. PROVEN. said Copeland. PROFESSIONAL.

8 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 9 2018 TEXAS TECH LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS [Left to right] Christian Nisttahuz ’18, Janet Moreno ’18, Director Allison Texas Tech Law honored 20 outstanding alumni and Clayton ’07, Ryley Bennett ’18, and Kristen Gavigan ’18 friends during the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting Clinics alumni reception. The awards recognized individuals for career achievements and their contributions to Texas Tech Law has a history of producing practice-ready Two days later, the Parole Board granted Ed release on parole. Texas Tech Law, their communities, and various bar lawyers. This reputation is built on hard-working students and On September 5, 2018, he walked out of the Walls Unit of the associations. their ability to gain practical experience while in law school, Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville into the with the clinical programs providing a great opportunity to gain waiting arms of his wife and two adult children. The Innocence that experience. Clinic continues to fight for Ed’s exoneration.

The Law School has robust clinical programming with eight “The great thing about having a dedicated Innocence Clinic clinics serving indigent clients on the South Plains. is students have the knowledge, passion, and time to devote to helping the wrongly convicted—a trifecta exceedingly rare NEW STUDENT Allison Clayton ’07 serves as the director of the Innocence among practicing attorneys and yet, desperately needed ORIENTATION Clinic, which works in conjunction with the Innocence Project in the field,” Clayton said. “As for the students, even if they On August 13, 2018, Texas of Texas, providing students with hands on experience in never again practice any form of criminal law, the knowledge Tech Law welcomed 149 appealing post-conviction criminal law cases. and skills they develop in innocence work will have universal students to campus for New application across all legal fields.” Student Orientation. The It is an intense and demanding learning environment that Class of 2021, which had a pushes students to act and perform just as they would if they Along with the Innocence Clinic, Texas Tech Law offers multiple median LSAT score of 155 were part of a law firm. It is also an environment that produces clinics for those needing assistance with criminal defense and a median GPA of 3.44, is tangible results. or appeal, including the Capital Punishment Clinic, Criminal comprised of a diverse group of law students. They represent Defense Clinic, and Caprock Regional Public Defender Clinic. 39 different undergraduate Almost 15 years ago, Jesse Griffith was wrongly convicted of institutions and have an age felony-grade theft. Because of the petition Tech law students Students in the 2017-2018 Criminal Defense Clinic handled range of 18 to 46. filed and signed, the Court of Criminal Appeals set aside 137 cases for 94 clients. Of these cases, 39 were disposed the wrongful conviction, and Griffith was exonerated. This of through some type of negotiated plea, and 49 cases were extraordinary work was recognized on the National Registry for dismissed. Students in the Caprock Regional Public Defender Exonerations. Clinic handled 143 cases, closing 59.

In 1998, Innocence Clinic client Edward Ates was convicted for Texas Tech Law’s clinical programs extend beyond criminal the murder of Elnora Griffin. He received a 99-year sentence. defense. The Civil Practice Clinic, Family Law and Housing 8TH ANNUAL ALUMNI BARBECUE Over the years, Ates had been denied parole several times. Clinic, Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, and Advanced Alternative Alumni, faculty, students, and staff enjoyed a good His refusal to “accept responsibility” for the crime and admit Dispute Resolution Clinic also give countless hours to Lubbock- breakfast and great conversation at the annual alumni guilt, contributed to the denied parole. When Ates came up for area residents. tailgate. Marking the close of the 50th anniversary parole for the fourth time in 2017, the Clinic campaigned for his celebration, attendees also enjoyed a brief presentation release without an admission of guilt, a feat virtually unheard The Family Law and Housing Clinic, along with the Civil formally announcing an endowed scholarship in honor of in the parole world. The Clinic enlisted the aid of Roger Practice Clinic, work with Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas to of Tim Evans ’69. Tim, a member of the Law School’s Nichols ’89, a well-respected Texas parole attorney. identify low-income families with civil rights, public benefits, first graduating class, is a highly respected Fort Worth family law, estate planning, and housing cases. criminal lawyer. He was also the first alumnus to have Janet Moreno, the student attorney on Ates’ case, along with a child enroll in the Law School when his son, Lance, Professor Clayton, visited Ed in prison and met with Mr. Nichols Students in the Tax Clinic volunteered more than 420 hours at became a member of the 1988 entering class. The to discuss Ed’s case for parole. A few weeks later, Janet the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance center and saved low- scholarship, started by a number of Tim’s former penned a memo to the Parole Board in support of Ed’s release. income taxpayers $230,000. classmates, will be awarded annually to assist a law Mr. Nichols and Professor Clayton hand-delivered the memo, student interested in practicing criminal defense. along with multiple letters of support, to the Parole Board. With all of the real-world experience gained in the clinic programs, it is safe to say Texas Tech will maintain its [Left to right] Tim Evans ’69 and Lance Evans ’91 reputation of producing practice-ready lawyers.

10 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 11 Converted military barracks served as the first law school facility.

The modest facilities stood in stark Another charter member, Major R. contrast to the students’ smart attire, Charles Gentry, limped into school including coats and ties for the men, in a couple of weeks later and with a PIONEERS accordance with the school’s strict dress valid excuse. He had been injured in a ON code. Many students came from West helicopter crash in the Vietnam War, THE OF Texas, although some were from other resulting in his life’s unexpectedly altered FRONTIER LAW parts of the state. course. One student, now Judge Gary Martin Cude, Jr., who later became Sanderson, remembers well that first the president of the class, remembers First entering class, 1967. First row (left to right): Fred Glover, Errol Friedman, Gary Sanderson, Gerard Miller, Jr., John M. Franklin, Perry Abbott. day of law school: “Everybody was meeting Gentry in the library of the a little bit apprehensive because we barracks just after Gentry arrived from Second row: Alvin R. Allison, Ruth Kirby, Joan Blanscet, Gary Wood, Dennis Fullingim, Barbara Benson, Douglas Davis, Robert Eames, Alan Murray, were the first class. There weren’t any New Mexico to inquire about enrolling Tim Evans, Donald Vandiver. Third row: Delbert Yandell, Marwin Brakebill, Clifton R. Bird, Cam Fannin, Jr., John Seymour, Dick Whittington, James upperclassmen to talk to and ask what’s in the law school. Eaton, Boyd Ritchie, Cecil Puryear, Tom Martin, Marcus Jarvis, Ernest Finney, Morris Williamson. Fourth row: Bill Shaw, Joseph McKinley, Perry going on.” Tanner, John McDivitt, Jeff Lewis, Reed Lockhoof, L.G. Wilson, John L. Shepherd, Preston Stevens, Francis Steiger, Ronald D. Nickum, Robert “He came over, sat down and talked A. Williams, Charles Adams, Jack Cowley, Ben Smart, John Wheir, Buford Terrell, Hershel L. Barnes, Neal B. Marsh, IV, Robin Green, Richard White men comprised nearly all of the to me, and we got quite a good Maxwell, Martin Cude, Jimmy Ashby, Bill Contiss, James Bobo, Ed Craighead, Michael McKinney, John Weber, David Segrest, Bill Terry, Ronald law school’s first 72 students, with the conversation going. He told me what Jackson, Troy Hurley, Ralph Belter, James Carter, Tommy Hancock, Jack Martin. exception of five white women and a was going on and asked what I thought young man with European and Mexican- about whether or not he should enroll. American ancestry—John Weber, who, Of course, I was all for it. He was one at age 19, was also the youngest member of the super students, it turned out. I of the class. He, too, remembers that loved that guy,” says Cude, sadly noting Dean Richard The law school known today as the Texas Tech University School of Law was an first day. Gentry’s recent death. FIRST unknown entity when it first opened its doors and sent acceptance letters to select Amandes applicants chosen for admission to its first class. “I’m a 19-year-old kid and walking into Charter member David Segrest (1966–77) STUDENTS this classroom. Everybody in there is remembers the camaraderie among the The law school had no face, no identity, no reputation—not even accreditation. about 22 to 40 years old or older. And I diverse personalities of that first class. LEAD THE don’t know what to say to them or how “As pioneers, of course, you’re going to Nonetheless, these pioneering first students perceived in their admission offers they’re going to react to me. All I did be independent. We were independent, not risk but rather opportunity. Arriving in Lubbock in the summer of 1967, was sit down, shut up and try to listen to but we were a very close class.” WAY INTO they looked toward the West Texas horizon, across an open pasture earmarked what was going on,” says Weber, raised as home of the future Texas Tech School of Law, and saw the adventure of a in El Paso, where his grandfather, Tony UNCHARTED lifetime beckoning them to take a chance and lead the way. Lama, founded and ran the famous boot THEIR HOPES AND company that bore his name. DREAMS // TERRITORY THE FIRST DAY // Indeed, the class averaged about age Many members of the first class The semester began in September 1967, with several dozen students filing 30 and also included a large number of appreciated the exciting opportunity BY STACI SEMRAD into some old army barracks placed on a lot on the north side of campus to mature students who had long desired to be charter members of a brand new temporarily house the law school until a permanent structure could be built near a legal education, including farmer institution. 19th Street. The barracks, purchased from Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Marwin Brakebill and certified public Professor accountant Ben Smart. “It was in all our minds that the Falls, Texas, provided a couple of classrooms, a student lounge area, a law library, Martin Frey and administration and faculty offices. first class was going to be special in

12 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 13 establishing part of the tradition year: “These students were taking “The reason I decided to go to law and foundation of the law a risk.” school,” Weber recalls, “is I was the Alumni recall many stories of school,” Segrest says, noting they only one in my family at that time professors routinely calling on never doubted it would become Nonetheless, Eames found a pay who had gotten out of college with individual students to stand and Ruth Kirby, a accredited. phone one morning while out the ability to go on and further my explain a case or be grilled on the summa cum laude working, called the law school education.” brief they were to have prepared graduate of the Students like Sanderson, who had in Lubbock to inquire, and was for class. Shellhaas, known by never been to Lubbock, chose the transferred to Dean Richard LEARNING IN THE students as “The Growler,” had the 1970 class, would law school over others for the very Amandes. The dean made an offer reputation for being the toughest. later serve on the reason that it was brand new. of admission to Eames, largely TRENCHES // One time, a professor became so because of his high LSAT score, enraged when student after student faculty from 1971 to Many other students, particularly but only on the condition that In dusty barracks where the floors failed to discuss a case they were to 1975. those already living in the region, Eames would mail an application creaked, and the South Plains wind have studied, that he slammed his chose the new law school for and accept the offer that morning howled, students that first year book shut and stormed out of the its geographic convenience. Still on the phone. learned from six professors who room, Eames recalls. others found inspiration elsewhere. afforded their pupils little slack. “I say, 'Alright. That’s a deal,’ and it These professors, all recruited from “Some students are tough people, Asked why he took a chance was the best decision I ever made, out of state, were: Dean Amandes, but these first students were tough on a new, unaccredited school, both for the law school and for Associate Dean Justin Smith, U.V. because they were taking a chance Bob Eames, speaking by phone the woman,” Eames recalls with a Jones II, Glen Shellhaas, Maurice on Texas Technological College, as Four of the five women with a Texas twang revealing the chuckle, noting he is still married to Kirk, and Frey. we were taking a chance on them,” mischievous grin on his face, that woman, Phyllis, today. says Professor of Law Emeritus enrolled in Texas Tech’s answered with two words: “A “We had an outstanding group David Cummins, who joined the first law school class. woman.” Another member of the class of professors, and I attribute so faculty in March 1969. From the left, they are who had not originally planned much of that to Dean Amandes. That woman had attended college on attending the law school was He had to be quite a salesman As the first class, these students Ruth Kirby, Littlefield; with him at Texas Technological East Texas native Errol Friedman. to have recruited professors as had no upperclassmen to show Joan Bianscet, Midland, College, which became Texas Tech He had majored in journalism well as students from all over the them the way, share useful tips and University. After graduating, Eames at what became Texas A&M United States to come to a new law tricks, or provide briefs and other and Dennis Fullingim was working a summer job in Fort University-Commerce, “but family school,” Segrest says. study materials.The students did and Barbara Benson, Worth while preparing to attend expectations were that I would go not know about canned briefs— both of Lubbock. The University of Texas School to law school. I was sort of torn,” Frey, now Professor Emeritus at summaries of lengthy cases of Law when his old friend called Friedman says, noting his father The University of Tulsa College spanning sometimes hundreds him unexpectedly. She and her and others in the family who were of Law, remembers how well of pages—so they had to read family, who had been traveling, lawyers. the faculty at Texas Tech Law the entire case to know what was had stopped over in Fort Worth on got along in its early years: “We going on; Weber says, adding, “the their way back to Lubbock. Eames’ Friedman applied only to the were one big family there, and professors wanted us to learn the buddies were going to a dance new law school in Lubbock, sight everybody was pulling to make this law, not the short-cuts.” he opened his fine-jewelry store, club that evening, so he invited her unseen, and no others: “If I had thing succeed.” Kirby ended up graduating at the and she learned that a law school along. visited the law school, I might not Without computers back then, top of the class and became the had just opened. have applied to that law school. Though the faculty’s hard work and students had to take notes and law school’s first female professor “We had such a good time,” Eames There wasn’t much to it.” instruction formed the foundation, write the old-fashioned way with in 1971. Alexander visited the law school says. “I got to thinking about it the everyone knew that the law pen and paper. However, the late in Lubbock in 1968 to see about next day… 'I wonder if I could still However, he says he has been school’s success hinged largely on Ruth Kirby, then a mature student “She was the star student of the admission and, to her surprise, get into that Tech law school.’ ” happy with his decision and career the students’ ability to demonstrate in her 40s, had a typewriter at class,” says Leota Alexander, recognized a familiar face among choice, adding, “I’ve done almost understanding of the coursework, home. Having worked as the herself an accomplished woman the faculty—Shellhaas, who His heart accepted the notion with everything I wanted to do.” so the faculty drove them hard to secretary to the dean of the who later taught at the law school, had been one of her professors ease, but his brain was harder to learn and pull their weight. UT Austin Law School before as an Adjunct Professor of Family in Wyoming. When he saw satisfy: “I had severe reservations Weber’s reason for pursuing marrying an attorney from the Law. her, he remembered she had about this brand new law school.” law school was the opposite of “The atmosphere that the dean and Lubbock area, she was known for been his top student, gave her Friedman’s. Weber’s family included professors created was such that taking down about every word of Raised by an aunt and uncle with a big hug, ensured her credits His reservations were justified, no college graduates. In fact, his you didn’t know anything different every lecture. just elementary school educations, would transfer so she could join given that graduates of grandfather, the bootmaker in El but to study and put your nose to Alexander completed her first year the first class in year two, and unaccredited law schools are not Paso, could neither read nor write, the books. Either you studied or “She had a jump on everybody of law school at the University of welcomed her to Texas Tech allowed to sit for the bar exam, but he could sign his name, which you were out. They were getting because she could do shorthand, Wyoming and dropped out to raise Law. says Martin Frey, the only faculty became the logo for his boot us ready for the war,” Cude says, plus she typed, so her notes were her child. She later moved with member still living of the six who company. referring not to Vietnam but to the gold,” Cude says. her husband to Lubbock, where taught at the law school that first legal fights out in the real world.

14 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 15 “Some students are tough people, but senior year to purchase already and programs, these first students Broadway butchered meat. The guys stayed including: a were tough because Avenue, where up all night roasting the meat on local chapter they were taking her husband a spit while drinking whiskey and of a national a chance on Texas had a jewelry beer, then got a few winks of sleep legal fraternity; store in the before rising by noon to welcome a Student Bar Technological front room. classmates and other guests Association College, as we were He had left to arriving for the feast. program for taking a chance on run an errand law students them.” in a nearby “It was a pretty good party,” he to ride along town when the says. with Lubbock wind started police officers Emeritus Professor of Law blowing hard. patrolling David Cummins After seeing PROGRESS AND the city on the news on OTHER NEWS // Friday nights; TV, Alexander participation rushed with her The fledgling law school in intercollegiate moot court child to the basement. progressed considerably in its competition; The Texas Tech Law initial years. Review; and the Dictum student “We just got down there, and newspaper, of which Friedman it hit—I mean this horrible, It won accreditation from the was the first editor. horrible blast—and the whole Supreme Court of Texas in house shook,” she says. “At first 1968, gained membership to the Friedman recalls the front-page, I thought lightning had hit, but students were celebrating Weber’s Association of American Law above-the-fold photo of their I discovered later, after I went LETTING OFF birthday. They dared each other Schools in 1969, and was granted first edition ofDictum : “It would upstairs, that it actually was a STEAM // and Smith to jump into the cold, accreditation from the American not play well these days, not at tornado, and we didn’t have a unheated pool. Fearing they would Bar Association in the summer of all, but our first edition was kind ceiling. That roof was gone.” After a week of arduous studying, push him in, Smith jumped in on 1970. of a swimsuit edition with a students looked forward to his own, and in lightning speed photograph of a very attractive, They moved out while the damage On Monday, September 18, changing their focus on the reached the other side. In the summer preceding year two, young, first-year law student in was being fixed, all to move back weekend. construction began on the new law swim attire. It was certainly sexist, in and suffer an armed robbery of 1967, 72 first-year students “Have you ever seen somebody school building. It was completed but back then, it never occurred to the jewelry store about a year and arrived for registration and Though Lubbock County was walk on water?” Cude asks, still in time for members of the first us that it wasn’t appropriate.” half later by two men dressed as a week of orientation. They then dry, students learned quickly laughing till this day. class to enjoy in their last semester women. that they could buy kegs of beer and is still home of the law school Speaking of news, a major event adhered to a business attire just outside county lines to bring Indeed, the students loved and today. occurred as the first class was “Living in Lubbock was an dress code and overcame to the barracks to drink on Friday admired Smith, a torts professor. preparing to graduate. On May 11, adventure. I had two floods, a afternoons. And weekend nights The number of students in the 1970, one of the largest tornadoes tornado and an armed robbery a devastating tornado that were often filled with drinking, “He was a really good guy, a first class declined to 47 after year ever to hit Texas ripped through during the time I lived there,” she hit during final exams. dancing, and kicking up their heels fun guy, and a good professor,” one as some dropped out, and Lubbock, setting off sirens, killing says, adding to the list a bomb From that original class of at venues like the Cotton Club. It Sanderson says, “and I liked him so a dozen of the men, including dozens of people, and leaving threat her family received hours was owned by one of the first-year much I named my son after him.” Eames and Sanderson, joined the a trail of destruction. The law after the robbers were convicted. 72, after the challenges of students, Tommy Hancock, who National Guard in response to the school had already moved from Vietnam, 47 received their gave classmates free admission on One event many of these alumni country’s escalating involvement the barracks to the new permanent Members of the class of 1970 Friday nights. remember well is the infamous in Vietnam. After spending that law degrees from Tech. building, which provided shelter never enjoyed the formality of a annual spring goat roast they summer and fall in basic training from the twister. graduation ceremony, she says, Their performance on the Alumni also fondly remember started their first year. at army bases around the United which she understood was because bar exam was outstanding— Smith and other professors joining States, most of those men returned “It came right over the law school of the tornado’s destruction in the fun outside of class. Smith “The goat roast was quite a deal,” to Lubbock in time for the and sounded like a freight train,” around Lubbock. Other alumni, top 5 Bar Exam scores. used to go on hunting trips with says Eames, who was on the event’s beginning of the spring semester Segrest recalls. like Cude, say they had no such the guys, as well as outings to planning committee. in 1969. ceremony because they boycotted Sweetwater, Texas, to participate in People at the law school escaped the university’s plan to make the annual Rattlesnake Roundup. As he recalls, organizers initially Meanwhile, the number of harm, but some students were them walk with underclassmen And he didn’t mind getting all wet bought live goats from area professors and programs increased. more vulnerable. Alexander, then at graduation instead of hooding for a little laughter, as he did one farmers to slaughter themselves, By year three, the law school pregnant and studying for her the law students along with winter night at the swimming pool but ultimately decided that was too had 15 faculty members and had last final exam, was at home with other graduate students receiving of an apartment complex where the much trouble and opted by their developed several student activities her 5-year-old son in a house on doctoral degrees.

16 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 17 Excerpts from the April 1970 issue of Dictum, the student newspaper for the Texas BY STACY KEITH Tech University School of Law, which was dedicated to the first graduating class: Whatever the case, in place of a TTU MA '94 ceremony, Cude spearheaded the arrangement of a celebration for the entire class at the Lubbock DAVID H. SEGREST Country Club, where this time David, a native of Bryan, is twenty-four and married. He holds a Bachelor of not a goat was roasted, but Arts Degree with a major in History from Texas Tech University. While in law rather his peers and professors. school, David was a Law Review note editor, member of the Student Bar Association House of Delegates, Law School Representative to the Student Members of the first class, many of whom have stayed in touch Senate, and a member of Phi Alpha Delta. David is interested in a general through the years, enjoyed finally practice with emphasis on Patent Law and Trade Regulation. His legal being hooded last spring at the experience includes work as a law clerk for James A. Gowdy. David desires law school’s annual spring gala, to locate in East or Central Texas. some 48 years after graduating. ERROL FRIEDMAN TORNADO MEMORIAL SETTING THE BAR Errol is 25 years old and married. He has a Bachelor of Science in HIGH // Government from East Texas State University. He has a military classification of 1-Y. While in Law School, Errol was Justice of Phi Alpha Delta Law The grand finale of this first Fraternity and Editor-in-Chief of the Law School newspaper, Dictum for one Gateway Project class was its last act—its year. Errol prefers general plaintiff’s work and would prefer location in East outstanding performance on the Texas. Texas Bar Examination. The Texas Tech University Law School financing) Board, and a group of private Some members of this first class Class of 1970 certainly remembers the citizens have come together to bring a tornado of May 11, 1970. It tore a path beautiful and unique memorial to the graduated a semester earlier JOHN A. WEBER or later than the rest, and thus through the heart of the Lubbock downtown area to pay tribute to those took the exam earlier or later. John, 23, received a B.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso and is business district and destroyed the north who were lost and to educate future However, the majority took it in interested in the legal fields of property, taxation and labor. He is married section of town. Snapping light poles at generations about the 1970 Tornado. the stadium, it also ended the lives of 26 June 1970. Of those members, and is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, and served as business manager of people. It set Lubbock on an uncertain The Memorial Gateway will be a legacy five made the top scores of the the Texas Tech Law Review. He has done investigation and briefing for 580 law graduates statewide path as people worked to rebuild the city. project located on Avenue Q and Glenna Blanchard, Clifford, Gilkerson & Smith of Lubbock; Albert Smith of Lubbock, Millions of dollars in property damage Goodacre serving, not only as a memorial, who took the test. Kirby and and Woodrow Bean of El Paso. John would like to locate in Texas, New York Brakebill tied for the top two and countless losses and injuries resulted. but also as a gateway to the newly or California. John has a 1-Y draft classification. places, and Segrest, Alexander, energized downtown cultural arts district. and Bill Shaw tied for the next It has been almost fifty years since that It will be a fitting tribute to the amazing three spots. Texas Tech exam storm, and many of the people who lived leaders who bravely rebuilt Lubbock one takers as a whole averaged 81.3, LEOTA HEIL ALEXANDER through it and worked to rebuild the brick at a time and the 26 victims who well above the score of 75 Leota is twenty-eight, married and a resident of Lubbock. She received a community have passed. The City of perished in the storm. Lubbock, the TIF (tax increment needed to pass. Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Wyoming where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and she attended the The headline of a story about University of Wyoming College of Law for one year before transferring to The Memorial it in The Dallas Morning News Texas Tech where she is a candidate for Law Review. After graduation, Leota Gateway is designed read, “Texas Tech Law School: Genuine Success Story.” desires to engage in a general practice in Lubbock. to rival any memorial in the United States These graduates’ stellar with its thoughtfulness performances on the exam set and symbolism. For the bar high for succeeding MARTIN C. CUDE, JR. generations of Texas Tech Martin, a native of Dallas, is twenty-seven and married. He holds a Bachelor more information, to Law students, and as Segrest of Business Administration Degree from Southern Methodist University. get involved, and to says, helped put the budding While at Tech, Martin was President of the Third Year Class, Vice-President see the renderings, law school on the map: “It’s of the Student Bar Association and a member of Phi Alpha Delta Legal obviously a law school now with please go to: a history and a great reputation.” Fraternity. Martin is particularly interested in Creditor’s Rights, Criminal Law and Local Government and prefers to locate in Dallas. www.downtownlbk.us/tornado-memorial or contact us through [email protected]

18 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 19 • Wife he met in law school work harder. I try to pass that by the University of Houston in in a first-year law advocacy on to our students. If we work 2009. It gives points for other competition. harder, we’ll succeed, and that’s in competitions besides the two big • Job coaching his alma mater’s our control.” ones, and we’re in the top ten advocacy program. every single year. We were number After graduating, Sherwin one in the 2015-2016 school year. He owes all three to Don Hunt. practiced law in Fort Worth and We’re proud of the consistency,” Sherwin first met his mentor was asked to help with the moot Sherwin said. Only two other – countless attorneys consider court program at Texas Wesleyan schools have been in the top ten Hunt a mentor – when he visited School of Law. He called Hunt. every year – South Texas College the law school with a friend “I asked if he would be okay of Law Houston, which Sherwin and watched a first-year moot with me coaching at another law called the Notre Dame of college court competition. “One of the school. Coach had a style and advocacy programs, and UC judges was Don Hunt, and I was knew how to pause mesmerized by the questions he for dramatic effect. GIANTS asked student attorneys. I looked After about a five- at my friend and said, 'One year second pause he OF LAW SCHOOL from now, we’ll be here arguing.’” said, 'You’ll be great, and I can’t wait to While a student, Sherwin was coach against you,’” BY TERRY GREENBERG named Best Oralist in 2000 and Sherwin said. After was part of a team that made the a few years, one of Final Four in both the National Sherwin’s teams beat Moot Court Competition and Texas Tech in a state The Texas Tech University School of Law was built on the American Bar Association’s competition. “Coach their shoulders. National Appellate Advocacy put his arm around 1984 Moot Court team that won the Law School’s third national Competition – the two most me, and it was a Five professors played their part, leading a fledgling title at the American Bar Association National Appellate prestigious competitions in the cool moment,” he school to national prominence – and they have all Advocacy Competition. [Left to right] Coach Don Hunt, James R. country. His success stemmed said. passed away since the beginning of last year, leaving an Dennis ’85, Mark E. Stradley ’84, and W. Mark Lanier ’84 from Hunt’s training, and whether emotional void with those they taught and inspired. out of reflex or respect, Sherwin By 2007, Sherwin still refers to Hunt as “Coach” was coaching full time at Texas Hastings College of Law in San To the law school students whose lives they almost two decades later. Wesleyan and looking for other Francisco. “We’re very good at impacted for decades, the names are instantly opportunities. He asked Hunt if this,” he said. recognizable*: “When you joined one of his he could use him as a reference. teams, Coach would say, 'Let’s talk “He sent an email back and said, It all goes back to Hunt. “He Joe Conboy about your priorities. Number one 'The job you should be applying is the father of the Texas Tech Jim Eissinger is family. Number two is God. for is mine. Most people don’t law advocacy program. Without Number three is classwork. All the know, but I’m retiring at the end him, there would be no program. Don Hunt rest of your time belongs to me. of the year,’” Sherwin said. But [Texas Tech] would not have the If we’re going to be successful there was one part of Hunt’s national reputation for advocacy John Krahmer and have a national presence, we career that Sherwin didn’t want training without Don Hunt,” Bob Weninger need to outwork everyone else,’” to copy – running the advocacy Sherwin said. Hunt’s teams won Sherwin said. That’s still the focus program part time while being numerous national, regional, and “These are the folks who were the founders. They set under Sherwin’s leadership. a full-time attorney. Then-Dean state championships. Hunt was the standard. They established the culture, the soul and Walt Huffman agreed, and this is also awarded the Outstanding the spirit of the law school – our focus on students and “Success is tied to how much Sherwin’s 11th year on faculty at Fifty-Year Lawyer Award by the on practical training and on bar passage,” said Jack Wade work you put into any given his alma mater. Texas Bar Foundation in 2011 and Nowlin, Dean and W. Frank Newton Professor of Law. activity. What Coach told us was was considered among the leading “It’s the end of an era as our founding generation we’re part of a great program with During his tenure, Texas Tech appellate lawyers in West Texas. passes,” he said. Texas Tech Law School Foundation a great tradition, but don’t think teams have won the National He was also known for his perfect board member Roger Key agreed. “Every one of those DON HUNT // because we’re part of this, it will Moot Court Competition three silver hair, a 1963 black Mercedes five people had a significant impact on the law school,” somehow seep into our bodies or times; finished in the Final Four convertible, and his love for the said Key, a Lubbock attorney and graduate of Texas COACH we naturally have some sort of another three times; won the Rotary Club of Lubbock and Tech’s law school. As the School of Law moves past its advantage over others,” Sherwin American Bar Association’s Toastmasters. first half-century, these five teachers, mentors, scholars, At Don Hunt’s memorial service, Rob Sherwin said. “There is no magic pixie National Appellate Advocacy and friends leave behind lessons just as relevant for the said there were three things he was most proud dust. The reason our students Competition in 2013; and were Sherwin wanted Hunt to be more next 50 years. of in his life, his: perform better than students at runners-up twice. “There’s a involved after retirement, but “He • Texas Tech law degree. other law schools is our students national ranking system started wanted it to be clear someone

20 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 21 new was in charge. He was the Association of Bank Counsel, Key also face of it for 34 years and knew an association of lawyers who sought how big his shoes were to fill. But represent financial institutions. It Krahmer’s I wanted him around all the time. recently changed its name to the help on Not only for his coaching skill Southwest Association of Bank cases. “I but the respect he commanded. Counsel. would (He) was around for in-school consult competitions, was a regular as “I had literally just graduated with him a final-round judge, and helped from law school and joined the on matters judge practice rounds for traveling organization, and Professor that teams – but he didn’t want to Krahmer was instrumental in required be involved in picking national forming the organization,” Key very teams,” added Sherwin. said. Krahmer and another in-depth Professor John Krahmer, Texas Supreme Court Justice Phil Johnson ’75, professor also co-edited a knowledge Carla Johnson, and Professor Bob Weninger. Even after a career filled with monthly publication called Texas of accolades and the respect of Bank Lawyer, written and edited System’s highest teaching peers, Hunt remained humble. by law students for Southwest commercial and banking law,” said honor. He held the Banking While the advocacy courtroom at Association of Bank Counsel Key. When Key faced a complex Law Endowed Professorship Texas Tech is named the Donald members. Many of those students case for a bank client, he asked and Commercial Law Endowed M. Hunt Courtroom in his asked Krahmer to hood them Krahmer for help. “That’s how Professorship, each renamed in honor, Sherwin is quick to point during graduation ceremonies. our friendship developed,” said his honor. out, “Don didn’t want it named Key, who added that the case after him and was clear about That connection continued even turned out well. “John had an incredible way that.” But W. Mark Lanier – a after his death. Julia Wisenberg, of teaching what could be a nationally recognized, Houston- Texas Bank Lawyer Student “John was genuinely a genius. I’ve mundane subject that caused based attorney, who won the bar One way is Editor and member of the Class worked with very few people who students to like and respect him association’s competition as one the school’s of 2018, wrote: were as brilliant as he was. I would so much,” said Key. “John was of Hunt’s students in 1984 – told faculty-run law “I was so honored to be hooded recite the facts as I saw them. He strong willed but never spoke in his coach it was too late, the clinics, where at graduation by my mentor and would sit there and not take a an unkind manner. If a student papers had already been signed. students work friend, Professor Sally Henry. single note. When we got together had the wrong analysis, he would Lanier had included the tribute with real clients This spring semester was the later, he had perfect recall. He not say 'You’re wrong,’ but said in the agreement for the 2008 on real cases in most difficult semester for me could cite citations off the top of 'Did you consider this?’ and steer donation for the addition to the real courts. But students are not personally, partly due to the his head to UCC verbatim,” said them to the right answer without west side of the School of Law, going to work on complex cases. JOHN KRAHMER // loss of my other great mentor, Key. being ugly about it,” said Key. which houses the courtroom. Moot court trials allow a student GENUINE GENIUS Professor John Krahmer. I “Don Hunt changed my life and to try a murder case or argue a was incredibly touched that his In 2000 and 2001, there were “He had absolute dedication to made me really understand both multi-million-dollar lawsuit. “It A law school student taking daughter, Alyssa Krahmer, agreed significant changes to the UCC. educating students in a manner the art and science of advocacy,” makes them more attractive as a Contracts from John Krahmer to hood me not only to honor her “Professor Krahmer and some that would make them better said Lanier when the courtroom job candidate,” Sherwin said. had a question about the Uniform father’s memory but also because of his students traveled around lawyers. He was very ethical, was named. Commercial Code (UCC) when he I greatly admire her personally the state and did at least 25 honest and professional and “It’s also fun to compete and saw the professor in the hallway. and professionally. I am lucky bank seminars. The vast amount passed that on to his students,” Sherwin said advocacy programs travel, and then there’s the Krahmer started his answer by to know so many incredible of money raised from those Key added. Looking back at notes add so much to a law school camaraderie and pride when saying, “What I was going for attorneys who serve as exemplars seminars went to scholarships for he used at Krahmer’s memorial education. “The obvious purpose your law school beats other law ...” The student quickly realized of scholarly achievement, students,” said Key. He spoke at service, Key chose the following is to allow students to perform schools,” he said, adding that Krahmer had authored the section incredible persistence, and the many other seminars for years, words he used in his final tribute a lawyer’s skills in a simulated grads have a stronger connection in question. highest degree of integrity. People giving UCC updates. to his colleague: “Professor, setting. When you learn how to to their school after going love to make 'lawyer jokes,’ but in scholar, intellectual, teacher, fly an airplane, it’s sometimes a through these competitions. Krahmer, who joined the School all seriousness, these [attorneys] Krahmer was named the law mentor, author, kind, caring, good idea to send students up in And it pays off down the road. of Law faculty in 1971 and are the reason I am honored to school’s outstanding teacher seven giving, generous, thoughtful, a flight simulator. You can throw Sherwin said he hears it all the was the longest serving faculty join the legal profession.” times, received prestigious awards professional, ethical, very devoted dangerous stuff at them without time. A few days before this member, was known as “Mr. from the university President’s family man and devoted Christian the risk of somebody getting interview, a 2015 graduate told UCC.” Key and Krahmer were Krahmer and his wife Sandi, office, and was the first member – even if he did not talk much killed,” he said. Students learn him she had won her first jury close friends, even though Key whom he met at the University of the law school faculty honored about that.” about the law in the classroom but trial and tied the success directly never took one of Krahmer’s of Iowa, were married for 51 with a Chancellor’s Council need ways to apply that learning. to being on advocacy teams and classes in law school. He mostly years and have another son and Distinguished Teaching Award competitions. knew Krahmer through the Texas daughter in addition to Alyssa. – the Texas Tech University

22 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 23 hard as he did,” wrote Huffman Bob Weninger also adored in a Texas Tech Law Review their modern home. “He was article honoring the law school’s really good friends with Hadley legendary faculty. Edgar’s wife Helen; she was an amateur interior decorator, Bob Weninger was a highly and she helped find him a regarded scholar whose work house,” said Sue Weninger. was at the forefront of empirical Helen Edgar found the home research, a demanding and in 1995, and Bob Weninger important branch of legal wrote the contract the same scholarship. He pioneered the day. The Weningers and the use of sociological data as a basis Edgars already knew one for critical analysis of the United another. Bob Weninger held the States legal system. His work J. Hadley Edgar Professorship, was characterized by detailed an endowed professorship in the studies of important civil and law school established in honor criminal law topics, including of Helen Edgar’s husband. electronic discovery, the severity of jury sentencing compared to “He loved having people over. jokes, but still a performance. He judicial sentencing, forcible rape He loved having section parties,” was a very quiet man; he wasn’t indictments, and plea bargaining. Sue Weninger said, recalling BOB WENINGER // loud. But he was very passionate His findings were published by events that filled the backyard CRAZY SMART about what he cared about,” said legal journals across the nation, with 60 students. Sue Weninger, sitting at a table including the Virginia Law Review, If a law student took the majority in the couple’s modern-looking the UCLA Law Review and the The Weningers met at a Corps, I worked with and against of Bob Weninger’s advanced Lubbock home. Southern California Law Review. In Christmas party in 1994 and grads from every law school in courses, he or she became a married in 2000. “We both came JIM EISSINGER // America. I was up against people member of the “Order of the “Students told me he from working-class families and THE EPITOME OF who may have been smarter, but I Weni.” The truncated last name was crazy smart. He also talked about labor unions on never felt I was up against anyone became a kind of honorific. One had respect for them and our first date,” Sue Weninger INTEGRITY who had a better legal education day, his wife Sue asked him, “Do showed it in many ways. said. “We had a lot of things than from TTU Law. And Jim Jim Eissinger looked every you know they call you Weni?” He always dressed up in common when we met each Eissinger was part of that,” said inch an attorney. “He was the “Oh yeah, they do,” replied the for class – suit, tie, nice other that were important things.” Huffman, who served as the U.S. consummate professional,” said longtime law professor, whose shoes,” she said, adding The couple spent holidays in San Army’s top military lawyer from Huffman. “He always dressed primary teaching areas were that he relaxed his attire Diego and part of each summer 1997 to 2001. procedure, evidence, and trial a bit in later years with in Grenada, Spain, where one of impeccably. He was a role model of what students hope to become, advocacy. an occasional sport coat Bob Weninger’s daughters lives. Like Huffman, Eissinger amassed and they could model themselves and less formal shirt. “He a career of distinction and after the appearance and persona Bob Weninger recruited from the prepared for every class Weninger loved his two daughters. military service. He received his of Jim Eissinger. He epitomized top ten percent of students for like it was his first time. “He was devoted and made law degree from the University integrity and all the traits you want his complex litigation class and Teaching for 40 years, sure they got through school of North Dakota, where he was in a good lawyer.” limited how many he would invite. you would think he would and got an education,” said top of his class. After practicing “People wanted that class,” Sue not, but every time. He Sue Weninger. He also loved law for a time, Eissinger served When Huffman became Dean of Weninger said. loved the school, his martinis and brats – he was from as a captain in the U.S. Air Force the law school in 2002, Eissinger office and what he called 'the almost 44 years at Texas Tech, he Sheboygan, Wisconsin, after all in the Judge Advocate General’s was one of nine faculty members Before he became a professor, kids,’” said Sue, tearing up. published ten cutting-edge studies – as well as animals, tennis, and Corps. He later served as an still at Texas Tech who had taught he was a trial attorney, first for in prestigious law journals. the aforementioned bicycling. In attorney on the law enforcement when Huffman was a student in the National Labor Relations One of those kids turned out to his younger years, he had been a council, a division of the Attorney the mid-’70s. “They were really Board and later for the Federal be Walt Huffman, Dean Emeritus Bob Weninger never retired. He pilot, and in later life, he enjoyed General’s Office in North Dakota, supportive of me as a student and Public Defenders office in San and Adjunct Professor at the received medical leave after he teaching others how to fly. He was before joining the faculty of when I came back as dean. They Diego, California. Sue Weninger Texas Tech School of Law. “As became sick with colon cancer in also a veteran, having served in the University of North Dakota made it easy,” he said. said he gravitated toward trial a former student of Professor early 2017. “He stayed because he the U.S. Air Force in the mid-’50s. School of Law. work because he was a natural Weninger, I can attest that his loved the job – he wasn’t going Huffman said the roster of long- performer. “That’s what made friendliness did not translate into anywhere,” Sue Weninger said, Eissinger joined the Texas Tech tenured professors spoke well of him such a good teacher. He did a 'easy instructor.’ He knew the adding that he often rode his bike faculty in 1972 in a somewhat the law school. “Having served performance of the material. He law, continually studied himself, part way to the law school from unorthodox way. He’d met Mary, in the Judge Advocate General’s was very measured, not making and expected students to work as their home in southwest Lubbock. his future wife, in Big Spring, and

24 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 25 the couple wanted to stay in West Shannon added, “He age 85, he would contemplate And the alumni have ensured that School of Law for many Texas. So, he traveled to Lubbock, would host weekly knee replacement surgery, he the names of these five professors generations to come. said he was a law professor, and [events called] Coffee responded, “I’d like to dance won’t be forgotten any time mentioned that he had heard the with Conboy and get again.” soon. Endowed gifts extend the It’s a point of pride for Nowlin. School of Law was looking to add to know students on a professors’ legacies at Texas Tech “Generosity supports the law faculty. He got hired. first-name basis. He’d He also served in three wars, to the next generation. school – our people and our walk the halls and talk to according to Huffman. Joe Family and friends of Bob programs – but most important Eissinger’s favorite subject was students.” But if he had Conboy was 17 when he entered Weninger established the of all are scholarships for our teaching constitutional law. to discipline a student, the Navy toward the end of Professor Robert Weninger students,” he said. “Scholarships He was famous for his ever- Shannon recalled Joe World War II. He later joined the Endowed Scholarship, perhaps to change lives forever, and our expanding chalkboard diagrams on Conboy could be the Army Reserve, went to Officer encourage the next “crazy smart” students will never forget the constitutional law and his rapid-fire tough ex-colonel. “My Candidate School and got a lawyer at Texas Tech. Krahmer’s donors who made their education approach with students. “He pretty first year here, snow was commission. He was recalled as an friends at Lubbock National Bank possible.” And as donors give to aggressively used the chalkboard,” expected, and students artillery officer during the Korean established a fellowship in his the law school’s endowment, it has said colleague Brian Shannon, a asked if finals would be War. Then he went to law school honor to support faculty members an exponential impact. Paul Whitfield Horn Professor at postponed. Having grown and eventually served in Vietnam who will follow in his stead. the Texas Tech School of Law. up in Buffalo, he said 'You’ll as a judge advocate for the 1st Students devoted to outworking “Growing the endowment allows come take your finals.’ But Calvary Division. the advocacy competition will pass us to offer more support for Eissinger would call on students he did work with students down Coach’s lessons, with many everything we do, for scholarships, quickly to ask questions. “It kept to make them up,” Shannon “But his real mark is how many of them receiving the Hunt for and for endowed professorships, first-year students on their toes,” said. students he saved, because he Excellence in Advocacy Endowed guest speakers, and more,” Nowlin said Shannon. “His students were cared,” Huffman said. Scholarship. Other students will said. In this way, alumni can honor very nervous after the first day or Huffman remembered how benefit from scholarship gifts the past by creating a strong and two because he could come across Joe Conboy impacted the HONORING THE 'GIANTS’ made in memory of Eissinger and permanent foundation for the as quite gruff and demanding. I’d JOE CONBOY // lives of students. “Many said, 'I Joe Conboy. future. say, 'He sounds gruff, but you’ll would not be where I am now AND HELPING THE SCHOOL love him. He’s a big teddy bear, STUDENT PROBLEM if Joe Conboy was not where he OF LAW’S FUTURE It’s a fitting tribute, and in many “We’ve had a fantastic first 50 and he loves you.’” SOLVER was.’ He helped students who had ways, it’s the legacy they wanted. years. The next 50 will be even problems they felt could not be When Nowlin meets alumni all Krahmer’s daughter Alyssa better. We’re a young law school, over the state and the nation, he Students put on an annual Joe Conboy came to the School surmounted. He never judged, recalled how meaningful teaching still building for the future. That asks people to share the names follies called The Supreme Tort of Law after retiring as a colonel only helped,” Huffman said. was to her father. “My dad’s main future is bright as we create a of their favorite professors. The that included a tribute to their in the Army’s Judge Advocate professional focus was teaching better version of ourselves one same five names keep coming up. professor. Eissinger was famous General’s Corps and a stint at For some, the mentor’s insight law, which gave him incredible day at a time and one student at It’s part of the legacy that legal for talking fast, and one sketch the University of Alabama’s law made a difference from day one. joy. Several years ago, my dad a time over the next 50 years,” scholars like Weninger, Krahmer, referred to needing an English-to- school. He then spent 30 years “There’s a very successful lawyer in shared with my mom the idea Nowlin said. It’s a straightforward Hunt, Conboy, and Eissinger left “Eissmandic” dictionary to help at Texas Tech as a professor and San Antonio who said she would that he would love to fund several goal: constant improvement. behind by impacting the careers understand what he said. associate dean for student affairs, have been gone week one if not scholarships for deserving law That incremental change is just of students who practice at law where his positive nature was a for Joe Conboy. He had a deep students to attend Texas Tech Law the approach the law school’s firms and teach at universities Even after he retired, he continued perfect fit. and honest caring for the students. School. Because of his untimely forbearers would recommend. to teach part time. “I encouraged When news of his passing was nationwide. death, he was not able to complete After all, they built their own him to keep teaching because he “He had a song in his heart, and posted, there was an outpouring this dream while he was alive. He legendary careers the same way. For Nowlin, it’s also one of the was an excellent teacher,” said he made everything fun,” wrote of grief and appreciation from told my mother in the last few key drivers of the law school’s Huffman, adding that Eissinger Taine Conboy, his wife of 62 former students who were now months before his passing, that he success. “The school really is the won the award for outstanding law years, in his obituary. Huffman, successful lawyers,” Huffman said. would like for part of his legacy faculty. It’s the professors who professor a number of times. “He who knew Conboy from the JAG to be to fulfill this dream to create taught. For many, these professors *After completion of this article, Professor loved teaching, and students loved Corps, said, “He was a guy who “Joe Conboy taught electives, scholarships,” wrote the Texas were the TTU School of Law,” Emeritus Annette Marple ’73 passed away. One him,” said Huffman. “He was a students came to with problems including sports law, and his classes Tech law grad and managing he said. The careers of these five of only eight female students in her law class, real asset in many different ways.” or to resolve trouble. Joe was a were always full,” said Huffman. member of the Krahmer Law lawyers helped shape the law really big man with a big heart Athletics was an integral part of Firm in Dallas. Marple graduated with honors from Texas Tech school and set its trajectory. When Frank Newton stepped and a gentle man. He would have Conboy family life. Joe Conboy Law School in 1973. Within a few months of down as Dean, the faculty played coffee in the forum out here, and played basketball at Canisius, Through the power of her graduation, she began a 19-year career as As the law school embarks on its a role in selecting an interim dean. students would gather around and and his daughter Missy is Senior philanthropy, dozens of friends, one of the law school’s most respected faculty next 50 years, it’s easy to think As a sign of respect, they chose talk about whatever they wanted Deputy Athletics Director for family, and colleagues are working the influence of the legal giants members. Marple taught property, Texas marital Eissinger. “He was a great help to to talk about,” said Huffman. “He Sport Operations at the University together to help make Krahmer’s who helped launch the careers of property, wills, and trusts until her retirement in me when I came back as dean,” had a father/son, father/daughter of Notre Dame, where she played dream become a reality. When so many may be lost for future 1992. In addition to her teaching duties, she also Huffman said. relationship with students.” basketball. fully funded, the John E. Krahmer generations. “But every ending is Memorial Endowed Scholarship served as Associate Dean and long-time Chair a new beginning,” added Nowlin, The Conboys were flawless dance will make a difference in students’ of the Admissions Committee. partners. When asked why, at “and their legacy lives on.” lives at Texas Tech University

26 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 27 LEAVING A

BY TERRY GREENBERG

Suzan E. Fenner, Tom Hall, and Glenn LEGACY D. West are proud alumni of the Texas Tech University School of Law. Fenner, a 1972 graduate, retired after a career with Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, now Foley & Lardner LLP. Hall, who graduated in 1981, runs the Law Offices of Tom Hall in Fort Worth. West, class of 1978, is a partner with the global firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in Dallas. All three serve as trustees of the Texas Tech Law School Foundation, over which Hall currently presides. All three exemplify what Texas SUZAN E. FENNER: “IT ALL GOES Tech graduates can achieve in the law. BACK TO THE SCHOOL OF LAW.” “We pride ourselves in training the best lawyers in the state of Texas, and the kind Suzan Fenner’s detour to law school changed her life of education we offer produces that kind for the better. Fenner was one of a handful of women of attorney,” said Jack Wade Nowlin, Dean at the law school in the late ’60s and early ’70s and and W. Frank Newton Professor of Law. remembers someone “in my face saying 'you have no “We know the legal system works best when you have great lawyers involved, business being here taking the place of a man.’” She and we’re so proud of what our alumni just smiled. have achieved.” But it’s not just current accomplishments that connect this trio of Fenner never planned to go to law school. After Texas Tech lawyers. earning her English degree from Texas Tech University, she considered a teaching certificate because her All three have also committed gifts from mother said it would provide a steady job. But Fenner their wills to their alma mater. By including didn’t want to teach. Her fiancé was planning to go Texas Tech in their estate plans, they’re to law school and suggested she join him. She took making certain that the kind of world- a detour and delayed a decision about teaching. She class education that helped launch their loved law school and never looked back. “It challenged careers will benefit generations of new law my mind, taught me to think abstractly and come up students at Texas Tech University. with creative ways to solve problems,” she said.

And she discovered she really liked tax law classes with her professor, Dave Cummins. “People were scared of him, but I loved it,” she said. She clerked for a Lubbock

TEXAS TECH LAWYER 29 law firm specializing in tax and hundreds of hours needed to School of Law. When the time estate planning while in school. stay current. comes, they’re trusting the Texas Then she moved to Dallas to “So I went cold turkey, left Tech Law School Foundation build her career, but finding the firm and began to serve Board of Directors to decide trial lawyer. Three law school professors a job as an attorney was hard on more boards, helping them how best to invest the donation. He was also had a tremendous impact on because she was a woman. with long-range and strategic impressed his life. “J. Hadley Edgar taught planning,” Fenner said. She It’s the kind of giving that will with the late torts. Chuck Bubany taught Richard B. Amandes, then Dean currently works with the sustain the law school far into Houston criminal law and criminal of the Texas Tech School of Episcopal Seminary of the the future, and it reflects the attorney, Joe procedure, and the great John Law, had a Southwest, impact the university has had on Jamail – the Krahmer taught commercial law contact with a the Texas her career and life. so-called and contracts,” he said. Hall is federal judge Lawyers’ “King of still close friends with Bubany in Dallas and Insurance Fenner also gives back through Torts.” “I and had dinner with Krahmer a wanted to be couple of years ago before he recommended “Texas Tech Law Exchange, volunteering, matching her love Fenner. She like them,” passed away. changed my life and and High of Texas Tech with her desire got the judicial Adventure to help out non-profit boards. Hall said. clerkship and made me the person I Treks for She has served seven years on “I had the opportunity to eventually am today.” Dads and the law school foundation’s Hall earned develop long-term relationships switched to Daughters. board and chairs its Governance TOM HALL: A “LOVE his undergrad degree at Austin with great men,” Hall said. another judge Suzan Fenner Committee. Foundation College in Sherman. He “Edgar was rough with his before getting It all goes meetings bring her back to AFFAIR” WITH THE scraped by financially and humor, and that was his way of a job with back to the Lubbock at least twice a year. SCHOOL OF LAW. remembers people giving him being affectionate,” said Hall, Gardere, Porter School of As a graduate of Lubbock’s help, which inspired him to be who said he valued becoming and DeHay’s tax Law. “Texas Monterey High School, she still involved Edgar’s department. She was the first Tech law changed my life and recognizes the place in spite Tom Hall jokes about deciding with colleague after female lawyer at the firm. made me the person I am today. of what’s different. “Lubbock if the School of Law was the charitable graduation. right fit for him. “They were activities “He always It made a dramatic difference has changed so much. It’s still 'I have four children When Congress passed the in how my life turned out. If a small place and easy to get the only school to give me a when he recognized me – my son, daughter, Employee Retirement Security it were not for law school, I around, but there’s a lot more chance, and it’s a love affair that could. on sight, and Act, the firm asked her to would have ended up teaching restaurants,” she said. continues to this day,” said Hall, When he Austin College and we were friends. figure out how it would affect and wouldn’t be happy. But I did who has had his own firm for got to law the Texas Tech School One of the clients. She ended up becoming use my teaching skills to train And while her alma mater has 30 years and is board certified school in of Law and treated all keys of Texas the firm’s expert in employee all those junior lawyers who also kept pace, some things in personal injury law. Lubbock, four the same in my Tech law is the benefits. “It was a cool way to worked for me over the years,” remain constant. “There are he waited estate.’ very personal end up doing something that said Fenner. more programs offered at the Hall remembers receiving the tables for education,” Hall didn’t exist in law school,” said law school now than we had – acceptance letter on Feb. 7, $2 an hour Tom Hall said. Fenner, who worked for the That life-changing impact Moot Court was the only thing 1978. “I thought God gave plus tips. firm 35 years before retiring. In motivated Fenner to give back. available then – but the great me the chance I wanted. From He clerked Hall was one of the ten years since, she’s worked She regularly makes annual thing about Texas Tech is the that point on, I wanted to in John the first donors to help organizations she cares gifts to the Dean’s Excellence law school has never lost the do the best I could with the Montford’s for the Mark about. Fund and has established the desire to touch students and get opportunity,” Hall said. He Lubbock County District and Becky Lanier Professional Fenner Family Scholarship to know them individually. I saw played high school football Attorney’s Office and earned $3 Development Center, “I was always on boards and Endowment, which benefits law it then and still see it,” she said. but knew he was not going to an hour writing appellate briefs purchasing a brick to honor the wanted to do that full time,” students at Texas Tech. More make it to the NFL. He was – a dollar more than minimum three professors who impacted she said, explaining that one notably, she and her husband dating a girl whose dad was a wage. his life. “Good men — and they of the downsides of practicing have committed a $100,000 gift employee benefits law is the from their estates to benefit the

30 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 31 did an excellent job of teaching “It’s thinking about concepts,” West joined Jackson Walker He ended up handling you the law,” he said. said West, “the conceptual in the law firm’s real estate sports deals because “it’s the framework you get in that first department at a time when the acquisition of a business at Hall is very proud of his year of law school. Most of my real estate market was “hot as a the end of the day, and a lot alma mater’s moot court most profound memories were pistol.” He quickly became an of private equity founders get competitions and even follows from that first year, where you experienced dealmaker. He was a hankering to own a sports Texas Tech’s football team. A get your thinking reoriented.” recruited by Weil, one of the team. Once you’ve done a few decades later, he feels the And he’s never regretted not top firms in the world. “Weil couple, it’s a unique commodity, significance of giving back. “I paying that application fee. “I’ve had three domestic offices and people look around for was a kid who worked his way worked with and competed at the time; we were trying someone who has done some.” through college to pay for it GLENN WEST: “I He worked on the acquisition, against to open in financing, and sale of the Texas myself. Kids now owe $100,000 GOT THERE FROM people from Dallas, and Weil asked West to help create or more,” he said, lamenting Rangers baseball team, as well the top 20 law I wanted offices in London and their the going rate of student debt. THE TEXAS TECH as acquisitions for the Tampa schools, and I to help European branch. He started “That makes me sad. I want to SCHOOL OF LAW.” Bay Lightning and Dallas never felt at a ‘I got there from the open that doing deals east of the Atlantic help kids get a leg up on law Stars hockey clubs. He also led disadvantage. Texas Tech School of office,” West Ocean and asked what it would school.” the project financing for the I got a great Law. I could not have said. “The take to be licensed in England. American Airlines Center in West says he was naive and education at done it without the opportunity Because he graduated from a Dallas. To help future generations, uninformed about law schools Texas Tech,” teachers and benefit was law school in a common-law Hall committed a gift from as he was getting ready to he said. unparalleled.” country, all he needed was to of that education.’ his will to establish the Tom graduate from Tarleton State “I got there from the Texas West started pass a test. He flew through the Hall Endowed Scholarship. University in Stephenville, Tech School of Law,” said West was the Dallas exam and became a solicitor in Proceeds from the endowment Texas. He eliminated schools West. “I could not have done it born in office in England. Glenn D. West will fund scholarships for first- requiring an application fee and without the teachers and benefit Mineral Wells 1987. He generation law students with applied to Texas Tech and The of that education.” and always helped with When asked if there was one financial need. For Hall, giving University of Texas at Austin. thought of restructuring deal he enjoyed more than is an equally important part of “As soon as Texas Tech said West has won numerous awards Texas as work in real others, West was resolute. “I his plans for the future. yes, I signed up,” said West, for his practice of law and his home, even though he traveled estate and oil and gas, then enjoy all the deals I do,” he said. adding it also helped that his writing. He has also served as the world. Because his dad got exposure to private equity “I think if you don’t enjoy what “I have four children – my son, then-girlfriend was going to an Adjunct Professor at SMU was in the Air Force, West before becoming a finance you do, you’ll not be any good daughter, Austin College, and be teaching in Stanton. Things and sometimes at Texas Tech. started first grade in Casablanca lawyer. at it. I like being in the room the Texas Tech School of Law turned out well. West credits J. Hadley Edgar and graduated high school in when a problem arises, and you — and treated all four the same for having the most profound England. When it was time to West took Weil’s lead in private figure out the solution.” in my estate,” he said. It’s a way The man who wanted to avoid impact on him during law pick a college, he looked for a equity, when it was still a new to give back to the school and an application fee and once school. “He helped me think school closest to where he had process. The result? All those When West was named a the three professors who made scraped by to pay his law school like a lawyer and analyze issues relatives. That was Tarleton, deals with lots of zeroes School of Law Distinguished a life-changing impact on him. tuition by eating beans on like a lawyer. The three most where he met wife Christy – attached. “Private equity firms Alumnus in 2008, a number toast, eventually handled the important classes are torts who hailed from the West Texas are created by people who have of his Weil partners decided $18 billion –yes, with a “b” – (taught by Edgar), contracts, town of Wink. (“Legendary money and the skills to find to raise money from the Firm merger of American Airlines and property,” West said. singer Roy Orbison rented a good deals and are financed by to establish the Glenn D. West and US Airways. Over his These classes shape students’ garage apartment from my in- limited partners,” said West. Research Professorship. “It was career, he’s handled numerous foundation in the law. laws before he became famous,” “I represent the firm formed quite moving and surprising,” other acquisitions totaling West added.) between all parties.” said West. millions and billions more.

32 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 33 ABOUT Gifts From Wills goFORGOLD! West and his wife have long been A gift from your will is an easy way to make a lasting impact on the TOTAL GIFTED TO Go for Gold! BY CLASS: supporters of the law school. Texas Tech School of Law. Together they established the NUMBER AMOUNT Christy & Glenn West Scholarship CLASS YEAR OF DONORS to support law students from their Whether you want to support scholarships to ensure students have hometowns, as well as students access to a quality legal education or faculty endowments that attract 1974 3 $27,500.00 1973 who graduated from Tarleton and support the best legal minds, a planned gift ensures that the The Go for Gold! class competition 11 $25,750.00 State or similar-sized schools as 1988 23 $25,400.00 Texas Tech Law School is sustained for the next generation. West did. His colleagues’ gift of a showcased alumni commitment to 1979 9 $25,000.00 research endowment challenged helping the next generation of Texas him to do more. Gifts from wills are among the most common and impactful gifts that Tech lawyers succeed. Go for Gold! Go for Gold! PARTICIPATION PERCENTAGE: alumni make to their alma mater, and they are also the easiest to West committed a gift from his make. However, it is important to share your plans with the Texas Tech finished with a total of $135,813 given will that ensures the research % professorship that bears his name Law School Foundation so we can ensure your gift is used exactly as by 90 donors. Of that, $27,163 was CLASS YEAR reaches $1 million — almost you intend. raised for current use scholarship four times its current value. It’s 1973 10.64% dollars. 1988 9.32% a sizeable investment that will These gifts also qualify donors for immediate membership in The produce sizeable returns for the 1979 5.83% Matador Society. Born out of our earliest traditions, The Matador law school. And that’s the “selfish” Four classes established new 1972 3.95% reason West said his fellow Texas Society recognizes all donors who commit to make a gift from 1982 2.70% Tech School of Law grads should their estate to Texas Tech, including the Texas Tech Law School. endowments, and $5,000 was added financially support their alma Membership is granted to anyone who shares documentation of their to the already established Class of mater. gift, no matter the amount of the gift or the age of the donor. 1986 Scholarship Endowment. “For your entire career you’ll be associated with the school,” Any planned gifts should be designated to the Texas Tech Law School TOTAL OVERALL Congratulations to the classes of he said. “To the extent your law Foundation. The Texas Tech Law School Foundation Office is available GIFTED BY CLASS: PARTICIPATION PERCENTAGE: school falls or rises in prestige, to work with your professional advisors to design a gift plan that 1973, 1974, 1979, and 1988 for joining it will benefit you. Forty years achieves your desired goals. For more information about the many AMOUNT % later, I’ll benefit if they rise in together for the benefit of Texas Tech CLASS YEAR CLASS YEAR the rankings because people will ways to include a gift to the Texas Tech Law School Foundation in your law students. These endowments are a say something nice. You need to estate plans, contact: 1979 $555,325.00 1970 35.56% support the law school out of self- lasting legacy that will provide for the 1982 $160,350.00 1988 15.53% defense. “You should be thankful long-term future of Texas Tech Law. 1975 $152,424.88 1979 13.33% and grateful and give back.” 1973 $70,450.00 1973 11.70% KAREN HOLDEN 1974 $65,700.00 1972 10.53% DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & DONOR RELATIONS, SCHOOL OF LAW 1988 $34,925.00 1977 10.00% 806.834.4910 | [email protected] | DONATE.LAW.TTU.EDU 1981 $34,084.17 1985 9.32% 1969 $30,500.00 1975 8.85% 1977 $21,063.33 1971 8.57% 1972 $20,600.00 1980 7.35%

34 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 35 office of Winston & Strawn. Atnipp serves William C. Sjoberg joined the Washington based and family-based immigration matters, ALUMNI on the Texas Tech Law School Foundation D.C. office of Porter, Wright, Morris, & I-9 compliance and government audits, as Board and has been named one of The Best Arthur LLP as a Partner in its International well as Naturalization/U.S. Citizenship cases. Lawyers in America every year for the past Business & Trade practice. Sjoberg has more 15 years. than 25 years of experience representing Douglas K. Watkins was selected by both U.S. and foreign clients in antidumping Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to serve as Judy C. Parker was appointed to the Seventh and countervailing duty matters before the Chief Judge of the Guantánamo war court. NEWS District Court of Appeals for the State of Office of Enforcement and Compliance and Texas by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. the U.S. International Trade Commission, as well as on a variety of issues before U.S. 1996: Customs and Border Protection. Alan Bojorquez received honorary 1986: membership in the International City/ Bill Mateja joined the new Dallas office 1992: County Management Association (ICMA). of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton In its 105 years, ICMA has awarded this LLP as a Partner in the Government Michael Santa Maria joined Baker distinction to just 72 deserving leaders in the Contracts, Investigations & International McKenzie’s Global Executive Committee. field of local government. Trade practice group. Mateja specializes We gladly publish alumni 1993: in White Collar Defense and Corporate Eric J. Golle co-founded HelpMD, a service Investigations. He also serves on the Texas Dwight McDonald was elected to the Texas news and photos. Please created to extend medical care to consumers Tech Law School Foundation Board. Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (including solo-practice and small law (TCDLA) Board of Directors. There are 40 send your submissions practice offices and their staffs) who are 1987: members of the Board, and there are 3,200 currently priced out of the healthcare members of TCDLA. to the Office of Alumni E. Scott Frost, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. marketplace. District Court of the Northern District About 40 classmates from the class of 2008 Relations at of Texas, received the 2018 Texas Tech Chris Oldner was named Partner at family Kevin Nelson and Alan Rhodes ’83 have got together in Lubbock to celebrate 10 years Law School Alumni Association Daniel law firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing partnered in opening the first two My Place H. Benson Public Service Award. This & Anderson, LLP. Oldner served three [email protected] during the 2018 Alumni BBQ weekend. Hotels in Texas (Amarillo and Lubbock). award, presented at the Texas Tech Law terms as judge of the 416th District They signed a territorial development reception during the Texas Bar annual Court in Collin County, where he presided agreement for the State of Texas and plan meeting, recognizes an alumnus who has over criminal and civil cases. Holding to expand My Place Hotels across Texas. An “demonstrated significant and substantial dual certification in Family Law and 1970: 1977: They signed a territorial development entrepreneur, Kevin focuses on real estate, agreement for the State of Texas and plan to contributions to furthering ideals of public Criminal Law from the Texas Board of David Segrest was named to the Texas Charles “Skip” Watson joined Greenberg including ownership of the historic Amarillo expand My Place Hotels across Texas. Equal service in the law.” Legal Specialization, Oldner’s practice Tech Foundation Board by the Texas Tech Traurig as an Appellate Practice Shareholder Building, the first-high rise in downtown parts attorney and entrepreneur, Alan is a encompasses a wide range of domestic law University System Board of Regents. Segrest in its Austin office. He focuses his practice Amarillo. shareholder at Underwood Law Firm, PC. cases. is Of Counsel for Foley Gardere and also on high-stakes appeals in Texas. Tom Murphy just finished his twelfth year serves on the Texas Tech Law School at the Gila River Indian Community, a federally-recognized Indian tribe in Arizona. 1994: Foundation Board. 1978: 1984: James Farren, who recently retired after For the past six years, Tom has served Lee Ann Reno was Glenn West, a Partner at Weil, Gotshal & serving as the Randall County Criminal as the Deputy General Counsel in the selected by the 1974: Manges, was named a 2018 Professional District Attorney since 1995, was selected Community’s Office of General Counsel, district judges of Rodney Acker, Partner with Norton Rose Excellence Lifetime Achiever honoree by the to receive the 2018 Distinguished Alumni which employs 11 attorneys. In his time at the U.S. District Fulbright, was elected as treasurer of the Texas Lawyer. This list recognizes lawyers Award from Amarillo College. Gila River, Tom has argued cases before Court for the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). who have made their mark on the legal the United States Court of Appeals for the Northern District The ACTL is comprised of the best of the profession in Texas. Ninth Circuit, the Court of Appeals of of Texas to serve as trial bar from the United States and Canada. W. Mark Lanier, Founder of The Lanier Law Arizona, the Supreme Court of Arizona, a federal magistrate Acker previously served as the organization’s 1979: Firm, was inducted as the 2018 President of and the Gila River Indian Community Court judge for the the National Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only secretary. The Honorable Kevin C. Hart retired after of Appeals. Court’s Amarillo organization of the top U.S. trial lawyers 18 years in Lubbock’s foster care court. division. 1975: committed to promoting the profession’s highest ethical standards and ideals. 1989: Texas Supreme Court Justice Phil W. 1983: Roger M. Nichols was awarded the Charles 1995: Johnson was recognized by the Texas Bar Mike Farris published another true-crime Butts Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award Ginger Nelson was Tanya K. Pierce was appointed the First Foundation with the 2018 Samuel Pessarra work, Poor Innocent Lad: The Tragic by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers elected as the 33rd Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern Outstanding Jurist Award. The award honors Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution Association. The award honors an individual mayor of the City Municipal Law Seminar, held at the Law School in District of Texas. Previously, she served with “an active federal or state judge who exhibits of Myles Fukunaga. The book draws attorney who has provided outstanding pro of Amarillo. the Drug Enforcement Administration as June, featured presentations by seven municipal an exceptionally outstanding reputation for upon trial transcripts, court records and bono work. Chief of Staff in Arlington, Virginia (under competency, efficiency, and integrity.” When contemporaneous news reports to tell the attorneys from across the state, all of whom Karen P. Tandy ’77), and as General Counsel Gary J. Ilagan Johnson’s resignation becomes effective story of the abduction and murder of the 1990: on Dec. 31, 2018, he will have served as a in the DEA Dallas office. joined Fong & were Texas Tech Law alumni. [Left to right] Mick 10-year-old son of an executive with the Julie Caruthers Parsley, former member of Associates, LLP as judge for 20 years, including 13 years on the Hawaiian Trust Company in 1928 Honolulu. McKamie ’78, Slater Elza ’97, Donna Clarke ’01, Supreme Court and seven on the Seventh 1985: the Texas Public Utility Commission, joined a Partner. Ilagan Court of Appeals in Amarillo, where he Pedernales Electric Cooperative as its new is an immigration Alan Bojorquez ’96, Amy Sims ’95, Peter Smith ’76, 1983: Doug Atnipp, who represents clients Chief Executive. Parsley is the first female attorney with more first served as a justice and then as the chief engaged in all facets of the energy business and Matt Wade ’95 Alan Rhodes and Kevin Nelson ’96 CEO in the cooperative’s history. than 20 years of justice. and does large-scale energy transactions, was partnered in opening the first two My Place experience working appointed Managing Partner of the Houston Hotels in Texas (Amarillo and Lubbock). on employment-

36 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 37 presented at the Texas Tech Austin Municipal Judge Celeste Iris The Texas State Securities Board, the Ryan Damiano was promoted to Director Jason Jordan, Associate at Haynes and Law reception during the Texas Villarreal received two Hispanic National government agency responsible for and made a Shareholder after having been Boone, received the 2018 Texas Tech Law Bar annual meeting, recognizes Bar Association (HBNA) Presidential enforcing state securities laws, named with McDonald Sanders as an associate School Alumni Association Hershell L. “an alumnus who has served appointments from the new HBNA since 2014. Damiano’s practice focuses on Barnes Ambassador Award. This award, the law school by coaching President. HBNA is a nonprofit, Clinton Edgar as Deputy Securities both transactional and litigation matters, presented at the Texas Tech Law reception advocacy teams.” nonpartisan, national membership Commissioner. Edgar has been working and he represents clients in a variety of during the Texas Bar annual meeting, organization that represents the interests of for the board since 2010, first as staff commercial real estate transactions, including recognizes “an alumnus who has served 2002: Hispanic legal professionals in the United attorney for the Inspections and Compliance acquisitions, construction and development, as a goodwill ambassador through a Isreal J. Miller joined the Gray States and its territories. Division, and later as director of the debt financing, and leasing. combination of actions and efforts that have Reed Dallas tax section from Registration Division. In those roles, Edgar demonstrated dedication and fellowship the Texas Comptroller of 2006: investigated securities firms and individuals Chauncey M. Lane was elected to toward the School of Law and general Public Accounts, where he was Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed registered with the state for regulatory partnership at Husch Blackwell. Lane puts community.” assistant general counsel. Lori Cobos to the Texas State Affordable violations. his experience with mergers and acquisitions, Housing Corporation Board of Directors. capital market transactions, and regulation Alex Yarbrough was honored by Legal Aid The board oversees the provision of of securities industry professionals to of Northwest Texas as one of two attorneys Jim Bethke ’92 and Allison Clayton ’07 at the 2004: Governor Greg Abbott appointed Dustin Hillary Harlan joined Butler affordable housing for low income Texans. Howell as judge of the 459th Judicial work for clients that include public and “For providing the most clinic hours and National Legal Aid and Defender Association Health System in Butler, Pennsylvania as District Court in Travis County for a term private companies, private equity firms, and dedication to the Equal Justice Volunteer investment advisers. Program of Legal Aid of Northwest Texas.” National Annual Conference. Chief Compliance Officer. Harlan has Amy Simpson was elected to partnership in set to expire December 31, 2018. Howell will served as Chief Compliance and Ethics the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP. return to private practice and did not run in This is the 2nd year in a row he has received Officer, Vice President of Compliance and Simpson’s practice includes all aspects of the November general election. Brandon Lipps, Acting Deputy Under this award. Director of Compliance for McKesson, commercial real estate and lending, with an Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer 1997: 2012: as well as Interim Regional Vice President emphasis on CMBS loan origination and Charlie Jones was promoted to partnership Services, received the 2018 Texas Tech Tekla O. Mann was elected Partner in the of Integrity and Compliance for Change servicing matters. Law School Alumni Association G.O.L.D. Ricardo Bonilla, an Associate in Fish & Trial Department of Kemp Smith LLP’s El at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Jones is a Healthcare Advisory Services. member of the Litigation and Intellectual Award. This award, presented at the Texas Richardson’s Dallas office, was named a Paso office. Mann’s primary area of practice Tech Law reception during the Texas Bar 2018 Professional Excellence On the Rise is medical malpractice, along with insurance 2007: Property Practice Groups in the Dallas Kimberly S. Houston, Corporate Counsel The National Legal Aid and Defender office. His practice focuses on intellectual annual meeting, recognizes “an alumnus honoree by the Texas Lawyer. This list defense, products liability, premises liability, who graduated during the last decade for recognizes lawyers who have made their and consumer litigation. for Liberty Mutual, received The Texas Association (NLADA) honored Allison property and commercial litigation in state Lawbook and the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter Clayton, Deputy Director of the Innocence and federal courts and arbitrations. significant achievements in the practice of mark on the legal profession in Texas. of the Association of Corporate Counsel Project of Texas and Director of the Texas law, the judiciary, public service, government, Bonilla was also named an On the Rise Jason Melville was elected as an Equity 2017 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Award Tech Law School Innocence Clinic, with the business, or commerce.” – Top 40 Young Lawyer for 2018 by the Partner at Hawley Troxell’s Boise, Idaho Russell Jumper was promoted to Partner American Bar Association (ABA) Young for Non-GC of a Large Legal Department. prestigious Arthur von Briesen Award for in the Dallas office of Gray Reed. Jumper office. Melville practices in the areas of Houston also received the 2018 Texas Tech her extraordinary contributions in support Benson Varghese, Founder and Managing Lawyers Division. This prestigious award is business, corporate tax, and estate planning. concentrates his practice on helping given to “attorneys who exemplify a broad Law School Alumni Association Rising Star of civil legal aid. companies through all stages of litigation. Partner of Varghese Summersett PLLC, Award. This award, presented at the Texas was elected Vice-president of the Tarrant range of high achievement, innovation, 2000: Tech Law reception during the Texas Bar County Criminal Defense Lawyer’s vision, leadership, and legal and community Byron Kennedy was named the Vice April Propst was sworn-in as associate judge service.” Mike P. Springer joined Austin firm Cain annual meeting, recognizes “an alumnus President for University Advancement at Association (TCCDLA.). & Skarnulis PLLC as a Partner. His work whose exemplary contributions of service of Taylor County’s 326th District Court. Texas Tech University. Kennedy previously 2013: primarily focuses on general business and and leadership, either professionally or at served as the Associate Vice Chancellor of 2011: commercial real estate matters, including the School of Law, has brought credit to the Principal Gifts at the Texas Tech University 2009: John Ellis was elected to serve as the Jason Enright joined Winstead’s Business financing, acquisition and development, and graduate and the institution.” System. Vanessa Burgess was promoted to the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Restructuring/Bankruptcy Practice Group leasing. position of Assistant General Counsel & Division Representative for District 25, as an Associate in the Dallas office. Before 2005: Ethics Officer for the Railroad Commission entering private practice, Enright served Goran Krnaich is now the Department representing South/Central Texas. For 2001: Guy A. “Tony” Fidelie, Jr. was appointed of Texas (RRC). Burgess will manage this two-year term, Ellis will serve as a two-year term as the judicial law clerk of Justice Resident Legal Advisor for the for Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ronald Wendy-Adele Humphrey, Associate Dean by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to the legal matters within the Office of General the liaison between the American Bar United States Embassy in Sarajevo. Goran B. King in the United States Bankruptcy for Assessment and Strategic Initiatives Midwestern State University Board of Counsel’s General Law Section, including Association Young Lawyers Division (YLD) will represent the U.S. Department of Justice Court for the Western District of Texas. and Professor at Texas Tech University Regents. contracts, open records, rulemaking, open and the seventeen young lawyer affiliate and the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial He also served as a judicial law clerk for School of Law, received the 2018 Texas meetings, employment and ethics, and organizations across South and Central Development, Assistance and Training in the compliance issues. U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost in the Tech Law School Alumni Association D. Governor Greg Abbott appointed Brooke implementation of justice sector technical Texas. Murray Hensley Service Award. This award, T. Paup to the Texas Water Development assistance activities designed to strengthen Board. Prior to her the bilateral relationship between the United 13th Annual Gala awardees Rankin Gasaway ’88, Bill Mateja ’86, and the Honorable Mackey Hancock ’74 receiving their plaques from appointment, Paup served States and Bosnia and Herzegovina on Interim Dean Rick Rosen. as the director of legislative criminal justice matters. affairs for the Texas Comptroller of Public 2008: Accounts. Michael Davis was sworn in as 369th Judicial District Court judge.

Dean Jack Wade Nowlin and Wendy-Adele Humphrey ’01 at the alumni reception held in conjunction with the 2018 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting in Houston.

38 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 39 In Memoriam United States District Court for Kane Russell Coleman Logan the Northern District of Texas. as a Litigation Associate. 2016-CURRENT Previously, he clerked for J. Austin Franklin joined Kelly Senior United States District Johnny W. Actkinson 1973 Hart & Hallman’s Fort Worth Judge Sam R. Cummings in the Ronnie L. Agnew 1987 FACULTY office as an Associate in the Northern District of Texas. R. C. Augesen 1972 Litigation Practice Group. Robert E. Barnhill, III 1980 Franklin’s practice focuses on 2017: Kevin K. Brown 1990 UPDATESTemple Law Review. For the Law year including Texas Estate Planning representing corporate and Eric A. Clinton joined Sprouse Donald J. Camp 1983 George M. Conner, III 1975 School, Professor Benham serves Statutes with Commentary and Texas individual clients in a wide Shrader Smith as an Associate Texas Tech law faculty on the curriculum and faculty Wills, Trusts, and Estates, as well variety of litigation in state attorney. His practice includes B. Blake Cox 1986 produce powerful and development support committees. as several law review articles and federal courts involving oil and gas title examinations, Carol E. Crow 1998 He also routinely takes on pro and dozens of continuing legal commercial disputes, breach real estate, business Craig P. Dickson 1984 provocative scholarship to bono cases and cases representing education articles. Professor of contract actions, and organizations, and banking. Kirk W. Dockery 1985 share with fellow scholars, indigent defendants. Beyer’s blog, Wills, Trusts & Estates employment matters. Claud H. Drinnen, III 1973 Prof Blog, remains the top-ranked Cam L. Fannin, Jr. 1970 practitioners, students, estate planning blog in the nation Kimberly Elmazi joined The Honorable John H. Fostel 1973 and the eighteenth ranked legal Kaitlyn Luck joined immigration law firm Davis & and the general public. RISHI R. BATRA blog overall. He also continues to Michael L. Fostel 1970 Montgomery & Andrews, Associates. Elmazi specializes Professor of Law be one of the most downloaded Morris C. Gore 1979 P.A. as an Associate in the in all areas of immigration legal authors on the Social Science Jackie S. Hampton 1999 Santa Fe office following her law, including visas, green Professor Batra’s scholarship Research Network. Barry L. Hart 1977 time in public service as an cards, deportation, family focuses on Alternative Dispute Grover Hartt, III 1973 Resolution, and in particular, The Financial Planning Association assistant district attorney with immigration, business David J. Hazlewood 1979 applying dispute resolution of West Texas also announced that the Eighth Judicial District immigration, appeals, and Maurice D. Healy, JD 1973 perspectives to novel fields such it named its Certified Financial Attorney in Taos, New Mexico. political asylum. Bobbye C. Hill 1987 as election law and criminal GERRY W. BEYER Planning Examination Scholarship She was also re-elected to the procedure. In the 2017-2018 in honor of Professor Beyer. This D. Fred Hoopes 1973 Governor Preston E. Smith New Mexico Young Lawyers’ academic year, he published year’s scholarship winners were Melinda Louque joined Cantey John L. Hutchison 1971 Regents Professor of Law Division Board of Directors. three law review articles and announced at the Opportunity Hanger LLP as an Associate. Charles E. Klein 1986 two book chapters. Notably, his Traveling coast-to-coast, Days Banquet in February. Louque, whose primary C. Elliott Knott 1971 JAMIE J. BAKER article “Improving the Uniform throughout Texas, and via Justin McAnally was promoted practice areas are civil litigation Richard A. Koenig 1992 Associate Librarian of Law and Partition of Heirs Property Act” the Internet, Professor Beyer to Director of alliantgroup, and employment, is no stranger Robert W. Lemmons 1977 Interim Director of the Law was published in the top-50 George speaks at conferences, seminars, the nation’s leading provider to the firm. She twice served as Jim Lewis 1973 Library Mason Law Review. webinars, and CLE programs for of specialty tax services. a summer associate. Brian U. Loncar 1987 practitioners, judges, academics, Professor Batra is also an active and the lay community. His McAnally is responsible Annette W. Marple 1973 Professor Baker’s administrative presenter at scholarly conferences. for shaping the strategic talents were recognized when she presentations focus on legal topics, Eric J. Matthews joined Eric J. Martin 2001 He spoke at the Texas Association such as estate planning for digital direction of alliantgroup’s Kyle W. Maysel 1984 was recently appointed Interim of Mediators Annual Conference Sprouse Shrader Smith as an Director of the Law Library. In assets and pets, estate-planning Research and Development Associate attorney. Matthews’ Acie C. McAda 1986 on “Non-verbal Communication in ethics, avoiding will contests, that role, Professor Baker oversees ADR in an International World,” Tax Credit services and will practice focuses on real estate, Jeffrey R. McCombs 1997 and recent judicial and legislative the day-to-day operations of the gave a guest lecture at UC Davis STEPHEN BLACK be one of the firm’s main corporate and securities, Alan E. McNally 1992 Law Library and sets strategic developments. leaders in its expanding R&D Gordon S. Morriss 1977 School of Law entitled “Plea Professor of Law business transactions, oil priorities. Professor Baker was Bargaining as ADR,” and served Implementation Department. Brian E. Murray 1982 also accepted into the Texas Tech Professor Beyer continues his and gas, as well as non-profit as a panelist at the ABA Section service as the “Keeping Current— Professor Black is a frequent formation. J. David Nelson 1976 University’s Texas Academic on Dispute Resolution Spring Leadership Academy, became Probate” Column Editor for the speaker on topics involving 2015: Ronald D. Nickum 1970 Conference discussing “Integrating American Bar Association’s Probate & the intersection of intellectual Lonnie M. Obeidin 1973 a fellow in the 2018 American ADR Teaching, Writing, Theory, Andrew “Drew” Robertson Association of Law Libraries Property magazine, and as Editor- property, business, and taxation. joined the Dallas office of Forrest E. Penney, Jr. 1992 Leadership Academy, was elected and Practice.” in-Chief of the REPTL Reporter, His article, “The Copyright Box Kent W. Peterson 1982 the Southwestern Association the official quarterly publication Model,” was published in the Seattle Patrick L. Quinn 1977 of Law Libraries Treasurer, and of the Real Estate, Probate, and Law Review. Lisa D. Ratzke 1999 was appointed Vice Chair of Trust Law Section of the State Professor Black is also very Deborah D. Reeves 1998 the LexisNexis Call for Papers Bar of Texas, which is the State Committee. Bar’s largest section. For the active in exploring new ideas and Michael L. Rizzo 1992 thirty-second consecutive year, his opportunities for the Law School, WARREN PAUL NEW OF DENVER CITY Richard J. Roach 1978 continuing legal education activities including possible course offerings Thomas L. Ross 1975 Professor Baker also participated 1921-2018 as an invited panelist at the South qualified him for membership in at the new Texas Tech University Jim H. Shaw 1975 Carolina Law Review Symposium the Texas Bar College, an honorary campus in Costa Rica. He and James B. Sheets 1976 society of lawyers, chartered by Professor Ramírez were among the New was instrumental in the establishment of on artificial intelligence. Professor Larry C. Slaughter 1987 Baker’s article, “Beyond the the Supreme Court of Texas in first Texas Tech professors to teach Texas Tech University School of Law. He presented Velma G. Solorzano 2006 Information Age: The Duty of DUSTIN B. BENHAM 1981, “to recognize and encourage at the campus, offering a two-day lawyers who maintain and enhance Cybersecurity Law seminar. Sean P. Stiver 2007 Technology Competence in the Professor of Law a resolution backing the creation of a law school Algorithmic Society,” was then their professional skills and the Cheryl M. Taylor 1990 Professor Benham continues to quality of their service to the Robert L. Thompson 1997 published in the South Carolina at Texas Tech at a State Bar of Texas Board of Law Review symposium edition. teach procedure and litigation public by completing at least Jayne E. Tillett 2011 double the required hours of Directors meeting in 1963. He also served as a Her article, “A Legal Research courses. His efforts in the Russell C. Tomlinson 1998 Odyssey: Artificial Intelligence classroom make him one of the continuing legal education each founding director of the Texas Tech Law School Jeffrey C. oilesV 1982 as Disruptor,” was published as most popular teachers on the year.” L. Jean Wallace 1976 the lead article in the Law Library faculty. His article, “Tangled Foundation from 1967 to 1992. Jud T. Walton 1972 Journal. Professor Baker also Incentives: Proportionality and Professor Beyer authored a number published two book chapters and the Market for Reputation Harm,” of books and articles published Stephen C. Wesselmann 2001 was published in the top-50 during the 2017–2018 academic The Honorable Danny Woodson 1978 has as several forthcoming works. 40 TEXAS TECH LAWYER Ronald L. Yandell 1978 TEXAS TECH LAWYER 41 served on tenure and promotion Libraries’ Annual Conference on university and generate additional Always dedicated to the committees, and advises student the use of research conference in revenue for the Law School. representation of the poor, groups. legal research and writing courses. Professor Metze maintains At the Southwestern Chapter, she Professor Keffer is a member of membership in the Pro Bono presented on experiential legal the Board of Advisors for the College of the State Bar of Texas. research courses under the ABA Maguire Energy Institute, which is He also works closely with the Standards. She also presented at part of the Cox School of Business Criminal Law Association to the biannual Legal Writing Institute at Southern Methodist University bring in guest speakers. Recently, Conference in Milwaukee, on a and a member of the Interstate Oil he brought in Tyrone Moncrief panel discussing legal research in and Gas Compact Commission. from Houston to speak on “The BRYAN CAMP CATHERINE MARTIN the first year curriculum. WENDY-ADELE VAUGHN E. JAMES He continues to write a regular, Power of the Story: A guide on George H. Mahon Professor CHRISTOPHER HUMPHREY ’01 Judge Robert H. Bean bimonthly column for Shale storytelling for lawyers.” He also of Law Associate Dean for Bar Success; Associate Dean for Assessment Professor of Law magazine. hosted Sister Helen Prejean, Professor of Law & Strategic Initiatives; Director a Catholic nun predominantly Professor Camp published five JAROD S. GONZALEZ of the Texas Tech Pre-Law Professor James published a known for her best-seller Dead short articles and continues his Catherine Christopher was recently Professor of Law Academy; Interim Director of new book, Texas Elder Law, and Man Walking, for a conversation on has another book projection in capital punishment. weekly “Lesson From the Tax promoted to Associate Dean for the Legal Practice Program; Court” posts on the widely-read progress. He presented on a panel Bar Success and spearheads the Professor Gonzalez serves as Professor of Law “TaxProf ” blog. He is active in the Law School’s various initiatives to a co-editor of the State Bar of discussing teaching overseas at the American Law Institute, and the help students prepare for the bar Texas Labor and Employment Law Annual Southeastern Association Dean Humphrey was named of Law Schools Conference. American Bar Association Section exam. Dean Christopher organizes Section Newsletter, which provides Associate Dean for Assessment and of Taxation. He also currently various bar preparation events, summaries of important Texas He also serves as a member of Strategic Initiatives in recognition the Board of Experts of the serves on the editorial board of the such as information sessions, labor and employment law DELEITH DUKE GOSSETT of her administrative talents, after Practicing Tax Lawyer. essay-writing workshops, and video decisions. His article, “The New Professor of Law International Religious Liberty having served very successfully as Association. tutorials. She also teaches courses Batson: Opening the Door of the Interim Dean of Admissions for ARNOLD H. LOEWY aimed specifically at preparing the Jury Deliberation Room after Professor Gossett published a two academic years (2016-2018). George R. Killam Jr. Chair of for the bar exam, including Texas Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado,” was solicited piece, “The Client: How Criminal Law Practice, a course designed to help published in the St. Louis University States Are Profiting from the Dean Humphrey also serves as students improve their essay-writing Law Journal and the third edition Child’s Right to Protection,” in the the Director of the Texas Tech Professor Loewy hosted the RICHARD MURPHY skills, and Advanced Legal Analysis, of his Discrimination in Employment University of Memphis Law Review. She University Pre-Law Academy, which Twelfth Annual Criminal AT&T Professor of Law an online course that gives students casebook is forthcoming. then served as an invited panelist is a rigorous summer program for Law Symposium with several a leg up on the bar exam’s multiple- to speak on that topic at Duke undergraduate students, and as outstanding scholars from the Professor Murphy’s article, choice questions. Professor Gonzalez also provided Law School’s 2017 The Rights of the Interim Director of the Law nation’s top law schools to “Abandon Chevron and Modernize testimony before the Senate the Child in a Globalized World School’s highly-ranked Legal Practice discuss laws surrounding capital Stare Decisis for the Administrative Dean Christopher also chairs Business & Commerce Committee conference and she moderated a Program. For her dedication to punishment. Additionally, he State,” was published in the top- WILLIAM R. CASTO the new Bar Passage Committee, on Social Media Privacy Issues for panel at Duke Law School’s 2018 advocacy competitions, as both has maintained a column in the ranked and highly prestigious Paul Whitfield Horn Professor working with nine other professors Employees and Job Applicants. Silent Victims: Foster Care and a coach and administrator, she AMY JARMON Lubbock Avalanche-Journal called Alabama Law Review. He also has to expand institutional efforts to Foster Care Adoption in America received the 2018 D. Murray Hensley Assistant Dean for Academic “It’s Debatable.” His speaking many works in progress. Professor Casto published works in support student success on the bar Conference. Her article was Service Award. She also received Success Programs engagements included Federalist- the Green Bag and the Ohio Northern exam. She also served as a member referred to as “revelatory” on Duke the 2017-18 Chancellor’s Council sponsored debates at the University University Law Review. He was also of the Texas Supreme Court task Law School’s 2018 Silent Victims Distinguished Teaching Award, Dean Jarmon serves as Editor of of Mississippi, the University of the lead author on an amicus brief force, studying the bar exam and Conference page. which is the highest teaching honor the Law School Academic Support Blog. North Carolina, and the University submitted to the United States recommending the adoption of the given by the Texas Tech University She engages in a substantial number of Houston Law Center. Supreme Court and has a book Uniform Bar Exam. System to faculty members. of service activities within the forthcoming with the University of Law School and with professional Kansas Press. Dean Christopher writes Dean Humphrey is active in a variety organizations, including impressive and presents on a variety of of bar organizations. Locally, she is work with the Association of subjects, including bar passage, the Immediate Past President of the American Law Schools and the academic support, Bitcoin and ALYSON M. DRAKE Lubbock Area Bar Association. At Association of Academic Support the blockchain, and legal writing. Associate Librarian of Law; the state level, she is the Immediate Educators. ALISON MYHRA Her book on the Texas bar exam, Director of the Excellence Past President of Law-Focused Senior Associate Dean; Tackling the Texas Essays, was in Legal Research Program; Education, Inc., and she served two Associate Dean for Academic published by Carolina Academic terms on the State Bar of Texas Press. Assistant Director for Public Affairs; Professor of Law Services SALLY M. HENRY Local Bar Services committee. She John E. Krahmer Banking also serves as an At-large Director PATRICK METZE Dean Myhra was recently promoted Professor Drake teaches two and Commercial Endowed on the SBOT Board of Directors Professor of Law; Director of to Senior Associate Dean in intensive courses: Texas Legal Professor of Law and is a member of the Executive Criminal Defense Clinics recognition of her important ERIC A. CHIAPPINELLI Research and Foreign, Comparative, Committee. administrative and service work in Frank McDonald Endowed and International Legal Research. Professor Henry was named the Professor Metze presented at the addition to her work as Associate Professor of Law She also manages the Law Library’s John E. Krahmer Banking and Additionally, she serves as Chair- Twelfth Annual Criminal Law Dean for Academic Affairs. In public services and directs the Commercial Endowed Professor Elect of the Association of Symposium on the topic: “Are the Law School, Dean Myhra has Professor Chiappinelli’s publication, Law School’s Excellence in Legal of Law, which was renamed in American Law Schools section WILLIAM R. KEFFER there good reasons for abolishing also served on eleven different “Just Like Pulling Teeth: How Research Program. The Excellence honor of its inaugural holder. on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Professor of Practice; Director the death penalty?” As part of committees, as well as on the Dental Education’s Crisis Shows in Legal Research (ELR) Professor Henry also serves as the Research, and she is an active of Energy Law Lecture Series; this symposium, Professor Metze Academic Council and Associate the Way Forward for Law Schools,” Program, a nationally recognized faculty editor of The Texas Bank member of both the Legal Writing Assistant Director of Bar will publish an article in the Texas Deans Council. Despite this was a widely-noted and widely- J. WESLEY COCHRAN Institute and the Association of extracurricular program, provides Lawyer and The American Bank Preparation Resources Tech Law Review, with four students major administrative workload, discussed article on legal education Jack F. Maddox Professor of students hands-on training in the Lawyer. Legal Writing Directors. from his Capital Punishment Dean Myhra continues to excel in the Seton Hall Law Review. He also Law skills, sources, and strategies that Professor Keffer recently served Clinic as named co-authors. He at teaching and recently received contributed a piece to the Research they will need for performing Professor Henry served on both the as the point-person to establish a also presented at the Southeastern Texas Tech University’s President’s Handbook on Shareholder Litigation. Professor Cochran is working on effective legal research throughout Law School’s admissions committee university-wide energy initiative, Association of Law Schools Excellence in Teaching Award. He has another article in progress three chapters for a gaming law their legal career. and its honor council and served on working to offer interdisciplinary 2018 Annual Conference in Fort and is working on revisions to his casebook to be published with Professor Drake was also an the Texas Tech University Faculty degrees, executive education, and Lauderdale, Florida. sole-authored casebook. Carolina Academic Press. For the active conference presenter. She Senate. Professor Henry was also Law School, he chairs the rules opportunities to promote Texas presented at both the Southwestern chosen as an American Bankruptcy Tech as the premier “energy” committee, serves on the academic and Southeastern Chapters of Institute Fellow. advising committee, chaired and the American Association of Law 42 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 43 been attested by students, faculty, spring of 2017, he chaired the Law health law. He also published Professor Sherwin is also working Professor Spain chaired the Dispute Dean Sutton contributed a piece and administrators. He also serves School’s ABA self-study and site an article, “The Revised NCAA on an article addressing hidden Resolution Advisory Board for to International Legal Materials, as chair of the Law School’s visit committee. Division I Governance Structure unconstitutionality in state anti- the Office of Dispute Resolution a publication of the American academic advising committee, after Three Years: A Scorecard,” in SLAPP statues. In March, he in Lubbock County and chaired Society for International Law from is a member of the Texas Tech the Texas A&M Law Review. presented on “Developments in the Pro Bono Committee for the Cambridge University Press. She University Water Resources Texas Anti-SLAPP Legislation” to Lubbock Area Bar Association. also published a book chapter in Working Group and is an advisor 65 Texas judges at the Civil Justice He also served on the Law School The Handbook of Technology, Crime to the Raiderland Native American Conference in Austin and began his Advisory Committee of the Texas and Justice. Her article, “Sovereignty Student Association. He also serves term as Reporter to the Uniform Access to Justice Commission. in Space?,” was published in on the Board of Trustees of the Law Commission’s Drafting Astrosociological Insights, which is ALYSON OUTENREATH Cobell Scholarship Fund. JORGE A. RAMÍREZ Committee on Anti-SLAPP the only newsletter dedicated to ’00 Walter and Anne Huffman Legislation. astrosociological topics and the Associate Dean for Faculty Professor of Law development of astrosociology Development and Professor of as an academic field. Dean Sutton Law Professor Ramírez is currently WENDY TOLSON ROSS also made numerous presentations, working on a series of articles Professor of Law; Director of including three at the annual American Association of Law Alyson Outenreath was recently focused on Mexican legal reforms the Family Law and Housing BRIE D. SHERWIN ’01 named Associate Dean for Faculty that have occurred over the past Professor of Law; Director of Schools conference in San Diego, Clinic CA. Development. In that important seven years. He is also working with Dual Degree and Concentration role, Dean Outenreath works Professor Black and the Director Professor Ross’s article, “It Takes Programs with faculty in a variety of ways of Texas Tech University’s Costa a Village: Empowering the Dead VICKIE SUTTON to ensure increasing excellence in Rica Campus, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Broke Parent,” was published in the Professor Sherwin was elected into Associate Dean for Digital scholarship and teaching. Dean TRACY HRESKO PEARL on a possible Costa Rica Seminar Whittier Law Review. Texas Tech University’s Teaching Learning and Graduate Outenreath was also appointed Professor of Law and Summer Law Program at the Academy and was added to the NANCY SOONPAA Education; Paul Whitfield campus. In recognition of his by the State Bar of Texas Tax Professor Ross serves as chair 2018-2019 SEALS New Scholars Professor of Law; Dean Horn Professor; Director of Section to serve on the council as Professor Pearl published two extraordinary efforts to expand the of the Law School’s diversity Committee. Richard B. Amandes Senior University’s global engagement and the Center for Biodefense, Law one of three law school faculty articles during the 2017-2018 committee and received Texas Tech Scholar in Legal Practice and Public Policy; Director representatives. She also serves on academic year, including “Fast & global image, Professor Ramírez University’s Inclusive Excellence Professor Sherwin’s article, of the Law and Science the State Bar of Texas Tax Section’s Furious: The Misregulation of was awarded the Global Vision Award. This award recognizes “Regulating Coal Ash: Waste in the Professor Soonpaa was named Certificate Program and the Past Chair Advisory Board. She is Driverless Cars,” published in the Lifetime Achievement Award by faculty for their contributions in Trump Era,” was published in the the Dean Richard B. Amandes the first full-time professor to have New York University Annual Survey of the Texas Tech University Office of advancing diversity, equity, and top-ranked Stanford Environmental Senior Scholar in Legal Practice. JD/MS Program in the Life JOHN WATTS served in the position. American Law. International Affairs. inclusive excellence at Texas Tech. Law Journal. Her latest article, “The She is active with the Association Sciences Texas Institute of Charles B. “Tex” Thornton Upside Down: A New Reality for of American Law Schools, the Environmental and Human Professor of Law Dean Outenreath also serves on Professor Pearl also presented Professor Ramírez also serves as Science at the EPA and Its Impact Southeastern Association of Law Health the Advisory Board of Directors at numerous conferences. She faculty advisor to the Immigration on Environmental Justice,” will be Schools, and the Legal Writing Professor Watts continues to be of The Federal Tax Institute, a presented on her paper about Law Association, the Hispanic Law published as the lead article in the Institute. Her latest article, “The Vickie Sutton was recently named one of the most popular teachers nonprofit organization dedicated autonomous vehicles and the law Students Association, the South New York University Environmental Ins and Outcomes of Writing an Associate Dean for Digital Learning at the Law School. He is currently to providing an advanced multi- at the LSU Journal of Energy Law & Texas Law Students Association, Law Journal. Professor Sherwin also Effective Syllabus,” was published and Graduate Education, and working on an article centered on day CLE program on partnership Resources Symposium on disruptive and the International Law Students spoke at numerous conferences in the Journal of Legal Education. She she continues to be an innovator the confrontation clause. At the tax and corporate tax each year in technologies. She also served as an Association. including a presentation at the Duke is currently working on a Family and model for online teaching. Law School, Professor Watt chaired Texas. Her article, “Cheers! Ending invited panelist at the Washburn Environmental Law & Policy Forum Law casebook for Carolina Academic She was recognized by Texas Tech the admissions committee, chaired Quill... What Can Be Learned from University School of Law Emerging Symposium on sustainable urban Press’s “Context & Practice” series University during its Celebration a tenure and promotion committee, the Wine Industry,” was published Technology: Implementation development. that will offer a student-centered, of Faculty Excellence in Research, and advised several student in the New Mexico Law Review. and Regulation Symposium. The BRIAN SHANNON reflective, self-directed learning Scholarship and Creative Activity organizations. panel discussed the feasibility, legal for her election to membership in Paul Whitfield Horn Professor approach as an alternative to the landscape, and the government’s traditional casebook. the International Institute for Space role in the emergence of driverless of Law; Texas Tech University Law. cars. Professor Pearl also presented Faculty Athletics Representative her paper, “Compensation at a Crossroads: Autonomous Professor Shannon continues to Vehicles and Alternative Victim serve as Texas Tech University’s THANK YOU to our adjunct professors! You allow us to offer a Compensation Schemes,” at the RICHARD ROSEN Faculty Athletics Representative to broader curriculum and allow our students to interact with practicing the NCAA and Big 12 Conference. International Telecommunications Glenn D. West Endowed attorneys and sitting judges. We appreciate you sharing your expertise He is also the Big 12 Representative Society annual conference at the Professor of Law; Director of and time with us. University of Trento in Trento, to the Division 1A FAR National the Center for Military Law & Board of Directors and President ROBERT T. SHERWIN ’01 M. ALEXANDER PEARL Italy, and at the Second Annual Policy Junior Faculty Forum for Law & of the 1A FAR (serving in his Professor of Law; Director of Professor of Law; Director of third two-year term as National Advocacy Programs C. Richard “Dick” Baker Hon. Melissa J. McNamara ’94 STEM at the Northwestern Pritzker Professor Rosen co-authored a LARRY SPAIN the Center for Water Law and School of Law. President). Brandon Beck ’12 Don R. Richards ’84 Policy book with Dean Emeritus Walter Professor Sherwin continues his Alvin R. Allison Professor Huffman. Their book, Military Law: Charles P. Bubany Paul K. Stafford ’94 Professor Pearl also co-directs the Professor Shannon was also outstanding work with the Board of Law; Director of Clinical Professor Pearl’s article, Criminal Justice and Administrative appointed to a two-year term on the of Barristers, ensuring the Law Programs and the Civil Practice Hon. Ann-Marie Carruth ’06 Stephen Stone Lights, Camera, Law! film series and Process, received the Third Place “Indigenizing Equality,” co-written co-chairs Texas Tech University’s State of Texas Judicial Commission School’s continued string of Clinic Aaron R. Clements ’96 David N. Strange with Professor Kyle Velte, was President’s Faculty Book Award for championship victories and first- Women Faculty Writing Program. on Mental Health, which was B. Allison Clayton ’07 Gary R. Terrell ’77 published in the Yale Law and Policy 2017-2018. The Third Place award established to assist the Texas rate national rankings in advocacy. Professor Spain is currently Review. He has multiple articles carries a $2,000 prize. Supreme Court and the Court of working on a law review article Donna L. Courville ’94 Lori Truitt ’08 submitted for publication and Criminal Appeals to better serve Professor Sherwin’s article, “Shoot examining the integration of Ronnie Garcia ’08 D. Gene Valentini Professor Rosen also received the several more articles and a book in people struggling with mental First, Litigate Later: Declaratory emotional intelligence as an Shery Kime-Goodwin ’94 Denette Vaughn ’81 progress. Texas Tech Parents Association health issues. Judgment Actions, Procedural essential component of mediation Faculty Distinguished Leadership Fencing, and Itchy Trigger Fingers,” training. He also continues to Sarah M. Gunter ’01 Glenn D. West ’78 Professor Pearl received Texas Tech Award, recognizing his outstanding Professor Shannon delivered a was published in the University of serve as coordinator of the Law Hon. Leslie F. “Les” Hatch ’88 Roderick E. Wetsel support of the University’s vision University’s Hemphill Wells New number of presentations and Oklahoma Law Review. School’s clinics and promoting pro Dean Emeritus Walter Huffman ’77 Ty Wood ’06 Professor Excellence in Teaching and mission. His service to the Law lectures throughout the year on bono service among faculty and law Q. Dwight McDonald ’93 Award, recognizing a professor School has also been outstanding. topics ranging from athletics students. whose excellence in teaching has After serving as interim dean in the governance to ethics in mental

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Vereen Family Advocacy Scholarship Endowment Douglas C. and Veronica O. Atnipp strong sense of giving back. Scholarship Marion T. Key Memorial Endowed Scholarship T. John and Cissy Ward Endowed Scholarship Scholarship Endowment John E. Krahmer Endowed Scholarship Professor Robert Weninger Endowed Scholarship Many generous donors, both Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Crenshaw Sr. Kelly and Daniel Benzon Endowed Endowed Scholarship John E. Krahmer Memorial Endowed Scholarship Senator Jeff Wentworth Endowed Scholarship Scholarship while living and through legacy Crofoot Honors Scholarship Endowment Lubbock National Bank Fellowship Endowment in honor of Christy and Glenn West Scholarship Endowment gifts, have created the following Black Law Students Association Endowed Erwin and Elaine Davenport Endowed John E. Krahmer Scholarship Bobbie Lou Mae White Endowed Scholarship endowments listed. The Law Scholarship Bruce Kramer Endowed Scholarship Forrest Bowers West Texas Legal Legends Winstead, Sechrest & Minick Endowed Scholarship School’s first two endowed Dan and Carol Donovan Endowed Brian Loncar Presidential Endowed Scholarship Judge Halbert O. and Dawn Blair Woodward Endowed Scholarship Endowment Scholarship scholarships were established Durwood H. Bradley Endowed Scholarship M Penn L Award Endowment Scholarship Senator Robert Duncan Endowed John F. (Buddy) Maner Chancellor’s Barrister Fellowship in 1970. Since then, many The Karen (Harrison) Brand Scholarship Scholarship Endowment Endowment scholarship endowments have George W. and Sarah H. Dupree Award Owen W. McWhorter Endowed Scholarship William B. Browder, Jr. Endowed Endowment been created in honor of and in The Meadows Collier Scholarship Endowment in Honor of GENERAL ENDOWMENTS Scholarship J. Hadley Edgar Endowed Scholarship AT&T Professor of Law Endowment memory of alumni and faculty Judge Lucius Bunton Endowed Scholarship Robert Don Collier Epstein-McClain Family Endowed Judge Sam Medina Endowed Scholarship Alvin R. Allison Endowed Professorship members. The total value of Kenneth H. Burns Award Endowment Scholarship Jim Milam West Texas Legal Legend Scholarship Endowment John E. Krahmer Banking Law Endowed Professorship R. Guy and Phyllis Carter Endowed Tim Evans Endowed Scholarship our endowments exceeds $20 Mitchell, Goff & Mitchell Endowed Scholarship Judge Robert H. Bean Endowed Professorship Scholarship Exceptional Merit Endowed Scholarship million dollars, with almost $9 Lawrence and Candyce Monsour Endowed Scholarship Building Together Endowment Christian Legal Society Leaders Endowed Fenner Family Scholarship Endowment million dollars in scholarship Scholarship Brendan Murray Criminal Defense Endowed Scholarship Robert J. Burbridge Law School Clinical Programs Endowment First Graduating Class Endowed Joe H. Nagy Endowed Scholarship John E. Krahmer Commercial Law Endowed Professorship endowments. William C. Clark Memorial Endowed Scholarship Scholarship J. David Nelson Memorial Endowed Scholarship Janet Scivally and David Copeland Endowed Professorship Terry and Linda Fuller Law Scholarship Class of 1973 50th Anniversary Endowed G. Hobert and Aileen Hackney Nelson Endowed Scholarship Erwin and Elaine Davenport Endowed Professorship We are truly grateful to all the Quasi Endowment Scholarship W. Frank Newton Public Interest Endowed Scholarship Dean’s Excellence Endowment alumni and friends who have Judge Royal Furgeson Endowed Scholarship Class of 1974 50th Anniversary Endowed W. Frank Newton West Texas Legal Legend Endowed J. Hadley Edgar Endowed Professorship Scholarship Judge W. Royal Furgeson, West Texas Legal established endowments. These Legend Endowed Scholarship Scholarship Assistant Dean Kay Fletcher Law School Staff Appreciation Class of 1986 Scholarship Endowment Endowment generous gifts keep alive the Gardere Wynne Sewell Endowed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Distinguished Lectureship Clinical Program Endowed Scholarship Walter and Anne Huffman Endowed Professorship names and memories of those Scholarship Endowed Scholarship Coffey Diversity Endowed Scholarship Holland N. O’Neil Endowed Scholarship J. F Maddox Endowed Professorship for whom the endowments are General Endowed Scholarship - Boone Timothy Cole Endowed Scholarship George E. Gilkerson Endowed Scholarship Marilyn Phelan Endowed Scholarship Honorable George Mahon Fellowship Endowment established and benefit Texas Coleman-Hall Endowed Scholarship James H. Gill Scholarship Endowment Walter Ray Phillips Endowed Scholarship George W. McCleskey Endowed Professorship in Water Law Tech law students in perpetuity. Robert Don Collier 50th Anniversary Pat and Laura Gordon Endowed Jerald Pomerantz Texas Association Bank Counsel Endowed Frank McDonald Endowed Professorship Endowed Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship W. Frank Newton Endowed Professorship For the Dean of the Terry Lee Grantham Endowed Scholarship W. Reed Quilliam Endowed Scholarship School of Law Alton Griffin Endowed Scholarship Wayne Reaud West Texas Legal Legends Scholarship Raup Editor-in-Chief Endowed Discretionary Fund Endowment Mark and Claudia Griffin Endowed Judge William Shaver Endowment in Ethics “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. Scholarship Virginia Rhodes Memorial Endowed Scholarship Preston Smith Regents Professorship Endowment for the School Art and Stephanie Hall Scholarship Robertson/Atkins Presidential Endowed Scholarship of Law The second best time is now.” Endowment Runge/Howard Presidential Endowed Scholarship Strasburger and Price Honors Day Endowment ~Chinese Proverb Tom Hall Endowed Scholarship Michael Sawaya Scholarship Endowment Charles Bates Thornton Professorship in Law Endowment Kent R. Hance West Texas Legal Legends David Segrest Endowed Scholarship Glenn West Endowed Professorship Scholarship Endowment Clifford and Sybil Seidel Endowed Scholarship Halbert O. Woodward Lectureship Endowment

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Chace Hill Frank Brown, III '99 Daniel Ralph '95 Paul & Claudia Agnew Dianne Jansing Philip & Patricia Smith George '83 & Dana Holland Jenny '98 & Charles3 Bubany Franklin '89 & Sunny '89 Ratliff Pete '72 & Malisa Andres Cicely Jefferson '98 Thomas Smith Mai '95 & Matthew Isler Sean Buckley '13 The Honorable Susan Redford '97 Frances Ansley

2018: 1 Texas Tech Law School Foundation Trustees // 2 Emeritus Trustees // 3 Faculty/Staff 2018: 1 Texas Tech Law School Foundation Trustees // 2 Emeritus Trustees // 3 Faculty/Staff 56 TEXAS TECH LAWYER TEXAS TECH LAWYER 57 Joshua Avelar '14 Corby '98 & Tira '98 Holcomb George '07 & Rachel Pigg Calli Bailey '11 Wendell & E. Sandy Howard Laurin & Sharon Prather James '91 & Page Ballard Ronald & Susan Howell Cynthia Price '98 R. Lee '00 & Shareen Barrett Glen Hunt Dwain '81 & Dawn Psencik Phillip Boggs '09 Lewis '80 & Paula Isaacks Ronald & Susan Rasmussen Ralph & Kathryn Bravaco J.C. Paul & J. T. Cambruzzi Pace '11 & Gwenhyver Rawlins The Honorable Lisa '86 & Eugene Bronchetti Molly Johnson '14 Elizabeth Reed Kurt Brown Bob '76 & Sally Jones Kelly '96 & Mark '96 Revis Jim & Marie Brunjes John '90 & Erendira Jones Ken & Gayle Riley Jay Cain '14 Leonard & Betty Keeton Denise Roemer Clarence & Lea Carter Jay & Phyllis Kinnison Daniel & Mary Ann Rogers Kenneth Chan '17 Meredith Larson '17 Joseph Rueda, Jr. '09 Lawrence & Dolores Chaudoir William & Nan Leavell Jeri Saffle William '91 & Vickie Chesser Gino & Rose Leonardi J. C. & Irmalee Schumacher Ellen Christen Paul '94 & Pamela '94 Liston Betsy Schwab Robert & Lisa Cobb Matthew Loving '16 The Honorable Mark '76 & Suzanne Shapiro Jeannine Culligan Brent & Jennifer Magers Dylan Smith '16 Monica Cundiff Norbert '90 & Lisa Mahnke Edward & Jo Anne Smith Silvana DaDalt Collin '95 & Kathleen Maloney Blake Stone '17 Lisanne Davidson Matthew Mangum '04 James & Patricia Taylor Jamie Dawson '14 Joe & Debby May Stephen Taylor '06 Benicio Diaz '07 Mary McCrary Larriet Thomas '80 & Johannes Pot Richard & Becky Drachenberg Jeffrey McMeans '92 Harold & Cheryl Thompson John Easter '17 Judith Melevage Gregg Timmons '92 Hodgson Eckel '95 Manuel Michel '07 Albert & Gail Tutino Judi Fibush W. Mike & Jerilynn Millican Caroline Vann Jenise Flowers '92 Michael & Sally Mitchell Raymond Vaz III '15 Jeffrey Gamso '87 & Marietta Morrissey Paula '06 & Nathan Moore Kyle Velte3 Vicki Ganske '77 Geraldine Morris William Weiman '09 Judith Gibbs Justin & Jane Nash Richard & Judy Wein Lisa Green3 Jessica Northam Peter & Marilyn Westfall Robert & Mary Green Ellen O’Brien Leslie White Jeff '94 & Kimberly Griffin Barbara O’Keefe Jack & Marianne Wiggins Katherine Hancock '17 Edwin Ownbey Wendell & Darlene Wilbanks David & Rachel Harmon Catherine Paden Stacy '87 & Stephen Wilson The Honorable Juda Hellmann '85 Jordan '90 & Anna Parker Adam Womack '02 David Helsabeck III '17 J.C. Paul & J. T. Cambruzzi Christina Woods Duffy '12 & Bryan Duffy Suzan Herskowitz '86 Curtis Paulson & Elizabeth Linder Robert Yadao '14 Andrew Heston '14 James '17 & Kylie '17 Peebles Gerald & Betty Yarwood Jerry & Veretta Hogue Patsy Peiffer Tacie '02 & Andrew Zelhart

2018: 1 TTLSF Trustees // 2 Emeritus Trustees // 3 Faculty/Staff

Thank you to the Texas Tech Law School Foundation Board for your outstanding service to our Law School. We are very fortunate to have such a thoughtful, engaged, and dedicated Foundation Board. The School benefits every day from your leadership, hard work, and commitment. - Dean Jack Wade Nowlin

President Tom Hall ’81 James “Jim” Gill ’73 Holland O’Neil ’87 Vice President M.C. Carrington ’82 Laura P. Gordon ’83 Chris Peirson ’77 Secretary/Treasurer Jack Wade Nowlin Mark R. Griffin ’79 Richard Roper, III ’82 Doug Atnipp ’85 Chester W. Grudzinski ’81 Barbara K. Runge ’74 Dub Bratcher ’75 Art A. Hall ’96 David H. Segrest ’70 Beto Cardenas ’99 Brad Hancock ’96 Wade B. Shelton ’81 Mimi Coffey ’94 David Hart ’86 Paul K. Stafford ’94 Robert Collier ’73 Michael J. Henry ’81 Mitchell A. Toups ’82 Joseph Coniglio ’97 David Joeckel, Jr. ’86 Diana M. Valdez ’04 David W. Copeland ’82 Krisi Kastl ’99 Darryl Vereen ’92 Erwin Davenport ’75 Roger A. Key ’76 Hon. Sue Walker ’86 Jerry Dixon ’81 W. Mark Lanier ’84 Glenn D. West ’78 Suzan E. Fenner ’72 Ann Manning ’84 Hon. Mollee E. Westfall ’94 Hon. Kem Thompson Frost ’83 William Mateja ’86 Jo Ben Whittenburg ’73 Karolyne H.C. Garner ’06 Frank McDonald ’79

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