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CHAPTER 1O Bar Leadersh ip into the Twenty-fi rst Centu ry: Patrick J. Borchers We are vigorously opposed to all forms of "racism" - persecution or in- tolerance because of race. We believe that liberty is a sacred thing, but the law, which regulates lib- ert¡ is a sacred obligation. From the Credo of Creighton, 1942 Much was made of Y2K and entering the new millennium. The future, progress, and change seemed assured even if unclear. The law school entered the new century with a new dean who was Catholic, who had attained his un- dergraduate degree at a premier Catholic institution, and had been mentored in law by a renowned Catholic jurist. Moreover, the new dean, nurtured in an academic famil¡ was a proven published scholar and administrator who had been recruited by Creighton faculty of long standing. Such a combination of leadership, philosoph¡ experience, and skills augured well for the continuity and the enhancement of legal training at Creighton. Dean Patrick J. Borchers Patrick I. Borchers, the law school's eighth dean, was raised in Madison, Wis- consin, in an academic environment, his father being a physicist, dean, and vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin. Borchers graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in physics, but did not follow his fa- ther's footsteps any further. He went to the University of California, Davis, where he was managing editor of the law review and graduated in the top 2 percent of his class. He clerked for the Honorable Anthony Kennedy on the Ninth Circuit and worked for three years in a sixtyJawyer Sacramento law firm.
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