NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY SALMON P. CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW | WINTER 2021 CHASE An Ambassador’s Gift

Patricia and Robert Herbold link her experience at Chase to service as a U.S. ambassador and champion for the future of the law school

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In this issue ------Cover Story | 8 - Alumni Patricia Herbold, former United States ambassador, and her husband, Recently elected Justice of the Supreme Court of Dr. Robert Herbold, establish the largest endowment in Chase history, Kentucky Robert Conley is the second Chase graduate to support the work of the dean currently serving on the ------——— seven-member court Alumni facing a pandemic- 25 Dean’s message Education weakened economy can look Chase is expanding its ——— The Master of Legal to strategies developed out programs and offering new Alumni – Kenneth Kinder II, Studies degree program is of the Great Recession to opportunities Daniel Mecklenborg, W. expanding with an entirely overcome uncertainty Lee Scheben, Kenneth 1 online Digital Law and 19 Peller and Sara Peller – Technology track ------have endowed student News from Chase 6 Faculty scholarships ——— 26 Three new professors join Professor John Bickers Professor Anthony Chavez the faculty, the Alumni engages students in has taken on a global ——— Council has new leaders, Constitutional Law through mission to show how lawyers Alumni and friends of Chase headlines an insights … and bits of can help develop policies Chase help support the American Bar Association whimsy to combat global warming college through lifetime and annual gifts event and a professor 7 20 influences a landmark 28 decision by the Supreme ——— ——— ——— Court of the United States Dean Judith Daar looks Professor Jennifer Kinsley back on her first year, which explains how a childhood Class Action 2 includes the in-perpetuum experience at a minor league 32 ——— endowment of the dean- baseball game set her on a ——— The newly created Center ship as the Ambassador course for social justice In Memoriam on Addiction Law & Policy Patricia L. Herbold Dean of 22 will focus on solutions for a Chase College of Law 36 ——— vexing problem 13 ------Faculty Scholarship & 4 ——— Activities CHASE is published by Salmon P. Chase ——— Chase navigates the College of Law, through the Office of 37 Communications in the Office of the The Law + Informatics Covid-19 pandemic with Dean. Please send change of mailing ——— address and alumni news to CHASE Institute has a new focus, on planning and nimbly magazine, Salmon P. Chase College of legal issues of privacy and shifting from in-person to Professor Steve Stephens Law, Northern Kentucky University, 100 Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41099 data protection online instruction and reflects on the life of Dean or by email to [email protected]. Emeritus William Jones, in 5 programming CHASE is edited by Kerry Klumpe, an appreciation Chase director of communications, 14 and designed by Paul Neff of 41 Paul Neff Design.

CHASE MAGAZINE From Dean Daar In Challenging Time, Chase Continues on Course

AS PROGRAMS Greetings Chase Alumni and Friends, HAVE ADAPTED This issue of our biannual Chase happenings TO A PANDEMIC, reaches you at a most unusual time in all of our NEW INITIATIVES lives. I hope you are faring well, and finding HAVE ADDED TO pockets of joy during this elongated period of THE COLLEGE’S global pandemic. While not devoting the entire SUCCESSES issue to Covid, we do preview a few ways in which we are responding to the limitation on in-person gatherings, including in the class- room, to apprise you of how we have responded to meet the challenges of the time. Our chief purpose remains one of celebration. In the pages that follow, we celebrate the transfor- mative gift bestowed upon the law school by Patricia and Robert Herbold with the establish- ment of the Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold Dean of Chase College of Law. As you learn We also began a new chapter in Chase’s emerging more about her background and accomplish- focus on health law and policy with the opening ments, I know you will be as impressed as I am of the Center on Addiction Law & Policy. Ably with her gracious manner, impactful service and headed by our newest faculty member, Professor intelligent perspective on the role of law in Alex Kreit, the center will convene leaders and today’s society. Her storied career and philan- thinkers from across campus, the region and the thropic devotion are an inspiration to all who nation to educate and advocate around the public have passed through in Nunn Hall and its health scourge of addiction that continues to predecessor Chase spaces. afflict too many lives. This academic year we also celebrate the arrival Our ambitious agenda for the academic year of an impressive cadre of new learners. The 2020 includes continued focus on our core competen- entering class once again elevates our school’s cy of preparing Chase students for productive, LSAT and GPA credentials for the fourth year in fulfilling and successful careers in law. Your a row, while bringing creativity and adaptive continuing support and hallowed pathways lead skills to the hybrid learning environment we are the way for the newest members of our commu- now embracing. While just under half of our nity who will shape our bright future for years to classes have been face-to-face, every student come. could elect to join any class remotely to accom- With warmest wishes, modate their personal circumstances. Over the past year, we have made enhancements to our curriculum to position our graduates for success in a variety of emerging legal specialty areas. This year, we will launch our fully online Master of Legal Studies in Digital Law and Judith Daar Technology, breaking new ground in the law AMBASSADOR PATRICIA L. HERBOLD DEAN school arena with this unique specialized degree. OF CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW

WINTER 2021 1 Briefs New Faculty Members Bring Teaching, Publishing Experience to Chase

Chase College of Law has three new faculty members this academic year: Alex Kreit is assistant professor of law and director of the newly created Center on Addiction Law & Policy, Tan Boston is visiting assistant professor of law and Tobe Liebert is law library assistant director for user services and assistant professor of law library services.

Professor Kreit is Professor Professor a recognized Boston was an Liebert returned expert in areas of assistant profes- to Kentucky from law involving sor of law and positions at law illegal drugs and director of the school libraries in marijuana. He has Master of Law Chicago, Los written case- and Master in the Angeles and books and law Study of Law Austin, Texas. In review articles on programs at the Chicago, he was the subjects, and speaks regularly at University of Dayton (Ohio) School of with Chicago-Kent School of Law and related symposia. At Chase, he teaches Law prior to joining the Chase faculty to the University of Illinois at Chicago Criminal Law and Healthcare and the teach Property and Uniform Commer- John Marshall Law School; in Los Law and he is establishing the center cial Code courses. She had previously Angeles, Loyola Marymount University that focuses on how law and policy can worked in the governance and general Loyola Law School and the University of help reduce the human toll of addiction. counsel departments of the National Southern California Gould School of Collegiate Athletic Association and at Law; and in Austin, the University of Prior to joining Chase, he was a visiting Wyndham Worldwide, a hotel and Texas at Austin School of Law. professor at The Ohio State University resort operator, where she was involved Moritz College of Law, in affiliation with Following graduation from the University in matters such as privacy and informa- the Drug Enforcement and Policy of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, tion security and information technolo- Center. Before that, he was a professor he was a lawyer in a Louisville, Kentucky, gy litigation. at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San law firm where he conducted research in Diego, and director of the school’s Her most recent law review article, “As areas such as products liability, Center for Law and Social Justice and California Goes, So Goes the Nation? A employment law, workers’ compensa- co-director of its Center for Criminal Title IX Analysis of the Fair Pay to Play tion and labor law. He subsequently Law and Policy. Act,” is being published this year in the earned a Master of Library Science Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil degree at Indiana University. He holds a He wrote the books Criminal Law in Liberties. It examines the significance Bachelor of Arts from Centre College. Focus and Illegal Drug and Marijuana for female student-athletes of California Law and co-wrote the books Marijuana His most recently published book is legislation that allows student-athletes Law and Policy and Drug Abuse and the Texas Water Law: A Research Guide. His to be compensated for use of their Law Sourcebook. His numerous law other published works include accounts names and likenesses. review articles have appeared in of recent United States Supreme Court journals such as Boston College Law Professor Boston holds a Master of confirmation hearings and articles on Review, Ohio State Law Journal and UC Laws from the University of Dayton electronic court filings and online Davis Law Review. School of Law, a Juris Doctor from the digital verification of case citations in University of Virginia School of Law and legal briefs and research. Professor Kreit holds a Juris Doctor a Bachelor of Arts from Florida Atlantic from the University of Pennsylvania As assistant law library director he assists University. School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts students and professors in legal research; from Hampshire College. as assistant professor he teaches legal research to first-year students.

2 CHASE MAGAZINE U.S. Supreme Court Alumni Council Adopts Professor’s Analysis has New Officers

The Chase Alumni Council, which governs the Chase Alumni Association, has new officers. Randy Blankenship ’86 is chair and Judge J.R. Schrand ’97 is vice chair.

Ashley Siemer

Support Program Professor Provides Opportunity to Jack Harrison Increase Diversity An amicus curiae brief Professor Jack Harrison co-wrote provided the basis for

reasoning the Supreme Court of the United Randy Blankenship Judge J.R. Schrand Chase College of Law launched an States adopted in extending employment initiative this academic year to Mr. Blankenship is a partner in protection to transgender persons. graduate a more ethnically and Blankenship, Massey & Associates, economically diverse student body into The amicus brief in EEOC, et. al v. R.G. & G.R. Erlanger, Kentucky, where his focus is the legal profession. All Rise is a Harris Funeral Homes was part of his civil litigation, including personal three-prong program of increased continued focus on legal issues involving injury, employment law, consumer pro- financial aid, profession-related skills LGBT persons and discrimination against tection, business litigation and family development and coverage of bar exam them in education and employment. In this law. He is a member of the Erlanger expenses. case, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision City Council and boards of the this past June, adopted his argument that Erlanger Housing and Development The program, created by Ashley Siemer, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Corporation, Envision Learning director of student affairs and protects LGBT persons from employment Center, an enrichment program for enrollment management, with a grant discrimination. children, and Baptist Life Communi- from Northern Kentucky University, ties, a nonprofit for housing and health pays for books and academic support The brief argued that because the text of care for seniors in Northern Kentucky. materials for selected first-year Title VII clearly prohibits the type of students, gives second-year students employment discrimination plaintiff Aimee Judge Schrand serves on the Kentucky who participated in skills-development Stephens suffered because of her sex there Circuit Court for Boone and Gallatin programming a stipend to cover most was no reason for the court to speculate counties in Northern Kentucky. He book costs and pays for third-year about whether Congress had intended for was appointed to the court in 2007 and students’ bar review courses and bar transgender individuals to be included under he subsequently won election that year. examination application fees. Title VII or to be excluded from it. Even He was re-elected in 2014, without though sexual identity was not at the opposition, for a term that expires The program seeks to have first-year forefront of public awareness when the Civil January 1, 2023. Prior to his appoint- students achieve a median grade point Rights Act was adopted in 1964, Professor ment to the bench he had been the average above the 25th percentile of the Harrison contended that members of elected Boone County Attorney since entire class, to have at least 75 percent Congress would have been aware of 2002 and had practiced in the Boone of them obtain law-related summer transgender persons and would have County firm of Jones, Dietz & Schrand. jobs, and eventually to have at least 85 understood that a prohibition of discrimina- percent of them graduate, and at least Judge Karen Thomas ’85 of Campbell tion based on sex would include them. 70 percent of those pass a bar exam on County (Kentucky) District Court is a first attempt. immediate past chair.

Chase is the Leader at an ABA Event Chase College of Law had a big role in the Director of Advancement, Centers and Women of Legal Tech Summit at the Institutes Jeannine Lambert was co-chair of American Bar Association TechShow for the planning committee and 13 students law-related technology during February were involved in organizational activities. 2020 in Chicago. The summit included presentations by The W. Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, women involved in developing or consulting Business + Technology at Chase was the in legal technology, recognition of 21 sponsor, Dean Judith Daar delivered women who are successful in the field, a Program attendees opening remarks, Adjunct Professor Helen luncheon and a concluding workshop. Bukulmez was a presenter, Chase Assistant

WINTER 2021 3 Education A New Center Focuses on Law and Policy Issues in Addiction Fight THE CENTER ON ADDICTION LAW & POLICY IS A FORUM FOR DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO HELP COMMUNITIES REDUCE THE expertise and leadership to a vexing social, health and HUMAN COSTS justice problem that impacts so many within our greater community.” On one hand, to have the How it is being started during a pandemic “As with planned launch of the everything these days, the coronavirus has thrown a bit of a Center on Addiction Law wrench into plans,” Professor Kreit says. “I finalized the & Policy at Chase College formal proposal for the center a few weeks before everything of Law occur during an shut down [in March 2020], and the faculty voted to approve overshadowing coronavi- it not long after that.” rus pandemic might seem like unfortunate timing; Even though in-person programs are delayed, organization on the other, it might be and planning are going on. “I am very excited about just the right time. opportunities for the center once life is closer to normal. I’ve had positive conversations with a few foundations about Even as the nation funding, and the opioid epidemic has spurred a lot of struggles most visibly interest from funders, for good reason,” Professor Kreit says. with the death toll of Covid-19, it continues to What is ahead, short-term “The big item on the center’s face an opioid-driven agenda is a symposium on drug decriminalization, to be held epidemic of sub- in cooperation with the Northern Kentucky Law Review. It is Professor Alex Kreit stance-abuse deaths. scheduled for spring 2021, and will be held remotely.” More than 40 states reported increases in opioid-related Professor Kreit says. “Other programming plans include an deaths during the first months of the pandemic. ongoing lecture series on addiction law and policy, a white paper series with recommendations for policymakers on While timing can sometimes be everything, in the case of addiction and the law and continuing legal education for the Center on Addiction Law & Policy and a global pandemic alumni on topics like representing clients with a substance it is only coincidental, yet still connected for the implementa- use disorder.” tion of the center. The idea originated months before the pandemic and took shape with appointment of Professor The long view “The political discussion about drug policy Alex Kreit, a widely recognized expert in the area of addic- has changed dramatically in recent years,” Professor Kreit tion law, as director and an assistant professor, teaching says. "We’re seeing policy innovations that were politically health care law and criminal law. untenable five or 10 years ago, like safe injection sites or drug decriminalization, generating a lot of interest among What the center does The focus is on developing new policymakers. My hope is for the center to help further approaches to ways in which law and public policy can help academic thinking about these innovations, and to do so in reduce the toll of addiction. It is a venue for exchanges of a way that helps connect academics with policymakers.” ideas, through academic research, lectures and forums, that policy-makers and addiction specialists can adopt or adapt The impact for Chase and the metro area “As a public in their communities. institution, serving the community is an important part of the school’s mission, and the center’s mission along with it. Why it is needed “Recent studies reveal that the Northern There is a great opportunity for the center to help link Kentucky/Southwest Ohio region stubbornly remains in the experts on these topics with the local community,” grip of an addiction epidemic, leading the nation in the use Professor Kreit says. of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine,” says Dean Judith Daar, Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold Dean of Chase College of Law. “The center emerges as new treatments are Professor Kreit adds experiences as a professor, casebook being developed and new approaches to law enforcement author and expert in drug-abuse and marijuana law to the are being considered. This is the right time to apply our Chase faculty, Page 2

4 CHASE MAGAZINE The Chase Law + Informatics Institute Releases Its Own Version 2.0 A TIGHTER FOCUS ALIGNS THE INSTITUTE WITH THE EVOLVING LEGAL ISSUES OF PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION “In today’s global, dispersed economy, firms more than ever are looking for talented individuals who can guide them through the complexities created by the intersection of law and information,” he says. But where there is a need, there is not always available talent. And that is where the Law + Informatics Institute steps in. “I think students will quickly find the value of this niche and will be surprised at how interesting it is and how interested firms are in them as a result of their education in it,” Mr. Briggs says. “As a board member of the Association of Corporate Counsel in Cincinnati, I see this demand in real time at our CLE events, which more and more are about law and informatics, regardless of the practice area. Employment Zach Briggs lawyers deal with sensitive employee information on laptops, Like the technology industry it embraces, the Law + Informatics for example, insurance lawyers are crafting cyber-liability Institute at Chase College of Law is upgrading to a new version. insurance packages and contract lawyers are negotiating cloud-based software packages that can make or break their “The Law + Informatics Institute is being reimagined and companies.” reinvigorated to spotlight the import of data gathering, protection and dissemination in the modern business ecosys- As with other initiatives during a global pandemic, the launch tem,” says Dean Judith Daar, Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold of Law + Informatics Institute programming has been virtual Dean of Chase College of Law. The institute was created in 2011 (but, then, that is the technology for which it exists). Among – a year after the arrivals of Instagram as a social media its first offerings this past autumn was a series of “Ask Me platform and the now ubiquitous iPad – with a broad focus on Anything” online sessions, in which participants could pose how law and information technology intersect. A lot has questions to such panelists as the senior counsel of the maker changed since then, both in technology and at Chase. of Purell hand sanitizer, the assistant general counsel of Buzzfeed internet news and entertainment company, and a Three years after the institute was created, Chase launched co-chair of the privacy and data security practice at Taft, the W. Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, Business + Technol- Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati. ogy, with a gift from alumnus W. Bruce Lunsford, to enhance instruction in fields increasingly interrelated in law practices. Coming up will be cybersecurity and data privacy courses as Now, the reimagined Law + Informatics Institute and the part of the Chase curriculum. The Information and Corpora- Lunsford Academy operate in tandem, yet with distinct tions course will survey the relation of information and law, approaches. Digital Privacy and Security will explore existing law and needed laws, and Information and Data Privacy will look at “The Lunsford Academy’s emphasis on multidisciplinary rights to control personal data in situations such as health care aspects of law, business and technology will be enhanced by and financial services. this branch program’s expertise and analysis of the science of information,” Dean Daar says. Beyond the classroom, the institute has plans to develop a student team to compete with other law schools in cybersecu- Programming for the institute is directed by Zach Briggs, a rity and privacy law competitions. 2016 Chase graduate who oversees data protection, privacy and compliance at Paycor, a Cincinnati-based human capital Unlike software upgrades that are often needed to fix security management software company, and who serves as special flaws, the upgrade of the Law + Informatics Institute is adviser to the institute. He is approaching his role with a designed to prepare students and program participants to big-picture perspective and a focus on easy access for operate flawlessly in a field that has changed dramatically participation. since the institute was launched a decade ago.

WINTER 2021 5 Master of Legal Studies Program Is Adding

THE DIGITAL LAW AND TECHNOLOGY SPECIALTY an All-Online Track WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST IN THE NATION

How the program will work Students will be able to take as few as one course a term, or they can take a cluster of courses each term. The six seven-week terms during an academic year will give students flexibility to enter the program or to take breaks from it as they choose.

How law and technology merge in courses Just as a traditional law school course in criminal law, for example, introduces students first to the basics, such as statutory elements of crimes, a digital crimes class will introduce students to what constitutes a crime, say theft, whether from a brick-and-mortar store or an online store. With an under- standing of that type of basics, students could then explore how existing elements of crimes may or may not be recog- nizable, or need to be redefined, for digital crimes, such as cyberstalking, cyberbullying or cyberterrorism.

The types of students who might enroll online Like the In an increasingly digital world, Chase College of Law is broader MLS program that allows students to tailor courses to expanding its Master of Legal Studies program with new what they think might be valuable in their careers, the online courses that combine law and technology, and putting those track will allow students to be as general or specific as they wish. courses entirely online to reach students anyplace they That means, for example, a student who works for, or wants to might be in the physical world. work for, a company with significant online functions might The concentration on the intersection of law and technology want to take courses related to data privacy and security, while will launch this year with courses such as Digital Crimes and a student involved in sales or who has visions of becoming an Torts, Legal Boundaries in the Digital Age and Digital online retailer might take courses focused on digital commerce. Commerce and the Law as a track within the graduate-level Where newly gained knowledge might lead Like law and program for students who want to be able to understand technology that are continuously evolving, the online track will legal issues but do not want to become lawyers. be a building block for developing skills and problem-solving “In today’s high-tech world, knowing both the available in fields that exist and ones that will emerge from those fields. technology and the laws that apply to it is essential,” says Among them are blockchain technology, in which information Professor Lawrence Rosenthal, associate dean for academ- is stored in blocks that are chained together, Artificial Intelli- ics. “There is a technology (and legal) component behind gence, self-driving vehicles and the Internet of Things, which almost everything these days, and knowing that information allows the interconnection of everyday devices. will be tremendously advantageous in the workplace.” An innovation among innovations The online Digital Law and The addition of the online Digital Law and Technology track Technology track will be one of the few programs of its type at an will give students, in effect, three ways in which to earn an American Bar Association-approved law school, and will comple- MLS degree at Chase: entirely online, in-person in traditional ment law-and-technology programs for Juris Doctor students at law school courses or a combination of traditional in-person Chase. The W. Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, Business + classes and online digital law courses. Students will be able Technology was established eight years ago with a gift from to complete the online track in 10 to 20 months, depending alumnus W. Bruce Lunsford to prepare students for practices in on how many courses they take each of six academic terms the merging fields of law, business and technology and the Chase in the online program. Law + Informatics Institute was reimagined this past year to focus on legal issues of privacy and data security. For MLS students, the new track adds an innovation to the five-year-old program to allow them to choose to attend Chase from anyplace in the world.

6 CHASE MAGAZINE Professor John Bickers is a Popular HIS TEACHING STYLE HAS MADE HIM THE PROFESSOR OF THE Vote Winner YEAR SELECTION OF FOUR RECENT GRADUATING CLASSES

The way Professor John Bickers students finish the classes teaches at Chase College of Law, surprised by the new ways they most alumni would wish they were can think and the new things that back in school: thought-provoking they can do. lectures in Constitutional Law, “One form that takes in Constitu- student-led mock oral arguments tional Law is oral arguments. Most and, oh, yes, theme music for the classes begin with two 10-minute start of class and dressed in arguments by students represent- costume when class is on ing the parties before a mock Halloween. Supreme Court, which consists of It is an approach that emphasizes students (and me). I prepare short substance, and, as he explains it, a opinions of lower courts using bit of entertainment to keep issues that the current court had students engaged. It is also an not resolved, and which either approach students like and side might win and lots of answers respect. This past spring, for the are possible. The students who fourth time in 11 years, the are justices write opinions graduating class selected him as answering the questions present- its Chase Professor of the Year. ed to the court.” Professor John Bickers “Professor Bickers makes the Constitution come alive,” says 2020 graduate Marian Graves. “From its origins, to the debates over amendments, and the cases that evolved the His touches of whimsy (with a purpose) “A colleague in law we know today, he weaves the history like a great the Army [Professor Bickers taught at the U.S. Military storyteller. He brings the cases alive by selecting theme Academy at West Point prior to Chase] used to say, ‘Educa- music at the beginning of class, asking students to argue tion is entertainment.’ He wasn’t really claiming that teachers before the ‘Supreme Court’ and dressing in his famous can be Beyoncé or Stephen Colbert; he was noting that if we ‘plague mask’ at Halloween. He not only teaches the law with don’t have the attention of our students, we are teaching remarkable passion, but instills in students the gravity of only for ourselves – and presumably we already know the their future responsibility to uphold it.” material. The use of little devices, movie scenes, portraits of parties to the cases – and yes, I teach in costume if I have a Behind it all – including the mask, and more on that later – class on Halloween – is part of that. are his efforts to engage students in journeys of exploration and discovery. “The music intros are similar attention-grabbers. Each class begins when a song ends, and I hope that years later Where he begins “I try to create a classroom environment students might remember that the test we call ‘rational basis and learning plan in which students, in and out of class, will review’ is an easy one because they recall hearing Bob Dylan have moments when light bulbs turn on for them. advise, ‘don’t think twice, it’s all right.’” “My favorite professors, in law school and undergrad, taught And about that “plague” mask “I bought one in Venice courses in which I felt I was discovering ideas that I had never while I was stationed in Europe with the Army. When had before. I plan each class to have enough questions raised bubonic plague hit Renaissance Europe, people believed it along the way that the students are continuously grappling was carried by foul-smelling air. So doctors wore masks that with the law in their own heads.” look sort of like menacing birds, with flowers and herbs in What his classes are like “Mostly the classes are the the beaks. When I teach on Halloween, I do so in costume. I standard discussions every lawyer remembers. I try to have also done a wizard and Goofy, but the winner is introduce enough challenges into those discussions that probably the plague doctor.”

WINTER 2021 7 Cover Story

As a Graduate of the Chase Evening Program Who Went on to Serve as a U.S. Ambassador, Patricia Herbold Makes a Lasting Connection with the College

A $2 MILLION ENDOWMENT SHE AND HER HUSBAND CREATED SUPPORTS THE WORK OF THE DEAN AS THE AMBASSADOR PATRICIA L. HERBOLD DEAN OF CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW

Ambassador Patricia Herbold and Dr. Robert Herbold

8 CHASE MAGAZINE atricia Herbold had recently arrived at College of Law, where she graduated in 1977, by Ambassador Herbold walks with then-Northern Kentucky her diplomatic post as United States giving the law school a $2 million endowment. University President James Ambassador to the Republic of Singa- Their gift supports the dean, as the Ambassador Votruba at the 2008 NKU commencement at which pore, and saw an opportunity to help Patricia L. Herbold Dean of Chase College of she received an honorary resolve a two-year-old standoff. The island Law, in such endeavors as expanding curriculum doctorate. city-state in Southeast Asia had banned the and academic programs, supporting teaching importation of beef from the United States after and research, recruiting faculty and students and a case of mad cow disease had been detected in initiating new opportunities for students. Washington state. The endowment, which is the largest in the Ambassador Herbold talked with embassy staff, history of Chase, is part of a continuum of studied information on U.S. production and support from Ambassador Herbold and Dr. safeguards, and took up the issue with Singapore Herbold: She has funded two student officials. “I worked with the Department of scholarships, given annual financial support, Commerce folks in the embassy to compile data served on the Chase Board of Visitors and that argued for lifting the ban, then met with delivered the Northern Kentucky University various ministers who had control over the commencement address. The NKU Alumni decision, and argued the U.S. case,” she recalls. Association in 2006 recognized her with its “Eventually, I was able to convince them, the ban Outstanding Alumna of Chase College of Law was lifted, and we had a celebration featuring Award, and in 2008 NKU awarded her an every variety of beef, supplied by the U.S. Beef honorary doctorate at commencement. Council and enjoyed by many Singaporean “Establishing this endowment is an expression officials,” she says. of my hope that Chase will create opportunities Like her work to expand United States commerce, for others to share their blessings in ways that Ambassador Herbold and her husband, Dr. Robert are meaningful to them and beneficial to others,” Herbold, have expanded opportunities at Chase she says.

WINTER 2021 9 Her 2005 appointment by President George W. “Given the go-ahead, I met with the Defense Bush as ambassador to Singapore, and subse- Minister, stressed Singapore’s strengths in quent Senate confirmation, makes her the only non-military areas and asked for their help. The Chase graduate to serve as a United States Defense Minister discussed the issue with the ambassador. This distinguished appointment Prime Minister and they agreed that Singapore followed her career as a lawyer in southwest would send two groups to Afghanistan, one Ohio, and governmental and political activity in medical and the other to assist in rebuilding Washington state, where she and Dr. Herbold infrastructure.” moved to the Seattle area in 1995. She served as Her ongoing work as Ambassador included ambassador from November 2005 until the calendar pages of meetings – meetings with change of administrations in 2009, as is tradi- embassy staff, Singapore government ministers, tional for non-career diplomats. other ambassadors, and traveling to the United “I could write pages about all the contacts and States for meetings of Singaporean officials with the involvement I had during the years I served as President, Vice President or Cabinet Secretaries. ambassador,” Ambassador Herbold says. Her Her ceremonial role as Ambassador included work ranged from strategic to ceremonial to rela- hosting and attending diplomatic events. “I tional. In addition to the lifting of the ban on attended the national day celebrations of other beef imports, the strategic included securing countries and invited their ambassadors and Singapore’s support for the international high commissioners to attend ours,” she says. Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan, There were also luncheons, receptions and created after military action in response to the dinners she hosted for Singaporean and visiting 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. dignitaries, ground-breaking and ribbon-cutting “The Defense Department folks in the embassy, ceremonies and performances by American working with their counterparts in Singapore, entertainers. In November 2006, she welcomed had requested that Singapore provide troops to President and Mrs. Bush to the Embassy and help the U.S. in Afghanistan, but they had Ambassador’s residence. reached a stalemate. I suggested that they go up Her relationship building involved both the the chain of command in the Defense Depart- institutional and the individual. “I worked ment and ask if I could approach the Singapore Ambassador Herbold closely with the American Chamber of Com- introduces President George Defense Minister with an alternative plan that merce in Singapore and participated in many of W. Bush and First Lady Laura wouldn’t involve boots on the ground,” Ambas- Bush at the U.S. Embassy in its activities, such as its annual Community Day, Singapore sador Herbold recalls. during which I visited local organizations, such as hospice, a Muslim orphanage and a home for the disabled – meeting with the residents and sometimes doing activities with them. I partici- pated in regional trips with the American Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Association of Southeast Asian Nations Business Council, which were opportunities for members to discuss business possibilities with the leaders of other countries.” She also gave almost weekly speeches, such as a keynote address at the Chinese Women’s Association luncheon, many talks to various groups about the U.S. election in 2008 and remarks on occasions such as the opening in Sin- gapore of an American-owned manufacturing plant or retail store. And while much of her relationship building focused on an internation- al audience, there were also opportunities to show the 260 Embassy employees that they were appreciated, such as by presenting awards at

10 CHASE MAGAZINE Ambassador Herbold shakes hands with a U.S. sailor in Singapore in 2006 who, while on shore leave, had saved the life of a Singaporean man who had been stabbed. promotion ceremonies for members of the Marines Security Detail, and participating in the annual Chinese New Year celebrations. The Endowed Deanship Since returning to the United States, she and Dr. The donation of $2 million by Patricia and Robert Herbold to Herbold have remained involved in the philan- endow the Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold Dean of Chase College thropic work of the Herbold Foundation they of Law is the largest gift to the college in its 127-year history. created in 2002, focused heavily on education. In ______addition to Chase, they have provided scholar- The endowment helps fund the work of the dean in such areas ships, fellowships or general support to institu- as faculty and student recruitment, expansion of curriculum and tions to which they have connections and ones academic programs, teaching and research and creation of new that reflect the foundation’s mission. opportunities for students. “Youth are the future of our country, and ______education is an important key to success,” It places Chase among about 15 law schools in the nation with Ambassador Herbold says. “Bob and I have been an endowed dean’s position. It is the first endowed named blessed in many ways and want to share our position at Chase and the first endowed named deanship at success so that others can benefit. We started our Northern Kentucky University. foundation to offer scholarships because without a scholarship I wouldn’t have been able to attend ______college, and I wanted deserving students to have “Ambassador Herbold’s transformative gift to Chase will the opportunity for a college education.” enhance our program of legal education for generations to By endowing the Chase deanship, she hopes the come,” says Dean Judith Daar, Patricia L. Herbold Dean of college will be able to provide more opportuni- Chase College of Law. “Her exemplary work in the legal arena ties for students. “Everyone has to follow his or as well as her impactful service to our country make her an her own path to success, but my hope is that inspiring role model for our entire community. It is an incredible those who benefit from the endowed deanship honor to steward the endowment during my deanship, knowing will use their talents to do good in legal, civic the enduring impact it will have on Chase well into the future.” and/or political arenas.”

WINTER 2021 11 A Journey from Chase to Practicing Law to Serving as Ambassador

Ambassador Herbold with Supreme Court of the United States Justice Clarence Thomas in 2014 at the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Patricia Herbold had been an Americans ceremony at which she received the association's award to analytical chemist and had an individuals who achieved notable important decision before her: success despite adversity. Should she enroll at Chase College of Law and become a lawyer? Nationally, she was a member of the President’s Council on the She chose to enroll at Chase 21st Century Workforce, created because “it had an evening by President George W. Bush to program, and I could be home address development of a future with my young children during the workforce, and was a founding day. My legal education at Chase member of the Club for Growth, provided me with a lifetime of which promotes free enterprise, career choices – private practice, limited government and corporate counsel, politics – pro-growth public policy. each of which I pursued when the opportunity presented itself.” President Bush nominated her Beginning after graduation, in 1977, with private practice and as an ambassador in January 2005 and, after Senate confirma- as a part-time assistant Clermont County, Ohio, prosecutor to tion in October, she arrived in Singapore that November. She becoming United States Ambassador to the Republic of remained as Ambassador until the change of administrations Singapore in 2005 – and everything between – Ambassador in January 2009. Herbold can look back and say, it all started with Chase. Her Her civic involvement has included previously serving on the career path began in the hilltop building Chase occupied in boards of St. Joseph Orphanage in Cincinnati, the Seattle Art Park Hills, Kentucky, before the college moved to the main Museum, the Performing Arts Center Eastside, in Bellevue, Northern Kentucky University campus in Highland Heights. Washington, and Intercollegiate Studies Institute. She is Following private practice and work as an assistant prosecutor, currently a board member of Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, she was Associate Regional Counsel for Prudential Insurance California. Co., in Cincinnati, General Counsel for Bank One, in Dayton, Her work with St. Joseph Orphanage was deeply personal: After Ohio, and an attorney with Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, in her father deserted the family in 1950, the orphanage was home Cincinnati. “The variety of courses at Chase allowed me to to her and her four siblings until graduating from the eighth adapt to these several careers,” she says. grade. In her senior year of high school, Ambassador Herbold While working at Prudential, she began her involvement in received a full scholarship to Edgecliff College in Cincinnati, government in Greater Cincinnati, as a city council member now part of Xavier University, with a plan to major in art. and Mayor of suburban Montgomery and she later served as a Needing income to help pay for books, she got a job in the Hamilton County Rural Zoning Commissioner. She added to college’s Chemistry Department. Her focus then changed and her political and governmental resume after she and her she instead majored in Chemistry, with a minor in Biology. husband, Dr. Robert Herbold, moved to the Seattle area in With a life story that ranges from an orphanage to law school to 1995. In Washington state, she held a gubernatorial appoint- corporate practice to Ambassador, at a ceremony in Washington, ment to the Washington State Gambling Commission and was D.C., in 2014, she received the Horatio Alger Association of chair of the King County Republican Party in 2002-2004, with Distinguished Americans Award, given to individuals who the goal of strengthening the party in the Seattle area. have achieved remarkable success in spite of adversity.

12 CHASE MAGAZINE Fresh Starts Highlight First Year for A MAJOR ENDOWMENT, NEW PROGRAMS — AND A PANDEMIC — Dean Daar MARK THE BEGINNING OF HER TENURE

During her first year as dean of Chase College The new Center on Addiction Law & of Law, Judith Daar gained a new title – the Policy involves students in research and Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold Dean of Chase forums to help them understand legal College of Law – and saw her work framed matters and strategies in the public within a global pandemic. health issue of addiction. The center also makes Chase part of plans at “Having the opportunity to serve as dean Northern Kentucky University to expand during the pandemic provides precious insights health care-related programs. “The that will enable us to meet inevitable new center is a step into the future for the challenges in the years to come,” she says. law school to partner across our campus Obviously, it had not been planned that way. with health-oriented entities, including During her first year as dean – which had begun the Institute for Health Innovation and July 1, 2019 – the college announced that the new University of Kentucky College former United States Ambassador Patricia of Medicine at Northern Kentucky Herbold, who graduated from Chase in 1977, University,” Dean Daar says. and her husband, Dr. Robert Herbold, had Two programs that had been in created a $2 million endowment to support the development when she arrived moved work of the dean in areas such as educational to implementation. The Center for Law programs, student and faculty recruitment and & Entrepreneurship helps students faculty development. With the endowment, develop skills for working with entre- Dean Daar became the first Ambassador preneurs in startup ventures or for starting their Dean Judith Daar, Patricia L. Herbold Dean of Chase College of Ambassador Patricia L. own. The established Master of Legal Studies Herbold Dean of Chase Law and one of about 15 law school deans in program enters a digital era with creation of the College of Law the nation to hold an endowed deanship. fully online Digital Law and Technology track Both before and during the time of the largest for individuals who want to understand the endowment in the history of Chase and a relationships of law and technology in a variety disruptive pandemic, Dean Daar led the of applications, without becoming a lawyer. initiation of new programs and steered When the pandemic required Chase to shift implementation of ones previously planned. classes back and forth from in-person to online Among the new: two scholarship funds and a and to cancel or modify other activities, the public-health-focused legal research and team-building and perspectives Dean Daar had training center. And implemented: an entrepre- been developing prior to an initial temporary neurial law-focused center and expansion of a closing of the NKU campus this past March master’s degree program. took on added importance. “Leadership lessons for me include the value of frequent With new and now ongoing funding, The and open communication, especially when the Dean’s Merit Scholarship provides highly news is unwelcome or likely to spark controver- qualified students with scholarship support in sy,” she says. “Likewise, being open to hearing addition to what they initially receive (and is all ideas is a gateway to information, introspec- awarded on recommendations from alumni tion and innovation.” interviews) and The Finish Line Fund provides new graduates with funding for commercial bar While developments during a first year as dean review courses and offsets financially some of – a major endowment and new programs – cer- their time away from employment in order to tainly make it memorable, the intrusion of a focus on studying. pandemic definitely makes it unforgettable.

WINTER 2021 13 Education Chase Links People and Technology to Control a Pandemic

Quick planning and relentless follow through have allowed professors and students to stay connected with the normal sides of law school

Professor Chris Gulinello teaches during the pandemic, in autumn 2020.

ven as the trajectory of Covid-19 cases The switch from in-person operations to virtually rose relentlessly throughout the nation, all-virtual operations at Chase and Northern Chase College of Law tracked a steady Kentucky University occurred during a few days strategy for flattening the disruption of in mid-March 2020. A slightly extended winter the pandemic. break allowed extra time for professors to adapt E to technology that took them from teaching in Classes this past spring semester were shifted classrooms to teaching on laptops. quickly online and subsequent fall semester classes offered both online and in-person The Quick Change options; student services and recruiting moved “One of the more difficult issues was making into ongoing virtual worlds; traditional spring sure all of our students and faculty had access commencement was replaced with an online to, and familiarity with, the platforms neces- recognition of graduates; and a long-running sary for remote learning,” says Professor cybersecurity program the college co-sponsors Lawrence Rosenthal, associate dean for was modified for an online format. academics. “The pandemic forced several of With infection rates still pulsating through the our students and faculty members to quickly nation and vaccination programs ramping up, learn how to use the available technology in a Chase continues to operate with one eye on relatively short period of time.” Among that what had been the longtime normal and technology is the now ubiquitous Zoom and another on a new normal in a global pandemic. similar platforms.

14 CHASE MAGAZINE Not only were classes shifted to online, so were students, as sometimes we just could not make “As teachers, final exams, using software that confirms the technology do what we wanted.” we had to learn students’ identity and acts as an online proctor. But learning occurred. “I was amazed at the quickly that some “With exams being remote, we had to update continued engagement and hard work of methods that our electronic exam-giving capabilities,” Dean students throughout this period,” he says. worked in the Rosenthal says. “Also, it was difficult to in-person class- For some students, the virtual experience coordinate all exams, as faculty members took room did not work included intrusions of reality. “You are at the different approaches to how to test students’ in the virtual whim of your internet connection, and some understanding of the material covered in the classroom.” students have situations at home that make it classes.” Some, for example, required all –Professor Jack Harrison harder to pay attention, such as children who are students to take an exam at the same time; not in school,” says Michael Justice, a third-year others allowed students to choose when to student and Student Bar Association president. sign-in to an exam during a specified time In addition, casual interaction with professors period. and classmates is not what it had been.

One Semester and then the Next “Overall, it has been a unique challenge to The initial switch to online instruction was adapt to learning law in this format. However, planned to continue through summer session, there are positives, as well,” he says. “Courses with fall semester having a mix of online-only are typically recorded, which can be helpful for and online-and-in-person classes, and all those who miss or wish to review a lecture. classes being only online after Thanksgiving Additionally, I’ve been told that some people break, as part of an NKU strategy to avoid have an easier time speaking in front of the having students who had travelled for Thanks- class in this format than they do in person.” giving congregate. A spike in regional Covid-19 cases shortly before Thanksgiving, though, Beyond the Classroom shifted Chase and NKU classes to online sooner Not only did classroom instruction shift to than planned. online, so did experiential learning and student activities. When students and professors first met for optional in-person fall semester classes in “Spring brought unique challenges to experien- August, they met in a Nunn Hall – and some- tial learning, which largely takes place in person, times in other NKU buildings – dramatically in the field,” says Professor Jennifer Kinsley, different from what they had left in March. associate dean for professional development and Facial coverings were required, classroom director of field placement. “Some students seating was spread out, online options were continued to work on-site as essential employ- available for every class taught in-person, ees, while others participated in remote work drinking fountains were covered to prevent use projects and online hearings.” and Plexiglas shields hung above podium-style Among them was third-year student Kaley desks in office reception areas. Thompson. She had a double lesson in law as Faculty and Student Assessments an intern with the Kentucky Commonwealth’s Attorney at Albany – prosecuting cases and The abrupt change from the way in which practicing virtually. classes had been taught since the founding of Chase to one that required use of sometimes “I conducted research, interviewed victims and unfamiliar technology – although, some witnesses over the phone, drafted legal professors have taught online classes for a few documents and spent time with the victim’s years – had a few hiccups, but overall rated as advocate and the commonwealth detective. better-than-expected. Due to social distancing, we spent very little time in the courtroom. We utilized Zoom to “As teachers, we had to learn quickly that some speak with incarcerated defendants and to hold methods that worked in the in-person class- competency hearings.” room did not work in the virtual classroom,” Professor Jack Harrison says. “The period from For mock trial teams, the change meant moving March to May required creativity on the part of from an in-person courtroom setting to teachers and great patience on the part of individual locations wherever students and their

WINTER 2021 15 Social distancing in the law library.

computers might be, whether in separate The 30-minute online ceremony May 8 recog- classrooms or distanced apartments. nized 120 Juris Doctor and three Master of Legal Studies graduates with virtual elements “In fall semester, all of our mock trial competi- of what in-person commencement would have tions were taking place virtually, like many court been: Professor John Bickers, whom graduates proceedings across the country,” says Professor had selected as Professor of the Year, was there Harrison, who is faculty coordinator for the from home as grand marshal; Professors teams. “This has meant a new set of challenges, Michael Mannheimer and Krista Burton, as our students have had to learn how to selected as marshals, were there from their conduct a trial remotely.” homes to read names of graduates; and Dean That has meant practicing technology as well as Judith Daar, Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold “Our [mock trial] Dean of Chase College of Law, was there with coaches are helping practicing opening statements and closing arguments. “Our coaches are helping us prepare remarks from her home, in front of a virtual us prepare with background of springtime on the NKU campus pre-competition with pre-competition scrimmages using the scrimmages using Zoom platform. We get to see how the competi- Other events and student activities were similarly the Zoom platform. tion will really feel, and the coaches help us cancelled, with expectations they would return make appropriate adjustments so that we can We get to see how online fall semester. The Office of Student Affairs put our best selves forward when we actually launched its services online when the semester the competition will compete,” says team member Devin Perry. really feel, and the began. “We encouraged phone conferences and coaches help us For the Class of 2020, the pandemic forced Zoom meetings when students needed to meet. We planned to host several virtual workshops make appropriate cancellation of a commencement ceremony not throughout the semester to address student adjustments so just once, but twice. Spring commencement wellness and student involvement outside of that we can put was replaced by an online ceremony, with the the classroom,” says Ashley Siemer, director of our best selves plan for graduates to participate in person in student affairs and enrollment management. forward when we the traditional NKU December commence- actually compete.” ment. That ceremony was cancelled because of While the pandemic disrupted procedures for — Devin Perry, 2L a regional surge in Covid-19 cases. everyone, it had the greatest potential to

16 CHASE MAGAZINE disrupt the transition to law school for incoming picked the best governmental and non-gov- “We planned to students. But, again, technology provided an ernmental websites where app users could find host several alternative way to continue what had been done the information,” says Robert Furnier, academy virtual workshops before. “I hosted four online workshops in July and clinic director. throughout the that covered time management, advice from While the app had a clearly practical purpose, semester to the 1L faculty, setting yourself up for success in creating it was also an academic exercise. “The address student an online classroom and a general who-you- purpose of the Law Technology & Entrepre- wellness and need-to-know-at-Chase,” Ms. Siemer says. neurship class is to design law-related apps to student involve- “We also used technology – Zoom, Facebook help the public or to improve the practice of ment outside of Live and email – to stay in touch with all law. When the pandemic struck, it seemed like the classroom” students to ensure they were aware of all the ideal way to test whether what we were — Ashley Siemer, director of student services still available at Chase and NKU.” teaching in the classroom would be useful in affairs and enrollment Among those services were grants from the the real world,” Mr. Furnier says. management Chase Emergency Fund, created several years In addition to students’ app work that was ago with alumni donations, to help students available publicly through the Northern who needed to offset lost income and unfore- Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, the Small seen expenses during the pandemic. Business & Nonprofit Law Clinic worked with Introducing prospective students to Chase the Chamber and the Northern Kentucky Bar changed from face-to-face conversations Association to recruit lawyers for Covid-19-re- across tables at regional colleges and recruit- lated pro bono legal work for small business ing fairs to face-to-face conversations across owners struggling during the pandemic, says miles of cyberspace in video chats. “We had Jeannine Lambert, Chase executive director of several virtual admission panels and increased centers and programming. our phone and email outreach,” Ms. Siemer says. “We also started an online counseling Alumni Programs Affected, Too video series and incorporate Facebook Live The disruptions and adjustments during the sessions to talk about the unique learning pandemic that most significantly affected opportunities at Chase.” students also affected alumni events. The college had to cancel the annual fall alumni An Opportunity to Connect association luncheon and a planned spring Along with operational responses to the pandem- golf-focused event and other activities. ic, there was at least one very real, real-time Receptions for alumni to meet Dean Daar were teachable moment. Some students in the W. reimagined as online gatherings. A Northern Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, Business + Kentucky Law Review symposium planned for Technology and others in the Small Business & this past spring was canceled and rescheduled Nonprofit Law Clinic worked during the six weeks to this spring online. between the end of in-person classes in mid- The autumn Cybersecurity Symposium Ms. March and final exams in late April to design an Lambert coordinates for Chase with the NKU app for small business operators and indepen- College of Informatics was modified from a dent contractors to get information on legal two-day event in the Votruba Student Union at issues related to the pandemic and economic NKU to a webinar series four Fridays in relief programs in Kentucky and Ohio. October, 90-minutes or two hours each. Students in the Law Technology & Entrepre- The scaled-down program included one neurship class divided into teams to pivot an session led by a Chase alumnus. Zach Briggs, app previously conceived for navigating clerks who oversees data protection, privacy and of court websites to an app that could lead compliance at Paycor, a Cincinnati-based users through sequences of questions and human capital management software company, answers on pandemic-related matters. “The and who is special adviser to the Law + class figured out the questions most likely Informatics Institute at Chase, moderated the being asked by small businesses, nonprofits, final-day panel on cloud computing security. freelancers and other individuals about legal and financial resources available to help “Reliance on cloud computing shows no signs of weather the pandemic. The students then slowing down,” he noted in an online introduc-

WINTER 2021 17 “Deans nationwide are wondering how much of the online instruction put in place during Covid will remain once we can return to the classroom. I’m guessing the answer will be some, but not all.”

— Dean Judith Daar, A social distancing reminder on the Ambassador Patricia L. Northern Kentucky University campus. Herbold Dean of Chase College of Law

tion. “With more and more data regarded as will factor into decisions at Chase on any future mission critical, securing the cloud of the future mix of online and in-person classes. becomes paramount for all information created, “Faculty and student reaction to online legal stored and managed in the cloud.” education has been predictably mixed,” Dean What’s Ahead? Daar says. “Some faculty are enjoying the experience far more than they had anticipated, Any life-changing event is just that, life chang- while others lament the loss of interaction that ing, and the potential for change in the is essential to community-building.” As for institutional life of Chase, brought about by a students, some complained of “Zoom fatigue” pandemic, is no different. The most sweeping from spending so much time online and of question for change is the future of online difficulties with internet connections that instruction. The extent of it, if any, is ultimately unexpectedly disrupted lectures. a question the American Bar Association will answer for all ABA-approved law schools. “Overall, I would judge our experience as similar to that of many other law schools,” Prior to this past March, ABA standards Dean Daar says. “We completed semesters required permission for a school to offer more online with very few hiccups, thanks to a than one-third of credit hours online. The ABA patient and understanding mix of faculty, staff, waived that limit during the pandemic, but tech support and students.” without indicating what it might consider as the pandemic subsides. With the national expectation that the general population might begin to approach some “Deans nationwide are wondering how much of elements of normalcy later this year, Chase will the online instruction put in place during Covid look back on the forced changes of a pandem- will remain once we can return to the class- ic and ahead to whether any of them should be room,” says Dean Daar. “I’m guessing the adapted into a better normal. answer will be some, but not all.”

No matter what the ABA decides – and the pre-pandemic amount of online instruction at Chase was far below the one-third cap – the online experiences of professors and students

18 CHASE MAGAZINE Advice from the Past Can Guide Alumni in a Covid-Damaged Economy

STARTING PRACTICE IN A DIFFICULT Looking back, what do you think you TIME MAY NEED A CREATIVE APPROACH did right in adapting your career approach to the economy those first years after graduation, and what do For new Chase College of Law alumni you think you would have done entering a national economy battered differently, with the benefit of by the Covid-19 pandemic, there are experience and hindsight? precedents for overcoming obstacles to success: Alumni who graduated into the In my first couple of years, my entire Great Recession and its aftermath. goal was to “reverse engineer” the DNA of a successful associate at a big firm, Even though the Great Recession of and then attempt to hustle and build it December 2007 to June 2009 had been brick by brick on my own. technically over for a year when Brett Renzenbrink graduated from Chase in I focused on relationship equity and Brett Renzenbrink 2010, there had been no rebound in law skill acquisition, and attempted to start firm hiring. After repeatedly failing to the process of aggressively building a Next, manufacture relevant experienc- find a position, he decided to make portable book of business. However, I es. In three to five years you will have himself into the lawyer he wanted to be, took on every case imaginable, with no dozens that you can discuss with your on his own. The eventual result: a regard for practice type, breadth or future prospects. In the beginning, you shareholder in the Cincinnati firm of diversity of required skills or economic have none. And they don’t fall in your Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig and considerations, nothing. While this got lap. You need to go create them. Once counsel to numerous enterprises, and me moving in the right direction, it also you have a relevant experience, bring it literally writing the book on how got me moving in some directions that up to every prospective client you talk lawyers can develop and market were out of my control. Being a to until you get another relevant themselves for career success. The book, generalist is fine, but I should have at experience, then talk about that one. 4L, What They Don’t Teach You About least grouped practice offerings so that I Law in Law School, is based on his could build out a relevant experience Finally, don’t be afraid to be differenti- experiences – and what Chase taught portfolio in which I could’ve charged ated. Professionals always seek to him – for blazing a career path. Among more and not been wasting time homogenized themselves in an effort to his advice: chasing ghosts. be perceived as intelligent and trust- worthy. Today’s clients, especially Question: The economy was not good Having been where the Class of 2020 younger, mission-oriented clients, want when you graduated. What were you is starting out, what is your advice for lawyers they believe in and like. They thinking and feeling as you were about those lawyers? want to connect with you. Focus on to begin a career? First, audit your advantages. You are that, and let the results prove that you’re Mr. Renzenbrink: Desperation. entering a boat race, and any edge that smart. Don’t make yourself into white Coming out of the Great Recession will give you even one-percent extra noise. Your next favorite client or there were not only a fourth of the jobs wind in your sails could be just what partner/colleague will choose you for available, there were four times the you need to win. Make an educated being you. applicants for them, as the economy guess, based upon those advantages, as ______had caused many smart professionals to what practice grouping you fit in – who were unemployed in ’08 to seek not just one focus, but a couple that 4L, What They Don’t Teach You About shelter in law school. I applied to 75 overlap or affect the same or similar Law in Law School is available in firms and was turned down by every audiences. If you’re wrong, you can softcover for $24.95 and as an e-book single one. change down the road; don’t sweat it. for $9.95.

WINTER 2021 19 Faculty In Action

Professor Anthony Chavez Knows How Lawyers can Help Save the Planet

HE IS ON A GLOBAL PURSUIT FOR PUBLIC POLICIES THAT CAN ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES THAT REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE THAT STAYS IN THE ATMOSPHERE

Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, hurricanes are more mental Law Review, the William & Mary Environmental Law intense, and Chase College of Law Professor Anthony Chavez & Policy Review and the New York University Environmental thinks lawyers can do something about it. Law Journal about the need for public policies to accelerate adoption of those types of technologies in the climate change Professor Chavez, who teaches environmental law, has fight and spoken about it at conferences in the United published and spoken internationally on how lawyers can Kingdom and the United States. enlist their skills to slow the effects of climate change. For him, it is an across-the-profession approach and promo- Why It Is Important tion of policies to encourage development of techniques to “Current projections indicate that the global mean temperature reduce the amount of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide that will likely rise at least 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahren- lingers in the atmosphere. heit) above pre-industrial levels. Scientists have warned that a number of harmful and irreversible consequences will occur if “Many sources of emissions contribute to climate change, and, the temperature rises at least this much (currently, it is 1.1 accordingly, attorneys can contribute to minimizing it in degrees Celsius above earlier levels),” Professor Chavez says. many ways,” Professor Chavez says. “Litigators can enforce pollution regulations. Contractual attorneys can facilitate the Why Carbon Dioxide Removal? deployment of renewable energy sources. Legislators can pass “CDR is the only practical means to return the climate to a laws promoting cleaner energy, lower-emission vehicles and temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius if we overshoot that low-carbon building and agricultural practices. And, of [projected] level. This is because carbon dioxide remains in course, all of us – lawyers and non-lawyers alike – can use the atmosphere for centuries, and scientists project that, once more efficient devices, modify our diets and lower our carbon emissions effectively stop, the climate will not return to prior footprints.” levels for up to a millennium. Within that array, Professor Chavez sees one approach that “Addressing climate change will be much less expensive if we teams lawyers with scientists to create a pathway for public are able to remove some of the carbon dioxide from the policies that encourage adoption of technologies known as atmosphere. Otherwise, we will need to fully decarbonize carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, something of a backstop to every sector of our economy. Full decarbonization will be very cutting carbon dioxide emissions in the first place. expensive since several sectors will be difficult, if not impossi- “Although mitigation, or reducing carbon dioxide emissions, ble, to decarbonize fully. These include aviation and marine is the preferred and least costly method to reduce climate transportation; agriculture, especially livestock; cement change, scientists have begun looking at technological means production; and building structure heating and cooling.” to compensate for excessive emissions. One means is carbon dioxide removal. CDR consists of using natural or technologi- The State of the Technology cal means to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and “Although scientists have identified several CDR technologies, permanently sequester it underground,” Professor Chavez many of them still remain undeveloped, and none of them are says. He has written most recently in the Fordham Environ- ready to be deployed at scale (which climate assessment

20 CHASE MAGAZINE About Professor Chavez

He joined the Chase faculty in 2009. Before Chase, he was director of the legal research and writing program at the University of California, Davis School of Law. The environmental law courses he has taught at Chase are Environmental Law, Climate Change and the Law, Energy and the Environment: Renewables, Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions, Environmental Law Seminar and Natural Resources Law. He has also taught Civil Procedure.

models indicate needs to commence before the end of the Pluses and Minuses decade). Thus, policies need to be enacted to facilitate the “Renewable portfolio standards can provide a helpful overall research, development and deployment of CDR technologies. structure to ensure steady growth. Feed-in tariffs have proven “A similar problem arose decades ago regarding renewable to be very effective at deployment of new technologies. The energy. Wind and solar technologies were well known, but guaranteed profit of feed-in tariffs helps investors overcome solar was still in its developmental stage, and both technolo- their natural reluctance regarding untried technologies. gies were not yet being deployed at scale. Thus, neither yet had However, experience has demonstrated that over time they received the benefit of economies of scale, which reduce costs can become crushingly expensive. Thus, after they have helped and facilitate large-scale installations,” Professor Chavez says. to stimulate carbon dioxide removal deployment, feed-in tariffs need to be phased out before their costs become too Where Policy and Lessons from Solar and Wind Intersect burdensome. A renewable portfolio standards structure, “Two approaches arose to stimulate renewable energy however, can assure that installations continue. Both policies development and deployment. Many states used renewable have proven track records of fostering technological develop- portfolio standards. These standards require electricity ment and deployment. They differ, however, regarding the suppliers to source predetermined amounts of their electricity speed and costs of those increases.” from renewable sources. Alternatively, many European nations enacted feed-in tariffs. These require utilities to accept What Professor Chavez Sees Ahead electricity from designated sources at a predetermined rate, “Carbon dioxide removal technologies are becoming neces- which exceeds the cost of generation, thereby assuring a profit. sary, but alone they will not suffice to avoid dangerous climate Despite their different approaches, each of these policies change. Mitigation is the best and least expensive means to triggered sharp and lasting increases in renewable energy prevent climate change. However, we are on track to exceed installations. tolerable levels of warming. Furthermore, certain industries will be difficult or expensive to decarbonize. Therefore, we will “Implementation of feed-in tariffs or portfolio standards, or a need CDR to keep (or return) atmospheric carbon to accept- combination of both, could substantially accelerate carbon able levels.” dioxide removal deployment. A combination of these two policies would probably work best,” Professor Chavez says.

WINTER 2021 21 Faculty In Action

For Professor Jennifer Kinsley, the Pursuit of Equity Started at a Minor League Baseball Game

By JENNIFER KINSLEY | Associate Dean and Professor of Law

I cannot say that I have always wanted to be lawyer. My path stood up, marched over to the usher, an older white man, and to the law was somewhat accidental, the product of avoidance confronted him. “I saw what you did,” I said. “I know you rather than a big dream and steady planning. made them move because they were Black, and let us stay because we are white.” An early college graduate, I went to law school because, at age 20, I felt too young and not enough of an authority figure for “Who do you think you are, kid?” he asked. In my mind, I said my primary goal: teaching high school English. But while I “someone who cares,” but those exact words may not have cannot say that I always wanted to be a lawyer, I can say that I come out of my mouth. What I know for certain I did say know the precise moment I became one, and it was not the day during the confrontation was, “I want your name. I’m going to I passed the bar exam. It was the summer of 1984, and I was 9 get you fired.” years old. That night, I went home and penned lengthy letters to the My journey to the legal profession originated that summer in a local baseball team and the town mayor, relaying what I minor league baseball park. My parents had taken me and my witnessed, offering the usher’s name, and demanding his siblings to a game, a pastime we enjoyed even before the days termination. I don’t know what became of these letters – no of $1 draft nights and gimmicky team names. (I confess I’m one ever responded to me – but my family made many trips partial to the Savannah Bananas and the Lansing Lug Nuts.) back to the ballpark in the years that followed, and we never Not one for indulgences, my frugal, union-member father saw that usher again. We also never saw the other family at bought us seats in the general admission section, limited to games again either, and I often wonder whether they felt the top 10 rows of the stadium. As was usually the case back welcome or even safe to return. then, an abundance of unoccupied premium seats greeted our Decades have passed since that incident and my introduction entry, and we plopped right down into them, happy to enjoy a to what it means to be a lawyer, to confront injustice, and to closer view and the comfort of seat backs. Another family advocate for change. In that time, I, as a person, and we, as a joined one row behind us. The remainder of the stadium was society, have come to better understand concepts like white largely empty. privilege and implicit bias and how they impact outcomes in Midway through the first inning, an usher approached the legal cases in unjust ways. We now appreciate the ways in family behind us and asked to see their tickets. When they which our legal system entrenches patterns of racial inequity revealed a general admission designation, the usher abruptly and the opportunities for lawyers and courts to change them. required them to relocate to the top 10 rows of bleachers, scoff- We know that the law has the power not only to right wrongs ing at how hard it was for one of the older women in the party, and resolve disputes, but also to inflict generations of pain, who used a walker, to climb the stairs. Watching this unfold, trauma and marginalization on entire populations of people, we fully expected the usher to return, check our tickets, and and we accept our responsibility as a profession to work force us to the bleachers, too. He never did. against systemic discrimination. In my mind, there was only one thing that could have Tackling these engrained prejudices and eliminating them contributed to this differential treatment. The other family from the legal profession and the American legal system takes was Black, and my family was white. Even at 9 years old, the commitment, patience and a thick skin. It also takes people injustice of the situation smacked me square in the face. Anger from all walks of life and at all stages of their professional and resentment boiled up inside me, and I felt an uncontrolla- training to speak up for the values of equality and fairness our ble need to act. Without asking for my parents’ permission, I legal system aims to serve.

22 CHASE MAGAZINE About Professor Kinsley

At Chase Associate Dean for Professional Development My work at Chase and as a lawyer has been shaped by what my and Director Field Placement Program; Professor of Law. Courses taught Advanced Field Placement Clinic, Civil 9-year-old eyes saw so clearly. This is why, in my role as Procedure, Constitutional Law, Field Placement Clinic, Field Associate Dean for Professional Development, I’ve supported Placement Seminar, Legal Analysis and Problem Solving, Semester in Practice Program, Trial Advocacy. efforts to reform the bar exam, because we know that stan- Recent scholarly presentation International Conference dardized testing disproportionately excludes women and on Open Government and Digital Regulation at Universite students of color from the legal profession. Paris Pantheon Sorbonne on restrictions on protests related to social issues in the United States. This is why, with the help of my students, I’ve taken on pro In Kentucky Member of Kentucky Public Advocacy Commission, which oversees the Kentucky public defender bono cases that call attention to racial disparities – working system; Fellow in the 2020 Bluegrass Academic Leadership for clients like Alexis Martin, a child sex trafficking survivor Academy, a program to develop institutional leadership skills at colleges and universities. granted clemency from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine in April Recent pro bono work involving primarily free-speech and after serving seven years of a potential life sentence for the criminal issues: murder of her trafficker, and Terhas White, a local activist ∙ Six-year advocacy, resulting in clemency, on behalf of a being sued by a Cincinnati police officer after he displayed woman sentenced as a teenager to up to life in prison in the murder of her trafficker. what she understood to be a white power gesture to her at a ∙ Participant with other lawyers in gaining dismissals of city council meeting. Cincinnati curfew violation charges against advocates for racial equity following the death of a Black man in custody This is why I’ve used my First Amendment expertise to defend of Minneapolis police. the constitutional rights of hundreds of Black Lives Matter ∙ Representation of a woman sued anonymously by a Cincinnati police officer after she alleged he made a white protestors arrested this summer and to bring federal court supremacist hand gesture at a city council meeting. challenges to curfew laws that restrict free expression. ∙ Filed an amicus curiae brief in a case that raised the issue of whether Covid-related stay-home orders were enforced This is why I teach my students that racism is real, not only more stringently against minorities. because I have seen it, but also because I have done it. I share ∙ Filed suit in federal court at Dayton, Ohio, challenging whether Ohio laws on menacing by stalking and with them in an open and honest way about my own mistaken telecommunications harassment were being used there to attitudes, assumptions and behaviors in hopes that they can stifle political dissent. reflect more deeply on their own life experiences.

WINTER 2021 23 Pro Bono Work Leads to Clemency

Professor Jennifer Kinsley had pursued a pro bono case for six years, through courts and a parole board; she learned while grocery shopping this past year that her client had received a grant of clemency.

“I found out – actually while in the grocery store – that my client, Alexis Martin, would receive a full commutation of her life sentence from [Ohio] Governor Mike DeWine, and would be released from prison. This was truly the best day of my profession- al career.”

Professor Kinsley had pursued a review by the Supreme Court of Ohio and an appeal to the Ohio Parole Board on behalf of Ms. Martin, who as a juvenile had pleaded guilty in adult court to charges related to the murder of her trafficker. Professor Kinsley’s argument: A juvenile court should have applied a state law that protects children whose crimes are related to their being trafficking victims. Had that occurred, a court-appointed guardian would have investigated Ms. Martin’s history of prostitu- I’ve had a long time to think about and internalize that tion as a juvenile. Instead, she was sen- summer day at the ballpark. For decades, I have thought tenced to 22 years to life in prison. of that moment in terms of myself, and how, by confront- ing the usher, I learned to give a voice to the voiceless and “Alexis was the victim of horrifying and to defend the defenseless. I now see that understanding prolonged human trafficking, beginning at as an entirely racist lens. The family behind me didn’t the age of 14 and, at age 15, was tried as an lack for a voice, and I dehumanize them by saying that. adult for the robbery and murder of her They – like all people – had a voice, and they had means trafficker and for the attempted murder of to defend their value by choosing not to spend their his brother. Alexis was not the shooter,” dollars at the venue anymore. The problem wasn’t that Professor Kinsley says. “Although the signs they were voiceless or defenseless; the problem was that of her trafficking were everywhere, neither they weren’t being heard. the court nor her attorney took her victimiza- tion into account in the disposition of the So today, many years after that day in the ballpark, I case, and she was sentenced to 22 years to reframe the work we do as lawyers. No longer do we give life in prison.” voice to the voiceless, but instead we amplify their voices to those who refuse to hear them. We scream truth to the Professor Kinsley had the support of other deaf. All of us – from childhood lawyers in the making Chase professors and a student in her work. to the most seasoned practitioner – can play a role in Professors Amy Halbrook and Sharlene Boltz promoting racial equality. I invite you to join me. submitted expert-opinion letters to the parole board and student Rachel Wilhite worked on post-conviction discovery.

24 CHASE MAGAZINE Alumni Alumnus Robert Conley is the Newest Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky

HIS ELECTION GIVES Justice Robert Conley had a few humble words to in 2006 and 2014 to the Circuit Court – he now sits CHASE TWO offer about himself when he was sworn in on the highest court in Kentucky. MEMBERS OF THE January 1 as the newest member of the Supreme Following his graduation from Chase, Justice SEVEN-MEMBER Court of Kentucky. “Everyone who knows me Conley was an associate in the Ashland, COURT knows I’m nothing special, I’m just a man, and Kentucky, law firm of McKenzie, Woolery & probably an unremarkable one,” he began during Emrick and later a corporate attorney with the virtual ceremony. But those who know him Addington Mining/Addington Environmental. also know he is a man of deep religious faith, a It was at Chase – and a summer job at the now man of steel and a 1984 graduate of Chase shuttered Armco steel mill in Ashland – that he College of Law. learned to appreciate the value of hard work. Justice Conley, who was elected this past November from the 22-county “At Armco, I did every bad job, cleaned grease Seventh Supreme Court District in pits, shoveled. It was hard labor. Only college Eastern Kentucky, was sworn in to kids did those hard jobs. Anytime you work your an eight-year term that began way through school, you appreciate it more,” he January 4, and joined Justice says. “At Chase, I remember our class was a Michelle Keller as one of two Chase tight-knit group. Everyone wanted everyone else alumni on the court. (Among the to succeed. We were all in this together. I made a seven justices, four are University lot of good friends.” of Kentucky Rosenberg College of His Chase connection will resume on the Law alumni and one is a University Supreme Court bench, where he will be seated of Louisville Brandeis School of next to Justice Keller, in the numerical sequence Law graduate.) of districts from which justices are elected (she is For Justice Conley, the journey to from the sixth, he is from the seventh). the bench was forged at Chase, “I’d like to welcome you,” said Justice Keller, who beginning while working in a steel graduated from Chase in 1990, during the mill the summer of his first year, swearing in. “When I was on the Court of Appeals, and was guided by faith. Although our traveling court, you welcomed me to your calling himself an ordinary man, “I Justice Robert Conley circuit, and I am happy to return the favor and can be a good tool for God,” he said at his welcome you to the Supreme Court. I know that swearing in. “And I’m going to ask God to be you are going to be a great justice. You are going to that for him, a tool to use for good things and all bring the wisdom of your trial court and the things good and all things just. … I pledge to do wisdom of your circuit with you, and certainly you my very best for the people of Eastern Kentucky are a man of faith, as I learned more about today.” and for the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” he said. Justice Conley has been involved in Bridges Christian Church in Russell, Kentucky, as a With the six other justices appearing in a now Sunday school teacher, adult Bible study leader, ubiquitous Zoom grid, each with the same virtual deacon and elder. He has been active in youth background of the Kentucky Supreme Court sports in Eastern Kentucky as a coach for courtroom, Justice Conley took his oath in what baseball, football, softball and soccer teams. was then his Circuit Court courtroom in Greenup, Kentucky. After 26 years as a trial judge – he was The Supreme Court will conduct an in-person appointed as an Eastern Kentucky District Court investiture for him when Covid-19 public health judge in 1994, elected three times and then elected protocols allow.

WINTER 2021 25 Support for Chase

Michelle and Kenneth Kinder II

Kenneth Kinder II Endows Scholarship for Eastern Kentucky Students

Kenneth Kinder II has driven the roads between Chase College of Law and his hometown in Eastern Kentucky often enough to know all the curves and bumps. By endowing the Kenneth H. and Michelle R. Kinder II Endowed Scholarship Mr. Kinder graduated from Chase in 2000 and is a sharehold- for Eastern Kentucky he and his wife want students from that er in the Cincinnati law firm of Strauss Troy. His focus there is region to know there can be a smooth financial road to Chase. estate planning, trust and estate administration, tax law and “My wife, Michelle, and I felt that it was important to ‘pay it business transactions. His connection to Chase has remained forward’ by donating to Chase College of Law because the strong since he graduated first in his class: He is a member of education I received at Chase had a profound effect upon our the Chase Board of Visitors, a past president of the Chase lives that we never dreamed possible when embarking upon Alumni Council, and he was the 2010 recipient of the Chase my law school journey,” Mr. Kinder says. Outstanding Alumnus of the Past Decade Award. Mrs. Kinder is also an NKU graduate, with a second bachelor’s degree in “It is important to us that our contribution assists students education, and she earned a master’s degree in education at from Eastern Kentucky. We both grew up in Pikeville, and are Xavier University. She was a middle school teacher and extremely proud of our mountain heritage. However, being counselor in the Kenton County school system for many years. from a rural area can sometimes make it difficult to pursue higher education and oftentimes the opportunity may be The Kenneth H. and Michelle R. Kinder II Endowed Scholar- extremely limited. Our goal is to lessen the challenges and ship for Eastern Kentucky will be awarded on the basis of high obstacles by providing students financial assistance and an academic promise to students from any of 11 Eastern Ken- opportunity they may not otherwise have.” tucky counties, with a preference for students interested in tax law, estate planning law or entrepreneurship law.

Daniel Mecklenborg Endows Scholarship Nationally, he has been a trustee and chair of the National Waterways Foundation, an industry public-education group, a for Evening Division Students member and chair of America’s Watershed Initiative, an association focused on the Mississippi River and its tributar- Daniel Mecklenborg has spent his professional life on the ies, and an executive committee member and chair of the river – without actually being on the river. Following Waterways Council, an industry group involved with inland graduation from Chase College of Law in 1981 he has worked waterways and ports. He has also been a member and chair of extensively in legal affairs and leadership roles for inland-river the Inland Waterways Users Board, an advisory board that barge shipping companies and has been active in industry monitors the federal Inland Waterways Trust Fund and organizations. recommends uses for it. At Chase, he was Distinguished With endowment of the Daniel P. and Mary T. Mecklenborg Practitioner in Residence, in 2011. Endowed Scholarship, he hopes that more students can follow The Daniel P. and Mary T. Mecklenborg Endowed Scholarship him into the Chase evening division he attended and then will be awarded to evening division students who demonstrate into careers that can be as satisfying as his. high academic promise. “Chase College of Law provided me a great foundation on which to build a successful legal career. Mary and I want to help preserve the opportunity that Chase provides for future students. We are excited to see how Chase will grow, and the students it will benefit,” he says. The Chase Alumni Association recognized his career accom- plishments when it awarded him its 2019 Professional Achieve- ment Award. He is chief legal officer and secretary of Nash- ville-based Ingram Barge Company. Prior to joining Ingram in 1996, he had worked in the legal department of The Ohio River Company, a barge transportation firm based in Cincinnati.

Daniel and Mary Mecklenborg 26 CHASE MAGAZINE W. Lee and Courtney Scheben

W. Lee Scheben Endows Scholarship for Students in Evening Division

W. Lee Scheben graduated from Chase College of Law and into an ongoing career in banking, but he has never really left Northern Kentucky University. He is on campus regularly as a member of the NKU Board of Regents, and is immediate past chair. Like his career path from the Chase evening division to president of Northern Kentucky-based Heritage Bank, he ident in 2019 and a director in 2020. In addition to being a hopes the W. Lee and Courtney A. Scheben Endowed member of the NKU Board of Regents since 2015, he is a Scholarship will enable evening division students to pursue member of the board of the St. Elizabeth Foundation. He has paths to law practice or corporate leadership. been a member of the Kentucky Lottery Board of Directors, “My wife, Courtney, and I believe it is important to financially president of the American Heart Association of Northern support Chase because the school plays such a vital role in the Kentucky, president of the Boone County Public Library Greater Cincinnati community. Graduates from Chase Board and a member of the executive committee and treasurer become leaders in our region, both in law and the C-suite,” he of the Community Foundation of Northern Kentucky. says. “Hopefully, our gift will help a night student push Mrs. Scheben is also an NKU graduate, having earned a through the barriers to finish and become a leader who will master’s degree in education. She previously taught in the give back to both Chase and Greater Cincinnati.” Erlanger-Elsmere school system and is now an adjunct Mr. Scheben, who graduated in 1991, has done just that. professor at Beckfield College. He was vice president and secretary of Liberty National Bank The W. Lee and Courtney A. Scheben Endowed Scholarship from 1990 to 1994, and then joined Heritage Bank for a more will be awarded to evening division students who demonstrate than 25-year career as executive vice president. He became pres- high academic promise.

Kenneth and Sara Peller Endow Ohio State Bar Association. He has served on the Cincinnati Bar Association Grievance Committee, was bar counsel for Scholarship for Evening Students the Warren County Bar Association, and is currently a member of the Ohio Board of Professional Conduct. Evening classes at Chase College of Law are more than memories of casebooks and briefs for Kenneth Peller and Sara Mrs. Peller is vice chair of the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Little Peller. They are also memories of where they met. Now, Protection of the Supreme Court of Ohio. She retired in 2012 as 45 years after their graduations, in 1976, they have endowed chief executive officer of the Greater Cincinnati-Dayton Region the Kenneth E. and Sara L. Peller Endowed Scholarship, to be of the American Red Cross, after 14 years in the role that awarded to evening division students who demonstrate high included her involvement in development of a new headquarters academic promise. building in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Evanston. “Sara and I met early in our law school years,” Mr. Peller says. For Mr. and Mrs. Peller, Chase is more than memories of “Each of us came from modest backgrounds, and each of us classes; it is also the beginning of decades of shared memories. understood the importance of post-graduate education. Chase offered us a path to personal growth and professional success, by having a program that allowed us to work during the day and pursue those goals at night. We remain grateful to the school, and through our gift we hope to enable others to enjoy the life-long benefits of a law degree.” Mr. Peller maintains a solo practice, focused on family law and personal injury. As his office is located in the northeast Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash, he is a long-standing member of the Cincinnati Bar Association and Warren County Bar Association, in addition to the American Bar Association and

Kenneth and Sara Peller at the Chase 125th anniversary dinner in 2017 WINTER 2021 27 Honor Roll of Donors

CHASE LIFETIME GIFTS Jerome and Rita Bahlmann Alumni and friends of Chase Barbara and Wayne Beimesch $2,000,000 AND ABOVE J. David and Nancy A. Bender Patricia L. and Robert J. Herbold College of Law provide Susan J. Dlott and Stanley M. Chesley important financial support Gary and Marlene Cohen $1,000,000 TO $1,999,999 Larry and Martha Deener Chase College Foundation* through Lifetime Gifts and Frank Allen and Tracy Fletcher W. Bruce Lunsford the Annual Fund. Chase Anthony W. and Candace P. Frohlich James C. Frooman $500,000 TO $999,999 students, faculty and staff are Sam & Ethel Garber Foundation William H. Greeves Ð grateful for their generosity. John J. Garvey III Dan Meyer Ð H. Drewry Gores Thomas J. Smart Ð Winston R. Griffin Blanche Wiley Shafer Fund Glenn M. Hammond $250,000 TO $499,999 Billie Brandon and Ron Abrams Alan and Janet Hartman Anonymous Leonard and Kimberly Brashear Sylvia and Robert Hendon CompEd, Inc. Deb and Whit Crane William E. Hesch Keith F. and Charlene R. Goggin Duke Energy Corporation Dennis R. and Carol B. Honabach Kenneth H. and Michelle R. Kinder II Timothy E. Eble Paul E. Jones Richard M. and Catherine J. Rothfuss Kelly Farrish Edward Lampe Joseph P. and Sheila J. Thomas Frost Brown Todd, LLC LexisNexis John F. and Linda B. Ð Winkler Ralph P. Ginocchio Blake R. Maislin Joseph H. Goldcamp III Todd McMurtry and Maria Garriga $100,000 TO $249,999 Denise and John Kuprionis Daniel P. and Mary T. Mecklenborg Anonymous Ambrose Ð and Betty Ð Lindhorst M. Kate Molloy Nicholas Ð and Mildred Ð Bauer Susan C. and James E. Lipnickey Kenneth E. and Sara L. Peller Hubert A. Ð and Margaret S. Ð Day Lillian Ochiltree Ð Alfred J. Rendigs Memorial Trust Eugenie L. Goggin The Procter & Gamble Company Robert E. and Shirley L. Sanders William H. and Kathryn F. Hawkins Tracey A. Puthoff Julie A. and Joseph S. Schoepf Kentucky Bar Foundation, Inc. D. Arthur Rabourn Arthur Ð and Louise Spiegel Debra A. LaMorte W. Lee and Courtney A. Scheben Gerry and Peggy St. Amand Richard D. Lawrence Ann G. and Gerry W. Schoen Henry L. and Kathryn K. Stephens, Jr. Terrance R. and Vivien F. Monnie Gregory L. and Cynthia L. Sizemore Daniel and Muriel Stratton Mac and Michele-Anne Riley Alice S. Sparks Ð David C. Stratton Timothy L. and Janice M. Timmel Henry L. and Kathryn K. Stephens, Jr. Lois J. Stratton Toyota Motor Engineering & US District Court-EDKY Bench and Bar David L. and Nancy O. Swift Manufacturing North America, Inc. Fund Mr. and Mrs. John R. Thomson Frederick M. Warren, Jr. Ð Martin H. Wolf $25,000 TO $49,999 Zack N. Womack $50,000 TO $99,999 Anonymous (2) Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP Ashland AccessLex Institute Caryl A. Yzenbaard Baird & Baird P.S.C. Mark G. Arnzen Norman E. and Harriet J. Zoller

* Chase College Foundation Board of Trustees: Hon. Norbert A. Nadel, chair; William M. Cussen, president; John J. Cruze; R. Lanahan Goodman; Walter E. Haggerty; James C. Frooman; Paul E. Jones; Paige L. Ellerman; Hon. Anthony W. Frohlich; Ronald D. Major; Joseph W. Shea III; David M. Spaulding.

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1969 Environmental Aspects of Real Justice Robert Conley, William Cussen received the Estate and Commercial Transac- previously of the Kentucky John P. Kiely Professionalism tions: Acquisition, Development, 20th Circuit Court for Greenup Award of the Cincinnati Bar and Liability Management, Fifth and Lewis counties, was elected Association, in recognition of Edition. The book is an updated in November and sworn in outstanding trial skills and resource guide that discusses January 1 to the Supreme Court high levels of professionalism, what can happen when real of Kentucky, Seventh District, civility and ethics. estate, business and environ- in Eastern Kentucky. mental law cross paths. (A full story is on Page 25.) Mr. Cussen is the president of the Chase College Foundation, a 1986 past member of the Chase Board 1981 H. David Wallace was appointed of Visitors, an advisory panel for the dean, and a past president of Judge Alan C. chief executive officer and the Chase Alumni Council. Beyond Chase, he is a member of the Stout was chairman of the board of American Board of Trial Advocates, the Ohio Association of Civil appointed chief Northern Kentucky-based Trial Attorneys and the Defense Research Institute. He has been a judge of the Heritage Bank. He had been recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to the Profession United States legal counsel for the bank since it Award of the Ohio Association of Trial Attorneys. Bankruptcy Court for the was founded 30 years ago, and was a partner in Wallace Boggs, Mr. Cussens practices in the Cincinnati firm of McCaslin, Imbus Western District of Kentucky, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, a firm he & McCaslin, where his focus is personal injury, insurance, where he has been a bankrupt- co-founded. He received the consumer matters and products liability. cy judge since 2011. He is a member of the National Client Distinction Award from Conference of Bankruptcy Lawyers.com and Martin- Judges and serves on its dale-Hubbell. He has been a legislative and trustee liaison member of the judicial nominat- 1969 1980 committees. ing commission for the Kentucky 54th Judicial Circuit of Boone Beatrice Larsen Robert Hoffer, and Gallatin counties, in received the managing Northern Kentucky, and recently Cincinnati Bar partner of 1982 completed a four-year term on Association Dressman Judge Paul L. Whalen was the Kentucky State Fair Board. ADR Commit- Benzinger appointed administrative law tee's inaugural LaVelle, judge for the Kentucky Mediator of the Crestview Hills, Department of Workers’ Claims, 1988 based in Florence, Kentucky. He Year Award for 2020. Kentucky, was appointed to the Craig Clymer, previously was a part-time Kenton County (Kentucky) McCracken hearing officer for the Kentucky Airport Board, which operates County and Ohio departments of 1973 the Cincinnati/Northern Judge-Execu- education, and had been a Michael Kentucky International Airport. tive, was one of hearing officer with the Gmoser, Butler He is a member of the board of the featured Kentucky Department of County, Ohio, trustees of St. Elizabeth speakers for the Juvenile Justice for 20 years. He prosecutor, has Healthcare, which operates the Paducah Area Chamber of is retired from federal service, in published The St. Elizabeth health system in Commerce January Power in which he had served as counsel Farrier’s Son, a Northern Kentucky, and is chair Partnership Virtual Breakfast. He for the Department of Energy, murder-mystery of the St. Elizabeth Foundation. previously served as McCracken Environmental Protection novel about a disillusioned His practice focus is employer County District Court judge and Agency, Defense Acquisition defense attorney who becomes representation in human as Circuit Court judge, and after University and the Air Force. an assistant prosecutor. resources, employment and his retirement as circuit judge labor-compliance matters. joined Boehl Stopher & Graves law firm. 1974 LaJuana 1984 Joseph W. Shea Wilcher, partner Larry K. Wilcher joined Calfee, joined Rittgers at English Lucas Halter & Griswold, in the 1989/1990 & Rittgers, Priest & Owsley, Cincinnati office, and practices Mike Murray ’89 and Beth Cincinnati, co-authored in the commercial and public Murray ’90 formed Murray Law where he helps with two other finance group. He previously Firm, Cincinnati. Her focus is manage the environmental was a group vice president, family law, including divorce, medical law attorneys at ELPO Law, general counsel and secretary collaborative law, guardian ad malpractice group. He "Chapter 22: Wetlands for Bass Pro Group, and was litem and mediation. His focus previously was senior partner in Considerations in Real Estate general counsel and secretary is business, mergers and the Shea Hartmann law firm that Transactions" in the American for Dollar General Corporation. acquisitions, transportation merged with Rittgers & Rittgers. Bar Association’s resource book, and mediation.

32 CHASE MAGAZINE 1990 1991 1993 1995 Judge Jody M. Linda Ash joined Musillo Mary E. Talbott Thomas Luebbers was Unkenholt, Cincinnati, as senior joined Gravity Breidenstein elected by other counsel. Her focus in immigra- Diagnostics, a has opened judges of the tion law is hiring and employ- Covington, Breidenstein Hamilton ment of foreign nationals. Kentucky-based Legal Services in County (Ohio) independent Cincinnati, with a Court of W. Lee Scheben laboratory that focus in Common Pleas to serve as chief was appointed provides diagnostic, toxicology, commercial and residential real judge and administrative judge. president of pharmacogenomics and Covid-19 estate. He is chair of the Glendale She was appointed to the court Northern testing, as chief legal officer and (Ohio) Planning and Historic in 2008 to complete an Kentucky-based secretary. She previously was Preservation Commission, unexpired term and was most Heritage Bank. senior vice president, general secretary of the Glendale Zoning recently re-elected in 2016. He was counsel and corporate secretary Board of Appeals, and a member executive vice president of the for Tennant Company, in of the Board of Directors of the bank for more than 25 years. Mr. Minneapolis. She is a member of Glendale Community Improve- Scheben is a member of the the Chase Board of Visitors. ment Corporation. Northern Kentucky University 1990 Board of Regents and a Winston member of the board of the St. 1996 Griffin is chair Elizabeth Foundation, which Paul Lawless is president of of the Kentucky supports St. Elizabeth Kentucky Defense Counsel, Chamber of Healthcare in Northern following service as 2019-20 Commerce for Kentucky. president-elect. His practice 2021. He is chief focus with Bell Orr Ayers & executive and Barkley J. Sturgill was Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chairman of Laurel Grocery appointed senior vice is general civil litigation, Company, a London, Ken- president, general counsel and insurance defense, personal tucky-based grocery wholesal- secretary of Ramaco Resourc- injury, commercial and business er. He is a member of the es, a Lexington, Ken- litigation, creditor’s rights and Chase Board of Visitors. tucky-based mining enterprise. collections, and criminal defense. He previously was assistant Bernice L. Kentucky Supreme general counsel for Arch Walker, supplier Court Justice Michelle Resources, a St. Louis-based diversity Keller received the metallurgic firm. Kentucky Bar Association manager with Distinguished Judge Duke Energy, Award for 2020, in 1992 was elected treasurer of the recognition of outstand- Ruth Jackson, principal Cincinnati Bar Foundation. She ing service to the legal owner of Jackson Family Law, has served on the board of profession through was elected a fellow of the trustees since 2018. She is community, civic and/or American Academy of assistant parliamentarian of the charitable service. She Matrimonial Lawyers. Her National Bar Association. interacts with the Chase practice focus is domestic student body on a regular relations. basis, has delivered the 1994 Chase commencement Robert A. Arnold is acting James P. Dady, address, and is a past dean for the 2020-21 academic chair of the 1997 member of the Chase year of the College of Business Kentucky Bar Judge J. Christopher McNeill Board of Visitors. She of Thomas More University, Association was appointed to the Kentucky received the Chase Crestview Hills, Kentucky, Communications Court of Appeals, First District, Alumni Association where he is a full-time faculty and Publications in southwest Kentucky. He Exceptional Service member. He is mayor of Wilder, Committee, previously was a lawyer with the Award in 2011. Kentucky, a board member of received the association’s Bruce Department of Public Advocacy the Clem & Ann Buenger Boys K. Davis Bar Service Award for and the directing attorney of She currently chairs the and Girls Club, Newport, 2020. He is editor of the Kentucky the public defender office in Supreme Court's Access Kentucky, and chair of the Bench & Bar magazine and McCracken County. He is a past to Justice Commission properties board of Brighton maintains a private practice in president of the McCracken and the Criminal Rules Center, a Newport social Bellevue, Kentucky, and is chair County Bar Association. He has Committee. services agency. of the Bellevue Planning and been a member of the McCrack- Zoning Commission. en County Specialty Court Board (formerly Drug Court) since its inception, in 2005. WINTER 2021 33 Northern Kentucky Water American Association of Justice, 1999 District, and had been city board of trustees of the Ohio 2012 Judge Val Lewis II was administrator for Florence and Association for Justice, and as M. Seth Reeves was appointed appointed to the Brown Elsmere, in Northern Kentucky. treasurer on the executive domestic relations commission- County (Ohio) Court of committee of the Salmon P. er for Whitley and McCreary Common Pleas, Juvenile/ Jeffrey Chase Inn of Court. counties, Kentucky. He practices Probate Division. He previously Pfirrman was in Reeves & Reeves Law Office, was Mayor’s Court magistrate elected partner Corbin, Kentucky. for six communities in Brown in Graydon, 2010 County, a public defender in Head & Ritchey, Douglas Gastright joined Ulmer the county and an associate Cincinnati. His & Berne, Cincinnati, as an 2013 with the Wallace Law Firm. focus is associate. His focus is patent law. Tom Edge was named general creditors’ rights, bankruptcy and counsel of the Northern commercial litigation. Christine Kentucky Water District. He 2002 Gilliam, attorney previously was an assistant Susan C. Browning joined the with Reminger county attorney in Campbell Finney Law Firm, Cincinnati. Her 2008 in its Fort County, Kentucky, and city focus is personal and small- Carrie Masters Mitchell office, attorney for Dayton, Kentucky. business bankruptcy. Starts, attorney was selected as with Reminger a 2021 Rising Andrew Smith in its Cincinnati Star in Civil Litigation: Defense was promoted 2005 office, was by Super Lawyers. to member in Kent Chandler was appointed selected as a Steptoe & vice chair of the Kentucky Public 2021 Rising Star S. Kelly Gilliam returned to Stites Johnson. His Service Commission, the public in General Litigation by Super & Harbison and rejoined the practice focus in utilities regulator for Kentucky. Lawyers. construction service group and the Huntington, He previously was a lawyer in employment law service group as West Virginia, office is health the Kentucky Attorney General Kimberlee Erdman Rohr counsel, from general counsel care and manufacturing. Office of Rate Intervention. joined Beth Silverman & of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet Associates as an associate, with Department of Workplace Timothy Spille, a focus in family law. She is also Standards. His focus is construc- 2014 attorney with law director for the City of tion law and Occupational Safety Kevin Edelman, staff attorney Reminger, Cheviot, Ohio, and chair of the and Health Administration at Kentucky Retirement Cincinnati, Cincinnati Bar Association Local compliance and disputes. Systems, has been appointed as received a Government Law Practice membership chair of the Golden Gavel Group. Danielle Lewis, attorney with Rotaract Club of Lexington Award from Reminger in its Cincinnati office, executive committee. Westfield Insurance for was selected as a 2021 Rising successful defense of a complex 2009 Star in Civil Litigation: Defense Eric Mefford, a lawyer with claims lawsuit that was litigated Helen by Super Lawyers. Hughes & Coleman, Louisville, through appeal. Bukulmez is a Kentucky, is a 2020 Super member of the Michael Lawyers Rising Star. current class of Mahon, 2006 Emerge attorney with Aaren Meehan joined Adams Brent Dye rejoined O’Bryan, Kentucky, a Reminger in its Law, Covington, Kentucky, as an Brown & Toner, Louisville, six-month Cincinnati associate. Her focus is domestic Kentucky. His focus is workers’ training program for women office, was relations, personal injury and compensation. He was who are interested in running selected as a litigation. appointed as an administrative for public office as candidates of 2021 Rising Star in Civil law judge for Kentucky in 2017. the Democratic Party. Litigation: Defense by Super Melissa Moser opened Moser Lawyers. Law, Norfolk, Virginia, with a Lisa Hampton was promoted to Lindsay focus on estate planning, estate partner in Taliaferro, Carran, Lawrence and trust administration, business Cowherd & Hampton, Coving- joined Rittgers 2011 and nonprofit law, and tax law. ton, Kentucky, and serves as & Rittgers, David T. Cecil joined McBrayer She operates the Wills for Heroes managing partner. Cincinnati, as an associate in the Lexington, program in Virginia, which where she helps Kentucky, office. His focus is received the Program of the manage the medical malpractice, profes- Year award of the Virginia State 2007 medical malpractice group. She sional liability defense and Bar Young Lawyers Conference. T. Alex Mattingly was named previously was a lawyer with The health care law. He previously She has been recognized as one city administrator of Crestview Lawrence Firm, where her focus was an associate with Kopka of Hampton Roads, Virginia, Top Hills, Kentucky. He previously was plaintiff representation in Pinkus Dolin. 40 Under 40 and has received was general counsel and personal injury and medical the 2020 Servant Leader Award manager of legal, compliance malpractice. She serves on the of Wittenberg University, where and regulatory affairs for the board of governors of the she graduated.

34 CHASE MAGAZINE 2015 Steven Taylor joined Hemmer NKU Alumni Association Honors Chase Graduates DeFrank Wessels, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, as an associate. His focus is civil litigation. Two Chase College of Law graduates — Jill Meyer and C. Alyse Bender Hoffer — received 2020 Outstanding Alumni Awards from the Northern Kentucky University Alumni 2016 Association in February 2020. Ms. Meyer received the Distinguished Service Award for Colleen Fausz, attorney with leadership and service to the university. Ms. Hoffer received the Outstanding Young Dressman Benzinger Lavelle, Alumnus Award for service to the university and for her professional accomplishments. was elected to the Board of Directors of the Family Nurturing Center. She practices in the firm’s business organization and taxation, and wills, trusts and estate planning JILL MEYER C. ALYSE BENDER groups. She served as the firm’s Class of 1996 HOFFER controller prior to earning her Class of 2011 law degree. Distinguished Service Award Outstanding Young Jared Ewbank, attorney with Alumnus Award Ewbank & Kramer, Lawrence- burg, Indiana, was named attorney for the City of Aurora, Indiana. Ms. Meyer, who graduated in 1996, has an tion and of the Hamilton County Trans- 2018 extensive resume of involvement in law portation Improvement District. and economic development in Cincinnati. Tory Finley, an Ms. Hoffer, who graduated from Chase in associate with She practiced for 20 years in the firm of 2011, was NKU Student Government Dinsmore & Frost Brown Todd and was member-in- Association president and student member Shohl, charge of the Cincinnati office. She is now Cincinnati, was of the NKU Board of Regents as an president and chief executive of the selected by The undergraduate, graduating in 2008. As a Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and a National Black lawyer, she is a member of Frost Brown Lawyers as a Top 40 Under 40 board member of Cincinnati Center City Todd, Cincinnati, focusing in real estate. Black Lawyers in Ohio. Development Corporation, the nonprofit She is a member of the firm's recruiting real estate developer popularly known as Sarah Stacy was named and community outreach committees. assistant county attorney for 3CDC that spearheads development in Rowan County, Kentucky, downtown Cincinnati and Over-the- At NKU, she is a member of the Alumni northeast Kentucky. Her focus is Rhine. She is also a board member of Association Board of Directors and was family law and juvenile matters. CincyTech, a public-private venture that previously a member of the College of provides consulting and capital to Informatics Alumni Council. She was a 2019 life-science and digital startups in founding member of the NKU Young Russell F. Gribbell was southwest Ohio. She serves on the boards Alumni Council, serving from 2012 to promoted to member in the of Cincinnati COMPASS, a collaborative 2106, including as president from 2015 to Frederick H. Gribbell law firm, for resources and connections for immi- 2016. In the community, she is a board Cincinnati. His focus is patent grants and international students in the member and executive committee member and trademark prosecution. area, and of Art of the Piano, a festival of of Welcome House of Northern Kentucky, performances and master classes by a social services program for homeless 2020 pianists from around the world. She is a individuals, and a member of the United Lauren Spuzzillo joined the director of Cincinnati Financial Corpora- Way Emerging Leaders Group. Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, office of Reminger. Her focus is workers’ compensation, general liability and products liability. SHARE YOUR NEWS Send news about your life or career for publication in CHASE to Judy Brun, law specialist, by email to [email protected] or by mail at Chase College of Law, 521 Nunn Hall, 100 Nunn Dr., Highland Heights, KY 41099.

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1950 1969 1976 1987 Jerome J. Marois James Marshall Collins III F.B. Beck Francine Wayman May 4, 2016 July 27, 2020 May 17, 2020 October 30, 2020 Mr. Marois was involved in Mr. Collins concentrated his Mr. Beck practiced in various Ms. Wayman practiced in operations of numerous practice in the area of tax law. firms and also was a solo Porter, Wright & Arthur businesses and was with 3M practitioner. following graduation and later 1970 Company, a multinational firm maintained a solo practice in Judge Ralph Winkler 1977 based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Northern Kentucky. September 3, 2020 Gregory Hill for 29 years. November 19, 2020 1990 Judge Winkler was appointed to 1965 Steven R. Adams Cincinnati Municipal Court in Mr. Hill practiced in Hartford, Judge F. David Albanese November 1, 2020 1977 and subsequently was Kentucky, and had been county December 8, 2020 elected to terms on Municipal attorney of Ohio County. Mr. Adams founded the Law Judge Albanese was a Hamilton Court, Hamilton County Offices of Steven R. Adams in 1978 County (Ohio) Municipal (Ohio) Court of Common Pleas Daniel B. Robles 2000, with a focus on criminal Court judge for 13 years and a and the Ohio First District defense. He was previously a November 15, 2018 Hamilton County assistant Court of Appeals for Hamilton Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor for 14 years. He was County. He retired from the Mr. Robles was admitted to assistant prosecutor for eight a Social Security Administra- Court of Appeals in 2005. He practice in Kentucky and Ohio. years. He had a history of tion administrative law judge, was first assistant United States volunteerism and was a 1978 and had worked in the Attorney for the Southern Sara L. Sidebottom passionate athlete, having Cincinnati prosecutor’s office District of Ohio prior to his represented Cincinnati in the December 16, 2020 and the Hamilton County judicial service. Ironman Triathlon World Sheriff’s Department. Ms. Sidebottom was vice Championship four times. 1971 president and general counsel Richard R. Slukich Timothy A. Hickey 1991 of Northern Kentucky July 9, 2020 December 28, 2020 Marilee Stephenson University for more than 20 Russell Mr. Slukich practiced in Mr. Hickey maintained a solo years. She retired in 2016. She June 11, 2019 Northern Kentucky. practice in Cincinnati. He was a was previously a public Hamilton County (Ohio) defender, a prosecutor and a Ms. Russell was a lawyer with 1966 Allan H. Gifford Juvenile Court constable while Kenton County (Kentucky) the Stephenson Law Office, he attended Chase. District Court judge. Portsmouth, Ohio. May 6, 2019 1973 1980 1997 Mr. Gifford practiced in James R. Beckett Jr. J. Richard Clay Frederick J. Johnson Hawaii, with a focus on estate August 14, 2020 April 8, 2020 July 3, 2020 planning. He was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Mr. Beckett was director of a Mr. Clay practiced in Danville, Mr. Johnson maintained a solo the United States during a 2017 state-funded dental clinic in Kentucky. practice in Newport, Kentucky. group admission ceremony San Francisco for economically 1983 1999 sponsored by the Chase Alumni disadvantage children and a Daniel L. Dickerson Thomas M. Miller Association. teacher in San Francisco and August 17, 2019 January 7, 2021 Judge James Walsh Oakland. Mr. Dickerson was a solo Mr. Miller practiced for more November 27, 2020 Edward R. Goldman practitioner in Florence, than 20 years in Northern April 4, 2019 Judge Walsh served on the Ohio Kentucky. Kentucky and was city attorney 12th District Court of Appeals, Mr. Goldman practiced in David E. Gerner for Covington, Elsmere, in southwestern Ohio, from Cincinnati. Bellevue, Melbourne and October 8, 2019 1991 until he retired in 2009. Ludlow. He taught Construc- 1974 He had previously been a Peter Strasser Mr. Gerner was an owner and tion Law at Chase as an adjunct Fairfield (Ohio) Municipal lawyer with the Northern professor. After he was September 4, 2020 Court judge and a Butler Kentucky firm of Gerner & Kearns diagnosed with amyotrophic County, Ohio, assistant Mr. Strasser practiced in for 32 years. His focus was real lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and prosecutor. Clermont and Hamilton estate, creditors’ rights, probate ended his law practice, he counties, Ohio, until his and business law. He received founded the nonprofit Winning 1967 Richard Hunt retirement in 2005. the Cincinnati Bar Association with ALS to help children with Real Property Law Practitioner parents who had ALS. August 17, 2020 1975 of the Year Award for 2017. Robert V. Evans Jr. 2017 Mr. Hunt was a litigator in May 17, 2020 1985 Brenden Sullivan Dayton, Ohio, who practiced Katherine R. Bruenderman December 25, 2019 for more than 50 years. Mr. Evans was a wealth February 28, 2020 portfolio manager and had Mr. Sullivan was a staff attorney been a member of the Fort Ms. Bruenderman practiced in with the Kentucky Court of Thomas (Kentucky) Board of the office of Waite, Schneider, Appeals. Education. Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati.

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“Emerging Dilemmas in Meeting chair, American Reproductive Technologies: Society for Reproductive IVF, Egg Freezing, Surrogate Medicine Ethics Committee, Parenting and Beyond,” Chase Birmingham, Alabama, Legal Association of Women, February 22, 2020. October 27. “Emerging Issues in Reproductive Medicine,” Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics, Lawrence John Bickers Anthony Chavez Lader Endowed Lectureship, Professor of Law Professor of Law October 7. Publication Publication “The Role of Provider Autono- Greenbacks, Consent, and Lessons from Renewable Energy my in Reproductive Medicine: Unwritten Amendments, Diffusion for Carbon Dioxide Honoring and Declining Arkansas Law Review Removal Development, Patient Requests in Fertility (forthcoming). Fordham Environmental Care,” University of Chicago Ursula Doyle Law Review (forthcoming). Medical School, Department of Professor of Law Presentation Obstetrics and Gynecology, “Our Money is Legal Tender … Presentation Presentation continuing education, A Constitutional Tale,” “U.S. Voter Suppression in United Nations Working NorthShore University Northern Kentucky University Context: Past and Current Group of Experts on People of HealthSystem, Evanston, Scripps Center for Civic Efforts to Reduce Voting African Descent Symposium, Illinois. Engagement Six@Six series, Strength,” Northern Kentucky December 2. April 28. University Scripps Center for “Ethical, Legal and Social Cited Civic Engagement Six@Six Implications of Requests to College Strange Fruit at the United series, October 20. Transfer Genetically ‘Affected’ Selected, Class of 2020 Nations, 61 How. L. J. 187 Embryos,” Radcliffe Institute Professor of the Year. (2018), in a report of the United for Advanced Study, Harvard Nations Working Group of University, April 14. Experts on People of African “Compassionate Transfer: Descent. Patient Request for Embryo Transfer for Non-reproductive Purposes,” Ethics Committee of American Society for Repro- ductive Medicine. “Contemporary Dilemmas in Reproductive Medicine,” Judith Daar Cincinnati Bar Association, Krista Burton Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold December 5, 2019. Dean and Professor of Law Director of Academic Success Media and Bar Support and Assistant Publications Interviewed, WLWT (Channel Professor of Law The Legal Liability Landscape 5, Cincinnati) on legacy of Amy Halbrook and the Person/Property Divide, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Dean and College Fertility & Sterility. September 21. Professor of Law Selected, Class of 2020 commencement marshal. Reflections on an Inaugural Quoted, Above the Law, on Presentation Year: Lessons for Legal South Dakota legislation to “Kentucky Guardian Ad Litem Education and Life, Kentucky restrict surrogacy, February 5, Practice,” Legal Aid Society Bar Association Bench & Bar, 2020. family law training. September/October. University Professional Presentations Recognized, March 2020 Faculty member, Trial Skills Opening lecture, Embryonic Women’s History Month as one Institute, American Bar Injuries and Nascent Remedies of 31 Valiant Women of Association Commission on in an Era of CRISPR-Cas and Northern Kentucky University. Domestic & Sexual Violence, Advanced IVF Symposium, December. Professional Chicago-Kent College of Law, Opening remarks, Women of Amicus curiae, Pike v. Gross in November 18. Legal Tech Summit, American Supreme Court of the United Bar Association techshow, States, filed on behalf of Nation- February 26, 2020. al Association for Public

WINTER 2021 37 Defense, Children’s Law Center Elected, chair of Association Interviewed, Sirius XM Politics and Institute for Compassion in of American Law Schools Channel, election-related, Justice, arguing that the death Section on Sexual Orientation November 6 and 7. penalty is unconstitutional and Gender Identity Issues, Interviewed, The Politics Guys, when imposed on 18-year-olds, January 2020. election-related, November 7 March 26. Media and 14. Interviewed, WVXU Cincinna- Interviewed, NTN24 Network, ti Edition, Spectrum News election-related, November 9. (Columbus, Lexington and Louisville) and The Northerner Quoted, The New York Times, of Northern Kentucky Jennifer Jolly-Ryan on legal issues in a peripheral University on Supreme Court of Professor of Legal Writing challenge to voting by released the United States decision in felons in Florida, September 24. Publications EEOC, et. al v. R.G. & G.R. Virtual Collaboration and Interviewed, Tokyo Shimbun, Harris Funeral Homes, which Feedback to Legal Writers, Tokyo daily newspaper, on adopted the position of an Kentucky Bar Association challenge to Florida released amicus curiae brief he co-wrote, Bench & Bar, September/ felons voting. that Title VII of the Civil Rights Jack Harrison October. Act of 1964 prohibition of Interviewed, WLWT (Channel Professor of Law employment discrimination Great Quotations in a Torts 5, Cincinnati), July 14, and Publication based on sex includes LGBTQ Case: Distinguishing Lightning WCPO (Channel 9, Cincinnati), Erie SLAPP Back, 95 persons. Bugs from Lightning, Kentucky July 24 on pandemic-related Wash.L.Rev. 1253 (2020) Bar Association Bench & Bar, facial covering requirements in March/April. Kentucky and Ohio. Presentations “Ethical Issues of Local Quoted, Spectrum cable news Government Attorneys,” on request to release grand jury Kentucky League of Cities records in case of an unarmed Annual Conference, Black woman fatally shot by September 24. Louisville, Kentucky, police. “New Frontiers in Reproductive Quoted or cited in numerous Justice Scholarship and newspapers (primarily Pedagogy,” Southeastern McClatchy publications), Association of Law Schools, television news programs and August. Dennis Honabach websites on feasibility of some Professor of Law politicians’ suggestion that “LGBTQ Rights Before the Kenneth Katkin states financially affected by the Supreme Court in 2019-2020 Publications Professor of Law Covid-19 pandemic declare and Beyond,” Cincinnati Bar D&O Liability Handbook bankruptcy, April. Association continuing legal (Thomson Reuters, 2019-2020 Publications education. edition). Do P.G. Sittenfeld’s Charges Analysis, legal significance of Represent Prosecutorial Second Amendment Sanctuary Panel moderator, “New Voices Proxy Handbook (Thomson Overreach by a Politicized movement, WKRC-TV in Sexual Orientation and Reuters, 2019-2020 edition). Trump Justice Department? (Channel 12, Cincinnati), Gender Identity,” Association Presentation CityBeat, November 23. January 10, 2020. of American Law Schools Chair and panelist, “Limited annual meeting, January 2020. Police and Citizens: Inside the Discussed impeachment, Liability Company Indemnifi- United States: Before the WKRC-AM, Cincinnati, Professional cation and Indemnification,” Summer of Unrest, Taz, Berlin, December 24, 2019. Amicus curiae, M.R., A Limited Liability Company Germany, June 7. Cincinnati Police Officer, v. Julie Institute of American Bar Niesen, et al. in Supreme Court Association Business Law Media of Ohio, joined Ohio law Section, November 4. Quoted, What Poll Watching professors and lawyers in Looks Like in Kentucky, “Innovation in Legal Educa- drafting brief urging the court Spectrum One News, Novem- tion,” Southeast Association of to take jurisdiction to clarify ber 2. Law Schools, August 4. duration and expiration of a Interviewed, WCPO, (Channel temporary restraining order, 9, Cincinnati), election-related, October. November 4. Interviewed, “Your Morning,” CTV, Canada, election-related, November 6.

38 CHASE MAGAZINE Amicus curiae, Floyd v. Filson Selected, Leadership Northern Wiesenthal Center, involving in United States Court of Kentucky Class of 2021, return of artwork stolen by Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Northern Kentucky Chamber Nazi Germany to Holocaust written for National Associa- of Commerce. survivors and heirs. tion for Public Defense, arguing Media Media for admissibility of evidence of Coverage, courtroom Quoted, WUSA (Channel 9, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at appearance for protesters Washington, D.C.) website, on sentencing in a capital trial. charged with curfew violations facts in police killing of Amicus curiae, Pike v. Gross in during protests in Cincinnati unarmed Black woman in the Supreme Court of the following police killing of an Louisville, Kentucky, Septem- Jennifer Kinsley United States, filed on behalf of unarmed Black man in ber 23. Associate Dean and National Association for Public Minneapolis, The Cincinnati Interviewed, University of Professor of Law Defense, Children’s Law Center Enquirer, September 8. Central Florida History and Institute for Compassion in Publications Coverage, involvement in Department podcast on efforts Justice, arguing that the death Black Speech Matters, Univer- Cincinnati case raising to return to Holocaust penalty is unconstitutional sity of Louisville Law question of whether some survivors and heirs artwork when imposed on 18-year-olds, Review (forthcoming). minorities were subjected to stolen during World War II. March 26. more stringent enforcement of The Role of Political Affiliation Analysis, landlord-tenant law, Pro bono, Doe v. Yost et al., filed Covid-19 public health in Judicial Sentencing Out- WCPO (Channel 9, Cincinnati), in United States District Court measures, The Washington Post, comes, Wayne Law Review January 15, 2020. for Southern District of Ohio, at May 10. (forthcoming). Dayton, challenging constitu- Interviewed, “Kim Kardashian Presentations tionality of Ohio stalking and West: The Justice Project,” “Black Speech Matters,” telecommunications harass- Oxygen channel, April 5. International Conference on ment laws the complaint alleges Open Government and Digital are used to stifle political University Regulation, Universite Paris dissent. Recognized, March 2020 Pantheon Sorbonne, Novem- Women’s History Month as one Pro bono, received commuta- ber 3. of 31 Valiant Women of tion from the Governor of Ohio Northern Kentucky University. “To Infinity and Beyond: in case of a woman she has Expanding the Externship represented the past six years Professional’s Academic who was serving a to 22-years- Portfolio,” panelist, Extern- to-life sentence related to the Alex Kreit ships 10 conference, Syracuse murder of her trafficker while a Assistant Professor of Law University Law School, juvenile. October 23. Books Pro bono, filed suit in United Marijuana Law and Policy, Panelist, Bluegrass Academic States District Court for co-author (Carolina Academic Leadership Academy, Midway Southern District of Ohio Press, 2020). University, October 23. against City of Cincinnati, chal- lenging curfew related to Criminal Law in Focus (Wolters “Dismantling Commercial demonstrations on racial justice Kluwer In Focus casebook Speech,” Southeastern and police use-of-force as Jennifer Kreder series, 2020). Association of Law Schools, violating individuals’ rights July 31. Professor of Law Presentations under the First and 14th Panelist, “Marijuana Law 2020: “Girls To Thrive: A Conversa- Amendments to the United Publication Lessons from the Past, Ideas for tion with Alexis Martin,” States Constitution, June 3. The Constitutionality of the the Future,” Boston University Clinton Foundation, May 21. HEAR Act: Empowering Pro bono, representing woman Law Review conference on American Courts to Return “2019 Supreme Court Year in in invasion of privacy action federal marijuana reform and Holocaust-Era Artwork and Review,” The Lawyers’ Club of against her by a Cincinnati the Controlled Substances Act, Honor History, 30 DePaul J. Cincinnati, January 6, 2020. police officer after she alleged in November 13. Art, Tech. & Intell. Prop. L. a complaint to the department Professional __ (2020) Panelist, “Controlled Substance he made a gesture associated Pro bono, member of a team of Regulation 2020,” Gonzaga with white supremacists at a Professional lawyers who obtained University Cannabis Law Club, city council meeting. Amicus curiae, Zuckerman v. dismissals of criminal charges October 12. Metropolitan Museum of Art in against individuals arrested Fellow, 2020 Bluegrass Supreme Court of the United Panelist, “Drug Use and the while advocating peacefully Academic Leadership Academy. States, co-author on behalf of Law: Where Does It Fit in Law this past summer in Cincinnati Appointed, commissioner, B’nai B’rith International, the School Courses?” Southeastern for fair treatment of Black Kentucky Public Advocacy Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Association of Law Schools, persons by police. Commission. Human Rights and the Simon July 30.

WINTER 2021 39 Law Work-in-Progress Series, killing of an unarmed Black evidence of rehabilitation, He June 18. woman in Louisville, Kentucky, Spent Half His Life in Prison For September 24. Killing Her Sister: ‘I Forgive Him “Fraudulently Induced From The Bottom Of My Heart, Confessions,” Federalist Society The Cincinnati Enquirer, Annual Faculty Conference, September 7. Washington, D.C., January 4, 2020. Coverage, his innovative approach to early prison Media release, Releasing People from Quoted, The Washington Post, Prison is Easier Said than Done, on police killing of an unarmed Michael Mannheimer The Atlantic, July 8. Black woman in Louisville, Professor of Law Kentucky, September 24. Publications Quoted, “Why It’s Not So Fraudulently Induced Confes- Simple to Arrest the Cops Who sions, Notre Dame Law Lawrence Rosenthal Shot Breonna Taylor,” on Review (forthcoming). Associate Dean and Professor of whether the Louisville, Legal Writing Three-Dimensional Dual Kentucky, police officer who Sovereignty: Observations on the allegedly fatally shot an Publication Shortcomings of Gamble v. unarmed Black woman should Is Protecting an Employee’s United States, 52 Tex. Tech. L. be charged with murder or Right to Knowingly File False Rev. __ (2020). manslaughter, The Marshall EEOC Charges a Necessary Project, August 8. Evil? Loyola of Los Angeles Vagueness as Impossibility, 98 Law Review (forthcoming). Steve Stephens Tex. L. Rev. 1049 (2020). Quoted, comments made at Professor of Law “Substantive Issues, Breonna “Eighth Amendment Federal- Taylor Symposium,” WLEX, Presentation ism,” chapter in The Eighth Lexington, Kentucky, website. “Maximizing Mediations,” Amendment and Its Future in a Haile/US Bank College of New Age of Punishment College Business continuing legal (Cambridge University Press, Selected, Class of 2020 education, December 17, 2019. 2020). commencement marshal. Recognition The Logic Behind the Grand Professional Lawyer of the Year, Mediation, Jury’s Limited Charges, Amicus curiae, Walker v. Cincinnati, Best Lawyers. commentary on police killing United States in the Supreme of an unarmed Black woman in Court of the United States, co-author, arguing for narrow Louisville, Kentucky, New York David Singleton Daily News, September 24. construction of federal Armed Professor of Law Career Criminal Act to avoid DeWine’s Stay-at-Home Order potential Eighth Amendment Presentation is not Enforceable, commen- cruel-and-unusual-punish- Panelist, “Back-End Advocacy: tary, The Cincinnati Enquirer, ment issue. Second Chances and Second April 26. Looks,” National Association Presentations of Criminal Defense Lawyers Panelist, “Substantive Issues, Presidential Summit & Breonna Taylor Symposium,” Sentencing Symposium, in Panelist, University of conjunction with Georgetown Kentucky Rosenberg College of University Law Center, Law, October 23. October 20. Panelist, “Eighth Amendment Award Federalism and Modern Cincinnati USA Regional Sentencing,” National Chamber, We Are Making Association of Criminal Black History campaign to Defense Lawyers Presidential Christopher Polito recognize African American Summit & Sentencing residents, February 27, 2020. Assistant Director of Academic Symposium, in conjunction Success and Bar Support and Media with Georgetown University Assistant Professor of Law Coverage, work that seeks early Law Center, October 20. release for prisoners who meet Media “The Impossibility Constraint qualifying criteria admitting Quoted, WUSA (Channel 9, in Criminal Law,” Northern guilt, serving a significant part Washington, D.C.) website, on Illinois University Criminal of a sentence and showing possible prosecution in police

40 CHASE MAGAZINE an appreciation Dean Emeritus William R. Jones 1922-2020

Chase Dean Emeritus William R. Jones these two endeavors and decided to literally moved Salmon P. Chase College enroll at the University of Kentucky of Law into its modern era – physically to College of Law – at age 44 – while the Northern Kentucky University main continuing both automotive endeavors. campus, from a hilltop satellite campus, “As a testament to his intellectual heft, and academically into membership in the Bill graduated in two and a half years, Association of American Law Schools. achieving Order of the Coif honors – Following his death in late March 2020, while running between classes to at the age of 97, Chase Professor Steve manage his economic endeavors. He Stephens, who succeeded Dean Jones as was honored by receiving a Cook dean of the college, remembered him as Fellowship to the University of a leader who inspired others to lead with Michigan, where he obtained his LL.M. him and as a man of style who was a in 1971. Prior to coming to Chase, Bill mentor and a friend. Of Dean Jones, spent nine years as a tenured member Professor Stevens wrote: of the faculty of Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. “William Rex Jones (he never used Rex, claiming that it made him sound like a dog) was my friend, “He was an avid and excellent tennis player, as will attest his but more importantly, my mentor. I was honored and pleased good friend, Judge William O. Bertelsmann. He had a to serve as associate dean during his tenure, from 1981 through marvelous sense of humor, and served as an inspiration to all 1985, and learned much under his leadership. by living his life to the fullest. I sorely miss him.” “Bill first appeared on the Chase campus, then in Covington, During his legal career, Dean Jones was a professor who in November 1980, as a candidate for the decanal position. It taught regularly until he was 91 years old and also a leader in was apparent to all at the first meeting that Bill was going to professional associations and on public commissions. cut a wide swath: immaculately attired, complete with London His academic career also included serving as a visiting Fog-belted trench coat, as he stepped out of a new Mazda professor of law at Nova University Center for the Study of RX-7; a true 'take charge fellow' – and take charge, he did. Law and at Nova Southeastern University Law Center, as a After surveying the landscape during the 1980-81 year, Bill guest lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London, commenced the fall of 1981 by defining 20 areas he deemed to and teaching at Culalongkorn University, Bangkok, be in need of evaluation, and divided the faculty into task Thailand, and Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan. He forces, each of which was assigned discrete topics upon which primarily taught Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law, to prepare position papers. Those papers were presented in the Contracts, Remedies, Evidence, Elder Law and Professional late winter of 1982 at a faculty retreat at Shakertown, Ken- Responsibility. He published several books on criminal tucky, and the results thereof established academic policies procedure. and procedures that continue to this day. Those changes resulted in Bill being able to successfully advocate for the law Professionally, Dean Jones served on numerous committees school’s inclusion in the Association of American Law Schools, of the American Bar Association, the Association of Ameri- membership which was conferred at its January 1984 meeting. can Law Schools and the Law School Admissions Council. He was a member and a chair of the Kentucky Public Advocacy “It is indeed a daunting task to encapsulate Bill‘s storied life Commission. He received the Public Advocate Award for his and experiences in but a few paragraphs. A World War II years of service in pursuit of fair processes for individuals veteran, after his service, Bill started out his career selling accused or convicted of a crime. Mack trucks throughout Kentucky. He then became executive vice president of Paul Miller Ford, in Lexington, and simulta- Professor Stephens succeeded Dean Jones as dean of Chase neously opened and successfully ran an automobile trim shop. College of Law from 1985 to 1992; he currently teaches Given his intellectual capacity, he soon became bored with Evidence, Trial Practice and Mediation.

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