Phoebe A. Haddon Dean, the University of Maryland School of Law
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THE HONORABLE CLIFFORD SCOTT 2010 HONORABLE GREEN LECTURESHIP was established in 2003 at Temple University Beasley Clifford Scott Green School of Law to recognize this LECTURE distinguished member of its class of 1951. The lectureship honors Judge Green and acknowledges the influence he had on the legal community. THE CLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN CHAIR IN LAW was established to further honor Judge Green in 2009. Robert J. Reinstein is the current Clifford Scott Green Chair in Law. “A Public Calling: Lessons from the PREVIOUS PRESENTERS OF THE ANNUAL HONORABLE CLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN LECTURE Lives of Judges of Color Robert J. Reinstein, Clifford Scott Green Chair in Law, 2009 in Pennsylvania” Evelyn B. Higginbotham, 2008 The Honorable Theodore A. McKee, 2007 PRESENTED BY The Honorable Louis H. Pollak, 2006 The Honorable Damon J. Keith, 2005 The Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, 2004 Phoebe A. Haddon Professor Drew S. Days III, 2003 Dean, The University of Maryland HONORABLE CLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN LECTURE PLANNING COMMITTEE School of Law Robert Bartow William H. Brown, III Stephanie Franklin-Suber Harold I. Goodman Carole Green Dorothy E. Lee w a Christopher Lewis L f o E Walter P. Lomax l R o o Leslie Marant U E h 0 T n L c 1 C S B Hon. Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson o 0 t E A d 2 d L e 2 R , n Frank McClellan e d 2 r N 2 a O l t 1 E 1 a y S N Muriel Morisey 9 E r L H 1 I O R d a R a Hon. Louis H. Pollak . H G M A P o P f A L T r A o Robert J. Reinstein , T B A , a y e i Y O t U h i James S. White h t b C A s N r r p S D l e e N o e v N D o A i N d R O n h E a 9 l O U i 1 H M P F e 7 h T F h I 1 P T L , C n a e D “A Public Calling: Lessons from the Lives THE HONORABLE Clifford Scott Green of Judges of Color in Pennsylvania” 1923~2007 Judge Green was described as Phoebe A. Haddon System. She was a member of the City of Philadelphia “an inspiration, a mentor, a Dean, The University of Maryland Board of Ethics, and worked on bias and diversity- teacher, a role model, and a related issues in the Philadelphia Bar Association. Dean friend to innumerable minority School of Law Haddon is also a member of the Board of Trustees of and non-minority law clerks, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. interns and students.” Clifford Scott Green grew up in Philadel- Appointed in 2009 as the dean of The University of Dean Haddon earned an LL.M. from Yale Law School in phia in a poor but close and Maryland School of Law, Phoebe A. Haddon is a 1985 and a J.D., cum laude, from Duquesne University supportive family. He fulfilled national leader in legal education and an expert in jury School of Law in 1997. Following law school, she their aspirations for him by participation, the courts and diversity. Dean Haddon clerked for The Hon. Joseph F. Weis, Jr., U.S. Court of being the first in the family to finish high school, then college assumed the position at Maryland after more than Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced at Wilmer and law school. As a law student 25 years on the faculty of Temple University Beasley Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., before joining he distinguished himself with School of Law. A scholar of constitutional law and tort the faculty at Temple law school in 1981. While on honors for the highest grades in law, Dean Haddon is the co-author of two casebooks leave from Temple, she served as deputy executive constitutional law and conflicts in those fields and has written numerous scholarly director of Philadelphia’s Redevelopment Authority and of laws, and as an associate articles on equal protection, jury participation, president of the Low-Income Housing Development editor of the law review. In academic freedom, and diversity. Subsidiary and the Philadelphia Development Mortgage 1952, Judge Green joined the Assistance Corporation. first African-American law Dean Haddon has provided leadership to numerous firm in Pennsylvania, which organizations dedicated to improving legal education. later became Norris, Schmidt, She serves on the Council of the American Bar Green, Harris, Higginbotham Association Section on Legal Education and Admission and Brown. to the Bar, the official accrediting body of American Judge Green received numerous awards for his community law schools. She has served as co-president of the MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010 service, integrity and professional excellence, including the board of governors and member of the executive 4 pm first Judge William Hastie Award from the NAACP Legal committee of the Society of American Law Teachers, Duane Morris, LLP Moot Courtroom Defense Fund in 1985. In 2002, he was awarded the Spirit member of the executive committee of The Association Temple University of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association of American Law Schools, and trustee of the Law James E. Beasley School of Law Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity. He was appointed judge of the County Court of Philadelphia in 1964, School Admissions Council. 1719 North Broad Street and President Richard M. Nixon named him to the U.S. Actively engaged in the Pennsylvania bench and bar, District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Dean Haddon served as a member of the Gender RECEPTION FOLLOWING LECTURE 1971, where he assumed senior status in 1988. Commission of the Third Circuit Task Force on Equal co-sponsored by the Black Law Students Association. During 36 years on the federal bench, Judge Green Treatment in the Courts and as a member of the Race presided over a number of notable cases, and was regarded Subcommittee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Parking is available at Liacouras Center lot as one of the most popular judges in the district. Green was a long-time adjunct professor at the law school, Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice located at 15th Street and Montgomery Avenue. teaching evidence, criminal law and criminal procedure. In the early 1970s, he was instrumental in creating the FOR MORE INFORMATION Temple-LEAP mock trial competition for high school call 215.204.9000. students. He was a founding member of the law school board of visitors and a member of the university’s board of trustees and, in 1997, he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by the university..