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Texas Tech Law School Foundation Board President You Can See Photos of the Festivities on the “TTU Law” Tom Hall '81 Closed the Program by Highlighting Flickr Page School of Law Administration CONTENTS Dean and W. Frank Newton Professor of Law Jack Wade Nowlin Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Dean’s Distinguished Service Professor of Law Wendy-Adele Humphrey '01 Dean’s Message 3 Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law Jamie Baker Associate Dean for Student Life Sofia Chapman Associate Dean for Bar Success and Professor of Law Catherine Christopher Year in Review Associate Dean for Faculty Development 4 and Erwin and Elaine Davenport Endowed Professor of Law Alyson Outenreath '00 Associate Dean for Administration and Finance Frank Ramos, Jr. Associate Dean for Digital Learning and Graduate Education Do Your Own Thing and Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor Victoria Sutton 18Robert Don Collier Assistant Dean of Alumni Relations and Communications Ashley Langdon '11 Assistant Dean for Admissions Danielle Saavedra '15 Faculty Updates Assistant Dean for Career and Professional Development Paula Smith '01 28 Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration Brian J. Uline Assistant Dean of Academic Services and Registrar Janessa Walls 36Alumni News Co-Editors-in-Chief A Strong Foundation Ashley Langdon, Assistant Dean of Alumni Relations and Communications 42 Bonnie Cordell, Associate Director of Alumni Relations Staff Lisa Green, Chief Operating Officer of the Texas Tech Law School Foundation Texas Tech Law School Karen Holden, Director of Development and Donor Relations 44Foundation Board Tess Greenlees, Senior Designer Design and Production DESIGN Donor Honor Roll Promofuse | Lubbock, TX 46 EDITORS Jane Bromley, Editor Contributors Staci Semrad, Portico Communications, LLC © 2021 Texas Tech University School of Law. All rights reserved. 2 TEXAS TECH LAWYER ean’s DMESSAGE Greetings from the Dean’s Suite! Our May graduates have I am very pleased to say that this year we achieved great success had great success at the Law School while dealing with great adversity. Tech Law’s on the bar exam students, faculty, and staff have risen to the challenge again and despite exam delays and other pandemic-related challenges. A again. And the outpouring of support from our alumni and friends has large number of our 2020 graduates took the New Mexico Bar exam been tremendous. this year in September and had to adjust their schedules to arrive in New Mexico to meet a two-week quarantine requirement. The We continue to have outstanding success with practical training, Law School was able to provide much-needed financial support curriculum, and value. We were again ranked No. 1 in the nation in through the generosity of our faculty and alums. These graduates Advocacy by the American Bar Association in their Skills Competitions were determined to overcome all obstacles to succeed and had an Championship. U.S. News & World Report ranked our legal practice outstanding 100% pass rate with all 58 students from the class of program 12th in the nation and the top program in Texas. We also 2020 passing the New Mexico bar exam! remain a top 10% “Best Value” law school nationwide. I am also pleased to relate that we ranked No. 1 in the state—with This fall we welcomed an enthusiastic new class of 1Ls with the the highest bar passage rate of any Texas law school in the October highest LSAT and GPA medians we have seen in several years. These administration of the Texas Bar Exam! We had an outstanding 92.31% eager new students joined our wonderful 2L and 3L classes for a pass rate for our first-time test-takers. We have the second highest total enrollment of over 400 students. bar passage rate of any Texas law school in the combined results We continue to work hard to put our students first and implement from the September and October administrations of the Texas Bar careful plans that promote education, health, and safety. Exam — also a 92.31% pass rate. To maximize safety, our curriculum this year has offered a balanced Overall, the pass rate this fall is an outstanding 97% for our May 2020 mix of in-person, hybrid, and online courses, with almost all classes graduates who took either the New Mexico bar exam or one of the available in an online format for students who choose to attend two Texas bar exam administrations! These results are a testament to remotely. Our professors have trained hard for the shift to online the talent, hard work, learning — over spring and summer and into the fall. Thanks to the and resilience of our Texas Tech Law School Foundation and its generous donors, we graduates. We are so have been able to provide laptops, microphones, webcams, and proud of them. Our alumni network is more than emergency funds for all our students in need. Through all these 8,500 strong, and connecting with Following University and CDC guidelines, we have worked together challenges, it has been you is one of my favorite things wonderful to see the to implement a broad range of health and safety measures. We have to do. And while I have missed reconfigured classrooms, common spaces, and study areas for social Texas Tech law family distancing. Students and employees follow the University’s face- join together. We know traveling this year, I look forward covering policy, and the Law School has provided a Tech Law mask to we can count on each to catching up virtually during other and on our many every student so they can keep safe while showing their school pride. one of our small group “Coffee We participate in the University’s testing, tracing, monitoring, and friends and supporters. quarantining procedures. Texas Tech Law will and Conversation” events. Please come though this contact my office today, and let’s Life at the Law School remains vibrant. We are celebrating Professor pandemic stronger than Chuck Bubany’s fifty years of distinguished service to the Law School ever, and our best days get to know one another! and our students. We are also very fortunate to welcome back are ahead of us. Professor Amy Hardberger '05. She rejoins our faculty as the George Reach out to Karen Holden, W. McCleskey Professor of Water Law and Director for the Center for Water Law and Policy. She is an outstanding hire for the Law School. Director of Development and We also continue to hold a wide array of virtual events to connect, Donor Relations, at engage, and inform our community. We have also worked harder ~Jack Wade Nowlin Dean and W. Frank [email protected] or than ever to foster a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive environment Newton Professor 806-834-4910 where every student can thrive. of Law YEAR inREVIEW SECOND ANNUAL DR. MARTIN Looking back over this past year, LUTHER KING, JR. DAY CELEBRATION we have much to celebrate. We regularly hosted fun and thought-provoking events that Kimberly McNair Brock and Lisa McNair were the inspired our community both keynote speakers for the Law School’s second annual in person and virtually. The MLK Celebration. Kimberly and Lisa are the sisters of Denise McNair, one of the four young girls who lost Class of 2020 never imagined their lives in the Birmingham, Alabama bombing of their commencement would 1963. They spoke about the tragic event, the impact be virtual and the bar exam the bombing had on their family and community, and delayed, but they took these their thoughts on the documentary, 4 Little Girls, which developments in stride and was screened prior to the discussion. excelled. We were touched by the ways in which our Texas Tech law family came together to make this year successful, and we look forward to an even more remarkable 2021! 4 TEXAS TECH LAWYER 2020 PUBLIC INTEREST AUCTION The Texas Tech Law Public Interest Auction has continued to exceed expectations since the event was revived in 2018. In February, the Lubbock Area Bar Association and Texas Tech law community joined together and raised over $18,000 in scholarships, far exceeding the $15,000 goal set at the beginning of the semester. The funds raised support Texas Tech law students serving as unpaid summer interns with public defenders, nonprofits, district attorneys, and other public-interest employers. Receiving a Public Interest Award is the result of a competitive process. The Public Interest Award Committee selects the recipients in April based on an applicant’s commitment to public interest, as demonstrated by a personal statement detailing how they have advanced the public interest in law school and beyond; financial need; and how greatly the type of internship they have acquired serves the public interest. WALTER B. HUFFMAN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER The Texas Tech Law Review welcomed Lieutenant General Charles N. Pede, the 40th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, as its 2019 Huffman He also stated his belief that every student in the room Distinguished Lecturer in early March. Lieutenant has what it takes to be a good lawyer, saying “You’re General Pede is the senior uniformed lawyer in the dedicated, hard-working, tough, ready, and eager for Army, leading over 6,000 attorneys around the world. a challenge, and ready to get out there and tackle He graduated from the University of Virginia, receiving whatever life throws at you.” a commission through R.O.T.C. He holds an LL.M. in Military Law and a master’s degree in National Security Generously sharing his time throughout his visit, LTG and Strategic Studies. LTG Pede attended Judge Pede attended an opening reception and luncheon Advocate Officer Basic and Graduate Officer Courses, at the Law School, giving our students multiple the Army Command and General Staff College, and the opportunities to interact with him personally.
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