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MODERATOR Thursday, April 12 David Keltner, AAAL Fellow Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP 5:00 pm–7:00 pm Registration Fort Worth, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm Opening Reception 10:45 am–11:00 am Break 7:30 pm (Optional) Group Dinner 11:0 0 am – Noon (Replaces Saturday night Dine Around) A Unique Perspective on the Role of Appellate Because the French Quarter Festival is taking place during Courts and Appellate Practice—A Conversation the meeting, we will have a ticketed group dinner instead of Two former state appellate judges from a New Orleans the usual dine around. Join other AAAL fellows and guests family known for its commitment to public service—the for dinner at Restaurant August. father a former mayor of New Orleans and the daughter a current law school dean—discuss how their lives have been Tickets are $100/person, inclusive of tax and gratuity; shaped by their experiences in the appellate system. alcohol will be available for purchase (cash only). PANELISTS To see the dinner menu, please visit the 2018 Spring Meeting webpage. Madeleine M. Landrieu Dean, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, April 13 Moon Landrieu Former Mayor of the City of New Orleans 7:30 am–3:00 pm Registration New Orleans, Louisiana 7:30 am–9:00 am Continental Breakfast MODERATOR 7:45 am–8:45 am New Fellow Orientation The Hon. Stephen A. Higginson 8:50 am–9:00 am Welcome Remarks Judge, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit New Orleans, Louisiana The Hon. Diane B. Bratvold, AAAL President Minnesota Court of Appeals 12:15 pm–1:30 pm Luncheon St. Paul, Minnesota 9:00 am–10:45 am That Strange Civil Code: What the Heck Is It and The Role of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals How Did Louisiana Get It? 400 Years of History in in the Civil Rights Movement—Lessons for the 20 Minutes Appellate Practitioner SPEAKER The Fifth Circuit became the pivotal force in making civil rights a reality in the Deep South. The panel will discuss how judges Michael H. Rubin, AAAL Fellow and lawyers helped to bring about significant advances in law McGlinchey Stafford and culture, drawing lessons for the appellate practitioner. Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1:30 pm–1:45 pm Break PANELISTS 1:45 pm–3:00 pm Jack Bass Author, Unlikely Heroes Navigating the Circuits’ Varying Uses of the Record Charleston, South Carolina on Appeal The panel will explore how various courts of appeals use the The Hon. Gregg J. Costa record on appeal, including use of an appendix as opposed to Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit record excerpts, paper versus electronic, the Fifth Circuit’s , Texas conversion of case and record citations, and other varying The Hon. Carl E. Stewart practices. Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Shreveport, Louisiana

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PANELISTS The panel will provide its preliminary assessment of the influence President Trump and his administration have had Lyle W. Cayce Clerk of Court, United States Court of Appeals for the on reshaping the federal judiciary, including a look at Justice Fifth Circuit Gorsuch’s first year on the Court. New Orleans, Louisiana PANELISTS Deborah S. Hunt Kristen Clarke Clerk of Court, United States Court of Appeals for the President and Executive Director Sixth Circuit Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Cincinnati, Ohio Washington, D.C.

Amy L. Weil, AAAL Fellow Beth A. Williams The Weil Firm United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Atlanta, Legal Policy Washington, D.C. MODERATOR

Edward Whelan Luther T. Munford, AAAL Fellow Butler Snow President, Ethics and Public Policy Center Ridgeland, Mississippi The Washington, D.C. 3:00 pm–4:30 pm Free Time MODERATOR 3:30 pm–4:30 pm Tour and History of the John Minor Wisdom United Adam H. Charnes, AAAL Fellow States Court of Appeals Building—Fifth Circuit Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton LLP (Optional event, 0.2 mile walk from the hotel) Dallas, Texas The Hon. Carl E. Stewart 10:15 am–10:30 am Break Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 10:30 am–Noon Shreveport, Louisiana Trends on Civil Rights in the Supreme Court of the 4:30 pm–5:00 pm Induction Ceremony United States in the 21st Century The Induction Ceremony will be held at the John Minor The panel will discuss trends—where SCOTUS has been and Wisdom United States Court of Appeals Building—Fifth where it is going—on civil rights issues in the 21st century. Circuit, immediately following the tour. PANELISTS

5:00 pm–6:00 pm Free Time The Hon. Jennifer Walker Elrod Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 6:00 pm–7:00 pm Reception Houston, Texas 7:00 pm–9:00 pm Dinner Jonathan Turley Professor of Law, George Washington School of Law

Saturday, April 14 Washington, D.C. MODERATOR 8:00 am–Noon Registration Barry W. Ashe, AAAL Fellow 8:00 am–9:00 am Continental Breakfast Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC New Orleans, Louisiana 9:00 am–10:15 am

The Influence of the Trump Presidency on the Judiciary: A Preliminary Assessment Noon–12:30 pm AAAL Business Meeting

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Barry W. Ashe, AAAL Fellow Kristen Clarke Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law New Orleans, Louisiana Washington, D.C. Barry W. Ashe is a partner at Stone Pigman Kristen Clarke is president and executive Walther Wittmann LLC in New Orleans, director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Louisiana, and is a fellow of the Academy. He Rights Under Law. She previously served as head heads the firm’s appellate practice group. Mr. Ashe of the Civil Rights Bureau for the New York State served as a law clerk to Judge Carolyn Dineen Attorney General’s Office and worked at the King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Circuit. He serves as vice president of the Fifth and the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Circuit for the Federal Bar Association; served Rights Division. Ms. Clarke speaks and writes as president of the Federal Bar Association, New regularly on issues concerning race, law, and Orleans Chapter; and received the chapter’s John R. “Jack” Martzell justice and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, , and C-SPAN’s Professionalism Award in 2015. Mr. Ashe has served on the Lawyers Washington Journal. Advisory Committee for the Fifth Circuit and has held the position of adjunct professor in constitutional law at Loyola University The Hon. Gregg J. Costa School of Law. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Houston, Texas Jack Bass Judge Gregg J. Costa is a judge on the U.S. Author, Unlikely Heroes Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judge Charleston, South Carolina Costa previously served as a federal district judge Jack Bass is author or co-author of eight books for the Southern District of Texas and as a federal about the American South, focusing on politics, prosecutor for seven years. Before becoming a race relations, and the role of the law in shaping prosecutor, Judge Costa was in private practice at the civil rights area. He is professor emeritus of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Judge Costa served humanities and social sciences at the College of as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Charleston and was previously a professor of Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge A. journalism at the University of Mississippi. Mr. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Bass produced a Public Broadcasting Service doc- Judge Costa is co-founder and board member of the Sunflower umentary, A Different Dixie: Portraits of Change. He County Freedom Project, a nonprofit educational organization that received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1994 for Taming the prepares low-income students for college through after-school and Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and was twice summer programs. named South Carolina’s journalist of the year. Mr. Bass is the author of Unlikely Heroes, a vivid account of the implementation of Brown v. The Hon. Jennifer Walker Elrod Board of Education by southern federal judges committed to the rule United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit of law. Houston, Texas Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod is a judge on the Lyle W. Cayce U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit previously served as judge of the 190th District New Orleans, Louisiana Court of Harris County, Texas, and, before serving Lyle W. Cayce is the clerk of court of the U.S. Court of Appeals for on the bench, practiced law at Baker Botts LLP. the Fifth Circuit. He previously served 27 years with the U.S. Army She served as a law clerk to Judge of Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he represented the Army in the Southern District of Texas and as board chair appeals to 11 circuit courts of appeals. Mr. Cayce is a member of the of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Lone Information Technology Advisory Council, which recommends de- Star Legal Aid. Judge Elrod has received the Chief ployment of information technology programs, systems, and services Justice Jack Pope Professionalism Award from the Texas Center for for the judiciary. He has also worked with the Administrative Office Legal Ethics and the Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee Award for her pro of the U.S. Courts and Judicial Conference of the United States. bono work, and has been named the Appellate Judge of the Year by the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists. Adam H. Charnes, AAAL Fellow Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton LLP The Hon. Stephen A. Higginson Dallas, Texas United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Adam H. Charnes is a partner at Kilpatrick New Orleans, Louisiana Townsend & Stockton LLP in Dallas, Texas, and is a Judge Stephen A. Higginson is a judge on the fellow of the Academy. He served as a law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, of the U.S. Supreme taking the bench, he taught full time at Loyola Court, and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, of the U.S. University New Orleans College of Law, where Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. he received the Outstanding Teacher Award for Charnes has served as principal deputy assistant the University and three times was named attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel Professor of the Year for the College of Law. in the U.S. Department of Justice and received the Before joining academia, Judge Higginson served attorney general’s Distinguished Service Award. as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of

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Massachusetts and the Eastern District of Louisiana, where he served Luther T. Munford, AAAL Fellow as chief of appeals. Judge Higginson served as a law clerk to Justice Butler Snow Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Patricia Wald of Ridgeland, Mississippi the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Luther T. Munford is a partner at Butler Snow in Ridgeland, Mississippi, and is a fellow and past Deborah S. Hunt president of the Academy. He served as a law United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Cincinnati, Ohio Supreme Court and Judge Paul H. Roney of the Deborah S. Hunt is the clerk of court of the U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. for the Sixth Circuit. She has worked for the judiciary for 27 years. Munford has served on the Advisory Committee Previously, she was in private practice, worked as a public defender, on Appellate Rules to the Judicial Conference of and was an attorney for the Navajo Nation with the U.S. Department the United States and the Lawyers Advisory of Justice. Committee for the Fifth Circuit. He is the author of Mississippi Appellate Practice. David Keltner, AAAL Fellow Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP Michael H. Rubin, AAAL Fellow Fort Worth, Texas McGlinchey Stafford Justice David E. Keltner is a partner at Kelly Baton Rouge, Louisiana Hart & Hallman LLP in Fort Worth, Texas, and is Michael H. Rubin is a partner at McGlinchey a fellow of the Academy. He previously served as Stafford PLLC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is a a justice of the Texas Second Court of Appeals. fellow of the Academy. He is a past president of Justice Keltner is a former chair of the board of the U.S. Federal Fifth Circuit Bar Association, the the State Bar of Texas, former chair of the Fellows Louisiana State Bar Association, and the Southern of the Texas Bar Foundation, and former member Conference of Bar Presidents. Mr. Rubin is a Life of the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee. Member of the American Law Institute and a He received the Texas Bar Foundation’s inaugural commissioner for the Uniform Law Commission Gregory S. Coleman Outstanding Appellate Lawyer Award. Texas and has served as an adjunct professor at LSU Lawyer has named him the “Go To” Texas Lawyer for appeals, and for Law School and Tulane Law School. He has been named the the last 10 years he has been named as one of the Top 10 Lawyers in Distinguished Attorney of Louisiana by the Louisiana Bar Foundation Texas by Texas Super Lawyers, being the“top point getter”for three of and received the Burton Award from the Library of Congress and those years. the Stephen Victory Award from the Louisiana State Bar Association for outstanding legal writing. Madeleine M. Landrieu Loyola University New Orleans College of Law The Hon. Carl E. Stewart New Orleans, Louisiana United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Madeleine M. Landrieu is the dean and Judge Shreveport, Louisiana Adrian G. Duplantier Distinguished Professor of Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart is chief judge of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. of Law. She previously served as a judge on the He previously served as captain in the U.S. Army Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit Judge Advocate General Corps, a staff attorney and as a trial judge on the Civil District Court for with the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana. Dean Landrieu assistant U.S. attorney, special assistant city and served as president of the Louisiana District district attorney, and a private practitioner. Chief Judges Association and the Louisiana Judicial Judge Stewart also served as judge of the College. She received the Michaelle Pitard Wynne Professionalism Louisiana First Judicial District Court and Award from the Association of Women Attorneys and the inaugural Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit. He serves as President’s Award from the Louisiana Judicial College. president of the American Inns of Court Foundation. Chief Judge Stewart is a member of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Moon Landrieu Conference of the United States. He is a past chairman of the Former Mayor of the City of New Orleans Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure of New Orleans, Louisiana the Judicial Conference of the United States. Chief Judge Stewart is a Maurice Edwin “Moon” Landrieu is a former member of the National Bar Association Judicial Council and the Just mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana. After leaving the Beginning Foundation of African-American Federal Judges. office, he served as secretary of the U.S. Depart- ment of Housing and Urban Development under the Carter administration. He served as a judge on the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit from 1992 until his retirement in 2000.

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Jonathan Turley Edward Whelan George Washington School of Law Ethics and Public Policy Center Washington, D.C. The Federalist Society Jonathan Turley is a professor and the Washington, D.C. Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The Edward Whelan is president of the Ethics and George Washington University Law School and Public Policy Center and directs the Center’s a nationally recognized legal scholar on constitu- program on The Constitution, The Courts, and tional law. His articles regularly appear in national The Culture. His areas of expertise include publications, such as The New York Times, The Wash- constitutional law and the judicial confirmation ington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Professor process. Mr. Whelen served as a law clerk to Turley is a nationally ranked legal commentator, Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court being ranked the 38th most cited public intellectual and the second and Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of most cited law professor in the country. He is a member of the USA Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has served as Today board of contributors and received the 2005 Single Issue principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Advocate of the Year, the annual opinion award from the Aspen Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice and as general counsel to Institute and The Week. Professor Turley has also worked as a the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. legal analyst for CBS and NBC during national controversies. Beth A. Williams Amy L. Weil, AAAL Fellow United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy The Weil Firm Washington, D.C. Atlanta, Georgia Beth A. Williams is the U.S. assistant attorney Amy L. Weil is a partner at The Weil Firm general for the Office of Legal Policy. She served in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a fellow of the as a law clerk to Judge Richard C. Wesley of the Academy. She previously worked as an assistant U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She U.S. attorney for the Northern District of was formerly a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and Georgia, also serving as chief of the Appellate served as special counsel to the U.S. Senate Division. She served on the U.S. Department of Committee on the Judiciary. Ms. Williams was Justice’s Appellate Chiefs Working Group and president of the Federalist Society chapter at received the Department of Justice’s Director’s . Award. Ms. Weil served as chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the Eleventh Circuit, chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and president of the Federal Bar Association, Atlanta Chapter.

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