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IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2017

Features

4 | 30th Annual Distinguished Alumni Awards

A special evening honors six new award recipients and commemorates 30 years of winners and their enormous contributions to the law school, the profession and the community.

12 | Spring Break 2017: DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Crayons as Contraband 4 Professor Natalie Nanasi and eight Dedman Law students volunteer at AWARD WINNERS Karnes County Residential Center to help immigrant mothers and children fleeing violence.

14 | Mustang Bar Law Alumni Association

The Mustang Bar rolls out new chapters and events to help alumni Connect. Educate. Engage.

22 | Raggio Lecture Series: 14 Barbara Bush

CEO and Co-Founder of Global Health Corps and former first daughter Barbara Bush discusses a new generation of global health crusaders.

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Departments

3 | From the Dean 39 | Staff News 46 | Class Notes

28 | Faculty News 40 | Seen and Heard

32 | Faculty in the Media 44 | Student News SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 2 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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Dear Alumni and Friends,

It has been another wonderful year at SMU Law, and I am so grateful for our law school faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends. I hope you enjoy the 2017 issue of The Quad, which features some of our highlights from the past year.

Our faculty have been hard at work – teaching, advancing their research, and sharing their expertise at conferences and symposia around the world and through the local and national media. Jeff Kahn was selected as a Fulbright Research Scholar and will spend the year at the University of Oslo, Chis Jenks was appointed Special Assistant to the Department of Defense General Counsel at the Pentagon, and Jenia Turner was appointed to our new Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professorship in Criminal Law, to name a few outstanding faculty accomplishments.

We are excited to welcome two remarkable new faculty members. Pamela Metzger joins us from Tulane and will be the director of our new Deason Family Criminal Justice Reform Center. Lolita Buckner Inniss joins us from Cleveland-Marshall and will teach property and critical race theory.

SMU is thrilled to announce that the ABA has awarded the law school its prestigious E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award, which honors excellence and innovation in professionalism programs. We are working hard to continue our tradition of excellence as we produce lawyers ready to take on the legal and ethical challenges of the future and we are delighted to receive this national recognition for our efforts.

In April, we gathered to honor six of our outstanding alums for their accomplishments and dedication to the law school and to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Distinguished Alumni Awards. It was a privilege to have the opportunity to pay tribute to all of our Distinguished Alumni Award winners who have impacted the law school, the profession, and the community in such a profound way.

Our Mustang Bar Law Alumni Association continues to grow and engage more alumni. The Mustang Bar now has 10 Chapters, including an International Chapter, and we hosted events in 13 cities in the past year. We recently visited Asia where we met with alumni and prospective students in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo. The trip was a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with our law school alumni and friends in Asia.

We are honored to call you our graduates and celebrate all that you have accomplished. We are eager to make the Class Notes a more vibrant and interesting resource for you, so please remember to share your news with us for the next edition of The Quad!

Wishing you the best,

Jennifer M. Collins 4 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

2017 Marks the 30th Year of SMU Dedman School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Awards

2017 2008 2000 Robert Scott Hart ’87 William L. Hutchison ’55 LL.B. Robert H. Dedman, Sr. ’53 Forrest Smith J.D. ’57, LL.M. ’63 The Honorable Linda Thomas ’73 E. Ray Hutchison ’59 The Honorable Tonya Parker ’98 Robert H. Mow, Jr. ’63 The Honorable Nathan L. Hecht ’74 The Honorable Lady Justice The Honorable Yukio Horigome ’71 Rona R. Mears ’82 Catherine Bamugemereire LL.M. ’03 Emily A. Parker ’73 Stewart Morris ’43 Angela (Wennihan) Zambrano ’97 Robert Ted Enloe III ’64 The Honorable Meechai Charles A. Tarpley Ruchupan ’66 2007 The Honorable John C. Creuzot ’82 2016 Adelfa Botello Callejo ’61 The Honorable A. Shonn Evans Brown ’98 Martin Samuelsohn ’41 Will R. Wilson, Sr. ’37 Jim Baldwin ’86 The Honorable Stephen Cece Cox ’04 N. Limbaugh Jr. ’77 1999 Windle Turley ’65 John H. McElhaney ’58 The Honorable Hideo Chikusa ’62 The Honorable Catharina Haynes The Honorable Bagir Manan ’81 Logan Ford ’30 Raymond D. Noah ’66 Felix Tsai ’78 2015 The Honorable Alberto Gonzales The Honorable Craig T. Enoch ’75 Mary Elizabeth (Liz) The Honorable Cedillo-Pereira ’99 2006 Barbara M. G. Lynn ’76 Siriporn Chaiyasuta ’85 Harriet Miers ’70 William L. Hutchison ’55 G. Michael Gruber ’81 The Honorable Terry R. Means ’74 The Honorable William O. Holston, Jr. ’81 Edward V. Smith III ’63 Raul Granillo Ocampo ’88 Joseph W. McKnight Robert E. Mellor ’68 Dr. Julio Cesar Cueto-Rua ’53 1998 2014 The Honorable Dianne Jones ’89 Harriet Miers ’70 The Honorable Mary L. Murphy ’83 Rear Admiral Hugh Don The Honorable Max N. Osborn ’53 Wm. Stephen Boyd ’81 Campbell ’62 Dr. Shen Shiaoming ’81 Martha Hardwick Hofmeister 1997 Travis T. Tygart ’99 Blake Tartt, Jr. ’59 The Honorable Elizabeth 2005 Adelfa Botello Callejo ’61 Lang-Miers Darrell E. Jordan ’64 J.K. Loh ’59 The Honorable Richard 2013 A. Schell ’75 1996 Wiley Yandell Rogers ’61 James H. “Blackie” Holmes III ’59 Robert Hyer Thomas ’57 Congressman Lamar S. Smith ’75 Dr. Mohamed Aboul-Enein ’67 Robert L. Meyers III ’60 Pablo Alliani ’92 Dawn E. Moore ’81 Dennis Grindinger ’82 Captain Glenn N. Gonzalez ’74 1995 William D. Powell ’57 Richard M. Hull, Jr. ’64 Alan D. Feld ’60 Nancy Underwood Nancy McMillan Dedman Carl W. McKinzie ’66

2012 2004 1994 Edward B. Rust, Jr. ’75 Walter J. Humann ’67 John R. Johnson ’65 The Honorable H. Harjono ’81 Judith K. Johnson ’75 Thomas W. Luce III ’65 The Honorable Dean M. Gandy ’50 The Honorable Fred Biery ’73 W. Richard Davis ’58 Donald E. Godwin ’73 1993 D. Wayne Watts ’80 The Honorable Reynato S. Puno ’67 E. Taylor Armstrong ’31 The Honorable Sarah R. Saldaña ’84 Rhonda Hunter ’80 J. Carlisle Dehay, Jr. ’49 Carl Sewell The Honorable Kay Louise B. Raggio ’52 Bailey Hutchison 2011 1992 Jack D. Knox ’63 2003 Donald L. Case ’39 The Honorable Sobchok Gerald J. Ford ’69 Sidney Stahl ’56 Sukharomna ’81 Albon O. Head, Jr. ’71 The Honorable Barbara The Honorable Sharon Keller ’78 1991 J. Houser ’78 Webber W. Beall, Jr. ’59 Robert G. Vial ’50 Donald J. Malouf ’62 Robert B. Rowling ’79 Michael M. Boone ’67 Dr. Richard Wright Hogeland ’57 The Honorable Lincoln Philip J. Wise ’81 Magalhães da Rocha ’63 1990 Marshall P. Cloyd The Honorable Ralph M. Hall ’51 The Honorable Vester T. Hughes, Jr. Barbara Culver Clack ’51 2010 Charles W. Hall The Honorable Nikki T. DeShazo ’76 2002 The Honorable S.M. Krishna ’59 Erle A. Nye ’65 1989 Robert H. Dedman, Jr. ’84 John T. Sharpe ’60 Harry A. Shuford ’39 Frank L. Branson ’69 The Honorable Deborah Edward B. Rust, Jr. ’75 John J. Nance ’69 G. Hankinson ’83 Anthony Atwell George W. Bramblett, Jr. ’66 1988 David B. Dillon ’76 The Honorable 2009 The Honorable Charles E. Long, Jr. ’35 Rusty Hardin ’75 Shirgeharu Negishi ’60 The Honorable The Honorable Jane Boyle ’81 The Honorable James L. Noel, Jr. ’38 Dr. Mieke Komar Kantaatmadja ’70 Earldean V.S. Robbins ’61 Herbert S. Kendrick ’60 Angela Braly ’85 Jack M. Kinnebrew J.D. ’67, The Honorable Robert A. Gwinn ’54 LL.M. ’73 Charles J. Murray ’50 Darwin J. Bruce ’95 James C. Thompson Louis J. Weber, Jr. ‘56 Marilyn Hussman Augur Neil J. O’Brien ’57 2001 Eugene L. Smith ’58 Helmut Sohmen ’66 Gordon R. Carpenter ’48 The Honorable James A. Baker ’58 John R. Howie ’76 Clark J. Matthews II ’61 Hector A. Mairal ’63 The Honorable Antonio O. Garza, Jr. ’83 The Honorable Ron Kirk SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 5

2017 Marks the 30th Year of SMU Dedman School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Awards

of Distinguished Alumni Awards

n April 5, 2017, SMU Dedman School the past Distinguished Alumni as fighters Oof Law celebrated the 30th Anniversary and defenders of people around the world of the Distinguished Alumni Awards, an who need the protections of the law, as trail- evening that commemorated the enormous blazers who have broken down barriers and contributions 30 years of winners have led the charge for equality and diversity, as made to the law school, the profession, and global leaders and titans of industry, and as the community over the law school’s 90-plus champions of justice and public servants years. who give so generously of their time, talent and resources to make our communities a Since 1988, SMU Dedman School of Law better place. has recognized more than 150 of its past graduates and honorary alumni who have Candles bearing name cards for each of the used their legal educations to protect the school’s past Distinguished Alumni Award rule of law, to represent the poor and power- recipients filled the ballroom with light. less and to improve communities at home “These amazing people have shined so and around the world. brightly in championing the public good, and for their indelible contributions, we are More than 400 alumni, friends, dignitaries so deeply grateful,” said Dean Collins. “The and supporters of SMU Dedman Law Distinguished Alumni Award is the law attended the April dinner and presentation school’s way of saying thank you for your of the awards. dedication to the law and our communities The 30th Anniversary DAA event kicked off and to express just how proud we are of you by recognizing previous distinguished and your accomplishments.” alumni who were in attendance. Twenty-five past Distinguished Alumni honorees – including former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, Haynes and Boone founding partner Mike Boone, Dr. Pepper General Counsel Jim Baldwin, high-profile Houston trial lawyer Rusty Hardin, and U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle – were present for the ceremony.

“These women and men are exceptional leaders of our profession and have provided immeasurable service to the law school and the legal community,” said Dean Jennifer Collins, who recognized each of the previous award-winning alums at the event.

A very special video highlighting the past 30 years of Distinguished Alumni Award winners delighted the audience. It honored 6 Introducing... The 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award Winners

by MARK CURRIDEN

ix extraordinary lawyers and judges shared co-chairs the Complex Commercial Litigation Finally, there are the two of America’s most Sinsightful and heart-moving personal tales practice of global law firm Sidley Austin. innovative and esteemed corporate lawyers – and experiences when they were honored this Robert Hart ’87, who serves as Senior The list also includes two highly respected past April at SMU Dedman School of Law’s Executive VP, General Counsel and Secretary jurists – Lady Justice Catherine 30th annual Distinguished Alumni Awards for Mark Cuban Companies, and Forrest Bamugemereire LL.M. ’03 of the Uganda ceremony. Smith ’57, LL.M. ’63, who served as corporate Court of Appeals and Texas District Judge counsel at Mobil Oil for more than 30 years The 2017 recipients include two extraordinary Tonya Parker ‘98 – who have broken barriers and founded the Texas General Counsel and gifted trial lawyers – U.S. Air Force combat and demonstrated true leadership under Forum. pilot and aviation law expert Charles A. extraordinary pressures. Tarpley, and Angela Zambrano ’97, who

flew Boeing 707, 727 and 747 and Airbus With his experience as a pilot and a lawyer, CHARLES A. TARPLEY A310 aircraft on six continents. When Delta Tarpley frequently testifies as an expert Honorary Alumnus Award Airlines purchased Pan Am’s European route witness in cases involving commercial aviation structure in 1991, Tarpley joined Delta as a disputes and he is a regular lecturer at aviation Born in Sherman and raised in Dallas, Charles pilot. and insurance conferences in the U.S. and around the world. Tarpley was fascinated with flying. He built A graduate of SMU’s School of Engineering and flew model airplanes as a teenager and he and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate Tarpley was a trial lawyer at the Chicago- dreamed of being a pilot. School of Business, Tarpley obtained his J.D. based law firm Lord Bissell & Brook, which is To say he reached his dreams would be an from the University of Texas now known as Locke Lord, understatement. In fact, law experts widely School of Law. and an electrical engineer at General Electric. He also regard Tarpley as one of the world’s leading “There is no question that served as senior vice presi- authorities at the crossroads of aviation and Charles Tarpley helped define dent and secretary for insurance law. It is a reputation that is the conversation regarding Aviation Office of America well-earned. aviation law for three Inc., a subsidiary of Xerox decades,” Dean Collins said Tarpley began his aviation career in the U.S. Corp. Air Force and flew 26 combat missions in when recognizing Tarpley Southeast Asia. His commercial career began with SMU Dedman Law’s As chair of the SMU Air Law at Pan American World Airways, where he Honorary Alumnus Award. Symposium, Tarpley serves “He has chaired SMU’s Air on the editorial board of the Law Symposium for 35 years. Under his lead- Journal of Air Law & Commerce. The journal is ership, it is the largest and oldest air law the oldest scholarly periodical in the English symposium in the world.” language devoted primarily to the legal and economic problems affecting aviation and As a lawyer, Tarpley focused his law practice space. It has a circulation of more than 2,300 on aviation and insurance matters domesti- subscribers in 54 countries. cally and abroad. He currently consults with policy holders and insurance companies on Tarpley also has taught aviation law as an aviation matters including insurance coverage adjunct professor at SMU Dedman Law. disputes and bad-faith contentions. SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 7

ANGELA (WENNIHAN) on her feet financially. The hard work and per- severance paid off. She graduated second in her Thank you! to the following firms and individuals ZAMBRANO ’97 class, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif in who sponsored the awards ceremony Emerging Leader Award 1997. “First and foremost, this law school gave me When Angela Zambrano finished college and relationships with amazing classmates who are was contemplating going straight into the PLATINUM interesting and smart and caring,” Zambrano workforce, her mother wrote her a letter urging said in accepting the Distinguished Alumni Class of ’86 Friends of Robert Hart her to go to SMU Law School. Award recognizing Emerging Leaders. “They Winston & Strawn LLP “It will open doors for you and provide oppor- became my friends and now sometimes even tunities that you cannot understand now,” her my clients. They are the backbone of my com- mother wrote. munity in this great city.” GOLD Baylor Scott & White Health “She was right,” said Zambrano, who now After clerking for Chief Judge Mary Beck co-leads the Complex Commercial Litigation Briscoe of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Jack Knox practice at the global law firm Sidley Austin. 10th Circuit, Zambrano was hired as an associ- Family of Robert Hart “My 22-year-old self could not imagine the ate in the Dallas office of the elite Wall Street KPMG LLP transformative powers that this university law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges. In 2006, she Haynes and Boone, LLP would have on my life. SMU has literally made partner. Beth and Dan Plumlee changed my stars.” While she was still an associate, she was Born in Topeka, Kansas to two teenage parents, assigned the task of interviewing law school SILVER Zambrano was the oldest of three children. Her students for potential clerkships. One of them parents knew the key to success was a great was an SMU Dedman Law honors student Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP education. named Luis Zambrano. Better Business Bureau Wm. Stephen Boyd Zambrano was the first person “When I interviewed him, I in her family to graduate from saw something special right Friedman & Feiger, LLP college – the University of away,” she said. Godwin Bowman & Martinez PC Kansas in 1994 with a degree Gruber Elrod Johansen Hail Shank Weil hired Luis and then in business and a minor in Angela married him. He is Robert Hart’s Hockaday Friends economics. Despite having to now a litigation partner at Julie Hersh & Running Group Friends work throughout college to Estes Thorne & Carr. They Jackson Walker LLP pay for tuition and living have three children. She expenses, she graduated with Mark Cuban Companies coaches both daughters’ honors. Robert E. & Suzanne Bolton Mellor softball teams and is a Girl Scout troop leader. Jim Mueller of Verner Zambrano arrived at SMU nearly penniless. In 2013, Zambrano joined a group of eight Weil When her 10-year-old Ford broke down during Brumley Mueller Parker partners that moved their legal practices to her first week of law school, Zambrano decided Munck Wilson Mandala, LLP Sidley Austin, where she represents businesses to walk to classes so as not to fall behind. She The Honorable Judge Tonya Parker and boards of directors in complex litigation didn’t take into account the 100-degree tem- POLSINELLI cases involving allegations of breach of peratures in Dallas in August and arrived contract, securities fraud, consumer class The Potter’s House of Dallas drenched in sweat. One of her classmates actions, internal investigations, and employ- Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP kindly offered to drive her until she could get ment-related claims. Sidley Austin LLP Zambrano made news in 2016 when, as presi- Forrest Smith Family dent of the Dallas Women Lawyers Association, Friends of Forrest Smith she successfully pushed the Dallas Bar Thompson & Knight LLP Association’s board of directors to give the John and Melissa Torres women’s bar two seats on the DBA board. The Zambrano Family “Angela is not only a superb trial lawyer, she is a leader in the legal profession and in our com- munity,” Dean Collins said. “Angela is a truly SAPPHIRE great representative of SMU Dedman Law.” American Airlines Center A. Shonn Brown SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

Always smiling and ever giving thanks to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) operations in God, Justice Bamugemereire was appointed in Mexico. October 2015 to the Uganda Court of Appeals, Two years later, she received her Master of which doubles as the nation’s Constitutional Laws in Comparative and International Law Court. (LL.M.) from SMU Dedman Law. Justice Bamugemereire champions causes of In 2010, Justice Bamugemereire was the people who are the silent victims of cor- appointed to serve on the High Court Bench ruption. Despite the high risks associated with in Uganda, where she worked in the court’s her work, her resilience and tenacity are Anti-Corruption and Family Divisions. unmatched. THE HONORABLE LADY During the past six years, she presided over “Justice Bamugemereire is three high-profile and tele- JUSTICE CATHERINE passionate about good gover- vised commissions of BAMUGEMEREIRE LL.M. ’03 nance, the fight against inquiry as well as cases corruption, human and exploring corruption and Distinguished Global Alumni Award women’s rights and the mismanagement within the strengthening of anti-corrup- City and Uganda National tion institutions,” said Dean Roads Authority. Conducting inquiries into corruption and Collins, who presented the In December 2016, Uganda mismanagement of public resources in Africa judge with SMU Dedman President Museveni is a dangerous business because it threatens Law’s Distinguished Global appointed Justice those who may have acquired ill-gotten Alumni Award. wealth. During the probe into the Road Bamugemereire to chair a Sector, Justice Catherine Bamugemereire was Justice Bamugemereire was born in Bumbo, Commission of Inquiry into the Land Sector. visiting family in London when she was urged 200 miles out of Kampala in the Mbale Region President Museveni noted the judge had done by Ugandan Security Officers to move to a in the Eastern Region of Uganda. Her now-de- “a very good job” in her previous appoint- safe location. ceased father was a lay magistrate. ments “despite intimidation.”

“If you are in a public place, please get out “He was my first encounter with the law,” she In accepting her award, Justice Bamugemereire quietly,” the security official bellowed at the says. praised her professors at SMU Dedman Law. end of the line. “Go back to your hotel, In accepting the Distinguished Alumni Award, “Today, I live for the law,” she said. “I work because we cannot guarantee your safety.” Justice Bamugemereire said her mother – who for the law. I administer the law, because you Justice Bamugemereire was grateful to the traveled all the way from Eastern Uganda to taught me the law.” She said SMU’s faculty Security Forces for their diligence, but she attend the ceremony – played a pivotal role in showed her that “international human rights admitted she wondered what she had gotten her life. will not work in Africa if we do not fight the scourge of corruption. herself into. Justice Bamugemereire studied law at “Corruption is the single biggest bottleneck Uganda’s Makerere University, where she “SMU is a beacon of hope that proves to us to development in Africa today,” she told a graduated in 1992. The nation’s Office of the that problems such as corruption can be reporter in 2016. “Corruption must be con- Director of Public Prosecutions immediately tackled. I thank SMU for giving me the oppor- fronted head-on in order to take Africa to the hired her to be a Pupil State Attorney and tunity to broaden my knowledge.” next level.” then as Magistrate Grade One, and she rose to become Chief Magistrate of Uganda’s busiest International law experts have described Justice court at the time, Buganda Road Court. She Bamugemereire as a “crusader for justice” and gained a reputation as one of the better judges “corruption’s biggest enemy in Africa.” handling complex white-collar cases, includ- ing money laundering and fraud.

In 2001, Justice Bamugemereire expanded her professional experiences by joining global energy giant Shell Oil as a legal advisor to its SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

Judge Parker worked at White & Wiggins for THE HONORABLE a decade and made partner at the end of her TONYA PARKER ’98 seventh year. In 2007, she took her successful complex commercial trial practice to the lit- Distinguished Alumni Award igation boutique known then as Gruber for Judicial Service Hurst Johansen Hail, where she became the Judge Tonya Parker grew up in North Dallas firm’s first African-American partner. and was the first in her family to go to college. With the encouragement of her law partners, While a student at the University of North Judge Parker sought election to the state bench. The Dallas Bar Association, in its Texas studying communications and public court bench. The Dallas Morning News endorsed Judicial Evaluation Poll of local lawyers in address, Judge Parker organized a Black Parker, saying that Dallas County was “badly 2013 and 2015, gave her an overall approval History event that featured a in need of solid, ethical new rating well above 90 percent — the highest of local judge as the speaker. leadership” and calling her any civil district judge evaluated. And her After the program, the judge “an impressive lawyer with peers recognized Judge Parker’s leadership by told the young student that diverse legal experience and selecting her to be president of the Texas she should seriously consider a bright future as a leader.” Association of District Judges. law school and becoming a trial lawyer. The voters agreed, electing “Judge Parker is a champion of justice on and Judge Parker to serve on the off the bench,” Dean Collins said. “She has “That was my first exposure 116th Judicial District Court relentlessly pursued her passion for equality to someone who worked in in November 2010. She won under the law and earned the respect of her law,” Judge Parker said in an re-election in 2014 and plans colleagues in the bar and on the bench.” interview in 2008. “Up to to seek a third term in 2018. that point, the only judges I heard about were In 2015, the American Board of Trial the ones who sentenced members of my com- “Iron sharpens iron,” Judge Parker said when Advocates named Judge Parker the group’s munity to jail. Something just clicked for me receiving the SMU Dedman Law Distinguished “Trial Judge of the Year.” The American Bar when she made the suggestion and I knew the Alumni Award for Judicial Service. “I am Association’s Commission on Sexual law was the path for me.” grateful to have spent and to spend much of Orientation and Gender Identity awarded her my life with the most talented and capable its prestigious Stonewall Award in 2017. Judge Parker was attracted to SMU for its trial [lawyers] that the legal profession has in our advocacy program. She dominated moot country. Being in your company has made me Judge Tonya Parker has clearly lived by her court, winning every competition she entered. a better lawyer and a better judge. motto: “Shrink from no sacrifice in one’s It was there, she said, that she learned to be a service of God, family and community.” fierce courtroom competitor. “I thank you for showing our bar that when people and firms truly commit to excellence The Dallas law firm White & Wiggins hired and equality and diversity, they don’t have to Judge Parker to work in its litigation section, trade one for another,” she said. “All three can where she represented government entities, be pursued at the same time and you never companies, business leaders and individuals have to give one up to get the others. Thanks in an array of civil disputes in state and federal to each of you for pursuing me and investing courts. in me, for standing by me and most of all, for “It was clear right away that Tonya had the giving me a chance to realize my potential.” intelligence, skills and enthusiasm to be an Judge Parker is consistently recognized for excellent trial lawyer,” said H. Ron White. her performance and temperament on the 10 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

“Mark talked about clicks and eyeballs, which ROBERT HART ’87 I had never heard before,” Hart told The Texas Distinguished Alumni Award Lawbook in a 2016 interview. “I didn’t think for Corporate Service the concept had much merit, but I had complete faith Mark would turn it into some- Born in Lincoln, Rhode Island, Robert Hart thing successful.” attended Boston University where he earned joint B.A. Cuban did. He ended up and M.A. degrees in political altering his radio internet science and a minor in sociol- business to broadcast video ogy. He spent a semester over the internet and then studying abroad at the selling Broadcast.com to University of Copenhagen, Yahoo for more than $5 corporate general counsel. In 2013, Hart was which allowed him to travel billion. Over the next few promoted to senior executive vice president extensively to other coun- years, Hart helped Cuban for Mark Cuban Companies, which encom- tries, including the former invest in real estate and passes nine separate operations comprising Soviet Union. In 1983, Hart worked on several other more than 100 business entities. took a Greyhound bus from Providence, transactions, continuing to During the past two decades, Hart has advised Rhode Island, to Dallas to check out SMU’s be Cuban’s personal outside counsel. Cuban on major projects, including the acqui- law school. Hart’s first major business assignment from sition of the Dallas Mavericks, oversight of the “It was a very interesting and challenging trip Cuban came in 1999 when the Mavericks construction of the American Airlines Center, with lots of very interesting people on that owner called to say that he had just purchased formation of the AXS TV Network, purchase bus,” he said. “Took two days to get here.” a Gulfstream V (G5) private jet over the of the Landmark/Magnolia Theatre chains, internet for $41 million. defending Cuban in a civil lawsuit brought by With the assistance of SMU law professors Joe the Securities and Exchange Commission and McKnight and Peter Winship, Hart attended “There was no hand-signed contract. It was a “Shark Tank” television show-related matters, SMU’s summer program at University College transaction done completely over the among many others. at Oxford University. In 1987, he graduated internet,” Hart said. “Mark had already wired from SMU Dedman Law with joint J.D./M.B.A. the money and I was trying to catch up. It was “I learned quickly with Mark that I had to be degrees. very scary buying the plane over the internet on my toes and go fast,” Hart said in accepting because that big of a financial transaction over the Distinguished Alumni Award for After graduation, Hart spent several years the internet had never happened before.” Corporate Service. “Now, I have been working doing transactional work at Bracewell. His with him for 30 years. It has been an amazing first client as a first-year associate was Mark In fact, the $41 million purchase is still the journey.” Cuban. largest internet transaction ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. “I don’t think I would have been able to do it In 1995, while Hart was visiting him at his if I had not had the fine faculty at SMU,” he house, Cuban exhibited his new technology “None of Mark’s early deals were simple,” Hart said. “I bleed SMU.” putting radio broadcast sporting events from said. “I had to learn a lot very quickly.” across the country on the internet. In 2000, Cuban officially named Hart his SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 11

FORREST SMITH ’57 Distinguished Alumni Award for Private Practice

Nearly 70 years ago, a teenage Forrest Smith and his parents made their first trip to visit the campus of SMU.

“I was told to take a right at Loop 12, go 17 miles and I couldn’t miss,” Smith recalls. “I did that. After 15 minutes, we made a turn and there it was – in all its splendor. I went to the first building and asked, ‘Where’s the law school?’

“The lady told me, ‘Son, you are seven miles short. This is Buckner Orphans Home.’ I am thankful that my parents didn’t leave me there,” he says. In the mid-1970s, it became clear to Smith that Smith has received many honors and awards Born in Beaumont, Smith received his bache- state court judges were no longer being elected and is particularly pleased to have received lor’s degree from Southwestern University in based on their qualifications. As a result, he The Dallas Morning News Father of the Year 1949. He attended the evening program at helped create the Committee for a Qualified Award and the The Justinian Award from the SMU Law School, where he met his wife Judiciary, which was designed to assist voters in Dallas Lawyers Auxiliary, and to have been Martha on a blind date. They will celebrate evaluating judicial candidates. The CQJ is still named a Lion of the Texas Bar in 2016 by The their 66th anniversary this December, and active and influential in judicial elections. Texas Lawbook. have five daughters and eight In 1983, Smith got the oppor- “Every day from the Lord is a precious day,” grandchildren. tunity of a lifetime to take a Smith said in accepting the Distinguished “Forrest realized early in life case to the U.S. Supreme Alumni Award for Private Practice. “Every that his calling was to ‘follow Court. The case was Container once in a while, He sends one that is abso- his heart’ and serve his fellow Corp. v. Franchise Tax Bd. lutely amazing. I believe this is one of those. man,” Dean Collins said. “During the mid-1970s, the “One of the greatest honors that a lawyer can “Becoming a lawyer would biggest issue facing interna- receive is from his peers,” he said. “When that help realize that dream. tional corporations was recognition is from his alma mater, then that During his 65-year career, whether states had the ability recognition is exponentially increased.” Smith found ways to solve to tax income of U.S. corpo- complex legal and commu- rations when the income was Now 88 and dealing with chronic leukemia, nity problems.” earned totally outside of the U.S. Although we Smith still maintains an active life. “The leukemia may have dampened my love of golf Known as the great unifier, Smith brought lost by a 5 to 3 decision, it was a thrill of a and tennis, but it has given me more time for together adversaries in the courtroom, board- lifetime to be there,” he said. my family, my friends, and my church – The room and the community to affect profound In 1984, he retired from Mobil to become Potter’s House.” Smith is Chairman of the change. He learned early in his career that President of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Board of the North Texas Better Business finding common ground with all sides led to Commerce, where he forged partnerships with Bureau, serves as Honorary Consul General of positive results. the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce and Thailand for his 28th year, and is senior Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of During 31 years as a lawyer at Mobil, he partner with Friedman & Feiger. handled numerous employment law matters, Commerce. including litigating about 50 arbitrations, but In 1997, Smith came up with the idea of his specialty was state and local tax. He also creating a non-profit organization of corporate found time to become an adjunct professor in in-house lawyers that shared best practices. As the evening program at SMU Law School. a result, the Texas General Counsel Forum was founded. “You can’t really prepare C R AYO N S AS for this kind of experience.” CONTRABAND

By BROOKS IGO

It was the Wednesday of spring break, and SMU Professor Natalie Nanasi and eight Dedman School of Law students were emotionally drained.

They had just received difficult news – the kind that “knocks the air out of your lungs” – that one of their clients, a Honduran woman who had been sexually assaulted and who had received threats on her life and the lives of her children, had received an unfavorable ruling from an immigration judge and would almost certainly be deported.

The first half of the week had been overwhelm- ing. Working in pairs, the students had met with at least 20 detainees each day at the Karnes County Residential Center, a family immigration detention center located one hour south of San Antonio.

The detainees were women and children, from eight months to 15 years old. The majority did not speak English and were from Central America’s Northern Triangle – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. They were not economic migrants; they were fleeing for their personal safety.

Nanasi had high expectations for this trip. She figured it would be life-changing for her students, whom she convinced to give up their spring break to spend it in one of the three family immigration detention facilities in the country.

“The day-to-day was incredibly different than what I expected,” said Nanasi, Assistant Professor of Law and director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women. “You can’t really prepare for this kind of experience.”

Listening to story after story of hardship was emotionally taxing. Being in the stress- ful and repressive environment of the detention center added to the intensity, Nanasi said. SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 13

negative CFI determination by the judge. In mid-April, they learned that the ruling had been overturned and their client was released from C R AYO N S AS the detention center. Josh Karam, a third-year joint J.D./M.B.A. student, plans to return to the Karnes Detention Center before school starts back up. He summed up the feelings of his team perfectly. CONTRABAND Anticipating the emotional toll the work could meet the legal needs of detainees, Nanasi “Getting to use our legal education and the have on her students, Nanasi invited a trauma said. gifts and blessings we have been afforded has specialist from Genesis Women’s Shelter to Mary Spector, Associate Dean for Clinics at been one of the most rewarding things you can join them. She proved to be an invaluable SMU Dedman School of Law, praised Nanasi experience in law school and after.” resource of encouragement for the team. for creating a trip that was “designed wonder- On Thursday, the team resolved to pick them- fully and executed beautifully.” She said it selves up and get back to work. At the end of demonstrated that lawyers have “special tools” the trip, Nanasi reported that her students to make a positive impact in people’s lives. were proud they persevered and were incredi- “Personally, I was moved,” Spector said. “I want bly impacted by their week in Karnes County. to go next year and do what I can to help this Mashall Momin, who was a second-year law incredibly vulnerable population.” student at the time of the trip, called the experi- The eight SMU law students spent most of their ence an “eye-opener.” She previously worked time at the Karnes County Residential Center as a paralegal at a business immigration law counseling clients on an area of asylum law firm and interned last summer with an- immi called the “credible fear interview” (CFI). Each gration court in Houston. The SMU clinic offered client session preparing for the CFI took an her another perspective on asylum law. average of one to two hours. “This trip showed us you don’t have to have The CFI is a process where the detained individ- complete expertise in immigration law to help,” STUDENT ual must demonstrate that there is a significant Momin said. “Advocating on someone’s behalf possibility that she will be subject to persecu- is much more than knowing the law.” REFLECTIONS FROM tion based on one of five reasons: race, religion, The architect of this transformational program, national origin, membership in a social group A WEEK AT KARNES Nanasi was the director of the domestic or political opinion. Panel Discussion, violence clinic at American University, Gender is not a protected group. Nanasi said Washington College of Law, when SMU selected April 18, 2017 this makes gender-based violence and gang- her to lead the newly launched Hunter Legal based violence the most difficult asylum cases. Center, created in 2014 thanks to a $5 million gift from Ray and Nancy Ann Hunt. A key challenge to helping the detained women “This trip will forever shape prepare for their CFIs involved getting them to Nanasi described the opportunity as her how I view humanity.” share their stories in a way that met the criteria “dream job,” combining her two main interests: to achieve a positive credible fear determina- immigration and gender violence. She said the tion. The language barrier made this more place where these two issues intersect is criti- “All my concerns went out difficult, though two of the SMU students were cally important because the “area of the window when I realized native Spanish speakers. vulnerability is unparalleled.” I had to be there emotionally “They think they have to explain why they are Immigration is personal for Nanasi. She and for our clients.” afraid, but this could not be further from the her family came to the U.S. from Hungary in the truth,” Nanasi said. “It has to fit a narrow legal 1980s through the U.S. Refugee Resettlement category. You need someone with legal exper- Program. “You can show compassion tise to explain to the women what they have to regardless of the language “There is always some part of myself that do.” relates to the immigrant experience,” she said. barrier.” The negative ruling from the immigration judge The inspiration for the trip to one of the coun- that had crushed the SMU team on Wednesday try’s family detention centers came in 2014 as of their week in Karnes County was not, in fact, “Speaking in court to a the unaccompanied minor crisis heated up. the end of the road for the Honduran woman judge was the most impactful Being in Texas amid the new presidential and her young children. experience I’ve had in administration’s focus on immigration only Law students Alyssa Morrison (2L) and Paola law school.” increased the importance of finding a way to Muñoz (LL.M.) wrote a brief appealing the 14  Musan Ba La Amn Aan

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A NEW GENERATION OF GLOBAL HEALTH CRUSADERS

Barbara Bush: CEO and Co-Founder of Global Health Corps and Former First Daughter

By BROOKS IGO

arbara Bush was a self-described “young and idealistic” 21-year-old student at Yale University during her father President George W. Bush’s first term when she had a B life-changing experience that would ultimately be the springboard for her career in global health care.

The former first daughter took two weeks off from her summer internship at a New York design firm to attend the launch of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Uganda. Bush was shocked to see hundreds of people waiting for drugs and vaccines that are readily avail- able in the U.S.

“I was enraged by the idea that where you are born can limit your life,” she told more than 400 people, including former First Lady Laura Bush, at the SMU Dedman School of Law Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture Series. The event was held at the Bush Institute at the George W. Bush Presidential Center on April 18.

Before her next semester at Yale, Bush decided to switch her major from architecture to the human- ities. It was in a conversation years (L to R): Grier Raggio, Judge Lorraine Raggio, Kenneth Raggio, Patty Raggio, Barbara Bush, Janice Raggio, Tom Raggio ’71, Claire Raggio, Stephen Raggio

Bush calls her “What’s amazing is how solvable health “I thought you became president when you problems are,” she said. “We have the tools were a grandfather,” she laughed. “I asked a grandmother and that can change entire countries.” friend when I was 8 years old when her namesake “The grandfather would be inaugurated.” In 10 years, CEO Bush says Global Health Enforcer” for having Corps will have thousands of alums who are no fear in using her highly-connected and rising to positions of Growing up in the first voice and fiercely influence. This is Bush’s long-term vision. family “opened the protecting whomever “The more partners and the more people you world to us,” Bush she loves. can share ideas with, the better it will get,” she said. “Everyone should have access to said, and included what they need to live a healthy life.” events such as sitting later with her sister, Jenna Bush Hager, where the idea to build a movement for The lecture, facilitated by SMU Law Dean next to Russian health equity was born. Jennifer Collins, turned emotional when President Vladimir Bush started talking about her grandfather, Bush said her sister talked with someone at a Putin at an 18-person President George H.W. Bush, who had been conference about tapping into young people hospitalized earlier that month. private dinner. who are passionate about solving social problems and creating a Teach for America “Being soft and caring about other people is a Bush was the fourth featured speaker of the for global health. source of strength,” she said of her grandfa- SMU Dedman School of Law Raggio Endowed ther. “It is hard to see that in our world now.” Bush co-founded Global Health Corps in Lecture Series. The first three were U.S. 2009. Since that time, the organization has The mood lightened when she told stories Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; placed almost 1,000 young leaders from about growing up in the first family. She said Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The more than 20 countries with non-profit and public service was engrained in them at an New York Times; and Susan Hawk, former government health organizations. early age. Dallas County District Attorney. SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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SMU Launches New Initiative Honoring Law School Legends

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SMU Launches New Initiative Honoring Law School Legends

ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF TWO SMU FUND RecruitSPECIAL GIVING INITIATIVES INSPIRED BYRelieve THREE CLINICS FOR DEDMAN LAW top students SCHOLARSHIPS student debt BELOVED FACULTY MEMBERS. Make a Pay Make an Externships Practical training Community impact + ■ Corporate planned gift tribute annual gift counsel externships Judge Elmo B. Hunter ■ Judicial THE BRIDGE & ARMOUR Legal Center for Victims VanSickle Family externships Endowment gifts Pony Power operational gifts of Crimes Against Women Law Clinic ■ Public interest SCHOLARSHIP FUND externships The graduating Class of 2017 created the Bridge & Armour Scholarship Fund in honor of retiring Professors Bill Bridge and Spring break Center- Spring 2017 Maureen Armour. Taking the lead on fundraising, the students desig- trip to supported Pro Se Help Desk Mustang nated their class gift so that the legacies of these professors will live Karnes Family scholarships ■ Collaboration Exchange on in the form of a student scholarship. Special thanks to Timothy Immigration with Dallas County Detention Center Family Courts “Flash” Reames ’61 for his generous gift of $30,000 and to Scott Kimpel ’98 mentorship RESULTS:for Hear his very thoughtfulfrom our match students of the students’ giving efforts. The graduates are now opening up their challenge to alumni and hope their efforts will encourage you to participate in this permanent gift to honor these beloved professors. Total donations of $120,000 will Moot court/ enable Dedman Law to establish the scholarship endowment and Mock trial start giving immediate scholarship awards to deserving students. RESULTS

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SMU FUND Recruit Relieve CLINICS FOR DEDMAN LAW top students SCHOLARSHIPS student debt

Make a Make an Externships Pay Practical training Community impact + ■ Corporate planned gift tribute annual gift counsel externships Judge Elmo B. Hunter ■ Judicial Legal Center for Victims VanSickle Family externships Endowment gifts Pony Power operational gifts of Crimes Against Women Law Clinic ■ Public interest externships

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Professionalism 350+ training low- Laura Shapiro ’17 Jake Torres ’17 Valencia Campbell ’18 Evan Atkinson ’17 income Dallas, TX – Univ. of Okla., Mertzon, TX – SMU, Dallas, TX – UT Austin, U.S. Army, Staˆ Sergeant, residents Economics Major English/Spanish Major Social Work Major served in Iraq – Conducted received “Because of your “Because of your “Because of your more than 175 Blackhawk combat missions Pablo Acosta ’19 help scholarship gift, I scholarship gift, scholarship gift, with chose to come to I am working to I am able to pursue “Because of your gift, “Because of your Student Immigrant divorces, volunteers SMU and build my help tenants in my dreams with a I was able to leave gift, I am able the military and mothers to help those custody, ■ Hands-on RESULTS career in the Dallas West Dallas.” reduced financial and children fleeing persecu- child opportunity legal community.” Don Malouf burden.” pursue my dream of fleeing violence tion in their support for students Hatton W. Sumners Scholarship Class of 1986 Gift becoming a lawyer.” received legal native countries and to serve the Scholarship Dean’s Scholarship assistance apply for asylum.” more community Jobs! SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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WELCOME! New Faculty

‌ r. Lolita Buckner Inniss comes to SMU geographic, historic and visual norms of law, D‌from Cleveland-Marshall College of especially in the context of comparative Law, Cleveland State University, where she constitutionalism, gender and race. has taught for 19 years and where she held The author of dozens of articles, essays and the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker and Hostetler other writings, her work has appeared in the Chair in Law. She has held the Hamilton Texas Law Review, Washington University Law College Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Review and other distinguished publications Professorship in Women’s Studies, a distin- in the United States and beyond. Dr. Inniss is guished visiting chair. She also was a fellow of also one of the contributors to a volume titled the New York University-Centre National de International Law’s Objects (Oxford University la Recherche Scientifique Memory Project in Press), which addresses legal and metaphoric Paris, France. In addition, she is a pro bono aspects of various objects in international law. attorney with the American Bar Association/ United Nations Development Program. Dr. Inniss’s current major research project is a book titled The Princeton Fugitive Slave: James Dr. Inniss received her undergraduate degree Collins Johnson, an account of race, gender, from Princeton and her J.D. from UCLA. She slavery and the law at Princeton University. Lolita Buckner Innis also holds an LL.M. with Distinction and a Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall, York This fall, she will teach Property and Critical Professor of Law University, in Canada. Her research addresses Race Theory.

‌amela Metzger is the new Director of devastated New Orleans in 2005. She was Pthe Deason Family Criminal Justice interviewed recently on 60 Minutes, in a Reform Center. She comes to SMU from segment titled “Overburdened NOLA public Tulane University School of Law in New defenders say innocents went to prison Orleans, where she has taught since 2001. because they lacked resources and time to defend them properly.” Professor Metzger received her undergradu- ate degree from Dartmouth and her J.D. Professor Metzger’s work has appeared in from New York University School of Law. publications such as the Yale Law Journal, A nationally recognized Sixth Amendment Vanderbilt Law Review, Southern California and ethics scholar, Professor Metzger’s Law Review and Northwestern University Law scholarship combines theory and practice in Review, and has been widely cited by leading seeking improvements in criminal justice. authorities and by the U.S. Supreme Court. Most recently she has explored how a Professor Metzger will oversee the new data-driven systems approach to high-risk Deason Center’s independent research and practices can improve the implementation of its development of educational opportunities public defense services. focused on issues ranging from wrongful Pamela Metzger She captured a national spotlight for her convictions to over-incarceration. Director of the Deason Family Criminal round-the-clock work to help 8,000 indigent This fall, Professor Metzger also will teach Justice Reform Center and Professor defendants left incarcerated without legal of Law Professional Responsibility. representation after Hurricane Katrina SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. William J. Bridge Martin Camp Gregory S. Crespi Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law Assistant Dean for Graduate Professor of Law and International Programs, Appointed: Awarded: Appointed: Professor of Practice Larry and Jane Harlan Tom Tunks University Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Senior Research Fellow Distinguished Citizen Award Awarded: Professorship in Commercial 2016-17 HOPE Award from the and Insurance Law SMU Residence Life and Student Housing Department Congratulations!

Jeffrey M. Gaba Christopher Jenks Jeffrey Kahn Orly Mazur M.D. Anderson Foundation Director of the Criminal Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Law Endowed Professor Clinic and Associate Awarded: Awarded: in Health Law Professor of Law 2017-18 Gerald J. Ford Research Golden Mustang Appointed: Appointed: Fellowship; 2017-18 Fulbright Research Outstanding Faculty Award Senior Associate Dean Special Assistant to the Scholar Grant; Dr. Don for Academic Affairs Department of Defense General M. Smart Teaching Award given Counsel, Washington, D.C. by Class of 2017

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Awards & Recognition

Joseph J. Norton W. Keith Robinson C. Paul Rogers III Marc I. Steinberg James L. Walsh Distinguished Co-Director of the Tsai Professor of Law and Rupert and Lillian Faculty Fellow and Professor Center for Law, Science and Former Dean Radford Professor of Law in Financial Institutions Law Innovation and Associate Appointed: Professor of Law Appointed: Appointed: Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Visiting Academic Fellow Distinguished Visiting Professor Awarded: Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Lauterpacht Centre of at Peking University Law 2017-18 Altshuler Distinguished Awarded: International Law University Teaching Professor Award Awarded: “M” Award from SMU of Cambridge, Fall 2016 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Visiting Professor at Bocconi Laws at University of Edinburgh University, Milan, Italy Congratulations! Spring 2017

Elizabeth G. Thornburg Jenia Iontcheva Turner Jessica Dixon-Weaver Altshuler Distinguished Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law Teaching Professor and Appointed: Named: Richard R. Lee Endowed Professor of Law Amy Abboud Ware Centennial 2017 Cohort of Professor in Criminal Law Dallas Public Voices Appointed: SMU’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers 32 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

Grant Hayden Professor of Law

October 21, 2016; “Claims of Rigged Election and Large-Scale Voter Fraud Are FACULTY IN THE MEDIA Unfounded, Law Expert Says” Roy Ryden Anderson Dale Carpenter Vinson & Elkins Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Professor of Law Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law and Professor of Law March 28, 2017; “Talk About Hidden Treasure: $11.6K Babe Ruth Baseball November 15, 2016; “LGBT advocates Glove Found in Old Chest in Norway” say Trump presidency ‘very, very bad’ for equal rights gains” Thomas Wm. Mayo November 29, 2016; “Trump attacks Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor flag-burning, legalized after a 1984 arrest and Professor of Law in Texas” September 8, 2016; “Wisconsin teen’s December 4, 2016; “Dallas case tests battle to stop treatment isn’t unique” free-speech rights of a social-media troll” January 26, 2017; “KPMG Survey December 8, 2016; “Some Same-Sex Shows Population Health Programs Couples Are Rushing to Say Their Vows, Taking Hold With Payers, Providers” Just in Case…” January 29, 2017; “High Court Precedent Nathan Cortez May Limit Trump’s ‘Sanctuary City’ Associate Dean for Research, Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow, Order” and the Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies January 30, 2017; “A Closer Look at President Trump’s Executive Order July 30, 2016; “How Your Heath Data Involving Travel Ban” Lead A Not-So-Secret Life Online”

January 31, 2017; “Despite new pledge, November 6, 2016; “The Affordable Care fears persist of anti-LGBT action from Act and the Trump Administration and Trump” Republicans Undermining the Act”

January 31, 2017; “Trump taps March 20, 2017; “2017 Cities Most conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch Affected By Trumpcare” for Supreme Court” April 4, 2017; “Could Health Secretary January 31, 2017; “Trump Nominates Tom Price kill Obamacare from the Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court” inside?”

February 1, 2017; “SCOTUS” May 24, 2017; “Activists battle U.S. government in court over making animal April 17, 2017; “House bathroom bill welfare reports public” would strip protections from veterans, the elderly and more” George A. Martinez June 8, 2017; “What we learned from Professor of Law James Comey’s Testimony” April 28, 2017; “Latino Leaders Say June 8, 2017; “Ex-FBI Chief offers Sanctuary City Fight Far From Over” narrow view of Trump intent” June 17, 2017; “Panel Discussion Marks June 8, 2017; 35th Anniversary of Key Education Ruling” “Comey Testimony does little to answer Pamela Metzger impeachment question” Director of the Deason Family Criminal Justice Reform Center and Professor of Law

April 16, 2017; “Overburdened NOLA public defenders say innocents went to prison because they lacked resources and time to defend them properly” S M U DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 33 Chris Jenks Director of the Criminal Clinic and Associate Professor of Law

October 21, 2016; “Claims of Rigged Election FACULTY IN THE MEDIA Inverse and Large-Scale Voter Fraud Are Unfounded, Innovation Law Expert Says” Joanna L. Grossman May 26, 2017; “The U.S. Is Helping Allies Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Hide Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria” the Law and Professor of Law May 29, 2017; “The US is helping allies hide August 10, 2016; “A Long Island Bar’s Age Policy civilian casualties in the fight against ISIS” Differs for Men and Women. Is It Legal?”

August 17, 2016; “When the Pilot Jeffrey Kahn is a Mom: Accommodating New Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow and Professor of Law Motherhood at 30,000 Feet” July 25, 2016; “At SMU visit, September 7, 2016; “Putting Trump’s foreign policy adviser was a Gretchen Carlson’s Multi-Million-Dollar modern-day Joe McCarthy” Settlement in Context”

September 9, 2016; The Opinion Pages, Meghan J. Ryan Room for Debate, “Even the E.R.A. Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow and Professor of Law Couldn’t Bring About Real Equality” July 19, 2016; “After Dallas, Gov. Abbott Proposes April 2, 2017; “Is VP Mike Pence’s Protecting Cops With Hate Crimes Law” ‘Billy Graham Rule’ Sexist, Illegal?” May 29, 2017; “Discrimination Natalie Nanasi suits proceed against Fox, Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for minus Roger Ailes” Victims of Crimes Against Women and Assistant Professor of Law

January 30, 2017; “A Closer Look at President Trump’s Executive Order Involving Travel Ban”

March 7, 2017; “Law students plan to spend spring break representing immigrant families pro bono” James W. Coleman March 7, 2017; “SMU students to advise families Assistant Professor of Law detained by ICE in Karnes”

August 24, 2016; Op Ed: “B.C. LNG could reduce March 10, 2017; “Law Students Skip Spring emissions overseas – if it’s done correctly” Break to Help Undocumented Women and August 24, 2016; “Study supports tighter local regulations Children Detained in South Texas” around LNG industry, bolsters criticism over B.C. climate plan” March 21, 2017; “A group of SMU Dedman June 15, 2017; “Trump issuing fewer regs by design or School of Law students spend spring break not happenstance?” on the beach but volunteering to help immigrant families in Texas”

March 22, 2017; “SMU Law Professor, Students Jennifer Collins Volunteer to Help Detained Immigrants” Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law May 24, 2017; “Dallas County gun confiscation program from domestic violence offenders falls March 27, 2017; “Texas Law School Deans short” Join Support for Federal Legal Services Funding” May 25, 2017; “Dallas County Plan to disarm domestic abusers seizes just 60 guns May 24, 2017; “Accidental shootings in 2 years – a fraction of goal” involving kids often go unpunished” May 26, 2017; “A Program To Keep Guns Out May 25, 2017; “Added agony: Justice is of the Hands of Domestic Abusers Hasn’t haphazard after kids’ gun deaths” Fulfilled Its Promise” 34 Retiring Faculty SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD LAST LECTURES BILL BRIDGE LAST LECTURE: October 21, 2016 the first acts by the revolutionary authority was to abolish the bar.

For Bill Bridge, “Teaching is a loving adversarial activity.” But not after the American Revolution.

He says today’s concern about professionalism is about the larger profession. He “In 1791, one of the first things our founders did was adopt the Sixth calls it “Professionalism and the need for heroes.” He says it’s about people. Amendment, which meant that criminals – people on the other side of the law – were guaranteed the right of assistance of counsel,” Bridge explained. “They Several years ago, when Bridge visited Auschwitz on his way to teach in Oxford, were entitled to have an enemy of the government standing by their side while he found the halls were lined with photos of inmates – and photo after photo of the government was trying to put them in jail or kill them.” To Bridge, that judges and lawyers. He took photos of the photos to remind himself of how “idea of resistance is professionalism as well.” fortunate we can be. Bridge always began his criminal law classes by conjuring the image of a client He reminded the Last Lecture audience of the stories of revolutionary times in need of help. “That’s why we’re here…there is glory in our profession….glory – such as the Bolshevik Revolution and the French Revolution – when one of in the craft of helping other people.”

– Subpoena your mother. – You always put your pants on with the same leg first. – If it isn’t on the record, IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.

HIGHLIGHTS OF ALMOST 40 YEARS AT SMU LAW • Taught Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Comparative Law, Juvenile Law, Legal Research and Writing, WILLIAM J. BRIDGE Lawyering, Law and Literature, Problems of Proof, and Lawyer as Reader Associate Professor of Law and Writer

rofessor William J. Bridge earned both his • Served as Oxford Summer Program Director; Barristers Advisor undergraduate and J.D. degrees from P • Coached the school’s two international moot court teams (Vis and Jessup) Georgetown University. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Georgetown Law Journal as a law • Served as president of the Faculty Senate student, Professor Bridge was assistant dean • Chaired numerous law school and university committees and adjunct professor at Georgetown when he accepted the Jervey Fellowship in Foreign Law • TAUGHT THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS! from Columbia University in 1976. “Institutions like our law school are made up of people and Bill Bridge is truly the conscience Fluent in French, he studied at the Faculties of of as well as the heart and soul of the law faculty,” said Paul Rogers, SMU Law Professor and Letters and of Law at the University of Caen, former dean (1988-1997). “We’re also losing a big part of our institutional memory. Bill France (1970-71), and at the French Court of remembers everything, good, bad, and indifferent. I know for a fact that Bill remembers more Cassation, the French Council of State, and the about my deanship than I do.” French Center for Comparative Law (1977-78). Dean Jennifer Collins agreed. “I am profoundly grateful for the advice and counsel and Professor Bridge joined the faculty at SMU Law amazing historical record that Professor Bridge has shared with me since I arrived at SMU.” in 1977 and began teaching in 1978, after his Everyone seems to have a story of Bridge’s kindness and care. He was demanding of his fellowship in France. students (who can forget that he required them to stand during questioning!), but always compassionate as well, inviting the 1Ls to his office to get to know them as people after they had survived the grilling. Fred Moss, SMU Professor Emeritus of Law, said Bridge was a “mentor and mother-hen” to his students in the Oxford and Edinburgh programs.

Bridge’s colleagues felt that special kindness too. “If anyone were sick, Bill was there,” recalled Professor Moss. “A crisis in a family, Bill was there, offering help, comfort. If a new or visiting colleague arrived at school, Bill was there to help them get settled at school and in the community.” As Professor Rogers put it, “Bill looks after us, individually and collectively.” SMU TwoDEDMAN beloved SCHOOL OF professors LAW | THE share QUAD the wisdom they learned along 35 the way.

MAUREEN ARMOUR LAST LECTURE: March 22, 2017 stuff and make it simple. That’s how you can talk to a client or talk to a jury. Law professors take simple [#$@&%*] and make it complicated.” Maureen Armour says, “It’s all about the client.” But clearly it’s also all about the clinic students for her. In her Last Lecture, Armour described What Armour calls the “bizarre and meaningless” distinction between that moment when a student faces a real client for the first time. “That “theory” and “practice” is slowly eroding. With SMU Law’s current slate moment when you sit down opposite the client, and they look at you, of 10 clinics, she says we have “gotten over the hurdle” of resistance and the look in their eye says, ‘This person can help me.’” Then – with to practical legal education. Discussing the new ABA requirement for six her characteristic saltiness – Armour added, “And you look at them and credits of “experiential” courses, Armour said, “Finally, the ABA you think to yourself, ‘I have no [#$@&%*] idea what I’m doing.’” has given the seal of approval to that part of clinic we’ve always known was its heart – that is, the students representing clients.” That moment is profound. “They’re so brave,” she says with respect and affection. “For 27 years I’ve seen it over and over again, and that has Dean Collins said, “I am personally so grateful for Professor Armour’s just reaffirmed my commitment to this kind of experiential education. wisdom and her passion and her absolute commitment to doing what is right, even when it’s hard.” “What clinic lawyers do – what real lawyers do – is take complicated

– It’s not about you – get over yourself. It’s about your client. – It’s not what you don’t know that makes you dangerous. It’s what you don’t know that you don’t know that makes you dangerous.

HIGHLIGHTS OF ALMOST 30 YEARS AT SMU LAW • Taught the Civil Clinic, Civil Rights Litigation, Conflicts, and Aging and the Law

• Served as Associate Dean for Clinics

• Instrumental in developing the Child Advocacy Clinic, the externship program with Legal Services of North Texas, and a mediation clinic MAUREEN N. ARMOUR • Taught in Oxford Co-Director of the Civil Clinic and Associate Professor of Law • Served on countless law school and bar committees • Honored with the Louise Raggio Award from the Dallas Women Lawyers rofessor‌ Maureen Armour earned Association in 2001 P her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz, • Won the 2016 Willis M. Tate Award, a Student Senate award that honors a Master’s in Social Work from the University an outstanding faculty member who has been involved in student life of California at Berkeley, and her J.D. • COLLABORATED WITH MORE THAN 500 STUDENTS TO PROVIDE degree from SMU Law, where she was ALMOST 75,000 HOURS OF LEGAL SERVICE! valedictorian of her class.

“Always, always, Professor Armour has fought for the rights of those desperately in need of legal After graduation, Professor Armour clerked assistance,” said Dean Jennifer Collins. for the Honorable Barefoot Sanders and then joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Mary Spector, SMU Associate Dean for Clinics and Professor of Law, Director of the Consumer where she rose to the level of partner. SMU Advocacy Project and Co-Director of the Civil Clinic, has been Armour’s close friend and colleague Law was fortunate to lure her away in 1989, for three decades. Professor Spector says, “The same fierce loyalty that Maureen shows her clients and she has served as a professor and the and students, she shows for her friends. When you need her, she’s got your back.” co-director of the Civil Clinic ever since. Professor Armour is beloved by her students. “She was candid about the beauty as well as the shortcomings of the law,” wrote a former clinic student. “I so admired her superior intellect and adored that wicked sense of humor. My clinic experience is by far one of my fondest memories of my time in law school.” 36 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

conjunction with the Centre for Commercial Law financial services, and the outlook for “Innovation in Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and international financial regulation under the Financial Law and the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, new U.S. administration. University of Hong Kong, hosted the conference The conference concluded with an appreciation Systems - Part II” held on May 4-5, 2017. Professor Marc I. dinner for the attendees hosted by Professor Steinberg, Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Norton and Mrs. Colleen Norton where Douglas Honors Professor Law at SMU Law, along with Dr. Seema Sharma Arner, LL.M. ’95, Kerry Holdings Professor in LL.M. ’06, helped plan the conference. Joe Norton Law at the University of Hong Kong, presented The conference brought together 40 former Professor Norton with the 5-year award of a rofessor Joseph J. Norton was honored in a students and colleagues of Professor Norton, Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Peking Pmajor international conference that drawn from 14 different countries/jurisdic- University Law School. addressed the evolution and changing environ- tions and six continents. Numerous attendees Part I of the conference, held in ment for both transactional and regulatory presented summaries of their most recent aspects of financial law. research. Topics included Brexit and its London on May 5-6, 2016, was implications for financial regulation, opportu- attended by 50 former graduate SMU Dedman School of Law, the SMU Law nities and challenges of technological students and colleagues of International Graduate Program and the Tsai innovation (“FinTech” and “RegTech”) for Center for Law, Science and Innovation, in Professor Norton.

he ABA recently named SMU Law designed to ensure that SMU graduates are professionalism training, and in the real one of two national recipients of the ethical, compassionate attorneys committed world, through one-on-one mentor meetings T2017 E. Smythe Gambrell to civility, public service and zealous with esteemed lawyers. This program Professionalism Award. The law school’s advocacy on behalf of their clients. connects each student with multiple alumni Professionalism Initiative – aimed at and legal mentors throughout the year. The Inns of Court program, sponsored by developing practice-ready, competent and Haynes and Boone, connects new law SMU Dedman Law also offers a comprehen- thoughtful lawyers – was recognized by the students with fellow classmates, faculty, sive Public Service program designed to ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism. student leaders, career advisors and alumni instill a commitment to service that will Professionalism is a core component of for a community experience that extends extend throughout the students’ professional learning at SMU Law, incorporated into the throughout their time at the law school and careers. In addition to many externships first-year curriculum through a series of beyond graduation. and clinical opportunities, all J.D. students required programs. Through the Inns of are required to complete a minimum of The Mustang Exchange “flash” mentor Court program, the Mustang Exchange 30 hours of law-related public service. program develops student professionalism in mentoring program and the Public Service two ways: in the classroom, through program, the professionalism initiative is

SMU Dedman School of Law Receives American Bar Association Award for Innovation and Professionalism SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 37

SMU DEDMAN LAW REMEMBERS Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of Clinical Education

rofessor Emeritus and former Dean of “He had an infectious love of life and a wonder- PClinical Education Roark Reed, 76, died ful sense of humor that always brightened January 7, 2017, at a hospice facility in everyone’s day. All of us will miss his good cheer Charlottesville, Virginia. Professor Reed joined and commitment to clinical legal education.” the faculty of SMU Dedman School of Law in William J. Bridge, SMU Associate Professor of 1975 to start the Criminal Justice Clinic and Law, recalled his law school days when Professor serve as Associate Dean for Clinical Education. Reed supervised him in the Criminal Justice He served as director of the Death Penalty Clinic at Georgetown Law School. “He was a Project from 2001-08. Professor Reed retired gentle, wise, and firm mentor, with a great sense from SMU in 2010 after 35 years as a devoted of humor, and a passion for justice,” said Bridge. faculty member.

“PROFESSOR REED WAS AN INSPIRATION TO HIS STUDENTS AND TO THOSE WITH WHOM HE WORKED.”

Roark Reed Professor Reed was born in Elizabeth, New “Roark remained the same gentle, wise, Jersey. He earned his B.A. and J.D. from passionate mentor to young faculty members in Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Clinical Education Georgetown University, and served in the U.S. criminal justice, and to hundreds of law students Marine Reserves. His legal career began as a staff and young lawyers. Illness took him from the attorney for the Public Defender Service of the faculty too soon.” District of Columbia and then as Director of the Many of Professor Reed’s clinic students went on Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University to distinguished careers in criminal practice, Law Center. In 1982, Professor Reed was both prosecution and defense, and on the bench awarded the first of two Fulbright Lectureships and in the legislature. Others, in corporate in Japan. His work as a Fulbright Fellow made practice or business, still credit his teaching as a him a leading authority on U.S. criminal vital contribution to their legal education. procedure in Japan. “Professor Reed was an inspiration to his Professor Reed was devoted to improving the students and to those with whom he worked. U.S. criminal justice system and to the students He made a huge contribution to the law school he trained to become part of that system. “Roark and the Dallas legal community,” said Jennifer accomplished it all without taking himself too Collins, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of seriously,” said C. Paul Rogers III, Marilyn Law, SMU Dedman School of Law. “He will be Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Faculty missed by all.” Fellow and Professor of Law and He is survived by his five children, Kathleen former Dean, SMU Reese, Michael Roark Reed, Jr., Jenny R. Dedman School Conway, Joseph Brendan Reed, and John of Law. Jamison Reed; a sister and three brothers; and “He was a gentle, wise seven grandchildren. and firm mentor, with a great sense of humor, and a passion for justice.” 38 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

2016-17 LAW ADJUNCT FACULTY Thank you to our Dedman Law Adjunct Professors!

Val J. Albright ‘86 Anthony P. Daddino Judge H. Dewayne “Cooter” Alex G. McGeoch Maxel “Bud” Silverberg ‘59 Jay Balfour Joseph R. Dancy Hale Patsy Young Micale Steven Smathers Daniel Baucum William Dawkins Susan M. Halpern Dana Nahlen Stephen P. Smith Matthew S. Beard ‘06 Steve P. Doyle Chris Hamilton Charlotte Noel ‘01 Bruce Sostek Mitsy Birdsong ‘02 Dennis B. Drapkin Sally Helppie Christopher Nolland Jaime Spellings Jeffry M. Blair Joanne Early ‘89 Eric Hinton Judge James A. Nugent Sally Spurgin Jonathan Blum Yolanda Einstein ‘04 Dale Hortenstine Gerald N. Olson ‘71 Clifton A. Squibb ‘05 Vickie S. Brandt ‘03 Paul Enriquez Charles M. Hosch David James Parsons Sid Stahl ‘56 Ada Brown Sander L. Esserman ‘76 Marc A. Hubbard ‘88 Michael P. Penick Marjorie Stephens ‘81 Christa Brown-Sanford Lisa Evert Clifton T. Hutchinson ‘80 Don Peterson Harry W. Sullivan, Jr. ‘84 John G. Browning Stephen P. Fahey James T. Jacks Phillip B. Philbin Harriet Tabb Brooke Busbee (misspelled) Thomas Jackson Ellen A. Presby ‘84 Walter O. Theiss Judge Don D. Bush ‘86 Randy W. Fickel Jay Johnson Robert D. Probasco Michael Threet Martin L. Camp Justice Robert M. Fillmore Judge Kimberly C. Priest Will Pryor Don Tittle Johnson ‘00 William F. Carroll Judge Allen Joe Fish Judge Irma Ramirez Cody L. Towns Larry Jones David W. Carstens C.W. “Peter” Flynn Shane Read Robert Udashen Ralph C. Jones ‘73 Eric Cedillo Patricia H. Flynn Stuart Reynolds Michael J. Uhl ‘85 Kent C. Krause ‘82 David Cho Zeke Fortenberry G. Thomas Rhodus ‘71 John Vernon Gary M. Lawrence Wilson Chu ‘84 Jason B. Freeman Laura K. Rogers Peter Vogel David J. Lowery ‘78 Susan Mills Cipione ‘06 David Gair Douglas K. Rudley Lewis M. Wasserman Jay J. Madrid ‘77 Robert Colwell ‘94 Judge Dennise Garcia ‘93 Michelle P. Scheef Brian L. Webb ‘75 Eric D. Marchand ‘00 John M. Cone ‘83 Bryan A. Garner Mark A. Shank ‘81 George E. West, II Ernest Martin, Jr. Susan C. Cox Larry E. Glasgow ‘83 Eliot Shavin Glenn D. West Errin Blythe Martin Timothy Curren ‘07 Rebecca A. Gregory Bart Showalter ‘93 Russell Wilson, II Mike McCollum Karen H. Currie Shannon Guthrie Ronald F. Shuff Denney L. Wright

CORPORATE COUNSEL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM

ur Corporate OCounsel Externship Program places more than 70 students each year inside the legal departments of major corporations. SMU Law thanks all the corporations who make this opportunity possible. SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 39

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NEW STAFF

Jerchel Anderson Brenda Balli Brittany K. Barnett Anne Beard Financial Business Manager Advancement Associate, #cut50 Fellow and Director of Development, Office of Development & Practitioner-in-Residence, Office of Development & External Affairs Deason Family Criminal External Affairs Justice Reform Center

NEW STAFF RETIRING

Moira Cary Natalie Greco Roland Webb Administrative Assistant, Director of Programs and Financial Officer Registrar’s Office Operations for the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation

SAVE THE DATE LAW TAILGATE PARTIES! Sat. 9/23 (Family Weekend, SMU vs. Arkansas State) 3:30 p.m. Sat. 11/4 (Homecoming, SMU vs. UCF) law.smu.edu/alumni SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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1 Office of Career Services Boot Camp; August 2, 2016 2 Education Advocacy for Children in the Child Welfare System: A Symposium and Community Conversation Hosted by SMU Dedman School of Law W.W. Caruth, Jr. Institute for Children’s Rights; August 12, 2016 3 New Student Orientation; August 17, 2016 4 Pro Bono Tax Day Clinic Hosted by SMU Dedman Law Federal Taxpayers Clinic; August 20, 2016 5 The 2016 Texas Legal Scholars Workshop Co-Hosted by SMU Dedman Law and University of Houston Law Center; August 26, 2016 6 4th Annual Texas Food Law Forum CLE; September 9, 2016 7 Diversity Week at SMU Dedman Law; September 26-29, 2016 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD 41

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8 NEW! FACULTY/STUDENT DISCUSSIONS “Flash Classes”

The Controversy of Suing Saudi Arabia for 9/11: Innovation or Violation of International Law and Practice October 6, 2016

The 2016 Election: 9 10 Voter I.D. and Voter Fraud October 17, 2016

Don’t Fence Me In (or Out): Navigating Borders and Immigration February 2, 2017

Pipelines, Energy and Environment February 14, 2017

Is the Doctor In? Reproductive Rights 11 12 February 21, 2017

The Future of the Affordable Care Act March 6, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Nomination and Confirmation Process March 7, 2017

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8 East African Ambassadors Panel; September 29, 2016 9 Dallas Latina Leadership Program; October 15, 2016 10 The Nuremberg Trials: 70 Years Later, An Educational Program Featuring the Storey Nuremberg Collection; October 24, 2016 11 24th Annual Corporate Counsel Symposium, October 28, 2016 12 Pablo Clusellas ’87, Legal Secretary and Counsel to the President of Argentina; November 3, 2016 13 J.L. Turner, Sr. and Other Early African- American Attorneys in Texas; November 8, 2016 14 AJEI Summit and Reception Honoring SMU; November 10-13, 2016 42 SEEN & HEARD | S M U DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW

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15 Take Back the Law: Legal Careers Combatting Violence Against Women Panel Hosted by the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women; November 10, 2016 16 Corporate Counsel Externship Reception; November 30, 2016 17 Meet the Firms Night; January 18, 2017 18 Public Advocate Day, January 25, 2017 19 2017 Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium; February 17, 2017 20 Texas Women Lawyers Annual CLE and Annual Meeting; March 3, 2017 SEEN & HEARD | S M U DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW 43

TSAI CENTER FOR LAW, SCIENCE AND INNOVATION Events & Symposia

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Tsai Talk: “Universities and Innovation”; September 6, 2016

13th Annual Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues: Intellectual Property and Social Justice; September 30, 2016 23 Tsai Talk: “Legal Support of the Automotive Industry and Beyond”; October 4, 2016

Inaugural Leadership Lecture: “A Conversation with The Honorable Sharon Prost, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit”; October 21, 2016

USPTO and Dallas Bar IP Section: Forum on the North American Patent Prosecution Highway Region; November 17, 2016 24 25 Tsai Talk: “Tech Transactions and Big Pharma”; January 26, 2017 21 10th Annual APIL Auction; March 3, 2017 22 Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst Moot Court Competition; March 21, 2017 23 A Conversation with CEO Bob “Big Data”: A Panel Discussion on Rowling ’79, Chairman & CEO of TRT Holdings, Inc.; March 27, 2017 24 51st Database Technology, Liberty, and SMU Air Law Symposium; March 30-31, 2017 25 Roy Ray Lecture featuring Privacy; February 3, 2017 Professor Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Tsai Talk: “The Economics Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law, “Freedom of Speech and the of Innovation”; February 28, 2017 Problem of Group Knowledge”; April 12, 2017 Tsai Talk: “Inside the Energy Industry”; March 20, 2017 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

PAGE 44 STUDENT NEWS Graduation Awards Congratulations! he John E. Kennedy Memorial Scholarships are he Sarah Tran Award honors beloved faculty member T given in honor of Professor John Kennedy, who served on the TSarah Tran, whose selfless service and unyielding commitment faculty with distinction for 20 years until his untimely death in 1989. to her students and her scholarship in the face of personal adversity Professor Kennedy was a beloved teacher who had a strong commit- represent the very best of our profession. The award is selected by ment to the law as a service profession. It is most fitting that the the faculty and is presented to a student who exemplifies the highest awards given in his memory are presented to the J.D. graduates who standards of leadership, service, and dedication to the nobility of are deemed by their classmates to exemplify the spirit of service by the legal profession. working tirelessly to benefit the law school community.

Stephen “Jake” Torres Blair Moore Raggio

Jake Torres grew up in Mertzon, Texas. Jake Blair Moore devoted two years of leadership graduated from SMU in 2011 and served as (first as secretary and then as chair) to the SMU SMU’s student body president. For three years, Dedman Law Board of Advocates. She worked Jake taught ninth and tenth grade English, tirelessly to lead this very large student while coaching football and soccer, at W. W. organization, coordinating dozens of competi- Samuell High School in DISD with Teach for tions and teams as well as managing the budget. America. Jake and his wife Laura (who is also a law student) learned Under her leadership, the SMU advocacy teams won multiple they were expecting a child around the same time they were accepted national competitions and the moot court teams were ranked sixth by the law school. Their daughter was born two weeks after law school in the nation. Blair served as Executive Director of the Jackson began! Jake served as president of the Hispanic Law Student Walker 1L Moot Court Competition and competed on three Association, was past chair of the SMU Hispanic Alumni Board, and off-campus teams herself. She was a very dedicated member of the received the “M” award, the most highly prized recognition bestowed Barristers. Blair will join the Dallas office of Holland & Knight. upon students, faculty, staff and administrators on the SMU campus.

As a third-year law student, Jake ran a series of legal clinics for Laura Choi tenants in west Dallas low-cost rental homes about their rights when Before law school, Laura Choi interned with facing mass eviction. Jake also served as a student trustee on the SMU Neighborhood Legal Services for Los Board of Trustees and is a member of the search committee for the Angeles County where she worked almost University’s next vice president for student affairs. exclusively with female victims of domestic Jake was selected as a Winstead Juris Doctor Scholar and will join violence. Winstead in the fall. In law school she continued this work as a student attorney and Farshad Marzban chief with the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women, advocating for victims of human trafficking Farshad Marzban served as a Ziegler Fellow and domestic violence. Laura also served as a student coordinator and chief student attorney in the SMU Civil for the law school’s academic success program, a tutoring program Clinic, where he represented Dallas tenants that teaches 1Ls about law school study skills, and was instrumental who faced eviction and served as an advisor in overhauling the program curriculum. She was a member of SMU to new student attorneys in the clinic. He also Law Review and served on two moot court teams. Laura will work served as co-director of the SBA Mentor with Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid. Program and was an integral part of new student orientation in August. Farshad was an SBA mentor for the Callejo Inn for two years through the law school’s Inns of Court Program, was an active member of the Barristers, and was a member of the SMU Science and Technology Law Review. Farshad attended Texas Tech University and formed the Red Raider Law Society as a law student. Farshad will serve as a recruiter for the SMU Dedman Law admissions office. SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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2017 Judicial Clerks

(L to R) COURTNEY ANNE CAPSHAW ’17 TREVOR G. SPEARS ’17 HANNA KIM ’17 (not pictured) The Honorable Douglas Lang; The Honorable Eduardo V. Rodriguez; The Honorable Hal Roberts Ray, Jr.; Justice, Court of Appeals for Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court Magistrate Judge, United States District the Fifth District of Texas for the Southern District of Texas Court for the Northern District of Texas

CHANCE HINER ’17 EVAN J. ATKINSON ’17 ANGELA M. OLIVER ’16 (not pictured) The Honorable Harlin D. Hale; The Honorable Ronald B. King; The Honorable Sharon Prost; Judge, United States Bankruptcy Chief Judge, United States Bankruptcy Chief Judge, United States Court Court for the Northern District of Texas Court for the Western District of Texas of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

LACI RESENDIZ ’17 ASHBEY MORGAN ’17 STEVEN B. TAYLOR ’17 (not pictured) Michigan Court of Appeals The Honorable J. Rodney Gilstrap; The Honorable Terry Means; Judge, United States District Court Judge, United States District Court HAO JIMMY WU ’17 for the Eastern District of Texas for the Northern District of Texas The Honorable J. Rodney Gilstrap; Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

A REPORT ON THE DALLAS COUNTY GUN SURRENDER PROGRAM Taking Aim at Family Violence

n May 2017, the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for I Victims of Crimes Against Women released a report titled “Taking Aim at Family Violence: A Report on the Dallas County Gun Surrender Program.” The report is the culmina- tion of a year-long study of a Dallas County Program that provides domestic violence offenders, who are barred from possessing firearms under both federal and state law, a safe and secure mechanism to surrender their weapons. The authors analyzed the Dallas program as well as similar programs in other jurisdictions to provide stakeholders TAKING AIM AT with recommendations and a roadmap for effectively FAMILY VIOLENCE reducing intimate partner femicides due to gun violence. A REPORT ON THE DALLAS COUNTY GUN SURRENDER PROGRAM

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1960s Judge Brett Hall ’78, State District Judge of District 382 in Rockwall County, TX, was re-elected to a second term. Chief Judge Barbara Houser ’78 of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas received the Distinguished Service Award from the Bankruptcy Alliance of the American Inns of Court. Jack M. Kinnebrew JD ’67, Al Ellis ’71, Of Counsel at LL.M. ’73, of Strasburger & Price, Sommerman, McCaffity & Phillip McCrury LL.M.’78 joined Edward V. Smith III ’63 was was selected by Communities Quesada, was selected by The Kelly Hart as senior counsel. selected as a 2017 recipient of the Foundation of Texas as the 2017 Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Trevor Rees-Jones ’78 received Texas Bar Foundation’s Outstanding recipient of the inaugural Vester the Dallas Bar Association to the L. Frank Pitts Energy 50 Year Lawyer Award, which Hughes Award – established to receive the 2016 Morris Harrell Leadership Award from the recognizes attorneys whose practice honor those who most embody the Professionalism Award – given to Maguire Energy Institute at SMU has spanned 50 years or more and spirit of the late, respected tax honor achievement of the highest Cox School of Business for his who adhere to the highest lawyer, Vester T. Hughes, Jr., who standards of ethics and profession- long-term impact on the energy principles and traditions of the served 50+ years as general counsel alism in the legal field. industry and for exemplifying a legal profession and service to the or senior tax counsel to CFT. Doug Harrison ’74 joined spirit of ethical leadership. public. Jim Burnham ’68, CEO at the Connatser Family Law. Law Offices of Jim Burnham, was selected as one of the most 1980s influential business leaders in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Mark Freeman ’80 joined D Magazine’s “The Dallas 500.” Strasburger & Price as a partner in their new Beaumont office. Donald P. “Rocky” Wilcox ’68 was recognized by the Council of Sawnie McEntire ’80 launched the Health Law Section for his the new boutique law firm of decades as general counsel of the Parsons, McEntire, McCleary, & Texas Medical Association. Clark. Michael M. Boone ’67, of Haynes John Jose ’81, of Slack & Davis, & Boone, was re-elected as chair of 1970s The Honorable Nathan L. was named 2016 H.G. Wells the SMU Board of Trustees. Hecht ’74, Chief Justice of the Outstanding Trial Lawyer by the Supreme Court of Texas, has served Tarrant County Trial Lawyers on the Supreme Court of Texas for Association. more than 10,000 days over the Barbara Kennedy ’81 joined past 29 years – longer than any Strasburger & Price as Of Counsel. other justice in state history. Dale E. Cottingham ’82 was Sander “Sandy” Esserman ’76 named to the 2017 Board of recently released Collier Handbook Directors of GableGotwals. for Trustees and Debtors in Possession.

Harriet Miers ’70, of Locke Lord, Randall W. Johnson ’76 joined was chosen for induction into the Fox Rothschild as counsel. prestigious Texas Legal Legends by G. Roland Love ’77 was named the State Bar of Texas. President of North American Title Company. SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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Clay G. Small ’75 Colin P. Cahoon ’91, Virginia Prodan J.D. released a novel, Heels historical fiction ’96, LL.M. ’97, over Head, a story of author and a international human how misinterpreta- practicing patent rights attorney and tions and grudges can attorney, recently author, released turn into deadly published the novel Saving My Assassin, revenge. The Man with the Black a book full of lessons Box, a five-star thriller. about freedom and courage.

Hubert Crouch ’76, Julie Timmer ’95, Carter Hopkins ’04, a trial lawyer and legal best-selling author an in-house lawyer thriller author, was a and lawyer, released for Intel in Plano, Bronze Medal Winner her third novel, recently published in the 2016 Untethered, which a book, The Lincoln International Book explores what bonds Prophecy, which Award Contest for his truly form a family features an SMU Law book The Word. and how, sometimes, professor as the love knows no protagonist. Several of bounds. the key scenes take place in and around the campus.

Dan Branch ’83 joined Academic Charla Aldous ’85 of Aldous/ Thomas G. Yoxall ’92 was Partnerships’ Board of Directors. Walker will join five other elected vice chair of the executive attorneys to argue cases on FOX’s committee at Locke Lord. new show You and the Jury. Angela Braly ’85 was elected to the ExxonMobil Board of Directors. Siriporn Chaiyasuta ’85 was promoted to executive advisor to the president at Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production in Thailand. David S. Huntley ’90, of AT&T, David Burton ’88 joined Scheef was elected to the SMU Board of Photo: Texas Lawyer Deborah Hankinson ’83 earned & Stone as Of Counsel. Trustees. a Lifetime Achievement Award Todd Norvell ’91 was appointed The Honorable Dennise Garcia from the editors of Texas Lawyer in Mary McNulty ’88, of Thompson by Governor John Hickenlooper to ’93, presiding judge of the 303rd recognition of her career as a Texas & Knight, was named to The serve as a district court judge in District Court and SMU Law Supreme Court justice and her Family Place Board of Directors. Colorado’s 6th Judicial District. adjunct professor, received the instrumental role in providing legal Jurist of the Year award from the aid to low-income Texans. E.F. Mano DeAyala ’92, a partner Texas Chapter of the American 1990s at Buck Keenan, was appointed by Roger McCleary ’84 launched Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the new boutique law firm of Nicholas Foley ’90 Brian Webb ‘75 presented the joined the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. Parsons, McEntire, McCleary, & McKool Smith as a principal. award. Clark. Daryl Lansdale ’92 was named Steve Gwinn ’90 was elected managing partner of the U.S. Eddy Moore ’84 was selected president of the William “Mac” Offices of Norton Rose Fulbright. University Park’s 2016 Citizen of Taylor Inn of Court, the SMU- the Year for his ongoing focus to affiliated chapter of the American Terry D. Ragsdale ’92 was enhance his community and assist Inns of Court. named to the 2017 Board of those in need across North Texas. Directors as GableGotwals. 48 CLASS NOTES | S M U DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW

Sean Tetsuo Hamada ’93 opened Martinez, became a name Aimee L. Stone LL.M. ’04 joined the new Dallas firm of Hamada shareholder. J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Fort Smith, PLLC. Worth, Texas, as the Executive Director Trust Officer. Douglas Yeager ’93 moved to the Houston office of Chicago-based 2000s Steven Walkowiak ’04 was Winston & Strawn. Jennifer Murphy ’00 joined promoted to shareholder at Greenberg Traurig. Meloney Perry ’94 was named Wilson Elser’s Dallas office. chair of the State Bar of Texas’ John Quitman “Q” Mackenzie Wilfong ’04 was Insurance Law Section. Stephens ’00 joined Munsch named general counsel for Tulsa Community College by the Tulsa Mark A. Platt ’94 joined Fox Hardt Kopf & Harr as a Community College Board of Abby Newman Ruth ’06, Peter, Rothschild as a partner. shareholder. Regents. Lucy (5) and Rex (3) welcomed Bill Adams ’96, managing Barrett Howell ’01 joined their little firecracker, Wright Gregory M. Wilkes ’04 was shareholder for Gunster’s Bracewell as a partner, leading a Newman Ruth, four minutes before promoted to partner at Norton Rose Jacksonville Office, joined the four-person white collar practice the Fourth of July, 2016. team in Dallas. Fulbright. Leadership Council: Justice for Kelly Chen ’07 was promoted to Girls, which serves as an advisory Brandon Nelson McCarthy ’01 Susan Ormand Berry ’05 was partner at Munck Wilson Mandala, council to the Delores Barr Weaver joined Bracewell in Dallas as a promoted to partner at Reed Smith’s and has been selected to participate Policy Center. partner. Houston office. in the respected Leadership Dallas program, class of 2017. Drew Schilling ’96 joined Luis Guillermo Zambrano ’01 Jason Elliott ’05 was promoted to Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP in joined Estes Thorne & Carr as a partner at Perkins Coie in the firm’s Kyle L. Howard ’07 was Chicago. partner. Labor & Employment practice. promoted to partner at Haynes and Boone. Chad Ruback ’97 was elected Samuel J. Barrett ’02 joined James “J.R.” England ’05 was secretary-treasurer of the William Chambers Energy Capital as promoted to partner at Hunton & Sean N. Hsu ’07 joined the firm “Mac” Taylor Inn of Court, the General Counsel & Chief Williams. Janik Vinnakota as an equity SMU-affiliated chapter of the partner. Compliance Officer. Eric Hail ’05 American Inns of Court. was promoted to Janet Bubert ’02, whose partner at Hunton & Williams. Brad Knapp ’07 was promoted to Charles Vorndran ’97 joined partner at Locke Lord. practice focuses on school law, Seth Roberts ’05, a litigation Smith, Gambrell & Russell as a joined Underwood Law Firm as partner at Locke Lord and a Amy Lott ’07 was promoted to partner. a shareholder. member of the Board of Trustees at partner at Carrington Coleman. M. David Burton ’98 joined Jason Franklin ’02, of The Dallas Baptist University since Jason S. Luter ’07 joined Gardere Scheef & Stone as Of Counsel. Franklin Law Firm, was elected 2011, received the DBU 2016 Wynne Sewell as a partner. president of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Distinguished Alumnus Award. John O’Connor ’07 was selected Association. Monty Ward ’05 was named a to join the Leadership Arts Institute, Dyan M. House ’02 joined Baker partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges a prestigious Dallas organization McKenzie as counsel. in Dallas. dedicated to developing the next Debbie Lively ’02 joined Fisher Craig Woods ’05 joined the generation of business leaders to Broyles as a partner. litigation team at Dykema Cox advocate for the arts in North Texas. Smith. Mark A. Shoffner ’02 joined Bell Jarrett Reed ’07 was promoted to Nunnally & Martin as a partner. partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. Eliot Burriss ’03 joined Aaron J. Rigby ’07 was promoted Judge Tonya Parker ’98, of the McDermott Will & Emery as a to partner at Sidley Austin. 116th Civil District Court in Dallas, partner. Paul Rynerson ’07 was promoted received the 2017 Maura Women Ann Carmichael ’04 was hired as to partner at Berry Appleman & Helping Women Award presented Vice President of Congressional Leiden. by the Dallas Women’s Foundation Affairs of the American Financial and the 2017 ABA Stonewall Award. Andrew C. Cookingham ’08 was Services Association (AFSA). elected partner at Thompson & Mary Elizabeth Cedillo-Pereira Karly Stoehr Rodine ’04 was Knight. ’99 was appointed the Director of promoted to managing partner at Carl Pankratz ‘06 the new Office of Welcoming married Holly Jeff Leach ’08, member of the Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. Communities and Immigrant Affairs Lortie on April 22. He is Vice Texas House of Representatives, was President and Commercial Loan for Dallas. Kenneth Sheets ’04 was appointed Vice Chair of the House Officer with NorthMarq Capital in appointed by Governor Greg Abbott Committee on Urban Affairs and as Jenny Martinez ’99, Executive Dallas. to the Texas Military Preparedness a member of the House Committee Vice President and Secretary/ Commission. on Economic & Small Business Treasurer of Godwin Bowman & Development. CLASS NOTES | S M U DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW 49

Matthew Mattson ’08 was named Emily Stroope ’09 was elected as Christopher A. Klement ’13, an Justice School. The award is given a principal at Fish & Richardson. a member of the firm McGlinchey associate with Cantey Hanger, was to the sailor or Marine who wins Stafford. elected Chairman of the Dallas Bar the Naval Justice School Trial Mark Aaron Melton ’08, of Association’s Government Law Advocacy Competition at the end of Hunton & Williams, opened Mac’s James Robert Wills IV ’09 was Section. the 10-week training. Southside, a new bar in the Cedars promoted to partner at Wick district. Phillips Gould & Martin. Ryan Parsley ’13 serves as Chief Jessica L. Kirk ’16 joined Executive Officer of Ascent Energy Thompson & Knight as an Jake Menefee ’08 became the 2010s in Denver, Colorado. associate. head of office for Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s Federal Audra Mayberry ’10 was Lauren Smyth ’13 joined Kent Love ’16 joined the firm Government Affairs. promoted to member at Scheef & McGuire, Craddock & Strother as Hiersche, Hayward, Drakeley & Stone. an associate. Urback in Addison, Texas. Brett Fisher Miller ’08 was promoted to partner at Ward, Smith Barry A. McCain ’14 joined & Hill. McGlinchey Stafford’s Commercial Litigation Group in Dallas as an Julie Pettit ’08, of The Pettit associate. Law Firm, was named the 2017 Outstanding Young Lawyer by Katherine Wilcox ’14 joined The the Dallas Association of Young Strong Firm as an associate attorney. Lawyers. Pamela Flanagan ’15 was Bailey Pham ’08 was promoted featured on a billboard in New York to partner at Vinson & Elkins. City’s Times Square for the U.S. Jennifer Larson Ryback ’10 was Polo Association. WHAT’S NEW Stephanie Smiley ’08 was elected the 2017 President-Elect of promoted to shareholder at Dallas Area Young Lawyers. WITH YOU? Greenberg Traurig. Help us make the Class Olga Torres ’08 is the Founder Notes section of The Quad and Managing Member of the Magazine a more vibrant International Trade Firm, Torres Law, PLLC. and useful resource for our alumni! Send us news Tyson Wanjura ’08 was promoted on babies, weddings, to partner at Holland & Knight. promotions, awards, Russell Zimmerer ’08 was moves, and anything promoted to shareholder in Littler Clinton J. Kuykendall ’15 newsworthy. We want to Mendelson. received the top score on the celebrate you and keep Brittany K. Barnett ’11, attorney February 2017 Texas Bar Exam. Alana Ackels ’09 was promoted you up to date on all and criminal justice reform to partner at Bell Nunnally & Callum Ross ’15 joined Winstead advocate, has handled several your classmates. Deadline Martin. as an associate in the Corporate successful clemency petitions, for the Fall 2018 issue is Commercial Transactions & Christopher R. Bankler ’09 was including the nationally reported July 1, 2018. Outsourcing Practice Group in the promoted to partner at Jackson cases of Sharanda Jones and Donel Dallas office. Walker. Clark. She was named one of Steve Wayne Dimitt ’09 was America’s most outstanding young Jenna Alame ’16 joined Ferguson EMAIL lawyers by the ABA. In May 2016, Braswell Fraser Kubasta as a promoted to partner at Jackson [email protected] Walker. she also received the Nonprofit commercial real estate attorney. Leadership Award (founder of Girls WEBSITE Aaron Dilbeck ’16 joined Munck Thomas Michael Horan II ’09 Embracing Mothers) at the 17th Wilson Mandala as an associate. law.smu.edu/classnotes was named partner at Thompson Annual Women’s Advocacy Awards. Coe. Amy Estes ’16 joined McGuire, SOCIAL MEDIA Blake C. Billings ’12 joined Craddock & Strother as an law.smu.edu John J. Kane ’09 was promoted the Fort Worth law firm of Harris, associate. to director at Kane Russell Coleman Finley & Bogle where he will Visit the law school & Logan. practice in the business transaction Vienna Flores ’16 joined Kane website for social R. Scott Rewalk ’09 joined the and corporation section. Russell Coleman & Logan as an media links. associate in the Dallas office. Neal Ashmore Family Law Group as Lance Kennedy ’13 joined the an associate attorney. Comal County District Attorney’s Travis D. Jones ’16, Deputy Elliot Strader ’09 was promoted Office as an assistant district Command Judge Advocate, Naval to partner at Gardere Wynne attorney. Air Station Jacksonville, received Sewell. the New York Bar Association Trial Advocacy Award during Naval SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

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Litigation, the Dallas Lawyers Auxiliary 27th for the West Texas community she loved Annual Justinian Award, the Dallas Bar and who loved her,” Chief Justice Nathan L. Foundation Fellows Award and the Anti- Hecht said. Defamation League Jurisprudence Award. In 1990 Justice Culver received SMU Law’s The Dallas Bar Association named him Trial Distinguished Alumni Award for her work Lawyer of the Year in 2001. in the judiciary. Mr. Bramblett was also deeply involved with Born in Dallas, Justice Culver attended his community. He was a member of the Highland Park High School, earned her Salesmanship Club and Northwood Country bachelor’s degree at Texas Tech University, Club and was an active member of Highland and received her J.D. from SMU Law School Park United Methodist Church. He also George W. Bramblett ’66 in 1951. At SMU, Justice Culver met a served on many Boards, including the fellow law student, John Culver, and the Executive Board Member Hillcrest Foundation, Baylor College of two were later married. The couple formed and 2001 Distinguished Dentistry, Baylor Oral Health Foundation, Culver & Culver in Midland, where they Alumni Award for Private Southwestern Medical Foundation, Phi practiced law together for a decade. She Practice Gamma Delta Educational Foundation, became the first woman Republican judge Alliance for Higher Education, and the Texas fter practicing law for five decades, in Texas in 1962, when she was elected Higher Education Coordinating Board. AGeorge Walter Bramblett, Jr. passed County Judge. After serving for 15 years, away on November 21, 2016. Born in Mr. Bramblett is survived by his wife, Pedie; she served as District Judge for 10 years Dallas on May 29, 1940, Mr. Bramblett grew his daughter, Faerol Bramblett Wiedman, before she was appointed to the Texas up in El Dorado, Arkansas, received his and her husband and children; his sons, Supreme Court by Governor Bill Clements. undergraduate degree from SMU, and George Bramblett, III and Graham Bramblett; She served for one year on the highest court earned his J.D. from SMU Law School in and his brother and sister and their children. in the State of Texas before retiring. 1966, where he was captain of the national Justice Culver’s passion was family law and moot court team. juvenile law. The Barbara Culver Juvenile Mr. Bramblett was a distinguished trial Justice Center in Midland was named in her lawyer involved in high profile, high stakes honor. litigation. He represented clients in the full Among her professional honors, she was the range of business, commercial and tort first recipient of the Judge Sam Emison litigation, as well as securities and share- Memorial Award by the Texas Academy of holder litigation. He spent 40 years as a Family Law Specialists, was a member of partner and head of litigation for Haynes & the state commission to rewrite the Texas Boone. Constitution in 1975-76, and served on the Mr. Bramblett received the SMU Dedman Family Code Project to codify marriage, School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award divorce, custody, child-support and juvenile for Private Practice in 2001 and was honored laws in Texas. as a Distinguished Alumnus of SMU in 2010. Barbara Culver Clack ’51 She was a faithful member of First United He served on the law school’s executive 1990 Distinguished Alumni Methodist Church of Midland. board since 1998. Award for Judicial Service In 1988, she married Judge Jim Clack of Mr. Bramblett was a Fellow in the American Andrews after John Culver’s passing in College of Trial Lawyers, the American Board ormer Justice Barbara Culver Clack ’51, 1981. Justice Barbara Culver Clack is of Trial Advocates, the International Academy the second woman to serve full time on F survived by her grandchildren and of Trial Lawyers, and the International the Texas Supreme Court when she was great-grandchildren, as well as many Academy of Barristers, as well as a Master appointed in 1988, passed away on friends. and President in the William Mac Taylor September 12, 2016. American Inns of Court. He received the “Small of stature, she was a towering figure Luther Soules III Award for Excellence in in the judiciary, to the legal profession and SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD

PAGE served in the Army during the Korean War, and served in the Judge Advocate General’s 51 Corps.

In 2003, SMU Law recognized Mr. Hughes with the Honorary Alumnus Award at the Distinguished Alumni Awards celebration.

Mr. Hughes was a nationally respected tax attorney who testified before Congress and influenced many aspects of federal tax matters, and argued two cases before the United States Vester T. Hughes, Jr. Supreme Court. He helped build the law firm The Honorable Chukiert 2003 Honorary Distinguished Hughes and Luce, which merged with K&L Ratanachaichan LL.M. ’84 Alumnus Gates in 2008, where Mr. Hughes was a partner until his death. hukiert Ratanachaichan passed away on ester T. Hughes, Jr. passed away on CJuly 27, 2017, at the age of 62. He earned a Mr. Hughes advised charities on whose boards January 29, 2017, at age 88. Born in San Master of Comparative Law from SMU in 1984. V he served, including Texas Scottish Rite Angelo, Texas, he received his undergraduate His distinguished career included serving as the Hospital for Children, the Juvenile Diabetes degree with distinction from Rice University secretary-general of the Council of State in Foundation and the Communities Foundation and his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Thailand until his retirement in 2015. Mr. of Texas. He was an active member of Park Law School in 1952. While in law school, he Ratanachaichan received Royal decorations from Cities Baptist Church since 1955 where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. H.M. King of Thailand. He is survived by his served as a deacon. Following graduation, he was a law clerk to two sons, Mr. Sukrid Ratanachaichan and Mr. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, Siravid Ratanachaichan.

Worley N. “Newt” John Marion Wayne B. Barfield ’62 Paul T. Mann ’72 Jonathan S. Barnes ’48 Hamilton ’54 March 2, 2017 April 22, 2017 Welles ’87 October 23, 2016 October 17, 2016 June 24, 2016 John T. Gorman ’63 Sam R. Sloan, Judge Robert Joseph Redwine September 2, 2016 III ’72, ’74 Robert D. J. Galvan ’49 Patterson ’54 October 3, 2016 Lochridge, III ’88 William C. Block ’65 September 24, 2016 January 6, 2017 December 11, 2016 February 21, 2017 Richard T. John K. Bowlin ’50 David Roger Cassidy ’74 Marc C. Paradis ’89 Judge Pat A. May 25, 2016 Milton ’55 February 8, 2017 November 26, 2016 Robertson ’65 January 30, 2017 Howard P. Coghlan ’50 December 19, 2015 Billy R. Kinder ’74 Keith R. Verges ’89 September 15, 2016 Byron H. January 18, 2017 September 12, 2016 Schaff, Jr. ’55 Dudley D. Beadles ’66 Julian Webster Henry Franklin Kimberly Anderson February 14, 2017 August 31, 2016 Feild ’50 “Frank” Tripp ’74 Mayer ’90 Thomas H. Brennan ’66 July 18, 2016 Barnett M. “Barney” October 23, 2016 September 29, 2016 Goodstein ’57 January 22, 2017 Robert Higgins John H. Humberto G. December 29, 2016 “Bob” Hughes ’50 Robert V. Baylis ’68 Washburn, Sr. ’74 Guerrero, Jr. ’92 January 13, 2017 Bill C. Hunter ’58 May 16, 2017 February 21, 2017 September 21, 2016 January 18, 2017 Dale Archer Captain George Harold R. Crookes ’75 Mondai Maddox G. Dowd ’68 Williams ’51 Judge Joe April 7, 2017 Synstegard ’96 February 11, 2017 B. Burnett ’59 September 11, 2016 December 6, 2016 Frank Shor ’77 May 3, 2017 Norman Simon William R. December 6, 2016 Stephen D. Booker ’02 Brown ’69 Allen, Sr. ’52 George Allen October 3, 2016 Ronald M. Gaswirth ’78 February 8, 2017 Butler ’59 November 24, 2014 October 21, 2016 Richard B. Dunn ’07 April 13, 2017 Judge William George S. Finley ’52 December 29, 2016 E. Burdock ’70 Constance December 31, 2016 Daniel Whittingham Stansbury, Sr. ’59 May 18, 2017 Mills Mahan ’79 Robert K. Sievers ’12 Clinton J. July 4, 2016 August 25, 2016 April 15, 2017 Wofford, Jr. ’52 Joseph H. Lazara ’70 Mitchell S. Block ’80 April 15, 2017 The Honorable December 1, 2016 Shigeharu Negishi ’60 January 19, 2017 Judge Robert Millard E. July 22, 2017 Wallace Pack, Jr. ’53 Sweatt, Jr. ’70 Terry L. Simmons ’84 January 24, 2017 William M. Ravkind ’60 October 11, 2016 April 3, 2017 January 29, 2017 Norman B. Gillis, Jr. ’54 Billy D. Moore ’71 Lauren C. LaRue ’87 September 15, 2016 Glory Ann Crisp ’61 October 18, 2016 November 1, 2016 December 19, 2014 52 SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | THE QUAD ReunionReunion WeekendWeekend FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 + SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4

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