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GARRY W. JENKINS: “Thank you for helping the Law School lead the way in legal education. It means so much to know that we have Lawyer. Scholar. the support of donors like you!” —Alex Bollman (’18) Leader. Dean.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Visits the Law School
Minnesota Law On Tuesday, Sept. 27, hundreds of students, faculty, and staff celebrated the first Review Symposium: Gopher Gratitude Day at the University of Minnesota Law School. This event gave the entire First Amendment Law School community the opportunity to come together to say thank you to the many v. Inclusivity alumni, donors, and friends who generously provide their support. Theory at Work: Myron Orfield
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DEAN BOARD OF ADVISORS Perspectives is a general interest magazine published Garry W. Jenkins Jeanette M. Bazis (’92) in the fall and spring of the academic year for the Thank you to all volunteers, organizations, Gaskins Bennett Birrell Schupp 100% Sitso W. Bediako (’08) University of Minnesota Law School community of alumni, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Amy L. Bergquist (’07) friends, and supporters. Letters to the editor or any other and firms that participated in the ninth Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 100% Cynthia Huff Karin J. Birkeland (’87) communication regarding content should be sent to annual Partners at Work challenge, which James L. Chosy (’89) Kaplan, Strangis and Kaplan 100% Cynthia Huff ([email protected]), Director of Communications, ended on June 30, 2016. Overall, 67% of EDITOR AND WRITER Jennifer K. Ciresi (’07) Lind, Jensen, Sullivan & Peterson 100% University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, Jeff Johnson William E. Drake (’66) alumni at 35 organizations made a gift to 421 Mondale Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455. 0’Melveny & Myers 100% John F. Hartmann (’87) the Law School. This year, 10 participants COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Gary J. Haugen (’74) achieved 100% alumni giving. Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben 100% Luke Johnson Cathy F. Haukedahl (’79) The University of Minnesota shall provide equal access to The Partners at Work challenge is a Zimmerman Reed 100% Rachel C. Hughey (’03) and opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment ACTING DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Jay L. Kim (’88) (Chair) without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, friendly competition to increase alumni David Jensen Jeannine L. Lee (’81) gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance giving participation at organizations that (10-24 ALUMNI) Marshall S. Lichty (’02) status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, employ University of Minnesota Law GROUP 2 DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Daniel W. McDonald (’85) or gender expression. AND ANNUAL GIVING School alumni. Ambassador Tom McDonald (’79) Anthony Ostlund Baer & Louwagie 100% Dinah C. Zebot Christine L. Meuers (’83) Michelle A. Miller (’86) ©2016 University of Minnesota Board of Regents A special thank you to Nilan Johnson Lewis 100% CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Cyrus A. Morton (’98) those organizations that Bassford Remele 89% Dick Dahl Michael T. Nilan (’79) Kathy Graves David B. Potter (’80) finished at the top of each Fish & Richardson 88% Luke Johnson (Immediate Past Chair) respective group! Stoel Rives 88% Gerald Kerska (’17) Roshan N. Rajkumar (’00) Connie Lenz Mary S. Ranum (’83) Cathy Madison Lisa A. Rotenberg (’85) Todd Melby Stephen P. Safranski (’97) GROUP 3 (25+ ALUMNI) Karin B. Miller Amy C. Seidel (’98) (Chair Elect) Joseph P. Sullivan (’67) Winthrop & Weinstine 100% COVER PHOTO Michael P. Sullivan Jr. (’96) Tim Rummelhoff The Honorable John R. Gray Plant Mooty 92% Tunheim (’80) Fredrickson & Byron 90% PHOTOGRAPHERS Kevin Warren Maslon 83% Jayme Halbritter Josh Kohanek Fox Rothschild 71% Mark Luinenburg Tony Nelson Tim Rummelhoff University of Minnesota Archives
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ON TO A NEW ERA
I was thrilled to join the University of Minnesota Law School in July, and I am excited about the future of one of the world’s leading institutions for the study of law. I have long admired the Law School for its outstanding faculty and terrific students, and my profound respect for this preeminent public law school only continues to grow. Specifically, I am encouraged by the Law School’s deep commitment to excellence and engagement, access and opportunity, community and service, and relevance and rigor. Despite changes to the legal profession, our school offers a uniquely powerful legal education that continues to evolve and change to meet new challenges. My first few months provide several examples. For instance, we launched the Minnesota Law Public Interest Residency Program, generously supported by Allen (’56) and Linda Saeks. Seven 3L students began hands-on work at government agencies and nonprofit organizations, where they will extern for 32 hours a week throughout the academic year; they will then be guaranteed employment with those organizations following graduation. This program is just one example of an innovative initiative that will help our students launch their careers as it strength- ens our reputation as one of the nation’s go-to schools for public interest law. This fall we added two new concentrations—family law and immigration law—drawing on our existing strengths in those areas. Concentrations provide useful study paths, mentoring, and guidance to help students navigate the curriculum and prepare to enter the profession. In October, a visit from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor energized our community. After meeting with students, Justice Sotomayor appeared before a packed house at Northrop Auditorium, walking the aisles and shaking hands with audience members without missing a beat in answering any of the questions posed by Professor Bob Stein (’61). (If you were unable to attend, I urge you to watch it on the Law School’s YouTube channel: http://z.umn.edu/sotomayor.) I have been impressed with how talented, collegial, and engaged our students are, not only in their studies, but in their extracurricular activities. I’ve enjoyed meeting many of them one-on-one in our “donuts with the dean” sessions. Our world-class faculty is among the most active and influential group of teacher-scholars in the nation. Their research is making a difference in traditional areas of legal study—criminal law, insurance law, discrimination in education—as well as in specific emerging issues, such as precision medicine, youth sports concussions, and energy renewal. There is so much to celebrate and admire at the Law School, yet there is also so much more work we can do together. As dean, my goals are to keep education affordable, recruit a talented and diverse student body reflective of our commitment to inclusion, support students in their pursuit of rewarding career opportunities, and provide both practical and theoretical programming that will prepare our students to succeed throughout their lifetimes. We have a tradition of graduating formidable lawyer-leaders, and I plan to continue that tradition. Your loyalty to and pride in the Law School will empower us to reach new heights. I welcome your advice as we continue the momentum from Dean David Wippman’s successful tenure and build on the Law School’s past successes.
Garry W. Jenkins Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law
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GARRY W. JENKINS: Lawyer. Scholar. Leader. Dean. 20
By Cathy Madison Photo by Tim Rummelhoff
The Dean’s List 23
24 THEORY at WORK MYRON ORFIELD: A RELENTLESS FOCUS ON EQUALITY
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1 DEAN’S PERSPECTIVE On to a New Era
4 AT THE LAW SCHOOL 4 Law School Adds Two Concentrations to Curriculum 5 First Group of Saeks Fellows Gets to Work 6 A Warm Welcome for Dean Garry W. Jenkins 8 Commencement 2016: “The Promised Land Belongs to All” 10 Orientation 2016: The Start of “An Extraordinary Journey” 11 Minnesota Law Review Symposium: First Amendment v. Inclusivity 12 Spring Celebration of Philanthropy and William B. Lockhart Club Dinner 15 14 Perspectives on Taxation • Employee and Faculty Milestones • Legal History Workshops • Public Law Workshops 15 Sotomayor is Informal, Insightful in Law School Appearance 16 Promoting Faculty Scholarship Promotes the Law School 17 New Law Library Faculty • A Monument to the Prolific Mind 18 Impact of Giving: Paying It Forward With Scholarship Gifts 19 Scholarship Stories: Olivia Garber (’17), Andrew Leiendecker (’17), Grateful Gopher Nadia Anguiano-Wehde (’17)
26 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE 26 Faculty Awards, Grants, and News 28 Ruth Okediji Awarded McKnight Presidential Professorship 29 Five Faculty Members Receive Grand Challenges Grants 30 Faculty Works in Progress 28 31 Faculty Profile: Richard W. Painter
32 STUDENT PERSPECTIVE 32 Student Profiles 35 Student Organizations 36 Student News and Awards • Law School Launches Professional Essentials Milestone Program 37 TORT Save the Date
38 ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE 38 Alumni Profiles 41 Alumni News and Awards 44 Alumni Reconnect 45 TORT is Turning 15! • Spring ’17 Alumni Weekend Save the Date 32 46 Class Notes 48 Online Opportunities for Alumni Engagement and Learning 50 Up and Coming Attorneys • University of Minnesota Day of Service 51 Top 100 Super Lawyers 52 Partners in Excellence: Your Gift Matters! 53 Tributes 55 In Memoriam
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LAW SCHOOL ADDS TWO CONCENTRATIONS TO CURRICULUM
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 2016- writing project approved by the placement. Recommended electives 17 academic year, the Law School concentration chair. Other opportuni- include courses on refugee and added two new concentrations— ties include family law subspecialties asylum law, criminal law and immi- family law and immigration law— such as litigation for a traditional gration, human trafficking, and civil to the nine existing concentrations. family law practice; tax and drafting, rights. Students have the opportunity Concentration areas enhance stu- wills and trusts, and elder law related to participate in high-profile immi- dents’ career opportunities through to estate planning; and health law, gration and detainee rights litigation interdisciplinary and specialized reproductive rights, assisted reproduc- with Law School partners at law courses, research and writing projects tion, and genetics courses related to firms (Faegre Baker Daniels, Robins with faculty, mentorship opportuni- family law and bioethics policy. Kaplan, and Dorsey and Whitney) ties with professors and other experts, Students can participate in four clinics: and nonprofit organizations (ACLU, and networking with engaged alumni. Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice, Advocates for Human Rights, Students may identify a concentration Community Mediation, Family Law, Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, in their 2L or 3L year. Upon gradua- and Indian Child Welfare. The faculty and Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid). The tion, they receive a certificate chair is Professor June Carbone. faculty chair is Professor Steve Meili. verifying their completion of the The immigration law concen- The Law School’s other concentration, and a notation is made tration requirements include the concentrations are business law, civil on their Law School transcript. Immigration Law course; one of the litigation, criminal justice, environ- Requirements for the family law three relevant clinics (Detainee mental and energy law, health law concentration include the Family Rights, Federal Immigration and bioethics, human rights law, Law course plus at least one immer- Litigation, and Immigration and intellectual property and technology sion course (clinic or capstone), an Human Rights Law); and an immi- law, international law, and labor and independent field placement, and a gration outreach externship or field employment law. n
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326812_Guts_04-19.indd 4 11/10/16 11:16 AM 3 On Oct. 12, Minnesota 2 Dean Garry W. Jenkins Court of Appeals judges (left) and University heard oral arguments in President Eric Kaler State of Minnesota v. 1 U.S. Supreme Court (right) speak with the Albert William Brown. 4 Dean Garry W. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dean's parents, Garry Left to right: Judge Jenkins gets to know addresses a full Northrop C. and Leslie Jenkins, Denise D. Reilly, Judge incoming students at Auditorium at the 2016 at the dean's welcome Francis J. Connolly, Judge the Orientation Stein Lecture. reception. Michael L. Kirk (’75) Ice Cream Social.
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FIRST GROUP OF SAEKS FELLOWS GETS TO WORK
THIS FALL, SEVEN STUDENTS public service valuable, hands-on legal Fellow Alexandra Holznecht (’17), became pioneers in a new, potentially training and a pipeline to employ- who is working at the Ramsey transformative approach to the 3L ment, while providing affiliated County Attorney’s Office this year. year. Rather than spending their final organizations with much-needed legal “It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity year at the Law School in the assistance. “Fellows are thrilled to for students who are dedicated to classroom, the students—the first work directly with clients, gain serving the community, and it is a group of Saeks Fellows selected under courtroom experience, and immerse springboard for my long-term career the auspices of the Minnesota Law themselves in the work of their in public interest work.” Public Interest Residency Program— organizations,” reports Amanda Furst, Partner organizations for 2016-17 began working full-time at six the Law School’s director of public are the Hennepin County Attorney’s partnering government and nonprofit interest programs, who shares over- Office, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, the organizations. (They’ll also take part sight of the new initiative with visiting Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office, throughout the year in a complemen- assistant professor Derik Fettig. the Ramsey County Public tary classroom component.) After Saeks Fellows are selected during Defender’s Office, the Ramsey graduating from the Law School and their 2L year after a rigorous compet- County Attorney’s Office, and the taking the bar exam, the Saeks itive process that includes a faculty Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Fellows will return to their partner approval board, agency interviews, a Office. Additional partners may be organizations for a year of full-time, personal statement and essays, and added for next year’s class; interested paid legal employment. relevant employment, internships, or organizations are encouraged to The program was established last volunteer work. “When I first heard contact Amanda Furst (amfurst@ year with the generous sponsorship about the Minnesota Law Public umn.edu). More information can be of Allen (’56) and Linda Saeks as a Interest Residency Program, I thought found at law.umn.edu/academics/ means of giving students interested in it was too good to be true,” said Saeks experiential-learning. n
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ON THE EVENING OF SEPT. 28, University officials, alumni, faculty, and friends A WARM gathered at the Commons Hotel in Minneapolis to welcome Garry W. Jenkins as the 11th dean of the University of Minnesota Law School. WELCOME Provost Karen Hanson introduced Jenkins as a man whose “breadth of FOR experience, strategic acumen, and collaborative leadership style will position the Law School well for the future.” David Potter (’80), immediate past chair of DEAN GARRY the Law School Board of Advisors and a member of the deanship search committee, told attendees that, in a group of candidates who were all gifted W. JENKINS scholars, strong leaders, and “big personalities,” Jenkins stood out immediately for his authenticity, his love of a challenge, and his ability to focus on what was best for the institution. Donald B. Tobin, dean of the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland and a longtime friend and former
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colleague of Jenkins at Ohio State, spoke warmly of their shared experience 1 Marles Frankman, Leland Frankman (’66) and as young academics and administrators. “One day,” he said, “I decided I was Dean Jenkins going to out-listen Garry. It can’t be done. After two minutes of silence, I finally 2 Hubert “Skip” Humphrey (’69) cracked. But Garry’s ability to listen makes him a fantastic leader.” 3 Chief Justice Russell A. Anderson (’68), Justice At the Law School, Jenkins noted in his remarks, “We have a long tradition of Alan Page (’78), Diane Sims Page, Judge Michael J. producing great leaders who get things done, and I will do all I can to ensure Davis (’72) that continues. …As I start my deanship, I want you all to know how honored 4 Dean Jenkins, Donald M. Fraser (’48), Arvonne Fraser I am to be here and how moved I am to be welcomed into the University 5 University Executive Vice President and community. I recognize how important Minnesota Law is to you, the commu- Provost Karen Hanson nity, and the state… and I promise you I will work hard to make sure that the 6 Michael T. Nilan (’79), Jim Rustad (’67), Kay Thomas Law School moves forward as a national leader in legal education, preserving 7 Rachel Hughey (’03), Nicole Moen, the legacy of our distinguished past and poised for continued greatness.” n Michael Skoglund (’01)
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COMMENCEMENT 2016: “THE PROMISED LAND BELONGS TO ALL”
THE LAW SCHOOL HELD ITS 128TH the Outstanding Contribution Award, tion address. In three short years, she commencement ceremony May 14 at to Andrew J. Glasnovich; and the said, members of the class of 2016 Northrop Memorial Auditorium. William B. Lockhart Award for had, among many other things, Dean David Wippman—leading his Excellence in Scholarship, Leadership, “gotten settlements out of big last commencement before departing and Service, to Nicholas Bednar. The companies in the name of consumer to become president of Hamilton Lockhart Award honors the Law protection, protected a former child College—welcomed the class of 2016, School’s fifth dean and 28-year soldier from being deported and their families and friends, and several faculty member for his dedication in facing persecution in his home special guests: University Regent enriching the curriculum, attracting country, [and] argued in front of a David McMillan (’87), executive vice leading scholars, and sharing his gift federal court of appeals.” They had president at Minnesota Power in for teaching. Glasnovich announced written award-winning papers on Duluth, Minn.; Karen Hanson, the that the class of 2016 would continue regulatory toxicology, multilingual University’s executive vice president the 3L Pledge Drive established in product labels, and trademarking and provost; and the keynote speakers, 2010 by making annual financial YouTube comedy. They had defeated Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar contributions to the Law School for Harvard in a moot court competition. and United States Assistant Attorney the next three years. This gift means And, McGuire noted, they “enjoyed General Vanita Gupta. that one person from the class of doing it all so much that they used Dean Wippman presented the 2016 will receive a $5,000 fellowship their precious spare time to write a Stanley V. Kinyon Professor of the to engage in public interest work. musical about it.” Year Awards for Excellence in The 2016 LL.M. class of 74 Senator Klobuchar began her Teaching and Counseling, established students from 15 countries selected address with anecdotes about former by family and friends in honor of the Adrian Zacharias, of Germany, to President Bill Clinton and former late Professor Kinyon (’33), a recog- deliver a graduation address. Zacharias Vice President Walter Mondale (’56), nized commercial law scholar and spoke of being “amazed by the segued into the tale of a mortifying member of the Law School faculty incredible diversity of classes offered” classroom encounter with her 1L for 40 years. The honorees were and thanked the Law School staff and torts professor, and arrived at her Jessica Clarke, Tenured Teacher of the community for their welcoming theme: respect for the law, and the Year; Linus Chan, Clinical Teacher of spirit, the professors for teaching with idea that “the rule of law begets the Year; and Mitchell E. Zamoff, passion and vigor, and his LL.M. democracy.” Klobuchar also disputed Teacher of the Year in Practice. classmates for sharing an intense the idea that “a Supreme Court Three special student awards were intellectual adventure. justice is supposed to… just rub- presented: the Excellence in Public Kerry McGuire, was chosen by her ber-stamp the views of the president Service Award, to Kerry McGuire; classmates to deliver the J.D. gradua- who appointed him or her,” citing
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the example of Minnesotan Harry never settle for excuses. May you find 5 Blackmun, a Nixon “law and order” the courage to make the promise of nominee who, during his 24 years on America’s laws a reality for all…. And the court, adopted more liberal through the legal profession, may you 1 Former Dean David Wippman presents positions—“based on what he find not only a worthy career, but Professor Linus Chan with the 2015-16 thought was right under the law,” also a moral calling.” Stanley V. Kinyon Clinical Teacher of Klobuchar said. Regent McMillan conferred the Year Award. “In too many communities across degrees on the J.D., LL.M., and 2 Linda Lokensgard keeps the faculty in line. our country,” said Assistant Attorney Masters of Science in Patent Law 3 Graduates receive their diplomas on the General Gupta, head of the Civil graduates. The J.D. class had selected Northrop Auditorium stage. Rights Division at the U.S. Professors Ann Burkhart and Brad 4 Left to right: University of Minnesota Regent Department of Justice, “we can see a Clary (’75) to present their diplomas; David McMillan (’87), former Dean David dramatic gap between what the law the LL.M. class chose Director of Wippman, United States Assistant Attorney guarantees… and what people International and Graduate Programs General Vanita Gupta, Professor Jessica experience.” The question facing the Khary Hornsby (’05); and the Clarke, Professor Linus Chan, Minnesota graduates, she said, is “how will you, M.S.P.L. class chose Program Director Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Karen Hanson, as lawyers, respond?” Her answer Chris Frank. The ceremonies con- the University of Minnesota’s executive invoked “a proud Minnesotan, a cluded with the singing of “Hail, vice president and provost musical genius who left us far too Minnesota!”, led by 10 singers from 5 Left to right: 2016 graduates Kaiya Lyons, early—Prince—who once said, ‘We Theatre of the Relatively Talentless Andrew J. Glasnovich, Kerry McGuire, ain’t got no time for excuses, the (TORT). The St. Anthony Brass Adrian Zacharias, Nicholas Bednar promised land belongs to all.’ Class of Quintet provided accompaniment 2016, may you find the ambition to and departing procession music. n
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ORIENTATION 2016: THE START OF “AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY”
J.D. PROFILE CLASS OF 2019
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AT 8:30 A.M. ON AUG. 30, THE extraordinary intellectual and students have each completed a law J.D. class of 2019 convened in personal journey that will challenge degree in their home country and Mondale Hall for the start of Law you and change you… and you will come to the Law School to further School orientation. The next three find that you have chosen a great their legal education and broaden days would be packed with welcomes, place to do so.” their experience. introductions, and briefings, inter- Assistant Dean of Students Erin The backgrounds of this year’s mixed with legal writing sessions, Keyes took a few moments to speak class members include government professorial insights, a mock criminal about a particular alumnus—one who service, energy, accounting, aviation, law class, meetings with career graduated 60 years ago, and for whom teaching, the humanities, physics, counselors, working lunches, an ice the building that houses the Law law enforcement, medical technology, cream social, a Law Council social, School is named. “Vice President and environmental work. One and the ever-popular Great Law Walter Mondale,” she said, “exempli- student opened a pizzeria in China. School Scavenger Hunt. fies a strong tradition of passionate Their legal interests range from The class is drawn from 31 U.S. citizen lawyering that is a hallmark judicial reform to sustainable energy, states and 4 foreign countries. Its of the University of Minnesota Law from human rights to finance law, members speak more than a dozen School, and that you are now part of. from anti-corruption to administra- languages and hold undergraduate The idea of citizenship is key here. tive law, and from criminal law to degrees from 105 U.S. and interna- You are entering into the first step intellectual property. tional institutions. Class members of not just a job at the end of three have served in the military, in VISTA, years but a life in the law”—a life of Master of Science in and in Teach for America; have citizenship, connectedness, and service, Patent Law students interned for governors, the FBI, and Keyes said, for which there is no The Law School’s Master of Science the White House; and have worked better exemplar than Mondale (’56). in Patent Law program begins its in such disparate jobs as chemist, third year with a class of 10 students, financial analyst, EMT, and sheep LL.M. students two of them from the LL.M. farmer. The 2016-17 LL.M. students arrived program. M.S.P.L. candidates start Newly-arrived Dean Garry W. and began their orientation in early their academic year with a two- Jenkins quipped to the students that August with an intensive three-week week course introducing them to he felt as if he were a fellow 1L. “We Introduction to American Law course. the American legal system and the all decided to join Minnesota Law for This year’s LL.M. enrollment totals law school environment. Their the same reason: It is one of the 61 students—35 women, 26 men. subsequent coursework will focus absolute finest places in the world to They come from 20 different on patent law, patent prosecution, study law and legal institutions,” he countries, with the largest contingent patent portfolio management, and said. “You are about to embark on an (22 students) from China. LL.M. persuasive writing. n
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LEADING SOCIAL ADVOCATES, Alabama) presented their forthcom- a federal judge, prominent law ing article “Four Ironies of Campus professors from across the country, Climate.” Judge Alex Kozinski of the and hundreds of lawyers gathered U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th at Mondale Hall on Oct. 21 for the District emphasized the importance Minnesota Law Review’s 2016 sympo- of robust debate, even on issues we 3 sium, “Balancing First Amendment find offensive. As a society, he said, we Rights with an Inclusive Environment have “lost the fervor to protect speech 1 Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of on Public University Campuses.” with which we disagree,” which Appeals for the 9th Circuit After a warm welcome by Dean “impoverishes us in our public 2 Gerald Kerska ('17), articles editor for the Garry Jenkins, the symposium began discourse.” Nekima Levy-Pounds, past Minnesota Law Review Symposium with a panel on university code of president of the Minneapolis chapter 3 Nekima Levy-Pounds, past president conduct policies that limit student of the NAACP, brought her experi- of the NAACP Minneapolis chapter speech. Will Creeley, vice president of ence as a social justice advocate and legal and public advocacy at the law professor to bear in discussing Foundation for Individual Rights in how issues of race factor into campus are on their face horrible.” Professor Education, spoke on current threats climate debates. Heidi Kitrosser presented her to student speech. Mary-Rose Nadine Strossen (New York Law forthcoming article “Free Speech, Papandrea (University of North School) began the afternoon session Higher Education, and the PC Carolina) noted in her remarks that, with the keynote address, “Why Narrative,” which focuses on how under Supreme Court precedent, Should We Defend ‘Freedom for the popular rhetoric about free speech university students sometimes receive Thought that We Hate’?” During her has evolved over several decades. less First Amendment protection than presentation, Strossen noted that “the Robert M. O’Neil (University of high school or middle school way to counter [hate speech] is Virginia) discussed how the academic students. Alexander Tsesis (Loyola through speaking rather than forcing freedom to deny historical events University Chicago) discussed silence.” Strossen also engaged the (i.e., the Holocaust) is contextualized campus speech and harassment. Dean audience in a lively question-and- within the speaker’s expertise. Jenkins served as moderator. answer session. Symposium video will be available The second panel, moderated by The final panel, moderated by soon at www.minnesotalawreview. Professor Dale Carpenter (Southern Professor Jane Kirtley, addressed org. Panelists’ articles will be pub- Methodist University), offered academic freedom. Dean Vikram lished in Issue 5 of Volume 101. n differing perspectives on campus First Amar (University of Illinois) observed Amendment issues. Richard Delgado that “hate speech codes can be hard By Gerald Kerska (’17), symposium and Jean Stefancic (University of to justify, but many challenged codes articles editor
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SPRING CELEBRATION OF PHILANTHROPY (JUNE 14, 2016) AND WILLIAM B. LOCKHART CLUB DINNER (SEPTEMBER 28, 2016)
Events honoring the Law School’s leadership donors provide our alumni, faculty, and friends with a chance to reconnect with each other and with the Law School. At the SPRING CELEBRATION OF PHILANTHROPY in June— a farewell event for outgoing dean David Wippman—guests had the chance to hear from University of Minnesota Provost Karen Hanson, Bruce Mooty (’80), and Dean Wippman himself. In September, our leadership donors gathered at the Commons Hotel for the 2016 WILLIAM B. LOCKHART CLUB DINNER. Attendees were introduced to Dean Garry W. Jenkins and also heard from Board of Advisors Chair Jay Kim (’88) and current student Andrew Leiendecker (’17).
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FALL 2016 SPRING 2017 LEGAL HISTORY PERSPECTIVES ON TAXATION WORKSHOPS
Perspectives on Taxation lectures Workshops are held on Fridays from are held from 12-1:15 p.m. in the FEBRUARY 9–10:30 a.m. in Room 473 of Mondale Lindquist and Vennum Conference 6 Pam Olson (’80) Hall and are open to the public. To Room. A buffet lunch is provided. CLE U.S. Deputy Tax Leader receive the paper in advance of the and CPE credits are given. The series and Washington National Tax lecture, email Professor Barbara Welke is sponsored by the University of Services Leader, PwC at [email protected]. Minnesota Law School Corporate “Tax Policy Under the New
Institute Forum on Taxation and Presidential Administration” Regulation. RSVP to cdaszkie@umn. NOVEMBER edu. Contact: Professor Kristin 4 Evan TaparataEvan Taparata Hickman, [email protected]. University of Minnesota Syllabus—“Law, Citizenship, and Empire in U.S. History“
DECEMBER EMPLOYEE AND 2 Allison Schwartz University of Minnesota FACULTY MILESTONES “Debt’s Seduction and Defining Women’s Worth: The Patriarchal Dance of Law and Finance in the Twenty-two members of the Law 10 YEARS New Debt Economy” School community reached a years- Professor Susanna Blumenthal 9 Jessica Arnett of-service milestone during the year Stefani Conyers, Office and University of Minnesota ending Oct. 15, 2016. We extend our Payroll Manager, Finance “Future States and States of sincere thanks to all of the following Professor Tom Cotter Exception: Native Sovereignty, employees for their commitment and Marsha Freeman, Senior Fellow, Land, and ‘Incorporated’ Territories” contributions to the Law School. Human Rights Center Dee Gibbons, Faculty Executive 30 YEARS Office and Administrative Professor Carol Chomsky Specialist Professor Claire Hill 25 YEARS Cynthia Huff, Director of FALL 2016 Professor Jean Sanderson Communications PUBLIC LAW Professor Heidi Kitrosser WORKSHOPS 20 YEARS Professor Alexandra Klass Vicente Garces, Reference and Professor William McGeveran Collection Development Librarian, Professor Francesco Parisi Workshops are held from 4:10-6 p.m. Law Library Nicole Smiley, Clinics in Room 5 and are open to faculty Paula Swanson, Policy and Administrator and students enrolled in the affiliated Communications Coordinator, seminar. Student Services 5 YEARS
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SOTOMAYOR IS INFORMAL, INSIGHTFUL IN LAW SCHOOL APPEARANCE
JUDGES CAN APPEAR ALOOF. After all, they don black robes, are perched on high platforms, and make rulings that are rarely overturned. Sonia Sotomayor, an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, is not that kind of judge. As the featured speaker at the 2016 Stein Lecture, sponsored by the Law School, Sotomayor wandered the aisles of Northrop Memorial Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Professor Robert Stein (’61) Auditorium, shaking hands and sometimes embracing audience members while answering questions. Sotomayor’s first case was, However, Sotomayor and Scalia “My mother called me ají, which she quipped, a “tiny, little” one had giant ideological differences. is ‘jumping pepper’ in Spanish,” called Citizens United v. Federal “There were moments when I she explained. Communications Commission. wanted to shake him. There were A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes In preparation for that first oral things he said that if I had a base- at age 8 didn’t slow her down—but argument, she jotted down two ball bat…” she added, her voice it did give her pause. “Why was I pages of possible questions. A trailing off as audience members picked?” she wondered. That sense dogged readiness is essential, she shook with laughter. of vulnerability translated into believes. She later turned serious on the making the most of every moment. “What I don’t tolerate is unpre- topic of political divisiveness. “I had a sense early on that life pared lawyers,” she said. “Lawyers “We better get to know each other would be short,” she said. make the process fair. To be lazy, or better,” Sotomayor said. “Because Despite growing up in a rough not spending time giving your best, if we don’t figure out how to live housing project in the Bronx, is unacceptable to me.” together, we’re going to continue Sotomayor earned admission to While the public often jumps to to be in a kind of warfare.” Princeton University just a few years quick conclusions following Asked about being the first Latina after the institution began accept- Supreme Court rulings, there’s a lot appointed to the Supreme Court, ing women. In 1976, she graduated of legal nuance happening behind Sotomayor said, “I am a justice for summa cum laude from Princeton the scenes. “No answer is as clear- everyone. I don’t look at it through and enrolled at Yale Law School, cut as you believe it to be,” she said. the lens of being a Hispanic. I look where she served as editor of the “You’re reacting to the outcome. at you as a person, not as part of a prestigious Yale Law Journal. We’re reacting to the process.” group in society. What has taken When she began practicing law, Sotomayor voted with the my breath away is the emotion of few women held legal leadership minority in Citizens United. The Latinos. It’s a source of pride that positions. That changed in 1981, majority, which included the late gives me hope.” when Sandra Day O’Connor was associate justice Antonin Scalia, Created by Professor Robert Stein appointed to the U.S. Supreme ruled 5-4 that U.S. law couldn’t curb (’61), the Stein Lecture series Court. speech by corporations. features talks by prominent judges, “What did it mean to me?” Scalia died in February, just lawyers, and government officials Sotomayor asked. “Hope.” months after delivering the 2015 on a topic of national or interna- Twenty-eight years later, Stein Lecture at the Law School. In tional interest. Past speakers include Sotomayor became just the third her talk, Sotomayor referred to him U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth woman to serve on the nation’s as “Nino” and talked about how Bader Ginsburg and Vice President highest court. “I was scared, close he was to other justices, Walter F. Mondale (’56). n seriously,” she said of her new role. including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “I was petrified. There is a sense of Elena Kagan, and herself. By Todd Melby, a freelance writer fear of taking on a position of so “Losing him was like losing a and radio producer based in much responsibility.” member of the family,” she said. Minneapolis
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PROMOTING FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP PROMOTES THE LAW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL faculty members have always been influential and prolific scholars. According to a recent study conducted by the highly regarded blog Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, the Law School ranked 15th among more than 200 American law schools (tied with the University of Michigan) for the number of times its tenured faculty’s published scholarship was cited in legal journals from 2010 through 2014. Research and publication on a wide range of topics inform faculty members’ teaching, enhancing their ability to fulfill the Law School’s primary mission of educating students. Engagement in scholarly writing also fulfills the Law School’s mission to “contribute substantially to knowledge of the legal order through the publication and other dissemination of scholarship.” In addition to providing faculty research support services throughout the research and writing process, the Law Library plays a significant role in promoting faculty scholarship to a broad audience.
The Repository greatly enhances (SSRN) and edited by Professor Brett the visibility of Law School faculty McDonnell, includes early drafts as scholarship by allowing researchers well as published articles. The series throughout the world to discover the may be accessed on the Law School’s work using public search engines website (https://www.law.umn.edu/ such as Google. To date, the our-faculty/working-papers-ssrn) or Repository’s Faculty Scholarship through SSRN (http://papers.ssrn. Collection includes more than 550 com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results. journal articles, which have generated cfm?form_name=journalBrowse&- nearly 55,000 downloads in the past journal_id=268661). year. Uploading articles—both retrospectively and prospectively—to Faculty Scholarship the Repository is an ongoing process, Database and the collection will continue to The Law Library tracks faculty grow. The Repository also hosts the publications closely and maintains a complete 17-volume archives of the faculty scholarship database that Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & generates the faculty publications Technology. pages on each Law School faculty member’s online profile page. On-Demand Video Archive Each publication page provides a The Law Library is currently devel- comprehensive view of the faculty Law School Scholarship oping a video archive that will member’s scholarship throughout Repository provide access to recorded lectures his or her career. The database also The Law Library created and delivered at the Law School. This feeds into the Law School’s Recent maintains the University of project will enable individuals unable Faculty Publications page (https:// Minnesota Law School Scholarship to attend a given event to view the www.law.umn.edu/our-faculty/ Repository (http://scholarship.law. presentation from any location at recent-publications), which features umn.edu), which provides full-text, any time. new books, journal articles, and book open access to Law School faculty chapters authored by members of publications. When permitted by Legal Studies Research the faculty. n publication agreements—and with Papers Series express permission from the faculty The Law Library facilitates submis- For more information about the members concerned—the sion of Law School faculty scholar- promotion of Law School faculty Repository hosts the published ship to the University of Minnesota scholarship, contact Connie Lenz, versions of scholarly articles written Law School Legal Studies Research associate director for research ser- by faculty during their tenure at the Papers Series. This series, hosted by vices and collection development, Law School. the Social Science Research Network at [email protected].
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NEW LAW LIBRARY FACULTY
Loren Turner joined the Law School Scott Uhl (’09) returned to the Law in May as its foreign, comparative, School in November as its technol- and international law (FCIL) ogy innovation and reference librarian. Turner specializes in FCIL librarian. Uhl serves as a member of research and provides support to the Law Library’s reference team faculty, students, and other patrons. and leads the library’s efforts to She also teaches an upper-division implement innovative technologies seminar on FCIL research, and to enhance delivery of services to participates in the development of the Law School community. He also A MONUMENT TO the Library's extensive foreign, manages the Law School comparative, and international law Scholarship Repository, which THE PROLIFIC collections. provides full-text, open access to MIND Previously, Turner was a reference scholarship produced by the Law librarian at the University of Florida School. Thanks to a generous donation Levin College of Law, where she Prior to joining the Law School, from United HealthCare Services, co-coached the school’s William C. Uhl was a law library fellow at the and in partnership with the Vis International Commercial University of Colorado Law School. Weisman Art Museum, the Law Arbitration Moot competition team. In addition to his Law School J.D., School recently installed a new Turner earned a J.D., cum laude, Uhl holds an M.S. in library and sculpture—Brower Hatcher's from the American University information science from the Brainstorm—in the Toyota Washington College of Law, an M.S. University of Illinois and a B.A. in Courtyard. in library and information science philosophy from the University of from the University of Illinois, and a Minnesota. Brainstorm belongs to Hatcher’s B.A., magna cum laude, from Loyola Uhl currently serves on the extensive series of sculptures University Chicago, where she Strategic Planning Committee for shaping space with steel wire majored in Italian. the American Association of Law and incorporating whimsy with Turner’s most recent article, “The Libraries’ Academic Law Libraries suspended cast glass objects Vis in Vienna: My Experience as Special Interest Section. (his Prophecy of the Ancients has Co-Coach of the UF Law Vis Team,” long been a popular fixture at the appeared in the July 2015 issue of Minneapolis Sculpture Garden). the American Association of Law Hatcher has completed more Libraries (AALL) publication than 50 public art projects Spectrum. She currently serves as throughout the United States. secretary/treasurer of AALL’s Foreign, Comparative & Interna- —Luke Johnson tional Law Special Interest Section.
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IMPACT of GIVING
PAYING IT FORWARD WITH SCHOLARSHIP GIFTS
PRIOR TO BECOMING A LAW his legal degree to great advantage. at the Law School. It’s named for student, Greg Soukup (’76) worked “I always told people that you needed Soukup’s mother, who passed away in at his father’s Anoka, Minn., three skills: you needed to think 2015, but who was a huge advocate construction firm and began taking well, write well, and speak well. for his education. accounting classes through University That’s pretty much what law school Today, the Soukups are paying it of Minnesota Extension—just in case teaches you.” forward by helping other young he decided to pursue business law. Today, Soukup is retired but keeps people achieve their dreams. n It proved to be a judicious decision. busy in other ways, partnering with Throughout his years at the University his brother in a metal-fabrication By Karin B. Miller, a freelance writer of Minnesota Law School, Soukup company, Warrior Manufacturing; based in the Twin Cities continued to take accounting classes, volunteering; and giving back to and by the time he graduated with educational institutions. honors, he also had the equivalent of The first-generation college student Gifts to the Partners in Excellence an undergraduate accounting degree. says, “One of my big passions has Annual Fund make a significant No wonder, then, that after passing always been helping students realize impact on the University of the bar, Soukup spent his 32-year their academic and career goals.” Minnesota Law School and our career with the accounting firm Recently, Soukup and his wife, students. To give, contact the Ernst & Young—and while he did Mary Jo Carr (CLA ’77), created the Office of Advancement at not practice law, he says he employed Rosemary Soukup Scholarship Fund 612-626-8671.
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SCHOLARSHIP STORIES IN THE PAST YEAR, DONOR SUPPORT ALLOWED THE LAW SCHOOL TO AWARD MORE THAN 95% OF OUR DESERVING STUDENTS SCHOLARSHIPS.
GRATEFUL GOPHER NADIA ANGUIANO-WEHDE (’17)
At this year’s Gopher Gratitude Day, on Sept. 27, Nadia Anguiano-Wehde (’17) had a chance to say thank you to the Robina Foundation, which, among other generous donors, makes public interest education and outreach possible at the Law School. The Center for New Americans— the first program of its kind in the nation—was created in response to OLIVIA GARBER (’17) ANDREW LEIENDECKER a critical, unmet need for pro bono LAW SCHOOL (’17) DEAN’S DISTINGUISHED legal services in our immigrant and SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT SCHOLARSHIP refugee communities. Nearly 400,000 Minnesota residents are While attending the Law School, CONCENTRATIONS: foreign-born; many are refugees Olivia has interned at U.S. Civil litigation and international law. and asylees who fled their home Immigration and Customs countries because of war, persecu- Enforcement, been a student legal BEST EXPERIENCE: tion, and human rights abuses. writing instructor, and worked in My participation in National Moot the Business Law Clinic—sources Court allowed me to strengthen of practical experience she values my legal writing and oral advocacy highly. skills, and I believe it played a crucial role in helping me find MOST REWARDING EXPERIENCE? professional success over the Working as a summer associate past year. at Gray Plant Mooty was extremely rewarding. The variety of projects CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES: really put my legal education into I am serving as Law Council practice. president for 2016-17. This year our goals are to facilitate interaction FAVORITE FACULTY MEMBERS? throughout the student body and in “Thank you for helping me pursue my Though I am fortunate to have had the Twin Cities professional student dreams of helping Minnesota’s immigrant many excellent teachers at the Law community, with an emphasis on community—and thank you for funding School, Professors Francis Shen and joint programming and diversity the Center for New Americans, the place that John Matheson really stand out for initiatives. makes it all possible.” me. Both made a real effort to help students and were very accessible FAVORITE FACULTY MEMBERS? both in and out of the classroom. I have greatly enjoyed working as a research assistant for Professors Students like Nadia collaborate HOW DID SCHOLARSHIPS HELP? Oren Gross and Neha Jain, both of with CNA partners to provide The scholarships I received have whom taught me during my 1L year. urgently needed legal services to made this education possible for They have given me the opportunity noncitizens, pursue litigation that me, and set me on a path I truly to research fascinating and diverse will improve our nation’s immigra- love. The further I progress in law areas of international and domestic tion laws, and educate noncitizens school, the more deeply I appreci- law, and they have been great role about their rights. By combining ate the opportunities I have here at models, providing me with crucial resources and expertise, the Center the University of Minnesota. When I academic and professional advice. and its partners expand both the become a lawyer, it will be because I availability and impact of pro bono was helped by people who donated POST-GRADUATION PLANS: representation. n money to make that possible. I I will be clerking for Justice David didn’t get here by myself. In the Lillehaug on the Minnesota Supreme To learn more about how you, too, future, I hope I can help others like Court for a year, then working as an can make an impact, please visit me get here, too. associate at Briggs and Morgan. give.umn.edu/law/.
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326812_Guts_04-19.indd 19 11/10/16 11:17 AM GARRY W. JENKINS Lawyer. Scholar. Leader. Dean.
By Cathy Madison
The door to Dean Garry Jenkins’ office stands all the way open. Inside, books don’t overwhelm the bookcase, the desk is less than cluttered, and the photo cluster on the credenza is modest, highlighted by the sweet image of his baby nephew. It is Jenkins himself who fills the room with spirit and optimism, greeting this visitor with a warm handshake, wide grin, easy laugh, and yellow pad scrawled with notes, just a few.
PLUCKED FROM HIS POST AS ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR of the search committee. “We had to talk him into applying. academic affairs and John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor He has that perfect combination of a remarkable career but of Law at the Ohio State University (OSU) Moritz College also the right sense of engagement, humility, and academic of Law, Jenkins took the helm in July as William S. Pattee gravitas—all those things you really want.” Professor of Law and the Law School’s 11th dean, succeed- When pressed, Jenkins admits to having passed on similar ing David Wippman. Educated in both public policy and opportunities, but notes that his 12-year stint at OSU—like law at Harvard and grounded in both transactional practice Minnesota, a large Big Ten land-grant institution—prepared and philanthropic management, Jenkins is a much-accom- him well for this one. “For me to leave OSU, I needed plished man with a long view. His high aspirations are more amazing students and a world-class faculty devoted to collegial than personal, and he has no need for show. teaching and scholarship. The Law School has an outstand- “Incredibly funny and wicked smart, the kind of man ing reputation for innovation and faculty excellence. This who doesn’t wear his learning and keen intelligence on environment allows the energy, excitement, and momen- his sleeve” is how one colleague describes him. “He’s very tum it takes to do something different,” he says. “These are thoughtful, not heavy-handed. He does a lot of listening. challenging times for law schools.” He draws people in and gets them to talk,” adds Martha Jenkins is no stranger to challenge. Born in Newark and Chamallas, holder of the Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law at relocated to South Orange, N.J., at age 5, he is the older of OSU and a close friend of Jenkins despite their two-decade two brothers. His mother, a history teacher, and his father, a age gap. She recounts her first impression of him, gleaned computer programmer and community college instructor, in 2004 from a stack of resumes. were the first in their families to attend college. They placed “I remember putting four big stars on his application, a high value on education. more than on anyone else’s. He had such an interesting “My parents encouraged us to think for ourselves, and combination of experiences, and he’d done a lot for at the end of the day, ideas mattered,” says Jenkins. “I was someone not very old,” she says. His research and teaching obsessed with rules and equality, and I was argumentative.” interests—nonprofit law, corporate law, and global justice— He was also a star of sorts, serving as newspaper editor- also “straddled that public/private divide,” a stretch that in-chief, head tour guide, Model U.N. president, mock trial speaks not only to his broad background but also to the captain, a student government representative, and a debate collaborative approach for which he is known. team member in addition to earning top grades. But it was “He was my number-one pick,” says David Potter (’80), the summer study session at Seton Hall University’s law partner at Fox Rothschild in Minneapolis, immediate past school, for which he was selected as a high school junior,
chair of the Law School Board of Advisors, and member that set him on his path. Tim Rummelhoff by Photos
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to do something different.” —DEAN GARRY JENKINS
CONT > Photos by Tim Rummelhoff by Photos
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“We had to talk him into applying. He has that perfect combination of a remarkable career but also the right sense of engagement, humility, and academic gravitas—all those things
you really want.” —DAVID POTTER (’80), SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER
< CONT “Law had always intrigued me. I thought of it as a place left an “indelible mark, a legacy. We wouldn’t be the where those who cared about justice and fairness could see institution we are without his contributions. I’m pleased it played out in the real world,” he says. That devotion to that we had him as long as we did.” justice and desire to sculpt change blossomed at the small Michaels emphasizes Jenkins’ readiness for the office of but selective Haverford College, outside Philadelphia, which dean. “There is no question that these are challenging times he chose for its intimate campus community, top-notch for legal education,” he says. “Maintaining and building academics, and inclusive value system. excellence in a challenging environment takes a leader who “In high school, I was the diversity, essentially. When can both look for opportunity and innovation and also lead you’re different, it’s hard,” he says. “In college, however, the discussion in an institution where changes and adapta- many students of color were fully integrated into Haverford. tions may be necessary for the collective good. The key to My first year, an administrator advised me to ‘think of the doing that well is respecting the mission of a law school— college as as much yours as anyone else’s,’ and I took that to advancing knowledge and training the next generation of heart.” A political science major, he graduated with honors, lawyers. Garry has a firm understanding and a passion for then worked in public affairs at the Prudential Insurance both pieces of that mission.” Co., spending time in the public relations department and He also knows well what he is up against. Law school the Prudential Foundation. He then went on to earn his enrollment has plunged across the country, making it master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy imperative to recruit and attract the best students. School and his J.D. from Harvard Law School (again Fortunately, those are the kinds of students who have always graduating with honors), where he served as editor-in-chief been associated with the Law School, Jenkins says. “We of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. have a brand identity, and it’s incumbent on us to continue Following graduation, he clerked for Judge Timothy K. that. It’s a challenge to remain relevant.” Lewis of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. He embraces what is already working well, such as a In 1999, he joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New curriculum that effectively blends theory, policy and York, where he continued working with charities and practice, and strong support for research. He also hopes to foundations and also handled private investment funds and launch new and elevate existing initiatives within catego- mergers and acquisitions. The collaborative aspects of ries, expand diversity, and enhance and develop partnerships transactional law, where everyone can win, appealed to him within the faculty, the University as a whole, and the in a way that litigation never did. “I’m not as argumentative community. He dubs the current clinical programs as I used to be,” he says with a grin. “astounding” and aims to increase experiential learning and In 2002, the opportunity to become chief operating skills-based course opportunities. officer and general counsel of the $200-million-plus One of Jenkins’ primary goals is to ensure that the Goldman Sachs Foundation “fell into my lap, and I jumped curriculum is relevant to future employment. Recognizing at the chance,” he says. He focused exclusively on educa- that today’s young lawyers will need management and tion, tackling K-12 school reform and developing a diverse leadership skills throughout their professional careers, he pool of high-potential middle- and high-school youth to co-founded and directed OSU’s Program on Law and attend elite colleges and explore business and entrepreneur- Leadership, a multifaceted education and development ial futures. “We were creating little captains of industry,” he initiative, and created a course, Lawyers as Leaders. He also says. “I was very excited about their mission. But the call to serves on the advisory board of the National Center on teach law didn’t go away.” Philanthropy and Law at New York University School of Academia offered the chance to write about issues and Law and is a widely cited expert on philanthrocapitalism, pursue all of his passions, from government and business to an emerging model that applies business techniques and philanthropy and global justice. He launched as an assistant practices to charitable giving. These ideas may well find professor at OSU, where he maintains fond friendships and their way into Law School curriculum in some form. But which he characterizes as “a wonderful place to start my Jenkins is in no hurry. career. It’s dynamic, collegial, and a great intellectual “He is someone whose power and eminence within a environment.” Apparently the feeling is mutual; Alan group evolves over time. He doesn’t demand or command Michaels, dean of OSU’s law school since 2008, says Jenkins the typical swaggering centrality. He earns the respect of
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The Dean’s List
FAVORITE QUOTATION: “Be bold, be bold, everywhere be bold, but not too bold.”
BOOK ON YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE: NIGHTSTAND: Broadcast News. It’s The Gilded Years, by wickedly funny and Karin Tanabe smart. After all these years, it’s still my people,” says Kimberly Benston, president of Haverford ON YOUR PLAYLIST: favorite. College, where Jenkins sits on the governing board. “He Adele, Seal, the has a very profound respect for the traditions of scholarship Hamilton soundtrack FAVORITE FOOD: and legal knowledge. And he’s innovative, but in an evolu- It comes from right tionary and connective way rather than a disruptive, jolting FAVORITE PODCASTS: here in Minnesota— way. He is shrewd and forward-looking, with a long view Fresh Air (NPR), Pop Cheerios! of where legal education is and where it is going.” Culture Happy Hour As for life on the tundra, Jenkins says he had no idea (NPR), and More BEST THINGS ABOUT what to expect here in Minnesota. So far, with winter yet Perfect (Radiolab) THE TWIN CITIES to arrive, he is delighted by easy living, short commutes, (SO FAR): and accessible tennis courts. A self-described foodie, he has ON YOUR IPAD The lakes, Restaurant designated Restaurant Alma as his local favorite but realizes FOR PLANE RIDES: Alma, and the Guthrie he has hardly had a chance to cover the culinary landscape. House of Cards Theater “It was always exciting to beat him to a new restaurant (Netflix),This Is Us opening in Columbus,” reports Michaels, admitting that (NBC), and Veep (HBO) FAVORITE PASTIME: such an occurrence was rare. Tennis (usually doubles By all accounts, Jenkins is a pop culture pundit who IF YOU WEREN’T because I’m older and makes friends easily, choosing those with common interests A LAW PROFESSOR, slower with each and sympathies, regardless of age or other superficial YOU WOULD BE: passing year) characteristics. His colleagues say he loves discussing ideas Running a philanthropic of all kinds, from politics to Hollywood, and is eager to organization (but CHILDHOOD HERO: explore the world at large. “He’s my go-to guy for the there’s also a frustrated Arthur Ashe latest movie or cutting-edge TV show,” Michaels says. television network (Jenkins readily discloses his own current obsession with executive inside me The Americans.) waiting to get out) “Garry, to me, is the source of all information. He often says what he thinks I’ll like, and he doesn’t tell everyone the same thing,” adds Chamallas. “He knows his audience. You don’t need Amazon if you have Garry.” Haverford president Benston describes him as just plain fun to be around. “You want to be in the room with people to be impressed with the unrelenting ambition and when Garry is there. He has a great smile, which is passion people have for the Law School. Law touches emblematic of his sunny and smart and tempered vision, every pressing issue in society, and I look forward to yet he doesn’t compromise on quality or ethics,” Benston collaborating with my peers on every grand challenge. says. “The potential of the Law School and Garry growing I want us to be known as an inviting and supportive together seems ideal to me. He is ready for this move in community,” Jenkins says. his life and career. He’s young and vital, he’s earned it, “Minnesota is really fortunate to have attracted Garry and he’s wise well beyond his years.” Jenkins,” adds Michaels. “I know it will be a success.” n Seemingly undaunted by the challenges that lie ahead, Jenkins will spend his first months listening, learning, Cathy Madison is a Twin Cities writer and the author of and drawing on the strengths he already sees. “I continue The War Came Home With Him: A Daughter’s Memoir.
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This article is part of an ongoing series highlighting professors’ community work at state, national, and international levels. For all the differences in the issues they tackle, the citizens profiled in this series have much in common. They trace the roots of their current service to early educational and professional experiences. They thrive on putting expertise and passion to work on causes in which they believe. They bring fresh perspectives back to students in hopes of inspiring them to put their own scholarship into practice..
Myron Orfield: A Relentless Focus on Equality
SIXTY YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL Ph.D.,” says Orfield, whose career goal was teaching law. Rights Act of 1957, last century’s first legislative attempt to “I was always divided between public life and academia. redress the wrongs created by segregation, Myron Orfield Jr. It was hard to decide between the two.” After earning his is still hard at work, plugging away at this marathon struggle J.D. from the University of Chicago and clerking for 8th for equality and justice for all. “It’s amazing how, if you keep Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Gerald Heaney, who trying, something can happen,” says Orfield, the Earl R. presided over several key civil rights cases, Orfield accepted Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law a research fellowship at Chicago’s Center for Studies in and director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. Criminal Justice that sealed his fate. His future would not “You just have to be persistent about it.” be either/or; instead, he would gather wisdom on multiple Armed with his iconic maps and charts, stocked with fronts and use it to influence policy and legislation on facts to back his patient pleas, and powered by a doggedness multiple levels. his colleagues across the country revere, the “unfailingly nice” Orfield is a formidable foe. “He makes people feel uncomfortable, but in the nicest possible way,” says Betsy “The power of his research and words doesn’t just Julian, who worked with him at the U.S. Department of stop on the pages of a law review. They’re used by Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton advocates, policymakers, and courts to shape the administration. “I’m a huge Myron Orfield fan. He speaks law. And yes, we have made tremendous progress truth to power, which is an old phrase, but it really applies in affirmatively furthering fair housing.” here. He won’t let you deny the undeniable or defend the indefensible without challenge. And over time, he wears you down.” Accompanying narcotics cops on some of Chicago’s Julian is the founder of and chief counsel to the Inclusive nastiest beats, Orfield studied the effects of segregation in a Communities Project in Dallas, whose fair housing case black ghetto so big it defied his imagination. “All these against the Texas Department of Housing and Community things hit you—all the judges are white, all the defendants Affairs triumphed in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. She are black. By the time people are defendants in the criminal says people are finally willing to talk about segregation, justice system, their lives are basically over. The ultimate which wasn’t always the case; the Orfield family dinner consequence is incarceration. Their lives just did not table in south Minneapolis was a notable exception. Orfield function,” he says. was one of six kids whose parents openly supported Orfield saw Minneapolis as an echo, decades behind integration, despite its unpopularity in their working-class Chicago but following the same dismal pattern. Having neighborhood. In 1975, his Washburn High School class come home to serve as a Minnesota assistant attorney was desegregated by court order. His adored older brother, general, he plunged into politics, serving five terms in the Gary, was a ’60s Freedom Rider destined to become a Minnesota House and one in the state Senate before well-known civil rights scholar. That Orfield would select joining the Law School as an associate professor in 2003. the 1957 Civil Rights Act as his thesis topic at Princeton “Academia allows you to think about things in a serious, made perfect sense. straightforward way—about law and how it works, about “I was going to get a Ph.D. in history, then a law degree, the history of integration and housing cases—so you can but I got so interested in politics that I never finished the understand the successes and failures. In the legislature, you
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have less time and less perspective, because you’re moving from one crisis to another,” he says. He characterizes his work as divided equally between law and demographics, and his influence is substantial in policy as well as theory. President Obama, whom he’d known since Obama’s Illinois Senate days, solicited his help on two fair housing rules that stalled during the Clinton administration. “They told me it would take a year and half; it took seven,” Orfield says. “They said I’d have to go to 10 meetings; I went to maybe 100. We had lots of opponents, including the housing lending industry and hundreds of lawyers, and I thought we’d go down in flames. But Obama kept it strong, and the Supreme Court upheld these cases. One, which cited our research, passed by one vote. It was fabulous.” Overall, however, progress creeps. Cities such as Minneapolis are now more segregated than ever, thanks to discriminatory lending practices, tax policies, and city planning miscues that trap minorities in pockets of poverty. Orfield studies these pockets, pointing them out on his maps and advocating remedies to anyone who will listen. Often, the listeners “get really mad,” he says, citing the tumultuous meetings that resulted when he helped subur- ban Eden Prairie redraw its school boundaries. He has encountered much resistance to affordable housing initia- and class inequality: the Choice is Yours Program, for tives in white suburbs—the same suburbs that are now voluntary school desegregation; the Hollman public requesting units. “When I was a young man, they would housing settlement, which demolished or replaced burn me in effigy, and now they’re asking for my help in high-density housing on Minneapolis’s north side; and getting housing. It’s kind of nutty,” he says. “I have noticed the Northside Achievement Zone, designed to close the that things change. People who were your opponents way achievement gap and end generational poverty. Orfield back become your friends later. Not at the moment you says these unique programs, coupled with the city’s think, but eventually.” advanced integrated data system, can lead to “path-breaking “There are not a lot of people like him—the depth with research. I’m very excited.” which he thinks about things and the optimism he brings Orfield’s advocates fully expect to see the results of his to his work, analysis, and public presentation. He’s good at labor, not to mention his energy, optimism, and hope, play identifying the source of inequalities, but even more, he’s out on a national stage. “I would love to see him in focused on solutions. He seems to believe it’s possible for Washington, D.C. We wanted to bring him back, and in a our democratic society to do the right thing and be future administration, I hope it’s something he’d be open forward-thinking,” says Susan Eaton, Brandeis University to,” says Trasviña. “But he is able to accomplish much from professor and director of the Sillerman Center for the Minnesota. His scholarship is having an impact, and he’s Advancement of Philanthropy. “He has been profoundly overflowing in his commitment to the issues.” influential in shifting the discourse, but that change is slow. The Grand Challenges grant is among several, says Orfield, He challenges some basic narratives in our society, so and his goal list is long. He wants to see fewer “trendy people resist him and what he has to say. But a growing things like charter schools, which aren’t working very well,” number of people are paying attention.” and more urban magnet schools, which can strengthen Orfield is “extraordinarily respected in a field that is very efforts to integrate and stabilize neighborhoods. By 2040, controversial. He has an academic passion for equity and he points out, no racial majority will exist in this country. rights but also the political acumen that can make good “We have to make a choice about whether to live as one ideas into good policy,” adds John Trasviña, former assistant nation or many metropolitan neighborhoods, and I don’t secretary for fair housing at HUD and current dean at the think people have done that. New York City, for example, is University of San Francisco School of Law. “The power of not functioning. Seattle and Portland function better, with his research and words doesn’t just stop on the pages of a much lower segregation rates. The country has to decide law review. They’re used by advocates, policymakers, and whether it wants to be more like Seattle and Portland than courts to shape the law. And yes, we have made tremendous Chicago and Detroit,” says Orfield. “I’m cautiously optimis- progress in affirmatively furthering fair housing.” tic about the future. Martin Luther King Jr. was right when By all counts, Orfield’s star is still rising. In September, he said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it does the University awarded him and Christopher Uggen, bend toward justice.” Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight Professor of Sociology and Law, a $250,000 Grand Challenges grant By Cathy Madison, a freelance writer and editor based to study Minnesota’s most ambitious efforts to redress racial in the Twin Cities
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Susanna the 2016 commencement ceremony. Allan Erbsen Blumenthal was was reappointed appointed to the Laura J. Cooper to a Solly Robins Julius E. Davis was elected a vice Distinguished Chair in Law, president of the Research effective July 1. National Fellowship, Academy of effective July 1. Linus Chan Arbitrators for the His 2010 article “Impersonal received the 2016-17 term. Jurisdiction” was cited by the Iowa Stanley V. Kinyon Supreme Court in its ruling on the Clinical Teacher Thomas case of State of Iowa v. Demetrius S. of the Year Award, Cotter’s 1998 Rimmer et al. presented at paper “An the 2016 Economic Claire Hill commencement ceremony. Analysis of was honored by Damages Rules the Minneapolis- Jessica Clarke in Intellectual based daily received the Property Law,” co-authored with newspaper Stanley V. Kinyon Roger Blair, was cited by the Finance & Tenured Teacher U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Commerce as of the Year Award, Circuit in an opinion in the case one of its “Top Women in Finance” presented at of Sicre de Fontbrune v. Wofsy. for 2016.
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Garry Jenkins Amy Monahan providing legal services and access to was appointed to was appointed to justice to individuals and groups most the William S. the Melvin C. in need; and service to the cause of Pattee Chair in Steen and clinical legal education.” Moriearty Law, effective Corporate co-directs the Child Advocacy and July 1. Donors Juvenile Justice Clinic. Professorship Heidi in Law, effective July 1. Fionnuala Ní Kitrosser’s Aoláin received article “Classified Perry the 2016 Society Information Moriearty of Legal Scholars Leaks and Free received the 2016 Research Speech” was cited Shanara Gilbert Activities Fund in an American Award from the Award to Civil Liberties Union amicus brief Association of advance research on her project filed in support of Chelsea Manning’s American Law “Conceptualizing and Quantifying appeal of her conviction and sentence Schools Section on Clinical Legal Maternal Harms.” The award will under the Espionage Act. Education. The award, the nation’s enable archival research and advance most prestigious honor for clinical data collection on conflict-bereaved William teachers, is given annually to an mothers in Northern Ireland. McGeveran “emerging clinician” (one who has was reappointed specialized in clinical education for Myron Orfield was appointed to to a Solly Robins 10 years or fewer) who has demon- the Earl R. Larson Chair in Civil Distinguished strated “a commitment to teaching Rights and Civil Liberties Law, Research and achieving social justice, particu- effective July 1. In May, the Law Fellowship, larly in the areas of race and the School’s Institute on Metropolitan effective July 1. criminal justice system; a passion for Opportunity, of which Orfield is the CONT >
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< CONT director, released Robert Stein School, is one of a report called (’61) received three researchers The Rise of a 2016 Award jointly awarded White-Segregated for Global the first-ever Subsidized Engagement National Housing, which from the Institutes of found that University’s Health grant government-subsidized “artists’ Global Programs and Strategy dedicated to laying the policy housing” misuses public funds and Alliance Office. The award is given groundwork needed to translate increases segregation. to faculty and staff to acknowledge genomic medicine into clinical exceptional achievements in and application. The $2 million NIH Hari Osofsky contributions to global education, grant funds a three-year project was appointed to research, and engagement on behalf known as LawSeq, which aims to the Robins of the University. Throughout his advance the nation’s statutory and Kaplan four decades on the faculty, Stein has regulatory frameworks by clarifying Professorship in worked to engage the Law School in current law, addressing gaps, and Law, effective July nearly every region of the world. generating the recommendations 1. In June, needed to create the legal foundation Osofsky received the Distinguished Laura Thomas for the successful, widespread use of Service Award from the Association was appointed genomics in clinical care. for Law, Property, and Society. The to the Vaughan award recognized honorees for “using G. Papke Clinical Mitchell E. their expertise to improve the quality Professorship in Zamoff received of people’s lives locally, nationally, or Law, effective the Stanley V. internationally; serving as mentors July 1. Kinyon Teacher to junior faculty and others interested of the Year in in teaching and research in property Susan M. Wolf, who holds faculty Practice Award, law; and serving and enlarging the appointments at the Law School and presented at the community of property law scholars.” the University of Minnesota Medical 2016 commencement ceremony. n
RUTH OKEDIJI AWARDED MCKNIGHT PRESIDENTIAL PROFESSORSHIP
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT ERIC right, trademarks, and international Kaler awarded the prestigious intellectual property law. Her research McKnight Presidential and scholarship focus on issues Professorship—one of the highest of innovation policy, economic honors a University of Minnesota development, and global knowledge faculty member can receive—to governance. Her work has influenced Ruth Okediji, who has been the the design of national intellectual Law School’s William L. Prosser property laws and policies throughout Professor of Law since 2003. Okediji Africa, the Caribbean, and the is the third member of the Law Americas, and she has developed School faculty to be so honored; intellectual property curricula for the others are Susan Wolf (2006) training courts around the world. and Michael Tonry (2011). Recipients In 2015, Okediji was appointed by of the professorship “exemplify the United Nations Secretary-General qualities in teaching, research, and Ban Ki Moon to serve on his High at numerous universities, including service that the University values Level Panel on Access to Medicines, Harvard, Duke, Haifa, Toronto, and most highly,” and their names are and Managing Intellectual Property Tilburg. She was elected to the engraved on monuments that line named her one of the world’s most American Law Institute in 2008 and the Scholars Walk on the East influential people in intellectual is currently president of the Order of Bank campus. property law. the Coif. Okediji is of counsel with Okediji teaches contracts, copy- She has held visiting professorships Robins Kaplan in Minneapolis.
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FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE GRAND CHALLENGES GRANTS
IN SEPTEMBER, THE UNIVERSITY the work of the sources and applying cutting-edge announced that its first Grand Human Rights impact evaluation methods. Results Challenges Grants, totaling $3.6 Center (based at from this study will significantly million in support, had been awarded the Law School) advance knowledge and have to 29 teams of faculty from across the and the Human practical implications for policymak- Twin Cities campus. The interdisci- Rights Program ers, researchers, advocates, local plinary teams include five principal (based in the leaders, and youth-serving organiza- investigators (PIs) from the Law College of Liberal Arts), the Human tions. School faculty: Professors Fionnuala Rights Research Lab will serve as an Ní Aoláin, Myron Orfield, Hari incubator for a set of human rights Hari Osofsky: Osofsky, Francis Shen, and Susan projects with the ultimate goal of “Shared Wolf. Working in alignment with enabling knowledge transfer to policy Leadership Driving Tomorrow, the campus’s or advocacy settings. The topics for Lab: overarching strategic plan, the teams these research projects include, among Analyzing will address critical challenges facing many others, racial and gender success Minnesota and the world. discrimination in gun violence; factors to The 29 two-year projects, selected unequal political and legal access after address complex societal through a multi-tiered faculty-based mass violence and human rights challenges.” review process, are intended to violations; and gender inequality, Effective collaboration is central to capitalize on existing University focusing on the human rights of enhancing individual and community research strengths and to break new women or girls in low- and mid- capacity to address critical societal ground in addressing five key areas: dle-income countries. challenges. As a society and a univer- assuring clean water and sustainable sity, however, we have precious little ecosystems; fostering just and Myron information about how to work equitable communities; enhancing Orfield: together effectively on such chal- individual and community capacity “Assessing lenges. Although many of society’s for a changing world; feeding the interventions most pressing problems require world sustainably; and advancing for justice hybrid efforts, such efforts are hard to health through tailored solutions. and equity.” organize and even harder to sustain. “I’m very pleased to see the Law In Minnesota, The Shared Leadership Lab will School represented so strongly in this many communities face enormous conduct and stimulate research into important campus-wide initiative,” opportunity gaps in education, the success factors of effective said Dean Garry Jenkins. “It’s a housing, employment, and health collaboration. Shared leadership testament to the creative energy and outcomes, and unequal exposure to research is critical to realizing our intellectual rigor of our faculty, and to the juvenile and criminal justice land-grant mission to contribute to the law’s central role in tackling local, system. Such gaps emerge early in life, thriving in a changing, complex national, and global challenges.” are interlinked, are strongly influ- world. Yet many current efforts focus Law School faculty members are enced by racial segregation, and have on issue- or sector-specific, point-in- co-PIs for the following projects: profound effects into adulthood. time analyses or single case studies, Closing these gaps is crucial to which are limited in their depth and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin: building just and equitable communi- generalizability. The proposed Lab “Establishing a human ties. Yet researchers, policymakers, will provide a unique site for com- rights collaborative and local leaders, and citizens lack the parative analysis of shared leadership faculty/student human rights knowledge and capacity to do so. success factors. laboratory to promote an This project will pose, and answer, equitable civil society.” fundamental questions about the Francis Shen: “Toward a Professors Jennifer Green, effectiveness of specific government Minnesota model for brain Stephen Meili, and Christopher interventions aimed at promoting health in youth sports.” Roberts are members of the greater social integration and reduc- The project has four interrelated project team. ing racial/ethnic inequality in the objectives: to establish a campus-wide The Human Rights Research Lab Twin Cities. The research will make working group on traumatic brain will focus on reducing inequalities important methodological contribu- injury (TBI); to conduct a prelimi- through applied research. Building on tions by linking data from disparate nary study on the implementation CONT >
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< CONT of Minnesota’s opportunity to galvanize talent, prevention, and treatment. 2011 sports coordinate across schools and The team will create a living concussion law institutes, and develop more effective laboratory, starting with demonstra- and on current ways to respond to TBI. tion projects on Alzheimer’s disease, practices in the lung cancer, and depression. All three identification, Susan Wolf: are diseases whose incidence, burden, evaluation, and “Minnesota and mortality rates reveal disturbing treatment of youth sports concus- Precision health disparities. This focus will sions; to host a statewide summit, in Medicine enable us to leverage University partnership with community partners, Collaborative: research strengths across many to disseminate best practices and Transforming disciplines and to engage with identify statewide needs; and to health and partners in the health industry and develop grant proposals to secure advancing equity.” Minnesota’s underserved communi- funding in order to create a This project will use 21st-century ties. Together we will create afford- Minnesota Model for addressing the technologies—including genomics, able, mobile tools to speed research, challenge of youth sports TBI. informatics, bioengineering, analysis better deliver health information, and Dozens of University researchers of environmental exposures, and advance health for all. n work on the issue of TBI. Yet rarely, behavioral sciences—to tailor health if ever, have they come together to care to the challenges facing individ- The complete list of Grand harness these extensive resources in uals and their communities. This Challenges projects can be found a coordinated fashion. The Grand approach will fundamentally alter our at https://strategic-planning.umn. Challenges program offers an understanding of health, disease edu/node/451
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Faculty Works in Progress (FWIP) 29 Paul Vaaler 27 Olivia Mitchell lectures are held in the Lindquist and Law School and Carlson School University of Pennsylvania Vennum Conference Room, Room 385, of Management Wharton School from 12:15-1:15 p.m. on each Thursday Joel Wadfogel Financial Illiteracy and the listed below. For more information, Carlson School of Management Aging Economy
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OCTOBER 10 Cosette Creamer SEPTEMBER 6 Shauhin Talesh University of Minnesota 8 Josephine Wolff University of California, Irvine Political Science Rochester Institute of Technology School of Law Do Self-Reporting Regimes Legal Regimes Governing the Data Breach, Privacy, and Cyber Matter? Evidence from the Purchase of Stolen Data by Liability Insurance: How Insurance Convention Against Torture Victims and Authorized Companies Act as “Compliance 17 Bill Rolston Intermediaries Managers” for Businesses Ulster University 15 John Inazu 13 James Pfander “Trying to Reach the Future Washington University Law Northwestern Pritzker School Through the Past”: Murals and Unlawful Assembly as Social Control of Law Memory in Northern Ireland
22 Mark Bennett Evaluating Justifications for United States District Court Judge, Judicial Science DECEMBER Northern District of Iowa 20 Dale Carpenter 1 Abbe Gluck Getting Explicit About Implicit SMU Dedman School of Law Yale Law School Bias—Judging Implicit Bias: In Defense of Free Speech 8 Chris Peterson A National Empirical Study of at Minnesota: Principles and University of Utah Judicial Stereotypes Recommendations Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Law Enforcement: An Empirical Review
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FACULTY PROFILE: RICHARD W. PAINTER S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law
Professor Painter joined the Law about debt and junk bond deals “The White House was looking for School in 2007 after serving as happening in the early ’90s,” he somebody who had experience in President George W. Bush’s chief says. “During the savings and loan financial conflicts of interest, which is White House ethics lawyer for two crisis, I observed firsthand the role what I had focused on for most of years. His areas of expertise include lawyers played in encouraging clients the previous decade,” he says. In his business law, corporate governance, in the wrong ways. Lawyers were role, he helped more than 150 people government ethics, securities law, partially responsible.” rid themselves of conflicts each year. and professional responsibility. That experience led Painter to “Most of these people were new to co-author an ethics book with John the public sector, so they had very In the tumultuous political environ- T. Noonan Jr., a judge on the U.S. little experience in this arena. It was ment of the last year, Professor Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, an interesting but labor-intensive job. Richard Painter, one of the country’s with whom Painter had clerked after Long, long hours.” leading experts on government and graduating from Yale Law School in After leaving the White House, corporate ethics, has found himself 1987. That casebook, Professional and Painter wrote a book about govern- consulted on a host of highly charged Personal Responsibilities of the Lawyer, is ment ethics, Getting the Government issues. The New York Times and Star now in its third edition. America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Tribune interviewed him about Painter was the leading contributor Can Make a Difference. “That book presidential candidates’ tax returns, the to a key provision in the Sarbanes- began my journey into campaign Times quoted him about the White Oxley Act of 2002, aimed at finance reform, what I call ‘the House forbidding cabinet members deterring securities fraud and elephant and donkey in the room,’” to address the Democratic National improving lawyers’ ethics. Section he says. He continued to investigate Convention, and the Wall Street 307 of the Act—“up-the-ladder the topic with his latest book, Journal and Washington Post inter- reporting,” as he terms it—was a Taxation Only with Representation: viewed him several times on presi- direct response to what he had The Conservative Conscience and dential candidate conflicts of interest. observed in corporate behavior. Campaign Finance Reform. That In addition, over the past few months “There’s a scandal on the trading book was the product of a residential the Times has published three opinion floor and the lawyer tells the CEO to fellowship at Harvard University’s pieces by Painter—on the Clinton report it to the Treasury Department,” Safra Center for Ethics during the Foundation, campaign finance Painter explains. “The CEO ignores 2014-15 academic year.In 2015, with reform, and Supreme Court nominee the advice, and the lawyer doesn’t feel his colleague Professor Claire Hill, Merrick Garland—plus a fourth, compelled to go to the full board. Painter co-authored Better Bankers, co-authored with President Obama’s That’s a problem, and that’s what Better Banks: Promoting Good Business former chief White House ethics section 307 fixes.” It is one of the few through Contractual Commitment, a lawyer, on Donald Trump’s ways in which the federal govern- book about the personal responsibil- tax returns. ment regulates the conduct of ity of investment bankers, which he Painter acknowledges this has been lawyers. As a result of the provision, calls “a high point” of his work at the an unusual year—for him and the he says, “There’s a lot better commu- Law School. nation. “Much of what I have focused nication between lawyers and Painter is passionate about shaping on in my career has been at the directors, not just the CEO.” his students’ understanding of the role center of our country’s debates,” he During his time in the White of ethics in the legal profession. “I like says. “It has been, to say the least, an House Counsel’s office, Painter served helping a new generation of lawyers extraordinary time.” as the chief ethics lawyer not only for understand how ethics plays a role in Painter was drawn to the topic of President Bush, but for White House every area of the law.” ethics early in his career, when he employees and nominees to Senate- worked in the financial services confirmed positions in the executive By Kathy Graves, a writer based in sector. “I quickly became concerned branch as well. Minneapolis
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home,” he says.Yet his dad always job at FIDUCOLDEX, a govern- walked through the door. The rest ment agency specializing in interna- of his family survived the terror, too. tional trade. “I finally found what Thousands of other Colombians I wanted,” he says. “The passion weren’t so lucky; people were came back.” “disappeared,” government ministers That job helped him land a assassinated. high-profile position at the Republic “It was a very chaotic couple of of Colombia Ministry of Finance and decades,” he says. These days, Public Credit, a government agency Colombia and its 47 million people similar to the U.S. Treasury. Since are recovering. And Torres? He’s 2013, Torres has negotiated a trade doing his best to help. deal with Japan and served as a top JOSÉ TORRES After earning a law degree in 2007 legal advisor to the deputy minister LL.M. CLASS OF 2017 from Universidad de los Andes in on several other initiatives. Bogotá, Torres worked at a small firm This year, Torres pushed pause NEWS BULLETINS CRACKLED and, later, a big bank. His job title at on his Bogotá career in favor of a from the radio in José Torres’s BBVA Financial was “customer year abroad. He chose to study in the childhood home in Bogotá, defender,” which he says meant U.S. because of its place in the world. Colombia. As he listened to reports “I worked for the bank but my job “You have to look at the best guy in of violence between drug traffickers, was to be against the bank.” the class and find out how he does armed rebels, and government troops, Despite his adversarial role, the it,” he says. the young boy imagined the worst. profit-driven world wasn’t his thing. At the Law School, Torres is “I’d fear my father was not coming So Torres switched sectors, landing a studying international law, human
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rights, and other subjects. And while though, she signed up for chemistry. he hopes to improve his English “It’s beautiful,” she says. “It’s skills here, he’s got a good jump on patterns and trends. All you have to the language. do is learn the basics and apply it.” At 17, Torres attended high school As a graduate student at the in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The University, Maize designed pharma- first snowy month—he arrived in ceutical drugs intended to combat January—was hellish, he says. Then anthrax and hepatitis C. She likens he started playing soccer, made the minute world of drug design to friends, and learned to ignore, if “atomic-scale Tetris,” where scientists not love, the cold. attempt to find just the right fit for Says Torres, “The only place I small molecule inhibitors and their see ice in my home country is in continued peering through micro- target proteins. While the work is my whisky.” scopes at the University of Minnesota engaging, there’s a downside. for the next five years, earning a “Most of science ends up in Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry. Now failure,” she says. “It’s extremely it’s another year of higher education frustrating.” KIMBERLY MAIZE as Maize studies patent law. Which is why Maize wants to M.S.P.L. CLASS OF 2017 Add it up and you’ve got 10 years work as a patent agent. After gradua- of higher learning. “I wanted a nice, tion in the spring, she’ll likely land KIMBERLY MAIZE GRADUATED round decade,” she says, smiling. a job at a law firm or biotech from high school in 2007. In the It’s been a rapid rise for Maize, company and get a firsthand look spring of 2017, she’ll finally be who grew up in small-town at the successes. finished with her formal education. Pennsylvania, the daughter of a “I’ll be exposed to great science But it’s not because she’s a slacker. hardware salesman and a math tutor. and I won’t have to deal with that Maize breezed through Amherst At Amherst, Maize was drawn to frustration,” she says. College in four years, graduating cum science coursework and thought she She also expects to have more time laude with a B.A. in chemistry. She might major in biology. In the end, for her hobbies: volunteering at the CONT >
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< CONT Science Museum of Minnesota and Young works one-on-one with baking. Visit the museum’s sleek people like Gideon. And she loves it. building on weekends and there’s a “I like talking to clients and trying to chance you’ll hear Maize explaining get them out of jail,” she says, noting why the wooly mammoth never that many of the people she rep- spent much time in these parts during resents as a student attorney are the Ice Age. (“Even mammoths accused of misdemeanors like not can’t find anything to eat when paying bus fare. surrounded by ice,” she says.) Young’s career choice isn’t a big As for baking, Maize’s specialty is surprise: both of her parents are baklava. Her mentor at the College of lawyers. While Young was growing Pharmacy, Dr. Barry Finzel, liked her up in Grand Island, Neb., her mother version of the dessert so much that he worked in private practice and her joked about not letting her graduate. father served as county attorney. “Goalies are weird,” Blakely says. Today, he’s a judge. “That’s why the law doesn’t scare me. As a kid, Young didn’t watch either I’m at my best when I know others parent practice their profession, are relying on me.” though she does remember selling For years, Blakely has made it his Girl Scout cookies to lawyers and job to be there for others. As an other courtroom personnel. In high undergraduate at Arizona State school, she thrived in foreign lan- University, where he majored in guage classes, taking both Spanish psychology, he worked as a resident and German. assistant in a dormitory. After gradua- For her undergraduate education, tion, he worked as a child services Young chose Tulane University. It specialist in Phoenix for two years, easily beat out schools in northern departing to attend graduate school cities, perhaps because there hap- at the University of Kansas in pened to be a crawfish festival going Lawrence, where he earned a master’s ELIZABETH YOUNG on the day she visited. After Tulane, degree in education and served as CLASS OF 2017 she worked at a couple of New assistant complex director of a Orleans-based nonprofits and studied 650-student residence hall. His next CHARLES EARL GIDEON SPARKED for the LSAT. Or she should have. stop: the University of Wisconsin- something inside Elizabeth Young. The first time she took the test was Whitewater, where he supervised When Young learned how the during Mardi Gras. two giant dormitories, only to find Florida man was denied a lawyer after “If you take it during Mardi Gras, that, as a full-time job, the work being accused of stealing from a pool you should take it twice,” she advises. was unsatisfying. It lacked intellectual hall, she was inspired. “I knew I Young did just that, scoring much stimulation and the students’ wanted to help people,” she says. higher the second time and gaining challenges were repetitive. “I knew I didn’t want to work for admission to the Law School. “Eighteen-year-olds are going a company or for rich people.” through the same problems every Gideon, of course, was the plaintiff year,” he says. in Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark So he took the LSAT, scored well, 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision BRANDON BLAKELY and landed at the Law School. “I love affirming a defendant’s right to an CLASS OF 2018 it,” he says. “I love learning. I like the attorney. When Young encountered mental rigor.” Gideon’s story, she was in her first AS A KID PLAYING STREET HOCKEY Among his favorite classes: year at the Law School and uncertain in southern California, Brandon Property and Real Estate Transactions, about her future. Blakely preferred stopping the puck both taught by Professor Ann That’s no longer the case. Thanks to whacking it. “I like the pressure of Burkhart. Her real-world experiences to funding from the Minnesota Law it all coming down to me,” he says. at firms in Chicago and Atlanta offer Public Interest Residency Program, He enjoyed playing goalie so much students valuable insights. Says which connects government organi- that he even rode his bike back and Blakely, “She’s practical and tough.” zations with high-achieving third- forth while other kids took turns Outside the classroom, the 2L year students, Young spends more trying to thwack the puck into his student serves as president of the time in courtrooms than she does body or the spokes of his wheels. In Black Law Student Association in classrooms. those instances, he did his best to and stops pucks for the Fighting As a clerk at the Ramsey County avoid getting zapped. Mondales, the school’s intramural Public Defender’s Office in St. Paul, But it happened. hockey team. Next year, Blakely
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plans to spend the fall semester in an information technology career Her first post-graduation job was Stockholm or Amsterdam—studying, in suburban Chicago. Her father at Vital Voices, a Washington, D.C.- not simply sightseeing. switched gears, too, beginning work based NGO dedicated to helping “I never got to do it as an under- as a chemical engineer before women in poor countries. Then she grad,” he says. becoming a marketing professional. switched coasts, grabbing a job at And as precocious kid, Tripathi San Francisco-based Yelp, the tech explored all kinds of subjects, company that specializes in online memorizing names and facts about reviews of restaurants, hotels, and planets, dinosaurs, and state capitals. other businesses. At Yelp, she In college, it soon became apparent co-founded Diverse Burst, the her parents needn’t have worried. company’s first diversity initiative. During her sophomore year, Tripathi After Yelp, she worked at Lever, a co-authored a paper in an academic West Coast startup focused on stream- journal, a rare accomplishment for an lining recruitment efforts. Although undergraduate. Its title even included the tech scene was exciting, Tripathi a pun: “Patents, Medication, and had long planned to study the law. WHO Controls Them: A Look Inside Before graduating from the University a Potential Negotiator of the of Wisconsin, she took the LSAT. Patented Drug Trade.” So what type of law does she want VEENA TRIPATHI WHO is, of course, an acronym for to practice? CLASS OF 2019 the World Health Organization. The “It’s too early to tell,” she says. article was published in The Globe, an “I love science. I love constitutional AS AN UNDERGRADUATE AT THE Illinois State Bar Association quar- law. I want to get a well-rounded University of Wisconsin-Madison, terly, which makes sense because she education here. I’ll attack that Veena Tripathi had an unusual double learned about pharmaceutical markets question next year.” major: neuroscience and political in an international relations class and Spoken like the kind of person science. co-wrote the paper with a professor. who’s had a lifelong thirst for all Her parents were puzzled. “Why The revelation that free-market kinds of learning. n aren’t you picking one or the other?” pricing for drugs might result in the they asked. Tripathi’s reply: “You didn’t.” deaths of poor people unable to By Todd Melby, a freelance writer It’s true. Tripathi’s mother studied afford treatment upset her. “It blew and radio producer based in politics in India before embarking on my mind,” Tripathi says. Minneapolis
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RE-STARTED courage, professionalism, service, politics, civil society, and business. PHI ALPHA DELTA LAW diversity, and innovation. Together, we will engage in a FRATERNITY, INTERNATIONAL constructive dialogue that will is a professional law fraternity propound a platform of ideas advancing integrity, compassion, NEW for reforming the European Union and courage through service to the EUROPEAN HORIZONS is a and setting a policy vision for student, the school, the profession, U.S.-based, nonpartisan think its future. and the community. Founded in tank devoted to exploring the European Horizons convenes 1902, P.A.D. calls itself “the preemi- meaning of European identity, an annual European Student nent law fraternity promoting the modernizing and reforming the Conference at Yale University, hosts bonds of fraternalism” and “the concept of the social market a Fall Policy Convention, Spring leader in the development and economy, advancing the cause Forum, and Youth Summit, publishes advancement of professional of European integration, and research and policy papers through ideals.” Its members, bound deepening transatlantic relations. its academic journal, The Review together by tradition and their To this end, European Horizons has of European and Transatlantic common interest in the law, established a network of students, Affairs, and maintains chapters dedicate themselves to the core professors, and European deci- in universities across the United values of integrity, compassion, sion-makers, with links to academia, States and Europe.
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BRENDAN DELANY (’17) under international law, but that WINS NATIONAL INSTITUTE Russian military and civilian leaders OF MILITARY JUSTICE would become criminally responsi- ESSAY PRIZE ble for supporting regime military Brendan Delany (’17) was named the operations. Delany’s conclusion winner of the 2016 Admiral John S. proposes a new norm of interna- Jenkins Prize for Excellence in tional law that would make it a crime Military Studies for his essay “Just to knowingly render military Brendan Delany (’17) Wars with Unjust Allies: Use of assistance to state or nonstate Force and Human Rights actors who engage in human rights Considerations on the Russian abuses such as grave breaches of Cross-sponsored Clara Barton Intervention in Syria.” The essay the Geneva Conventions. This, International Humanitarian Law competition is conducted by the Delany said, “would link international Competition last spring, Ní Aoláin National Institute of Military Justice law regarding resort to the use of added, “We also look forward to and is open to all students of force (jus ad bellum) with interna- Brendan participating in the Clara military law who have not yet tional humanitarian law (jus in bello) Barton team this year and continu- completed their J.D. studies. regarding the legality of conduct of ing to showcase the strengths of Submissions are judged by a participants to an armed conflict.” the Law School in human rights and committee of law professors and “Brendan wrote an outstanding the laws of war.” practitioners. essay on a military law issue of Delany’s winning paper is an substance and importance,” said TWO LAW SCHOOL analysis of the legality of the Russian Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin. STUDENTS WIN intervention in Syria and its implica- “This prize reflects that as well BLOOMBERG WRITING tions for making Russian military as the strength of our Law of AWARDS and civilian leaders responsible for Armed Conflict teaching and James Meinert (’17) and Kyle Kroll the crimes of the Assad regime they programming at the Law School.” (’16) snared top honors in the are supporting. The paper argues Noting that a three-student team 2016 Bloomberg Law Write-On that the intervention was likely legal from the Law School won the Red Competition, winning $2,500 each
LAW SCHOOL LAUNCHES PROFESSIONAL MILESTONE CORE OBJECTIVES ESSENTIALS MILESTONE PROGRAM INCLUDE: • Establish short- and long-term professional goals and learn helpful THIS FALL, THE LAW SCHOOL’S Career Center began offering a Professional tools for career success Essentials Milestone Program that introduces students to core concepts of • Gain strong, appropriate commu- professional development and interpersonal skills that are critical for career nications skills to create a profes- success. Students will learn from staff, faculty, alumni, and professionals who sional brand with focus, purpose, are experts in career development and the legal field, and they can work and clarity toward the milestone throughout their three years of law school. • Learn team dynamics and To earn the milestone, students must (a) complete a minimum of eight build collaboration skills to workshops, and (b) fulfill other requirements such as maintaining a LinkedIn efficiently complete work in professional profile and getting involved with at least one internal and one a timely manner with the right external networking event or association. Students who complete all the resources milestone requirements will receive a transcript notation signifying their • Understand and respect diverse successful participation in the program. views in order to provide profes- sional and ethical client representa- tion and work effectively across different perspectives.
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326812_Guts_32-37_B.indd 36 11/11/16 7:14 PM in the nationwide contest. The “I want to be highly competition puts a premium on literate in other people’s clear and concise writing, as toxicology reports,” he says. entries must run between 1,000 After graduating from and 1,600 words. both programs next year, Meinert wrote an article that Meinert hopes to work was published by Daily Environment full-time at the U.S. Report, a Bloomberg BNA journal, Department of Justice or James Meinert (’17) and Kyle Kroll (’16) on how a ruling by the U.S. District Environmental Protection Agency. Court for the District of Hawaii Last summer, he clerked for the is influencing interpretation of DOJ’s Environment and Natural Kroll, who earned an undergradu- the Clean Water Act. Instead of Resources Division. ate degree from the University’s analyzing complex scientific Kroll’s entry was published in Carlson School of Management, reports, the court simplified Patent, Trademark & Copyright completed his J.D. in May. He served jurisdiction rules that some others Journal, also a Bloomberg BNA as online managing editor of the are following, setting a possible journal. In “Celebrity YouTube Minnesota Law Review and student precedent. Creators Reverse Plans To body president of Professional Before attending the Law School, Trademark Reaction Video Format Student Government, which Meinert served as a research After Harsh Online Reaction,” Kroll represents about 11,000 students associate for the Natural Resources examined whether Benny and Rafi at the Law School, College of Defense Council. He earned a Fine could trademark their style of Pharmacy, and eight other profes- bachelor’s degree from Grinnell popular short comedies. Kroll’s sional schools at the University. College in 2010. In addition to article chronicled the brothers’ In August, Kroll began work as studying for his J.D., he is also attempt to stop others from a law clerk for U.S. District Court working on a master’s of public replicating their routines and Judge Joan Ericksen in Minneapolis. health degree at the University. explored the legal ramifications of He plans to pursue a career in His emphasis: regulatory toxicology trademark law in the commercial commercial or intellectual property and risk assessment. sphere of the internet. litigation.
FIVE WORKSHOPS ARE OVER WINTER BREAK, an AVAILABLE DURING THE Interviewing Skills and Mock FALL SEMESTER: Interview workshop will be offered. • What is Professional Development and Why it Matters SPRING SEMESTER WILL BRING • Grit and Growth Mindset— FIVE ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS: SAVE THE DATE Tools for Resolving Conflict and • Time and Project Management— Overcoming Obstacles Completing Your Work Effectively TORT’S 15TH • Engaging with the Profession— • The Business of Law—What Is Find Your Place and Become a Client Service, Billable Hour, SHOW— Leader Attorney Structure, and Business • Personal Branding & Development Communications—In Person and • Constructive Feedback and Work ONE NIGHT Online Product Evaluations • Professional Relationship • Working in Diverse Environments— ONLY! Development—Informational Understanding Implicit Bias and April 14, 2017 Interviews, Mentoring Client Representation Ted Mann Concert Hall, Relationships, and Event • Moving Forward—How Do I Use University of Minnesota Networking These Skills? For more information go to http://umntort.org/
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For Palmer, fiction writing was an The demands of her day job early interest in life, one that mostly require that Palmer find time when lay dormant as she built her career at she can to pursue her fiction. She says Mayo. But after she and her husband she usually gets up at about 5:30 a.m. became empty nesters a few years ago, to write for a couple of hours, and the spark to write resurfaced. Since also writes in the evenings and on the beginning of 2015, Palmer has weekends. But in pursuing the latest produced four self-published McCallan twists in her heroine’s ongoing novels (see www.alexivenice.com). adventures, she does more than sit “Writing these books is completely and imagine. She has visited the self-consuming—and really fun,” she locales of her stories—including says. “It’s a totally self-centered Australia, Belize, Sweden, California’s ANDRAMYRON PALMERH. “MIKE” BRIGHT endeavor, but it’s such a high to be wine country. And she’s experienced CLASS OF 19891947 swept up in a story.” some of the activities she’s assigned to At Mayo, Palmer’s duties cover a Pepper—flying an Eclipse jet, firing BY DAY, ANDRA PALMER IS A broad range of matters within the an assault weapon, wakeboarding, mild-mannered attorney at Mayo health-law ambit—bylaws, risk- kickboxing. Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, management issues, mergers—and Palmer sees a clear link between Wis. But by night—and early morn- also a great deal of technical legal her professional work in health law ings and weekends—she becomes writing, which she believes helps and the subject matter of her novels. Alexi Venice, spinner of tales starring her fiction writing because “it keeps The first McCallan novel, Ebola a James Bondesque counterterrorism your analytical skills and your logic Vaccine Wars, was inspired to a degree specialist named Pepper McCallan. skills really sharp.” by Mayo’s own response to the Ebola
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outbreak. The second, Victus, “We’re doing projects in Indonesia addressed a bioterrorist threat. and the Philippines right now, where Does Palmer have any thoughts rolling brownouts and blackouts about ditching her law career and are normal,” he says. “They have focusing full-time on fiction writing? electricity, but they need more of it. Not likely. By having electricity available 24/7, “I love my job and I’m afraid that 365 days a year, it really uplifts the if I was at home writing all the time, economy and the people from their I would get lonely,” Palmer says. “I standard of living. In the U.S. you do experience more elation writing don’t even think about those things. than practicing as a lawyer. But they If you had something like that, you’d both give me things that I need out be up in arms about it with the of a career.” utilities. But over there, it’s natural.” jurisprudence. He landed a job with Reflecting on his career path, a large American firm that asked him Kim describes it as a product of both to relocate to Japan, where he worked JOSEPH KIM youthful aspiration and serendipity. in venture-capital financing. The CLASS OF 1995 A native of South Korea, Kim moved work didn’t appeal to him and he to the San Francisco Bay Area with switched to another firm, where he JOSEPH KIM’S PRIMARY TASK IN his family when he was 11 and began working on cross-border the Tokyo office of Hogan Lovells received a B.A. in political science project financing, which he liked. is to assist various corporate interests from the University of the Pacific in He joined Hogan Lovells in 2014. in the development of big power 1989. As an undergraduate, he recalls, As an American lawyer working projects. While he points out that he he talked with his friends about on international projects, Kim says loves helping developers and lenders “doing international work—although he takes pride in being part of an achieve their goals, his greatest we didn’t know what that meant.” important fraternity. “I tell people satisfaction often comes from how When he came to the Law School, that one of the best exports the U.S. those projects improve the lives of he says, those goals disappeared as he has is its legal skill set,” he says. “The end users. focused on learning American people who are doing these projects CONT >
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< CONT look for things that are predictable, was a major life challenge,” she recalls. spring of 2016. MiNNBOX takes its and so they look to U.S. lawyers and “But I won’t lie. The weather was place in the increasingly popular English lawyers to provide a service.” very tempting.” “subscription box” industry, where His course to Tokyo may not have She’s remained in the Southwest subscribers receive monthly deliveries been planned, but he’s happy with ever since—she also had a stint in of various types of retail products— how it’s worked out. “I really enjoy Phoenix from 2001 to 2006—and usually not knowing exactly what’s it,” he says, “because it’s really the in her spare time has continued to inside the packages on their door- international work that I wanted to pursue an interest in long-distance steps. In the case of MiNNBOX, do as an undergraduate.” running. Welder ran her first mara- subscribers receive products made thon—Grandma’s Marathon in by Minnesota small businesses— Duluth—when she was a first-year edibles, household goods, personal law student, and has since run in items—packaged in recyclable or 35 more. compostable materials. They also Welder’s ties to Minnesota are still have the assurance that participating strong. She has remained an ardent companies make a “green commit- Vikings fan and tries to return to her ment” and that Polasky and Meyer home turf as much as possible. She’s are contributing 1% of revenue to also in discussion with the Law environmental organizations. School about a planned gift or As a busy lawyer, Polasky sees endowed scholarship. MiNNBOX as a part-time endeavor. “I attribute much of my success Her primary focus in life is on to the education I got at the Law developing her legal career. After RENAE WELDER School,” she says. “As someone who receiving her J.D., she joined the CLASS OF 1996 paid their way through law school, Duluth firm of Falsani, Balmer, the opportunity to give back and Peterson, Quinn & Beyer, where LIKE MANY OTHER LAWYERS, hopefully help students in a similar she was a plaintiff’s attorney. In Renae Welder credits her career path situation is very important to me.” September 2016, she joined the to the influence of one inspiring Minneapolis office of Bowman and professor. In her case, it was Karen Brooke, where she represents defen- Brown (now at George Washington dant companies in product-liability University Law School), and the class cases. She’s not intending to fully was 2L tax law. Welder realized then uproot herself from the Twin Ports that she wanted to become a tax area, however—she plans to maintain attorney, and Brown gave her a her Duluth home and spend most valuable piece of advice: The most weekends there. exciting work in that area was being A native of Fosston, Minn., Polasky done by the Big Six accounting received a degree in international firms—not law firms. studies from the University of North Welder followed that advice, took a Dakota before enrolling at the Law job with Deloitte Tax LLP immedi- School, where she was on the staff of ately after getting her J.D., and has CLARAPAULA POLASKYJ. OHR Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory never looked back. Today she is a CLASS OF 19982013 and Practice and co-produced the 2012 partner with Deloitte, in charge of its Theatre of the Relatively Talentless western region’s multi-state tax group. NOT LONG AFTER MOVING TO musical. Welder’s clients include a number Duluth to launch her litigation career Since then, Polasky has enjoyed of Fortune 100 companies whom she in 2013, Paula Polasky began devot- her development as an attorney every advises on state tax matters. In recent ing her limited spare time to a step of the way. “I love the challenge years, however, Welder has been particular environmental cause that of it and that there’s always something shifting to an internal management had captured her attention: plastic new to learn,” she says. “I think the role. “It’s interesting how your career pollution. She and her fiancé, Duluth whole process of researching and evolves,” she says. “You start out Superior Symphony Orchestra music writing to accomplish a goal is just focused on the technical stuff and director Dirk Meyer, had begun fascinating.” learn how to service clients, and you eliminating the use of plastic and While MiNNBOX will remain a end up in these leadership-type roles other waste in their own lives, and part-time pursuit, Polasky is quick to where you have responsibility for a then began thinking more broadly point out that it’s “more than just a lot of different professionals.” about ways to spread the “zero waste” side business. This is about spreading a After spending her first two message to others. message we care deeply about.” n Deloitte years in Minneapolis, Welder That was the seed for MiNNBOX transferred to Los Angeles. “When I (www.minnbox.com), a unique By Dick Dahl, a freelance moved to LA, I didn’t know a soul; it company that came to fruition in the writer/editor based in St. Paul
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MICHAEL J. GALVIN JR. EDWARD J. CLEARY (’77) (’57) RECEIVES MINNESOTA REAPPOINTED CHIEF JUDGE STATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COURT OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT APPEALS AWARD
their dreams in furthering their education.” The award will be presented Dec. 12 at the 82nd Annual Heisman Memorial Trophy Gala in New York City. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton Page served on the state’s high The Minnesota State Bar reappointed Edward J. Cleary (’77) court from 1992 to 2015. In 1988, Association presented its rare as chief judge of the Minnesota while working in the Minnesota Lifetime Achievement Award to Court of Appeals. Cleary was first Attorney General’s Office, Page Michael J. Galvin Jr. (’57) for his named to the court in 2011 and founded the Page Education extraordinary contributions to the became chief judge in 2013. His Foundation, which assists students bar, the legal profession, and the second term in that role began Nov. 1. of color with postsecondary community. Cleary, a practicing attorney for education in exchange for their Galvin graduated from the 20 years, is a past director of the commitment to volunteer in the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Office of Lawyers Professional community. The foundation has and served in the U.S. Air Force Responsibility. He successfully awarded grants to more than 5,500 from 1952 to 1954. After graduating argued before the United States students, who in turn have provided from the Law School, Galvin joined Supreme Court; his 1994 book on more than 375,000 hours of Minneapolis-based Briggs and that case, Beyond the Burning volunteer service to young children. Morgan, where he has worked Cross: A Landmark Case of Race, primarily in labor and employment Censorship, and the First GAIL T. KULICK (’85) law, business litigation, and munici- Amendment, won the Oboler APPOINTED JUDGE IN pal law. He has been a staunch Memorial Award, which honors the MINNESOTA’S 7TH DISTRICT advocate for the importance of the nation’s best work on intellectual MSBA in the professional develop- freedom. He is a past president of ment of attorneys, and he served as the Ramsey County Bar Association MSBA president from 1994 to 1995. and served on the Minnesota State Galvin served as outside legal Bar Association Governing Council. counsel for the St. Paul Port Cleary was an adjunct professor at Authority, helping the agency the Law School from 2000 to 2012. through many transitions that reshaped St. Paul. He has had ALAN PAGE (’78) NAMED leadership roles with the Saint Paul HEISMAN HUMANITARIAN Chamber of Commerce, the North AWARD WINNER Star Council of the Boy Scouts, and The Heisman Trust will honor Alan the St. Paul Winter Carnival, among Page (’78), a former Minnesota Governor Dayton appointed Gail T. others. In 2000, Galvin was named Supreme Court justice and a Kulick (’85) to serve as a judge in a “Great Living St. Paulite” by the member of the Pro Football Hall of the state’s 7th Judicial District. She Chamber of Commerce. In recogni- Fame, with its 2016 Heisman had been a solo practitioner at tion of his service to the city of St. Humanitarian Award. Page was Kulick Consulting, handling cases Paul, Mayor Chris Coleman (’87) selected, the trust announced, in primarily in the areas of real estate, declared June 23, 2016, “Michael recognition of his “tireless efforts in probate, estate planning, and Galvin Day.” assisting students of color achieve government relations. Previously, CONT >
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< CONT she was an attorney and policy attorney there for three years. She advocate for Winthrop & Weinstine moved to Detroit Lakes with her and commissioner of corporate family in 2003 and spent three affairs for the Mille Lacs Band years with the firm of Thorwaldsen of Ojibwe. From 2008 to 2010, & Malmstrom before joining the she represented District 16A Becker County Attorney’s Office. in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Kulick has served DOUGLAS C. BAYLEY (’04) as a board member of Northern APPOINTED JUDGE IN Lights Community Theatre, Mille MINNESOTA’S 1ST DISTRICT Lacs Health System, the Minnesota Children’s Museum, and Milaca School District #912. the state’s 10th Judicial District. Dowdal had been the chief legal BETH M. ANDRUS (’88) counsel for the Minnesota NOMINATED TO U.S. Department of Human Services DISTRICT COURT BENCH Office of the Inspector General, where she was responsible for providing legal analysis and research on health care matters. Previously, she was the assistant dean for career and professional development at the William Mitchell College of Law Governor Dayton appointed in St. Paul, an assistant United Douglas C. Bayley (’04) to serve as States attorney, and a judicial law a judge in the state’s 1st Judicial clerk to Minnesota Supreme Court District. Bayley had been an Justice Sandra Gardebring. assistant public defender in the 1st Judicial District Public Defender’s TAMMY MERKINS (’99) Office. Previously, he was an President Barack Obama nominated NAMED BECKER COUNTY attorney at Lundblad, Fossum & Beth M. Andrus (’88) to serve on the ATTORNEY Zrimsek, a law clerk in the Hennepin United States District Court for the County Public Defender’s Office, Western District of Washington. and a senior duty officer at the Andrus has been a judge in White House Situation Room and Washington state’s King County National Security Council, as a Superior Court since 2010. She Foreign Service officer in the U.S. began her career as a clerk to the Department of State. Bayley is a late Judge Gerald W. Heaney of the board member of the Anderson U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Center at Tower View and the Circuit. She practiced commercial, Hedin-Hartnagel Memorial Fund, employment, intellectual property, both in Red Wing, Minn. and construction law for more than 20 years, the last 15 with the Seattle NIKKI FARAGO (’07) NAMED firm Skellenger Bender, where she Tammy Merkins (’99) was appointed MINNESOTA’S DEPUTY became a partner and was later county attorney of Becker County in ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER elected managing partner. She is a northwestern Minnesota. Merkins OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY past board member and president grew up on a farm in neighboring SERVICES of the ACLU of Washington. Norman County and earned a The Minnesota Department of bachelor’s degree in political Human Services named Nikki BRIDGID E. DOWDAL (’94) science from Concordia College in Farago (’07) the deputy assistant APPOINTED JUDGE IN Moorhead, Minn. While attending commissioner of its Children and MINNESOTA’S 10TH DISTRICT the Law School, she clerked at the Family Services program. Since Bridgid E. Dowdal (’94) was St. Paul firm of Westrick & 2013, Farago had been CFS’s appointed a district court judge in McDowall-Nix, then worked as an director for legislation and external
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Remele’s Diversity Committee, and he was recently elected co-chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council. He was awarded the 2012 Defense Research Institute Young Lawyers Outstanding Newcomer Award.
HEATHER ABRAHAM (’12) AWARDED EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS FELLOWSHIP affairs. Prior to joining the depart- persecution in Central America. ment, she served as the deputy Dutton, then a student with the solicitor general for the Mille Lacs Center for New Americans’ Federal Band of Ojibwe, where she litigated Immigration Litigation Clinic, argued a broad caseload of criminal and on behalf of Wilfredo Garay-Reyes, civil matters in tribal court and who was nearly killed after defect- represented the band in Indian Child ing from an El Salvador gang at age Welfare Act cases. Farago is a 17. The appeal, which seeks to member of the board of directors of overturn a U.S. policy that bars the Indian Child Welfare Law Center. asylum to most victims of gang- She previously served on the related persecution, even young Minnesota Supreme Court Commit- children who are violently recruited tee on Equality and Justice and was Heather Abraham (’12) was awarded into gangs, drew supporting amicus the Minnesota American Indian Bar a two-year postgraduate fellowship briefs from Harvard University, the Association’s representative to the through Equal Justice Works, a American Immigration Lawyers Hennepin County Bar Association. nonprofit organization whose Association, UC Hastings College mission is “mobilizing the next of the Law, and others. BRYAN R. BROWNING (’08) generation of lawyers committed to ELECTED PRESIDENT OF equal justice.” Abraham will spend THREE 2016 GRADUATES THE MINNESOTA HISPANIC the term of her fellowship at Legal RECEIVE STAR OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION Services of Northern Michigan, in NORTH FELLOWSHIPS Traverse City, representing home- Jonathan Estes, Dara Johnson- less adults and low-income renters Ayodele, and Hal Spott, all 2016 J.D. at imminent risk of homelessness. graduates, were named Star of the Since graduating from the Law North Fellows by the state of School, Abraham has held three Minnesota. Each will spend a year in judicial clerkships in the federal a salaried position at a state agency courts, most recently with Judge that aligns with their educational Richard Griffin of the U.S. Court of background and professional Appeals for the 6th Circuit. interests—Estes at the Department of Transportation’s aeronautics ANNE DUTTON (’16) ARGUES office, Johnson-Ayodele in purchas- BEFORE 9TH CIRCUIT ing and service delivery at the Bryan R. Browning (’08) was COURT OF APPEALS Department of Human Services, and elected president of the Minnesota Anne Dutton (’16) presented oral Spott in fleet and surplus at the Hispanic Bar Association. Browning, argument before a three-judge Department of Administration. The an associate with the Twin Cities panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals Star of the North program, now in law firm of Bassford Remele, for the 9th Circuit in Wilfredo its third year, is intended to expand previously served the MHBA as a Garay-Reyes v. Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. the state’s workforce and attract board member, gala committee Attorney General. The case’s talented young people to public chair, treasurer, and vice president. outcome could affect thousands of service. Twelve fellows are selected He is an active member of Bassford asylum seekers fleeing gang-related each year. CONT >
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< CONT SIX FROM CLASS OF KRZYSZTOF WYSOKINSKI 2016 RECEIVE PRESIDENT’S (’16) WINS STATE BAR STUDENT LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION SERVICE AND SERVICE AWARD AWARD Drew Glasnovich, Kyle Kroll, Krzysztof “Chris” Wysokinski (’16) Katarina Lee, Chelsea Lemke, won the 2016 Bernard P. Becker Law Allison Rochford, and Marc Student Volunteer Award, given by Shinn-Krantz were among the the Minnesota State Bar Association winners of the 2016 President’s to a law student who has “demon- Student Leadership and Service strated a commitment to the Award. The award is presented to provision of legal services to approximately one half of one low-income and disadvantaged percent of the student body for persons.” At the Law School, Consumer Protection Clinic, student their exceptional leadership and Wysokinski worked as a certified managing editor of Constitutional service to the University of student attorney with the Commentary, student director and Minnesota and the surrounding Neighborhood Justice Center in St. competition team member of the community. Honorees were Paul and the Council on Crime and Civil Rights Moot Court, and recognized at a Homecoming Justice in Minneapolis. He served as president of the Criminal Justice Week banquet in October. student director of the Law School’s League.
More than 800 alumni returned to the Law School for Spring Alumni Weekend, April 15-16, 2016, for a variety of all-alumni events as well as individual reunions for those classes celebrating milestone anniversaries. Keep 1 an eye out for our monthly digest email providing up-to-date information regarding volunteer opportunities and alumni events.
1 David Higgs (’81) and Jeannine Lee (’81) 2 Carol Berg O’Toole (’81), Pat Parell (’81), Ellen Sue Parker (’81), Ann Huntrods (’81)
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SEND US YOUR NEWS Your classmates and the Law School would love to know what important things are going on in your life, and we welcome your submissions for the Class Notes section of Perspectives. To be included in the next issue, your items must reach us by March 1, 2017. Submit your news via email at [email protected], or via mail to the Office of Advancement, Suite 321, University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455. We look forward to hearing from you, and thanks for keeping in touch!
1957 was named a 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyer. He was also Heidi Marie Wilson joined Michael Galvin, a partner at Minneapolis-based Briggs recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2017. the board of directors of and Morgan, received the Minnesota State Bar HealthEast Care System, a Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1970 network of primary-care recognition of Galvin’s service to the city of St. Paul, its Allan A. Ryan became the chairman of the board of clinics and hospitals in the businesses, and community organizations, Mayor Chris directors at Veterans Legal Services in Boston. He is a Twin Cities area. She is also Coleman (’87) declared June 23, 2016, “Michael Galvin former captain in the United States Marine Corps and is senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary for Day.” currently the director of intellectual property at Harvard Minneapolis-based Tennant Co. Business School Publishing. 1967 1977 Robert Paul Abdo is 1971 Thomas J. Shroyer was serving his second term as William F. Forsyth of Henson & Efron in Minneapolis was elected to another a board member for named a 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyer. He was also three-year term on the Lommen Abdo in recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2017. board of directors of Minneapolis. He is rated AV Moss & Barnett in Preeminent by 1972 Minneapolis. He is chair Martindale-Hubbell and is included on the Minnesota Denis Grande, a litigator at DeWitt Ross & Stevens in of the firm’s accountant law team and a member Super Lawyer list. He is also recognized in The Best Minneapolis, was named a 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyer. of its litigation team. Lawyers in America. 1973 1978 Gerald T. Laurie of Alan Eidsness was recognized in The Best Lawyers in Jack S. Levey was recognized in The Best Lawyers in Laurie & Laurie in St. Louis America for 2017. A shareholder at Henson & Efron in America for 2017. Levey is a senior attorney at Plunkett Park, Minn., accepted a Minneapolis, he focuses on family law. Cooney in Columbus, Ohio. 2016 invitation to become a member of the 1974 Alan Page, retired Minnesota Supreme Court justice, National Association K. Thor Lundgren was recognized by Chambers USA for spoke at the University of St. Thomas undergraduate of Distinguished Counsel. 2016 as one of the “Leaders in their Field” in the commencement on May 21, 2016. A total of 630 St. Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions practice area. He was Thomas students have received scholarships from his Thomas R. Thibodeau of also recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2017. Page Education Foundation since its establishment in Thibodeau, Johnson & He is a partner at Michael Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee. 1988. On May 6, Page presented the first Justice Alan Feriancek in Duluth has Page Elimination of Bias CLE Seminar. again been named a 1976 Minnesota Super Lawyer in Keith Broady was 1980 the field of class actions re-elected to a two-year Scott H. DeLisi, former United States ambassador to and mass torts. For the eighth straight year, he has also term as president of Uganda, became the executive director of the Soarway been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for his Lommen Abdo in Foundation in Pittsburgh. The foundation focuses on work in the field of civil litigation. Minneapolis. He has disaster relief and disaster risk reduction and repeatedly been named a preparedness in Nepal. 1969 Minnesota Super Lawyer and is rated AV Preeminent by Joseph T. Dixon Jr. of Henson & Efron in Minneapolis Martindale-Hubbell.
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1981 Award for his contributions to the organization and to 1990 Robert Due, a litigator at DeWitt Ross & Stevens agricultural law. He is the associate general counsel for Linda Benjamin contributed a chapter to the recently in Minneapolis, was named a 2016 Minnesota the International Affairs, Food Assistance, and Farm and published fourth edition of The Movie Business Book. Super Lawyer. Rural Programs division of the USDA’s Office of the “Release Windows and Revenue Streams” discusses the General Counsel. timing and monetization of releasing films on various 1983 platforms and in various formats. Michael Greene became the U.S. Agency for David R. Johanson was recognized by Continental International Development’s mission director for Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the field of law. Paul E. Benson, chair of the product and tort liability Vietnam. He oversees development activities related to He is partner-in-charge of the Napa, Calif., office of group at Michael Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee, was governance for broader-based and more inclusive Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young. recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2017. growth. Jon Parritz was selected Mitchell W. Quick, a partner at Michael Best & Friedrich Timothy Kuck is the new president and chief executive for a two-year term as in Milwaukee, was recognized in The Best Lawyers in officer at Crest Healthcare Supply in Dassel, Minn. co-chair of the Twin Cities America for 2017. Previously, he was the executive vice president of Cardozo Society, an affinity strategy and business development with Universal group for Jewish attorneys, 1991 Hospital Services in Minneapolis. judges, and law students. Charles Baruch received the 2016 Texas Bar Foundation’s He is a partner at Maslon in Minneapolis. Dan Rugeley Price Memorial Award for commitment to 1984 legal writing and service to the profession. Kathryn A. Graves of Henson & Efron in Minneapolis was 1987 named a 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyer. She was also Jeffrey Fritz joined the St. Paul office of Wipfli as a tax 1992 recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2017. partner in the firm’s manufacturing and distribution Jody A. Boquist was named the office managing practice. shareholder in Littler Mendelson’s Chicago office. Ronald C. Wheeler was inducted into the Mon- mouth-Roseville Hall of Achievement, which honors Michael C. Glover joined Lommen Abdo in Minneapolis Marcy R. Frost rejoined former students and teachers from the Monmouth- in the business and litigation group. Moss & Barnet in Roseville School District in west central Illinois. Minneapolis in an of 1988 counsel capacity in the 1985 Beth M. Andrus was nominated by President Obama to labor and employment Kip Fontaine was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate serve on the United States District Court for the Western department. for the Minnesota State Senate seat in District 1 in the District of Washington. She is currently chief civil judge northwest part of the state. in King County, Wash., Superior Court. Ian A.J. Pitz, a partner in the Madison, Wis., office of Michael Best & Friedrich, was recognized in The Best Gail T. Kulick was appointed a district court judge in Mark J. Gergen was named a senior vice president Lawyers in America for 2017. Minnesota’s 7th Judicial District. She will be chambered and chief operating officer of Halozyme Therapeutics, at Milaca in Mille Lacs County. a biotechnology company in San Diego. Previously, 1993 he was an executive vice president and chief Scott A. Neilson of Henson & Efron in Minneapolis was R. Hugh Magill was elected a fellow of the American operating officer at Mirati Therapeutics, also based named a 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyer. College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is an executive in San Diego. vice president of Northern Trust Corporation in Theresa Schulz became the vice president, secretary, Minneapolis, where he serves as chief fiduciary officer 1989 and general counsel at Minneapolis-based AmeriPride and global director of trust services. Charles E. Jones joined Services. She was AmeriPride’s director of U.S. labor Moss & Barnett in relations and human resources for the previous Daniel McDonald was elected chair of the University of Minneapolis as a member five years. Minnesota Alumni Association, a body that advocates of the litigation and for the University through the support of its graduates. accountant law practices. William A. Stock was included in Lawdragon’s “Top 20 Lawyers in Immigration Law” for 2016 and was Pat Seiter was ranked in recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2017. He is Band 2 in Louisiana Health Andra Palmer, an attorney with Mayo Clinic Health a founding member of Klasko Immigration Law Partners Care by Chambers USA for System in Eau Claire, Wis., released the fourth novel in in Philadelphia. 2016. He is a partner at her Pepper McCallan series in May 2016. (See Alumni Taylor Porter in Baton Profiles, page 38, for more on Palmer’s fiction.) Thomas Tuft was Rouge, La. recognized in The Best Sarah Reesman was appointed interim director of Lawyers in America for 2017 1986 athletics at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She in the area of family law David P. Grahn was honored with the American has worked in the university’s athletic department since and was named the 2017 Agricultural Law Association’s 2016 Distinguished Service 1993 and was made executive associate director in 2009. Minneapolis Area Family CONT >
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< CONT Law Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. He is a Mark McGuire is the 1999 shareholder at Tuft, Lach, Jerabek & O’Connell in managing director of the Tammy Lynn Merkins was appointed county attorney in Maplewood, Minn. Twin Cities branch of Becker County, Minn., by the Becker County Board. Gener8or, an investment Previously, she was an assistant county attorney for 1994 company and business Becker County. Bridgid E. Dowdal was appointed a district court judge accelerator. in Minnesota’s 10th Judicial District Court. She will be Meghan Riley and Omar Syed moved from the Twin chambered at Center City in Chisago County. Previously, Marcus Mollison joined Dorsey & Whitney in Cities to Austin, Texas, in 2007. Riley is division chief for she served as chief legal counsel for the Minnesota Minneapolis as a partner in the real estate and land litigation in the City of Austin’s Law Department. Syed is Department of Human Services Office of the Inspector use practice group. associate vice chancellor and deputy general counsel for General. the University of Texas System. 1996 John Ella joined Trepanier MacGillis Battina in Daniel Matheson, a sport management lecturer at the 2000 Minneapolis as a shareholder. University of Iowa in Iowa City, was named director of Elizabeth Brama was recognized by Finance & Commerce the Sport & Recreation Management program and is a as a one of the “Top Women in Finance” for 2016. She is 1995 2016 recipient of the University’s President and Provost a shareholder at Briggs and Morgan in Minneapolis. Robert Hogg ran as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Award for Teaching Excellence. the Iowa Democratic primary on June 7, 2016, finishing 2001 in second place. He currently serves as an Iowa state 1997 Katie Aune joined the National Geographic Society in senator for parts of the Cedar Rapids area. John Bursch founded Bursch Law in Caledonia, Mich. He Washington, D.C., in January 2016 as a planned giving represents Fortune 500 companies, foreign and officer. Previously, she was the director of alumni domestic governments, public officials, and industry engagement at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. associations in high-profile cases, primarily on appeal. Eldri Johnson joined Fredrikson & Byron in Minneapolis, practicing in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities, and commercial law. Online Opportunities Previously she was with Lindquist & Vennum in for Alumni Engagement Minneapolis. and Learning 2002 Minnesota Law Alumni Roshini Rajkumar, the host of News & Views with Roshini Benjamin Court joined & Student Networking Rajkumar on WCCO Radio in Minneapolis and an adjunct Stinson Leonard Street in Community faculty member at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minneapolis as a partner in Join this new subgroup of married James Fulton on July 30, 2016. Judges James the bankruptcy and the University of Minnesota Rosenbaum (’69) and Lois Conroy (’97) served as creditors’ rights practice Law School LinkedIn group. co-presiders. Roshan Rajkumar (’00) served as man of group. Relationships and communication honor. between alumni and students Emily Pollock was are vital to the future of our 1998 promoted to partner in profession. Please consider Christopher W. Fowlkes joined Barnes & Thornburg in Kasowitz’s New York office. participating today. Minneapolis as a partner in the litigation department. She focuses on family and Previously, he was a partner at Bowman and Brooke, matrimonial practice Gold Mind also in Minneapolis. before New York trial As Law School alumni you have and appellate courts. exclusive access to topic-specific, Susan D. Franck became a professor of law at American TED Talk-style webinars to University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, 2003 expand your knowledge and D.C. Previously, she was a professor of law at Court J. Anderson of Henson & Efron in Minneapolis was advance your career. Topics are Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. named a 2016 Rising Star by Minnesota Super Lawyers. based on a variety of interests including health, the environment, Russell Platzek was named executive director of the Nicole Narotzky, a partner in Maslon’s litigation group in families, history, and careers. Office of Legal Affairs and Labor Relations for York Minneapolis, was named a 2016 Rising Star by Minnesota Learn more at http://umnalumni. College at the City University of New York. Previously, he Super Lawyers. org/Goldmind worked as an associate attorney at the law office of Steven A. Morelli in Garden City, N.Y. Julian Zebot, a partner in Maslon’s litigation group in Minneapolis, was named a 2016 Rising Star by Minnesota Super Lawyers.
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2004 2008 2013 Scott W. Carlson was Craig A. Deutsch joined Fish & Richardson in Minneapolis Eric M. Friske joined Henson appointed executive as an associate in the intellectual property group. & Efron in Minneapolis as an director of the Farmers’ associate in the litigation Legal Action Group, a Adam Hansen founded Apollo Law in Minneapolis. The practice group. Previously, nonprofit that provides firm provides appellate counsel to employees, consumers, he was a staff attorney for legal services and support and other aggrieved individuals. Chief Judge Terrence E. to family farmers and their communities. Conkel in Minnesota’s 1st Judicial District. Christopher Hoff joined Fish & Richardson in Minneapolis Jaime Driggs, a shareholder at Henson & Efron in as an associate in the intellectual property group. Erik A. Mosvick joined Minneapolis, was named a 2016 Rising Star by Minnesota Faegre Baker Daniels in Super Lawyers and was recognized in The Best Lawyers in Tiffanea Mulder joined Minneapolis as an associate America for 2017. Fredrikson & Bryon in in the labor and Minneapolis as counsel in employment group. Peter Nelson spoke on a panel of health policy experts three practice groups: Previously, he was an associ- at an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute in internet, technology and ate at Seaton, Peters & Revnew, also in Minneapolis. Washington, D.C. He is the director of public policy e-commerce; technology at the Center of the American Experiment in Golden transactions and licensing; and data protection and Rachel Osdoba joined Faegre Valley, Minn. cybersecurity. Baker Daniels in Minneapolis as an associate in the 2005 Julie Nagorski, an attorney at DeWitt Ross & Stevens in construction group. Margaux Coady Soeffker, Minneapolis, was named a 2016 Rising Star by Minnesota a senior associate at Terzich Super Lawyers. & Ort in Maplewood, Minn., was named a 2016 Rising 2010 2014 Star by Minnesota Super Chris Henjum launched Esqyr, a public benefit corporation Matt Kinsman joined Faegre Lawyers. focused on affordable bar exam preparation. He is also an Baker Daniels in South Bend, attorney and policy analyst at Flaherty & Hood in St. Paul. Ind., as an associate in the 2006 business litigation group. He Jonathan Drewes was certified by the Minnesota State Michael D. Howard was elected a partner at Hellmuth & was a clerk for Judge Bar Association as a real property law specialist. He is the Johnson in Minneapolis. Theresa L. Springmann of founder of Drewes Law in Minneapolis, where he the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana primarily represents lenders and insurance companies. 2012 from 2014 to 2016. Robert Davis became an assistant chief counsel for the Charles Frohman, a partner in Maslon’s litigation group in Department of Homeland Security in the El Paso, Texas, Daniel P. Mahon purchased Minneapolis, was named a 2016 Rising Star by Minnesota Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office. the McGraw-Mahon Law Super Lawyers. Previously, he worked as a prosecutor for the city of Office in Hutchinson, Minn. Austin, Texas. The firm’s focus is on estate Joshua Hanson joined the Office of the Solicitor at planning and real estate. the U.S. Department of the Interior as an attorney in Kevin Lampone joined Mahon also accepts cases in the Division of Land Resources. Previously, he was a McGlinchey Stafford in family and farm law, general business law, and some senior advisor to the director of the Bureau of Land Cleveland as an associate in criminal law. Management. the commercial litigation practice group. He was 2015 Corinne Ivanca joined Geraghty, O’Loughlin & Kenney in previously with Vorys, Sater, Morgan Carlson joined Adams, Rizzi, Sween in Austin, St. Paul as an associate. Seymour and Pease in Columbus, Ohio. Minn. She focuses on real estate law and estate planning.
Kelly J. Keegan was promoted to partner at Brandt Katherine D. Pasker joined 2016 Criminal Defense in Minneapolis. Moss & Barnett in Yi-Ping Chang joined Mayer Brown’s Chicago office. Minneapolis as a member of Daniel A. Piper was certified by the Minnesota State Bar the real estate team. Andrea Na Rah Park Association as a real property law specialist. He works as Crumrine was named one of an associate in the Office of the General Counsel at the the Greenberg Traurig Holly University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Skolnick Fellowship Allan Williams joined Hormel Foods in Austin, Minn., Foundation’s 2016 public Chang Wang played a Chinese diplomat in the 2016 as a corporate attorney. He was previously with Husch interest fellows, in political thriller Domestics. Blackwell in Omaha, Neb. partnership with Equal Justice Works. CONT >
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These Law School alumni were recognized by Minnesota Lawyer as Up & Coming Attorneys, an honor given to lawyers who have distinguished themselves in their first 10 years of practice. The criteria for selection are professional accomplishment, leadership service to the community and the profession, or achievement as in-house counsel.
2006 Jason Zucchi is a principal in Fish & Richardson’s 2011 Patrick J. Hynes is an attorney at Messerli & Kramer in Minneapolis office. He focuses on patent litigation. Kate Baxter-Nauf is an associate at Lockridge Grindal Minneapolis. His practice focuses on government Nauen in Minneapolis. She is a member of the antitrust, relations. 2009 business litigation, and securities litigation practice Ryan Osterholm is an attorney at Pritzker Hageman in groups. Jennifer Ives is a partner at Stinson Leonard Street in Minneapolis. He focuses on national foodborne illness Minneapolis, focusing on employment and labor law. litigation. Graham Ojala-Barbour is a solo practitioner in St. Paul, representing clients in all types of immigration cases. 2007 2010 Christine Kain is a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels in Benjamin Skoglund joined Amazon in Seattle as a 2012 Minneapolis. She practices in the areas of drug and corporate counsel in August 2016. He was a senior Isaac Messmore is an associate at Bowman and Brook in device litigation. associate at Lindquist & Vennum in Minneapolis for the Minneapolis. He focuses on class action litigation previous six years. defense and commercial and products liability defense.
OCTOBER 15, 2016 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DAY OF SERVICE
More than 300 University of Minnesota alumni, students, and friends participated in the third annual Day of Service at sites in the Twin Cities and nationwide. The Law School was well represented with volunteers and organizers.
Robert Dube Jr. (’19) hosted the Law School’s assigned site at Feed My Starving Children in Coon Rapids, Minn. Sitso Bediako (’08) organized two projects in New York: one at the East New 1 2 York Middle School of Excellence in Brooklyn, the other at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Lauren Wood (’08) led the charge in San Francisco by hosting volunteers at the San Francisco- Marin Food Bank.
1 Chris Liu (’19) and Jane Liu 3 2 Professor Heidi Kitrosser and Professor John Matheson 3 The Law School group at Feed My Starving Children in Coon Rapids, Minn. 4 Elena Bediako, Michelle Hum, Sitso Bediako (’08), Katie Edmond, Angela Bediako, Yohan Rizk, Stephanna Szotkowski (’14), Peter Graham (’15), Crystal Tsai (’15), Jocelyn Brekken, Ryan Govier, Jaime Antonio-Bravo
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TOP 100 SUPER LAWYERS
Minnesota Super Lawyers ranked these Law School alumni among the top 100 attorneys in the state in 2016. The rigorous selection process includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by Minnesota Super Lawyers’ attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check.
1968 1980 1988 James R. Schwebel is a founding partner of Schwebel, Charles Nauen is a partner at Lockridge Grindal Nauen in Jan M. Conlin is a founding partner of Ciresi Conlin in Goetz & Sieben in Minneapolis. He practices personal Minneapolis. He leads the environmental, business, and Minneapolis. She focuses on intellectual property and injury law. campaign finance/election law practices. business litigation.
Harry A. Sieben Jr. is a partner at SiebenCarey in 1981 1989 Minneapolis. He practices personal injury law. Ronald J. Schutz is a partner at Robins Kaplan in Daniel E. Gustafson is a founding member of Gustafson Minneapolis and New York. He is the chair of the firm’s Gluek in Minneapolis. He focuses on consumer rights and 1969 intellectual property and technology litigation group, fair competition. Robert R. Weinstine is a founding partner and managing partner of the New York office, and a member shareholder at Winthrop & Weinstine in Minneapolis. He of the firm’s executive board. Gregory Simpson is a partner at Meagher & Geer in represents clients in the areas of antitrust, securities Minneapolis, focusing on commercial litigation, corporate fraud, products liability, shareholder disputes, and related 1982 services, employment, and construction. commercial litigation. Richard T. Ostlund is a shareholder at Anthony Ostlund Baer & Louwagie in Minneapolis, focusing on shareholder 1990 1971 rights and corporate governance. Sara Gullickson McGrane is an attorney at Felhaber Michael V. Ciresi is a founding partner of Ciresi Conlin in Larson in Minneapolis. She focuses her practice on Minneapolis. He focuses on product liability, intellectual Dean B. Thomson is a shareholder at Fabyanske Westra employment law. property, business, and commercial litigation. Hart & Thomson in Minneapolis. He focuses on construction and insurance law, commercial litigation, 1992 1973 and alternative dispute resolution. Jeanette M. Bazis is an attorney at Greene Espel in Alan Eidsness is a shareholder at Henson & Efron in Minneapolis, focusing on business and employment Minneapolis. He focuses on family law. 1983 litigation. Paul C. Peterson is a shareholder at Lind, Jensen, Sullivan John Harens is the owner of Harens Mediation Center in & Peterson in Minneapolis. He focuses his practice on Ben Henschel is a founding partner of Henschel Moberg Minneapolis. He focuses on mediation and alternative business disputes and professional liability. Goff in Minneapolis. He focuses on family law. dispute resolution in complex civil litigation cases. Andrew Tanick is a shareholder at Ogletree, Deakins, Susan D. Olson is a solo practitioner in Stillwater, Minn. 1974 Nash, Smoak & Stewart in Minneapolis. He defends She practices family law. John D. Kelly is an attorney at Hanft Fride in Duluth. He employment claims and advises businesses. represents clients in tort actions and commercial disputes, 1993 professional liability, contract, employment, and personal 1984 Thomas Tuft is a shareholder at Tuft, Lach, Jerabek & injury matters. Vincent D. Louwagie is a shareholder at Anthony Ostlund O’Connell. He practices family law. Baer & Louwagie in Minneapolis, practicing business 1976 litigation with an emphasis on investment matters. Robin Ann Williams is a shareholder and the chief Jon M. Hopeman is an attorney at Felhaber Larson in operating officer of Bassford Remele in Minneapolis. She Minneapolis. He focuses on white-collar criminal defense 1986 concentrates her practice in insurance coverage, business and corporate compliance investigations. Sheila Engelmeier is an attorney at Engelmeier & litigation, and trust litigation. Umanah in Minneapolis. She practices employment law. 1979 1996 Barbara Jean D’Aquila is a partner at Norton Rose Steven M. Phillips is a shareholder at Anthony Ostlund Nathan H. Bjerke is a personal injury lawyer at TSR Fulbright in Minneapolis, where she manages the Baer & Louwagie. His practice emphasizes securities, Injury Law in Minneapolis. litigation department and focuses her practice on commercial/contract, and employment litigation. commercial litigation, government investigations, and 1999 labor and employment matters. 1987 Douglas Micko is an attorney at Teske Micko Katz Gary A. Debele is a shareholder at Berg, Debele, DeSmidt Kitzer & Rochel in Minneapolis. He represents Wilbur William Fluegel is the owner of Fluegel Law Office & Rabuse in Minneapolis. He focuses on family law and employees, consumers, and victims of civil rights in Minneapolis. He practices personal injury law. alternative dispute resolution. violations.
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LAWRENCE D. COHEN renovation of St. Paul’s old federal CLASS OF 1957 courthouse, the striking Romanesque Revival building known since 1978 as the Landmark Center. In an editorial, the Minneapolis Star Tribune said that to each of his posts in public life Cohen “brought wit, grace, deft administration, and a commitment to racial and gender inclusivity. …Cohen was a career public servant but not a career politician. He did not seek reelection in 1976. Friends say he especially loved being a judge, a role that allowed him to strive to improve lives, case by case.” Senate, where he served until his Among Cohen’s many honors and election as governor in 1970. LAWRENCE D. “LARRY” COHEN, accolades were the Trial Court Judge “As a legislator and as governor, he former mayor of St. Paul, chairman of of the Year Award (1995) and the was always the working man’s friend, the Ramsey County Board of Minnesota District Judges Association and he never forgot where he came Commissioners, and chief judge of Community Service Award (1997). from,” former Minnesota Attorney the Ramsey County District Court— He served on numerous nonprofit General Warren Spannaus (’63) told the only person ever to have held all boards, including those of the Jewish the Forum News Service. “All his three of those positions—died Sept. Community Center, the Urban actions were directed at helping the 11, 2016, at the age of 83. League, and the National Alliance for common person. Personally, he was Born and raised in St. Paul, Cohen the Mentally Ill. as good and kind and helpful a friend earned his undergraduate and law as anybody will ever find.” degrees at the University of As governor, said the New York Minnesota. After working in private WENDELL ANDERSON Times, Anderson “pushed through an practice for a number of years, Cohen CLASS OF 1960 overhaul of school aid and taxes that was elected to a seat on the Ramsey became known as the ‘Minnesota County Board in 1970. Just two years WENDELL “WENDY” ANDERSON, miracle.’ The victory gave him later, he was elected mayor of St. Paul. whose term as governor in the 1970s latitude to pursue Democratic He served two terms and is credited was marked by landmark bipartisan priorities such as environmental for bringing the city’s organization, legislation and by his appearance on safeguards, a minimum wage increase, administration, budgeting, and an iconic Time magazine cover, died and programs for housing, seniors, neighborhood development into the July 17, 2016. He was 83. and drug abuse.” The Star Tribune modern era. He returned to private Born in St. Paul to Swedish called the bipartisan tax deal, which practice in 1976, remaining there immigrant parents, Anderson attended equalized school funding between until his appointment to the Ramsey the University of Minnesota on a rich and poor districts, a “symbol of County District Court bench in hockey scholarship and played on the government that works.” 1988, where he eventually became 1956 U.S. Olympic hockey team, Anderson made the cover of Time chief judge and served until his retire- which won a silver medal. In 1958, on Aug. 13, 1973, smiling broadly ment in 2002. Cohen also served on while enrolled at the Law School, the while hoisting a northern pike on a the Metropolitan Airports young Democrat was elected to the stringer. The cover line was “The Commission for 11 years, advocated Minnesota House of Representatives, Good Life in Minnesota,” and the for environmental causes, and where he served two terms. In 1962, magazine became an instant collec- CONT > Anderson Photo: University of Minnesota Archives University Photo: Anderson spearheaded the preservation and he was elected to the Minnesota tor’s item in the state.
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< CONT In later years, Anderson practiced General Motors Corp. He testified law, served as a longtime member before Congressional subcommittees of the University of Minnesota and the Consumer Product Safety Board of Regents, and was appointed Commission regarding product Honorary Consul of Sweden in liability, was cited by The National Minnesota. Law Journal as a “litigation trailblazer,” and was named a Minnesota Super Lawyer every year since the honor’s RICHARD A. BOWMAN inception. He retired in 2012 but CLASS OF 1965 remained of counsel with Bowman and Brooke until his death. “Dick’s energy, enthusiasm, and compassion endure through those of us who knew him and through the core values he instilled in our firm,” said Paul Cereghini, Bowman and served with the Office of Strategic Brooke chairman. “For decades, Services in London and, later, the Dick’s larger-than-life personality Allied Control Council in Berlin. In dominated courtrooms coast-to- 1947, he took a teaching position at coast—anytime, anywhere, fearless the University of Wisconsin Law and peerless.” School, where he established himself Away from the office, Bowman as a leading scholar of constitutional was a hot-air balloonist, a ballroom and administrative law and became dance competitor, a cross-country active in Democratic politics. He motorcyclist, an animal lover, and joined the Law School as a professor RICHARD A. “DICK” BOWMAN, an avid reader. He served on the in 1961 and became dean in 1972. a renowned product liability litigator boards of the Minneapolis Mondale Hall, dedicated April 4, and founding partner of the law firm Aquatennial, Calvary Lutheran 1978, was an enormous project Bowman and Brooke, died Sept. 7, Church of Golden Valley, the Twin whose planning, legislative maneu- 2016. He was 75. Cities choir Magnum Chorum, vering, fundraising, and construction Raised on an Iowa turkey farm, and the Lafayette Club. consumed much of Auerbach’s Bowman graduated magna cum laude deanship. After leaving the Law from Cornell College in 1962 and School, he taught at the University of attended the Law School on a full CARL AUERBACH San Diego and Northwestern School scholarship, graduating cum laude DEAN, 1972-79 of Law. In its obituary, the Star Tribune and Order of the Coif. He began described Auerbach as “a confidant of his career as a trial lawyer at the firm THE LAW SCHOOL’S SIXTH DEAN, Hubert Humphrey, friend of Walter now known as Gray Plant Mooty. Carl Auerbach, who was the driving Mondale, brief boss of Richard In 1985, he co-founded Bowman force behind the building of Mondale Nixon, and a key player in the passage and Brooke with his good friend Hall, died April 6, 2016, in La Jolla, of the 1957 Civil Rights Act.” The Jeffrey R. Brooke (’69) and launched Calif. He was 100. story noted Mondale’s (’56) appraisal a national practice that would see Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Auerbach of Auerbach as one of “the most him dubbed the “father figure of graduated from Harvard Law School important figures in the develop- automotive transport litigation.” in 1938 and became an associate in a ment” of the Law School and quoted Bowman first-chaired nearly 100 Washington, D.C., law firm, but left Professor Robert Stein (’61) on his emotionally charged cases in 37 after just two months to take a legacy: “He believed very much in states, including the landmark position in the U.S. Department of the ability of the law to improve crashworthiness case Larsen v. Labor. During World War II, he human life.” n
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CLASS OF 1939 Alan L. Stiegler Vernon D. Saxhaug John R. Krouss A. Paul Lommen August 23, 2016 March 15, 2016 February 12, 2016 April 20, 2016 Minnetonka, Minn. Virginia, Minn. Baudette, Minn. Minneapolis, Minn. CLASS OF 1951 CLASS OF 1956 Charles E. Mattson CLASS OF 1940 Gerald H. Friedell John T. Estes February 2, 2016 Lydia E. Prachar May 21, 2016 March 20, 2016 Black River Falls, Wis. February 23, 2016 St. Louis Park, Minn. Bethesda, Md. Santa Barbara, Calif. CLASS OF 1960 O. Harold Odland Francis X. Nelson Wendell R. Anderson CLASS OF 1943 August 14, 2016 July 2, 2016 July 17, 2016 John R. Goff Minneapolis, Minn. Falls Church, Va. Minnetonka, Minn. June 9, 2016 Fargo, N.D. CLASS OF 1952 CLASS OF 1957 James B. Burke Byron M. Crippin Lawrence D. Cohen June 14, 2016 CLASS OF 1944 June 9, 2016 September 11, 2016 Beebe, Ark. Barbara D. Ruud Storm Lake, Iowa St. Paul, Minn. April 7, 2016 Roy E. Dean Austin, Texas Timothy J. Halloran Milan M. Dostal August 14, 2016 April 4, 2016 June 27, 2016 Sarasota, Fla. CLASS OF 1945 St. Paul, Minn. Irvine, Calif. John S. Warren CLASS OF 1963 June 2, 2016 CLASS OF 1953 Roland D. Graham Donald F. Hunter Pacific Palisades, Calif. Robert W. Winsor July 30, 2016 January 24, 2016 June 12, 2016 Helena, Mont. Eden Prairie, Minn. CLASS OF 1947 Seattle, Wash. John A. Bauman Paul A. Kief CLASS OF 1964 May 31, 2016 CLASS OF 1954 June 21, 2016 Richard D. Goff Spring, Texas Walter L. Bush Jr. Bemidji, Minn. June 7, 2016 September 22, 2016 Minneapolis, Minn. CLASS OF 1949 Edina, Minn. Bernard D. Reisberg Robert H. Ford May 24, 2016 CLASS OF 1965 May 7, 2016 CLASS OF 1955 Robbinsdale, Minn. Richard A. Bowman Naples, Fla. Thomas M. Brown September 7, 2016 July 15, 2016 James A. Struthers Excelsior, Minn. CLASS OF 1950 Hopkins, Minn. March 1, 2016 Edmund P. Babcock St. Paul, Minn. Delroy J. Gorecki March 18, 2016 David D. Christenson May 12, 2016 Minneapolis, Minn. April 26, 2016 CLASS OF 1958 St. Augustine, Fla. Minneapolis, Minn. Donald G. Campbell Herbert R. Drews July 25, 2016 James R. Kirkpatrick May 3, 2016 Thomas M. Libera Hopkins, Minn. August 16, 2016 Palm Desert, Calif. December 15, 2015 Salinas, Calif. Woodbury, Minn. Michael J. Doyle Leonard T. Juster April 11, 2016 CLASS OF 1967 April 1, 2016 Allan H. Minsky Tucson, Ariz. Dennis J. Boyd Minneapolis, Minn. April 27, 2016 September 4, 2016 Dallas, Texas Two Harbors, Minn. CONT >
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< CONT Frank A. Dvorak Lloyd H. Tubman February 28, 2016 April 20, 2016 Buckeye, Ariz. Flemington, N.J.
CLASS OF 1968 CLASS OF 1983 James J. Carter Mari C. Snyder June 22, 2016 August 24, 2016 Grand Rapids, Mich. San Francisco, Calif.
Stephen D. Richards CLASS OF 1986 June 1, 2016 Albert A. Garcia Jr. Camas, Wash. June 5, 2016 Minneapolis, Minn. CLASS OF 1972 Germain B. Kunz Susan M. Swift June 30, 2016 July 29, 2016 Ortonville, Minn. Eden Prairie, Minn.
CLASS OF 1974 CLASS OF 1991 Stephen L. Stennes Thomas W. Geng July 8, 2016 January 30, 2016 Montevideo, Minn. Mound, Minn.
CLASS OF 1975 CLASS OF 1992 Richard S. Scherer Barbara J. Haley June 13, 2016 September 23, 2016 Edina, Minn. St. Paul, Minn.
CLASS OF 1977 CLASS OF 1993 Mark F. Anderson Daniel L. Pollmann March 11, 2016 May 12, 2016 White Bear Lake, Minn. Scottsdale, Ariz.
Robert D. Goodell CLASS OF 1997 March 10, 2016 DeGalynn W. Sanders Anoka, Minn. May 14, 2016 Minneapolis, Minn. CLASS OF 1981 Julia A. Ronning September 18, 2016 Chicago, Ill.
CLASS OF 1982 Shirley A. Maxwell February 24, 2016 Minneapolis, Minn.
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