Q&A with Baylor Law Judges

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WITH Q&A WITH BAYLOR LAW JUDGES + BAYLOR LAW JUDGES ACROSS THE NATION VOLUME 127 | SPRING ‘15 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW MAGAZINE

4 Dean’s Letter 16 Alumni Notes 18 Student Notes 21 Commencement Photos 22 Faculty Notes 23 Adjunct Faculty Profiles 26 Obituaries 28 Out & Abouts 30 Back in Time

Docket Call is published by the Baylor University from Dean Toben School of Law for its alumni, faculty, staff, students, supporters, and friends. BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL IS KNOWN FOR In addition, we’ve included an overview of the 19th-century legal documents authored by Baylor Law School, established in 1857, was the first law school in Texas and one of the first west of the A NUMBER OF CHARACTERISTICS. CHIEF National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s prestigious Baylor University’s namesake and co-founder, Mississippi River. Today, the school has more than AMONG THOSE IS A COMPETITIVENESS THAT mock trial competition that we hosted at the Law Judge R.E.B. Baylor, during a program hosted by 7,200 living alumni. It is accredited by the American School in October. And speaking of outstanding the Law School. Bar Association and is a member of the Association of IS VIRTUALLY UNPARALLELED. THIS SPIRIT American Law Schools. WAS RECENTLY NOTED BY NATIONAL JURIST, trial lawyers, we’ve included a spotlight on George I hope you’ll enjoy catching up on the lives PRESIDENT & CHANCELLOR, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY Chandler (JD ’62) who was recently inducted as of our Baylor Lawyers as much as I have. We The Hon. Kenneth W. Starr WHICH NAMED OUR STUDENTS THE MOST a Texas Legal Legend by the Litigation Section of continue to be ever grateful for those who support CO-EDITORS COMPETITIVE IN THE NATION. Casi Bowers, Berkley Knas the State Bar of Texas. Baylor Law School so faithfully. There is not a CONTRIBUTING EDITORS While this accolade is appreciated, we certainly Maria Dillman, Laura Beth Moore, Nick Teixeira You’ll find our regular features—updates greater group of faculty, staff, alumni and friends don’t foster an air of competition simply for the sake of CONTRIBUTING WRITERS and notes about alumni, students and faculty in the country. Of this I remain convinced. Maria Dillman, Berkley Knas, Larry Little, Laura Beth Moore doing so. Rather, we believe that high expectations lead members—in addition to a couple of new CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER/DESIGNER to competently trained lawyers who are prepared for Nick Teixeira features that will become standard fare for Brad Toben whatever the practice may bring. DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION Docket Call. We will be profiling a current Dean of Baylor Law School Pollei Design One of the things I enjoy most is learning how our student, faculty member, and adjunct faculty BAYLOR SCHOOL OF LAW FULL-TIME FACULTY Bradley J.B. Toben, Dean alumni have taken the lessons and experiences gained at member in each issue so you can learn more Leah W. Jackson Teague, Associate Dean Baylor Law to chart their personal career paths. There are about some of the amazing individuals who Larry T. Bates, Ronald L. Beal, Matthew C. Cordon, also some fascinating stops along the career path for many— W. Jeremy Counseller, Thomas M. Featherston Jr., comprise the Baylor Law family. Bridget Fuselier, Christopher Galeczka, David M. Guinn, some of which we will explore in this issue of Docket Call. Laura A. Hernández, Jill Wieber Lens, Luke Meier, Elizabeth We have, of course, included S. Miller, Michael D. Morrison, Connie Powell Nichols, the We’ll take a look at the notable success of some of our information about several recent Hon. Jan P. Patterson (visiting), Gerald R. Powell, Brandon D. Quarles, R. Michael Rogers, Rory M. Ryan, Brian J. Serr, alumni who currently serve on the bench. We take great events and hope this glimpse into Mark Snider, Judge Ken Starr, David G. Swenson, James Underwood, Lesley Wilson, Patricia Wilson, James Wren pride in the number of sitting judges who hail from Baylor the active alumni base—which BAYLOR LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Law and, in addition to providing an overview of where you we do not take for granted—will President: Lewis Sifford ( JD ’72), Dallas, Texas President-Elect: Hon. Sam Cummings ( JD ’70), Lubbock, Texas can find our alumni serving throughout the country, I hope provide an opportunity to see a few Past President: Libby King ( JD ’01), Richmond, Texas you’ll enjoy hearing from several of our judges in depth. Secretary/Treasurer: Leah Jackson Teague ( JD ’85), Waco, Texas familiar faces. Through our annual As you’ll see in the Q&A interviews, we may have different 2014/2017 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Adoption Day event, our faculty, Laura Brown ( JD ’92), Waco, Texas backgrounds and interests but being a “Baylor Lawyer” binds staff and students have proven their Hon. Samuel Cummings ( JD ’70), Lubbock, Texas Anne Potts-Jackson ( JD ’95), Belton, Texas us together across the decades and long after graduation. commitment to giving back to the Libby King ( JD ’01), Richmond, Texas We’ll also share with you about a recent trip to Marilea Lewis ( JD ’78), Dallas, Texas community. The public also had a Hon. Nicole Mitchell ( JD ’06), Tyler, Texas Washington, D.C., that I was blessed to share with Judge Laura Sharp ( JD ’86), Austin, Texas rare opportunity to view historical Lewis Sifford ( JD ’72), Dallas, Texas Ken and Alice Starr, in addition to ten outstanding Baylor Ryan Squires ( JD ’04), Austin, Texas Zollie Steakley ( JD ’00), Waco, Texas Lawyers who were admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. We are proud of our alumni Nonprofit postage paid in Waco, TX. Please send address changes and correspondence to: who are now recognized as members of the bar of the Docket Call, School of Law, Baylor University nation’s highest court. PO Box 97288, Waco, TX 76798-7288 254-710-1911 phone / 254-710-2316 fax [email protected] email

DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 A Message

DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: BAYLOR LAW GRAD YEAR: 1997 HOMETOWN: Amarillo, Texas BENCH SERVING ON: 251st District Court Hon. Ana E. Estevez

DC: What was your career path upon DC: What is your favorite memory BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: DC: Why did you choose to attend I successfully ran for the 251st District Court graduation from Baylor Law School from your days as a student at Baylor BAYLOR LAW GRAD YEAR: 1993 Baylor Law School? when the sitting judge left his bench. leading up to your time on the bench? Law School? HOMETOWN: Fort Worth, Texas ESTEVEZ: In 1989 (as a junior in high school), BENCH SERVING ON: U.S. Magistrate DC: Why have you chosen a career in public service? CURETON: Following graduation CURETON: I was conversing with long-time family friend My favorite memory Judge, Northern District of Texas, from Baylor Law, I was a law clerk for and former Congressman Beau Boulter about ESTEVEZ: I am very blessed to work in the from my days as a Baylor Law student Fort Worth Division United States District Judge Eldon my plans for the future. When I mentioned that profession that I truly desire. I wish I could say I comes from taking classes in the old RELATED BAYLOR LAWYERS: B. Mahon. I then worked for a brief I planned to go to law school someday and really was solely motivated in my career choice by my Morrison Constitution Hall. Learning Spouse – Letty Martinez ( JD ’94) time in the firm of Friedman, Suder law in such an historic old building wanted to be a judge, he was insistent that I desire to give back to the community, but it was & Cook, LLP before going to work as now brings a sense of nostalgia. My attend Baylor Law School. my passion for people and passion for the law that an Assistant District Attorney in the favorite Practice Court memory is of DC: Are there additional thoughts you ultimately resulted in my pursuit of the bench. Tarrant County District Attorney’s my opponent in one of our mini-trials would like to share? DC: What was your career path upon Office (1995 – 1997). I returned to calling my then-girlfriend (now wife graduation from Baylor Law School leading up DC: What does it mean to you to be a CURETON: Recently, I had the privilege serve as a Career Law Clerk for Judge of 20 years) Letty Martinez (JD ’94) to your time on the bench? “Baylor Lawyer?” of being a part of the formation of the Mahon (1997 – 2000) until re-entering as a “surprise” witness and having ESTEVEZ: ESTEVEZ: Fort Worth Baylor Lawyer Network. As I was in private practice I have detected a great amount of respect private law practice as an associate at to cross-examine her in front of the current chair of the network, I've and worked with several law from other attorneys and judges when they hear The Fillmore Law Firm, P.C. in Fort Professor Louis Muldrow. witnessed firsthand the overwhelming firms after I graduated from that I went to Baylor Law School. When I encounter Worth. I then practiced as a founding Baylor Law School. In 2001, someone who is a Baylor Lawyer, I know the hours partner in the law firm of Cureton DC: Have you had Baylor Law students or interest shown by the Fort Worth Baylor Law alumni. It has proven to I became aware that a and commitment that were required throughout the & Gordon LLP from 2003 until my graduates work for you in your chambers? district judge was retiring entire process—especially through Practice Court— appointment to the bench in 2010. be a great way for Baylor Lawyers CURETON: I have had several Baylor to reconnect to old classmates but and was not seeking re- and respect them for their discipline. Law interns work for me in my also to meet other Baylor Lawyers, election so I entered a DC: What does it mean to you to be a DC: While attending Baylor Law School, were chambers. Each one has reaffirmed young and old, in the Fort Worth crowded primary and “Baylor Lawyer?” you a recipient of a scholarship? the high esteem I hold for Baylor Law area. Involvement in the network ran for 47th District CURETON: To me, being a Baylor and the quality of its students. The has been a great way to get Judge. Although I did ESTEVEZ: I did receive scholarships and awards while Lawyer means that I have been well- quality of the individuals and the work more connected to fellow Baylor not win that election, attending Baylor Law School including the Nat Harris trained to perform any legal task that produced are outstanding. Lawyers and to our great school. I did make the run-off Memorial Award, Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips may come my way and do so ethically in the eight-person Scholarship, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P. Scholarship, and thoroughly. When I encounter a primary and learned and the Judge Abner V. McCall/Moss Charities Law Baylor Lawyer, I have an expectation invaluable lessons Scholarship. I felt extremely blessed and thankful to of preparedness, competence and in campaigning and have the financial burden of a law degree minimized appropriate demeanor. I consider being Hon. Jeffrey politics. In 2006, by the great generosity of others. a Baylor Lawyer to be a privilege. 7

Cureton DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: BAYLOR LAW GRAD YEAR: 1997 HOMETOWN: Amarillo, Texas BENCH SERVING ON: 251st District Court Hon. Ana E. Estevez

Cureton DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 DC: What was your career path upon DC: What is your favorite memory from your DC: What was your career path upon DC: Why have you chosen a career in graduation from Baylor Law School days as a student at Baylor Law School? graduation from Baylor Law School public service? leading up to your time on the bench? leading up to your time on the bench? HACKER: Matt Dawson had a way of ABLES: I felt an early tug in my life to go HACKER: I first worked with a tri- rubbing his bald head and drawling, ABLES: I moved to Kerrville as into the ministry. I took another path, but college consortium to publish a guide “Now, Aleta, did you really want to an Assistant County Attorney I feel public service has opened so many BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: for serving civil process while I waited say that?” And of course, at that point, and shared office space with my unique doors that have allowed me to both BAYLOR LAW GRAD YEAR: 1973 for my bar results. Then I was an I knew I probably didn’t want to say classmate, Don Oehler. I then moved minister to and be ministered to by others. HOMETOWN: Ennis, Texas assistant district attorney for Taylor that. I wish I had a dime for every time to an Assistant District Attorney BENCHES SERVED AND SERVING ON: County for two years before going into that happened! position working for Baylor alumnus, DC: What is your favorite memory from • 216th District Court 1988 – 2008 general private practice. Ron Sutton. In 1980, David Jackson, your days as a student at Baylor Law School? • Appointed Presiding Judge of the 6th DC: Are there any additional thoughts Ed Wallace and I formed a firm, and ABLES: I was in Matt Dawson’s second Administrative Region of Texas by DC: Why have you chosen a career in you would like to share? we enjoyed a great partnership until I practice court class. We were discussing Governor Bush 1995 – Present public service? HACKER: My husband, who is also a went on the bench in 1988. Motions for Summary Judgment, and he told • Chairman of Presiding Judges 2008 – Present HACKER: Public service provides Baylor Lawyer, and I have come back to us he was presenting a motion in Corsicana DC: What does it mean to you to be a an opportunity to contribute to judge mock trial competitions over the that afternoon. Five of us drove to the “Baylor Lawyer?” the welfare of the community, and past few years. Although Baylor doesn’t Navarro County Courthouse to watch him public service as a judge provides the have teams in these contests, watching ABLES: Being a “Baylor Lawyer” in action. The hearing did not go well, and opportunity to maintain, and perhaps students from other schools sometimes means: well trained, a lifetime the judge was a little rough with Professor enhance, the integrity and stature of struggle with basic courtroom friendship with classmates and Dawson. On the way home, we decided it Hon. our civil justice system. Hopefully, that procedure and tactics, drives home professors, and the feeling of family. was best to act like it never happened. will encourage the public’s respect and the point that Baylor Law provides a confidence in that system. high quality learning experience that is Stephen B. Ables not duplicated in any other academic setting we have seen.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: BAYLOR LAW GRAD YEAR: 1977 HOMETOWN: Tuscola, Texas DC: What was your career path DC: Why have you chosen a career DC: While attending Baylor Law BENCH SERVING ON: upon graduation from Baylor Law in public service? School, were you a recipient of a School leading up to your time on scholarship? 326th District Court KENNEDY: I was very privileged to the bench? RELATED BAYLOR LAWYERS: have an excellent education, including KENNEDY: I was very honored and Gary Hacker ( JD '76) KENNEDY: After law school, I a law degree from Baylor Law School. am still thankful to have received joined the law firm of Potter Minton I serve on the bench to give back to scholarships while at Baylor Law in Tyler and later worked for the those who have given so much to me School. I am not sure I could have Twelfth Court of Appeals in Tyler. and to serve those who have never completed law school without the After leaving the Court of Appeals, had the opportunities I have. scholarship assistance. I joined the Flowers Davis law firm, where I practiced primarily in the DC: What does it mean to you to area of government liability in state be a “Baylor Lawyer?” and federal court. KENNEDY: Being a Baylor Lawyer means that you are among the best. It means you persevered Hon. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: through rigorous training and earned BAYLOR LAW GRAD YEAR: 1993 a highly sought-after degree. HOMETOWN: Tyler, Texas Being a Baylor Lawyer is a Aleta BENCH SERVING ON: sign of accomplishment, 114th District Court perseverance, and achievement. It is an honor that is earned— Hacker Hon. not given. 8 Christi Kennedy DOCKET CALL SPRING ‘15 DC: What was your career path upon DC: What is your favorite memory from your DC: What was your career path upon DC: Why have you chosen a career in graduation from Baylor Law School days as a student at Baylor Law School? graduation from Baylor Law School public service? leading up to your time on the bench? leading up to your time on the bench? HACKER: Matt Dawson had a way of ABLES: I felt an early tug in my life to go HACKER: I first worked with a tri- rubbing his bald head and drawling, ABLES: I moved to Kerrville as into the ministry. I took another path, but college consortium to publish a guide “Now, Aleta, did you really want to an Assistant County Attorney I feel public service has opened so many BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: for serving civil process while I waited say that?” And of course, at that point, and shared office space with my unique doors that have allowed me to both BAYLOR LAW GRAD YEAR: 1973 for my bar results. Then I was an I knew I probably didn’t want to say classmate, Don Oehler. I then moved minister to and be ministered to by others. HOMETOWN: Ennis, Texas assistant district attorney for Taylor that. I wish I had a dime for every time to an Assistant District Attorney BENCHES SERVED AND SERVING ON: County for two years before going into that happened! position working for Baylor alumnus, DC: What is your favorite memory from • 216th District Court 1988 – 2008 general private practice. Ron Sutton. In 1980, David Jackson, your days as a student at Baylor Law School? • Appointed Presiding Judge of the 6th DC: Are there any additional thoughts Ed Wallace and I formed a firm, and ABLES: I was in Matt Dawson’s second Administrative Region of Texas by DC: Why have you chosen a career in you would like to share? we enjoyed a great partnership until I practice court class. We were discussing Governor Bush 1995 – Present public service? HACKER: My husband, who is also a went on the bench in 1988. Motions for Summary Judgment, and he told • Chairman of Presiding Judges 2008 – Present HACKER: Public service provides Baylor Lawyer, and I have come back to us he was presenting a motion in Corsicana DC: What does it mean to you to be a an opportunity to contribute to judge mock trial competitions over the that afternoon. Five of us drove to the “Baylor Lawyer?” the welfare of the community, and past few years. Although Baylor doesn’t Navarro County Courthouse to watch him public service as a judge provides the have teams in these contests, watching ABLES: Being a “Baylor Lawyer” in action. The hearing did not go well, and opportunity to maintain, and perhaps students from other schools sometimes means: well trained, a lifetime the judge was a little rough with Professor enhance, the integrity and stature of struggle with basic courtroom friendship with classmates and Dawson. On the way home, we decided it Hon. our civil justice system. Hopefully, that procedure and tactics, drives home professors, and the feeling of family. was best to act like it never happened. will encourage the public’s respect and the point that Baylor Law provides a confidence in that system. high quality learning experience that is Stephen B. Ables not duplicated in any other academic setting we have seen.

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FOR THE PAST 11 YEARS, BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL HAS HOSTED A ANNUAL BAYLOR LAW JUDGES BREAKFAST BREAKFAST FOR BAYLOR LAW JUDGES. The annual breakfast is held in conjunction with the Texas Center for the Judiciary’s Annual Judicial Education Conference. “The breakfast has become a favorite tradition of the Law School as a way to honor our judges for the impact they have on the jurisprudence of our state,” said Berkley Knas, Director of Alumni Relations. Judge Ken Starr, Dean Brad Toben, Dean Leah Jackson Teague and faculty members speak at the breakfast. For many years, Baylor Law School was the only law school to host a breakfast at the State’s Judicial Conference. Other Texas law schools learned about the tradition, and now every Texas law school hosts a breakfast for their judges at the conference. "Baylor Law’s breakfast always has the highest attendance by a landslide! We look forward to spending time with our Baylor Law judges year after year at the breakfast,” said Knas.

DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 CURRENT, FORMER, BAYLOR LAW JUDGES STATES REPRESENTED AND RETIRED JUDGES | 286 | 18

DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 EN BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES WERE ADMITTED TO THE BAR OF In September 2014, Starr discussed Richard Butler serves as of Bill Gooding, a private-practice THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WERE SWORN IN BY the Federalist Papers as part of the John counsel with Texas-based Langley attorney based in Texarkana, specializes CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR., IN A MID-NOVEMBER CEREMONY. and Marie Chiles Federalist Papers & Banack, Inc. His areas of practice in business law as well as commercial T Lecture Series at Baylor Law School. include general and commercial and personal injury litigation. Gooding The Baylor Lawyers now have the privilege of arguing cases before the nation's highest court. He also has hosted several events with litigation, condemnation, real also earned a Bachelor of Business distinguished guests, and has taught property, and land use litigation in Administration degree from Baylor. Those admitted were Richard Butler (JD '77), Glenn Callison (JD '88), Joe Coleman (JD '57), Judge Robin Darr (JD '82), at Baylor Law School’s summer study San Antonio and Karnes City. Butler Mike Lindsay serves as of counsel Billy Davis (JD '87), Bill Gooding (JD '75), Mike Lindsay (JD '76), Judge Rebecca Simmons (JD '80), Dean Leah Witcher Jackson abroad program, the Academy of the earned a Bachelor of Arts from Baylor. with Lindsay, Lindsay & Parsons Teague (JD '85) and Steve Wisch (JD '77). Bill Brian (JD '74), 2014 Baylor Lawyer of the Year, also attended the event; he Advocate in St Andrews, Scotland. Glenn Callison is a shareholder in Beaumont. His areas of practice previously was admitted to the Supreme Court. As part of the trip, the Baylor in the real estate section of the Dallas include small business representation, The Baylor Lawyers and guests Washington, D.C., and through the with Baylor Law School. He serves Law group toured the Supreme office of Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, estate, family, wills and business traveled to Washington, D.C., as guests Supreme Court of the United States," as the Louise L. Morrison Chair of Court, where they met Chief Justice PC. He served as Munsch Hardts formation. Lindsay earned a Bachelor of Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Toben said. "It was a high honor for all Constitutional Law and teaches a Roberts and Justice Anthony M. Chairman and Chief Executive of Arts from Baylor. Starr, his wife Alice, Baylor Law School who were involved." seminar on current constitutional issues. Kennedy. After being sworn in by Officer from 2006 to 2013. Callison A third-generation attorney, Judge Dean Brad Toben, and Leah Witcher Starr's participation in the trip Roberts, the group heard two cases also earned a Bachelor of Business Rebecca Simmons served on Texas' Jackson Teague, Associate Dean of reflects his ongoing involvement argued before the Court. Administration from Baylor. Fourth Court of Appeals from 2005 to the Law School. The trip Coleman, who has more than 50 2012 after 20 years in private practice. began with a dinner with U.S. Meet the Group years experience in real estate and oil She currently serves as associate Congressman Chet Edwards Bill Brian, a partner with and gas law, serves as of counsel with general counsel with San Antonio- and his wife, Lee Ann, Courtney Countiss Brian and Texas-based Gray Reed & McGraw, PC. based Kenetic Concepts, Inc. followed by an exclusive tour Bailey, LLP, in Amarillo, A 1955 Baylor graduate with a Bachelor Leah Witcher Jackson Teague is of the U.S. Capitol. concentrates his practice of Arts, Coleman was named 2008 Associate Dean and Professor of Law "We are deeply in the area of estate Baylor Lawyer of the Year. for Baylor Law School. A past president grateful to Judge Ken planning and estate and Judge Robin Darr graduated of the Waco McLennan County Bar and Alice Starr for trust administration, from Baylor in 1980 with a Bachelor Association, Teague has taught tax law leading our Baylor and related tax planning of Business Administration. She has at Baylor Law School for more than 20 Law group through for families and private presided over Texas' 385th District years. She also earned a Bachelor of business. He also holds a Court since August 2004. In 1999, Business Administration from Baylor. Bachelor of Arts the Midland Rape Crisis Center and Steve Wisch owns a private law from Baylor. Children's Advocacy Center named practice in Houston specializing in Judge Darr Prosecutor of the Year. insurance, employee rights, personal Billy Davis is a shareholder injury, public schools, labor disputes with Waco-based Harrison Davis and education litigation. Steakley Morrison PC. His areas of Baylor Law School hosts the practice include corporate, real estate, Supreme Court trip biennially for products liability, and toxic torts. Davis distinguished Baylor Lawyers and also earned a Bachelor of Business guests. This marked Baylor Law's Administration from Baylor. fourth trip to the Supreme Court.

DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL HOSTED ONE OF THE NATION’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS MOCK TRIAL COMPETITIONS OCTOBER 17 – 19 Each year, the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Invitations are extended to schools based on a three-year invites 16 of the top trial advocacy teams from across the nation to performance record at the National Trial Competition and the Tournament of Champions (TOC). the Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Student “Having won the TOC national championship two years ago in Trial Advocacy Competition, as well as performances at prior Chicago, hosting gave us an opportunity to show the home of the Tournament of Champions competitions. Baylor Law received Baylor Law program to the top law school advocacy programs in an invitation to the competition, but as the host school, the nation,” said Dean Toben. chose not to compete. The results from the Tournament of During the competition each team of four students competes Champions are below: in both sides of a civil case—twice as plaintiffs and twice as defendants. NITA released the case file to competitors in August to allow time for preparation. PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: TOURNAMENT RESULTS: Campbell University School of Law CHAMPION: UNIVERSITY SEMIFINALIST AND WINNER Chicago-Kent College of Law OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY OF PROFESSIONALISM George Chandler Georgetown University Law Center SCHOOL OF LAW Martha Chandler, Dean Brad Toben, AWARD: UNIVERSITY OF George Chandler and Doug Smith at the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Janice Lu DENVER, STURM COLLEGE Texas Legal Legends induction ceremony. Loyola University Chicago School of Law Roxana Guidero (Best Speaker —TEXAS LEGAL LEGEND OF LAW Samford University, Cumberland School of Law in Final Round) Casey Brown Stetson University College of Law Jason Wu Casey Krizman Syracuse University College of Law Jordan Kahler Madalia Maaliki Temple University, Beasley School of Law Adrienne Jones THE LITIGATION SECTION OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS INDUCTED BAYLOR University of Akron School of Law FINALIST: CAMPBELL LAWYER GEORGE CHANDLER ( JD ’62), FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF CHANDLER, MATHIS University of California, Berkeley School of Law UNIVERSITY SCHOOL SEMIFINALIST: & ZIVLEY, PC, AS A TEXAS LEGAL LEGEND AT A LUNCHEON HOSTED BY BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL. University of Denver, Sturm College of Law OF LAW YALE LAW SCHOOL University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law Kaitlin Rothecker Ben Graham handler began his time at Baylor on a tennis Chandler’s involvement with the Texas Trial Lawyers University of Notre Dame Law School Terry Brown, Jr. Ben Wallace (Best Speaker in scholarship studying history before enrolling Association (TTLA) began in 1974. He sat on the TTLA Washington University School of Law Zoe Hansen the Preliminary Rounds) at Baylor Law. Chandler’s involvement at executive committee in 1996 and served as president Yale Law School Lauren Fussell Julia Shu C Baylor Law included being a member of the of the association in 2003. In addition, he was invited Rebecca Counts Baylor Law Review. After graduating, Chandler practiced as 1 of 400 trial lawyers worldwide to the prestigious personal injury litigation at the firm of Edwards & International Academy of Trial Lawyers. DeAnda in Corpus Christi. He opened his own firm Texas Legal Legends is a project of the Litigation Chandler, Mathis & Zivley, PC, in East Texas in 1971. Section of the State Bar of Texas. Its purpose is to For 40 years, Chandler’s firm has specialized in plaintiffs’ memorialize the stories of many legendary lawyers personal injury and commercial trial law. who have practiced in Texas, and to use those stories In 2009, the Baylor Law Alumni Association named to enhance the public’s understanding of the historical Chandler Baylor Lawyer of the Year. “I was delighted importance of law students and lawyers to emulate to see George receive the Baylor Lawyer of the Year Legends like Chandler by serving others and making a recognition,” noted Baylor Law Dean Brad Toben. “He difference—not just a living. joined the company of the ‘who’s who’ of Baylor Lawyers Past Legends inductees include: Joe Jamail, Joe who have used their gifts and talents to make a difference Reynolds (JD ’47), Harry Reasoner, the Hon. Carolyn in the lives of so many,” said Toben. Chandler is also a Dineen King, Gibson Gayle, Jr. (JD ’50), Broadus Jaworski Fellow at Baylor Law School and frequently Spivey, Blackie Holmes, Scott Baldwin, and the Hon. comes to the law center to share his trial advocacy Royal Furgeson. expertise with the Practice Court students.

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Hon. William Georgia Crump ( JD ‘78) Hon. Clay Jenkins ( JD ’87) Rogers Pope, Jr. ( JD ’92), Brannon Casey L. Moore (’06) Matthew Cole ( JD ’08) Patricia Jones ( JD ’10) 1950’s S. Sessions has been named to Best received national attention for and his father, Rogers Pope 2000’s C. Dillard joined the Dallas office of has been named shareholder of joined Fox Rothschild LLP as an ( JD ’58) Lawyers in America for 2015. his involvement in handling the Sr. of Texas Bank and Trust ( JD ’03), DLA Piper LLP (US) as a senior Cox Smith in San Antonio, Texas. associate in the firm’s Dallas office received the Morris I. Leibman Crump is a principal with Ebola crises in Dallas. were honored as the Texas shareholder at Winstead in associate. She focuses her Cole advises clients in complex in the Corporate and Real Estate Award in Law and National Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Family Business of the Year by Houston, has been elected to practice on commercial and commercial litigation. practice areas. Security from the American Townsend, PC, in Austin. Lori M. Carr ( JD ’88) Baylor University’s Institute membership in the prestigious securities litigation. Moore was Bar Association. The award of Estes Okon Thorne & Carr for Family Business. Fellows of the Texas Bar named a “Texas Rising Star” in Jay Lea ( JD ’08) Jessica Kirker ( JD ’10), recognizes lawyers who have Carmen Eiker ( JD ’78) PLLC was named a Texas Super Foundation. Dillard works in Texas Super Lawyers for both became a partner at Naman an associate in Thompson, demonstrated a sustained joined the Dallas law firm of Lawyer for 2014 and a Best Jonathan J. Bates ( JD ’93) Winstead’s commercial litigation, 2014 and 2015. Howell Smith & Lee in Coe, Cousins & Irons in Austin, commitment to and made Carrington, Coleman, Sloman Lawyer in America for 2014 of Kinser & Bates LLP in Dallas energy law, and securities Austin. Lea’s practice Texas, has been selected for exceptional contributions to the & Blumenthal, as a partner in and 2015. was recognized as one of litigation and enforcement Kevin Muenster ( JD ’06) is focused primarily on the Austin Bar Association field of law and national security. Family Law. the Texas Super Lawyers in practice groups and insurance of Estes Okon Thorne & Carr construction litigation, and the Austin Young Lawyers Bryan Blevins 2014. He was also elected vice and energy industry groups. PLLC was named “Rising Star” in personal injury litigation, Association Leadership George David Kent ( JD ’78) 1990’s ( JD ’90) president of the Texas Academy Texas Super Lawyers 2014. eminent domain litigation, and Academy Class for 2015. 1960’s Chandler was elected to serve as Treasurer was installed of Family Law Specialists. David O’Toole (JD ’03) business contract disputes. ( JD ’62), of the Trial Skills Section of the as 2015 President of the Texas has been appointed as the R. Heath Cheek ( JD ’06) Carson Runge ( JD ’10) founder and chairman of Dallas Bar Association for 2015. Trial Lawyers Association Carol C. Payne ( JD ’93) Clerk of Court Designee for the became partner in Bell Nunnally Tim Head ( JD ’08) of Sloan, Bagley, Hatcher & Chandler, Mathis & Zivley, PC Kent is Special Counsel for (TTLA). Blevins is an equity of Estes Okon Thorne & Carr PLLC Eastern District of Texas effective & Martin in Dallas. He is in joined Faith and Freedom Perry in Longview, Texas, has was inducted as a Texas Legal Sedgwick LLP in Dallas. partner at Provost Umphrey was named a Texas Super Lawyer July 2015. David is currently the the firm’s litigation, labor, Coalition as Executive Director. been certified as a life member Legend, a high honor given by Law Firm in Beaumont, Texas. for 2014 and a Best Lawyer in Austin Divisional Office Manager employment and benefits, of both The Million Dollar the Litigation Section of the State Thomas E. Myers ( JD ’79) America for 2014 and 2015. for the Western District of Texas. creditors’ rights, and intellectual Joe Rivera ( JD ’08) Advocates Forum and The Multi- Bar of Texas. Dean Brad Toben was awarded 2014 “Super Judge Amos Mazzant property practice areas. became partner at Naman Million Dollar Advocates Forum. and the Baylor Law School Lawyer in Schools and Education ( JD ’90) was nominated by Hon. David E. Cook ( JD ’94) Craig Stone ( JD ’03) Howell Smith & Lee in Waco. hosted an induction ceremony Law” by Texas Monthly. President Barack Obama to was elected judge of is Senior Counsel, Intellectual Leiza Dolghih ( JD ’06) Rivera’s practice is devoted Bethany Thompson ( JD ’10) and luncheon for Chandler. fill a U.S. district court seat in County Criminal Court No. 1 Property, for Phillips 66 was promoted to Senior Attorney to civil litigation, with a became partner at The Gardner John D. Sloan, the Eastern District’s Sherman in Tarrant County. Company in Houston, Texas. at Godwin Lewis PC in Dallas. focus on business litigation, Law Firm in San Antonio, Texas. Mike Bourland ( JD ’69) 1980’s Jr., ( JD ’80), Division. The full U.S. Senate He was recently named a “40 Dolghih represents Fortune 500 employment matters, and tax Thompson serves as vice-chair was honored as one of the founding confirmed the nomination on Christopher B. Under 40” by the Houston companies, small and mid-size litigation and controversies. of the firm’s litigation section. Baylor “B” Association’s 2014 partner of Sloan, Bagley, December 16, 2014. Judge Trowbridge ( JD ’98) Business Journal and was a businesses, and individuals in Wall of Honor recipients. Hatcher & Perry Law Firm, has Mazzant was formerly a federal was named a Texas Super finalist for theHouston Business all types of commercial and Danielle Ahlrich ( JD ’09) Jared Wood ( JD ’11) Bourland was an offensive been selected as a Fellow of the magistrate judge for the Lawyer in 2013 and 2014 and Journal Corporate Counsel employment litigation in state became partner at Martens, joined the Fort Worth Office of lineman at Baylor. Litigation Counsel of America. Eastern District of Texas as well as a Texas Rising Star for six Awards in the “Up and Comer” and federal courts. Todd, Leonard & Taylor. Ahlrich’s Winstead PC. as a justice for the Texas Fifth years. Trowbridge, chairman category. World Trademark practice focuses on tax litigation. Lt. Col. Joe Frederick S. Adams, Jr. District Court of Appeals. of the board, is a partner at Review also named Stone Jas Brar ( JD ’07) joined Kristin McDonald ( JD ’12) 1970’s Bell Nunnally, with a particular one of five finalists for “Global Fogler, Brar, Ford, O’Neil & Gray Matthew Crowell, joined Friends for Life in Waco Hinds ( JD ’74), ( JD ’81) has taken a new In-House Brand Counsel of the LLP as partner. USAF Ret, position as shareholder in Susan Moore ( JD ’90) focus on complex business and ( JD ’09) has been named as the Director of Guardianship was elected Chair of the intellectual property disputes. Year” and named his Phillips 66 shareholder of Cox Smith in San of Estate. organized the Second Annual KoonsFuller in Dallas, Texas. legal brand team a finalist for Tri-State Veterans Day Adams has been selected by Information Technology Steven Einhorn ( JD ’07) Antonio, Texas. Crowell assists Industry Council (ITI). Moore Vincent Allen ( JD ’99) “Brand Team of the Year” in its joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges clients with a wide variety of Amanda Neugebauer Celebration, held on November Texas Monthly as a “Super industry category in 2014. 9, 2014, just north of Cincinnati, Lawyer” in the State of Texas is Corporate Vice President was named Best Lawyer in LLP as an associate in the matters related to energy, natural Crouch ( JD ’13), Ohio. Hinds served in four (2003 – 2014). of Public Affairs for AMD, Intellectual Property Attorneys Executive Compensation & resources, and real property law. an associate in Jackson Walker military services over four a semiconductor company by D Magazine. Allen is a partner Jason T. Hill ( JD ’04) Employee Benefits practice LLP in San Antonio, Texas, was decades as a JAG officer in that designs and integrates at Carstens & Cahoon, LLP in has been named to Best within the Tax Department in James Hatchitt elected vice president of Robin Phillips ( JD ’82) Lawyers in America for their New York City office. the Army and Air Force and recently joined Hughes Watters technology to power personal Dallas and 2012 Young Baylor 2010’s ( JD ’10), the Defense Counsel of as a fraud attorney in General computers, tablets, game Lawyer of the Year. 2015. Hill is a principal with an associate at San Antonio for 2015. Askanase, LLP, in Houston. As Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Counsel’s Office of the Navy Senior Counsel with more than consoles, cloud servers, and Tiffany Roach Martin Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP, other intelligent devices. Townsend, PC, in Austin. and Marines. 30 years of experience, Phillips Reverend David Madison ( JD ’07) has been elected in Austin has been selected Kyle Knas ( JD ’14) joined supports the firm’s growing real ( JD ’99) was appointed by shareholder at Modrall Sperling for the Austin Young Lawyers Naman Howell Smith & Lee in Katie Pearson Klein ( JD ‘78), estate and real estate finance Michele Smith ( JD ’92) the Southwestern Association Jeanie T. Goodwin ( JD ’04) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association Leadership Academy Waco as an associate in August member of Dale and Klein, LLP practice group. leads the Texas Association of of Episcopal Schools (SAES) as of Legge, Farrow, Kimmitt, She was honored by the New Class for 2015. 2014. His practice focuses on in McAllen, Texas, has been Defense Counsel (TADC) as Executive Director, effective McGrath & Brown LLP in Mexico Defense Lawyers estate planning and probate. named to the 2014 Texas Judge Vincent J. Messina the 2014 – 2015 president. July 1, 2015. Houston became partner. Association as Young Lawyer She is a shareholder with of the Year in 2012, named “40 Super Lawyers list for the fourth ( JD ‘85) was elected to his consecutive year. MehaffyWeber, PC, and serves Melanie Okon ( JD ’99) Russell Brandon Bundren Under Forty” by Albuquerque fourth term in office November on its Management Committee. Business First, and selected 4, 2014. Judge Messina was first was named one of the top ( JD ‘05) relocated to his Alumni Notes are published based on the information we North Texas energy attorneys hometown of Nashville, as “Southwest Rising Star” by elected to the Hood County Southwest Super Lawyers. receive from our alumni. If you have professional news to share, Court at Law No. 1 in November in the Dallas Business Journal’s Tennessee, with the Litigation please e-mail [email protected]. 2003 and has presided on that 2014 listing of "Who’s Who in Section of Bradley Arant Boult court since that time. Energy." Okon is a name partner Cummings LLP (BABC). in Dallas-based Estes Okon Thorne & Carr PLLC. 17

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Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition The team of Harris Huguenard Mad Dog Moot and Anthony Peregoy advanced to Court Competition the finals in the 2014 Mack Kidd Brad Ryynanen won the 2014 winter Mad Dog Administrative Law Moot Court Moot Court Competition. Brad took home an Competition. Their brief was also 18-inch bronze statue of Matt “Mad Dog” Dawson, named as the competition’s former Baylor Law Professor and Practice Court “Second Best Brief.” Director. The runner up was Brian Price.

National Moot Court Regional Competition The team of Danielle Bennett, Sameer Hashmi, and Bree Marquand qualified for the National Moot Court Competition in New York City. Dawson & Sodd Moot Court They were also recognized at regionals for the “Second Best Brief” and Danielle Bennett Competition was recognized as “Best Speaker.” Louie Cook and Chase Smith won the fall 2014 Dawson & Sodd Moot Court Competition. William Thorne and Monica Legal Ethics and Recent Graduates Sworn into State Bar of Texas During the 2014 winter quarter, recent Baylor Law graduates Kristen Charter, Anali Gatlin, Litle earned second place. Monica was also Professionalism Moot Court Samantha Kessler, Evelyn (Rodriguez) McBride, and Lauren Teel were sworn in to the named “Best Speaker.” Competition Intellectual Property LawMeet Competition State Bar of Texas by Justice Jan P. Patterson, Baylor Law School’s Justice in Residence. The team of Chris Von Der Gruen, Timothy Ribelin, and Amanda Sanchez advanced The team of Chris Agboli and Ashby to the IP LawMeet regional semifinals. The team was coached by Associate Professor Baylor Public Interest Society Davis advanced to the quarterfinals at Connie Powell Nichols. The Baylor Public Interest Legal Society the Legal Ethics and Professionalism Moot received the 2014 Public Interest Award, a Court Competition. National Entertainment Law national award from the ABA’s Law Student Moot Court Competition Division, for its annual work with National National White Collar Crime The team of Victoria Ford, Spencer Adoption Day. Mock Trial Competition Turner, and Ariane Flores was a The team of Mark Altman, Brenna semifinalist and winner of the "Second New Baylor Law Review Members Buchanan, Cody Hill, and Alex Moore Best Respondent Brief Award" at the The Baylor Law Review congratulates the advanced to the semifinals at the National Entertainment Law Moot Court following students on their selection for National White Collar Crime Mock Trial Competition. The team was coached by membership based on participation in the Competition in Washington, D.C. Professor Laura Hernández, assisted by write-on competition: Chris Agboli, Michael Adjunct Professor Greg White. Foreman, Harris Huguenard, Elissa Pineda, Baylor Law Immigration Clinic Timothy Ribelin, and Lacey Stephenson. Baylor Law student volunteers assisted 64 people with their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications during the fall 2014 Immigration Clinic. Amanda Sanchez and Erin Toolan served as the clinic coordinators. CLINIC VOLUNTEERS: Ana Arrellanos, Naman Howell Smith & Lee Patrick Hopkins, Emily Ivy, Laura Client Counseling Competition Alexander, Heather Bell, Sarah Bosold, The team of Brittany Taylor and Matt Lueders Brenna Buchanan, Yuqi Cai, Cody Cooper, won the Naman Howell Smith & Lee Client Devin Fletcher, Ariane Flores, Sara Counseling Competition. Mason Spiller and McKinney, Elissa Pineda, Samuel Prillaman, Joseph Hinton were the second place team. Tim Pullin, Bethany Rumford, Ana Sanchez, Gabby Shayeb, Valancy Sissons, Arianna Smith, Spencer Turner, Tokoia Watts, and Josh Wright. 18

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CURRENT STUDENT AYNSLEY YOUNG CARRIES ON A FAMILY TRADITION AS THE THIRD GENERATION IN HER FAMILY TO ATTEND BAYLOR LAW WINTER Different Generations, GRADUATES Same Degree “When I decided that I wanted Young had another motivation During her time at Baylor Law, to be an attorney the only option was drawing her to Baylor Law School: Young has made her own mark Baylor Law School. Baylor is known it runs in the family. As a third- by staying involved. She was on for producing high caliber litigators generation Baylor Law Student, she the 2014 Burton D. Wechsler First who still care about maintaining was set on keeping the tradition Amendment Moot Court Team integrity and client relationships. alive. Her grandfather, Robert Louis that traveled to Washington, D.C., That is the type of attorney I want to Schwarz (JD '55), and mother, to compete under the leadership be,” said Aynsley Young, a Baylor Law Barbara Young (JD '89), both of Professor Larry Bates. She is the student from Belton, Texas. attended Baylor Law School. 2L President for the Student Bar Association and “I grew up listening to stories of Practice Court, Historian of and soon I’ll be able to add my own.” the Federalist Society. “One of the coolest things about Young has also left an impact in being a third-generation Baylor the community as a member of Lawyer is that while we have all gone the Baylor Public Interest Society. Graduation Day to the same law school, we have all Through this she volunteers monthly FALL GRADUATES CONGRATULATIONS to the 2014 Fall and done so in different buildings.” Her at the Mission Waco Legal Clinic. Winter Baylor Law graduates! grandfather convened in the Law The clinic is designed to assist in the Annex across from Carroll Library, unmet legal needs of low-income and her mother attended class in residents in the Waco area. Morrison Constitution Hall. Through the assistance of a One thing did stay the same, scholarship, Young attended the however. Practice Court remains Academy of the Advocate at St a common thread about which all Andrews in Scotland. According to Baylor Lawyers can reminisce. “I grew Young, it was a unique and intense up listening to stories of Practice program designed to enhance trial Court, and soon I’ll be able to add and appellate advocacy skills. my own.” Another matter on which While the surroundings, Young and her family can compare professors, and students have notes is the professors. Young learns changed, the heart of Baylor Law from some of the same professors students remains the same. Young’s as her mother, and her mother and determination and integrity drive grandfather shared professors as her to maintain an unwavering well. Young acknowledged how standard of excellence in the much impact they leave, “One of the pursuit of her Baylor Law degree. greatest things about Baylor Law is that all of the professors are so supportive and approachable.”

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DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 ADJUNCT FACULTY PROFILES FACULTY NOTES JUDGE REX DAVIS ( JD ’74) Thomas M. Featherston, Jr. • Business Organizations, Texas Practice Series PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Professor and The Mills Cox (Vols. 19, 20 & 20A), West (3rd ed. 2011; • Liaison of the Environmental and Natural 2015 Annual Supplement) (co-author) Professor of Law Resources Law Section of the State • Selected Recent Non-Delaware LLC Cases, Bar of Texas with the Section of the PUBLICATIONS 2014 LLC Institute, American Bar Association Environment, Energy and Resources of JUDGE REX DAVIS ( JD ’74), IN “One fall quarter ended such that my finals were to be on Halloween. One of my free • Wills and Revocable Trusts: What's Best for Business Law Section, LLCs, Partnerships the American Bar Association ADDITION TO SERVING ON THE spirited students asked if he could dress as a the Client? at the 29th Annual Wills and and Unincorporated Entities Committee • Contributing Editor, General Practice Digest, TENTH COURT OF APPEALS, Great Pumpkin for his final presentation. Of Probate Institute, South Texas College of Law (October 17, 2014) State Bar of Texas, Environmental Law (September 18, 2014) DEDICATES TIME TO SERVE AS course, I said yes. He was an original treat.” PRESENTATIONS • Chair of the Law School Committee of the But Judge Davis is inspired to teach PRESENTATIONS AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR AT • “LLC Case Law Update,” 2014 LLC Institute, Environmental and Natural Resources Law his students for reasons other than their • “Wills or Revocable Trusts, What’s Best for the American Bar Association Business Law Section, Section of the State Bar of Texas THE BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL. entertainment factor. He values the high Client?” Tarrant County Probate Bar Association, LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities Judge Davis began teaching Client standard of ethics the law school upholds, Ft. Worth, Texas (December 4, 2014) Committee (October 17, 2014) Counseling in 1999, leaving a lasting impression and helps maintain that tradition in his • “The Tedder Case and Its Impact on Estate PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES David G. Swenson on his students. own classroom. Planning and Administration,” Harris County • Editorial Board, The Business Lawyer, a Professor of Law and The “I thoroughly enjoy the practice “Baylor Lawyers are exceptional because, Probate Bar Association, Houston, Texas quarterly journal of the Business Law Section George G. Kelly Professor of Law contribution that my class gives to law here, ethics still count in a world often lost in (November 25, 2014) of the American Bar Association students. The world is a tough place and the relativism. I am honored to have a part in that • “What Estate Planners Need to Know about PUBLICATIONS • Chair, Editorial Board of Publications of the breadth of subject matter that we address ongoing tradition.” Premarital Agreements, Divorce and Planning for • Copyright Developments: Current Issues LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities primarily by demonstration should help in Second Marriages,” A.B.A. Real Property, Trust & and Case Law Update for the 27th Annual Committee of the Business Law Section of the their preparation.” Estate Law CLE Webcasts (October 21, 2014) Technology Law Conference, Austin, Texas Not only does Judge Davis leave an impact American Bar Association (May 22 – 23, 2014) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • Member, Business Organizations Code on his students, but over the years, they have • Articles Editor, Trust & Estate, Probate & Committee of the Business Law Section of the PRESENTATIONS left a few lasting memories as well. He shared Property, published six times a year by the State Bar of Texas • “Copyright Developments: Current Issues one of his favorites. Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of • ABA Advisor, Drafting Committee, Series and Case Law Update” at the 27th Annual American Bar Association of Unincorporated Business Entities Act, Technology Law Conference, Austin, Texas • Member, Publications Committees of the ABA’s National Conference of Commissioners on (May 22 – 23, 2014) Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section Uniform State Laws PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • Member, Legislative Review Committee, • Appeared as a witness before House Business JUDGE ED KINKEADE ( JD ’74) Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section, & Industry Committee and Senate Business • Contributing Author, Annual Review of State Bar of Texas & Commerce Committee, 83rd Legislature Intellectual Property Developments 2011, ABA • Contributor, Amicus Brief of the Tax Foundation Regular Session Section of Intellectual Property Law, 2012 and Interested Law Professors, United States • Member, Sections of Business Law, of America v. Elaine T. Marshall, et al pending Intellectual Property Law (IPL) and Legal JUDGE ED KINKEADE ( JD ’74) He continues to teach because of the before United States Court of Appeals for the Michael Morrison Education and Admissions to the Bar BEGAN TEACHING PROFESSIONAL impact that remains after students leave 5th Circuit concerning gift tax transferee liability Professor of Law • Member of the American Intellectual RESPONSIBILITY AS AN the doors of Baylor Law. He recognizes it is • Commentator, at the invitation of the Joint PUBLICATIONS Property Law Association (AIPLA) much more than the short time they spend Editorial Board, on the Uniform Disposition of • “The Expedited Civil Action; The First • Editor of The AIPLA Antitrust News a ADJUNCT PROFESSOR IN 2008 in his classroom, but beyond the classroom Community Property Rights at Death Act Year, Redux,” Texas Association of Defense publication produced three times a year AT BAYLOR LAW. He shared some that counts. Counsel Magazine by the AIPLA Antitrust Committee highlights from teaching over the years as “I remember a student interrupting her • Baylor representative to LSAC since 1983 well as what inspires him to teach. chemo treatment, with the port still in her Bridget Fuselier PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES arm, to take my exam. I told her to wait and • Program Director for the Texas Association of “The privilege of teaching with the great Professor of Law professors at Baylor Law and helping educate I would make another time available. With Defense Council’s annual spring meeting in Bradley J.B. Toben tears pouring down her face she said ‘I only PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Washington, D.C., with responsibility to plan the high caliber students at Baylor makes me • Contributor, ABA Probate & Property Dean a better judge. The experience of teaching have months to live and want to prove I can and conduct two days of MCLE programming do this.’ In sharing my own challenges with Magazine, Keeping up with Property • Board of Directors of the Forum for Education PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES each new crop of students helps keep • Contributor, General Practice Digest students, some of them have told me that Abroad, the entity recognized by the federal • Board Member of Juliette Fowler Homes, Inc. cynicism at bay. Several professors helped me when I was a student, and I owe the same gift what I shared made them reflect on their government as the official standards-setting • Chair and Accreditation Inspector, to those coming into the profession.” future role in the profession.” Jill W. Lens body for U.S. study abroad programs American Bar Association (ABA) And each day his students remind him • Current Chair of Texas Association of Judge Kinkeade, who serves on the U.S. Associate Professor of Law • Master of the Bench of the Abner V. McCall District Court for the Northern District of the legacy he wants to leave. Defense Council’s board of directors American Inn of Court “The notes and calls I receive from PUBLICATIONS of Texas, uses knowledge he’s learned in committee charged with evaluating and • Member, Board of Directors of the Waco former students, sharing their stories of • Warning: A Post-Sale Duty to Warn Targets preparing comments on the Texas Supreme his own professional life to teach the next Chamber of Commerce generation of Baylor Lawyers. pulling lives out of ditches, makes me want Small Businesses, 2014 UTAH L. REV. Court's proposed rules for expedited trials to keep on working to be a better teacher. (forthcoming 2014) • Board of Directors of the Texas Association “By helping young people see possible dilemmas, I hopefully give them a head start Selfless teachers all the way from 1st grade • Tort Law's Deterrent Effect and Procedural Due of Defense Counsel James Underwood to an LLM have made my life better. I hope Process, 50 TULSA L. REV. (forthcoming 2014) on problem solving and facing the tough calls Professor of Law they will encounter as attorneys. I hope I can to make a small positive impact on each (made SSRN’s Top Ten download for the LSN student I have the honor of teaching.” Journal of Judgments & Remedies) Walt Shelton PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES help them avoid the quicksand of practice.” Adjunct Professor of Law • Contributor, General Practice Digest (Torts) Elizabeth Miller PRESENTATIONS Professor of Law • Coordinated Environmental Law program and participated as moderator and speaker PUBLICATIONS in Houston for the University of Houston • Texas Methods Of Practice, Texas Practice Law School and South Texas College of Law 23 Series (Vol. 13), West (2015) (co-author) (November 5, 2014) DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 ADJUNCT FACULTY PROFILES FACULTY NOTES JUDGE REX DAVIS ( JD ’74) Thomas M. Featherston, Jr. • Business Organizations, Texas Practice Series PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Professor and The Mills Cox (Vols. 19, 20 & 20A), West (3rd ed. 2011; • Liaison of the Environmental and Natural 2015 Annual Supplement) (co-author) Professor of Law Resources Law Section of the State • Selected Recent Non-Delaware LLC Cases, Bar of Texas with the Section of the PUBLICATIONS 2014 LLC Institute, American Bar Association Environment, Energy and Resources of JUDGE REX DAVIS ( JD ’74), IN “One fall quarter ended such that my finals were to be on Halloween. One of my free • Wills and Revocable Trusts: What's Best for Business Law Section, LLCs, Partnerships the American Bar Association ADDITION TO SERVING ON THE spirited students asked if he could dress as a the Client? at the 29th Annual Wills and and Unincorporated Entities Committee • Contributing Editor, General Practice Digest, TENTH COURT OF APPEALS, Great Pumpkin for his final presentation. Of Probate Institute, South Texas College of Law (October 17, 2014) State Bar of Texas, Environmental Law (September 18, 2014) DEDICATES TIME TO SERVE AS course, I said yes. He was an original treat.” PRESENTATIONS • Chair of the Law School Committee of the But Judge Davis is inspired to teach PRESENTATIONS AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR AT • “LLC Case Law Update,” 2014 LLC Institute, Environmental and Natural Resources Law his students for reasons other than their • “Wills or Revocable Trusts, What’s Best for the American Bar Association Business Law Section, Section of the State Bar of Texas THE BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL. entertainment factor. He values the high Client?” Tarrant County Probate Bar Association, LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities Judge Davis began teaching Client standard of ethics the law school upholds, Ft. Worth, Texas (December 4, 2014) Committee (October 17, 2014) Counseling in 1999, leaving a lasting impression and helps maintain that tradition in his • “The Tedder Case and Its Impact on Estate PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES David G. Swenson on his students. own classroom. Planning and Administration,” Harris County • Editorial Board, The Business Lawyer, a Professor of Law and The “I thoroughly enjoy the practice “Baylor Lawyers are exceptional because, Probate Bar Association, Houston, Texas quarterly journal of the Business Law Section George G. Kelly Professor of Law contribution that my class gives to law here, ethics still count in a world often lost in (November 25, 2014) of the American Bar Association students. The world is a tough place and the relativism. I am honored to have a part in that • “What Estate Planners Need to Know about PUBLICATIONS • Chair, Editorial Board of Publications of the breadth of subject matter that we address ongoing tradition.” Premarital Agreements, Divorce and Planning for • Copyright Developments: Current Issues LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities primarily by demonstration should help in Second Marriages,” A.B.A. Real Property, Trust & and Case Law Update for the 27th Annual Committee of the Business Law Section of the their preparation.” Estate Law CLE Webcasts (October 21, 2014) Technology Law Conference, Austin, Texas Not only does Judge Davis leave an impact American Bar Association (May 22 – 23, 2014) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • Member, Business Organizations Code on his students, but over the years, they have • Articles Editor, Trust & Estate, Probate & Committee of the Business Law Section of the PRESENTATIONS left a few lasting memories as well. He shared Property, published six times a year by the State Bar of Texas • “Copyright Developments: Current Issues one of his favorites. Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of • ABA Advisor, Drafting Committee, Series and Case Law Update” at the 27th Annual American Bar Association of Unincorporated Business Entities Act, Technology Law Conference, Austin, Texas • Member, Publications Committees of the ABA’s National Conference of Commissioners on (May 22 – 23, 2014) Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section Uniform State Laws PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • Member, Legislative Review Committee, • Appeared as a witness before House Business JUDGE ED KINKEADE ( JD ’74) Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section, & Industry Committee and Senate Business • Contributing Author, Annual Review of State Bar of Texas & Commerce Committee, 83rd Legislature Intellectual Property Developments 2011, ABA • Contributor, Amicus Brief of the Tax Foundation Regular Session Section of Intellectual Property Law, 2012 and Interested Law Professors, United States • Member, Sections of Business Law, of America v. Elaine T. Marshall, et al pending Intellectual Property Law (IPL) and Legal JUDGE ED KINKEADE ( JD ’74) He continues to teach because of the before United States Court of Appeals for the Michael Morrison Education and Admissions to the Bar BEGAN TEACHING PROFESSIONAL impact that remains after students leave 5th Circuit concerning gift tax transferee liability Professor of Law • Member of the American Intellectual RESPONSIBILITY AS AN the doors of Baylor Law. He recognizes it is • Commentator, at the invitation of the Joint PUBLICATIONS Property Law Association (AIPLA) much more than the short time they spend Editorial Board, on the Uniform Disposition of • “The Expedited Civil Action; The First • Editor of The AIPLA Antitrust News a ADJUNCT PROFESSOR IN 2008 in his classroom, but beyond the classroom Community Property Rights at Death Act Year, Redux,” Texas Association of Defense publication produced three times a year AT BAYLOR LAW. He shared some that counts. Counsel Magazine by the AIPLA Antitrust Committee highlights from teaching over the years as “I remember a student interrupting her • Baylor representative to LSAC since 1983 well as what inspires him to teach. chemo treatment, with the port still in her Bridget Fuselier PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES arm, to take my exam. I told her to wait and • Program Director for the Texas Association of “The privilege of teaching with the great Professor of Law professors at Baylor Law and helping educate I would make another time available. With Defense Council’s annual spring meeting in Bradley J.B. Toben tears pouring down her face she said ‘I only PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Washington, D.C., with responsibility to plan the high caliber students at Baylor makes me • Contributor, ABA Probate & Property Dean a better judge. The experience of teaching have months to live and want to prove I can and conduct two days of MCLE programming do this.’ In sharing my own challenges with Magazine, Keeping up with Property • Board of Directors of the Forum for Education PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES each new crop of students helps keep • Contributor, General Practice Digest students, some of them have told me that Abroad, the entity recognized by the federal • Board Member of Juliette Fowler Homes, Inc. cynicism at bay. Several professors helped me when I was a student, and I owe the same gift what I shared made them reflect on their government as the official standards-setting • Chair and Accreditation Inspector, to those coming into the profession.” future role in the profession.” Jill W. Lens body for U.S. study abroad programs American Bar Association (ABA) And each day his students remind him • Current Chair of Texas Association of Judge Kinkeade, who serves on the U.S. Associate Professor of Law • Master of the Bench of the Abner V. McCall District Court for the Northern District of the legacy he wants to leave. Defense Council’s board of directors American Inn of Court “The notes and calls I receive from PUBLICATIONS of Texas, uses knowledge he’s learned in committee charged with evaluating and • Member, Board of Directors of the Waco former students, sharing their stories of • Warning: A Post-Sale Duty to Warn Targets preparing comments on the Texas Supreme his own professional life to teach the next Chamber of Commerce generation of Baylor Lawyers. pulling lives out of ditches, makes me want Small Businesses, 2014 UTAH L. REV. Court's proposed rules for expedited trials to keep on working to be a better teacher. (forthcoming 2014) • Board of Directors of the Texas Association “By helping young people see possible dilemmas, I hopefully give them a head start Selfless teachers all the way from 1st grade • Tort Law's Deterrent Effect and Procedural Due of Defense Counsel James Underwood to an LLM have made my life better. I hope Process, 50 TULSA L. REV. (forthcoming 2014) on problem solving and facing the tough calls Professor of Law they will encounter as attorneys. I hope I can to make a small positive impact on each (made SSRN’s Top Ten download for the LSN student I have the honor of teaching.” Journal of Judgments & Remedies) Walt Shelton PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES help them avoid the quicksand of practice.” Adjunct Professor of Law • Contributor, General Practice Digest (Torts) Elizabeth Miller PRESENTATIONS Professor of Law • Coordinated Environmental Law program and participated as moderator and speaker PUBLICATIONS in Houston for the University of Houston • Texas Methods Of Practice, Texas Practice Law School and South Texas College of Law 23 Series (Vol. 13), West (2015) (co-author) (November 5, 2014) DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 FACULT Y PROFILE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

BAYLOR LAW FACULTY “These children were dealt LIKE PROFESSOR BRIDGET a pretty unfair hand in life. They did not ask to be born into these FUSELIER GIVE TIME situations, but these foster and OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM adoptive parents have shown such TO CULTIVATE A SPIRIT love and support for these children and have chosen to make them part OF SERVICE IN BAYLOR of their forever family. Giving like LAW STUDENTS. While most that to children is the best thing acts of service go unnoticed, in someone can do for them. I always 2014 the American Bar Association think about the children whose recognized the Baylor Public Interest adoptions I’ve worked on and how Legal Society (BPILS), under the that truly changed their lives. It’s a direction of Professor Fuselier, for wonderful moment that I’m honored its outstanding public service to the we can be a part of,” said Fuselier. community through Adoption Day. For eight years, Professor Fuselier has led the initiative in pairing Baylor Law students with the local community adoption process. Her passion for adoption began as a practicing attorney volunteering to finalize adoptions in Beaumont, Texas, but it was two Baylor Law students, Brandon Kinard (JD '09) and Josh Borderud (JD '09), who approached Fuselier with the idea of an Adoption Day. Baylor Law joins with the nationwide effort to call attention to the 129,000 foster children awaiting adoption in the Last November, BPILS hosted United States and to rejoice with all the adoption of 25 children in loving families that adopt. McLennan County before the Hon. Gary Coley of the 74th State District Adoption Court at the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center. Consistently for the past seven years, 40 to 50 Baylor Law students participate Day in gathering donations from local businesses in the community, NOVEMBER 21 creating gift baskets for the families, decorating, dressing in full costume, and hosting the event. Professor Fuselier’s passion for The adoptions of 25 serving the community overflows to the Baylor Law community, spurring children were finalized students to follow in her footsteps. during the Baylor Public Interest Legal Society's PROFESSOR BRIDGET FUSELIER ( JD '98) eighth annual Adoption Day. This year's theme, "Adoptable Me," was based on the children's movie "Despicable Me."

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Joseph J. Marone (JD ’53) of Andover Township died May 30, 2014. Hon. Rachel Littlejohn- John Michael Lee (JD ’54) William C. Wright (JD ’69) David Russell Watson (JD ’80) Born in Lodi, he had been a resident of Andover Township since 1969. He Diebel (JD ’50) was born June 14, was born in 1930 in Oklahoma City. passed away October 26, 2014. He passed away January 6, 2015, in Conroe, was a graduate of Baylor Law School and was a real estate developer with All 1922, in Wellingborough, England. He graduated from Baylor Law School was born on February 18, 1944, in Texas. He was born October 13, 1951, American Realty in Hackensack before his retirement. He was a World War She passed away December 24, 2014. in 1954, where he met and married Commerce, Texas. Bill graduated from in Galveston to Irving Monroe Watson II United States Navy veteran. He was a member of Newton Country Club, a While studying to become a doctor in Yvonnne Robbins. For 19 years, they East Texas State University in 1966 and and Bettye Newton Watson. David member of the Texas Bar Association and a member and past Exulted Ruler of 1938 at Cambridge University, World lived in Abilene, Texas, where he Baylor Law School in 1969. Bill began received a law degree from Baylor Law B.P.O.E. Lodge 2080 in Teaneck. War II broke out. She was drafted and became a partner at McMahon, Surovik his legal career in Orange as an assistant School and a Bachelor of Journalism assigned to work for MI-5 in London and Suttle. He moved his practice to district attorney in 1970. He was then degree from the University of Texas at Dean Toben recalls his memories of Joe: by the British government. During Fort Worth, Texas, until he retired. appointed district attorney until 1977. Austin. He practiced law in Longview, Joe and I began corresponding a dozen years ago. It started with Joe sending an the bombing of London, she met He went into private practice for three Greenville, and Conroe. David e-mail thanking me for the alumni pocket calendar he received in the mail. That Lacy Littlejohn. They married in 1946 Jack Nolan Price (JD ’57) years before he was elected district anchored his life with the love of the led to a not infrequent exchange of greetings and news. I never met Joe, though, and moved to Waco where they both was born in Willow, Oklahoma, in 1934 attorney of Orange County where he Lord and his daughter Rachel. until one morning in 2010. I was visiting with a large group folks in the classroom entered Baylor Law School. She was and passed away December 1, 2014. served until 1984. He and his family later hallway of the law center. The hallway was quite crowded. Standing over to the one of three women in law school and Jack grew up in Nederland, Texas, and moved to Tyler, where he was a noted Hon. Walter Lee Johnson side, about 20 feet away, was an elderly gentleman with a broad and remarkably graduated cum laude in 1950. Rachel received his bachelor’s degree from criminal defense trial lawyer. (JD ’85) passed away in Ennis, kind smile, looking directly at me and quietly waiting to greet me. was elected to the bench for the 156th Lamar University in 1954. He earned Texas, on November 26, 2014. Lee Joe had not told me that he would be in Waco or on campus and it had been District Court in 1974 and served his LLB from Baylor Law School in Walter Lyle Reed Jr. (JD ’70) was born in Mt. Pleasant on May 26, a few months since we corresponded. Somehow, however, it was one of those there until her retirement in 1994. The 1957, where he was a section editor of passed away October 28, 2014 in Dallas. 1960, to Richard Lee and Margaret moments when I “just knew.” I said “Joe?” He responded heartily “Hi Brad!” We judiciary elected her to the Executive the Baylor Law Review. Jack served as Walter was born September 2, 1939, Ann Johnson, Jr. He attended Baylor repaired to my office and had a wonderful time telling stories, laughing and Committee of the Judicial Section of an Assistant Attorney General from in Austin, Texas. He graduated from University and received his bachelor’s enjoying the fruits of a friendship formed in cyberspace. the State Bar of Texas 1983 – 1986, 1957 – 1962. Jack began his own legal Baylor University with a BBA in August degree in business and his juris doctor Joe, loved Baylor Law School, his experience here, and the opportunities it and she became a Life Fellow of the practice in Austin in 1974 and retired 1961 and married Mable Joan Knapp from Baylor Law School. In 1982 he brought to him. He often noted his special fond memories and appreciation of Texas Bar Foundation. Subsequent to in 1999. He chaired both the General in 1965. Walter served as a Lieutenant married Lori Burleson, and they made Dean McSwain, Ed Horner and Judge McCall. Joe was a person who through his the death of Lacy in 1986, she married Practice and the Antitrust and Trade in the Navy from 1961 until 1968 as a their home in Waxahachie before life felt markedly blessed. He was a truly grateful and selfless man and you could Edwin Diebel in 1999. Regulations sections of the State Bar. Naval Navigator. He served during the moving to Ennis in 1987. He served “feel” that in Joe. I remember we had a photo taken that day. I regret that I can’t To show his support for education and Vietnam War and earned the National as an Assistant Ellis County District locate it. Joe is representative of our Greatest Generation Baylor Lawyers and he Frank Dean McCown (LLB ’51) the legal community, he established Defense and Vietnam Service Medal Attorney, and was an attorney in the along with the Air Force Outstanding so appreciated the place that his Baylor Law education had in his life. died December 18, 2014. He was born the Jack N. Price Endowed Scholarship Young, Johnson and Hines Law Firm. to Frank Henchman and Martha Dean at Baylor Law School. He served his Unit Award. He graduated from Baylor He also served many years as Judge for McCown in Whitney on December country as a member of the Army and Law School in November 1970. He the City of Ennis. Leonard Gorin (JD ’37) Raymond H. Nordhausen 15, 1927. He attended North Texas National Guard. was a lead attorney with the FDIC in 99, of Waco, passed away November (LLB ’49) of Amarillo died December State University, served in active Midland, San Antonio, and Dallas, Allen Jack Washburn (JD ’90) 16, 2014. Leonard was one of the oldest 24, 2014. Ray was born to Herman and duty with the United States Army Thomas Glenn Collins (JD ’62) Texas, until retirement. One of his passed away November 9, 2014, living Baylor Lawyers. Some may Irma Fitz Nordhausen. He graduated of Occupation in Japan, and then died October 10, 2014. He was born last trips was to take a private tour of in Houston, Texas. Jack was born remember that Leonard, even in his from Worthington Junior College in returned to Waco to graduate from December 24, 1937, in Cameron, McLane Stadium. in Graham, to Jack Pete and Lola 80’s and early 90’s, was an avid runner 1942. Upon completion of aviation Baylor Law School with honors in Texas. He received his BA from Baylor Washburn. He graduated from and participated each year in the “Race cadet training, he joined the ranks of 1951. Shortly after completing law University and juris doctor degree Don A. Young (JD ’72) Midwestern State University and to the Courthouse” from Morrison the Naval Reserve. He was assigned school, Frank married Joyce Gray, and from Baylor Law School. He served in passed away in Dallas, Texas, on Baylor Law School. He practiced law in Constitution Hall to the McLennan to duty at Kingsville Naval Air Station the couple moved to Dalhart. While the Texas Air National Guard. Glenn October 7, 2014. Don was born in Houston with Murphrey and Washburn. County Courthouse. He was a classy as a flight instructor. While there, he in Dalhart he was elected as county moved to Tyler in 1966 to practice law Waco, Texas, on December 26, 1948, gentleman, a proud Baylor Lawyer and met and married Lois Clark. He was attorney and then as district attorney and was a shareholder in the law firm to George A. and Berna Dean (Harris) Johnnie Marvin Green (JD ’97) member of the Greatest Generation, then transferred to a carrier-based in the state. Frank was a pioneer of Ramey & Flock. He was a member Young. He received his law degree passed away October 23, 2014. He having served in the Intelligence Pacific fleet squadron in the East in the Texas Republican Party and of the Smith County Bar Association from Baylor Law School in 1972. He was born to Katherine Calk Green Services during WWII. He earned a Coast. When the war ended, he was ran for state representative in 1968. and served as chairman of District married Kathryn Kelsey shortly after and Clarence Marvin “Bubba” Green law degree (cum laude) from Baylor released from active duty. In 1948, Though he lost that race, he became 2-A Grievance Committee. He served and they moved to Ennis, Texas. Don on December 3, 1954, in Bay City, Law School in 1937. He served in the he graduated from the University of an assistant United States attorney as president of the East Texas Estate began his law career with Moore and Texas. John married Alma Sevilla on Counter Intelligence Corps from early Minnesota with a BS in law and in and chief of the Criminal Division Planning Council, and was a member McCarty then went on to open his March 31, 1997. One of John’s proudest 1942 to the end of 1945. Leonard was 1949 from Baylor Law School with a for the Northern District of Texas. In of the Real Estate, Probate and Trust own practice, the Young Law Office. achievements was returning mid-career dedicated to the law, with justice for LLB. In 1952, he moved to Midland 1972, President Nixon appointed him Law Section, and Health Law Section to complete his formal education at all, and was held in high esteem over and worked for oil and gas exploration as the United States attorney. In 1983, of the State Bar of Texas. Baylor Law School. his 50 years of practice. He also served companies as a petroleum landman he married Ruth Snellings. as president of the McLennan County until his retirement in 1984. n Bar Association. In 1966, he married Ralph Matthew "Matt" Dawson (JD ’38), attorney, judge, law professor, and deeply Evelyn S. Larson. beloved father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, died on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. An obituary and tribute 26 to Professor Dawson and his innumerable contributions to the legal profession and to Baylor Law School will be published in the Summer edition of Docket Call. DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 ALUMNI OBITUARIES

Judges Jennifer Elrod, Thomas R. Phillips, and Mark Davidson, along with Baylor President Thanks to Nelson Roach and Chancellor Ken ( JD '84), Bill Gooding Starr and Deans ( JD '75), John Greer ( JD Brad Toben and '70), John Mercy ( JD '82), Pattie Orr, presented Judge Alfonso ( JD '90), and discussed the and Melissa Charles preservation of a ( JD '91), East Texas collection of Judge Baylor Lawyers were R.E.B. Baylor's historical able to connect at the legal documents. Texarkana Area Baylor Lawyer Luncheon and the Longview Baylor Lawyer Reception. 28 28

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DOCKETDOCKE CALLT | CALLSPRING | SPRING ‘15 ‘15 Dean Charles W. Barrow was not only a ‘legal giant’ in the courtrooms of Texas but a man of integrity, determination, and humility. After graduating from Baylor Law School in 1943, Justice Barrow entered the United States Navy. He fought in World War II, the Korean War, and received seven battle stars during his time as a naval officer in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters. He then returned to Texas in order to fulfill his law career at Baylor Law School. Justice Barrow filled many roles for the courts of Texas as an attorney and jurist until he was appointed to the highest court of Texas in 1977. He served on the Texas Supreme Court until 1984, when he resigned this post to serve as dean of Baylor Law School. Justice Barrow was known by all who knew him to be one of the hardest working judges in Texas in addition to being a man who was true to his character and believed in the principles of honesty and wisdom no matter the circumstance. Judge Barrow passed away in 2006 after a long and difficult, but courageous, struggle with Alzheimer's disease. His devoted wife, Sugie, passed away earlier this year. BACK IN TIME DEAN CHARLES W. BARROW - JD ‘43 DEAN OF BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL (1984 – 1991)

DOCKET CALL | SPRING ‘15 Dean Charles W. Barrow was not only a ‘legal giant’ in the courtrooms of Texas but a man of integrity, determination, and humility. After graduating from Baylor Law School in 1943, Justice Barrow entered the United States Navy. He fought in World War II, the Korean War, and received seven battle stars during his time as a naval officer in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters. He then returned to Texas in order to fulfill his law career at Baylor Law School. Justice Barrow filled many roles for the courts of Texas as an attorney and jurist until he was appointed to the highest court of Texas in 1977. He served on the Texas Supreme Court until 1984, when he resigned this post to serve as dean of Baylor Law School. Justice Barrow was known by all who knew him to be one of the hardest working judges in Texas in addition to being a man who was true to his character and believed in the principles of honesty and wisdom no matter the circumstance. Judge Barrow passed away in 2006 after a long and difficult, but courageous, struggle with Alzheimer's disease. His devoted wife, Sugie, passed away earlier this year. BACK IN TIME DEAN CHARLES W. BARROW - JD ‘43 DEAN OF BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL (1984 – 1991)

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