1 BARBARA ANN RADNOFSKY [email protected] EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION: Nominee, Texas Democratic Party, State Attorney General 2010. Nominee, Texas Democratic Party, United States Senate 2006. (Winner, March Statewide Primary and April Statewide Runoff Elections, 2006) Vinson & Elkins, L. L. P. Houston, Texas (Associate 1979-1987; Partner 1987-2006). Head of Section, Alternate Dispute Resolution University of Texas School of Law, Doctor of Jurisprudence with Honors (May 1979) Albert Jones Scholar; Chairman, U.T. Board of Advocates; Fraternity: Order of the Barristers; Internship: Travis County Public Defender University of Houston, Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude (May 1976) National Merit 4 year Academic Scholarship Languages: English, Spanish EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Practicing on both sides of the docket, BarbaraRadnofsky has been listed since 1991 in “Best Lawyers in America." She’s listed in multiple areas, on both sides of the docket, including ADR, mediation, arbitration, medical malpractice, personal injury, and health care law . An attorney since 1979, she is a mother of three, wife, teacher, and mediator. After 2006 retirement from Vinson & Elkins at age 49, she became the first woman in history to serve as the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate nominee. Barbara was the first woman at Vinson & Elkins to have children as an associate and attain partnership. She has served as lead counsel in jury trials involving commercial disputes, professional liability, tax, contractual indemnity, false arrest, malicious prosecution, assault, premises liability, insurance defense matters, pedestrian and auto accidents, Section 1983 Civil Rights disputes, worker's compensation matters, and products liability; argued successfully before the Fifth Circuit on pro bono prisoner's rights and torts matters; conducted appeals there, and in Texas state appellate courts; and represented clients in Congressional hearings and administrative tribunals. In 1999, Barbara Ann successfully petitioned the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prohibit defective barbecue lighters with estimated annual savings of millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. A trained mediator (AMI Mediator Training, Summer 1991, Dallas, TX; Advanced Mediation Training AMI, November 20, 1993) and arbitrator (AAA Commercial Arbitration Training, Orlando, Florida, October 10, 1998), Barbara has conducted hundreds of alternate dispute resolutions involving anti-trust, bad faith insurance, commercial, banking, bankruptcy, toxic waste disposal, pipeline explosion, and personal injury matters. Barbara was honored as the Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas in 1988. Barbara served as a volunteer peer mediation teacher in public and private schools for more than 15 years; served on charitable boards such as Houston Urban Debate League, World-Wide Concurrent Premiers and the Classical Theatre Company. Barbara worked with the discoverer of the AIDS virus, 2008 Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier, raising funds and awareness for his medical research and African AIDS clinics. She served as Secretary and Board Member of the World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention. Barbara and her husband, Ed Supkis, MD, are active in supporting the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, enabling museum displays of the scrolls and commissioning publication of a scrolls volume. They are co-owners of the Brazos Bookstore, an independent bookseller. 2 PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Honorary Chairman, Believe Texas PAC, assisting state candidates (2008). Honorary Chairman, Believe U.S. PAC, assisting federal candidates (2007-2008). Graduate, FBI Citizens’ Academy (Spring 2008). Protect the Ballot Lawyer, serving in West Virginia, Puerto Rico (2008), and Texas, Arkansas (2004). Member, American Law Institute (December 2001 - 2007). Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation. Appointment by Tribunal Arbitral du Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland as Mediator of the Court of Arbitration (April, 2002). Chairman (2003 - 2004); Vice Chairman (2002-2003) for Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee, International Association of Defense Counsel. Chairman, American Bar Association’s Managed Care Litigation Section Subcommittee (2001-2003). Chairman, American Bar Association’s Medical Malpractice Litigation Section Health Care Subcommittee (2002 – 2003). Faculty Member, International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy, Boulder, Colorado (July, 1995). Faculty member, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, University of Texas School of Law (May 1985, May 1986, May 1994). Member, State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charge Volume IV Committee (October, 1993 - 1995). Member, State Bar of Texas Committee on Administration of Justice (1989). Member, Association of Attorney-Mediators, Inc. (September, 1992). Director, State Bar of Texas Advanced Personal Injury Course, Houston, TX (July 11-13, 1990). Member, State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charge Volume I Committee (1985 - 1995). Chairman, Texas Association of Defense Counsel Rules of Evidence Committee (1987 - 1989). Member, State Bar of Texas MCLE Referendum Task Force (1985). Member, State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE (January 1986 - 1988). National Chairman, 1983 National Trial Competition, a joint project of the ABA, American College of Trial Lawyers, and Texas Young Lawyers Association. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES Board Member, Houston Chapter, National Association of Urban Debate Leagues (2008 - 2009). Board of Directors, FBI Citizens’ Academy Alumni Association (2008 - 2010). Board Member, Classical Theater Company of Houston (2008 - present). President of the Board, World-Wide Concurrent Premiers and Commissioning Fund, Inc. (1992 -2008). 3 Board Member, Southwest Regional Board, Anti-Defamation League (May 2001 - 2008). Previously served as Vice-Chairman. Secretary and Board Member, Friends of World Foundation Medical Research and Prevention (May 2001 - 2008). Faculty, Prejudice Awareness Summit, Houston, TX (November 13, 1995). Member, SPIRIT Comprehensive Health Care Clinic, Advisory Board of Directors, AIDS Foundation Houston (1995 - 2000). Faculty, Houston Bar Association Peer Mediation in the Schools Project, teaching mediation to Spring Forest Middle School students (1994) and to Spring Branch Middle School Students (1995 – 2004, 2006, 2008) and to Monarch School private students (2002-2006); lecture to Galena Park Middle School (2014). Member, Board of Directors, Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library (January, 1994 - 2005). HONORS AND AWARDS Inductee, University of Houston Forensics Society Hall of Fame (November 2007). Listing, The Best Lawyers in America (1991-present). Current and Past Categories: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, Health Care Law, Medical Malpractice Law, and Personal Injury Litigation. Recipient, Texas State Tejano Democrats Moral Courage Award (2005). Member, The American Board of Trial Advocates (1994 - 2007). Distinguished Neutral, Center for Public Resources, Houston/Dallas Panel (1994 - 2005). Recipient, Outstanding Subcommittee Chair Award, ABA Litigation Section Health Law Committee (2003). Recipient, American Association of Blood Banks' 1993 W. Quinn Jordan Memorial Lectureship Award for contributions to blood banking and transfusion medicine law and government affairs (October, 1993). Selected by Texas Young Lawyers Association as Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas 1988 - 1989. Selected by Houston Young Lawyers Association as Outstanding Young Lawyer of Houston 1988 - 1989. PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES “Modern Dispute Resolution: Effective Techniques for Problem Solving,” presentation to Joint National Conference of the American Women’s Society of CPAs and the American Society of Women Accountants, Dallas, Texas (October 28, 2008). “What to do with AIG?,” guest column for the Rio Grande Guardian. (October 7, 2008). “Consider Cost of Deregulation,” guest column for the El Paso Times. (October 5, 2008). Keynote Address, American Bar Association National Solo & Small Firm Conference, National Difference Makers Awards. Santa Fe, New Mexico (October 3, 2008). Address to Coalition of Texans with Disabilities Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas. (September 6, 2008). “Laziness Breeds Litigation,” guest column for the Austin American Statesman. (July 31, 2008). “Lawyers We Should Really Fear,” guest column for the Houston Chronicle. (July 19, 2008). Address to Texas Democratic Convention, Austin, Texas (June 2008). 4 Keynote Address, Montgomery County Democratic Convention, The Woodlands, Texas. March 2008. Guest Speaker, ACLU Texas Gala, 1 st Annual Molly Ivins Lifetime Achievement Award to Sissy Farenthold, San Antonio, Texas (March 2008). Moderator, State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting debate “The New World of Arbitration”, sponsored by Judicial & Litigation Sections, San Antonio, Texas. (June 22, 2007) Radnofsky, Barbara Ann. Stepping Forward. Houston: Lulu, 2007. Radnofsky, Barbara Ann. The Dancer’s Dead. Houston: Lulu, 2006. Address, Texas Democratic Convention, Fort Worth, Texas, 2006. Address to Texas Delegation, Democratic National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts July 2004. 750 Speeches during United States Senate and Texas Attorney General Campaigns, 2004-2010. “Mediation Techniques,” paper and presentation to 2005 Corpus Christi Bar Advanced Civil Trial Law Seminar, Corpus Christi, Texas (April 22, 2005). “Health Issues” Guest Speaker on Debra Duncan 740 AM radio show, Clear Channel Communications, Houston, Texas (January 12, 2005). “Tort Reform” Guest Speaker on Debra Duncan 740 AM radio show, Clear Channel Communications, Houston,