- Larry Bodine
Larry Bodine is a notable law firm marketing consultant, attorney at law, and columnist. Larry was called the "the best known marketing and website consultant to the legal profession" by "Immigration Daily". Larry is on the editorial board for "LSSO Review" and served for 6 years as the Director of Communications for Sidley Austin in Chicago. In 2003 Larry was recognized with the "Edge Award", … - Michael S. Greco
Michael S. Greco, a partner in the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, LLP, is a former President of the American Bar Association. He became president in August 2005, at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Chicago and was succeeded by Karen J. Mathis in 2006. A trial lawyer with more than 30 years of litigation experience, he has also served as arbitrator and mediator in complex business and other disputes on both the state and national levels. - Dennis Archer
Dennis Wayne Archer (born January 1, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former president of the American Bar Association and former Mayor of Detroit. Prior to his election, Archer served as a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court from 1985 to 1993, as mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. In his last year as a Michigan Supreme Court justice, he was named "most respected judge in Michigan" by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. - Michael Wallace
Michael Brunson Wallace is an attorney from Jackson, Mississippi. He was a controversial George W. Bush administration nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Perceived by some as a right wing extremist with a troubling record on civil rights, Wallace received a unanimous rating of "not qualified" from the American Bar Association. - Edith Jones
Edith Hollan Jones (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1949) is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Jones graduated from Cornell University in 1971. She received her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 1974. She was in private practice in Houston, Texas from 1974 until 1985, working for the firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, where she became the firm's first female partner. She specialized in bankruptcy law. - Judith Kaye
Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of New York (b. Monticello, New York on August 4 1938) was appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo on February 22 1993, confirmed by the New York Senate on March 17, and sworn in on March 23. She is the first woman to occupy the State Judiciary's highest office. Kaye holds a B.A. from Barnard College (1958) and a LL.B. from New York University School of Law (cum laude) (1962). She was admitted to the New York State Bar, 1963. - Harrison Tweed
Harrison Tweed, lawyer and bar association officer, was born in New York City, who was the son of Charles Harrison Tweed, the general counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio and other affiliated railroad corporations, and Helen Minerva Evarts. His maternal grandfather was William M. Evarts, who served successively from 1868 to 1891 as United States Attorney General, United States Secretary of State, and United States Senator from New York, … - Chesterfield Smith
Chesterfield Smith (1917 - July 16, 2003) was the founder of Holland & Knight LLP, one of the largest law firms in the United States, and president of the American Bar Association during the Watergate scandal, from 1973-1974. Smith was born, and grew up, in, Arcadia, Florida. He attended the University of Florida, where he joined the Florida National Guard. In 1940, he was called to active duty, eventually serving with the Third United States Army in France. - Sandy D'Alemberte
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte (born June 1, 1933) is a lawyer, professor, former politician, former educational administrator, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of the Florida State University (FSU), from 1994 to 2003. - John C. Coffee
John C. Coffee (born November 15 , 1944 ) is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia Law School . He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1966, his LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1969 and later an LL.M. (in taxation) from New York University School of Law . Following graduation from law school, was a Reginald Heber Smith fellow for one year, doing poverty law litigation in New York City. - Nancy H. Rogers
Nancy Hardin Rogers is the current Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Rogers received her B.A. with highest distinction from the University of Kansas in 1969 and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1972. Following law school she clerked for U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Lambros in Cleveland and worked at the Cleveland Legal Aid Society. - Seth P. Waxman
Seth Paul Waxman (born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 28, 1951) was the 41st Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated by President Clinton on September 19, 1997, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 9, 1997. He received his commission and took the oath of office on November 13, 1997, serving as Solicitor General until January 20, 2001. Waxman is a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from the area's public schools. - Robert Maccrate
Robert MacCrate is a New York lawyer who served as Counsel to New York Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller and as Special Counsel to the Department of the Army for its investigation of the My Lai Massacre. In the late 1980's MacCrate served as president of both the New York State Bar Association the American Bar Association. MacCrate later chaired the ABA Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession. The Task Force's Report, widely known as the MacCrate Report, … - George Sutherland
George Sutherland (March 25, 1862 - July 18, 1942) was an English-born U.S. jurist and political figure. One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding, he served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. Born in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Sutherland immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1863 to join the community of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in Springville, Utah. - Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Arthur T. Vanderbilt (July 7, 1888-June 16, 1957, born Newark, N.J.) was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1948 to 1957. He also was a noted attorney, legal educator and nationally known proponent of court modernization. Vanderbilt was the first Chief Justice under the revamped New Jersey court system established by the Constitution of 1947, in which the Supreme Court replaced the old Court of Errors and Appeals as the highest court. - Ruggero J. Aldisert
Ruggero John Aldisert (born 1919 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Aldisert graduated with a bachelor of arts from University of Pittsburgh in 1941. He served during World War II as a Major in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946. Upon his return, he earned his law degree from University of Pittsburgh in 1947. He was the National President of Italian Sons and Daughters of America from 1954-1968. - Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly (born 1953) is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He is currently serving in his 5th term in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Maryland's District 1B in Allegany County. Kelly is a member of the Judiciary Committee and its Civil Law and Procedure Subcommittee. Kelly was born in Cumberland, Maryland on August 18, 1953. - Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC (born September 30 1946 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship. Geoffrey Robertson is joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a "Master of the Bench" at the Middle Temple, a recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London. - Benjamin Civiletti
Benjamin Richard Civiletti (born July 17, 1935, in Peekskill, New York) served as the United States Attorney General during the last year and a half of the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981. He is now a senior partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Venable LLP, specializing in commercial litigation and internal investigations and in 2005 became the first U.S. lawyer to charge $1000 an hour. Civiletti was educated at The Johns Hopkins University, … - Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 - October 24, 1929) was a U.S. lawyer, publicist, and civil rights leader. He was born at Roxbury, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1866, studied at Harvard Law School, and in 1869 was admitted to the bar. In 1867-69 he was private secretary to Senator Charles Sumner. He began the practice of his profession in Boston, and was a well-known person in the "Mugwump" movement of 1884. According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., … - John G. Koeltl
John George Koeltl (born 1945 in New York City) is a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. - Sally Katzen
Sally Katzen was a United States government official during the Clinton Administration. She served as Deputy Director for Management in the Office of Management and Budget from 1999 through 2001, as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council during 1998 and 1999, and as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 through 1998. - John Feerick
John D. Feerick is a law professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York City. He served as the school's eighth dean from 1982-2002. From 2002-2004, he was the Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law at Fordham, and in 2004 was named to the Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Public Service. Prior to entering academia in 1982, Feerick was a labor and employment attorney in the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. - Gerald W. Vandewalle
Gerald W. VandeWalle (born August 15, 1933) is the Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. Justice VandeWalle was born in Noonan, North Dakota and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1955 with a bachelor of science degree in Commerce. He then received a a juris doctor degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1958. He has served on the Supreme Court since 1978 and has been the Chief Justice since 1993. - Leslie H. Southwick
Leslie H. Southwick (born February 10, 1950 in Edinburg, Texas) is a current nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a former judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals. - Alan Sears
Alan Sears is the President, CEO, and General Counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the largest religious liberty legal alliance in America. Since its launch in 1994, Alan has led the strategy, training, funding, and subsequent litigation efforts of the ministry that have resulted in ADF's critical role in 33 victories at the U.S. Supreme Court and wins in 3 out of 4 of cases litigated to conclusion. - Mildred Lillie
Mildred Lillie was a California judge whom President Richard Nixon seriously considered for the Supreme Court of the United States in 1971. Lillie's potential candidacy for the high court was ended by an "unqualified" rating from the American Bar Association. Lille was born in Ida Grove, Iowa, but moved with her mother to California's San Joaquin Valley as a child following her parent's failed marriage. - Andrew McClurg
Andrew J. McClurg is a professor of law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, specializing in torts, products liability, and privacy law. Although he has published a number of articles in his areas of practice, he is best known as a legal humorist, having written two legal humor books, and having written a legal humor column for more than four years in the American Bar Association Journal. - Edwin Black
Edwin Black is an American author and journalist. He has written fifty-six book editions in fourteen languages in sixty-one countries, and published numerous newspaper and magazine articles throughout the United States, Europe and Israel. Black's second nonfiction book was IBM and the Holocaust which in February 2001 was published simultaneously in 40 nations in 9 languages and is now sold in 60 nations in 13 languages. - Frank E. Holman
Frank Ezekiel Holman (1886-1967) was an American attorney who after his election as president of the American Bar Association in 1948 led an effort to amend the United States Constitution to limit the power of treaties and executive agreements. Holman's work led to the Bricker Amendment. Holman was born in Sandy, Utah. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1908 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study law at the University of Oxford. - Leonard Downie Jr.
Leonard Downie, Jr . , was named Executive Editor of The Washington Post on September 1, 1991, after serving as Managing Editor for seven years. Downie joined The Post as a summer intern in 1964. He soon became a well-known local investigative reporter in Washington, specializing in crime, courts, housing and urban affairs. - Lloyd Karmeier
Lloyd Karmeier is the Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the Fifth District in southern Illinois, USA. Karmeier, a former circuit judge and prosecutor, won the election in the November 2004 general election. Karmeier, a Republican, defeated Appellate Judge Gordon Maag, for the seat that was vacated when Justice Philip Rarick retired. Maag also became the first appellate judge in the history of Illinois to lose a retention race, … - Peter H. Irons
Peter H. Irons is an American political activist, civil rights attorney, legal scholar, and professor of political science. Peter Irons is a graduate of Antioch College an early incubator of progressive politics after World War II. He embarked on his current path in 1963 when he was issued a 3 year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut for refusing military induction. It was while serving his sentence as Inmate No. - Ann Walsh Bradley
Ann Walsh Bradley is a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was elected to the Supreme Court in 1995 and re-elected in 2005. Her current term expires July 31, 2015. Justice Bradley was born on July 5, 1950 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. She earned her bachelor's degree from Webster University in St. Louis. She worked as a high school teacher at Aquinas High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin before entering the University of Wisconsin Law School, … - John C. Dugan
John C. Dugan is the current and 29th Comptroller of the Currency for the United States Department of the Treasury. The Comptroller of the Currency is the administrator of national banks and chief officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC supervises 1,750 federally chartered commercial banks and about 50 federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States, comprising more than half the assets of the commercial banking system. - Gerald L. Baliles
Gerald L. Baliles Retired Partner Regulated Industries & Government Relations - Christopher J. Christie
Christopher J. Christie was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey on December 7, 2001. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20, 2001, and sworn into office on January 17, 2002, by the Honorable Joel A. Pisano, U.S.D.J. Christie graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1984. - N. Patrick Crooks
Justice N. Patrick Crooks is a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Justice Crooks was elected to the Supreme Court in 1996. Justice Crooks is a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College in 1960 and his law degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1963. From 1964 to 1966, Justice Crooks served as an officer in the United States Army at the Pentagon, in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. - Mike Bishop
Michael D. Bishop (born March 18, 1967) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He is the current Majority Leader of the Michigan State Senate as of January 2007. Bishop of Rochester, Michigan was elected as a Republican to the State Senate after two terms in the Michigan State House of Representatives. He was sworn into office in January of 2003, to represent Michigan's 12th District in State Senate, which includes the communities of Auburn Hills, Keego Harbor, … - Jacob M. Dickinson
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was United States Secretary of War under President William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1911. He was succeeded by Henry L. Stimson. Dickinson was born in Columbus, Mississippi and enlisted at fourteen as a private in the Confederate Army cavalry. He moved with his family to Nashville, Tennessee, graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871, and received his master’s degree in 1872.
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