The Committee on Nominations for 2001 Officers and Members of the Executive Committee met in Washington on October 12, 2000. The members of the committee are: Bari R. Burke, University of Montana; Richard A. Gonzales, University of New Mexico; N. William Hines, University of Iowa; Jean Koh Peters, Yale Law School; Mark A. Sargent, Villanova University; E. Thomas Sullivan, University of Minnesota; and Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School, Chair.

At the meeting of the House of Representatives on Saturday, January 6, 2001, the committee will place the following names in nomination:

For the Position of President-Elect:

Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri-Columbia

For the Position of Member of the Executive Committee:

Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University Mildred Wigfall Robinson, University of Virginia

Continuing Members of the Executive Committee: Those members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the committee in 2001 are:

Mary Kay Kane, University of California, Hastings, President
Elliott S. Milstein, American University, Immediate Past President

Term expiring 2001
Rachel F. Moran, University of California at Berkeley
Randal C. Picker, The University of Chicago

Term expiring 2002
Anita L. Allen-Castellitto, University of Pennsylvania
Todd D. Rakoff, Harvard Law School

Retiring Members of the Executive Committee. At the conclusion of the Association's House of Representatives meeting on Saturday, January 6, 2001, at the Annual Meeting, three members of the Executive Committee will have completed their terms. Gregory H. Williams will have completed his term as Immediate Past President; Judith C. Areen and Lee E. Teitelbaum will have completed their three-year terms.

Biographical Sketches of the Nominees. The Directory of Law Teachers contains brief biographical sketches of the three nominees. For your convenience we have provided the following, more comprehensive, biographical information.

DALE A. WHITMAN

Dale Whitman received his B.E.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1963 and his LL.B. from Duke University in 1966. In that same year, he became an Associate at O'Melveny & Myers. He became an Assistant Professor in 1967 at the University of North Carolina. In 1971, he became a Deputy Director for Housing, Federal Home Loan Bank. In 1972, he became a Senior Analyst for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He returned to law teaching in 1973 at Brigham Young University. In 1978 he joined the University of Washington faculty where he also served as Associate Dean. He became Dean at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1982. In 1992, he became the Guy Anderson Professor of Law at Brigham Young University; he rejoined the faculty of the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1998 as the James Campbell Professor of Law.

He served on the AALS Executive Committee from 1995 to 1997 and has also chaired the Association's Membership Review Committee and served on many standing committees and workshop planning committees.

Professor Whitman has written numerous law review articles and books, particularly in the area of Real Estate and Property Law. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Law Institute for which he served as Reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Property "Mortgages". He is also a Reporter for the Uniform Non-Judicial Foreclosure Act, being prepared by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

MARK V. TUSHNET

Mark Tushnet received his B.A. from Harvard in 1967. He received his J.D. and M.A. in 1971 from Yale. He clerked for Judge George Edwards, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit, Michigan in 1971. He then became a Clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972. He joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1973. He has been a Professor at Georgetown since 1982 and became the Associate Dean for Research in 1992.

Professor Tushnet has served as chair of the AALS Sections on Federal Courts. He has served on and chaired the Membership Review Committee; he has also served on numerous other Association committees, including several workshop planning committees and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Legal Education.

Professor Tushnet has written numerous law review articles and books on civil rights and legal history, with an emphasis on the Supreme Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall.

MILDRED WIGFALL ROBINSON

Mildred Robinson is a Professor at the University of Virginia. She received her B.A. from Fisk University in 1965 and her J.D. from Howard University in 1968. She received her LL.M. in 1971 from Harvard. She began her career in legal education in 1971 as Assistant Dean at Boston University. She became Assistant Professor at Florida State in 1972, Associate Professor in 1976 and Associate Dean in 1983. In 1985, she became an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia and has been a Professor since 1988.

She has served on numerous Association committees including chair of the Nominating Committee and workshop planning committees.

Professor Robinson teaches primarily in the field of Taxation; she has written numerous articles in the state and local tax and finance area and access to legal education. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has previously served as a Commissioner of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

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