MEMORANDUM 01-41

At the meeting of the House of Representatives on Saturday, January 5, 2002, the committee will place the following names in nomination:

For the Position of President-Elect:

Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University

For the Position of Member of the Executive Committee:

Richard A. Danner, Duke University
N. William Hines, University of Iowa
Nancy Rogers, Ohio State University

Continuing Members of the Executive Committee: Those members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the committee in 2002 are:

Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri-Columbia, President
Mary Kay Kane, University of California, Hastings, Immediate Past President

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

Term expiring 2003
Mildred Wigfall Robinson, University of Virginia

Retiring Members of the Executive Committee. At the conclusion of the Association’s House of Representatives meeting on Saturday, January 5, 2002, at the Annual Meeting, three members of the Executive Committee will have completed their terms. Elliott S. Milstein will have completed his term as Immediate Past President; Rachel F. Moran and Randal C. Picker 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.

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 served as Associate Dean for Research from 1992-96 and 1998-99.

Professor Tushnet has served as chair of the AALS Section on Federal Courts. He has served on and chaired the Membership Review Committee; he served on the Executive Committee in 2001. 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 constitutional law, civil rights, the first amendment, and legal history, with an emphasis on the Supreme Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall. He was a participant in the Workshop on the Romanian Constitution, an ABA CEELI project. He also received a Certificate of Merit from the ABA Gavel Awards for his book “Making Civil Rights Law”.

RICHARD A. DANNER

Richard Danner received his B.A. in 1969, his M.S. in 1975, and his J.D. in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin. He became Environmental Law Librarian at the University of Wisconsin in 1976. In 1979, he became Associate Librarian at Duke University, where he later became Director and Associate Professor in 1982, and Professor in 1985. He has been the Senior Associate Dean for Information Technology since 1998.

He has served on the AALS Committee on Libraries as well as the Advisory Group on Electronic Publishing. He has also served on the Membership Review Committee.

Dean Danner has written numerous law review articles and books, particularly in the area of law librarianship and information technology. He has served as President of the American Association of Law Libraries and on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Law Libraries, and the Digital Collections Project Task Force of the Research Libraries Group. He has also served as Editor of the Law Library Journal.

N. WILLIAM HINES

William Hines received his A.B. from Baker University in 1958 and his LL.B. from University of Kansas in 1961. During law school, he clerked for Senior Judge Walter A. Huxman, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit. He became a Teaching Fellow at Harvard in 1961. He became Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in 1962, where he became Associate Professor in 1965, Professor in 1967, and Dean in 1976. He served as Director of Iowa's Agricultural Law Center 1963-73. He has been the Joseph F. Rosenfeld Distinguished Professor since 1973.

Dean Hines has served on several AALS committees including chair and a member of the Nominating Committee, chair of the AALS Section on Administration of Law Schools, two terms as chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure and chair of the AALS-NALP Joint Committee on Job Fairs. He also served on the Committee on Professional Development, chaired several planning committees and was twice a Group Leader in AALS Law Teaching Clinics.

Dean Hines has written numerous law review articles and books, with an emphasis on property, estate planning, and environmental law. He is currently an elected member of the International Council of Environmental Law and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

NANCY ROGERS

Nancy Rogers received her B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1969 and her J.D. from Yale in 1972. In that same year, she clerked for U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Lambros in Cleveland. She became a staff attorney for the Cleveland Legal Aid Society in 1974. She began her career in legal education in 1976 as Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, where she became Associate Professor in 1989, Professor and Associate Dean in 1992, Vice Provost in 1999, and Dean in 2001. She has been the Joseph S. Platt-Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur Professor since 1995.

She served as chair of the AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution. She has also served on planning committees and the AALS Resource Corps.

Professor Rogers has written numerous books and law review articles on dispute resolution and mediation and has performed significant professional service, including serving as the Reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws Mediation Act Drafting Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

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