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L aw S c h ool Foundat i on
B oard of Tru ste e s
President
Ann K. Covington, ’77
First Vice President
Robert L. Langdon, ’72
Second Vice President
Walter H. Bley Jr., ’80
Secretary/Treasurer
Kenneth D. Dean, ’76
Jack L. Campbell, ’70
Morry S. Cole, ’97
Rebecca M. Cook, ’75
William M. Corrigan Jr., ’85
Cathy J. Dean, ’82
Dale C. Doerhoff, ’71
Roger C. Geary, ’83
Nancy E. Kenner, ’83
Gustav J. Lehr, ’59
Rodney E. Loomer, ’74
Mary E. Nelson, ’81
Nancy L. Shelledy, ’83
Dean and Ex-Officio Trustee
R. Lawrence Dessem
http://www.law.missouri.edu/alumni/
update-form.html
For A l l We Cal l M i z zou
Cam pa i g n Ste e ri ng
C om m i t te e
William L. Allinder, ’79
George E. Ashley, ’48
Jean Paul Bradshaw, ’81
Newton C. Brill, ’64
Jeffrey A. Burns, ’83
Eugene G. Bushmann, ’60
Edward D. Chapin, ’72
Ann K. Covington, ’77
Dale C. Doerhoff, ’71
James D. Ellis, ’68
Anne W. Elsberry, ’75
Chair Maurice B. Graham, ’62
Eric C. Harris, ’76
Robert L. Hawkins Jr., ’48
Honorary Member John K. Hulston,
’41
Michael E. Kaemmerer, ’76
Mark T. Kempton, ’76
Robert L. Langdon, ’72
Linda S. Legg
Rodney E. Loomer, ’74
University Campaign Co-Chair
Larry L. McMullen, ’59
Walter D. McQuie Jr., ’53
John R. Musgrave, ’68
Ronald A. Norwood, ’86
William S. Ohlemeyer, ’84
Thomas L. Patten, ’69
Richard G. Steele, ’68
Gayle G. Stratmann, ’87
Kenneth H. Suelthaus, ’69
Michael A. Williams, ’98
L aw A lum n i R e lat i on s
C om m i t te e
Matthew A. Clement, ’95
Ashley T. Dean, ’00
Keith F. Fuller, ’91
Heather S. Heidelbaugh, ’84
Daniel B. Johnson, ’94
Aaron D. Jones, ’98
James C. Morrow, ’83
Ray E. Williams, ’95
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Dean’s Corner
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s I write this message to you, it
actually feels like fall, in pleasant
contrast to the many 100 degreedays this summer. I hope that you’re experiencing great fall weather as well.
We are several weeks into the fall
semester here at the Law School, and in
August we welcomed a terrific new class
of first-year students. Seventy-eight percent of these 154 new JD students are Missouri residents, with the other 22 percent
coming to us from 18 other states, two
foreign countries and Puerto Rico. We
received approximately 900 applications
for this entering class, which has a median
undergraduate grade point average of 3.5
and whose students scored in the top 27
percent in the nation on the Law School
Admissions Test. This class is 44 percent
women (an increase from the last several years), while 22 percent of the class is
comprised of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and Native Americans. Thirty-two percent of these students
earned their undergraduate degrees at
MU. In addition to the Mizzou graduates,
students in this class did their undergraduate work at 13 other Missouri institutions
and at universities such as Vanderbilt,
Southern Methodist, American, Columbia, Penn State, the Air Force Academy,
and the Universities of Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Chicago and Alaska.
As you will see from this issue of
Tr anscript, we not only welcomed
new students to the Law School this fall,
but also new faculty and staff. The new
faculty include Professor David Mitchell,
who joins us from a fellowship at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Professor Paul Litton, who teaches and works
both at the Law School and with the University’s Life Sciences Center and comes to
us from the National Institutes of Health.
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Our cover story on “law and order”
at Mizzou features both long-time MU
faculty and some more recent additions to
our faculty. As with our work more generally, our efforts with respect to criminal
justice focus on all of the MU missions of
teaching, research, service and economic
development. After extensive experience
as a federal and state prosecutor, Frank
Bowman came to the Law School last year
as our Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed
Professor of Law. His legal scholarship is
read by lawyers, judges, policymakers and
law professors across the country, and his
writing illustrates the profound impact
that legal scholarship can have on the legal
profession and our society. Professor Ed
Hunvald has not only taught thousands of
MU Lawyers, but his service to the State
of Missouri and the nation epitomizes
the way in which our faculty are engaged
with the legal profession. Professor Kandice Johnson leads our clinical programs at
the Law School, and her teaching includes
traditional classroom teaching, legal simulations, and the training and supervision of
law students handling cases as prosecuting
attorneys. In addition to the outstanding
teaching, service and scholarship of these
faculty and others such as professors Rod
Uphoff and Steve Easton, their training of
the next generation of attorneys contributes to the economic development of Missouri and the individual communities that
our graduates serve.
You also will read about other
law school faculty in this issue of
Tr anscript — including Professor Melody Daily, who has taught many,
many law students and lawyers the finer
points of legal writing. Two of our faculty will be retiring in December. Professor Len Riskin, who has served the Law
School for 22 years, will retire from the
University of Missouri at the end of this
year, and then he will relocate to Florida
and serve on the faculty of the University of Florida. Len and his colleagues
within the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution have been national leaders with respect to dispute resolution, and
he will be missed here at the Law School.
Professor Patricia Fry also will retire in
December. Pat is an expert in the area of
commercial law, particularly with respect
to electronic commerce, and she has been
active not only here at the Law School, but
with MU’s Center for the Digital Globe
and — on a national level — within the
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL).
Although Pat will be retiring from our
faculty, she plans to remain active in
NCCUSL and other state and national
legal organizations.
As you can see, these are exciting times
at the MU School of Law. If you have not
been back to the Law School recently, I
hope that you’ll stop in to visit sometime
this year.
Finally, I thank all of you who support the Law School financially and in so
many other ways. The annual Honor Roll
of Contributors appears in this issue of
Tr anscript, and I thank those whose
names appear on that list.
Have a wonderful fall, and I hope to see
you soon either here at the Law School or
in your own community.
Very truly yours,
R. Lawrence Dessem
Dean and Professor of Law
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The School of Law is pleased to welcome new faces to the faculty and staff.
Paul J. Litton
Associate Professor of Law
Paul J. Litton received a law degree and
doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied through the
university’s Joint Program in Law and
Philosophy and was awarded the Lynn
Lukens Moore Prize in Jurisprudence by
the law school. He was law clerk to Chief
Justice Deborah T. Poritz of the New
Jersey Supreme Court, serving a second
term as the court’s death penalty law
clerk. Most recently, he spent two years
as a fellow in the Department of Clinical
Bioethics within the National Institutes
of Health. Litton’s research primarily
focuses on moral philosophy and criminal law theory, especially free will and
responsibility theory, and bioethics. He
teaches bioethics and law, criminal law
and jurisprudence.
S. David Mitchell
Associate Professor of Law
S. David Mitchell joined the law faculty
following a two-year position as a scholar in
residence in the Department of Sociology at
the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before
heading to Colorado to teach and continue his
research on felon disenfranchisement, Mitchell served as a law clerk for the Honorable
Andre M. Davis of the U.S. District Court of
Maryland.
Prior to attending law school, Mitchell
taught history at his high school alma mater,
Collegiate School, where he also served as the
director of student diversity, sophomore class
dean and assistant track coach. After teaching
for four years in New York, he matriculated at
the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a dual
degree in law and sociology. Mitchell earned a
master’s degree in sociology and is a doctoral
candidate. During his time in law school, he
served on the Student Ethics and Responsibility Committee and was a member of the Jessup
International Moot Court Team and Board, the
American Inns of Court and the Black Law Students Association.
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Andrea Mazza Follett
Michelle L. Heck
Coordinator for
Administrative Assistant
Professional Development
Heather M. Kalb
Office Support III
Andrea Mazza Follett, ’99, joined the
Office of Career Development as coordinator for professional development. She replaces
Cindy L. Neagle, ’98, who joined the Missouri Board of Law Examiners in Jefferson
City, Mo., as director of investigations.
Follett received her bachelor’s degree from
MU in history in 1996 prior to receiving
her law degree in 1999. During law school,
she served as managing editor of the Missouri
Environmental Law and Policy Review. Following her graduation from law school, she joined
the Criminal Division of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, where she remained
until 2004. During her tenure there, she
received the David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award from The Missouri Bar Foundation. In 2004, Follett became legal counsel
for the Missouri Department of Social Services’ Human Resource Center. In 2005, she
became director of the department’s Office
for Civil Rights.
As coordinator for professional development, Follett assists law students and alumni
in exploring career interests, enhancing
understanding of the legal employment market, identifying career resources and information, and communicating with employers.
Michelle L. Heck was hired to support the
School of Law’s admissions activities following the departure of Cara Strothmann.
Originally from Southeast Missouri, Heck
graduated from Union University in Jackson,
Tenn., with a bachelor’s degree in business
administration. After graduation, she moved
to Columbia to settle with her husband, Scott,
an MU graduate.
Heck enjoys traveling, scrapbooking and
spending time with her family — her husband
and their two cats, Ollie and Dewey.
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Mark A. Langworthy
Director of Development
Robin Kristin Nichols
Judith A. Tayloe
Administrative Assistant Executive Staff Assistant II
Heather M. Kalb joined the School of Law’s
administrative office. Her duties include
maintaining keys for Hulston Hall, assisting
students and other law school constituents,
ordering books for faculty members and planning the Edna Nelson Banquet to recognize
student achievement.
Kalb is a native of Peru, Ind., and moved to
Missouri four years ago. She and her husband,
Greg, have four children: Emily, 12; Erica, 11;
Hanna, 10; and Joseph, 2. Previously she was
a stay-at-home mother.
Mark A. Langworthy, ’90, joined the
Office of Development as director of development. He replaces Suzanne Modlin Flanegin, ’81, who joined the College of Arts &
Sciences in March as senior director of development after nearly five years at the School
of Law.
Langworthy received his undergraduate
degree from MU in agricultural economics in
1984 before receiving his law degree in 1990.
Most recently, he practiced law with Mark
Langworthy, LLC, in Columbia. Before this,
he was the director of planned and major gifts
in MU’s Office of Gift Planning and Endowments, senior assistant attorney general with
the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, assistant vice president at First National Bank and
associate with Brown, Willbrand and Simon
in Columbia.
Langworthy’s primary responsibility at
the School of Law is to cultivate private gifts,
allowing the law school to continue to provide the excellent legal education for which it
is known.
Robin Kristin Nichols was hired to serve as
the face of the Dean’s Office and as support to
associate deans Jim Devine and David Fischer,
following the departure of Jenny Melenbrink.
Alan A. Whitman
User-Support Analyst
Her experience at MU includes positions
in the School of Medicine and University
Extension.
Following the retirement of Mary Kempf,
Judith A. Tayloe joined the School of Law
as Dean Dessem’s assistant. Tayloe has worked
at MU for 12 years, including service as an
executive staff assistant to the director of
the University of Missouri System’s Office
of Technology and Special Projects. Before
her service to the University, she worked as
a medical secretary for various family practitioners, cardiologists and internal medicine
physicians.
Tayloe’s responsibilities in the dean’s office
include scheduling appointments, making
travel arrangements and preparing reports and
correspondence.
Alan A. Whitman has joined the School
of Law as a user-support analyst. Whitman
has spent the last several years working in the
broadcasting industry in the Columbia area.
Before joining the School of Law’s information technology (IT) staff, he worked for
Zimmer Radio Group as a producer and
news anchor for The Eagle 93.9’s Amy Miller
Show. He also spent several years with Premiere Marketing Group, serving as assistant
program director for News/Talk 1400 KFRU
and evening DJ for 102.3 BXR. In his spare
time Whitman is a technology enthusiast,
building and maintaining Web sites and computers. He’s also an avid fan of both film and
music.
Whitman performs numerous IT tasks
for School of Law students, faculty and staff,
including computer troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrades; help-desk support; and
Web site maintenance.
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Writing Like a Lawyer
Daily raises the school’s bar in legal research and writing
by Teressa Tignor Gilbreth
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s director of legal research and
writing since 1987, Melody
Richardson Daily, ’86, has taught
hundreds of students at the MU School of
Law to write like lawyers — in the format lawyers expect and judges require. She
encourages them to communicate clearly,
whether their purpose is objective writing,
in which a lawyer tries to predict the law, or
advocacy writing, in which a lawyer tries to
persuade a judge to make a particular ruling.
A clinical professor of law, she has been
successful in persuading the law school
to increase its support for the teaching of
research and writing skills. The evidence of
Daily’s success is shown in the evolution of
the program under her leadership over the
past nearly 20 years.
“She has been committed to providing excellent training for students,” says
John Mollenkamp, associate legal research
and writing professor of law. “She wants
every student to graduate with the ability to
research and write well, and to have success
in the field of law. The growth of the program is a reflection of her success.”
Students now earn two credits toward
graduation for each semester in the program,
rather than the one credit they were earning when she began as an adjunct professor.
In 1986, she was one of a handful of the program’s adjunct professors, full-time attorneys
who taught part-time and couldn’t always
be at the law school when a student needed
help. Writing classes must be small, and legal
writing faculty spend a lot of time one-onone with students, reviewing and responding
to their work and coaching them. Now the
program is staffed with three full-time professors and one adjunct.
The program has changed as the nature
of the practice of law has changed. Laptops
have replaced paper notebooks, and online
searches have supplemented a tour of the
library’s stacks. MU’s program uses a unique,
collaborative approach to teaching, in conjunction with the school’s librarians and civil
procedure professors. She hopes that the
school’s future includes expansion of secondand third-year writing opportunities that
will become graduation requirements.
Daily graduated from MU with a bachelor’s degree with honors and a master’s
degree, both in English. She began her
career as an educator by teaching composition to Mizzou’s undergraduates. Later she
taught English and humanities at Hickman High School in Columbia, supervised
MU’s Freshman Composition Program and
directed the writing lab at Central Methodist
University in Fayette, Mo. In 1983, her husband William J. Daily, ’77, convinced her
to study law.
While in law school, she received numerous awards, was a note & comment editor
for Missouri Law Review and was elected to
the Order of the Coif. After her graduation
in 1986, she practiced law in Glasgow, Mo.,
with her husband as a partner in Daily and
Daily.
But her love of teaching was deeply
rooted. She was initially inspired to become
a teacher by her freshman composition
teacher, Mrs. Bruck, whose enthusiasm for
teaching was contagious.
Now Daily’s students enjoy her professionalism and enthusiasm for teaching. In
addition to legal research and writing, she
has taught advocacy and research, law and
literature, and education law.
“She truly cares about her students and
wants to make sure everyone understands,”
says Jennifer Turner, a second-year student
in Daily’s education law class and a teaching
assistant in the first-year Research and Writing Program. “She will adapt her style and
techniques to fit the needs of her students.
She is very hands-on and is always available
to her students when needed.”
Daily has won numerous teaching honors, including a Disability Mentoring Award
from PACE-IT Project MU in 2003 and the
law school’s 2003 Blackwell Sanders Peper
Martin Distinguished Faculty Achievement
Award.
“Teaching in the law school is a special
opportunity,” she says. “All of our students
are bright and highly motivated, and it’s
rewarding to see how much they progress.”
Her former students often e-mail her to
report that they’ve been complimented on
their writing. One former student, Barbara
E. Wilson, ’97, decided to focus her career
on the skills she learned in Daily’s courses.
She teaches legal writing at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City.
Daily also contributes to student success
as supervisor of the law school’s Externship
Program, which offers students an opportunity to develop the skills necessary to bridge
the gap between law school and law practice. Through that program she has supervised about 425 externs and worked with 170
judges and attorneys who have volunteered
to mentor extern students.
Although her roles focus on teaching and
pedagogy, she also contributes as a scholar.
She publishes in the area of legal writing and
is vice chair of the editorial board for the
Journal of the Missouri Bar, an assistant editor
for the Journal of Association of Legal Writing
Directors, and an associate editor for Dispute
Resolution Magazine, which is published by
the American Bar Association and is the largest circulating quarterly publication in the
conflict resolution field.
Her colleagues appreciate her knowledge,
skills and experience. She “loosely coordinates” the law school’s faculty reading group,
which includes fiction and non-fiction. Their
latest book was The Tortilla Curtain, which
provoked discussion of the legal issues of
immigration.
In their spare time, Daily and her husband enjoy traveling, hiking and spending
time with their family, who benefit from her
study of Swedish massage. They have three
children and two grandchildren, Zeke and
Cecilia. Daughter Shannon graduated from
MU and is research analyst at the Truman
Institute of Public Policy. Daughter Erin is a
goldsmith and jewelry designer in Brooklyn,
N.Y., and son Camden is a computer engineer in Chicago.
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And Lead He Did
Riskin Steps Down as Director of CSDR
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n 1984, many attorneys could not
distinguish between mediation and
arbitration. Yet the MU School of Law
faculty, led by Dean Dale Whitman, recognized that the study and teaching of dispute resolution would soon play an essential role in the legal process, legal culture
and law school education. Accordingly,
Whitman secured funding to establish the
Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. This groundbreaking idea became
reality when the faculty hired Leonard L.
Riskin, a law professor at the University of
Houston School of Law, to lead the center.
And lead he did.
From 1984 to December 2002, and again
from July 2004 through May 2006, Riskin
led the effort that placed the School of Law
at the pinnacle of law school-related dispute resolution programs. In January 2007,
he will retire from MU and then teach at
the University of Florida.
Under Riskin’s leadership, the program
has been continuously recognized as one
of the finest dispute resolution programs
in the nation. Among the most innovative
changes developed during his tenure was
a legal curriculum that integrated dispute
resolution concepts into traditional firstyear courses. This project, supported by
nearly $500,000 in grants from the U.S.
Department of Education and the National
Institute for Dispute Resolution, produced two editions of Dispute Resolution
and Lawyers, one of the most widely used
law school texts. A follow-up grant from
the Department of Education provided
funding that allowed Riskin to consult
over a two-year period with six other law
schools to develop similar programs. This
entire curricular effort was the focus of a
major print symposium in the Florida Law
Review in 1998. It also served as the basis
for a Practical Achievement Award from
the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
for Riskin and the School of Law dean and
faculty.
More recently, Riskin oversaw a series
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of grants from the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation that supported a variety of center activities, including the creation of the nation’s first master of laws
program focusing exclusively on dispute
resolution and the development of a unique
law school course, based principally on an
extensive published case study.
In addition to his work as director of
the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, Riskin’s scholarship has played a
seminal role in the growth of dispute resolution theory and practice. His 1982 article, “Mediation and Lawyers,” published
in the Ohio State Law Journal, set forth the
idea of the “lawyer’s standard philosophical
map” and, among other things, analyzed
how that mindset could interfere with
the appropriate involvement of lawyers in
mediation, and, conversely, how mediation
might help redraw the lawyer’s map. This
article was prescient and is a classic in the
field. It has been featured in many books
about dispute resolution in the United
States and abroad.
In the mid-1990s Riskin developed and
published in the premier issue of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review a system of
classifying mediator approaches known as
the “grid” of mediator orientations that
became the most pervasively used system
of classifying mediator approaches. His
writings on this topic have been reprinted
or excerpted in many books and are commonly used in mediation training programs and conferences around the world.
His principal article on this topic won a
prestigious award from the CPR Institute
for Dispute Resolution as the best article
on dispute resolution published in 1996.
In 2001, he revisited the system for a
talk at Yale Law School. He recognized a
series of weaknesses in it and proposed a
new grid system in a 2003 Notre Dame Law
Review article. The new system is already
receiving a great deal of attention worldwide, and the article has been excerpted
in one book and has prompted numerous
speaking invitations.
Since 1999, Riskin has focused on the
deeper problems in lawyer and mediator mindsets, and the potential utility of
mindfulness — a way of paying attention,
moment-to-moment and without judgment, through meditation — in addressing such problems. His first article on this
topic, the centerpiece of a live symposium
at Harvard Law School and the resulting
print symposium published in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review in 2002, has
received international attention. His work
at the intersection of mindfulness and
the legal profession has been influential
and has included two additional articles;
the development of new, innovative law
school courses (understanding conflict and
emotional intelligence in law); numerous
workshops and presentations in Europe and
North America; and a leadership role in
the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative.
On May 15, Riskin stepped down as
director of the center to prepare for his
move to Florida. Dean Larry Dessem
appointed Assistant Dean Bob Bailey as the
new director of the Center for the Study
of Dispute Resolution. Bailey, who has
been at the School of Law since his graduation in 1979, is a member of the National
Academy of Arbitrators. He serves on the
arbitration panels of the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service, American Arbitration Association and National Association of Securities Dealers, and serves on
four committees of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State
Laws: the Standby Committee on Uniform
Debt-Management Services Act, the Committee on Public Information, the Drafting Committee on Uniform Emergency
Volunteer Healthcare Services Act, and the
Study Committee on Regulation of Charities. At the School of Law, he teachers
arbitration, dispute resolution, lawyering
seminar, and lawyering.
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School of Law Faculty and Staff Recognized for Excellence
Robert G. Bailey, director
of the Center for the Study
of Dispute Resolution, was
inducted into the Rollins
Society in honor of meritorious service to the University
community and in recognition
of commitment to duty and
outstanding leadership. The
Rollins Society was established in 1994 by the Graduate
Professional Council.
Stephen D. Easton, associate
professor of law, was awarded
a 2006 William T. Kemper
Fellowship for Teaching
Excellence. A group headed
by MU Chancellor Brady
Deaton and Jim Schatz, chair
of Commerce Bank in the
central Missouri region, paid
a surprise visit to Easton at the
Edna Nelson Banquet for law
school student awards to present the fellowship. The Kemper Fellowships were created
in 1991 to honor outstanding MU teachers each year.
In 2006, five teachers were
recognized. Kemper, a 1926
MU graduate, was a wellknown civic leader in Kansas
City until his death in 1989.
His 52-year career in banking included top positions at
banks in Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma.
Easton also received the
2006 Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in
Teaching Trial Advocacy from
the Pound Civil Justice Institute, which was established
in 1956 by trial lawyers to
build upon the work of Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard
Law School from 1916 to 1936.
The Jacobson Award is presented annually to an outstanding law professor who
exemplifies the best attributes
of a trial lawyer as teacher,
mentor and advocate. Easton
is the first professor at any of
Missouri’s four law schools to
receive the Jacobson Award
and is only the second at any
of the law schools in the Big
12 conference.
Thomas M. Lambert, associate professor of law, was
selected as a 2006 Gold Chalk
Award recipient. The award is
designed to recognize individuals who have made significant
contributions to the education
and training of graduate and
professional students at MU.
Karen M. Neylon, coordinator of the School of Law’s
LLM program, was a finalist
for the Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award in the Administrative/Professional division.
The award is given to four
employees campuswide chosen
by their peers for outstanding
service to Mizzou.
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Professor Michelle Arnopol Cecil
University of Missouri–Columbia School
of Law
“Bankruptcy Reform: What’s Tax Got To
Do With It?”
Bankruptcy Symposium
Examines
Reform Legislation
Dean A. Mechele Dickerson
University of Texas School of Law
“Race Matters in Bankruptcy Reform”
Symposium Affords Greater Insight into the Future of Bankruptcy
On April 20, 2005, President Bush signed into law the Bankruptcy
Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, the most
sweeping bankruptcy reform legislation passed by Congress in
over a quarter of a century. This legislation has become the subject
of contentious debate among academics, bankruptcy judges and
practitioners. Some argue that this reform legislation threatens to
undermine the bankruptcy system itself.
On February 24 and 25, the School of Law hosted a symposium
that examined bankruptcy reform by gathering experts from various fields, including law, psychology and the judiciary. Addressing topics ranging from the role of race in bankruptcy reform, to
using social science research to test the assumptions underlying
bankruptcy reform, to the impact of means testing on the bankruptcy system, the goal of the symposium was to afford greater insight
into the future of bankruptcy.
“This symposium brought to the law school some of the nation’s leading scholars and a nationally prominent bankruptcy judge to address a topic of great interest to both the legal profession and the public,” Dean Larry Dessem said. “This
was an exciting event for those students, faculty and others who attended the
symposium.”
The presentations made at the symposium will be available in the fall 2006
edition of the Missouri Law Review, serving as an invaluable resource to lawyers,
judges and policy makers for years to come.
Professor Melissa B. Jacoby
University of North Carolina School of
Law
“Bankruptcy Reform and the Cost of
Sickness: Exploring the Connections”
Dean Daniel J. Keating
Washington University School of Law
“Why the Bankruptcy Reform Act Left
Labor Legacy Costs Alone”
Honorable Eugene R. Wedoff
Chief Bankruptcy Judge, Northern
District of Illinois
“The Impact of Means Testing on the
Bankruptcy System”
Professor James J. White
Earl F. Nelson Lecturer
University of Michigan Law School
“Changing Incentives: Changing Law”
Professor Richard L. Wiener
University of Nebraska Department of
Psychology
“Testing the Assumptions in the
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and
Consumer Protection Act of 2005: The
Role of Social Science Research”
Commentators
Professor Wilson Freyermuth
University of Missouri–Columbia School
of Law
Professor Katherine E. Porter
University of Iowa College of Law
Professor John A.E. Pottow
University of Michigan Law School
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omething about NBC’s primetime
series “Law & Order” has captivated
the public’s interest. In its 17th season,
it is the longest-running crime series
and the second-longest-running drama
series in the history of television. It has
won an Emmy and holds the record for the
most consecutive (11) nominations for a drama series.
The hour-long show follows a crime through the
criminal justice system, spending the first half of the
show on the police investigation of the crime on the
streets and the second half on the district attorneys’
prosecution of the offenders in the courtroom.
One of the show’s taglines is, “In the complex process of determining guilt and innocence, lives often
hang in the balance.”
Some faculty, students and alumni at the School of
Law experienced in criminal law say that the show
unexpectedly combines some fact with the fiction we
expect from television and Hollywood.
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The show usually gets the law right, and it accurately depicts the emotion involved in some of the
most serious crimes. But real cases are far more complex, and sometimes there is no clear distinction between the good guys and the bad guys.
Since 1872, the law school has played a starring role
in bringing justice to the State of Missouri and the nation. Graduates of the law school serve at all levels of
the Missouri judiciary, as both federal trial and appellate judges, in both the Missouri Senate and House of
Representatives, and in the United States Congress.
In addition to training the attorneys who will
prosecute and defend criminal defendants, law school
faculty and alumni helped develop the state’s criminal
code and establish systems to provide public defenders. Today these experts influence the criminal justice
system by helping to reform criminal statutes and sentencing, as well as serving as a resource to practicing
attorneys and providing continuing education courses.
These are their stories.
“One of my goals
is to impress upon
students the incredible
power they will have
as attorneys and the
importance of their
role...”
—Kandice Johnson
Kandice Johnson
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K a n d i c e J o h n s o n ’s C l a s s r o o m
Recognizing that students need practical
experience as part of their legal education,
law schools such as MU began to emphasize clinical experiences. The School
of Law created its Criminal Prosecution
Clinic because few law schools across the
nation offer students clinical experience
in prosecution. Most law school criminal
clinics are defense-oriented.
The School of Law clinic is also unique
in that students handle cases and participate in court under the direct supervision
of a law school faculty member. Clinical
Professor and Director of Clinical Programs Kandice K. Johnson, who holds a
commission as an assistant prosecuting
attorney for Boone County, Mo., serves
as lead counsel in each case assigned to
the clinic.
Such cases include a broad range of
misdemeanor trials and felony preliminary hearings, making the clinic one of
only a handful in the United States that
allows students to participate in the prosecution of felony cases. While providing
academic lessons about criminal prosecution, the clinic also focuses on the various
evidentiary issues that arise with each
unique case.
“One of my goals is to impress upon
students the incredible power they will
have as attorneys and the importance of
their role in seeing that a criminal defendant receives a fair trial,” Johnson says.
“Prosecuting attorneys don’t make the
facts; they are advocates for justice.”
The Criminal Prosecution Clinic is
one of four clinics offered at the School of
Law. The school’s broad curriculum and
the faculty’s expertise prepare students
for a wide range of career options, but
students may select from among the many
elective courses available in their second
and third year of study to tailor their
individual programs to their individual
interests. Students choose criminal law
for a variety of reasons. Johnson says that
criminal law is a microcosm of societal
ills, and it generally revolves around pain,
hurt or loss.
Erik Holland, president of the Student
Bar Association and a third-year law student, was a police officer in the Kansas
City area for seven years before he started
law school. He found that he loved the
law and wanted a more active role as a
prosecutor.
“The satisfying part was helping victims,” he says. “The pain that victims
experience can be devastating.” At MU
he discovered an interest in civil litigation
and plans to pursue a position with an insurance defense firm.
As a police officer, Jenna Redel en-
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joyed making sure that reports included
details of all of the elements of a crime to
make a conviction possible. As a law student, she has found that she enjoys making arguments and researching case law.
She brought several years of experience
with the MU Police Department with her
to the School of Law. At MU she adjudicates student conduct code violations as a
graduate assistant with MU’s Judicial Office. She is pursuing a JD-MBA joint degree part-time and anticipates a May 2009
graduation, after which she plans to work
as a prosecutor. She hopes that having an
MBA will come in handy someday if she
decides to open her own practice.
“Criminal justice is always interesting and fast-paced,” Johnson says. “In
many ways it is the last arena where the
opportunity exists on a consistent basis
to resolve legal disputes in a courtroom.”
In many other areas of law, cases are not
commonly resolved at trial and, for this
reason, students who want early experience in the courtroom often choose to
practice in the field of criminal law.
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of Missouri Thomas C. Albus,
’97, says that criminal law offers more
opportunities for young lawyers to grow
and learn, charge and try cases in the
courtroom and succeed against more experienced lawyers. He adds that criminal
lawyers tend to be more courteous because they will be dealing with the same
attorneys again.
Albus won his first jury trial, which
involved a methamphetamine lab and
multiple weapons charges, despite feeling
intimidated by the opposing counsel, a
top attorney with a reputation as a warhorse. “You may be the best lawyer in the
world, but if you don’t have a good case
you’re not going to win,” Albus says.
Johnson would like to expand the
Criminal Prosecution Clinic by offering students even more exposure to the
criminal justice system through experiences with the Office of the United States
Attorney, the Criminal Division of the
Missouri Attorney General’s Office and
the Columbia City Prosecutor. “Working with students who have never been in
court before is most rewarding,” Johnson
says. “Their enthusiasm is infectious, and
they remind me on a daily basis why I
chose this profession.”
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emphasize the practical
side, instead of being
Ed Hunvald
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MU has been a major influence on the
state’s criminal law statutes and procedures, and one of the most influential
people has been Edward H. Hunvald Jr.,
Earl F. Nelson and John D. Lawson Professor Emeritus of Law.
When the American Law Institute proposed a model penal code in 1962, states
began revising their criminal law statutes
and procedures. Hunvald published an article in 1963 discussing some of the revisions needed in Missouri’s criminal law.
Soon after, former Missouri Attorney
General John Danforth established the
Committee to Revise Missouri’s Criminal Law with Hunvald as its executive director and chief reporter, and numerous
MU law graduates as members.
Hunvald says it took four years to draft
the revised code and another four years
of testimony in the legislature before
it was enacted. Later, an article in the
Northwestern University Law Review ranked
Missouri’s criminal code in a tie for fifth
best in the nation.
Hunvald says that the criminal code
has been revised over the years, and despite the stand-alone statutes that have
been added in response to specific situations, Missouri’s code has held up well.
Societal pressure and celebrated, highprofile cases have driven these kinds of
changes.
In the mid-’60s Hunvald joined MU
Professor Ted Lauer to lead a grant-funded
project to set up a public defender system
in Boone County, to test the feasibility
of establishing a system in a rural area. It
was a success, and soon after Missouri had
a statewide system. Previously the state
theoretical. And by the
time you graduate, you
know five years worth of
MU lawyers.”
—Jean Paul Bradshaw II, ’81
depended on an appointment system, in
which lawyers in practice were caled upon
at random as court-appointed defenders.
A member of the law faculty since
1957, Hunvald has seen many changes in
the field of criminal law over five decades.
When he began teaching at MU there was
one course in criminal law; now there are
several, including criminal law, criminal
justice administration, criminal litigation skills, criminal procedure and white
collar crime. He is a member of the Missouri Supreme Court Criminal Procedure
Committee and has published in the fields
of criminal procedure, criminal law and
evidence.
Michael L. Selby, ’03, owner of the
Selby Law Group in Columbia, says that
he appreciated the real-world experience
his law professors brought to the classroom at MU and still benefits from being
able to call upon MU law professors when
he gets an unusual case. The majority of
his cases are DWI defenses, and he also
pursues civil cases in which law enforcement officers’ conduct infringes on clients’ constitutional rights.
Previously he was a Missouri state
“The way to be effective
in the courtroom and
the mistakes attorneys
make have not changed
much. We study the
history, but also the
lessons to be learned
people who have made mistakes, but
perhaps their mistakes carry bigger consequences. Among his specialties are white
collar criminal defense and health care
fraud and abuse.
His most challenging and notorious
case has been defending Robert Courtney, the Kansas City pharmacist who
ended up pleading guilty to charges that
he was diluting pharmaceuticals, including chemotherapy.
Albus agrees with Bradshaw and says
many law schools are tempted to grow to
increase their revenue, but they sacrifice
the quality of networking and the ability to know everyone in a relatively small
class of 150. He and his wife, Alicia Carpenter Albus, ’97, an estate, trust and
elder law attorney, were classmates.
Also, Albus points out that because the
cost is reasonable at MU, he felt he could
afford to enter public service at a younger
age.
from those mistakes.”
—Stephen Easton
trooper for four years, and he uses the investigative techniques he learned in criminal defenses. He says police reports can
be wrong, and it’s imperative for criminal
defense lawyers to refuse to accept the
state’s evidence at face value. “The government has all the resources on their
side, so unless there’s an advocate saying
they’ve gone too far, there’s no limitation
on their power,” Selby says.
The no-nonsense, practical approach
to legal education and the expansive network of MU law grads have been the two
major benefits of his law school experience to alumnus Jean Paul Bradshaw
II, ’81, who is a defense attorney with
Lathrop & Gage LC in Kansas City, Mo.
“MU continues to emphasize the
practical side, instead of being tempted to
become more theoretical,” he says. “And
by the time you graduate, you know five
years worth of MU lawyers.”
Bradshaw enjoyed working cases from
the prosecution side as the U.S. Attorney
for the Western District of Missouri for
four years, and now enjoys helping the
defendants he represents work through
their problems. He says they are regular
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One example of the Law School’s expanding curriculum in criminal law is an
innovative approach in the trial practice
class taught by Stephen D. Easton, C.A.
Leedy Professor of Law.
Typically students perform mock trials
with witnesses who have received all of
the details of what they “saw” presented
on fact sheets, but beginning this semester,
students will get an extra lesson in the
power of observation. A fictitious incident
will have been staged and filmed on video
from six to eight angles, and “witnesses”
will view the incident from a single camera angle only one time—providing more
realistic trials and more realistic witness
testimonies.
Easton encourages his students to enter
the field of criminal law, whether in prosecution or defense. “They both play very
important roles,” he says. “Prosecution appealed to my personality type. As a prosecutor, you can’t ethically bring a charge
unless you believe without a doubt the
defendant committed an offense. And it’s
very rewarding to go to work every day to
defend the community and victims.”
Prior to his teaching career, Easton was
an associate and partner with Pearce &
Durick for about 14 years and the U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota in
Fargo and Bismarck, N.D., for three years.
One of his most difficult and rewarding cases as United States Attorney was
a rape case from an Indian reservation
with Native Americans as victim and
defendant. Like many rape cases, the case
was difficult to prove, and many people
advised him against pursuing prosecution.
He remembers the trauma that the victim,
who was under 18, endured as she stood
up against the defense, which argued that
she had consented to sex, and the resulting pregnancy with twins and loss of one
of the fetuses. The defendant was convicted of aggravated sexual assault. “I felt
proud of the role we played as prosecutors,” he says.
Easton’s research, writing and speaking
focuses on expert witnesses, effective trial
advocacy and professional responsibility.
He has received numerous national teaching and writing awards since joining the
MU faculty in 1998. In addition to trial
practice, he also teaches professional responsibility, criminal law and procedure,
criminal justice administration and a famous trials seminar.
In his famous trials course, he discusses
historically well-known trials, which are
mostly criminal trials, from the Salem
Witch Trials to the Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial. Such “trials of the
century” actually have occurred more
like every 10 years, and they are the most
universally watched, non sporting events.
This semester he is also offering the class
to undergraduate students in MU’s Honors College, a generation that will barely
remember the O.J. Simpson trial.
“The way to be effective in the courtroom and the mistakes attorneys make
have not changed much,” he says. “We
study the history, but also the lessons to
be learned from those mistakes.”
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Rodney Uphoff was teaching and leading
a criminal defense clinic at the University of Oklahoma’s law school when he
was asked to help defend Terry Nichols
in the Oklahoma City bombing case. It
would not be a popular assignment, but
after teaching professional responsibility
for several semesters, he knew he had to
be consistent with his teaching and take
the opportunity to help ensure that justice
would be served in the Nichols case.
From his appointment in 1999 to the
trial in 2004, he worked most nights and
weekends with a small team of attorneys
on a complex case involving over a million pages of discovery and 40,000 potential witnesses. The high profile case was
particularly challenging because the range
of issues to be researched and litigated was
wide.
No one thought Nichols would be able
to get a fair trial in Oklahoma, and everyone assumed he’d be given the death penalty, but there was a fair trial, and Nichols
received a sentence of life in prison instead
of a death sentence.
“It was rewarding to be part of a team
that pulled off what one commentator
called the greatest upset in American legal
history, and to see that the jury system actually works,” Uphoff says. “Despite great
public pressure, the jurors in this case
stood up to do the right thing.”
Uphoff joined the MU faculty in 2001
and is the Elwood Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law and director of
the University of Missouri South Africa
Educational Program. His most recent
article, published in the Wisconsin Law
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system convicts the innocent more often
than most people think. “Too often in this
country defendants are not provided their
right to the effective assistance of counsel.
The public tolerates underfunded public
defender systems and calls for more limits
on defendants’ rights, but when they have
a personal experience with the system
many are shocked to discover how the system really operates.”
Uphoff has testified in support of several bills introduced in the Missouri legislature about the practice of videotaping interrogations, a practice mandated in Great
Britain, but required in only a few states
in the United States. “Politicians are afraid
to do it even though it is the right thing
to do,” Uphoff says. “It allows the judge,
and ultimately the jury, to make a more
informed decision of what went on in the
interrogation, whether a defendant actually confessed and perhaps why he did so.
If law enforcement agents are using proper
tactics, they have nothing to fear and no
viable reason not to support taping.”
As the chief staff attorney for the State
Public Defender Office in Milwaukee,
Uphoff defended nearly 1,500 cases ranging from minor traffic offenses to first
degree murder. He successfully raised one
of the first battered women defenses in
Wisconsin, arguing that his client killed
her unarmed boyfriend in self-defense.
In addition he trained new lawyers and
second chaired numerous cases, which got
him interested in teaching.
Uphoff started his law teaching career
in 1984, taking over as director of the
criminal defense clinic at the University
of Wisconsin that he participated in as a
student.
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Sentencing
Frank O. Bowman III, Floyd R. Gibson
Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, is
the leading national expert in the area of
federal criminal sentencing. He served
as special counsel to the U.S. Sentencing
Commission in Washington, D.C., and
as academic advisor to the Criminal Law
Committee of the United States Judicial
Conference. Currently he is Sentencing
Initiative Reporter for The Constitution
Project, a non profit think tank that specializes in creating bipartisan consensus
on a variety of legal and governance issues, and promoting that consensus to
“It was rewarding to
be part of a team that
pulled off what one
commentator called
the greatest upset in
American legal history,
and to see that the jury
system actually works.
Despite great public
pressure, the jurors in
this case stood up to do
the right thing.”
—Rodney Uphoff
Frank Bowman
policymakers, opinion leaders, the media
and the public.
The Sentencing Initiative was formed
in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Blakely v. Washington, which called
into question the constitutionality of
sentencing systems nationwide and led to
the Court’s subsequent decision in U.S. v.
Booker that the federal guidelines must no
longer be mandatory. Bowman reported
the group’s conclusions about how the
federal sentencing system ought to be
improved to comply with the new con-
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“Now states have
pulled back on severity
of sentences mainly
because of budgets, but
the federal government,
which has no legal
obligation to balance
its budget, is not faced
with hard choices like,
‘Should we build
prisons or schools?’”
—Frank Bowman
stitutional rule, and he participated in a
follow-up group that wrote model guidelines that were released recently.
Bowman spent more than 17 years as
a federal and state prosecutor before becoming an academic focusing on law reform. His experience includes three years
as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in
Washington, D.C.; four years as a deputy
district attorney for Denver, Colo.; and
three years in private practice in Colorado. He also is a former U.S. Attorney for
the Southern District of Florida, where he
was deputy chief of the Criminal Division
and specialized in complex white-collar
crimes.
Bowman was attracted to criminal
law because he would have opportunities
for more responsibility earlier in his career. Two years into his career, Bowman
helped lead the grand jury investigation
of Three-Mile Island. One of Bowman’s
most interesting cases as a prosecutor was
his investigation of one of the mechanisms that the Irish Republican Army was
using to raise funds.
He says that criminal law provides lots
of time in the courtroom, which accelerates learning for aspiring trial lawyers.
The downside, though, is that starting
salaries are lower for prosecutors and
public defenders, so it takes a few years to
earn the kind of living that other types
of lawyers earn. Also, these jobs depend
on government funding, so when there’s
a war on terror to pay for or other budget
crises, job opportunities may shrink.
Government budgets also affect federal
sentencing, Bowman’s area of expertise.
“In an effort to reduce crime, we’ve relied too heavily on incarceration,” Bowman says. “Now states have pulled back
on severity of sentences mainly because
of budgets, but the federal government,
which has no legal obligation to balance
its budget, is not faced with hard choices
like, ‘Should we build prisons or schools?’
Both federal and state governments would
be better served by a more focused use of
incarceration in combination with other
approaches to crime control.”
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Uphoff presented “Terry
Nichols: Inside Looking
Out” to the
North Carolina Academy of
Trial Lawyers
in March and “High Profile Death Penalty Cases: Issues and Perspectives” at the
Florida Coastal School of Law Center for
Law & Public Policy Issues 2006 Forum in
February.
His article, “Convicting the Innocent:
Aberration or Systemic Problem,” was published in 2006 Wisconsin Law Review 101.
Uphoff directed the School of Law’s
summer study abroad program in Cape
Town, South Africa. In 2006, 27 law students from across the country enrolled in
the program.
Bradshaw agrees that prosecuting more
crimes does not solve the complex issues
underlying crime. He says that he has
seen crime ebb and flow with the economy. For example, following the booming
housing market, he has seen a surge in
cases of mortgage fraud. “Where’s there’s
money, there will be crime.”
Crime continues to grow. Albus praises the law school’s efforts to increase student’s exposure to criminal law — both
through the Criminal Prosecution Clinic
and by hiring more faculty like Bowman who are experts in criminal law. In
2006, two new faculty who specialize in
criminal law joined the faculty: S. David
Mitchell, associate professor of law, and
Paul J. Litton, associate professor of law.
Mitchell teaches torts and criminal justice administration and publishes research
on felon disenfranchisement. Litton’s
research primarily focuses on moral philosophy and criminal law theory, especially free will and responsibility theory,
and bioethics. At the MU School of Law,
he teaches bioethics and law, criminal law
and jurisprudence.
By hiring stellar faculty and training
exceptional attorneys in criminal law,
MU is providing the legal expertise and
training that will provide society’s solutions for the future.
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On April 22, the second Tim Heinsz Memorial 5K Run/Walk began
and ended on Missouri Avenue, next to Hulston Hall. More than 200
runners and walkers enjoyed the morning with a trek through campus,
cheered on by law student volunteers. The event raised nearly $10,000,
benefiting a scholarship fund in Heinsz’s name.
Before the run/walk, Assistant Dean Bob Bailey unveiled a bench
outside of Hulston Hall dedicated in Heinsz’s memory. The bench,
which is surrounded by gardens on the east side of the Carnahan
Quadrangle, honors Heinsz as a “devoted husband and father, beloved
dean, professor, and friend.”
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Denied applicant receives posthumous honorary degree
by Teressa Tignor Gilbreth
O
ne of the traditional
functions of the law
is to bring about
justice, and the MU School of
Law historically has worked
toward that end through its
many achievements in the
areas of teaching, research and
service. In May the school recognized one more step toward
justice as the University of Missouri awarded an honorary doctorate of law degree posthumously to a civil
rights pioneer.
Lloyd Gaines challenged racial segregation in education — legal education
in Missouri in particular. As an honors
student with a bachelor’s degree in history from Lincoln University, he applied
to MU’s School of Law in 1936 but was
denied admission to the school on the
basis of race.
Gaines eventually took his case before
the U.S. Supreme Court and, on Dec.
12, 1938, the court ordered the State of
Missouri to admit Gaines to MU or to
provide him access to education at an
institution of equal stature within
Missouri’s borders. This decision contributed significantly
to the battle to end racial
segregation in schools, which
culminated in the 1954 landmark case Brown v. the Board
of Education. On March 19,
1939, Gaines left his fraternity
house in Chicago to buy stamps
and was never seen or heard from
again.
The law school faculty urged that
Gaines should receive the honor, and
it was the first time such a degree was
granted posthumously. After Dean Larry
Dessem heard the news, he said, “This
is, indeed, a historic event for MU, the
Law School, and the nation, as Lloyd
Gaines finally receives the degree that he
was never permitted to earn back in the
1930s.”
Gaines’ nephew, George Gaines,
accepted the award in his uncle’s honor.
At MU, the Gaines-Oldham Black Culture Center and a law school scholarship
are named in his honor.
James H.
Levin was reappointed as a
member of the
Commission
on Alternative
Dispute Resolution Services in
Domestic Relations Cases for a
term of office ending on June 30, 2008.
In June, he traveled to Cape Town,
South Africa, to teach in the law school’s
Summer Study Abroad Program. His
course, comparative dispute resolution,
focused on the mediation and arbitration
process used in the United States and South
Africa legal systems as well as South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation Commission and
Rwanda’s Gacaca Tribunals.
During the past year, Levin has participated in the Leadership Development Program sponsored by University of Missouri
System President Elson Floyd’s Academic
Leadership Institute. This program brings
together individuals from the four campuses to develop an informal network of
expertise, enhance personal leadership skills
and work with other emerging leaders at
the University of Missouri.
In June, he was appointed to co-chair a
campus committee that will evaluate the
smoking policies for MU.
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Justice Served
William B.
Fisch participated in the
XVIIth World
Congress of
Comparative
Law held at the
University of
Utrecht in the
Netherlands in
July. He presented a paper, “Constitutional
Referendum in the United States,” which
was published in 54 American Journal of
Comparative Law (Supplement) 485 (2006).
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Photos courtesy of Chappell Graduation Images
MAY COMMENCEMENT
Graduates and their
families and friends
heard advice from
Congressman
Isaac N. “Ike”
Skelton, ’56, who
has represented
the Fourth
Congressional
District of Missouri
since 1977.
In keeping with tradition, graduates could elect to have their
MU Law alumni and faculty parents hood them at graduation.
(l.-r.) Dean Dessem; Katie D. Whitman with her father,
Professor Dale A. Whitman; Jennifer L. Thompson with her
father, L. Dwayne Hackworth, ’72; John C. Ayres with
his father, Ted D. Ayres, ’72; Benjamin D. McIntosh with
his father, Dennis E. McIntosh, ’76; Alison L. Esbeck with
her father-in-law, Professor Carl H. Esbeck; Natalie J. Nichols
with her father, George D. Nichols, ’73; Sarah E. Baron
Houy with her father, Roger M. Baron, ’76; and Katherine
A. Welch with her father, David T. Welch, ’78.
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Sta f f Not e s
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Douglas E.
Abrams and
an article he
wrote in the
SMU Law
Review were
cited by the
U.S. Supreme
Court in Anza
v. Ideal Steel
Supply Corp., 126 S. Ct. 1991, 2005 (2006)
(Thomas, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). Anza is the fourth Supreme Court decision to cite Abrams’ articles since 1988.
West Group has published Contemporary Family Law, a new casebook Abrams
co-wrote with professors Naomi R. Cahn
(George Washington University), Catherine J. Ross (George Washington University) and David D. Meyer (University
of Illinois). This is the fifth book he has
written or co-written. He and co-author
Sarah H. Ramsey (Syracuse University)
are writing the third edition of their casebook, Children and the Law — Doctrine,
Policy and Practice (West Group 2nd ed.
2003), which is used in more than 60 law
schools.
Abrams has written “Missouri’s Long
Road to Juvenile Justice,” a chapter in a
book on the state’s legal history, which the
Ohio University Press will publish in 2007
as part of its multivolume series, Law, Society and Politics in the Midwest. He co-wrote a
chapter on youth sports reform in Learning
Culture Through Sports: Exploring the Role of
Sports in Society (2006). He also wrote an
18-page biographical essay about retired
New York Court of Appeals Judge Hugh
R. Jones, for whom he clerked. The essay
will appear in a book about the history of
the court and its judges since its creation
in 1845.
Abrams has been named to the editorial
advisory board of the Juvenile Correctional
Mental Health Report, a bi-monthly publication of the Civic Research Institute.
He will write periodic essays and commentary in the report. He was a panelist
at a continuing legal education program
conducted by The Missouri Bar, “United
States Supreme Court Highlights of the
2005–2006 Term.” He continues to serve
on a panel appointed by the Supreme
Court of Missouri’s Family Law Committee to revise the state’s rules of juvenile
court practice and procedure.
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Associate Law Librarian
Steven W. Lambson
Senior Reference Librarian
Steven W. Lambson and Cynthia D. Shearrer gave a presentation titled “Legal Reference for the Non-Specialist” in June, and a follow-up presentation, “Hands-On Legal
Research,” in July, for the Kansas City Public Library librarians and staff.
For more than two years, the School of Law Library, The Missouri Bar and the Missouri Library Association have teamed up to provide Missouri libraries the training they
need to help patrons who have legal questions. Through July, 10 sessions were presented
to public libraries, one to penal institution librarians and one to the Missouri Library
Association annual meeting. Several more sessions are anticipated.
Lambson is the Law Library’s senior research librarian and coordinator of reference and
instructional services. Shearrer is the associate law librarian for patron services.
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news
Faculty in the News
Douglas E. Abrams
Mary M. Beck
Frank O. Bowman III
Stephen D. Easton
“Billionaire Backs Youth Teams” The Dallas Morning
News
“Hockey for the Fun at Heart” Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Let the Games Begin, Without Anger” Chicago Daily
Herald
“Putting Pucks in the Community Net” (editorial)
USA Hockey Magazine
“SHA Case Remains Red-Hot Topic in Legal Circles”
New Haven Register
Re: Putative Father Registry CNN’s Anderson Cooper
360 Degrees, National Public Radio
“Unwed Fathers Challenge State’s Adoption Registry
Law” Orlando Sentinel
“Unwed Fathers Fight for Babies Placed for Adoption
by Mothers” New York Times
“About to do Time? Let’s Pick a Prison” Kansas City
Star
“Data Show More Variety in Sentencing” Des Moines
Register
“The More Pennies Lost, the More Days in Jail”
Houston Chronicle
“Sentencing Guidelines Place Judges and House
Republicans at Cross-Purposes” Congressional
Quarterly
“Snap Judgments” Business Law Today
“White-Collar Offenders Shop the System for a
Prison” Kansas City Star
“‘Get a Life!’: Advice for Living an Honorable and
Reasonably Happy Life as an Attorney” Missouri
Lawyers Weekly
“There’s No Place Like Law School…” St. Louis PostDispatch
“Ticket Deals Go Beyond Speeding” Kansas City Star
“The Wizard of Oz Used to Demonstrate CrossExamination” The Daily Record (Kansas City, Mo.)
Rigel C. Oliveri
“Tenants Pushing Legal Case Against Harassers at
Home” City Limits (New York City)
“When Zoning Rules Hurt Children” (editorial) St.
Louis Post-Dispatch
John R. Mollenkamp
“Ameren Reservoir Settlement Possible” Houston
Chronicle
“Nixon Pressure May Indicate Settlement Talks with
Ameren” Kansas City Star
Philip G. Peters Jr.
Dale A. Whitman
Robert G.
Bailey became
the School of
Law’s third director of the
Center for the
Study of Dispute Resolution on May 15.
In late May, he
gave two speeches at the 2nd International
ADR Conference in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. His talks concerned baseball arbitration and teaching alternative dispute resolution in law school. Bailey conducted an
NCAA accreditation review at the University of New Mexico in early June.
As chair of the New Member Orientation Committee, Bailey and his committee
oriented 16 new members at the National
Academy of Arbitrators annual meeting in
Washington, D.C. Bailey also attended the
annual National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws where he
served on the drafting committee for the
Uniform Interstate Emergency Health Care
Services Act, which the conference adopted
on the last day of its meeting. He has been
appointed vice-chair of the Fee Dispute
Resolution Committee of The Missouri
Bar. Bailey has been reappointed chair of
the University’s Institutional Review Board
for Health Sciences as well as being reelected chair of the Boone County Family
Resources, an agency that provides services
to over 1,300 developmentally disabled individuals in Boone County, Mo.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
MU School of Law faculty are regularly called upon by news outlets around the state and
the country to provide expert opinion on a variety of topics.
“Emergency Contraception: Studies Change Views on
How Morning-After Pill Works” (editorial) The
Buffalo News
“Fixing Eminent Domain is not a Job for the Courts”
(editorial) Kansas City Daily Record, St. Charles
County Business Record, St. Louis Countian, St. Louis
Daily Record
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A dm issions a n d St u de n t Se rv ic e s
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Royce deR.
Barondes presented his paper, “The Business Entity as a
Nexus of Relational Contracts,” at the
annual meeting
of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. He also
published “Examining Compliance with
Fiduciary Duties: A Study of Real Estate
Agents,” co-written with V. Carlos Slawson, in the Oregon Law Review, and “Correcting the Empirical Foundations of IPOPricing Regulation” in the Florida State
University Law Review. In June, he was approved for tenure.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Philip J.
Harter’s
chapter, “Negotiating
Government
Policy: Better Decisions
Through
Democratic
Synergy,”
which was based on a lecture he gave at
the University of Paris II, was published
in Régulation Économique et Démocratie, M.
Lombard ed. In April, he participated
in “Consensus Versus Collaboration for
Setting Policy” at the annual conference
of the Section of Dispute Resolution of
the American Bar Association (ABA). In
June, he taught an intense course in environmental dispute resolution at Vermont
Law School. The following month, he
moderated a panel, “25 Years of OIRA —
The View from the Inside and the View
from the Outside,” at the summer meeting of the Section of Administrative Law
of the ABA.
Donna L. Pavlick
Assistant Dean
a White House
This year’s entering
Snapshot of the Class of 2009
staffer, a Conclass is one of the
Total applications
875
gressional intern
most geographi154
and active duty
cally and ethnically Total enrolled
military memMedian LSAT
158
diverse classes the
(75th percentile)
bers, one of whom
School of Law has
Median GPA
3.49
came directly from
had, with excelembassy duty in
lent academic
Total women
44%
Thailand. We are
credentials and a
Total men
56%
very excited about
rich mixture of
State residents
78%
this year’s class!
backgrounds and
Attracting and
experiences.
Minority students
22%
enrolling such a
Out-of-state stuStatistics as of August 22, 2006
talented group of
dents hail from 18
students required
different states, the
a consolidated effort by the admisCommonwealth of Puerto Rico, Taiwan
sions staff, faculty, current students and
and the People’s Republic of China.
alumni. Alumni support of our recruitAcademically, the students’ undering efforts is crucial and was fantastic
graduate work reflect 37 fields of study
this year. The Admissions Office staff
and 64 public and private colleges and
sincerely thanks the many alumni who
universities, including MU, Truman
have helped to make this another sucState University, Washington Univercessful year, and we are looking forward
sity, Northwestern University, Vanto working with you again as we recruit
derbilt University, the University of
the class of 2010. We send a special
Virginia, the University of Califorthanks to Bryan Cave in St. Louis and
nia-Berkeley and the U.S. Air Force
Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown &
Academy.
Enochs in Springfield, Mo., for offering
Student backgrounds include newspato host our winter 2006 accepted-stuper reporters, freelance writers, teachers,
dent receptions.
financial analysts, a former professional softball player, two physicians,
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FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Richard C.
Reuben made
several presentations in 2006
that were based
on his research
on the relationship between dispute resolution
and democratic
governance. This included presenting to the
Interagency Working Group for the U.S.
Government and the Saint Louis University
School of Law, and serving as a session organizer for a discussion of democracy and the
federal workplace at the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Dispute Resolution
Annual Meeting. He also presented to a joint
meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators and the Marie Garibaldi
Inn of Court, and on the role that the media
plays in democratic governance at the MU
Chancellor’s Global Issues Forum.
Reuben gave other presentations on
problems relating to the impartiality of arbitrators at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Annual Meeting, and on bringing experiential learning into the classroom at the
annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Legal Teaching
Methods.
Reuben worked with the MU School
of Journalism to develop an interdisciplinary research symposium on news reporting
and its impact on conflict that was held in
September 2006 at the law school. Leading scholars from journalism, law, conflict
theory, conflict resolution, psychology, communication and political science explored
this issue. The effort was sponsored by the
Center for the Study of Conflict, Law & the
Media, a joint effort of the School of Law
and School of Journalism, and was co-sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, the School of Law’s Center for
the Study of Dispute Resolution and the MU
Vice Provost for International Programs and
Strategic Initiatives.
Reuben developed a comprehensive online teacher’s manual and casebook Web site
for the casebook he co-writes with Professor
Leonard L. Riskin and other scholars, Dispute
Resolution and Lawyers (3rd ed. 2005).
The Class of 2009 officially joined the School of Law by attending events such as a
welcome picnic at Twin Lakes Recreation Area in Columbia.
The Second Annual Small Firm and Public
Interest Expo will be held on March 8, 2007,
in John K. Hulston Hall. Last year, nearly 50
attorneys and 100 law students attended this event.
This year’s expo will feature a complimentary CLE
presentation and a reception. This is a wonderful
opportunity to gain CLE credit and network with
practitioners from across the state.
A mailing with details will be sent this winter.
For more information, contact the School of Law’s
Office of Career and Professional Development at
573-882-7386.
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Fall 2006
NEWS
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Mary M. Beck
made a presentation about
putative father
registries to the
Virginia Legislative Children’s
Law Committee in fall
2005. She assisted U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s staffers in
drafting bill S3803, the Protecting Rights
of Unknowing Dads and Fostering Access to Help Encourage Responsibility Act
(PROUD FATHER Act), which was introduced into the U.S. Senate in August
2006. The bill contains features that Beck
advocated in the article “Toward a National
Putative Father Registry Database,” which
she published in the Summer 2002 issue of
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Beck was quoted in The New York Times
on March 19 concerning a Florida putative
father registry case. Subsequently, she appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper Live and
on a National Public Radio talk show discussing putative father registries.
Beck gave the keynote address at the
Annual Conference of the National Council for Adoption in Washington, D.C., and
presented at the Annual Conference of the
American Academy of Adoption Attorneys
in Vancouver, British Columbia, on putative father registries.
Fa m i ly Viole nc e Cli n ic
Members of the American Academy of
Adoption Attorneys in Virginia requested a
draft putative father registry bill from Professor Mary M. Beck. She and law students
Lindsay Biesterfeld and Marcus Wilbers
worked to submit a draft registry bill. The
Virginia legislature amended the bill and
subsequently passed that state’s first putative father registry. The governor signed
the bill in 2006.
Family Violence Clinic students Kelly
King and Jaime Hoog drafted a writ of
habeas corpus petition for clemency client
Lynda Branch that was filed in Livingston County, Mo. Student Rich Kroeger
argued the writ, and the parties are awaiting a ruling.
Family Violence Clinic students Billy
Greim, Diane Christrup, Leah Kanne and
Brandi Byrd Smith participated in a Missouri Department of Public Safety-funded
investigation into the justice system’s
response to domestic violence in every
Missouri county. Faculty and students from
the MU Schools of Journalism, Law and
Medicine manage this project, which is in
its third year of funding. They have presented study results to statewide conferences of law enforcement, prosecutors and
judges.
Steptoe Named James D. Ellis Lawyer in Residence
On March 10, the School of Law welcomed Sonja Steptoe as its James D. Ellis
Lawyer in Residence. Steptoe, a senior correspondent and deputy news director of
TIME magazine, received her undergraduate degree in economics and journalism
from MU and her law degree from Duke University. Her professional experience
includes work for the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, HBO’s Real Sports
with Bryant Gumbel, Court TV and CNN/SI.
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Frank O.
Bowman III
published “The
Year of Jubilee
… or Maybe
Not: Some Preliminary Observations about
the Sentencing Behavior of
Federal Judges and Others after Booker,” in
43 Houston Law Review 279 (2006). His online debate with Professor Douglas Berman
of Ohio State University Moritz College
of Law, “What’s the Future of Federal Sentencing?,” was featured in the Debate Club
section of Legal Affairs Magazine in January.
It is available online at www.legalaffairs.
org.
Bowman’s report, “Principles for the
Design and Reform of Sentencing Systems:
A Background Report,” for the Constitution Project Sentencing Initiative with
Dean David Yellen of Loyola University
Chicago School of Law, explains sentencing
principles adopted by a bipartisan panel of
criminal justice experts. Another report for
the Constitution Project Sentencing Initiative, “Recommendations for Federal Sentencing in a Post-Booker World,” examines
recommended reforms to the federal criminal sentencing system. Both articles are
available at www.constitutionproject.org.
His recent presentations include speaking at “Sentencing Post-Booker” at the
National Workshop for Federal District
Judges; “Fraud Sentencing” and “Federal
Sentencing from a Research Perspective” at
the 15th Annual National Seminar on the
Federal Sentencing Guidelines; and a Yale
sentencing workshop at Yale Law School.
He served as a panelist on “Sentencing in a
Post-Booker World,” at the Federal Practice
Seminar, sponsored by the University of
Missouri-Kansas City, and “The Sentencing Revolution after Twenty Years: Its Impact on White Collar Crime” at the American Bar Association’s 20th Annual Institute
on White Collar Crime.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Dean For A Day: Dessem and Devine Take on the Challenge of Student Life
On April 18, Dean
Larry Dessem and
Associate Dean
Jim Devine filled
their arms with
textbooks and
notepads and went
to class. Thirdyear students
Melissa Morgan
and Courtney Stirrat commandeered
their offices and prepared to manage the
School of Law for the day.
Morgan and Stirrat purchased “Dean
for a Day” packages at the Women’s Law
Association (WLA) auction on March
15. Their winning bids raised $455 for
WLA, which used the money collected
at the auction to benefit The Shelter,
Rainbow House, Happiness for Health,
Court Appointed Special Advocates, the
School of Law’s Family Violence Clinic
and the WLA Scholarship Fund. Package number 68 — “Have a Devine Day”
— entitled the buyer to “be Devine for
a day” while he attended the student’s
classes, and number 70 — “Dean for
a Day” — gave the same rights with
Dessem.
The new deans filled their day with
visits from School of Law faculty and
staff, calls to prospective students and an
appreciation day for staff in the administrative and dean’s offices. The new
students attended classes and took notes.
Dessem even acted as a student ambassador for the Office of Admissions and
Student Services and gave a building tour to a prospective student from
Lynchburg, Va.
After attending
his first law school
class in 31 years,
Devine commented,
“The classes I
attended were simply amazingly welltaught by people
who cared, who
were knowledgeable and who were very well-prepared. I
came back to my office incredibly energized. This law school has marvelous
teachers, and we should all be proud of
them.”
Morgan and Stirrat enjoyed their
experience, as well. Morgan said, “It
was a great chance to see how the law
school runs and show appreciation to
the wonderful support staff who have
helped me greatly through the years.
And it was also nice to know that someone else had to prep for classes and take
notes for me for a day.” Stirrat felt that
the Dean for a Day program was a good
experience because she received excellent notes courtesy of Devine and “got
to spend a lot of time talking to students
about how to make the school an even
better place.”
WLA compiled many equally attractive and interesting packages from other
sources to put on the auction block. One
package boasted a parking pass to the
Turner Avenue Garage from MU Parking and Transportation, while another,
“Bird’s Eye View,” provided a plane ride
over Columbia for two, donated by Professor Dale Whitman. The annual auction raised more than $10,000.
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NEWS
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Michelle
Arnopol
Cecil hosted a
two-day bankruptcy symposium titled “Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on
Bankruptcy Reform” on Feb.
24–25. The symposium, which included
more than 100 attendees, brought together
nationally renowned scholars and bankruptcy judges to discuss the future of the
bankruptcy system. Cecil’s presentation,
“Bankruptcy Reform: What’s Tax Got To
Do With It?,” will appear in the fall 2006
issue of the Missouri Law Review.
In June, Cecil received rave reviews in
Vancouver and Chicago for her presentation, “Developing a Teaching Philosophy:
The First Step Toward Becoming an Effective Teacher.” Some members of the audience viewed it as a “life transforming experience.” This presentation grew out of
research that she conducted for a book, cowritten by Kemper Teaching Fellows across
campus and scheduled to be published by
the Missouri Academic Press this fall, titled
Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum:
Insights from the William T. Kemper Fellows
for Teaching Excellence. For the first chapter of the book, Cecil and four other professors reviewed more than 100 teaching
philosophies and developed a model of the
three components necessary for an effective
teaching philosophy: professors’ awareness
of their assumptions going into the classroom, their goals for the course and concrete methods for achieving those goals.
d e v e l o p m e n t s
by Janie Ausburn Harmon, Senior Director of Development
Fund Named in
H e i n s z’s Honor
An appropriate honor was bestowed on
our friend, the late Tim Heinsz, in the
form of the Timothy J. Heinsz Memorial Fund. An outpouring of more than
$300,000 in gifts and pledges was received from 330 contributors who gave
in memory of an admired professor and
former dean. We are proud to announce
that we are using the gifts to fund a
full-fee scholarship endowment for outstanding law students. The first student
recipient will be selected in Fall 2007.
Thank you to all of you who supported
the School of Law and the Heinsz family
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Office of Development
MU School of Law
205 Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Checks should be made payable
to the MU School of Law or the
Law School Foundation.
Credit card gifts or other gifts
may be made by calling our office
at 573-882-4374. Online gifts
may be made at
donatetomu.missouri.edu.
a lum n i pa rt ic i pat ion
rate rises
The Law School Foundation board of
trustees, For All We Call Mizzou Campaign Committee and the Law Alumni
Relations Committee met on Sept. 29
and discussed the School of Law’s giving
rate and ways in which the number of
alumni donors can be increased. Previously only 9 percent, the rate increased to
11 percent this year. Although traditional
belief holds that the school is a state
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critical to students, faculty and citizens
are privately enhanced or funded. Please
consider discussing the giving rate issue
with any member of our boards if you
have not yet given this year. Board members are listed on the inside front cover of
this issue. It is our goal to provide stronger support to legal education.
Katie
Couric was
born
Laura
Ingalls
Wilder
died
PHOTO CREDITS: “The Ingallses arrive in their covered wagon.” Photo by William Richards, for “Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant,” a Minnesota Local Legacies project.
Fall 2006
NEWS
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Larry
Dessem spoke
at the June
Conference of
the Association
of American
Law Schools
(AALS) in Vancouver, British Columbia,
on “Encouraging Colleagues to Implement
New Teaching Ideas.” In July he spoke at
the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Law Schools on “Top Ten Reasons
to be a Dean — or Not!” He continues
to chair the AALS Membership Review
Committee and serves on the Federal Advisory Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Law School
Teaching.
ca m pa ign p rogr e ss
The For All We Call Mizzou Campaign
progresses with $14.2 million raised for the
Law School and $717 million raised for all
MU programs.
In June Mark A. Langworthy, ’90,
joined the School of Law advancement
team as director of development. Mark
previously served in MU’s Office of Gift
Planning and Endowments and held a
private law practice with an emphasis on
estate planning. Mark travels throughout
most of Missouri and locales from the Pacific Northwest to Florida. Mark works
with alumni and friends who wish to make
private support using a number of tax and
estate planning tools. Be sure to meet Mark
when he visits your region.
contact us !
If you would like more information about
including the School of Law in your estate
plan or about making a gift or pledge,
please contact us at 205 Hulston Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, or as shown below:
Janie Ausburn Harmon
573-882-3052
harmonj@missouri.edu
Mark A. Langworthy
573-884-3083
langworthym@missouri.edu
In 2006...
we will honor Professor Hunvald’s 50 years in
the classroom with festivities befitting a teaching
legend. Watch your mailbox for further details!
Kraft®
introduced
TANG® to the
astronauts
James R.
Devine gave a
talk at a Missouri Bar CLE,
“Hot Topics in
Sports Law,” at
Kauffman Stadium in Kansas
City, Mo. He
discussed the
35th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s
decision in Flood v. Kuhn in the historical context of the labor relationship between owners and players in major league
baseball.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
The Pension Protection Act of 2006 was
signed into law on Aug. 17, 2006. Those
who are 70 ½ or older prior to Dec. 31,
2007, can transfer funds to charity directly
from their IRA or other qualified plan in
2006 and 2007. The new law allows the
donor to make the transfer without including it as gross income. (Of course, there
is no corresponding deduction.) This new
law is of benefit to high income donors,
those who are at or near the Adjusted Gross
Income limits on charitable contributions,
and non itemizers. Gifts made may not be
used to fund charitable remainder trusts,
charitable gift annuities or pooled income
funds. Donors may not receive any benefits
in exchange for the distributions. For more
information please contact your tax professional and our office.
l aw a l u m n u s
appointed director of
development
Professor Ed
Hunvald first set
foot in a classroom
at the School
of Law
John R.
Mollenkamp
was part of a
panel discussion
at the Rocky
Mountain Legal Writing
Conference in
Tucson, Ariz.,
in March. His
presentation, made with Professor Melody
Richardson Daily, was titled “Helping your
Students Collaborate (and Enjoy It).” They
also presented at the Legal Writing Institute
Biennial Conference, held in Atlanta in
June, as part of a panel discussion focusing
on teaching students to avoid plagiarism.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
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At the annual celebration of The
Law Society, new members receive
commemorative personalized
medallions in honor of their
commitment to the School of
Law. Seated: Nelson and Wright
Standing: DeLong, D. Oliver
and Glass (Not pictured: Brown,
Corrigan, J. Lande, R. Lande, Jack
Oliver and Ramsey)
On April 21, the School of Law celebrated
The Law Society and its members with a
dinner in Eckles Hall on the MU campus.
During the 22nd annual event, guests
enjoyed a meal conceived, prepared and served
by students in the Hotel and Restaurant
Management Program, which is housed in
Eckles Hall and is a part of the MU College
of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
Following dinner and the celebration of new
and upgraded members, the Courthouse
Steps, a group of attorneys from St. Louis who
poke fun at national and local events taken
from the headlines, delighted the crowd.
During the program, current members
were celebrated, while inductees and level
upgrades were honored. This year’s new
members and the areas of their support are:
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inducted at Dean’s Council level
Provides for the physical needs of the
School of Law
William M. Corrigan Jr., ’85
Timothy J. Heinsz Memorial Fund and the
Law School Foundation Endowment
F. Joe DeLong III, ’75
Law School Foundation Endowment
Glen A. Glass, ’71
Law School Foundation Endowment
John M. Lande
Anita Lande Memorial Scholarship
Robert M. Lande
Anita Lande Memorial Scholarship
Mary E. Nelson, ’81
inducted at Dean’s Council level
Mary Elizabeth Nelson Diversity
Scholarship
Jack L. Oliver, ’98
Jack L. Oliver III and Rachel Oliver Fund
John L. Oliver Jr., ’68
inducted at Dean’s Circle level
John L. Oliver Jr. Scholarship
Mary L. Ramsey, ’28
Mary Louise Ramsey Memorial
Endowment
Fall 2006
NEWS
Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law Patricia Brumfield Fry decided to retire at the
end of the fall 2006 semester.
Fry has taught at the School of Law since 2000, focusing on sales and leases,
modern payment systems, secured transactions and electronic commerce. She has
authored and published many pieces concerning commercial law and electronic
commerce, and her most recent article, “Coming to a Screen Near You —
“eMortgages” — Starring Good Laws and Prudents Standards-Rated ‘XML,’” has
been published in the November issue of The Business Lawyer.
Fry currently chairs the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform
State Laws (NCCUSL) Study Committee on Revision of the Uniform Notarial Act,
represents NCCUSL on the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial
Code, and is a member of the NCCUSL Uniform Commercial Code Committee.
She also works with legislators as a legislative liaison for the Missouri Commission
on Uniform State Laws and with The Missouri Bar as chair of its Uniform Laws
Committee for the enactment of uniform acts in Missouri.
Reflecting on her time at MU, she states, “The biggest joy from my time on the
Missouri faculty has come from the people I’ve met and worked with — starting
with the students, and including my colleagues, the staff here at the Law School
and others from the campus. Among the highlights of my time here have been the
opportunity to be of service to the Center for the Digital Globe and to the University
as a whole as a member of the Faculty Council. Working with people from other
parts of campus has permitted me to understand the different interests and needs of
the various parts of the University community.
Although she has no major plans for her time after retirement, Fry anticipates
enjoying activities that she has not had time for in the past, including traveling,
weaving, improving her design skills, gardening, taking classes and volunteering.
She also plans to continue her work as a legislation liaison and collaborator with
NCCUSL.
Edith D. Wright, ’44
inducted at Dean’s Circle level
Jackson A. Wright Scholarship
Membership in The Law Society is
extended to donors who make a gift of
$25,000 or more, payable over five years.
Elevated members were also recognized
at The Law Society Dinner. New Dean’s
Council members included Isabelle
McDonough Bram; Don M. Downing,
’82; Daniel W. Shinn, ’82; Kenneth H.
Suelthaus, ’69; and Brian C. Underwood,
’78. Members of The Law Society are eligible
for elevation into Dean’s Council with gifts
of $50,000 or more.
New Dean’s Circle members included
John W. Cowden, ’70; Webb R.
Gilmore, ’73; and Robert L. Langdon,
’72. Members of Dean’s Circle have presented
the School of Law with gifts of $100,000 or
more.
James D. Ellis, ’68, was recognized
as a new Law Society Advocate. This level
represents donors of $250,000 or more.
William S. Ohlemeyer, ’84, was
recognized as a new Law Society Diplomat.
This level represents donors of $500,000 or
more.
George E. Ashley, ’48, was recognized
as a new Law Society Ambassador. This level,
the highest that exists for The Law Society,
represents donors of $1,000,000 or more.
We thank all of these alumni and friends
for their generous support of the School of
Law.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
by Lindsey R. Laws
Amy B.
Monahan presented her current research
project, “The
End of State
Mandated
Health Insurance Benefits?,”
at the Jurisgenesis: New Voices on the Law conference
hosted by Washington University in St.
Louis. Her article, “The Promise and Peril
of Ownership Society Health Care Policy,”
was published in the Tulane Law Review
earlier this year.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Fry Announces Retirement
Randy J.
Diamond attended the Association of
American Law
Schools’ MidYear Conference on New
Ideas for Law
Teachers:
Teaching Intentionally in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he presented “Teaching Practitioner Research Skills.” His talk
covered pedagogical approaches he uses in
the School of Law’s advanced legal research
course to prepare students for practitioner
research in the information age.
Diamond and Associate Dean David A.
Fischer co-edit the law school’s new Legal Studies Research Paper Series on the
Social Science Research Network. The
series announces and provides access to
recent working and published faculty papers to more than 4,000 e-mail subscribers.
The complete series is available on the law
school’s Web site or at www.ssrn.com/lsn/
index.html under the Research Paper Series link.
Diamond also serves on The Missouri
Bar Online Legal Research Task Force,
which has solicited and is in the process of
evaluating vendor proposals for implementing an online legal research service as a
member benefit.
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C o n t r i b u t o r s
2005 -2006
Honor Roll of Contributors
The School of Law recognizes the following individuals who
provided financial support during the 2006 fiscal year, which
began July 1, 2005, and ended June 30, 2006. Total alumni cash
giving for the fiscal year totaled more than $1.9 million.
The following list includes alumni shown by class year.
Please note your class participation rate and consider how we
can work together to improve it. The overall School of Law
alumni participation rate is 11 percent.
Congratulations to classes with participation rates of 20 percent or more: 1928, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1951, 1952, 1954,
1955, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1968, 1969 and 1975!
A leadership listing begins on page 34 and includes all contributors to the School of Law who gave more than $250 during
the year. Friends, faculty and staff, and organizations who support the law school are listed on pages 36 and 37.
Class of 1928
Class of 1950
Participation.................... 100%
Estate of Mary L. Ramsey
Dollars........................... $4,900
Participation...................... 16%
W. Thomas Coghill Jr.
Robert E. Crist
George A. Henry
Jeremiah Nixon
Scott O. Wright
Class of 1940
Dollars........................... $6,100
Participation...................... 36%
John R. Bailey
Karl W. Blanchard Sr.
Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
Leo J. Rozier
Class of 1941
Dollars............................$2,425
Participation...................... 33%
Estate of John K. Hulston
Charles S. Wilcox
Fred J. Young Jr.
Class of 1942
Participation...................... 33%
Cecil C. Orear Jr.
Class of 1944
Class of 1948
Class of 1953
Dollars........................ $756,211
Participation...................... 10%
George E. Ashley
Charles E. Dapron
Robert L. Hawkins Jr.
Class of 1949
Dollars............................ $7,375
Participation...................... 14%
David M. Beckerman
Joe Pat Casey
Winan Edgar Mayfield
Nedwyn R. Nelkin
Wade D. Rubick
Robert C. Smith
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Participation...................... 18%
Ninian M. Edwards Jr.
Estate of Eugene M. Sackin
Class of 1947
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Dollars............................ $9,575
Participation...................... 27%
Estate of James E. Brown
J. David Collins
Bruce K. Denebeim
Donal D. Guffey
Roger T. Hurwitz
Stephen Nathaniel
Limbaugh Sr.
James F. Menefee
Allan H. Stocker
Welzie W. Webb
Dollars............................$2,744
Participation...................... 20%
Lane D. Bauer
Rolin T. Boulware
Warren E. Hearnes
William H. Leedy
Dorman L. Steelman
Montgomery L. Wilson
Participation...................... 50%
Edith D. Wright
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Class of 1951
Participation........................ 8%
Walter D. McQuie Jr.
James R. Reinhard
Class of 1954
Dollars.............................. $650
Participation...................... 25%
Don Chapman Jr.
Ross W. Lillard
Lowell L. Smithson
Class of 1955
Dollars.............................. $590
Participation...................... 22%
Robert F. Devoy
David L. Hilton
Bruce Normile
Randolph E. Puchta
Thomas W. Wehrle
C o n t r i b u t o r s
Class of 1956
Class of 1961
Class of 1966
Class of 1969
Participation...................... 13%
Frank Conley
Donald E. Gillihan
Dollars............................$1,975
Participation...................... 13%
Alex Bartlett
Roger K. Boothe
Darwin A. Hindman Jr.
B. Kent Snapp
Richard K. Wilson
Stanford A. Zeldin
Dollars............................ $1,155
Participation........................ 5%
John W. Briscoe
Stephen F. Hanlon
Maynard R. Johnson
E. Scott Orr
Dollars........................... $4,008
Participation...................... 12%
Helen B. Fenlon
Thomas F. Fisher
David K. Hardy
Stephen H. King
H. Fred Northcraft
Larry S. Phillips
E. Richard Webber
Dollars.......................... $29,548
Participation...................... 20%
Clifford H. Ahrens
Richard N. Nixon
Gerry D. Osterland
Thomas L. Patten
Claude H. Potts III
Edward H. Sheppard III
John R. Sims
James M. Smart Jr.
B. Jill Steps
Richard A. Stockenberg
Kenneth H. Suelthaus
John F. Sutherland IV
J. Edward Sweeney
A. Keith Weber
David F. Yates
Class of 1968
Class of 1970
Class of 1957
Dollars..........................$26,100
Participation...................... 14%
Ronald M. Bushman
Elvin S. Douglas Jr.
Jerry S. Estes
Ben L. Guenther
Class of 1958
Dollars........................... $4,200
Participation...................... 24%
William Andy Dalton
David R. Goller
Lynden N. Goodwin
James Roger Guffey
Fred L. Hall Jr.
William M. Howard
Bernard C. Rice
Stewart W. Smith Jr.
Class of 1959
Dollars.......................... $11,384
Participation...................... 17%
Stanley A. Grimm
Sam F. Hamra
E. Mitchell Hough
Gustav J. Lehr Jr.
John R. Lewis
Robert W. Maupin
Larry L. McMullen
Herbert C. Willbrand
Class of 1960
Dollars.......................... $23,815
Participation...................... 25%
Eugene G. Bushmann
Donald E. Chaney
Ralph Edwards
Charles B. Faulkner
Bernard N. Frank
Carl D. Gum Jr.
John D. Rahoy
John W. Ringer
James E. Spain
Julius F. Wall
Class of 1962
Dollars.......................... $36,523
Participation...................... 20%
James T. Ausmus
Maurice B. Graham
Lynn C. Hoover
Floyd E. Lawson Jr.
James H. McLarney
Paul Jackson Rice
Donald L. Wolff
Class of 1963
Dollars............................$2,750
Participation...................... 12%
James T. Buckley
Roger J. Modersbach
Don K. Pettus
Robert G. Russell
Leo W. Schrader
Class of 1964
Dollars..........................$13,400
Participation...................... 14%
Francis Cullen Cline Jr.
Donald W. Jones
C. H. Parsons Jr.
Alfred C. Sikes II
Dennis W. Smith
Marvin E. Wright
Class of 1965
Dollars............................$5,875
Participation.......................11%
Lewis M. Blanton
John H. Jackson
Ray Klinginsmith
Harold L. Lowenstein
Lawrence H. Pelofsky
John K. Pruellage
Karolyn Ehrmann Voigt
Class of 1967
Dollars.........................$157,186
Participation...................... 24%
Terrence Ahern
James M. Beck
Louis B. Eckelkamp Jr.
James D. Ellis
Robert M. Fenlon
David A. Fischer
James V. Glascock
Harvey L. Kaplan
David L. McCoid
C. Patrick McLarney
Hugh McPheeters Jr.
John R. Musgrave
Robert E. Northrip
Thomas J. O’Neal
Estate of John L. Oliver Jr.
Joyce M. Otten
J. Richard Owensby
G. Lane Roberts Jr.
Richard G. Steele
Wallace J. Turnage Jr.
J. David Wharton
Richard L. Wieler
Dollars..........................$54,300
Participation...................... 18%
Howard M. Bushman
Jack L. Campbell
John W. Cowden
Thomas E. Cummings
Albert W Dieffenbach Jr.
Robert H. Grant
John C. Holstein
Jess L. Mueller
Morris J. Nunn
John B. Renick
Charles J. Schmelzer III
Thomas N. Sterchi
Craig A. Van Matre
Charles R. Wall
Class of 1971
Dollars...........................$18,550
Participation...................... 13%
A. Howard Chamberlin
Thomas R. Corbett
K. Preston Dean II
Dale C. Doerhoff
Glen A. Glass
Gregory F. Hoffmann
Stephen D. Hoyne
John R. Phillips
William J. Roberts
Michael J. Thompson
Paul L. Wickens
David C. Zucker
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Class of 1972
Class of 1975
Class of 1977
Class of 1980
Dollars..........................$32,900
Participation...................... 12%
Ted D. Ayres
Larry M. Burditt
David C. Christian
Rachel R. Eidelman
Thomas J. Frawley
Robert L. Langdon
Louis N. Lee III
John B. Lewis
John P. Lichtenegger
Thomas O. McCarthy
Bruce McCurry
Robert S. Rosenthal
Edwin J. Spiegel III
Stephen L. Taylor
Gary G. Wallace
Dollars........................$120,600
Participation...................... 21%
Jodie Capshaw Asel
Joseph A. Cambiano
John L. Cook
Rebecca McDowell Cook
F. Joe DeLong III
Anne Westlake Elsberry
Dana A. Hockensmith
William F. Koenigsdorf
Nanette K. Laughrey
Gregory C. Lucas
Edward M. Manring
W. Dudley McCarter
M. Day Miller
Steven C. Parrish
Lawrence R. Sobol
Bill L. Thompson
J. Michael Vaughan
John R. Weisenfels
Stephen K. Willcox
Timothy R. Wolf
Richard D. Woods
Dollars............................$3,300
Participation........................ 7%
Ann K. Covington
Garrett R. Crouch II
Ralph H. Duggins III
William W. Francis Jr.
Charles Walter German
Terence G. Lord
Gregory Luzecky
Teresa H. Martin
Dollars............................ $9,545
Participation.......................15%
Elizabeth D. Badger
Robert P. Ballsrud
Eric K. Banks
Janna D. Bounds
Charles Curtis Cantrell
Robert E. Childress
Clark H. Cole
David H. Gibbons
William K. Haas
Randall B. Palmer
Michael J. Patton
Robert E. Pinnell
Kathleen M. Pinnell
Edward M. Pultz
Johnny K. Richardson
Paul J. Seele
Jane A. Smith
Joseph L. Stokely
Daniel D. Whitworth
Michael L. Yates
Class of 1973
Dollars.......................... $16,675
Participation...................... 10%
Robert E. Almirall
William F. Arnet
Sanborn N. Ball
L. Clay Barton
Allan D. Barton
James E. Crowe Jr.
Webb R. Gilmore
John B. Montgomery
W. Patrick Resen
Patrick K. Roberts
Jack L. Simmons
Benjamin C. Thomas
W.H. Thomas Jr.
Joe F. Willerth
Class of 1974
Dollars.......................... $10,342
Participation...................... 12%
Charles Ronald Baird
Rudy D. Beck
John M. Carnahan III
John Thomas Clark
Niles S. Corson
Frank M. Evans III
Randall R. Jackson
Gary L. Mayes
Robert Barry Miner
Ron E. Mitchell
Thomas P. O’Donnell
Thomas L. Ray Jr.
Laura Elizabeth Skaer
C. Brooks Wood
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Class of 1976
Dollars.......................... $13,175
Participation...................... 18%
Roger M. Baron
Thomas B. Becker
Leslie L. Clay
Stanley Brian Cox
Kenneth D. Dean
Dennis Edward Egan
James W. Erwin
Suzanne R. Gladney
Jack R. Grate Jr.
Robert M. Heller
Robert D. Higginbotham
Amy Rehm Hinderer
Harold W. Hinderer III
H. Martin Jayne
Thomas R. Jayne
Mark E. Johnson
Michael E. Kaemmerer
John W. Kurtz
Gary R. Long
Joe L. Moseley
Jeffrey O. Parshall
R. J. Robertson Jr.
Jerry W. Venters
John G. Young Jr.
Robert E. Young
Class of 1978
Dollars..........................$18,499
Participation...................... 14%
Jane L. Adam
Dan H. Ball
Merritt M. Beck III
Craig S. Biesterfeld
Michael W. Bradley
C. K. Casteel Jr.
Edward A. Chod
Michael K. Cully
William J. Daily
Steven Logan Finerty
Michael W. Hanna
Kandice K. Johnson
Sherrill L. Rosen
Andrew B. See
Karen M. See
Stephen D. Smith
Craig A. Smith
Brian C. Underwood
Class of 1979
Dollars.......................... $10,525
Participation...................... 13%
William L. Allinder
Robert G. Bailey
Jeffrey A. Brimer
Paul M. Brown
Kris K. Bryant
Susan Gum Crigler
Stephen E. Cupples
Douglas Y. Curran
Alan Harvey Deright
Mark A. Kennedy
Walter B. McCormick Jr.
Charles F. Miller
Georgenne Parker
Leslie A. Schneider
Ruth A. Sears
Class of 1981
Dollars.......................... $11,775
Participation...................... 12%
Jerome S. Antel III
Suzanne Modlin Flanegin
Steve R. Fleddermann
Jean E. Goldstein
Susan Pinion Holliday
Kristi Lynne Kenney
John D. Landwehr
Mary E. Nelson
R. David Ray
Fred A. Ricks Jr.
Kent Hart Roberts
Kevin C. Roberts
Stephen H. Snead
Neil E. Sprague
H. Scott Summers
Alexander D. Tomaszczuk
C o n t r i b u t o r s
Class of 1982
Class of 1984
Class of 1987
Class of 1990
Dollars.......................... $15,950
Participation...................... 12%
Jan Robey Alonzo
Jeffrey J. Brinker
Cathy Dean
Don M. Downing
Keith G. Liberman
Paul M. Macon
Christopher Miltenberger
Robert M. N. Palmer
Michael L. Parrish
Randa Rawlins
Carl E. Schaeperkoetter
James M. Selle
Daniel W. Shinn
Charles E. Smarr
Mary-Michael Sterchi
Kevin R. Sweeney
John Warshawsky
Dollars.......................... $56,045
Participation...................... 16%
Kevin D. Adams
Philip W. Bledsoe
Frank C. Brown
Nancy L. Hatley Browne
Brian D. Callihan
Teresa L. Clark
L. G. Copeland
Vicki A. Dempsey
Michael T. Dorsey
Cynthia G. Edwards
Anthony M. Gawienowski
Heather S. Heidelbaugh
Steven W. Lambson
Michael E. Melton
John J. Miller
Joan C. Moran
William S. Ohlemeyer
Larry M. Schumaker
Gary W. Tappana
Marjorie Bedrick Tarkow
Janet M. Thompson
Robert W. Wheeler
Gregory D. Williams
Dollars........................... $6,800
Participation...................... 12%
Robert T. Adams
Mark R. Dunn
Robert T. Ebert Jr.
Thomas J. Fritzlen Jr.
Mark D. Grimm
Kenneth Michael Hayden
Elizabeth Healey
Kevin M. Kercher
Sara E. Kotthoff
Philip J. Morgan
Vincent F. O’Flaherty
Brian Rosenthal
Joshua L. Schonfeld
Gayle Grissum Stratmann
Scott L. Templeton
T. John Wise
Dollars.......................... $12,380
Participation........................ 9%
Lucinda A. Althauser
Eva M. Auman
Alana M. Barragan-Scott
David D. Ferguson
Susan E. Green
Thomas M. Harrison
Joseph M. Krutzsch
Gregory J. Minana
Michael L. Murray
Theresa M. Siglar
Robert M. Thompson
Gary D. Witt
Class of 1983
Dollars..........................$23,200
Participation...................... 17%
Robert R. Barton
David E. Bell
Mark V. Berndtson
Karen Kraus Bill
Deanna Apperson Burns
Jeffrey A. Burns
Jeffrey J. Comotto
E. Sidney Douglas III
Lisa Diane Eckold
Dennis Carl Eckold
James A. Endicott
Dean L. Franklin Jr.
Roger C. Geary
Matthew Randall Hale
Arthur C. Harris
Nancy E. Kenner
Rebecca K. Miltenberger
James Christian Morrow
Michael R. Radosevich
Mary L. Rhodes Russell
Nancy L. Shelledy
Mareta J. Smith
Randee S. Stemmons
Mark Steven Wasinger
Class of 1985
Dollars............................$7,247
Participation...................... 12%
Keith Alan Cary
William M. Corrigan Jr.
John A. Cowherd
William Charles Love Jr.
Joseph W. Miller
Glenn Allen Norton
Ted R. Osburn
Daniel J. Ryan
Robert J. Selsor
Ronald S. Smith
Andrew M. Solomon
Eric T. Tolen
Susan Marie Wylie
Class of 1986
Dollars.......................... $15,300
Participation........................ 8%
Melody Richardson Daily
Anita R. Estell
Ronald A. Norwood
Karren M. Prasif ka
Carl L. Rowley
Diane L. Rubenstein
Stephen J. Stark
David A. Stratmann
Sarah E. Terrace
John Thomas Walsh
Class of 1988
Dollars............................ $6,356
Participation...................... 12%
Brett D. Anders
John F. Appelquist
Mike W. Bartolacci
Bruce H. Bates
Mary M. Beck
Lisa Capshaw Cushing
Kurt F. James
Daniel F. Kellogg
Pamela S. Lucken
Laura Thielmeier Roy
Christy Temme
Schuermann
Gregory J. Scott
James R. Sharp
Shannon A. Shy
Michael W. Silvey
Ann E. Thompson
Lee J. Viorel III
Class of 1989
Participation....................... .7%
Irene C. Karns
Class of 1991
Dollars............................$2,771
Participation........................ 4%
Philip J. Boeckman
J. Bradley Funk
Jennifer K. Huckfeldt
Jayson B. Lenox
James A. Rodenberg
David R. Sallee
Class of 1992
Dollars............................$3,938
Participation........................ 9%
Scott E. Blair
Jennifer Clifton Ferguson
Brian C. Fries
Joy I. Hannel
Joel P. Kidwell
Kevin L. Linder
Nicholas A. Mirkay III
Nancy P. O’Brien
Elizabeth A. Phillips
Michael C. Phillips
Tamee V. Reese
Stuart K. Shaw
Deborah Potter Wilkins
Class of 1993
Dollars...........................$15,150
Participation........................ 8%
Michael W. Atchison
James M. Crabtree
David A. Dick
Brian S. Franciskato
Charles W. Hatfield
Art Hinshaw
Shana J. Long
James M. Niemann
Victoria L. Smith
Steven D. Soden
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Class of 1994
Class of 1997
Class of 2000
Class of 2003
Dollars............................$8,108
Participation........................ 5%
James Edward Berger
Kimberly Jo Bettisworth
Michael Anthony
Bickhaus
Michael K. Hamra
Daniel B. Johnson
Neil F. Maune Jr.
Michael Craig Nathanson
Dollars...........................$11,111
Participation........................ 9%
Reachel Ann Beichley
Morry S. Cole
Matthew S. Darrough
Daniel L. Dickinson
Kelly D. Dunsford
John Lawrence Ellis
Douglas Blair Harris
Dylan Lager Murray
Michelle Boehm O’Neal
Mark Aaron Reiter
Chad A. Troutwine
Jason Bradley Woods
Dollars............................$4,884
Participation...................... 10%
Ann Ahrens Beck
Jesse J. Camacho
Joseph Keith Essmyer
Courtney E. Goddard
Karen M. Jordan
Hoyoung Lee
Bryan David LeMoine
Fredrick J. Ludwig
Christina Young Mein
Donna L. Pavlick LLM
Mary Ellen Reimund
Michael Joseph Schmid
John Frank Serafine
Julie A. Shull
Jennifer L. Soper
Jeffrey Brent Williams
Brett Andrew Williams
Dollars............................ $3,193
Participation...................... 13%
Joseph Aaron Bealmear
Rebekah Elizabeth
Bromberg
Matthew Brandt
Champlin
Michael Kenneth Daming
Melissa Ann Faurot
Amanda Renee Gerhardt
Adam W. Graves
Jamie N. Hansen
D’Onica N. Hodgkin
Stephen John Jasper
Natalya Yakovlevna
Johnson
Bryan M. Kaemmerer
Jeffrey John Koch
Linda D. Lott
Mary Hoemann Newell
Rachel Lillian Pickering
Jason Caturia Rahoy
Mary Cathryn Rau
Kimberly Dianne Sandner
Jeffrey Robert Schmitt
Kimberly Jan Shields
Alison R. Simeone
Bryant Matthew Struble
John L. Wood
Class of 1995
Dollars............................$3,700
Participation........................ 6%
Michael Nelson Chandler
Matthew A. Clement
Michael L. DeCamp
Carol Jo Dick
Daniel W. Follett
Thomas Gary Glick
Timothy M. Huskey
Stephen Gerard Strauss
Timothy W. Van
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Raymond E. Williams
Class of 1996
Dollars............................ $5,110
Participation........................ 9%
Eric M. Anielak
Todd H. Bartels
Susan Wharton Bell
Marsha Blakemore Fischer
Kim K. Gibbens
Jill A. Morris
Scott Andrew Robbins
Erick John Roeder
Stephanie Elizabeth
Russell-Wilcox
Mark L.Stoneman
Christoper J. Swatosh
Erin A. Webber
Rikki Jones Wright
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Dollars........................... $9,078
Participation...................... 10%
Jennifer L. Atterbury
Tyrone J. Flowers
Joseph L. Hensley
Aaron D. Jones
Brian Timothy
McCartney
Roger D. Nail
Cindy L. Neagle
Cavanaugh K. Noce
Jack L. Oliver
Edward Scott Stevens
Matthew Duff Turner
Scott Andrew Wilson
Jennifer Lea Woods
Class of 2001
Dollars............................$2,130
Participation........................ 6%
Lynn S. Brackman
Jeremy P. Brummond
Jean M. Dickman
Daphne Rae Halderman
Douglas R. Lawlyes
Jennifer L. Peters
Natalie Holden Riley
Mark M. Stevenson
Emily L. Woodward
Class of 1999
Class of 2002
Dollars.............................. $795
Participation........................ 5%
Erik R. Edwards
Andrea Mazza Follett
Mondi Lee Ghasedi
Alan John Herzog
Jennifer J. Kingston
Douglas L. McHoney
Molly M. Nail
Tobias Alexander Teeter
Stacey A. Turley
Dollars............................$5,629
Participation...................... 10%
Adriana D. Adams
Jill L. Bates
Charles A. Bender
Matthew L. Dameron
Jennifer Kopp Dameron
Jamica D. Dowell
Brett A. Emison
Geoffrey W. Jolley
Nicholas A. Kriegel
Sally Schoeninger Kriegel
Matthew J. Landwehr
William F. Northrip
Cathi Kraetzer Ponciroli
Blake J. Pryor
Franklin D. Romines II
Shelley E. Syler
Richard Voytas
C o n t r i b u t o r s
Class of 2004
Class of 2006
Dollars............................$2,166
Participation.......................15%
Thomas Louis Azar
Mark George Boyko
Jennifer Ann Chierek
Dustin Garrison Dunklee
Joseph Chandler Gregg
Jason Carl Grill
Julie Ann Haverly
Greta Nicole Hininger
Mary L. Kottmeyer
Brett Suzanne Meeker
Martin Anthony Miller
Michael Lee Miller
Christopher Lee
Neudecker
Lise A. Nyrop
Robert Lee Ortbals Jr.
Keisha Inez Patrick
Karlla Shevon Philpot
Joshua Michael Raaz
Sarah Jane Rodeman
Bridget Birkby Romero
Kelly Erin Shamel
Jeffrey Smith
Nevada Michael Smith
Amber R. Sowers
JR Swanegan
Jennifer Lynn Thompson
Jennifer Ann Visintine
Ryan J. Wartick
Allen Todd Zugelter
Dollars............................ $1,033
Participation........................ 4%
Kimberly Dawn Barge
Jennifer Koboldt
Bukowsky
Brian Timothy Neal
Kory Douglas Stubblefield
Jesse E. Weisshaar
Class of 2005
Dollars............................ $1,187
Participation.......................11%
Nineveh Alkhas
Anthony Wayne Bonuchi
Lorraine Catherine Buck
John Frederick Crawford
Jeffrey Lee Hilbrenner
John Andrew Hirth
Laurie Ann Knight
Michael Stephen Kruse
Raymond Benjamin
Lampert
Caroline Amanda LaVallee
Jason Robert Mudd
Clare Noel Murphy
Christopher Richard
Pieper
Cassandra Anne Rogers
Marissa Lynn Todd
Jayne Tiana Woods
Class of 2006 Smashes Class Fund Record
During the May commencement ceremony, Dean Larry Dessem announced that the 2006 Class Fund had raised a recordbreaking $21,400 to support a variety of initiatives at the School
of Law. The Class of 2006 exceeded the previous record of
$15,071, held by the Class of 2001. This year’s class fund drive
was kicked off by an enthusiastic committee, who themselves
pledged $8,400 to start their fundraising efforts, led by John C.
Ayres and Jon W. Jordan.
In keeping with tradition, the members of the graduating
class’ Class Fund Steering Committee asked each of their classmates to make a gift or pledge to the School of Law. Classmates
could choose any area of support, with gift designations including scholarships, student groups, faculty research and dispute
resolution. Since 1989, third-year students have raised nearly
$145,000 during their last semester of law school.
The following 2006 graduates have made gifts or pledges to
the campaign. Names with asterisks indicate those who served
on the 2006 Class Fund Steering Committee.
Jennifer P. Alter
*Leslie F. Ashbrook
*John C. Ayres
Kimberly D. Barge
Kathleen M. Birkhofer
Eric E. Bohl
*Natalie L. Brinkley
Jennifer Koboldt Bukowsky
Bryan S. Chapman
Brandon L. Corl
Lindsay S. Counte
Tabitha G. Davisson
*Amanda E. Dysart
*Kristen L. Ellis
Alison L. Esbeck
James P. Faul
Crystal L. Hermann Fieber
Rex P. Fennessey
John R. Griffith
*Mary Jane Groff
Christopher M. Harper
*Jay D. Hastings
Sarah E. Baron Houy
*Jon W. Jordan
Michael J. Judy
*Jacki J. Langum
Brandon A. Lawson
*Fredrick A. Lutz
Joshua L. Mareschal
Benjamin F. Martin
Kevin A. Meyers
*Melissa G. Morgan
Kristin R. Morin
Jonathan B. Morrow
Kameron W. Murphy
Brian T. Neal
Natalie J. Nichols
Kathryn N. Nolen
Doreen Saltiel
Abigail J. Woodward Sapp
*Jason D. Sapp
Marty W. Seaton
*Timothy D. Steffens
Courtney C. Stirrat
Kory D. Stubblefield
*Scott T. Summers
Jason K. Turk
Colin D. Uhrick
*Richard A. Vickery
Tamara A. Wallace
*David R. Wallis
*Stephanie L. Wan
Jesse E. Weisshaar
Katherine A. Welch
*Bryan T. White
Sarah J. Williams
*Jennifer D. Wilson
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Leadership Gifts
$500,000 or more
George E. Ashley
$100,000 to $499,999
Estate of John L. Oliver Jr.
Edith D. Wright
$50,000 to $99,999
Isabelle McDonough Bram
Hulston Family Foundation
John Sublett Logan Foundation
Steven C. Parrish
$25,000 to $49,999
Altria Group Inc.
F. Joe DeLong III
Elvin S. Douglas Jr.
James D. Ellis
Robert L. Langdon
William S. Ohlemeyer
Estate of Mary L. Ramsey
Charles R. Wall
$1000 to $4999
$10,000 to $24,999
John W. Cowden
Webb R. Gilmore
Maurice B. Graham
Christine Heinsz
KWAME Foundation
Linda S. Legg
C. H. Parsons Jr.
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
Majorie Sackin
Hugh E. Stephenson Jr.
Kenneth H. Suelthaus
The BAR/BRI Group
Thompson Coburn
Van Matre & Harrison, PC
$5000 to $9999
Michael William Atchison
David M. Beckerman
Philip W. Bledsoe
Frank C. Brown
Estate of James E. Brown
Eugene G. Bushmann
Morry S. Cole
William M. Corrigan Jr.
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Anne Westlake Elsberry
Anita R. Estell
Glen A. Glass
Susan F. Heinsz
Daniel B. Johnson
Robert M. Lande
John D. Landwehr
Gary R. Long
C. Patrick McLarney
Robert E. Northrip
Jack L. Oliver III
Jean Paden
Thomas L. Patten
John K. Pruellage
Carl L. Rowley
Nancy L. Shelledy
Sonnenschein Scholars
Foundation
Richard A. Stockenberg
Brian C. Underwood
Donald L. Wolff
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Jane L. Adam
Robert T. Adams
Robert E. Almirall
John F. Appelquist
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
William F. Arnet
Elizabeth D. Badger
Mike W. Bartolacci
L. Clay Barton
Joyce Beasley
James M. Beck
Michael Anthony Bickhaus
Craig S. Biesterfeld
Blackwell Sanders Peper
Martin LLP
Karl W. Blanchard Sr.
Philip J. Boeckman
Janna D. Bounds
Paul M. Brown
Deanna Apperson Burns
Jeffrey A. Burns
Estate of James E. Campbell
Jack L. Campbell
John M. Carnahan III
C. K. Casteel Jr.
Matthew A. Clement
W. Thomas Coghill Jr.
Frank Conley
Rebecca McDowell Cook
L. G. Copeland
Thomas R. Corbett
Niles S. Corson
Robert E. Crist
Melody Richardson Daily
Charles E. Dapron
Peter N. Davis
Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
Cathy J. Dean
K. Preston Dean II
James R. Devine
Dale C. Doerhoff
E. Sidney Douglas III
Don M. Downing
Louis B. Eckelkamp Jr.
Rosalie I. Eickhoff
James W. Erwin
Jennifer Clifton Ferguson
William B. Fisch
David A. Fischer
Thomas F. Fisher
R. Wilson Freyermuth
Roger C. Geary
General Federation of Women’s
Clubs of Missouri, Inc.
Kim K. Gibbens
Susan E. Green
Sam F. Hamra
David K. Hardy
Douglas B. Harris
Elizabeth Healey
Art Hinshaw
Dana A. Hockensmith
Susan Pinion Holliday
Estate of John K. Hulston
John L. Hulston
Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
Donald W. Jones
Harvey L. Kaplan
Kenner & Kavanaugh, PC
Sara E. Kotthoff
John M. Lande
Nanette K. Laughrey
Gustav J. Lehr Jr.
John R. Lewis
Shana Jerene Long
Henry T. Lowe
Gregory C. Lucas
Paul M. Macon
Teresa H. Martin
Robert W. Maupin
Gary L. Mayes
W. Dudley McCarter
David L. McCoid
Larry L. McMullen
Walter D. McQuie Jr.
James F. Menefee
John J. Miller
Robert Barry Miner
James Christian Morrow
Dylan L. Murray
John R. Musgrave
Roger D. Nail
James M. Niemann
Jeremiah Nixon
William F. Northrip
Thomas J. O’Neal
Michael J. Patton
Don K. Pettus
John R. Phillips
William H. Pittman
John D. Rahoy
Randa Rawlins
James R. Reinhard
Mary L. Rhodes Russell
Bernard C. Rice
Paul Jackson Rice
Leonard L. Riskin
Estate of Dorothy Anne Roberts
Kevin C. Roberts
Leo J. Rozier
Wade D. Rubick
Robert G. Russell
Robert A. Ryan Jr.
Carl E. Schaeperkoetter
Larry M. Schumaker
Andrew B. See
Senniger, Powers, Leavitt &
Roedel
Katherine A. Sharp
Edward H. Sheppard III
Daniel W. Shinn
Shannon A. Shy
Alfred C. Sikes II
Laura Elizabeth Skaer
Mareta J. Smith
Stephen D. Smith
Victoria Lee Smith
Stewart W. Smith Jr.
Steven D. Soden
B. Jill Steps
Mark M. Stevenson
Stinson Morrison Hecker
E. Thomas Sullivan
Kevin R. Sweeney
Sarah E. Terrace
Benjamin C. Thomas
Bill L. Thompson
Timothy W. Van Ronzelen
Jerry W. Venters
Julius F. Wall
A. Keith Weber
John R. Weisenfels
James E. Westbrook
C o n t r i b u t o r s
J. David Wharton
Dale A. Whitman
Gregory D. Willard
Jeffrey Brent Williams
Richard K. Wilson
Montgomery L. Wilson
T. John Wise
Timothy R. Wolf
Richard D. Woods
Fred J. Young Jr.
$500 to $999
Jennifer L. Atterbury
Charles Ronald Baird
Dan H. Ball
Eric K. Banks
Robert R. Barton
Bruce H. Bates
Rudy D. Beck
Ben Ely Jr. Award Scholarship
Fund
Carl M. Bender II
James Edward Berger
Black Law Students Association
John T. Boese
Boone County National Bank
John G. Boyle
Jennifer Koboldt Bukowsky
Howard M. Bushman
Ronald M. Bushman
Michelle Arnopol Cecil
Michael Nelson Chandler
Don Chapman Jr.
J. David Collins
Liam S. Coonan
James Mitchell Crabtree
Stephen E. Cupples
Matthew S. Darrough
Ralph H. Duggins III
Pat Engels
Carl H. Esbeck
Jerry S. Estes
Suzanne Modlin Flanegin
Timothy Forneris
William W. Francis Jr.
Charles Walter German
Mark D. Grimm
Fred L. Hall Jr.
Stephen F. Hanlon
Michael W. Hanna
Janie Ausburn Harmon
Robert L. Hawkins Jr.
John C. Holstein
H. Martin Jayne
Maynard R. Johnson
Daniel F. Kellogg
Kristi Lynne Kenney
M. Jeanne Lewis
Thomas O. McCarthy
Walter B. McCormick Jr.
Missouri Chapter American
Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers
Ron E. Mitchell
MU Alumni Association
Cindy L. Neagle
Grant S. Nelson
Cavanaugh K. Noce
Ronald A. Norwood
Randall B. Palmer
Jeffrey O. Parshall
Lawrence H. Pelofsky
Walter Ray Phillips
Karren M. Prasif ka
R. David Ray
Tamee V. Reese
Charles H. Rehm Jr.
John B. Renick
Johnny K. Richardson
R. J. Robertson Jr.
James A. Rodenberg
Erick John Roeder
Franklin D. Romines II
Schuchat, Cook & Werner
Paul J. Seele
Robert J. Selsor
Julie A. Shull
Jack L. Simmons
Dennis W. Smith
Jane A. Smith
Robert C. Smith
Stephen H. Snead
Dorman L. Steelman
Randee S. Stemmons
Mary-Michael Sterchi
Thomas N. Sterchi
Edward Scott Stevens
David A. Stratmann
Gayle Grissum Stratmann
Bryant Matthew Struble
Janet M. Thompson
Michael J. Thompson
Eric T. Tolen
Alexander D. Tomaszczuk
J. Michael Vaughan
James J. Virtel
E. Richard Webber
Robert W. Wheeler
Daniel D. Whitworth
Paul L. Wickens
Herbert C. Willbrand
Joe F. Willerth
Gregory D. Williams
Michael A. Williams
Raymond E. Williams
Marvin E. Wright
Philip B. Wright
Scott O. Wright
$250 to $499
Adriana D. Adams
Kevin D. Adams
Jerome S. Antel III
Ted D. Ayres
Thomas Louis Azar
Robert G. Bailey
Robert P. Ballsrud
Roger M. Baron
Todd Henry Bartels
Ann Ahrens Beck
Susan Wharton Bell
Mark V. Berndtson
Roger K. Boothe
Lynn S. Brackman
Jeffrey A. Brimer
Jeffrey J. Brinker
Deanna Apperson Burns
Jeffrey J. Comotto
Ann K. Covington
Garrett R. Crouch II
Michael K. Cully
Thomas E. Cummings
Michael L. DeCamp
Robert F. Devoy
Albert W Dieffenbach Jr.
Rachel R. Eidelman
Brett A. Emison
Beverly L. Faber
Melissa Ann Faurot
Robert M. Fenlon
David D. Ferguson
Tyrone J. Flowers
Thomas J. Frawley
David H. Gibbons
Donald G. Gifford
Donald E. Gillihan
Jean E. Goldstein
Gray, Ritter & Graham, PC
William K. Haas
Matthew Randall Hale
Michael K. Hamra
Harris, Dowell, Fisher &
Harris, LC
Charles William Hatfield
Warren E. Hearnes
Heather S. Heidelbaugh
George A. Henry
Amy R. Hinderer
Harold W. Hinderer III
Roger T. Hurwitz
Thomas R. Jayne
Mark E. Johnson
Natalya Yakovlevna Johnson
Michael E. Kaemmerer
Mark A. Kennedy
William F. Koenigsdorf
Floyd E. Lawson Jr.
William H. Leedy
Stephen Nathaniel
Limbaugh Sr.
Stephen Nathaniel
Limbaugh Jr.
M. Day Miller
Robert John Miller
Jess L. Mueller
Richard N. Nixon
Thomas P. O’Donnell
Joyce M. Otten
Edward M. Pultz
Robert Pushaw
Jason Caturia Rahoy
G. Lane Roberts Jr.
Keith B. Romich
Sherrill L. Rosen
Rouse Hendricks German
May PC
Kimberly Dianne Sandner
Charles E. Smarr
Craig A. Smith
B. Kent Snapp
Richard G. Steele
Mark Lamar Stoneman
Stephen L. Taylor
Heidi Crist Templeton
Scott L. Templeton
W.H. Thomas Jr.
Tina Walls
John Warshawsky
Susan Marie Wylie
David F. Yates
Yellow Pages Association
David C. Zucker
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C o n t r i b u t o r s
Faculty and Staff
Friends
As part of the For All We Call
Mizzou campaign, faculty and
staff campuswide are asked to
contribute to the university
priorities of their choice.
School of Law faculty and
staff boast the highest giving
percentage rate of any school
or college at MU. Proudly, we
lead campus with a 76 percent
giving rate since the inception
of the campaign.
Robert G. Bailey
Casey D. Baker
Mary M. Beck
Michelle Arnopol Cecil
Melody Richardson Daily
Peter N. Davis
Kenneth D. Dean
Larry Dessem
James R. Devine
Randy J. Diamond
Stephen D. Easton
Carl H. Esbeck
William B. Fisch
David A. Fischer
Suzanne Modlin Flanegin
Andrea Mazza Follett
R. Wilson Freyermuth
Janie Ausburn Harmon
Edward H. Hunvald, Jr.
Needra L. Jackson
Kandice K. Johnson
Mary M. Kempf
Paul H. Ladehoff
Steven W. Lambson
John M. Lande
Henry T. Lowe
Cindy L. Neagle
Lesley S. Nilges
Donna L. Pavlick
Walter Ray Phillips
Cheryl R. Poelling
Monique R. Prince
Richard C. Reuben
Leonard L. Riskin
Gregory J. Scott
Cynthia Shearrer
Cara Strothmann
JR Swanegan
James E. Westbrook
Dale A. Whitman
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William B. Andrews
Mary Ann Austin
Stephen P. Bachmann
Doug Bader
Nanette Baker
Fred Barry
Cynthia A. Barton
Janis Bathgate
Joyce Beasley
Donna Bell
Carl M. Bender II
Gregory T. Berg
Joel H. Bernstein
Charles B. Blackmar
Neil Blackwell
Joyce A. Bodenhamer
John T. Boese
John J. Bonacorsi
Denise Boren
John G. Boyle
Isabelle McDonough Bram
Amy C. Brusven
Michael J. Carter
Gerald & Helen Cecil
Gregory Cecil
Jordan B. Cherrick
Patricia Cohen
Mildred Cohn
Melissa Conley
Liam S. Coonan
Catherine M. Coughlin
William H. Crandall Jr.
Kathianne Knaup Crane
Daniel W. Dalrymple
Bonnie Day
Josephine Dellacamera
Jack K. Dillard
Robert G. Dowd Jr.
Jerry Dubois Jr.
William B. Dunlop
Rosalie I. Eickhoff
Brenda Endres
Pat Engels
Beverly L. Faber
Carol Ann Fichtelman
Jeanne Fischer
Timothy Forneris
Dorothy A. Forsberg
Charles E. Foster
Gary M Gaertner
Margaret E. Garber
Tracey E. George
Virginia L. Ghyselinck
Donald G. Gifford
Katherine V. Glass
William D. Grant
Frank N. Gundlach
Christopher P. Guthrie
Amany Hacking
Elbert Haenssler
Jean C. Hamilton
Eleanor K. Hardy
Dale E. Hartung
Christine A. Hatfield
Christine Heinsz
Susan F. Heinsz
Mary K. Hoff
Vicki Hughes
John L. Hulston
John A. Hume
Paul B. Hunker Jr.
William A. Hyde
Mary M. Jenkins
Robert H. Jerry II
David C. Kanter
William A. Knox
Robert M. Lande
Paul G. Lane
Jon Dee Lawrence
Gary L. Leftridge
Linda S. Legg
Mary F. Legg
Jeffrey E. Lewis
M. Jeanne Lewis
Stephen Nathaniel
Limbaugh Jr.
Jon R. Loehman
Victoria A. Lopata
Jack C. Lorenz
Susan K. Loyet
Michele Macauda
Alyse F. Martinelli
Pamela Mattson
Carol McCaslin
Vincent J. McDonough
Eric Meyer
Robert John Miller
Rollin J. Moerschel
Cary J. Mogerman
Lawrence E. Mooney
McPherson D. Moore
Thomas J. Mueller
William P. Murphy
Beverly R. Murrell
Grant S. Nelson
James B. Nutter
Debra D. O’Brien
Steven R. Ohmer
Candice Orr
Stephen J. Owens
Jean Paden
Bruce A. Pagel
Thomas A. Pall
James & Mitzi Parke
Dennis M. Payne
T. Michael Payne
William H. Pittman
Antonia Ponder
Susan M. Prince
Robert Pushaw
Misty Ramirez
Charles H. Rehm Jr.
Alfred G. Richter Jr.
Estate of Dorothy Anne Roberts
James M. Robinson IV
Keith B. Romich
Lawrence A. Rouse
Gretchen E. Rowan
Robert A. Ryan Jr.
Marjorie Sackin
W. P. Salisbury
Richard J. Schnidman
Deirdre Louise Scott
Deborah L. Sellers
Katherine A. Sharp
Booker T. Shaw
Paul J. Simon
Hugh E. Stephenson Jr.
Julie A. Stevens
Joseph G. Stewart
Lisa M. Stroup
E. Thomas Sullivan
Sherri B. Sullivan
Valerie B. Sullivan
Richard B. Teitelman
Heidi Crist Templeton
Walter O. Theiss
Dorothy B. Trotter
Lena Van Hoornbeek
Karen VanDorn
James J. Virtel
Tina Walls
Edward E. Whitacre Jr.
Ray Wilkins
Gregory D. Willard
Philip B. Wright
Michelina Yarnevich
Mark C. Young
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Organizations
Matching Organizations
Altria Group, Inc.
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Ben Ely Jr. Award Scholarship Fund
Black Law Students Association
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP
Boone County National Bank
Carmody MacDonald PC
Chaney & McCurry LLP
Cochran, Head & Co., PA
Frost National Bank
Gamble & Schlemeier, LTD
General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Missouri, Inc.
Gray, Ritter & Graham, PC
Harris, Dowell, Fisher & Harris, LC
Hulston Family Foundation
International Association of Fire Fighters Local 42
John Sublett Logan Foundation
Judicial Conference of Missouri
Kansas University Endowment Association
Kenner & Kavanaugh, PC
KWAME Foundation
Legal Communications Corp.
Manual High School Alumni Association
Missouri Chapter American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Missouri Court of Appeals - Western District
MU Alumni Association
Panethiere & Helfand, LLC
Rouse Hendricks German May PC
SBC DO Legal, EA Group
SBC DO Legal & Comm. Group
Schuchat, Cook & Werner
Senniger, Powers, Leavitt & Roedel
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
Sonnenschein Scholars Foundation
Stinson Morrison Hecker
The BAR/BRI Group
Thompson Coburn
Timothy E. Hayes & Associates, LC
Total Landscape
Universal Electric, Inc.
Van Matre & Harrison, PC
Wolff and D’Agrosa, LLC
Working Families Friend
Yellow Pages Association
Altria Group, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Foundation
Deloitte & Touche
Freddie Mac Foundation
IBM Corp.
May Stores Foundation/Famous Barr
Monsanto Fund
SBC Foundation
Shelter Insurance Companies Foundation
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Sprint Foundation
Whirlpool Foundation
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Not e s
lication as being among the top 50 attorneys
in St. Louis. Graham practices with Gray,
Ritter & Graham in St. Louis.
Donald L. Wolff, ’62, was named in the
criminal defense section of the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Wolff and D’Agrosa in St. Louis.
William L. Davis, ’65, was named in
the personal injury litigation section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Moser and Marsalek in St. Louis.
Three graduates represent MU Law on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri: Scott O.Wright, ’50;
Richard E. Dorr, ’68; and Nanette K. Laughrey, ’75.
40s
Warren D. Welliver, ’48, celebrated his
86th birthday on Feb. 24. He is a retired
judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
50s
Sam F. Hamra, ’59, “knows a thing or
two about running a franchise,” according to the March 13-17 issue of the Springfield Business Journal. The journal named
Hamra’s Boston Bread LLC, a division of
Hamra Enterprises, one of the 12 fastestgrowing companies in Southwest Missouri
on its Dynamic Dozen 2006 listing. Hamra
Enterprises subsidiaries hold two additional
franchise rights: Wendy’s of Missouri and
Panera Bread in Chicago.
In addition, Hamra, his wife, June, and
Wendy’s of Missouri were recognized with
a ceremony and by the journal for sponsoring and hosting the television program “For
Your Life,” which is shown in the Missouri
cities of Springfield, Joplin, Columbia, Jefferson City and Kansas City. On the show,
June Hamra interviews foster children and
parents. Since the program’s inception, the
adoption of children has increased and 19
of the 28 children featured in the adoption
series have been adopted.
60s
John Fox Arnold, ’61, was named in the
corporate law section of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He was also selected for
inclusion in the 11th and 12th editions of
The Best Lawyers in America and was recognized by the St. Louis Bar Foundation
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his significant
contributions
to the St. Louis
community and
the legal profession. Arnold
was selected by
the Center for
John Fox Arnold, ’61
International
Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria, in cooperation with law faculties in Eastern Europe
and the former states of the Soviet Union,
for a short-term appointment as a visiting
professor to acquaint students and junior
faculty of the host institution to particular
areas of common law legal systems. He also
accepted a position offered by the faculty of
law of the School of Business Administration Turiba in Riga, Latvia, to conduct a
three-week seminar on business law during the fall term of 2006. He practices with
Lashly & Baer in St. Louis.
Maurice B.
Graham, ’62,
was named in
the commercial
litigation, medical malpractice
and personal
injury litigation
sections of the
“Best Lawyers
2006” listing in
St. Louis MagaMaurice B. Graham, ’62
zine’s February
2006 issue. He was also named a 2006 Super
Lawyer by Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers
magazine and was named by the same pub-
David B. Lacks, ’65, was named in the
family law section of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with David B.
Lacks PC in Clayton, Mo.
John K. Pruellage, ’65, was named in the
corporate law section of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with Lewis,
Rice & Fingersh in St. Louis.
Barry A. Short, ’65, was named in the
commercial litigation section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Lewis, Rice & Fingersh in St. Louis.
J. William Newbold, ’67, was named
in the commercial litigation section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
Clifford S. Brown, ’68, and John M.
Carnahan III, ’74, through the bequest of
two clients, have assisted The Menninger
Clinic of Houston, a leader in psychiatric
and behavioral health, to establish a fully
funded professorship, the Andrew and Dorothy Bain Professorship for Research, Care
and Treatment of Schizophrenia, with the
class year commencing in the fall of 2006.
Carnahan and Brown are shareholders of
Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown in
Springfield.
Joe T. Buerkle, ’68, joined Limbaugh, Russell, Payne & Howard in Cape
Girardeau, Mo. Previously he practiced
with The Buerkle Law Firm in Jackson,
Mo.
James V. Glascock, ’68, was elected as a
director to The Bank of Missouri.
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John R. Musgrave, ’68, was named in the
commercial litigation and personal injury
litigation sections of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with Thompson
Coburn in St. Louis.
Charles G. Young III, ’68, has practiced law in Philadelphia since 1975. He is
a member of the American College of Trial
Lawyers, and for several years his name
has appeared in Best Lawyers of America. He
was also named a 2005 Pennsylvania Super
Lawyer.
Paul E. Kovacs, ’69, was named in the
legal malpractice law and personal injury
litigation sections of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with Armstrong
Teasdale in St. Louis.
Gerald M. Sill, ’69, was inducted into
the 2006 class of American Health Lawyers
Association (AHLA) Fellows. He is a former
AHLA board member and serves as senior
vice president and general counsel for the
Missouri Hospital Association in Jefferson
City, Mo.
Kenneth H. Suelthaus, ’69, was named
in the corporate law and financial institutions law sections of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with Polsinelli
Shalton Welte Suelthaus in St. Louis.
David F. Yates, ’69, was named in the
labor and employment law section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus in
St. Louis.
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Irwin E. Blond, ’70, practices in the
real estate department of Polsinelli Shalton
Welte Suelthaus in St. Louis.
Thomas E. Cummings, ’70, was named
in the alternative dispute resolution section of the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in
St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue.
He practices with Armstrong Teasdale in
St. Louis.
Thomas R. Corbett, ’71, was named in
the trusts and estates section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
Dale C. Doerhoff, ’71, and his daughter, Erica Doerhoff, turned articles translated from German to English into a history
book about life in the German-American
community of St. Elizabeth, Mo., between
1880 and 1920. Erica, who is working on
her doctorate in German studies at Cornell
University, translated articles from Missouri
Volksfreund, a German-language newspaper
published in Jefferson City, Mo., in the late
1800s and early 1900s. The book, A Trip to
Charleytown, was a result of Dale Doerhoff ’s
interest in the pioneer families of his hometown of St. Elizabeth.
Thomas O. McCarthy, ’72, was named
in the labor and employment law section of
the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He was
also named to the list of Top One Hundred
Labor Attorneys in the United States for
2006, compiled by Labor Relations Institute, Inc. The “top 100” honor was determined by the number of National Labor
Relations Board elections in which each
attorney provided representation and the
success of those election outcomes. He practices with McMahon, Berger, Hanna, Linihan, Cody & McCarthy in St. Louis.
Lloyd A. Palans, ’72, was named in the
bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights law
section of the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing
in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue.
He practices with Bryan Cave in St. Louis.
Robert S. Rosenthal, ’72, was named
in the legal malpractice law section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Brown & James in St. Louis.
John S. Sandberg, ’72, was named in the
commercial litigation section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard in
St. Louis.
Richard B. Scherrer, ’72, was named
in the commercial litigation section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis.
Ellen S. Roper, ’73, is the 2006 recipient of the Athena Award from the Women’s Network, a division of the Columbia
Chamber of Commerce. The award is presented to an individual who has excelled
in his or her profession, contributed to
the community in a meaningful way and
actively assisted women in achieving their
full potential. She was also one of 20 individuals honored as an “Outstanding Missourian” by the Missouri House of Representatives. The award is given by the
House to state residents who “truly embody
the concept of Outstanding Missourian”
through their deeds and achievements. She
is a circuit judge for the Thirteenth Judicial
Circuit.
John M. Carnahan III, ’74, and Clifford S. Brown, ’68, through the bequest
of two clients, have assisted The Menninger
Clinic of Houston, a leader in psychiatric
and behavioral health, to establish a fully
funded professorship, the Andrew and Dorothy Bain Professorship for Research, Care
and Treatment of Schizophrenia, with the
class year commencing in the fall of 2006.
Carnahan and Brown are shareholders of
Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown in
Springfield.
Frank M. Evans, ’74, joined the executive committee of Lathrop & Gage. He is
in charge of the firm’s office in Springfield,
Mo., where he has been in civil trial practice since 1974.
Byron E. Francis, ’74, was named in the
construction law section of the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis.
Daryl F. Sohn, ’74, was named in the
maritime law section of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with Goldstein
and Price in St. Louis.
Michael E. Godar, ’75, was named in
the intellectual property law section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Senninger, Powers, Leavitt & Roedel
in St. Louis.
John W. Maupin, ’75, practices with Eckenrode-Maupin Attorneys at Law in Clayton, Mo.
W. Dudley McCarter, ’75, was named
in the commercial litigation section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. On Aug. 9,
he was sworn in as a director of the Parkway
(Mo.) School District Board of Education.
McCarter practices with Behr, McCarter &
Potter in St. Louis.
David N. Appleby, ’76, received the 2005
Missourian Award, given to native Missourians who have made outstanding contributions to the state and nation in business, civics or the arts. He practices with David N.
Appleby PC in Ozark, Mo.
Bruce H. Beckett, ’76, was elected vice
president of the Boone County (Mo.) Bar
Association for 2006.
Peter B. Hoffman, ’76, practices in the
area of products liability with Baker Sterchi
Cowden & Rice in St. Louis.
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Michael E. Kaemmerer, ’76, was named
in the labor and employment law section of
the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with McCarthy, Leonard, Kaemmerer,
Owen, McGovern & Striler in Chesterfield,
Mo.
Charles E. “Sketch” Rendlen III, ’76,
was appointed as a U.S. bankruptcy judge
for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Ann K. Covington, ’77, was named in
the commercial litigation section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. On April
8, a residence hall floor on the MU campus
was named in her honor. In July, Covington
retired from Bryan Cave in St. Louis.
James R. Dankenbring, ’77, was elected
to the Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis
board of directors, serving a three-year
term. He is the managing partner of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne’s St. Louis office.
Truman E. Allen, ’78, was elected as a
member of the board of directors of Kids’
Chance of Missouri, a not-for-profit program that provides educational scholarships
to children of Missouri workers who have
been killed or seriously injured on the job.
Dan H. Ball, ’78, was named in the personal injury litigation section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Bryan Cave in St. Louis.
Craig S. Biesterfeld, ’78, was named
in the real estate law section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin in St.
Louis.
Monte P. Clithero, ’78, became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) at the organization’s 2006
Spring Meeting of the College. Fellowship
in ACTL is extended by invitation only,
after careful investigation. Fellows are experienced trial lawyers who have mastered
the art of advocacy, and their professional
careers have been marked by the highest
standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality. Lawyers must
have a minimum of 15 years of trial experience before they can be considered. Membership in ACTL cannot exceed one percent
of the total lawyer population in any state or
province. Clithero is a partner in the firm
of Taylor, Stafford, Clithero, FitzGerald &
Harris in Springfield, Mo.
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John D. Beger, ’79, was named an Honorary Knight of St. Patrick during the annual
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He serves as the
counselor for the City of Rolla and practices
in the Rolla firm of Beger & Bushie. He
serves on the board of trustees for the Phelps
County (Mo.) Medical Center.
David M. Brown, ’79, was appointed as
Knox County, Mo., prosecuting attorney
by Gov. Matt Blunt. Brown is a partner at
Alberty, Deveny & Brown in Edina, Mo.
Previously he served as chief counsel – agricultural investments for the Mony Group,
Inc.
Stephen E. Cupples, ’79, was named in
the trusts and estates section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
Charles F. Miller, ’79, was named in the
“Leaders in Missouri” listing for the practice of real estate law by Chambers and
Partners, UK, publishers of Chambers USA:
America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2006.
He practices with Lewis, Rice & Fingersh
in Kansas City, Mo.
George E. Murray III, ’79, was named in
the real estate law section of the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Bryan Cave in St. Louis.
Gerard T. Noce, ’79, was named in the
personal injury litigation section of the
“Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis
Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices
with Burroughs, Hepler, Broom, MacDonald, Hebrank and True in St. Louis.
Wilbur L. Tomlinson, ’79, was named
in the trusts and estates section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis.
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Christine Carpenter, ’80, received the
2006 Metro Rotary Public Service Award
from Columbia Metro Rotary. The award
recognizes someone in the community’s
public sector who adheres to the highest
ethical standards in his or her work, including the fair treatment of employers, employees, associates, competitors and the public;
and who contributes his or her talents to
the problems and needs of society. Carpenter is an associate circuit judge for Boone
County, Mo., and supervises the Boone
County Court’s drug court and mental
health programs.
Daniel J. Godar, ’80, was named in the
energy law section of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with Armstrong
Teasdale in St. Louis.
David M. Remley, ’80, received the Silver Beaver Award, which is the highest
award given to adult volunteers by the Boy
Scouts of America (BSA). He has been an
active volunteer since the early 1990s and
is currently the district chairman for three
counties in Southeast Missouri. Remley’s
son, Michael, is an Eagle Scout, and his
daughter, Elizabeth, participated in the BSA
co-ed group, Venturing.
Patti Ross Salinas, ’80, received a doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University on Dec. 17, 2005. Her
dissertation examined the influence of race,
sex and geographic location on Texas crime
victims’ compensation payments. She is an
assistant professor at the University of Texas
at Brownsville and was invited to attend the
Oxford Roundtable on Law and Justice in
Oxford, England, in March 2006.
Paul N. Venker, ’80, was named in the
labor and employment law and personal
injury litigation sections of the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with Williams Venker & Sanders in St. Louis.
Suzanne
Modlin
Flanegin, ’81,
was named
senior director
of development
for MU’s College of Arts and
Science, which
has more than
46,000 living
Suzanne Modlin Flanegin, ’81
alumni and 30
departments and
programs. Previously she served as director
of development for the School of Law.
David E. Wilson, ’81, is an elected director of the St. Louis Chapter of Association
of Corporate Counsel America. He is associate general counsel for Drury Development Corporation.
Joyce M. Capshaw, ’82, was profiled in
an article in the February 2006 issue of
St. Louis Magazine. In “Live Wire,” she is
referred to as “one of the most sought-after
divorce attorneys in St. Louis.” She practices with Carmody McDonald in Clayton,
Mo.
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Don M.
Downing, ’82,
was named in
the commercial litigation
section of the
“Best Lawyers
2006” listing in
St. Louis Magazine’s February
2006 issue. He
Don M. Downing, ’82
was also named
a 2006 Super
Lawyer by Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers
magazine. Downing practices with Gray,
Ritter & Graham in St. Louis.
Paul M. Macon, ’82, was named in the
real estate law section of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. He practices with Thompson
Coburn in St. Louis.
Tracy L. Mathis, ’82, was named in the
health care law section of the “Best Lawyers
2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue. She practices with Lewis,
Rice & Fingersh in St. Louis.
David G. Ott, ’82, was named in the personal injury litigation section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis.
David W. Ransin, ’82, received the Distinguished Service Award from The Missouri Bar Solo and Small Firm Committee
in honor of his leadership and service to
The Missouri Bar. He has helped plan the
bar’s Solo and Small Firm Conference for
many years and has been an integral part of
its success. Ransin is a sole practitioner in
Springfield, Mo., focusing his practice in
the areas of catastrophic personal injury and
wrongful death litigation.
Janet M. Thompson, ’84, LLM ’02, has
been named the 2006 Defender of Distinction in recognition of her extraordinary
service to her clients and colleagues in the
Missouri State Public Defender System. She
is a capital appellate attorney in Columbia.
William M.
Corrigan Jr.,
’85, was named
in the personal
injury litigation
section of the
“Best Lawyers
2006” listing in
St. Louis Magazine’s February 2006 issue.
He was also
William M. Corrigan Jr., ’85
elected by The
Missouri Bar to serve a two-year term as a
delegate to the American Bar Association’s
House of Delegates, a policymaking body
of the ABA. In August, he was elected to a
three-year term on the executive council of
the National Conference of Bar Presidents,
an organization dedicated to serving state
and local bar leaders nationwide. Corrigan
is practice group leader of the Covenants
Not-To-Compete/Unfair Competition
Practice Group at Armstrong Teasdale in
St. Louis and is a past president of The Missouri Bar.
Jeffrey K. Fischer, ’85, his wife, Debi,
and their three teenagers returned to Houston, their adopted home, after spending two
years with the Orange County, Calif., office
of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is still with
the company and continues to focus on state
and local tax consulting with an emphasis
on sales and use taxes.
Heather S. Heidelbaugh, ’84, was
elected by the Republican National Lawyers
Association’s board of governors to join the
board as national vice president for membership. She is a shareholder in the Litigation Services Group of Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir in Pittsburgh.
Lynn Dillard Malley, ’84, LLM ’03, presented her paper “Enhancing Worldwide
Understanding Through Online Dispute
Resolution: The Role of Competitions in
Helping Students and Teachers Bond Across
Cultures” at the Enhancing Worldwide
Understanding Through Online Dispute
Resolution symposium at the University of
Toledo College of Law.
Robert J. Brundage, ’86
Robert J.
Brundage,
’86, became
a shareholder
with Newman, Comley &
Ruth, PC,
in Jefferson
City, Mo.,
effective Jan. 1.
He concentrates
his practice in
the area of
environmental law.
David H. Chervitz, ’86, is a principal at
Riezman Berger in St. Louis. He practices
in the firm’s Patent, Trademark, and Intellectual Property Section.
J. Gregory Mermelstein, ’86, is the
Appellate/PCR Division director for the
Missouri State Public Defender System.
Sara J. Miller, ’86, was reappointed as a
member of the Commission on Alternative
Dispute Resolution Services in Domestic
Relations Cases for a term of office ending
on June 30, 2008.
G. John Richards, ’86, is in his 16th
year as Lincoln County, Mo., prosecuting
attorney.
Mark D. Grimm, ’87, was named in the
public finance law section of the “Best Lawyers 2006” listing in St. Louis Magazine’s
February 2006 issue. He practices with
Gilmore & Bell in St. Louis.
Lawrence D. Mishkin, ’87, formed Silver & Mishkin, LLC, a full service firm, in
Northbrook, Ill.
Wesley C. Dalton, ’88, serves as associate
circuit judge for Warren County, Mo. He
also serves as Warren County drug court
judge and was appointed by the Supreme
Court of Missouri to the Centralized Fine
Collection Bureau Committee on March 1.
Shannon A. Shy, ’88, is associate counsel
for the Commandant of the Marine Corps
(Land Use & Environment). He is a civilian employee at the Pentagon and is also
a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps
Reserve. In his volunteer capacity, he is the
assistant regional director for the seven-state
American Youth Football Atlantic Region
and was the director of football operations for the Northern Virginia Youth Athletic Association (NVYAA) in 2005. The
NVYAA had two national champions and
one third place showing at the AYF national
championships in Tucson, Ariz., in December 2005.
Kevin P. Mullally, ’89, is the general
counsel and director of government relations for Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) in Las Vegas. GLI has more
than 360 contracts worldwide to perform
machine testing and certification on more
than 300,000 electronic gaming devices
and employs more than 300 professionals
in seven offices around the world. Mullally
was previously the executive director of the
Missouri Gaming Commission.
Marvin O. Teer, ’89, was appointed to
the Lincoln University Board of Curators
by Gov. Matt Blunt. He holds a bachelor’s
degree in biology from the university,
which is located in Jefferson City, Mo., and
he is a municipal judge in St. Louis.
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Patrick J. Kenny, ’90, received the 10th
Anniversary Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge Award from the Pro Bono Institute
for his efforts in managing Armstrong Teasdale’s pro bono legal work in the St. Louis
community.
Keith F. Fuller, ’91, of Swansea, Ill., is
director of legal affairs for Centric Group in
St. Louis. Centric Group’s annual sales total
$600 million, and its holdings include Keefe
Supply Company, Betallic and TRG Group.
Tracy E. McGinnis, ’92, is general counsel for the Missouri Department of Conservation in Jefferson City, Mo.
Tamee V. Reese, ’92, is an elected director of the St. Louis Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America.
She is senior counsel for AT&T Directory
Operations.
Vicky K. Ruth, ’92, is an administrative
law judge with the Missouri Department of
Labor and Industrial Relations, Division of
Workers’ Compensation.
Lorne J.
Baker, ’93,
joined the
workers’ compensation practice group of
Evans & Dixon
in St. Louis as a
senior associate.
Prior to joining
Evans & Dixon,
Lorne J. Baker, ’93
he was assistant
vice president
and general counsel for MERS/Missouri
Goodwill Industries.
David A. Cole, ’93, was appointed to the
Coordinating Board for Higher Education
by Gov. Matt Blunt. He practices with Ellis,
Cupps and Cole in Cassville, Mo.
Brian S. Franciskato, ’93, announces the
opening of Nash & Franciskato, LLC, on
April 1. The firm’s address is Two Pershing
Square, Suite 170, 2300 Main Street, Kansas
City, MO 64108.
Eterprises, was named one of the 12 fastestgrowing companies in Southwest Missouri
on the Dynamic Dozen 2006 listing. In
addition to serving as Boston Bread’s president and chief operating officer, he serves
as president and chief operating officer of
Chicago Bread, which oversees 26 cafes and
1,050 employees, and vice president and
general counsel of Hamra Enterprises.
Kelly A. (Gajdos) Stevens, ’94, formed
the Raleigh, N.C., firm of Hemmings &
Stevens with Aaron Hemmings in September 2005.
Harriet F. Francis, ’95, has joined the
firm now named Abbott, Schappe & Francis
in Columbia. Her practice concentrates on
the areas of estate planning, business and
corporate law, land use planning, and agricultural, environmental and equine law.
Gail A. Goeke, ’95, is of counsel to The
McCrummen Immigration Law Group
LLC in Kansas City, Mo. The firm practices
exclusively in federal immigration and naturalization law.
Mark D. Berry, ’96, is a tax attorney with
Koch Industries, Inc. in Wichita. His primary responsibilities are tax planning for
acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings for Koch and its subsidiaries. Koch is
the largest privately-owned company in the
world.
Crystal Seifert Cronk, ’96, is a magistrate
in Van Buren County, Iowa.
Kim K. Gibbens, ’96, joined Blackwell
Sanders Peper Martin in Kansas City, Mo.
as of counsel. She practices health care law.
Gibbens previously practiced with Shook,
Hardy & Bacon.
Terry M. Jarrett, ’96, began his six-year
term on the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission, a neutral, independent,
administrative tribunal that decides disputes
involving state agencies and another party,
usually a private person or corporation. He
was appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt. Jarrett
had served as Blunt’s general counsel since
January 2005 and held the same position
while Blunt was secretary of state from 2001
to 2005.
Timm W.
Schowalter, ’96, was
named partner of Lashly
& Baer in St.
Louis. He has
been with the
firm since 2004
and represents
employers on
Juliet A. Cox, ’94, is a member of the
Kansas City, Mo., office of Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal. She practices in the Real
Estate Group.
Michael K. Hamra, ’94, is the top executive of Boston Bread LLC, managing 14
cafes and 600 employees. In the March 1317 issue of the Spring field Business Journal,
Boston Bread LLC, a division of Hamra
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traditional labor matters before the National
Labor Relations Board, handles all facets of
employment law litigation and has extensive
experience in business litigation. He also
consults employers in developing and implementing labor relations/human resources
management processes to ensure compliance
with federal and state employment laws.
Erin A. Webber, ’96, leads the Kansas
City, Mo., office of Littler Mendelson. She
represents companies in various employment matters, with an emphasis on employment discrimination on the basis of sex, age,
race and disability; retaliation; and workplace harassment. She also assists employers with employee and managerial training,
on-site investigations and other preventive
measures.
Morry S.
Cole, ’97, was
named in the
personal injury
litigation section of the “Best
Lawyers 2006”
listing in St.
Louis Magazine’s
February 2006
issue. Cole pracMorry S. Cole, ’97
tices with Gray,
Ritter & Graham in St. Louis.
Merilee A. Crockett, ’97, received the
Judith McDonald-Compere Award from
the Missouri Victim Assistance Network for
her work in victim services. Selected from
nominees around the state, she was honored
for her ability to obtain convictions without
cooperating victims.
Michael W.
Fletcher, ’97,
was elected
partner of
Tonkon Torp in
Portland, Ore.
He representes
private companies and lenders in a variety
of business law
Michael W. Fletcher, ’97
areas, including mergers and
acquisitions and loan transactions. Prior to
joining Tonkon Torp, Fletcher served as
vice president of Affordable Equity Partners
Inc., a Midwest company that specializes
in syndicating tax credits. He is a certified
public accountant.
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Valerie A. (Batchelder) Stange, ’97, and
her husband, Chris, announce the birth of
their daughter, Bree Ann Stange, on May 8.
Bree joins her brother, Reagan, and her sister, Wren.
Michael W. Blum, ’98, has relocated his
office to 301 N. 9th St., Columbia, MO
65201. The telephone number is 573- 4428552. Blum focuses his practice on plaintiff ’s
workers’ compensation claims.
Amy R. Blunt, ’98, joined the government relations department of Lathrop &
Gage. She will divide her time between the
firm’s Kansas City, Mo., and Washington,
D.C., offices. Previously, Blunt practiced at
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin and was an
in-house lawyer for Ferrellgas Partners and
Aquila Inc.
Chad R. Caraker, ’98, has moved the
Caraker Law Firm to 1310 Old 63 South,
Suite 5, Columbia, MO 65201. Phone and
fax numbers are 573-875-2212 and 573-8752213, respectively.
Chad M. deRoode, ’98, is an associate
with Brown & James in St. Louis.
Eric M. Walter, ’98, married Andrea
Nold Walter in St. Louis on Nov. 4, 2005.
Michael D. Babb, ’99, sold his business
in Auburn, Ala., and became general counsel for a real estate and resort development
company in Cullman, Ala. On July 21, he
and his wife, Kristi, welcomed their son,
Jackson Douglas Babb. Jackson joins sister
Sydney Elizabeth, 3.
Russell A. “Dutch” Boyd, ’99, won the
World Series of Poker No Limit Hold ’Em
Short Handed Tournament in Las Vegas in
July.
Stephen S.
Davis, ’99, is
an assistant U.S.
attorney for the
Eastern District of Missouri
in St. Louis.
Previously, he
worked for the
Missouri House
of Representatives for seven
Stephen S. Davis, ’99
years, serving
for four years as the chief clerk and administrator of the House. He and his wife, Cara,
have three children: Joshua, 6; Caleb, 3; and
Aaron, 6 months.
Benjamin F. Evans, ’99, is an associate in
the Real Estate Law Practice Group of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman in St. Louis. He
concentrates his practice on complex real
estate transactions, including acquisitions,
dispositions and
exchanges of
domestic and
international
commercial
property, and
the development, leasing
Benjamin F. Evans, ’99
and financing
of office, retail,
industrial and mixed-use projects.
Michele R. Kennett, ’99, serves on the
advisory board for Columbia’s Speaking of
Women’s Health 2006.
Amy Light Mills, ’99, and her husband,
Mike, announce the birth of their daughter, Margot Eve, on Feb. 28. Margot joins
brothers Montgomery and Monroe at their
home in Hartsburg, Mo. Mills has a business consulting law firm specializing in
technology and agriculture businesses.
David P. Myers, ’99, and his wife, Nancy,
announce the birth of their son, Aidan Patrick, on July 8. Myers practices labor and
employment law with Levy, Stern and Ford
in Los Angeles.
Scott E. Nutter, ’99, was named partner
at Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman in Kansas
City, Mo.
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Ashley R. Beumer, ’00, is currently serving as legal co-director at Voices for Children in St. Louis with Kathryn L. Pierce,
’01. Voices for Children is a non profit
organization that provides legal representation to children in foster care in the City of
St. Louis. A staff of 12 attorneys serves more
than 1,000 children annually.
Fredrick J. Ludwig, ’00, is an associate
in the litigation department of Blackwell
Sanders Peper Martin in St. Louis. He concentrates his practice in the areas of construction and design.
David A. Townsend, ’00, is president and
CEO of Farmers National Title Company
in Columbia. Farmers National Title is a
regional title insurance underwriter with
agents throughout Missouri.
Matthew B. Uhrig, ’00, and Sarah E.
Giboney, ’00, announce the birth of their
daughter, Josephine Scout Uhrig, on July
3. At the time of her birth, she weighed
7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 ½ inches
long. She joins Cleo, 4, and Charlie, 23
months. Uhrig practices with the Lake Law
Firm in Jefferson City, Mo., and Giboney
practices with Smith Lewis in Columbia.
Carolyn M. Allen, ’01, is coordinator for
tuition settlement scholarships for the University of Missouri System in Columbia.
Tanya
White Cromwell, ’01, and
Thurston K.
Cromwell,
’01, of Fairway,
Kan., announce
the birth of
their daughter,
Caroline Louise, on Feb. 23.
Caroline Louise, daughter of
At the time of
Tanya White Cromwell, ’01,
her birth, Caroand Thurston K. Cromwell, ’01
line weighed 6
pounds, 12 ounces and was 18 inches long.
She joins two-year-old brother Isaac. Thurston practices with King Hershey in Kansas
City, Mo., and Tanya sells residential real
estate and is a freelance writer.
Stephanie D. (Daniels) Coleman, ’01,
and her husband, Ralph, announce the birth
of their daughter, Mikayla Joy, on April 10.
Coleman practices with Shuping, Morse &
Ross in Riverdale, Ga.
Jane C. Drummond, ’01, was appointed
by Gov. Matt Blunt to serve as his general
counsel. She was previously general counsel
for the Missouri Department of Health and
Senior Services.
Steven M. Goins, ’01, received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Harris-Stowe
State University in St. Louis. He practices
with King & Goins in Houston.
Kathryn L. Pierce, ’01, is currently serving as legal co-director at Voices for Children in St. Louis with Ashley R. Beumer,
’00. Voices for Children is a non profit
organization that provides legal representation to children in foster care in the City of
St. Louis. A staff of 12 attorneys serves more
than 1,000 children annually.
Todd C. Werts, ’01, is a member of the
new Missouri Bar Lawyer Referral Service
Committee, which advises the board of
governors on referral service policies.
Kerry M. Hirth, ’02, left Mid-Missouri
Legal Services Corp. to join the legal staff
at the Missouri Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations in Jefferson City, Mo.
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Margaret E.
McGuinness
participated in
a conference
— Gender,
War and Peace:
Women’s Status
in the Wake of
Conflict — at
the Michigan
State University College of Law in February. The conference brought together
scholars and practitioners from around
the globe to explore the role of gender in
armed conflict. During the same month,
she led a discussion at the School of Law on
the National Security Agency’s wiretapping
in the United States. The discussion was
co-sponosred by the American Constitution Society, International Law Society and
Federalist Society.
McGuinness presented her paper, “Medellin, Norm Portals and the Horizontal
Integration of International Human Rights
in U.S. Courts,” to faculty colloquia at MU
and the Washington University School of
Law. She also presented the paper at the
Annual Meeting of the Law and Society
Association in Baltimore, and as part of
the new scholar workshop at the Southeast
Association of Law Schools conference in
Palm Beach.
During the summer of 2006, McGuinness worked on “Security Multilateralism:
Progress and Paradox,” which will appear
as a chapter in Progress in International Organization, a book exploring the legacy of the
work of Manley O. Hudson, MU Law professor from 1910–1919. This summer, she
was also an invited participant at the Aspen
Institute’s Justice and Society Seminar in
Aspen, Colo.
S. Jacob Sappington, ’02, was named
one of the Spring field Business Journal’s “40
Under 40” for 2006. The award recognizes
the Springfield, Mo., area’s “brightest upand-coming young professionals.” Sappington practices with Blackwell Sanders Peper
Martin in Springfield.
Raymond P. Bozarth, ’03, practices with
Gamache and Myers in Chesterfield, Mo.
Capt. Timothy A. Garrison, ’03, was
assigned as trial counsel for the Legal Services Support Section of the First Marine
Logistics Group. He, his wife, Traci, and his
sons, Silas and Luke, are stationed at Marine
Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.
Susan B. Henderson Moore, ’03, married Richard Moore in Columbia on Aug.
13, 2005. She is an attorney for the Missouri Senate, and her husband is legal counsel to the Missouri Department of Natural
Resources.
Matthew A. Hoffman, ’03, joined the
products liability group of Rabbitt, Pitzer &
Snodgrass in St. Louis.
Laura (Maryniak) Kirsch, ’03, and
Daniel E. Kirsch, ’04, were married on
Oct. 15, 2005, in Pittsburgh. They reside in
Springfield, Mo.
Michael W. McCrary, ’03, is a member
of the Missouri Bar Lawyer Referral Service Committee, which advises the board of
governors on referral service policies.
Adam J.
Hamilton,
’04, is an associate at Lashly
& Baer in St.
Louis. He
engages in litigation with
a primary
emphasis on
the defense of
Adam J. Hamilton, ’04
health care providers, including physicians, nurses, hospitals and skilled
nursing facilities.
Ian D. Hauptli, ’04, is an assistant public
defender in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Daniel E. Kirsch, ’04, and Laura
(Maryniak) Kirsch, ’03, were married on
Oct. 15, 2005, in Pittsburgh. They reside in
Springfield, Mo.
Robert L. Ortbals Jr., ’04, joined the
Business Litigation Section at Shook, Hardy
& Bacon in Kansas City, Mo., as a staff
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Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
Anthony L. Phillips, ’04, is the chair of
the Missouri Bar Lawyer Referral Service
Committee, which advises the board of governors on referral service policies. He practices with the Anthony Phillips Law Firm,
LLC, in Columbia.
C. Travis Hargrove, ’05, is an associate
with Eng & Woods in Columbia, where he
works on civil matters.
James R. Howard, ’05, and his wife, Lisa,
announce the birth of their daughter, Gwendolyn Ann, on March 6. Howard is an associate at Brown & James in St. Louis.
John Keay, ’05, is an associate at Lutz Law
Offices in Tacoma, Wash. He specializes in
family law.
Christopher R. Pieper, ’05, is an associate
at Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
Cassandra A. Rogers, ’05, is a Cooper
County, Mo., assistant prosecuting attorney.
She was formerly a law clerk for the Supreme
Court of Missouri.
Jessica L. Ward, ’05, is an assistant public
defender in Lebanon, Mo.
Jamal C. Wright, ’05, is an appellate attorney with the Appellate Division of the New
York Supreme Court.
Leslie F. Ashbrook, ’06, holds a prestigious
Tarlton Fellowship at the University of Texas
at Austin. The fellowship is reserved for a law
graduate pursuing further studies and a career
in law librarianship.
Tabitha G. Davisson, ’06, is an associate at
Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
Eric M. Smith, ’06, married Rachel Benninghoff on Sept. 16 in Columbia.
Courtney C. Stirrat, ’06, is an associate at
Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
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Lynn Dillard Malley, ’84, LLM ’03, presented her paper “Enhancing Worldwide
Understanding Through Online Dispute
Resolution: The Role of Competitions in
Helping Students and Teachers Bond Across
Cultures” at the Enhancing Worldwide
Understanding Through Online Dispute
Resolution symposium at the University of
Toledo College of Law.
Paula M. Young, LLM ’03, published an
article, “The Who of Mediation – Part III:
Lawyers in the Mix,” in which she offers
detailed suggestions for lawyers representing
clients in mediation, on mediate.com. She
also received an annual faculty scholarship
award from the Appalachian School of Law
for her article, “Take It or Leave It. Lump It
or Grieve It: Designing Mediator Complaint
Systems That Protect Mediators, Unhappy
Parties, Attorneys, Courts, the Process, and
the Field,” which was published in the Ohio
State Journal on Dispute Resolution. She is cochair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution subcommittee to
develop an ethics advisory opinion database.
Young is an associate professor of law at the
Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va.
Tal Zarankin, LLM ’03, is the lead author
of “Israeli and U.S. Community Mediation,” which he presented at the conference
of the International Association of Conflict
Management in Montreal, Canada, in June.
He also co-wrote an article, “A ‘Kaleidic’
View of Entrepreneurship: Developing and
Grounding Radical Austrian Economics’
Master Metaphor,” which he presented to
the Academy of Management in Atlanta in
August. Zarankin is a doctoral student in the
Management Department at the MU College
of Business.
Jeffrey Goldfien, LLM ’05, published
“Arguing for the Electric: Personality and
the Legal Profession,” in 10 Lewis & Clark
Law Review 187 (2006), which reviews Susan
Daicoff ’s book, Lawyer Know Thyself: A Psychological Analysis of Personality Strengths and
Weaknesses.
Jose Alberto Ramirez Leon, LLM ’05,
published an article, “Why Further Development of ADR in Latin America Makes
Sense: The Venezuelan Model,” in 2 Journal
of Dispute Resolution 399 (2005). The article
describes problems with the Venezuelan system of justice, recent alternative dispute resolution (ADR) developments and obstacles for
further development of ADR in Venezuela,
and proposals to overcome those obstacles.
Ramirez was recently appointed as executive
director of a new Arbitration and Mediation
Center operated by Central Integral de Justicia (CIJ). CIJ is a non profit organization
which is sponsored by the local government
of Caracas, Venezuela, and promotes access
to justice through use and development of
alternative dispute resolution procedures,
such as mediation, arbitration and justice of
the peace. Part of José’s duties within this
new position includes the promotion of this
center nationally and internationally.
Flavia Fragale Martins Pepino, LLM
’05, and her husband, Rafael, welcomed a
son, Daniel, on March 20.
Sukhsimranjit Singh, LLM ’06, is a postgraduate fellow at the Dispute Resolution
Institute of Hamline University School of
Law. He helps coordinate the activities of
the institute, including its five international
and five domestic programs. In particular, he works on a multi-year transatlantic
ADR curriculum development and student
exchange project and a tri-continental LLM
program. Sukh succeeds Hamline’s first fellow, Salvador Panga Jr., LLM ’01.
Carl H.
Esbeck’s article, “Governance and the
Religion Question,” appeared
in 48 Journal of
Church & State
303-326 (2006)
in June. He has
two published entries in the recently-released Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Taylor and Francis 2006), and has two
chapters in the new reference book Religious
Organizations in the United States: A Study of
Identity, Liberty, and the Law (Carolina Academic Press 2006).
In June, the Summit on Church Autonomy was held in the Washington, D.C.,
area. Esbeck secured a grant to fund this
conference, established the agenda and
invited legal scholars to prepare remarks
on developments in this First Amendment
area of the law. In August, he participated
on a panel at the American Bar Association
National Convention in Honolulu. The
topic concerned church-state relations and
recent trends in the federal circuit courts
and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Esbeck is a faculty fellow to MU’s Center for Religion, the Professions and the
Public. In April, he participated in the center’s public dialogue, “God and the Commons: Does Religion Matter?” He continues his work with the center at a time when
it is ready to hire a permanent director.
In June, Esbeck attended the board of directors meeting of the Christian Legal Society in Washington, D.C. He continues to
chair the committee overseeing the Center
for Law & Religious Freedom, the public
interest law firm that conducts litigation activities on behalf of the society, and he has
also recently been added to the executive
committee.
FAC U LT Y N O T E S
Janet M. Thompson, ’84, LLM ’02, has
been named the 2006 Defender of Distinction in recognition of her extraordinary service to her clients and colleagues in the Missouri State Public Defender System. She is a
capital appellate attorney in Columbia.
Andrea Braeutigam, LLM ’05, is program
manager at the Institute for Issue Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution at
Oklahoma State University. The institute is
a program of the Seretean Wellness Center at
the university and provides mediation, facilitation and other dispute resolution services
statewide in agricultural, environmental and
rural living issues.
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Clarence E. Reed, ’36, of Cassville, Mo.,
died May 20, at age 92. He served as a
Missouri state legislator in 1939 and 1940
and was a Coast Guard veteran of World
War II. He worked as an attorney for
the Veterans Administration for 30 years
and was in private practice with Emory
Melton in Cassville for 15 years. Reed was
a member of the First Christian Church in
Cassville.
John Earl Mills, ’48, of Perry, Mo., died
Dec. 15, 2005.
Allen B. Soper Jr., ’48, of Slater, Mo.,
died March 22, at age 87. He was a U.S.
Navy veteran of World War II. He began
practicing law in Slater and continued
until his retirement in 2001. In 1953 he
was appointed to fill a position on the
Slater City Council and later that year was
elected mayor, serving until 1958. In 1970,
he was appointed to the office of prosecuting attorney for Saline County, Mo.,
and was re-elected in 1972. He served as
municipal judge for the city of Slater from
1949 until 1988. In addition to his law
practice, he managed the family farm and
livestock business, winning an award for
conservation efforts on the farms he managed. Soper was active in a wide variety of
community activities throughout his life.
Joseph J. Russell, ’49, of Cape Girardeau,
Mo., died Sept. 7, at age 83. He served
in the U.S. Army during World War
II. Trained in the infantry, he became a
firefighter, protecting the vital gasoline
pipelines supplying the Allied Forces in
France. After his honorable discharge, he
received his law degree, then joined Rush
Limbaugh Sr. in the practice of law in
Cape Girardeau. He became a partner in
the firm known as Limbaugh, Limbaugh
and Russell. During his 57-year law career, he developed a specialty in education
law and served as legal counsel for numerous school boards throughout Southeast
Missouri. He was a member of The Missouri Bar, School Boards Association,
American Bar Association, National Lawyers Association, Christian Legal Society,
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys,
Association of Trial Lawyers of America,
Alpha Phi Omega, Breakfast Optimist
Club, Optimist International, Gideons
International and Missouri Ambulance
Association. During his free time, he was
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devoted to his church and the Boy Scouts
of America. He received several honors for
his service to the Boy Scouts.
insurance company serving health professionals. Later he formed the law firm of
Stokes and O’Malley in Clayton, Mo.
Jack A. Connor, ’50, of Owensboro, Ky.,
died April 1, 2005, at age 81.
William B. “Bill” Phillips, ’53, of
Houston died Dec. 15, 2005, at age 81.
After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps
during World War II, he earned his undergraduate and law degrees from MU.
He was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal
fraternity. He joined Shell Oil for a 35year career and was a charter member of
the American Association of Petroleum
Landmen. Phillips lived in Houston since
1970 and was active on charitable and
civic boards.
William H. Ergovich, ’50, of Kansas City,
Mo., died April 8, at age 84. He was a
Marine dive bomber and fighter pilot in
the Pacific. After the war ended he attended MU for his undergraduate and law
degrees. He started practicing law in the
Kansas City area in the 1950s. He was an
avid golfer, belonging to Hillcrest Country Club and then Wolf Creek Golf Club.
Ergovich enjoyed reading and read approximately four books per month. He was
also a Latin scholar, completing the most
advanced class in Latin at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City in his retirement.
Wayne W. Waldo, ’50, of Lee’s Summit,
Mo., died June 6, at age 81. He worked in
government service.
William J. Dunlay, ’51, of Granada Hills,
Calif., died March 14, at age 83. He joined
the Army in 1943, reaching the rank of
flight officer and navigation specialist with
the 4th Squad, 34th Bombardment Group.
He served in Europe for three months as a
D-17 navigator and received citations that
included the European-African-Middle
Eastern Theater Ribbon, the World War
II Victory Medal and the American Theater Ribbon. In 1945, while on active
duty, he suffered a spinal cord injury in
a car accident. He was told he wouldn’t
walk again but proved doctors wrong
within a year. He then attended MU,
where he received his undergraduate and
law degrees within four years. As a lawyer,
Dunlay practiced in Chicago, Kansas City,
Topeka, Kan., and Parsons, Kan. He later
joined the Veterans Administration in San
Francisco as a staff attorney. He was also a
commodities trader.
Morris E. Stokes, ’52, of San Antonio
died May 3, at age 79. He served in the
U.S. Navy on the USS Custer in the
Pacific Theater during World War II.
He began his legal career at the law firm
of Moser-Marsalek and later worked at
Laclede Gas Company, serving as associate
general counsel. With others, including
his brother, he helped form Momedico, an
Joseph L. Brummell, ’57, of Albuquerque, N.M., died Oct. 14, 2005, at age 75.
He attended Kemper Military School in
Boonville, Mo., and was a state wrestling
champion and a standout football player.
He received his undergraduate and law
degrees from MU before receiving a degree from the University of Wyoming.
Brummell served one and a half years
in the military in Korea, where he was
awarded the Bronze Star and other service related medals. After returning from
military duty, he and his family moved to
New Mexico, where he owned the Road
Runner Travel Traveler Sales for 30 years
before retiring in Cedar Crest, N.M. He
was a member of the American Legion
Post #49, Korean Veterans Association
and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mary F. LaFollette, ’58, of Anchorage,
Alaska, died May 31, at age 73. She moved
to Alaska in the early 1960s and became
a member of the Alaska Bar Association.
She was an assistant attorney general in Juneau, Alaska, in the early 1960s, a district
court judge and magistrate in Kodiak,
Alaska, in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
and served as executive director of the
Alaska Bar Association in the mid- to late
1970s. At the time of her death, she was in
private practice.
Robert V. Groce, ’62, of Springfield, Mo.,
died May 19, at age 73. Before graduating
from law school, he was a naval aviator.
Groce practiced law in Springfield for 40
years, including providing free advice and
counsel to the city’s homeless. He was an
outspoken advocate for poor people who
had credit problems and working people
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who fell into financial troubles. He retired
from practicing law with his daughter in
2002.
Roland O. Stahr, ’62, of Birmingham,
Ala., died June 17, 2005, at age 72. He
served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to
1958. After graduating from the School of
Law, he received an appointment as special
agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While employed by the FBI,
he served at Quantico, Va.; Washington,
D.C.; Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio; New
York City; and Birmingham, Ala. Following his FBI career, he was employed
by the Diplomatic Security Service of
the U.S. Department of State, where he
served until 2003.
Frederick M. Teel, ’63, of Nevada, Mo.,
died Feb. 9, at age 68. He practiced law
for 42 years, first with his father until his
father’s death, and then as a solo practitioner on the Nevada Square for the remainder of his career. He was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, Vernon County
(Mo.) and Missouri bar associations, the
Missouri Prairie Foundation, the Optimist Club, Ducks Unlimited and the Elks
Lodge.
James E. Moore III, ’64, of Charleston,
Mo., died July 16, at age 66. In 1964, he
began his law practice in Sikeston, Mo.,
with Weber Gilmore. He opened his own
law office in 1965 and in 1990 opened a
second law office in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
After serving four years as an assistant
prosecuting attorney in Scott County,
Mo., he was elected Scott County prosecuting attorney for two terms. He was
a member of the American, Missouri, St.
Louis, Cape Girardeau and Scott County
bar associations until his retirement in
2005. He performed in a lead role for four
musical productions of the Sikeston Little
Theatre and was a Sikeston Jaycee.
William Rex Beavers, ’67, of Grant City,
Mo., died May 9, at age 64. He became a
member of The Missouri Bar in 1967, the
same year he joined his father’s law firm,
becoming the third generation of the family to practice law. He served on the bar’s
board of governors from 1977 to 1981. He
was in private practice until 1986, when
he was elected associate circuit judge of
Worth County, Mo.
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Wayne H. Hoecker, ’67, of Kansas City,
Mo., died July 31, at age 66. He served as
an officer in the U.S. Navy prior to attending law school at MU. Following law
school, he worked as an assistant attorney
general for the State of Missouri and later
joined the firm of Gage & Tucker, where
he ultimately became a partner. He remained as a partner when the firm merged
and became Lathrop & Gage. In private
practice, Hoecker specialized in antitrust
and agribusiness litigation. In addition to
his work for the firm, he served as general
counsel of Mid-American Dairymen. His
involvement in the community included
a term as secretary for the Kansas City,
Mo., Police Board, as well as service on
the board of the Coves Homeowners Association and the Winterpoint Homeowners Association in Breckenridge, Colo.
He was a member of Platte Woods United
Methodist Church.
Richard A. King, ’68, of Kansas City,
Mo., died Aug. 24, at age 62. From 1969
to 1972, he served as a captain in the U.S.
Army. During his time in the military,
he was a military police station commander, assistant provost marshall for
the 8th Infantry Division and special assistant to the Division Chief of Staff for
Human Relations and Modern Voluntary Army. He began his legal career in
Independence, Mo., as an associate with
Constance, Slayton, Stewart & Stewart. In
1973, he was named partner in the firm.
From 1974 to 1978, King served as mayor
of Independence and was the youngest
person ever elected to that office. In 1980,
he joined the Independence firm of Cochran, Kramer, Kapke, Willerth & King.
The following year, he moved to Jefferson
City, Mo., to take the post of executive
assistant to the governor. In 1982, he was
appointed director of revenue for the State
of Missouri. King returned to Kansas City
in 1985 to become a member of the Smith,
Gill, Fisher & Butts law firm, where he
specialized in real estate development and
state and local tax law. He founded the
firm that became King Hershey in 1988
and served as chairman and chief executive of the firm at the time of his death.
He was recognized nationally as an expert
in structuring public and private financial
transactions.
Clyde P. Angle, ’78, of Jefferson City,
Mo., died Aug. 28, at age 58. He had been
in private practice for the past 20 years,
specializing in trust and estate planning.
His career included serving as a major
crimes investigator for the Greene County
(Mo.) Prosecutor’s Office, chief police
officer and municipal judge in Ashland,
Mo., marshal of the Supreme Court of
Missouri, vice president and trust officer
at Central Bank in Jefferson City, and
municipal judge and city councilman in
Jefferson City. At the time of his death,
he was the Republican candidate for Cole
County (Mo.) circuit judge. He was a
member of the First United Methodist Church, the Cole County Bar, The
Missouri Bar and the American Bar Association. Angle was the uncle of Cotton
Walker, ’91.
Craig V. Evans, ’81, of Jefferson City,
Mo., died Feb. 20, at age 52. He served
two years of active duty in the Army,
194th armored brigade, as a brigade military police platoon leader, attaining the
rank of captain. After receiving his law
degree from MU, he was in private practice in Paris, Mo., until 1994. During that
time, he served as Paris city attorney and,
from 1981 to 1994, as Monroe County,
Mo., prosecuting attorney. He served as
an assistant attorney general from 1995 to
1998 and served as the deputy director of
the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, legal
administrator for the Missouri Division
of Motor Carrier and Railroad Safety
and senior assistant counsel for the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission. From November 2003 until his
death, he served as general counsel for the
Missouri Department of Conservation.
He served as a mediator for The Missouri
Bar Fee Resolution Program and was an
instructor for the National Association of
Medicaid Fraud Control Units training
programs.
Richard C. Miller, ’81, of Leawood, Kan.,
died Aug. 16, at age 50. After receiving his law degree, he practiced law in
Springfield, Mo., with Woolsey, Fisher,
Whiteaker & McDonald until 1995, when
he moved to Kansas City, Mo. He was a
founder and principal with the trial practice law firm of Monsees, Miller, Mayer,
Presley & Amick, with offices in Kansas
City and Springfield. He was a member
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John Lande
published
“Shifting the
Focus From
the Myth of
‘The Vanishing Trial’ to
Complex Conflict Management Systems,
or I Learned Almost Everything I Need to
Know About Conflict Resolution From
Marc Galanter,” in 6 Cardozo Journal of
Conflict Resolution 191 (2005). He helped
organize and serves on the Task Force on
Improving the Quality of Mediation established by the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Dispute Resolution.
As part of the task force’s work, he facilitated focus groups of lawyers in Atlanta and
Washington, D.C., and he presented the
results at the ABA Annual Meeting in Hawaii. He was a panelist on two programs at
the Annual Conference of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution in April: “Defining the Courts’ Roles and Deciding the
Appropriate Number of Trials, Settlement
Signals, and Other Elements Needed to
Administer Justice,” and “How Mediator
Styles and Written Standards of Conduct
Create Chaos for the Practicing Mediator.”
He helped establish the Mid-Missouri Collaborative and Cooperative Lawyers Association (MMCCLA) and continues to provide technical assistance. The MMCCLA
is the only organization that promotes both
collaborative and cooperative law. Eight
of the ten members of the MMCCLA are
MU Law graduates, and two are LLM students or alumni. For more information, see
www.mmccla.org/.
of the board of governors of the Missouri
Association of Trial Attorneys and a board
member of the Attorney’s Information Exchange Group and Trial Lawyers for Public
Justice, a national public interest law firm
dedicated to using trial lawyers’ skills and
resources to create a more just society. He
was also a member of the Million Dollar
Advocates Forum and the Order of Barristers. At the time of his death, Miller served
as Missouri Governor of the Association of
Trial Lawyers of America and previously
served as the national chair of its Firearms
and Ammunition Litigation Group. He was
honored on many occasions as one of the
leading attorneys in the United States in
cases related to consumer rights and personal injury and was a published author of
articles and treatises related to litigation of
firearms cases and the rights of victims of
personal injury. Recently, Miller joined the
National Crime Victim Bar Association to
assist victims of violent crime.
Friends
Tamara G. Atkins, of Columbia, died Aug.
31, at age 44. She was the daughter-in-law
of University of Missouri Curator Thomas
E. Atkins and was a past attendee of the
School of Law.
Mary Jo Jackson Buckley, of Sedalia, Mo.,
died March 13, at age 65. She was the wife
of James T. Buckley, ’63, and the mother
of Brendan C. Buckley, ’98.
Elaine Lehr, of Columbia, died Aug. 10,
at age 77. She was the wife of Gustav J.
Lehr, ’59.
Law Alumni Honored with Geyer Awards
Bryan T. Pratt, ’99, and Brian D. Yates, ’01, were awarded 2006 Geyer Public
Service Awards by MU and the MU Alumni Association for their efforts on behalf
of higher education and the University.
The alumni association’s Legislative Network presents the awards annually to
two elected state officials and one citizen who exemplify the dedication and spirit of
Henry Geyer. A former state representative, Geyer believed education was the key
to progress and prosperity in Missouri and introduced a bill to establish the University of Missouri in 1839.
Pratt was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002 and represents part of eastern Jackson and western Lafayette counties. He was re-elected in
2004 and serves as the chair of the House Judiciary Committee.
Yates was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002 and represents part of Jackson County. He was re-elected in 2004 and currently serves as the
chair of the Insurance Policy Committee and on the Budget Committee.
Rooftop Reception
Professor Thom Lambert
hosted a rooftop reception
for Chicago alumni,
friends, faculty, staff, and
current and admitted
students on June 22.
Megan R. Dunn, 3L;
Professor Lambert; Julia
D. Ferguson, 1L; and John
C. Ayres, ’06, enjoyed the
view of the city skyline.
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Administrative Office r s
Elson S. Floyd, BA, MEd, PhD, President,
University of Missouri System
Brady J. Deaton, BS, MA, PhD, Chancellor,
University of Missouri-Columbia
Brian L. Foster, BA, AM, PhD, Provost,
University of Missouri-Columbia
R. Lawrence Dessem, BA, JD, Dean and
Professor of Law
James R. Devine, BA, JD, Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs and David Ross
Hardy Professor of Law and Trial
Practice
David A. Fischer, BA, JD, Associate Dean
for Faculty Research and Development,
James Lewis Parks Professor of Law and
Isidor Loeb Professor of Law
Robert G. Bailey, BA, JD, Assistant Dean
and Director of the Center for the
Study of Dispute Resolution
Donna L. Pavlick, BS, MA, JD, LLM,
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and
Admissions and Lecturer in Law
Tamra Wilson Setser, BS, JD, Assistant Dean
for Career Development and Lecturer
in Law
Randy J. Diamond, BA, JD, MLS, Director
of Library and Technology Resources
and Associate Professor of Legal
Research
Janie Ausburn Harmon, BA, Senior
Director of Development
Th e Fac ulty
Douglas E. Abrams, BA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
Royce de R. Barondes, SB, SM, JD,
Associate Professor of Law
Mary M. Beck, BSN, MSN, JD, Director
of the Domestic Violence Clinic and
Clinical Professor of Law
Frank O. Bowman III, BA, JD, Floyd R.
Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of
Law
Michelle Arnopol Cecil, BA, JD, William H.
Pittman Professor of Law
Melody Richardson Daily, BA, MA, JD,
Director of Legal Research and Writing
and Clinical Professor of Law
Kenneth D. Dean, BA, MA, JD, Deputy
Provost, Director of Professional
Programs and Associate Professor of
Law
R. Lawrence Dessem, BA, JD, Dean and
Professor of Law
James R. Devine, BA, JD, Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs and David Ross
Hardy Professor of Law and Trial
Practice
Randy J. Diamond, BA, JD, MLS, Director
of Library and Technology Resources
and Associate Professor of Legal
Research
Stephen D. Easton, AA, BA, JD, C.A. Leedy
Professor of Law
David M. English, BA, JD, William Franklin
Fratcher Missouri Endowed Professor
of Law
Carl H. Esbeck, BS, JD, Isabelle Wade &
Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law and R.B.
Price Professor of Law
David A. Fischer, BA, JD, Associate Dean
for Faculty Research and Development,
James Lewis Parks Professor of Law and
Isidor Loeb Professor of Law
R. Wilson Freyermuth, BS, JD, John D.
Lawson Professor of Law
Patricia Brumfield Fry, JD, MA, Edward W.
Hinton Professor of Law
Philip J. Harter, AB, MA, JD, Earl F. Nelson
Professor of Law
Kandice Johnson, BS, JD, Director of
Clinical Programs, Director of the
Criminal Prosecution Clinic and
Clinical Professor of Law
Thomas A. Lambert, BA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
John Lande, AB, JD, MS, PhD, Director
of LLM in Dispute Resolution and
Associate Professor of Law
Ilhyung Lee, BA, MA, JD, Edward W.
Hinton Professor of Law
James Levin, BA, JD, Associate Director of
the Center for the Study of Dispute
Resolution and Adjunct Professor of
Law
Paul J. Litton, BA, JD, PhD, Associate
Professor of Law
Margaret E. McGuinness, BA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
Michael A. Middleton, BA, JD, Deputy
Chancellor and Professor of Law
S. David Mitchell, BA, MA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
John R. Mollenkamp, AB, JD, Associate
Professor of Legal Research and Writing
Amy B. Monahan, BA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
Rigel C. Oliveri, BA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
Martha Dragich Pearson, BA, MA, JD,
James S. Rollins Professor of Law
Philip G. Peters Jr., BA, JD, Ruth L.
Hulston Professor of Law
Richard C. Reuben, BA, BA, JD, JSM, JSD,
Associate Professor of Law
Leonard L. Riskin, BS, JD, LLM, C.A.
Leedy Professor of Law and Isidor Loeb
Professor of Law
Gregory Scott, BA, JD, Associate Professor
of Legal Research and Writing
Pamela Smith, BS, MBA, JD, Associate
Professor of Law
Rodney J. Uphoff, BA, MS, JD, Elwood L.
Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor
of Law and Director of the University
of Missouri South Africa Educational
Program
Christina E. Wells, BA, JD, Enoch H.
Crowder Professor of Law
Dale A. Whitman, BES, LLB, James E.
Campbell Missouri Endowed Professor
of Law
The Eme ritus Faculty
Frederick Davis, AB, LLB, LLM, Edward W.
Hinton Professor Emeritus of Law
Peter N. Davis, BA, LLB, SJD, Isidor Loeb
Professor Emeritus of Law
William B. Fisch, AB, LLB, MCL, Dr Jur,
Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus of Law
William H. Henning, BA, JD, LLM, R.B.
Price Professor Emeritus of Law
Edward H. Hunvald Jr., AB, JD, Earl F.
Nelson and John D. Lawson Professor
Emeritus of Law
Henry T. Lowe, AB, JD, C.A. Leedy and
Earl F. Nelson Professor Emeritus of
Law
Alfred S. Neely IV, AB, LLB, Edward W.
Hinton Professor Emeritus of Law
Grant S. Nelson, BA, JD, Earl F. Nelson and
Enoch H. Crowder Professor Emeritus
of Law
James E. Westbrook, BA, JD, LLM, Earl F.
Nelson and James S. Rollins Professor
Emeritus of Law
The Adjunct Faculty
Alana M. Barragan-Scott, BA, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
Hon. Duane Benton, BA, JD, MA, LLM,
CPA, Adjunct Professor of Law
Deborah Daniels, AB, BS, JD, Adjunct
Professor of Law
Sandra Davidson, BS, MAD, JD, PhD,
Professor of Journalism and Adjunct
Professor of Law
Erika S. Fadel, BA, MA, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
Peggy E. Gustafson, BA, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
Missouri Solicitor General Jim Layton, BS,
JD, Adjunct Professor of Law
Walter Ray Phillips, BA, JD, LLM, Adjunct
Professor of Law
Henry R. Setser, BS, JD, LLM, Adjunct
Professor or Law
Ronald E. Smull, BA, JD, Adjunct Professor
of Law
Bill Thompson, BS, JD, Adjunct Professor
of Law
Michael A. Williams, BA, JD, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Law
M U
S chool
January 8–11, 2007
Mediation Training for Civil Cases
John K. Hulston Hall
Time TBA
For more information, please visit
www.law.missouri.edu/cle
March 2, 2007
Diversity presentation by Angela Ciccolo,
Associate General Counsel, NAACP
(1.0 hour of MCLE credit)
John K. Hulston Hall
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
March 3, 2007
Lloyd L. Gaines Scholarship Event
Peachtree Catering and Banquet Center,
Columbia
6:00 p.m. Cocktails and Silent Auction
7:00 p.m. Dinner
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March 8, 2007
Second Annual Small Firm and Public
Interest Expo
John K. Hulston Hall
2:30 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.
Complimentary CLE (2.0 hours of credit)
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Reception
April 20, 2007
The Law Society Dinner
Location and Time TBA
April 21, 2007
Third Annual Tim Heinsz 5K Run/Walk
John K. Hulston Hall
9:00 a.m.
For more information, please visit
www.law.missouri.edu/sba/th5k
May 13, 2007
May Commencement
1:30 p.m.
Jesse Hall
School of Law
University of Missouri–Columbia
John K. Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
For the most current listing of
events, visit our online calendar at
law.missouri.edu/calendar.
For information about CLE
programming or registration,
visit our Web site at law.missouri.
edu/cle/general/upcoming or
call 573-882-2052.