FELLOWSHIP SYMPOSIUM
MAXIMIZING
JUDICIAL FAIRNESS &
EFFICIENCY:
Should Indiana Consider
Creating an Office of
Administrative Hearings?
October 1, 2004
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
6 hours of Indiana CLE credit
Table of Contents
Biographies
Program
Bibliography
State by State ALJ Graph
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BIOGRAPHIES
Cynthia A. Baker
Director, Program on Law and State Government
Indiana University School of Law--Indianapolis
Cynthia A. Baker joined the law school in 1997 as the first Director of the Program on Law and
State Government (PLSG). Under her leadership, the PLSG has substantially expanded
experiential learning opportunities for students interested in the confluence of law and state
government. Her primary professional responsibilities include serving as faculty advisor to the
PLSG Fellows and teaching the PLSG Internship Course and State and Local Government Law.
With the help of a grant from the United States Department of Education, she established the
state’s first interdisciplinary public policy mediation course for judges, community leaders,
lawyers, and law students. Baker remains engaged within her own local government communities
through service on the Indiana Code Revision Commission and participating in the Hamilton
County Leadership Academy. Her academic interests include public education law, regionalism,
and mediation as a public policy tool. Before joining the law school, Baker was a Section Chief of
the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s (IDEM’s) Office of Legal Counsel and
had also served as legal counsel to IDEM’s Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management.
Prior to her work at IDEM, she was a judicial clerk to the Hon. Robert D. Rucker of the Indiana
Court of Appeals, now an Associate Justice on the Indiana Supreme Court. She earned her J.D.
from Valparaiso School of Law where she served as an editor of the Valparaiso Law Review and
graduated magna cum laude.
Brian D. Berg
Program on Law and State Government Fellow
Indiana University School of Law--Indianapolis
Brian D. Berg is a J.D. candidate at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. In addition
to serving as a 2004 Fellow for the Program on Law and State Government, he has previously
participated in that Program’s internship course by serving as a law clerk for Indiana’s
Department of Local Government Finance. Also while attending law school, Brian served as a
Governor’s Public Service Intern with Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development’s Legal
Support Division and currently serves as a law clerk in that Department’s Unemployment
Insurance Appeals Division. Prior to law school, he earned a Master in Public Policy degree from
the College of William and Mary where he was a recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Fellowship.
During graduate school, Brian served as a intern with the Financial Markets and Community
Investment Team for the United States’ General Accounting Office building upon his prior work
experience in the fields of mortgage banking and employee benefits
Thomas E. Ewing
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Office of Administrative Hearings, Oregon
Judge Ewing holds a Ph.D in Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian studies from Indiana University.
He taught Asian studies at Leeds University, England, from 1972 to 1981, publishing one book
and several articles. After earning a Juris Doctor in 1984 from Willamette University in Oregon, he
clerked for Chief Justice Berkeley Lent of the Oregon Supreme Court. Thereafter, he became an
associate attorney with the Salem law firm of Garrett, Hemann, et al. In 1988 he joined SAIF
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Corporation, a state-owned workers' compensation insurer, as a trial attorney. Two years later he
became SAIF's deputy general counsel and chief appellate attorney, leading a team of eight
attorneys. In 1992 SAIF appointed him Director of Operations for the northwest region of Oregon,
and then in 1996 Director of Claims. In 1998 he left SAIF, becoming manager of the hearings
section of the Workers' Compensation Division, Department of Consumer and Business Services.
In 1999 Ewing was appointed Chief Administrative Law Judge of Oregon's Office of
Administrative Hearings. The OAH consists of approximately 90 administrative law judges, and
hears over 90 percent of all state agency hearings.
James F. Flanagan
Professor of Law
University of South Carolina Law School
James F. Flanagan is a graduate from the University of Notre Dame and the University of
Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina Law
School he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, and was in private
practice in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Flanagan teaches federal practice, federal discovery,
federal and state procedure, federal and state evidence, remedies and other trial related courses.
He is the author of South Carolina Civil Procedure (2 nd Ed. 1996). He is a member of the United
States District Court Rules Advisory Committee in South Carolina. He served as reporter to the
South Carolina Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee which drafted the civil rules of
procedure for circuit courts adopted in 1985, and as reporter to the committee that drafted the
Rules of Procedure for the South Carolina Administrative Law Court. He was named the Oliver
Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice in 2003.
Judge Christopher Graham
Legal Counsel
Missouri State Auditor
Judge Chris Graham is Legal Counsel to Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill. He has been a
Commissioner, Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission, an Administrative Law Judge and
an Assistant Attorney General. Prior to that he was in private law practice for twenty-five years.
Chris is a graduate of The Lawrenceville School, the University of Missouri with business and law
degrees, and Georgetown University with a Master of Laws in Taxation. Chris has served as a
law clerk to the Missouri Supreme Court, elected City Attorney of Jefferson City, and served in
the Missouri House of Representatives. In the House he chaired the Joint Committee on
Administrative Rules, was a member of the Budget, Banking and Judiciary Committees, was a
charter member of the Children's’ Services Commission, and a Trustee of the Missouri State
Employees’ Retirement System. He served on the Economic Development Committee of the
National Conference of State Legislatures. Judge Graham is active with the American Bar
Association, Judicial Division, National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary, currently
serving as Chair- Elect. This year (2004) he is completing a term as President of the National
Association of Administrative Law Judges. He is a retired Colonel in the Army National Guard,
and Treasurer of Capital Region Medical Center Board of Directors, past chairman of the
Mid-Missouri Medical Foundation, board member of the Cole County Historical Society, a
member of the National Eagle Scout Association and American Legion.
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Judge John W. Hardwicke
President
National Association of Administrative Law Judges
John W. Hardwicke is the current President National Association of Administrative Law Judges
and a former Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings.
A frequent speaker and author, Judge Hardwick authored an article in the Spring 2001 issue of
the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law Review entitled “The Central Panel
Movement: A Work in Progress.” Judge Hardwick also is a past Chair of the National Conference
of Administrative law Judges (NCALJ) in the Judicial Division of the ABA and a past Chair of the
NCALJ By-laws and Long Range Planning Committees.
Bruce H. Johnson
Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge
Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings
Bruce H. Johnson currently serves as Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Minnesota
Office of Administrative Hearings. He is also an adjunct professor of law at Hamline University
Law School where he teaches courses in administrative law and legislation. He received both his
A.B. and J.D. degrees from Duke University. After graduating from law school, he was appointed
Assistant District Counsel for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ office in Wilmington, North
Carolina. He subsequently served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of North Carolina, first as head of that office’s Land & Natural Resources Section
and later as Chief of the Civil Division. In 1979 he entered private law practice in Duluth,
Minnesota, specializing in admiralty law. He left private practice in 1984 and served for the next
six years as Executive Director of the Neuroscience Institute and Center for Health Care in
Duluth. From 1990 through 1996, Johnson held a number of senior positions in the executive
branch of Minnesota state government, including: Director of the Office of Health Facilities
Complaints, Ombudsman for Mental Health and Mental Retardation, a project director in the
Department of Administration’s Management Analysis Division, State Labor Negotiator,
Commissioner of the Department of Employee Relations, and Commissioner of the Department
of Children, Families and Learning. He was appointed an Administrative Law Judge in 1996.
Julie Keen
Program on Law and State Government Fellow
Indiana University School of Law--Indianapolis
Julie Keen is a Fellow for the Program on Law & State Government at IU-Indianapolis and is
expected to graduate from the law school in May of 2006. Currently, Ms. Keen is a Senior Policy
Analyst at the Indiana Office of Consumer Counselor (OUCC), where she provides analysis of
telecommunications issues and expert testimony for the Public’s Consumer Counselor. Ms. Keen
holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Public Policy Analysis, both obtained with highest
distinction from Indiana University. While attending IUPUI, Ms. Keen was honored with the
Outstanding Senior Award in Economics and with the Outstanding Undergraduate Student in the
Public Affairs Program. She is also a member of the Golden Key and Pi Alpha Alpha honor
societies.
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Julian Mann, III
Chief Administrative Law Judge and Director
North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings
Julian Mann, III has been Chief Administrative Law Judge and Director of North Carolina’s Office
of Administrative Hearings since 1989; he is Codifier of Rules for the State of North Carolina
(Publisher of the North Carolina Register and North Carolina Administrative Code) and from 1974
to 1989 was an administrative law practitioner in Raleigh, North Carolina (General Legal Counsel
- North Carolina Board of Architecture, North Carolina Veterinary Medical Board and American
Association of Veterinary State Boards). He is an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State
University in Administrative Law, Business Law, Regulatory Law, and Construction Law. He is
former chairman of the Administrative Law Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association. He
received his B.S. from the University of North Carolina, his M.P.A. from North Carolina State
University, and his J.D. from Samford University. In 1998, he served as President of the National
Association of Administrative Law Judges (NAALJ). He is a member of the Central Panel
Directors Conference and is active in many other professional and community associations. He
has written numerous articles and is a frequent CLE presenter on such legal subjects as
administrative law, special education, due process and mediation.
Christopher B. McNeil
Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Christopher B. McNeil teaches legal writing and administrative law at Capital University Law
School in Columbus, Ohio and is an administrative hearing examiner for the State of Ohio. He is
the 2001 and 2002 Fellowship recipient of the National Conference of Administrative Law Judges
and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's ALJ Fellowship, and the 1997 National
Association of Administrative Law Judges Fellowship recipient. He also serves on the faculty at
the National Judicial College, where he teaches traffic safety-related courses to administrative
law judges and judges of general jurisdiction. Professor McNeil has served as a subject matter
specialist in the area of due process in administrative proceedings for the United States
Department of Agriculture and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and as a legal
writing consultant to the United States Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency. He is a
former deputy public defender for the Eighth Judicial District in Kansas, and served as an
assistant Ohio attorney general, in the office of Business and Government Regulation, from 1988
to 1994, and is past chair of the Administrative Law Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association,
where he drafted language for a legislative proposal to create a central panel of hearing
examiners in Ohio.
Lois F. Oakley
Chief State Administrative Law Judge
Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings
Lois F. Oakley is the Chief State Administrative Law Judge for the Georgia Office Of State
Administrative Hearings. Her previous experiences include Deputy Chief and Special Assistant
State Administrative Law Judge, leadership and management of State central panel of
adjudicators of administrative appeals from adverse state agency actions, and founder and Chief
Executive of Lawsearch South. Judge Oakley has provided leadership for a search firm
specializing in attorney search and recruitment, was the Academic Director and Instructor for The
National Center For Paralegal Training, and Curriculum development, faculty recruitment and
instruction. Associate Attorney, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer And Murphy, 1976 – 1979. Corporate
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practice with emphasis on state and federal regulatory compliance. Assistant Attorney General,
Georgia Law Department, 1974 – 1976. Litigation practice including appellate and trial level
advocacy.
Edward F. Rodgers, II
Administrative Law Judge
State of Michigan
Edward F. Rodgers, II has served under the administration of Governors Milliken, Blanchard and
Engler. Prior to his appointment, Rodgers was a Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for
Ingham County in Lansing, Michigan. His tenure in the Prosecutor's office was from 1975 to
1979. Rodgers is a graduate of the University of South Carolina Law Center in Columbia. He
received his Juris Doctorate Degree in 1975. Prior to attending law school, Rodgers received his
Master of Arts (1972) and his Bachelor of Arts (1970) Degrees from Michigan State University.
From 1970 to 1972, Rodgers was a sixth grade teacher in the Lansing School District, teaching at
both Michigan Avenue and Main Street Schools. Rodgers is a life-long resident of the Lansing
area, graduating from the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing, in 1963. While attending
MSB, Rodgers was a State Wrestling Champion and State Finalist in Debate. In 1996, he was
inducted into the Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame. Since graduating from law school,
Rodgers has taught as a visiting instructor or professor at Michigan State University School of
Business, University of Michigan Law School, Lansing Community College, and the Mid-Michigan
Law Enforcement Center. He also has lectured or given speeches to numerous civic and
professional groups, including many schools in the Lansing area. From 1979 to 1988, Rodgers
was an Administrative Law Judge for the Michigan Insurance Bureau, conducting contested case
hearings for the Commissioner of Insurance. In 1988, Rodgers was transferred to the Office of
Administrative Law Services for the former Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Since then, Rodgers has presided over many contested case hearings under the Public Health
Code and the Occupational Code. In 1996, Rodgers became the Director of the Office of Legal
Services in the Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services. From 1999 until 2000,
Rodgers was the Acting Director of the newly created Bureau of Hearings within CIS. In 2000,
Rodgers became the Director of the Commercial, Licensing and Regulatory Services Division
within the Bureau of Hearings. Rodgers continues to preside over contested cases conducted for
the more than one dozen state agencies and bureaus for which the Bureau of Hearings conducts
hearings.
Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr.
(One hundred second Justice)
Indiana Supreme Court
Frank Sullivan, Jr., was appointed to the Supreme Court by then-Governor (now United States
Senator) Evan Bayh in 1993. He chairs the court’s Judicial Technology and Automation
Committee (JTAC) that has under taken a major project to equip every Indiana court with a 21st
century “case management system” and to connect individual courts’ case management systems
with each other and with users of court information. Born in 1950 in South Bend, Indiana, he
holds degrees from Dartmouth College (A.B., cum laude, 1972), Indiana University School of Law
– Bloomington (J.D., magna cum laude, 1982), and the University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.,
2001). During the 1970’s, he served as administrative assistant and staff director for former U.S.
Representative John Brademas. During the 1980’s, he practiced law in Indianapolis,
concentrating his practice in corporate and securities law. In 1989, he was appointed by Governor
Bayh as Indiana State Budget Director, an office he held through 1992. An active participant in
bench, bar, and legal education activities, he is the American Bar Association Judicial Division’s
liaison to the ABA’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and co-chairs
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the Division’s and Commission’s Judicial Clerkship Program that encourages minority law
students to seek judicial clerkships. He is a member of the Valparaiso University School of Law
National Council and the Board of Visitors of the Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington.
He and his wife are the parents of three sons.
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Program
8:00 – 8:40
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:40 – 8:45
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Cynthia Baker
Director, Program on Law and State Government,
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
8:45 – 9:35
Morning Speaker
John W. Hardwicke
Executive Director, National Association of Administrative Law Judges; Former Chief
Administrative Law Judge, Office of Administrative Hearings, Maryland
9:35 – 9:45
Break: Conour Atrium
9:45 – 10:05
Fellowship Presentation: The Landscape of Administrative Hearings in Indiana
Julie Keen
Program on Law and State Government Fellow
10:05 – 10:55
Panel Perspectives 1: Creation and Maintenance of an Office of Administrative
Hearings: State Perspectives
Moderator:
Julie Keen
Program on Law and State Government Fellow
Panelists:
Christopher Graham
President, National Association of Administrative Law Judges; Vice Chair, National
Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary of the ABA Judicial Division
Julian Mann
Chief Administrative Law Judge, Office of Administrative Hearings, North Carolina
Lois F. Oakley
Chief State Administrative Law Judge, Office of Administrative Hearings, Georgia
Christopher B. McNeil
Professor of Law, Capital Law School; Administrative Hearing Examiner, Ohio;
Former Chair of the Administrative Law Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association
10:55 – 11:10
Break: Conour Atrium
11:10 – 12:15
Discussion and Break Out Sessions: Panel 1
12:20 – 1:15
Lunch: Room 259
12:45 – 1:15
Luncheon Speaker: Central Panels and Judicial Review
Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr.
Indiana Supreme Court
Recognizing that judicial review is an integral component of administrative procedure,
Justice Sullivan will reflect on whether a central office of administrative hearings has
implications for judicial review in particular and the constitutional distribution of powers
among the branches of government in general.
1:15 – 1:20 Break: Conour Atrium
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1:20 – 2:10
Panel Perspectives 2: Fairness, Funding and ALJ Finality
Moderator:
Brian Berg,
Program on Law and State Government Fellow
Panelists:
Thomas E. Ewing
Chief Administrative Law Judge, Office of Administrative Hearings, Oregon
Bruce H. Johnson
Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge, Office of Administrative Hearings, Minnesota
James F. Flanagan
Professor of Law, University of South Carolina.
Edward F. Rodgers, II
Director of the Commercial, Licensing and Regulatory Services Division, Bureau of Hearings,
Michigan
2:10 – 2:25
Break: Conour Atrium
2:25 – 3:35
Discussion and Break Out Sessions: Panel 2
3:35 – 3:55
Fellowship Presentation: Policy Choices for Restructuring Indiana’s System of
Administrative Hearings: Keeping the Status Quo or Moving toward a Central
Panel?
Brian Berg
Program on Law and State Government Fellow
3:55 - 4:00
Closing Remarks
Cynthia Baker
Director, Program on Law and State Government,
Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis
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State by State ALJ Graph
Central Panels in State Government
State
Agency's name
Website
Alabama
Office of the Attorney General, Administrative
Hearings Division
http://www.ago.state.al.us/about_divisions.cfm?Division=2
Arizona
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.azoah.com/
California
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.oah.dgs.ca.gov/default.htm
Colorado
Department of Personnel and Administration,
Division of Administrative Hearings
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doah/
Florida
Division of Administrative Hearings
http://www.doah.state.fl.us/
Georgia
Office of State Administrative Hearings
http://www.ganet.org/osah/
Iowa
Department of Inspections and Appeals,
Administrative Hearings Division
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dia/index.html
Louisiana
Division of Administrative Law
http://www.adminlaw.state.la.us/
Maine
Department of Health and Human Services, Office
of Administrative Hearings
http://www.maine.gov/dhs/adminhearings.htm
Maryland
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.oah.state.md.us/
Massachusetts
Division of Administrative Law Appeals
http://www.mass.gov/dala/
Michigan
Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau
of Hearings
http://www.michigan.gov/cis/0,1607,7-154-10576---,00.html
Minnesota
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.oah.state.mn.us./
Missouri
Administrative Hearing Commission
http://www.oa.state.mo.us/ahc/
New Jersey
Office of Administrative Law
http://www.state.nj.us/oal/
North Carolina
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.oah.state.nc.us/
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North Dakota
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.state.nd.us/oah/
Oregon
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://oah.state.or.us/
South Carolina
Administrative Law Court
http://www.scalc.net/alj.htm
South Dakota
Bureau of Administration, Office of Hearing
Examiners
http://www.state.sd.us/boa/ohe.htm
Tennessee
Department of State, Administrative Procedures
Division
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/procede.htm
Texas
State Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.soah.state.tx.us/
Virginia
Supreme Court, Hearing Officer System
http://www.courts.state.va.us/publications/hearing_officer.html
Washington
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.oah.wa.gov/
Wisconsin
Department of Administration, Division of Hearings
and Appeals
http://dha.state.wi.us/home/
Wyoming
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://wyoming.gov/state/government/state_agencies/text_admin_hearings.html
Created in 2004
Alaska
Office of Administrative Hearings
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill.asp?session=23&bill=sb203
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