Section Nominations for 1996-97

Note: Since this article was first published, the individual nominees were elected to or succeeded to the positions for which they were nominated.

James T. O'Reilly, chosen last year as Chair-Elect, will automatically assume the position of Chair. Mr. O'Reilly is Associate General Counsel for the Proctor & Gamble Company and an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Law. A prolific scholar, Mr. O'Reilly has also been extraordinarily active in the Section, serving as a Council Member, chair of the Membership Committee, chair of the Consumer Product Regulation Committee, liaison to the ABA Committee on AIDS, and associate editor of the Administrative Law Review.

Warren Belmar, chosen last year as Vice-Chair, will automatically assume the position of Chair-Elect. Mr. Belmar is a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in its Washington, D.C. office. He is the partner-in-charge of the Washington Office's Legislative and Government Affairs practice. In addition to having served as a Council Member from 1983-86 and Budget Officer from 1990-94, his active involvement in the Section spans two decades, starting with service as Vice-Chair of the Wage & Price Controls Committee in 1973. More recently he has chaired the Banking, Currency and Treasury Committee (1986-92) and the Financial Services Committee (1992-96). Mr. Belmar was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, where he served as Chair of the Judicial Review Committee. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Ronald Cass, dean of Boston University School of Law and Melville Madison Bigelow Professor of Law, is nominated for Vice-Chair. He is a former Vice-Chair of the United States International Trade Commission. A co-author of one of the leading administrative law casebooks, Dean Cass served on the Administrative Conference of the United States and is a member of the American Law Institute and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Dean Cass has also been a member of the Section's Council (1993-95) and served on the ABA committee to review the law school accreditation process.

Theodore Olson is nominated to be one of the Section's Delegates to the ABA's House of Delegates. Mr. Olson is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Olson has served on the Council (1991-94). A former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice, Mr. Olson was also a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

H. Russell Frisby, Jr. is nominated to be the Budget Officer. Mr. Frisby is the Chair of the Maryland Public Service Commission. Prior to his appointment to the Commission, Mr. Frisby was a partner in the law firm of Venable, Baetjer and Howard, where he specialized in the areas of corporate, public finance, and regulatory/telecommunications law. Mr. Frisby was the founding Chair of the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Frisby has previously practiced at Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner & Smouse and Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He also was employed by the Federal Communications Commission, first as a staff member and later as Legal Assistant to a Commissioner. Mr. Frisby has been Assistant Budget Officer, Co-Chair of the Section's Communications Committee and Vice-Chair of the Section's Ratemaking Committee. He was Secretary of the ABA's Conference on Minority Partners in Majority/Corporate Law Firms. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Sidney A. Shapiro is nominated for Section Secretary. Professor Shapiro is the John M. Rounds Professor of Law at the University of Kansas. He teaches Administrative Law, Regulatory Law & Policy, the Public Policy Clinic, and the Legislative Clinic. He is the author of Administrative Law & Process (2d ed. 1992) (with Richard Pierce & Paul Verkuil), Regulatory Law & Policy (1993) (with Joe Tomain) and Workers At Risk: The Failed Promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 1993). Professor Shapiro is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Professor Shapiro was Chair of the Section's Rulemaking Committee for a number of years.

The following are nominated for positions on the Section's Council.

Susan Braden, who has been filling an unexpired term on the Council, is nominated for a full three year position. Ms. Braden is a partner with the Washington, D.C. firm of Ingersoll and Bloch, Chartered, where she specializes in antitrust law. She has been Chair of the Section's Antitrust, Competition and Trade Regulation Committee for a number of years as well as serving as the Section's liaison to the National Association of Attorneys General.

Christine Franklin is a partner with the Los Angeles firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, where she has specializes in commercial litigation. Ms. Franklin has been Chair of the Section's Membership Committee and Vice Chair of the Financial Services Committee, the Insurance Committee, the Management and Planning Committee, and the Publications Committee. From 1979 to 1986 Ms. Franklin was a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California.

James O. Neet, Jr., is a partner with the Kansas City firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, P.C., where he specializes in environmental law. Until 1989, Mr. Neet was Regional Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region VI office in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Neet has been Chair of the Section's Environmental Regulations Committee.

Ronald Wright is a professor at Wake Forest Law School, where he teaches administrative law and criminal law subjects. Professor Wright previously was a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. Professor Wright has served as Chair of the Scholarship Award Committee, Vice Chair of the Section's Government Organization and Separation of Powers Committee, and as a reporter for the ABA's Committee for Congressional Processes.

The following have been recommended to the Chair for appointive positions on the Council.

For State Administrative Law -- David Cardwell is currently serving as the Council Member for State Administrative Law. Mr. Cardwell is a partner in the Orlando office of Holland & Knight and is a member of the ABA's House of Delegates, a former Section Council Member, a former Chair of the State and Local Government Law Section, and a former Member of the ABA's Board of Governors.

From the Judiciary -- Judge Judith Rogers is currently serving as the Council Member from the Judiciary. Judge Rogers was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by President Clinton in 1994. Before that she was an Associate, then Chief, Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals since 1983. Prior to ascending to the bench, Judge Rogers was Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia from 1979-83.

From Federal Government Service -- Thomas Griffith is the Senate Legal Counsel, a position he has held since October 1995. Previously, he was Deputy Senate Legal Counsel. Mr. Griffith came to the Senate Legal Counsel's office from the Charlotte, North Carolina firm, Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson.