Section Officer Nominees

Ronald Cass, dean of Boston University School of Law and Melville Madison Bigelow Professor of Law, chosen last year as Chair-Elect, will automatically assume the position of 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.

John Hardin Young, chosen last year as Vice-Chair, will automatically assume the position of Chair-Elect. Mr. Young is of counsel to the firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur in Washington, D.C. He is also associated with the Smoot Corporation in Falls Church, Virginia. Mr. Young has been an active member of the Section, currently chairing the Dispute Resolution Committee and the Programs Committee.

Ronald Levin, Professor of Law at the Washington University in St. Louis, is nominated for the position of Vice-Chair of the Section. Professor Levin is coauthor of State and Federal Administrative Law (2d ed. 1998) (with Michael Asimow and Arthur Bonfield) and of Administrative Law and Process in a Nutshell (4th ed. 1997) (with Ernest Gellhorn). He has been active in the Section for nearly twenty years. He served on the Council from 1986-89 and chaired the Judicial Review Committee from 1982-86 and 1993-98. His most extensive project on behalf of the Section was his work as draftsman of the Section's "Restatement of Scope-of-Review Doctrine," published in the Administrative Law Review in 1986. He also has served as a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States and has chaired both the Section on Administrative Law (1993) and the Section on Legislation (1995) of the Association of American Law Schools.

Leonard Leo is nominated for the position of Budget Officer. Mr. Leo is Director of the Lawyers Division of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where he manages the projects, publications, and programs of a nationwide network of 25,000 lawyers. Before coming to Washington, he practiced law at the New Jersey law firm of Sills Beck, having served in both the general litigation and regulatory practice sections. Mr. Leo has participated in the affairs of the Administrative Law Section as Assistant Budget Officer for two years, and as chair and vice chair of the Government Organization and Separation of Powers Committee for two years.

The following are nominated to be Council Members for three year terms:

Michael J. Astrue is Vice President and General Counsel of Biogen, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vice President of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. Mr. Astrue also served in the government in a number of capacities, including as Counselor to the Commissioner of Social Security, Associate Counsel to Presidents Reagan and Bush, and General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this last position, he also served as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and of the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board while it was writing many of its initial ADA regulations. He has been vice chair and co-chair of the Section's Health and Human Services Committee.

Phyllis E. Bernard is a professor of law at Oklahoma City University School of Law, where she is also the Director of the Center on Alternative Dispute Resolution and the court-annexed mediation program for central Oklahoma. Prior to teaching, Professor Bernard was a Member of the Provider Reimbursement Review Board of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was also in private practice as a litigator and lobbyist for several years in Washington, D.C. Professor Bernard has been a consultant for the United Nations World Health Organization and the former Administrative Conference of the United States. An active member of the Section, Professor Bernard has previously co-chaired the Health Committee and currently is co-chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee.

Judith Kaleta is the Chief Counsel of the Research and Special Programs Administration in the Department of Transportation. Ms. Kaleta has been with the Department since 1984. Prior to being appointed Chief Counsel of the RSPA in 1990, she served as an attorney with the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Department of Transportation's Office of General Counsel. Before joining DOT, she was an Assistant Attorney General in the Illinois Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division. Ms. Kaleta has been a Council Member during the past year, filling a one-year vacancy. In addition, she has been Chair of the Ombudsman Committee, Assistant Secretary, and vice-chairs of the Transportation and Professional Education Committees.

Daniel R. Ortiz is John Allan Love Professor of Law and Elizabeth D & Richard A. Merrill Research Professor at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1985. In 1991 and 1994-96, he was also Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School. Professor Ortiz teaches in the areas of Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Electoral Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal Theory, among others, and writes primarily in election law and legal theory. He served as chair and co-chair of the Section's Elections Committee.