Chairperson

Professor Catherine Carpenter
Southwestern University, Los Angeles, California


Catherine Carpenter is a professor of law at Southwestern Law School, where she has been on the faculty since 1980. From 1984-1997, she served as the Academic Associate Dean. She currently teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and future interests, and serves as the faculty advisor for the Moot Court Honors program and Woman Law Students Association. She is a member of the editorial board of CALI (The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) and the Stanford Curriculum Work Group.

Professor Carpenter has been involved extensively in ABA Section activities, serving on the Section’s Law School Administration Committee from 1995-1999 and as its chair from 1996-1999; the Curriculum Committee from 2000-2004 and as its chair from 2002-2004; and the Nominating Committee from 2003-2005. In addition to serving on the Accreditation Committee since 2004, Professor Carpenter has chaired a number of site evaluation teams. She is a co-drafter of A Survey of Law School Curricula 1992-2002. In 2007-2008, she was a member of the Special Committee on Outcome Measures. Professor Carpenter earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her law degree from Southwestern.

Vice-Chairperson
Dean Jay Conision
Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana

Jay Conison is Dean of the Valparaiso University School of Law. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1975, an M.A. (Philosophy) from the University of Minnesota in 1978, and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1981. While in law school, Dean Conison was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Minnesota Law Review and was Order of the Coif. Previously, he practiced in the field of business litigation with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago. Dean Conison has been a member of the Accreditation Committee since 2005 and was Co-Chair of the Section's Clinical Skills Committee from 2001 to 2004.

Members

Jonathan Alger
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Jonathan Alger is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he is as a member of the senior leadership team, oversees all legal affairs for the university, serves as chief compliance officer, and advises the governing boards and administration. He teaches undergraduate courses on higher education law and diversity issues. He has previously served as Assistant General Counsel at the University of Michigan (where he helped coordinate two landmark admissions lawsuits in the U.S. Supreme Court), counsel for the American Association of University Professors, attorney-advisor in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and as an associate in labor and employment law at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Mr. Alger currently serves as First Vice President of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and is a member of several national advisory boards in higher education. He has given hundreds of presentations on higher education law and policy in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Alger graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and high honors from Swarthmore College.

Isidoro Berkman
Nossman LLP, San Francisco, California

Isidoro Berkman is Of Counsel in the national law firm of Nossaman LLP. He has over 40 years of experience serving clients in the area of tax law, representing public, private and tax-exempt institutions, as well as individuals. Mr. Berkman is also a former law school tax professor and associate law school dean. He earned a B.S. from DePaul University, a C.P.A. from the University of Illinois, and a J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was a member of the Northwestern University Law Review. Mr. Berkman served on the ABA's House of Delegates from 2003 to 2007 and is a member of the ABA's Section of Taxation. He is a past chair of the National Conference of Bar Examiners and of the California Committee of Bar Examiners. Mr. Berkman is admitted to practice in all California courts, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Tax Court.

Diane F. Bosse, Esq.
Bender, Crawford & Bender, LLP, Buffalo, New York

Diane F. Bosse has practiced law in Buffalo, New York for over 30 years. She has chaired the New York State Board of Law Examiners since 2001 and served on the Board of Trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners from 1999 to 2008 (Chair, 2006-2007). Ms. Bosse served on the Standards Review Committee of the Section from 2004 to 2007. She is a past president of the Defense Trial Lawyers of Western New York, and a past member of the boards of directors of the Bar Association of Erie County and of the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association. In 2001, Ms. Bosse received the Award of Merit from the Bar Association of Erie County, and she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Public Service from the University at Buffalo Law Alumni Association in 2005. She was honored in 2006 as the Defense Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Defense Trial Lawyers of Western New York. Ms. Bosse received her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently Of Counsel to the law firm of Bender, Crawford & Bender, LLP.

 

Professor Alice Gresham Bullock
Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C.

Alice Gresham Bullock, a tax and estate planning lawyer, joined the Howard University School of Law faculty in 1979. After having served twice both as associate dean for academic affairs and interim dean, Professor Bullock was named dean of the school of law in 1997 and lead the law school until 2002. She also served as deputy director of the Association of American Law Schools from 1992 to 1994. She has been a member of more than eight ABA sabbatical site visit teams and chaired three site teams. Among other awards, Professor Gresham Bullock was honored by the National Bar Association as a model of excellence in legal education and persistence in the law, public policy and activism and received the inaugural Legacy Diversity Award from the Council on Legal Education Opportunity in honor of her leadership and dedication to diversity in the legal profession. Professor Bullock is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Barbara J. Cox
California Western School of Law, San Diego, California

Barbara J. Cox is the Clara Shortridge Foltz Professor of Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego. She received her B.A. from Michigan State University and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Professor Cox served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at California Western, as Interim Deputy Director at the Association of American Law Schools, and held a joint appointment at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Women's Studies Program. She teaches Civil Procedure; Property; Women and the Law; Comparative Gender, Family, and Sexuality; and Sexual Orientation and the Law. She is the past chair of the AALS Sections on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues and Women in Legal Education, and is a member of the AALS Resource Corps. Her recent scholarship focuses on interstate recognition of domestic partnerships, marriages, and adoptions by same-sex couples, and she chairs both the executive and steering Committees of Freedom to Marry, the national organization dedicated to winning marriage equality for same-sex couples.

President Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, Ohio

Thomas Galligan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Stanford University; a J.D. from University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University) School of Law, summa cum laude, first in class; and a Master of Laws degree from Columbia University Law School. Mr. Galligan joined Colby-Sawyer College as its eighth president and as a professor in the Humanities Department in August 2006. Before being selected as the college's president, he served as dean and professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee. While there, he was the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and he taught torts and admiralty. Mr. Galligan has published numerous books and articles on torts and admiralty. His scholarship has been cited in the proposed Restatement (Third) of Torts and by numerous legal scholars. It also has been cited by the United States Supreme Court and other federal and state appellate and trial courts.

Dr. Robert Glidden
Rockbridge Baths, Virginia

Robert Glidden served as president of Ohio University from 1994 until his retirement in 2004. Previously he was at Florida State University for fifteen years, as professor and dean of the School of Music (1979-91) and then as provost and vice president for academic affairs (1991-94). During his career he has been a member of the faculties at Wright State University, Indiana University, the University of Oklahoma, and he was dean of music at Bowling Green State University in the late 1970s. He also served for three years, 1972 to 1975, as the executive director of the National Association of Schools of Music and National Association of Schools of Art in Washington. President Emeritus Glidden has been active in higher education accreditation for more than 35 years. He was chairman of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation in the mid-1980s and more recently (1996-98) he was founding chair of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). He served on the CHEA board until 2004 and continues to work with CHEA on special projects. Dr. Glidden has been a consultant or evaluator for more than 80 colleges and universities across the United States and has delivered papers on various aspects of American higher education in both Europe and Asia. He continues to serve as a consultant to colleges and universities in planning, development, and governance issues.

Professor Charles W. Goldner, Jr.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas

Charles W. Goldner, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, has served on the faculty since January 1988 and served as dean of the school from July 2000 through June 2008. He received his B.A. from DePauw University in 1971, his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1973 and his LL.M. from Georgetown University in 1987. Dean Goldner served six years as chair of the Pre-law Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He currently serves on the Board of the Law School Admission Council, as chair of Finance and Legal Affairs for the Law School Admission Council, as chair of the Arkansas Supreme Court Professional Practicum Committee, and as chair of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission.

Rufina A. Hernández
National Education Association, Washington, D.C.

Rufina A. Hernández is Director of the Human and Civil Rights Department at the National Education Association (NEA). Ms. Hernández joined NEA in 2002 as the department's Associate Director. Prior to joining NEA, she was Executive Director of the Latin American Research and Service Agency, a community-based organization in Denver that advocates for Latinos in the areas of education, housing, employment, and civil rights. Earlier in her career, Ms. Hernández practiced law at the Legal Aid Society of Denver. She also served as Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the University of Denver Law School and as the Executive Director of the State Bar of New Mexico. Ms. Hernández serves on several boards and committees, including the Center for Law and Education, the Gender Public Action Coalition, and the International Women's Forum Nominations Committee. She is a member of the International Women's Forum, the American Society of Association Executives, the American Bar Association, and the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association. An active member of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Ms. Hernández has served on numerous site evaluation teams. She received her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of New Mexico, her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, and is licensed to practice in the state of Colorado and in U.S. District Court, District of Colorado.

Professor Peter A. Joy
Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri

Peter Joy is the Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at Washington University School of Law and was the inaugural Director of the Trial and Advocacy Program for the School of Law from 2002 to 2006. Prior to joining the Washington University law faculty, he was Professor of Law and Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University Law School. Before becoming a law professor, Professor Joy had a general litigation practice in Cleveland, Ohio, served as an arbitrator with the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Please, and a mediator for the Center for Human Services in Cleveland. He currently serves on the Board of Editors for the Clinical Review, the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility, the Board of Directors of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), the Clinical Skills Committee of the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and is a member of the Education Study Project sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Stanford Law School.
Professor Joy has written about clinical legal education, legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, access to justice issues, and criminal justice issues. He is a contributing editor and co-authors a regular ethics column for Criminal Justice, a quarterly publication of the American Bar Association, and is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Ethical Issues for Prosecution and Defense, to be published by the ABA. Professor Joy earned a B.A. from Youngstown State University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School.

Joel H. Kaye, CPA, MPA
Ellin & Tucker, Chartered, Baltimore Maryland

Joel Kaye is a Director in charge of engagements for many major clients of Ellin & Tucker and is responsible for providing these clients with accounting and management advisory services. His industry expertise includes printing, oil and gas, real estate, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, automotive, and service organizations. He assists the firm's clients with financial planning, strategic planning, cash flow forecasting, as well as equity and financing transactions. In addition, Mr. Kaye has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, divestiture planning, financial structuring or restructuring, litigation support, cost accounting, and assisting companies in financially troubled situations. For the golf industry, he has served as a valuation and operations consultant, as well as a consultant for the acquisition of golf course properties. He has been qualified as an expert by both Federal and state courts in Maryland in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency, and loss-profit matters. Mr. Kaye is a graduate of the University of Maryland, earning a bachelor of science degree and a master's degree in business and public administration.

Associate Dean Anne Lukingbeal
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York

Anne Lukingbeal been an administrative dean at Cornell Law School since 1978 and currently serves as Associate Dean and Dean of Students. Dean Lukingbeal has been a frequent site inspection team member and served on the Section's Bar Admissions Committee from 1995 to 1998. Additionally, Dean Lukingbeal was a member of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Board of Trustees from 1984 to 1986, chaired the LSAC Programs, Education, and Prelaw Committee, and served on other LSAC committees including the Services Committee, the External Affairs Committee, and the Conference Planning Committee. In 1992, she was appointed to the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyer Competence and in 2003 she was elected to the National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Board of Directors. Dean Lukingbeal's other NALP include serving on the Task Force on Conditional Admission of the National Conference of Bar Examiners for 2003-2004 and in 2007 chaired tne NALP Task Force on Women's Leadership issues. From 1975-78, she served as a trial attorney in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office. She was admitted to the California bar in 1975 and has been on inactive status since 1979. Dean Lukingbeal received her undergraduate degree in political science (with distinction) from Stanford University in 1972 and her J.D. from the University of California-Davis in 1975.

Dean Veryl V. Miles
The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Washington, D.C.

Dean Miles joined the faculty of the Columbus School of Law in 1987 and served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 1997 to 1999. Previously, she was on the law faculty at George Mason University and has also taught in the summer school program at Washington University School of Law and as an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. Her teaching focus is primarily consumer bankruptcy and commercial law and she has written extensively on these topics. From August 2001 to August 2003, Dean Miles served as Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. She is a graduate of Wells College in Aurora, New York, and earned her law degree at the Catholic University of America.

Honorable Jequita H. Napoli
Cleveland County Courthouse, Norman, OK

Ms. Napoli is Judge of the District Court of the State of Oklahoma and appointed Special Judge November 1, 1996. Prior to her appointment to the Bench, she was in the private practice of law from 1982 to 1996, and served as Municipal Judge from 1987 to 1996. She was appointed to the Accreditation Committee in 2004. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Managers of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) from 2002-2003, and on its Board of Managers from 1992 to 2004. Currently Judge Napoli is the NCBE delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. She also served as chair of the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners in 1991, and as a member of the Board from 1988-1996. Judge Napoli earned a bachelor's degree in business administratoin with distinction in 1979 and the JD in 1982 form The University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Charles Nash
The University of Alabama System, Tuscaloosa, AL

Charles R. Nash has served as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at The University of Alabama System since 1992. As a senior academic officer in the System, he is the chief liaison to academic, institutional research and planning officials at The University of Alabama, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He advises the Chancellor on all academic policy matters and provides primary leadership in program planning, development, and review. Dr. Nash holds a bachelor’s degree from Jackson (MS) State University, a master’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a doctoral degree from Mississippi State University; and has studied at SE LA, Stanford, and Harvard Universities. Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Nash served as associate executive director for the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He has also held the position of dean of the School of Education at Armstrong State College (GA) and Director of Special Studies and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Development for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Dr. Nash is on the executive committees of the boards of directors of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the National Alliance of State Science and Mathematics Coalition (NASSMC).

Associate Dean Scott B. Pagel
George Washington University, Washington, DC

Scott B. Pagel is a professor, Associate Dean for Information Services, and Director of the Burns Law Library at the George Washington University Law School. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University, his M.A.L.S. from the University of Michigan, and his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches Advanced Legal Research and his scholarship focuses on legal bibliography and rare books. Professor Pagel has served on the Accreditation Committee since 2006 and has been a member of the ABA Law Libraries Committee since 2005. He served on the Membership Committee of the American Association of Law Schools from 2004 to 2006 and is active in the American Association of Law Libraries. Prior to coming to George Washington he served as law library director and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and assistant director for Public Services at Columbia University.

Honorable Margret G. Robb
United States Court of Appeals, Indianapolis, Indiana

Judge Robb was appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals in July 1998 by Governor Frank O'Bannon. Prior to joining the Court, Judge Robb was engaged in the general practice of law for 20 years and was a Chapter 11, 12, and a Standing Chapter 7 Bankruptcy trustee for the Northern District of Indiana. She was a registered family and civil law mediator and served as a Tippecanoe County Deputy Public Defender. Judge Robb has held numerous board positions for and been an officer for the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indiana Bar Foundation, Tippecanoe County Bar Association, Indianapolis Bar Association, Indianapolis Bar Foundation, American Bar Foundation, and the National Association of Women Judges. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Business Economics from Purdue University and is a 1978 magna cum laude graduate of Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.
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