Honorable Ruth V. McGregor, Chair, is chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. She received her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Iowa in 1964 followed by a M.A. in 1965. She received her J.D., summa cum laude for the Arizona State University College of Law in 1974. In 1974, Vice Chief Justice McGregor entered private practice with the Phoenix firm of Fennemore Craig. In 1981, she accepted a clerkship to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, returning to Fennemore Craig in 1982, where she continued to practice in the areas of civil trial, administrative and appellate cases in both state and federal jurisdictions. She became a judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1989, serving as vice chief judge from 1993 - 1995 and chief judge from 1995 - 1997, and she was elevated to the Arizona Supreme Court in 1997. Justice McGregor served on the Section's Standards Review Committee.

Professor Randy Hertz,Chair-Elect, is a professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law.  Professor Hertz holds a BA from Carlton College, and a JD from Stanford University where he was a member of the editorial Board of the Stanford Law Review.  He clerked for Chief Justice Utter of the Washington Supreme Court.  He served as a public defender in the District of Columbia from 1980 through 1985. He is editor-in-chief of the Clinical Law Review.  He served as Consultant to the MacCrateTask Force on Legal Education and as a Reporter to the Wahl Commission on the Accreditation of Law Schools. He has served on the Council since 2000 and previously was a member of the Section's Standards Review Committee.

Jerome C. Hafter, Vice-Chair, is a partner in the Jackson, Mississippi office of Phelps Dunbar, LLP, which has offices in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Florida and the United Kingdom. He practices in the areas of business, corporate, and commercial law with a particular emphasis on representing agri-business industries. Hafter has served as president of the Washington County Bar Association, is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Judicature Society, and a fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation. Since 1979 he has served as chairperson of the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions; from 1989 to 2000 as a member of the Board of Managers of the National Conference of Bar Examiners and its chair from 1998 to 1999. Hafter received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Rice University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and president of the Student Association. He attended Oxford University in England as a Marshall Scholar, obtaining a BA/MA with First Class Honors in Modern History and attended law school at Yale University, where he served as associate editor of the Yale Law Journal. Hafter is the author of numerous published books and articles. He has served on the Accreditation Committee from 1998 to 2002 and the Council since 2000. .

Professor Peter A. Winograd,Secretary, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico School of law.  Professor Winograd received an A.B. from Brown University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a LL.M. from New York University.  He served as Director of Admissions and Assistant Dean at New York University Law School, Associate Dean at Georgetown University Law School and Director of Law Programs at the Educational Testing Service.  He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.  He is a former president of the Law School Admissions Council.  In 1999 he received the Section's Robert J. Kutak Award.

William R. Rakes, Esq., Immediate Past Chair, is a partner in the Roanoke, Virginia, law firm of Genrty Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, banking and general corporate law. He holds both his B.A. (1960) and LL.B. (1963) from the University of Virginia. Mr. Rakes is a former president of the Virginia State Bar and the Roanoke Bar Association. During his tenure as president of the Virginia State Bar, he served as convener of two Virginia conclaves on legal education. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association from 1998-2001, during which period he served as Board of Governors Liaison to the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Mr. Rakes served as an elected member of the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar from 1995 until 1998.

Members

Joseph F. Baca, Esq., is a retired chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court and currently engages in a private practice of arbitration and mediation. Mr. Baca was elected to the Court in 1988 and served 13 years. He also served 16 years as district judge in the Second Judicial District. Mr. Baca earned his J.D. degree at George Washington University School of Law, and an LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He previously served on the Section's Accreditation Committee, the ABA Task Force on Opportunities for Minorities in Law Schools and Opportunities for Minorities in the Judiciary. President Clinton appointed Mr. Baca to the State Justice Institute Board of Directors, where he currently serves as vice-chairman. He has received numerous awards, including the J. William Fullbright Award for Distinguished Public Service from the George Washington University Law School and the Outstanding Judicial Service Award from the New Mexico Bar Association. He was named twice by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential Hispanics" in America.

Christine Brady, is a part-time 4L student at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Class of 2008. She earned a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in sociology from Leland Stanford Jr. University in Stanford, California. Currently, Brady is currently interning at the Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada.

Professor J. Martin Burke, served as dean at the University of Montana School of law from 1988 through 1993. Professor Burke currently teaches Federal Tax, Partnership Tax, Corporate Tax and Taxation of Property Transactions, and also has been a visiting faculty member at the Graduate Tax Programs at New York University School of Law and the University of Florida. He earned a law degree from the University of Montana School of Law, and an LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law. Professor Burke has authored two books: Taxation of Individual Income and Modern Estate Planning. He has served on the Section’s Accreditation Committee from 1996-02, the Standards Review Committee from 2002-05, and on the Task Force on Accreditation Processes from 2001-03. He chaired the Accreditation Committee in 2001-02 and currently chairs the Standards Review Committee

Rebecca Cain Ceperley, is president and CEO of the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation in Charleston, West Virginia. Previously, she was president of the League of Women Voters of the United States from 1992 to 1998, where she played an active role in the fight for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act. Following her tenure at the League, Ceperley worked to achieve campaign finance reform in Congress as president of Campaign for America. In 1996, the Ladies’ Home Journal named her one of the most powerful women in politics and in 2006, West Virginia Executive magazine named her one of the 50 most powerful people in West Virginia. Ceperley is chair of the Building Bridges and Empowering Citizens Steering Committee of West Virginia Vision Shared, vice chair of Vision Shared, Inc. and is a member of the governing board of Imagine West Virginia. She also serves on the executive committee of the Association of Community Grantmakers and is a member of the community development committee of the Charleston Area Alliance. Ceperley earned a bachelor of arts degree from West Virginia University, which has honored her with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the political science department and a College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Recognition Award for public service. Ceperley has also received honorary doctor of law degrees from Ripon College and the University of Charleston. Her columns and guest editorials have been carried by Scripps-Howard and Cox News Service; and she is currently a contributing columnist for The Charleston Gazette.

Diane Camper, is an assistant editorial page editor of the Baltimore Sun and has worked on the Sun's editorial page since 2004. She has more than 30 years’ experience in journalism and has written about issues that impact families and children, including education, early childhood development, juvenile justice and child welfare. From 1997 to 2004, she was with the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, serving as public affairs manager from 1997 until July 2003, when she was appointed senior fellow in the Measurement, Evaluation, Communication and Advocacy group. Prior to joining the Casey Foundation, Ms. Camper was a member of the editorial board of the New York Times and a Washington bureau correspondent for Newsweek magazine. She has covered issues and events that shaped American politics and policy, including the Watergate hearings and the John Hinckley trial. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism and political science from Syracuse University, and a Master of Studies in Law from Yale University. Ms. Camper has served on the Council since December 2003, when she was elected to fill a vacancy.

Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey, has served as a judge on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and as an associate justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her to serve as a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Nashville, becoming the first woman to be appointed to the 6th Circuit. Judge Daughtrey was also the first woman on the faculty at Vanderbilt University Law School and the first woman assistant U.S. attorney in Nashville. Judge Daughtrey’s leadership roles at the American Bar Association include council member of the Judicial Administration Division, House of Delegates and Executive Committee of the Appellate Judges’ Conference, and as a member of the Standing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar and the Commission on Women in the Profession. Judge Daughtrey received both her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University. She has served on the Standards Review Committee from 2003 to the present.

Professor Robert D. Dinerstein, is professor of law at American University Washington College of Law, where he has served on the faculty since 1983. From 1997 to 2004, he was associate dean for academic affairs. Professor Dinerstein was the director of the law school’s nationally recognized clinical program and also directed and taught in the Criminal Justice Clinic. He now directs the law school’s Disability Rights Law Clinic. Professor Dinerstein teaches in the substantive area of disability law, and has made numerous presentations on and written about the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was named by President Clinton to membership on the President’s Committee on Mental Retardation, on which he served from 1994 until 2001. Professor Dinerstein served on the Section’s Standards Review Committee from 2002-2005 and was vice-chair of the Committee in 2004-05. He served on the then-named Skills Training Committee, and currently is a member of the Section’s Technology Committee. He also has been active within the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), serving as chair of the Sections on Clinical Legal Education and Law and the Community, as well as AALS Committees on Clinical Legal Education and Sections and the Annual Meeting. Professor Dinerstein has a B.A. from Cornell University (1974) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1977).

Honorable Christine M. Durham, is chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. She has served on the Supreme Court of Utah since 1982 and became chief Justice in 2002. Justice Durham received her law degree from Duke University and later practiced law in Durham, North Carolina, and was an instructor of legal medicine at Duke University Medical School. After moving to Utah, she served as a judge on the Utah District Court for four years until she was appointed to the Supreme Court. She is a trustee of Duke University, a member of the American Inns of Court Foundation Board of Trustees and of the Council of the American Law Institute. Justice Durham also is a past president of the National Association of Women Judges and a former member of the Federal Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure. She also leads the Education for Justice Project, a partnership between public education, the judicial branch, and the legal profession to improve education about the justice system in Utah public schools, and she is a member of the Utah Constitutional Revision Commission.

Irving Freeman, Esq., is Vice President of Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), where he is responsible for LECOM's additional site in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Duquesne University School of Law in June 2005 and is admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania and North Dakota. Irv also holds a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of North Texas and bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, respectively. During law school, Irv served as the law student liaison to the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (2002 to 2004) and the Health Law Section (2004-2005). Irv has also served on the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation, the Commission on Dental Accreditation, and the certifying board of the National Registry of Microbiologists.

Professor Phoebe Haddon, is professor of law at Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law. Her undergraduate degree is from Smith College and her law degree from Duquesne University School of Law. Professor Haddon was the law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Weis, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, following graduation from Duquesne. She then practiced with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., until she joined the faculty at Temple University School of Law in the fall of 1981. She received her LL.M. at Yale Law School in 1985 and also served as deputy executive director of the redevelopment authority of the city of Philadelphia, and president of its low-income housing development subsidiary, the Philadelphia Development Mortgage Assistance Corporation, from 1987-1989. Professor Haddon currently serves as a trustee of the Law School Admission Council. She has previously served on the Executive Committee and the Professional Development Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Haddon teaches Constitutional Law, Torts, Products Liability and a seminar on Law, Justice and Morality. She is the co-author of two casebooks in Constitutional Law and Torts and has written numerous articles on equal protection, jury participation, academic freedom, and diversity.

Associate Dean Joan S. Howland, is a professor and associate dean of Information and Technology at the University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Howland teaches American Indian Legal History and Law in Cyberspace. Her scholarship focuses on American Indian law and culture, cyber law, business management, legal research methodologies, and law librarianship. She has served on the Accreditation Committee since 2001, and was a member of the ABA Law Libraries Committee from 1992 through 1994 and co-chaired that Committee from 1994 through 1996. Professor Howland is active in the AALS, the Law School Admissions Council, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the American Indian Library Association. She is a member of the American Law Institute. In 2003, she received the “Spirit of Law Librarianship” award for her volunteer work with American Indian populations and with indigenous communities in South America. In addition to a J. D., Professor Howland earned master’s degrees in history, library science, and business administration. Prior to joining the faculty at Minnesota, she held administrative positions in the law libraries at U.C. Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford. .

Chancellor and Dean Mary Kay Kane, is the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law, Chancellor and Dean Emeritus at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. After graduation she became a research associate at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was the co-director of the National Science Foundation project on privacy, confidentiality and social science research data. She became an assistant professor in 1974 at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. In 1977 she joined the faculty of California, Hastings, becoming associate academic dean in 1981 and dean of the law school in 1993. She served on the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools from 1991-93 and from 2000 to 2002, and as AALS president during 2001. She is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and had served as reporter on the ALI complex litigation project. She has written numerous law review articles and books, particularly in the area of civil procedure. Dean Kane currently serves on the Section's Questionnaire Committee.

President John L. Lahey, is president at Quinnipiac College. Previously he was executive vice president of Marist College. Dr. Lahey received his undergraduate and master's degree in philosophy from the University of Dayton, a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Miami, and he has a second masters degree in higher education from Columbia University. He frequently serves on evaluation teams for both the New England and Middle States Associations of Schools and Colleges. He served on the Section's Accreditation Committee 1996-2002.

Dean Dennis O. Lynch is dean and professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law. He holds a B.A. from the University of Oregon, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School. Professor Lynch was a program advisor in law and urban affairs for the Ford Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia in 1969-72. In 1974 he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Miami School of Law where he taught until 1990, having served as associate dean from 1983 to 1986. He served as dean and professor at University of Denver College of Law from 1990 to 1997, and was appointed dean of the University of Miami School of Law in 1999. A nationally recognized authority on Latin American law, employment law, and labor arbitration, Dean Lynch received several awards and grants, including a Fulbright Scholar in economics in Venezuela (1965-66), a Research Fellowship in Law and Modernization (Yale, 1972-74), and an International Legal Center Research Grant (1974-77) for the study of the Colombian legal profession. He has served the AALS, the Law School Admission Council as a Board Member, and the Accreditation Committee of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar from 2001-05.

Dean John F. O’Brien has been dean of New England School of Law since 1988. A native of Staten Island, New York, he received a B.A. in 1973 from Manhattan College, a J.D. in 1977 from New England School of Law, where he graduated first in his class, and an LL.M. in taxation in 1980 from Boston University School of Law. From 1977 to 1985, he was a senior attorney in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service. In 1985, he joined the faculty of New England School of Law, teaching Constitutional Law and Federal Income Taxation. He served as associate dean for two years before being named dean. He has previously served as chair of both the Accreditation Committee and the Independent Law School Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Before serving as chair of the Accreditation Committee, he was involved in the accreditation process, serving as special fact-finder and as both member and chair of law school evaluation teams. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Rennard Strickland, is Phillip H. Knight Professor of Law in the University of Oregon where he teaches American Indian Law, Legal history and culture, and legal professionalism. He served as dean at four law schools including Oregon and has served on the governing groups of the Association of American Law Schools (President), the Law School Admission Council (Chair) and the Society of American Law Teachers (Board Member). He has served on site visit teams for more than thirty years as well as serving on a number of Section Committees. He was also a member of the AALS membership Committee. Strickland is the recipient of the “Spirit of Excellence” Award from the ABA as well as the SALT Award. Strickland is the author or editor of more than thirty books including the Prize-winning TONTO’S REVENGE and THE HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW.

Barry Sullivan, Esq., is partner in the firm of Jenner & Block LLP, where he is co-chair of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice. Mr. Sullivan graduated from Middlebury College and the University of Chicago Law School, and clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He served as an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States in 1980 and 1981 and was dean of the law school of Washington and Lee University from 1994 to 1999. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Dublin University Law Journal and a senior lecturer in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies of the University of Chicago. Mr. Sullivan has been Chair of the Section of Legal Education’s Professionalism Committee and a member of both the Standards Review Committee and the Law School Administration Committee. He has twice served on the ABA Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs and was the first Chair of the ABA’s AIDS Coordinating Committee from 1988 to 1994.

Section Delegates to the House of Delegates

Sidney S. Eagles, Jr., Esq. serves as Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He received his J.D. from Wake Forest School of Law. Prior to his appointment to the court, he served in North Carolina as Deputy Attorney General, Counsel to the House Speaker, and engaged in private practice with the firm Eagles, Hafer & Hall and as a solo practitioner. Judge Eagles was the former North Carolina Bar Association president, chair of the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission, and the 1993-94 chair of the ABA Appellate Judges Conference. He has served as a member of the ABA House of Delegates since 1992 and has served on the Section's Standards Review Committee since 1999.

Jose R. Garcia-Pedrosa, Esq. is a former Chairperson of the Section and a former member of the Section's Accreditation Committee. Mr. Garcia-Pedrosa is a former partner in the Miami, Florida firm of Tew and Garcia-Pedrosa, and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of the National Parkinson Foundation. Mr. Garcia-Pedrosa served as a member of the ABA Commission on Professionalism and was founding member of the Cuban-American Bar Association. He is a former Miami City Attorney and City Manager of Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. Garcia-Pedrosa holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He received an honorary LL.D. from Stetson University.

Board of Governors Liaison

Professor Gary A. Munneke. Pace University, School of Law, White Plains, NY.

Staff Liaisons to the Council and Accreditation Committee