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VOLUME 32 NUMBER 3
Spring 2010

• Carolyn King to Become ALI Treasurer on May 19
• The President’s Letter
• Election of Council Members Set for Monday, May 17
• New ALI Deputy Director Assumes Duties
• Institute Member Receives Germany’s Highest Civilian Honor
• Restatements Old and New, Sentencing, and Article 9 Headline Annual Meeting Agenda
• Justice Breyer Heads Impressive Roster of Annual Meeting Speakers
• The Institute in the Courts
• In Memoriam
• Notes About Members and Colleagues
• ALI and State Bar of Georgia Join for Luncheon Meeting
• New Principles Volume on Aggregate Litigation Is Published
• New Members Elected
• 50 Years Ago at the Annual Meeting…
• Calendar

Carolyn King
to Become ALI Treasurer on May 19

Judge Carolyn Dineen King

At its December meeting, the Council elected Judge Carolyn Dineen King to a three-year term as Treasurer of the Institute, to start at the close of the Annual Meeting on May 19. Judge King, the first woman to hold that office in the Institute’s 87-year history, succeeds Bennett Boskey, who will become Treasurer Emeritus after 35 years of service.

A native of Syracuse, New York, Judge King received her undergraduate degree from Smith College summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and her law degree from Yale. She practiced law in Houston, Texas, focusing primarily on corporate and federal securities law, until President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1979. From 1999 through early 2006, she was the Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist appointed Judge King to the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States in 2000, and she chaired the committee from October 2002 through September 2005, the first woman to do so. She was also a member of the Conference’s Committee on Financial Disclosure from 1984 to 1991.

Judge King, who will become a life (25-year) member of the Institute at this year’s Annual Meeting, has been an active and dedicated participant in Institute work. Elected to the Council in 1991, she was appointed to the Council’s Executive Committee in 2007 and became a member of the Audit Committee in 2009. She chaired the Committee on Membership from 1997 to 1999 and served as an Adviser for Restatement Third, Torts: Products Liability, and Transnational Insolvency: Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries. She was also a member of the Federal Judicial Code Revision Committee.

A member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, Judge King has received many awards, including the ABA’s 2005 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award and the federal judiciary’s highest award, the 2007 Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. She is married to Thomas M. Reavley, an ALI member and senior Fifth Circuit judge.

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