· The American Judicature Society has selected Judge Richard Sheppard Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a member of the Institute’s Council, as recipient of the 17th annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award.

· Judge Dorothy Toth Beasley has stepped down from the Georgia Court of Appeals and become Executive Director for International Programs at the National Center for State Courts in Arlington, Virginia.

· Kenneth R. Heineman of St. Louis has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

· Thomas E. Fairchild, Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a member of the Council, and Irvin B. Charne of Milwaukee were jointly on May 24 awarded the 1999 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Seventh Judicial Circuit. Each year, the award is bestowed upon a legal professional in each of the nation’s 12 judicial circuits, “whose careers at the bar and on the bench have exemplified the values of civility, devotion to duty and courage.”

· Dianna P. Kempe of Hamilton, Bermuda, an Adviser to the Institute’s Transnational Insolvency Project, has become Senior Partner of the Hamilton law firm of Appleby Spurling & Kempe.

· Judge Carolyn Dineen King of Houston, a member of the Council, has become Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

· Lynne Liberato of Houston is President Elect of the State Bar of Texas.

· Vincent L. McKusick, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine and also a Council member, is the 1999 recipient of the Paul C. Reardon Award of the National Center for State Courts. The center’s highest award, it is not given every year but is bestowed only to honor “an individual who has distinguished himself or herself by working to further the goals and missions of the National Center.”

· Professor Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow of the Georgetown University Law Center has been awarded a 1998 first prize for professional and academic scholarship on alternative dispute resolution from the New York-based Center for Public Resources. The prize was given for her article, “The Silences of the ‘Restatement’ of the Law Governing Lawyers: Lawyering as Only Adversary Practice,” 10 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Beginning last January, she has been serving a one-year appointment as the first Phyllis W. Beck Professor at Temple University School of Law. The Beck Chair has been endowed in the name of Judge Phyllis W. Beck of the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

· Justice Stewart G. Pollock of the Supreme Court of New Jersey is retiring on September 1 after more than 20 years of service on the court. He will become of counsel to the law firm of Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti in Morristown, New Jersey. Judge Pollock is an Adviser to both the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers and the Restatement of Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers).

· Professor Lorraine A. Schmall of Northern Illinois University College of Law is co-author of a recently published casebook, Employee Benefits (West Group 1998), which introduces students to the substance and procedure of mandated and discretionary employee benefits and exposes them to the vagaries of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

· Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is one of five recipients of the ninth annual Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award for “paving the way to success for other women lawyers.” The award, given by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, will be presented on August 8 at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta.

· Willis R. Tribler of Chicago has been selected as the fifth recipient of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Medal of Merit.

· Judge Patricia M. Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, until recently the Institute’s First Vice President, in November will begin a two-year stint in The Hague as a Judge on the War Crimes Tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rawanda.

· Chief Justice Herbert P. Wilkins of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, a member of the Council and Chair of the Institute's Program Committee, will be retiring from the court on September 1 and joining the faculty of Boston College Law School.

· ALI President Charles Alan Wright was in July elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

· Harvey L. Zuckman, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Communications Law Studies at The Catholic University of America School of Law, is co-author of the recently published Modern Communication Law (West Group 1999), a three-volume encyclopedic treatise combining for the first time coverage of First Amendment issues, media law, and telecommunication regulation.