Members Elected December 2018

In December 2018, The American Law Institute announced the newly elected members listed below. The new members, which include prominent judges, lawyers, and law professors, bring perspectives from a wide variety of legal concentrations. ALI is proud to welcome these exceptional individuals to its organization. 

Please click on an individual member to read a brief biography.

Christopher Edward Appel

Washington, DC

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

Amy Coney Barrett

Washington, DC

Supreme Court of the United States

Stephanos Bibas

Philadelphia, PA

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Richard A. Bierschbach

Detroit, MI

Wayne State University Law School

John E. Bies

Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice

Tonya L. Brito

Madison, WI

University of Wisconsin Law School

Michael A. Brown

Baltimore, MD

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

Karen C. Burgess

Austin, TX

Burgess Law PC

Consuelo M. Callahan

Sacramento, CA

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Sarah Keeton Campbell

Nashville, TN

Tennessee Supreme Court

Penelope L. Christophorou

New York, NY

Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP

Linda T. Coberly

Chicago, IL

Winston & Strawn LLP

Jayne Conroy

New York, NY

Simmons Hanly Conroy

J. Gordon Cooney, Jr.

Philadelphia, PA

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Karol Corbin Walker

Hackensack, NJ

Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP

Barbara J. Dawson

Phoenix, AZ

Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

Kelly Dermody

San Francisco, CA

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP

Nikola R. Djuric

Atlanta, GA

Djuric Spratt P.A.

Jennifer Dorsey

Las Vegas, NV

U.S. District Court, District of Nevada

Amy Poehling Eddy

Kalispell, MT

Montana Eleventh Judicial District Court

Felicia H. Ellsworth

Boston, MA

WilmerHale

Allan H. Erbsen

Minneapolis, MN

University of Minnesota Law School

Katie R. Eyer

Camden, NJ

Rutgers Law School

Alice S. Fisher

Washington, DC

Latham & Watkins LLP

Gregory R. Fox

Seattle, WA

Lane Powell PC

Anthony J. Gaughan

Des Moines, IA

Drake University Law School

Sharon Stern Gerstman

Buffalo, NY

Magavern Magavern Grimm LLP

Elizabeth Goff Gonzalez

Las Vegas, NV

Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County

Cisselon Nichols Hurd

Houston, TX

Shell Oil Company

Deirdre N. Hykal

New York, NY

TIAA

Nekia Hackworth Jones

Atlanta, GA

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Atlanta Regional Office

Jodie Adams Kirshner

New York, NY

New York University, Marron Institute

Erik Knutsen

Kingston, Canada

Queen's University School of Law

Nina A. Kohn

Syracuse, NY

Syracuse University College of Law

David N. Kragseth

Philadelphia, PA

Guy Carpenter & Co.

Máximo Langer

Los Angeles, CA

University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

Joseph N. Laplante

Concord, NH

U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire

Leandra Lederman

Bloomington, IN

Indiana University, Maurer School of Law

John Elliott Leighton

Coral Gables, FL

Leighton Law, P.A.

Susan C. Levy

Chicago, IL

Northern Trust

Elbert Lin

Richmond, VA

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

John Linarelli

Pittsburgh, PA

University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Demetrius McDaniel

Austin, TX

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Douglas Earl McLaren

Washington, DC

Law Offices of Douglas Earl McLaren

Kevin Michael McLaughlin

Tampa, FL

Wagner McLaughlin, P.A.

Roy W. McLeese III

Washington, DC

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Erin E. Murphy

Alexandria, VA

Clement & Murphy PLLC

Andre E. Owens

Washington, DC

WilmerHale

John B. Owens

San Diego, CA

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Sharon Reich Paulsen

Washington, DC

George Washington University

Karl-Nikolaus Peifer

Cologne, Germany

University of Cologne, Institute for Media and Communications Law

Douglas J. Pepe

New York, NY

Cohen & Gressler LLP

Paige Petersen

Salt Lake City, UT

Utah Supreme Court

Gregory G. Pinski

Great Falls, MT

Montana Eighth Judicial District Court (Retired)

Lisa R. Pruitt

Sacramento, CA

University of California, Davis School of Law

Helen P. Pudlin

Bryn Mawr, PA

Phillip T. Rollock

New York, NY

TIAA (Retired)

Matthew Sag

Atlanta, GA

Emory University School of Law

Colleen F. Shanahan

New York, NY

Columbia Law School

Dena Sharp

San Francisco, CA

Girard Sharp LLP

Rick Swedloff

Camden, NJ

Rutgers Law School

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

London, England

Essex Court Chambers

Stacey Ann Tovino

Norman, OK

University of Oklahoma College of Law

Alison M. Tucher

San Francisco, CA

California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three

Jennifer Zachary

Rahway, NJ

Merck & Co., Inc.