Members Elected July 2017

In July 2017, 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.

Daniel Abebe

New York, NY

Columbia Law School

Douglas G. Baird

Chicago, IL

University of Chicago Law School

Lynn A. Baker

Austin, TX

University of Texas School of Law

Jeffrey A. Beaver

Seattle, WA

Miller Nash LLP

Michelle A. Behnke

Madison, WI

Boardman Clark LLP

Michael M. Berger

Los Angeles, CA

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Boris Bershteyn

New York, NY

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Elise Boddie

Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division

Deborah L. Brake

Pittsburgh, PA

University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Colleen V. Chien

Berkeley, CA

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Donald Earl Childress III

Malibu, CA

Pepperdine University, Caruso School of Law

Tanya S. Chutkan

Washington, DC

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Danielle Citron

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia School of Law

Eric R. Claeys

Arlington, VA

George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

Margaret Oertling Cupples

Jackson, MS

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Alicia J. Davis

Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan Law School

Nancy Scott Degan

New Orleans, LA

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

Michelle Adams Earley

Austin, TX

O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Miguel A. Estrada

Washington, DC

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Richard T. Ford

Palo Alto, CA

Stanford Law School

Susan Gary

Eugene, OR

University of Oregon School of Law

W. Scott Hastings

Dallas, TX

Locke Lord LLP

Oona A. Hathaway

New Haven, CT

Yale Law School

Damaris Hernández

New York, NY

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Steven G. Horowitz

New York, NY

Cleary Gottlieb

Olatunde Johnson

New York, NY

Columbia Law School

Wilbur E. Johnson

Charleston, SC

Clement Rivers, LLP

John B. Kirkwood

Seattle, WA

Seattle University School of Law

Dan D. Kohane

Buffalo, NY

Hurwitz & Fine, P.C.

Nancy Leong

Denver, CO

University of Denver, Sturm College of Law

Kay L. Levine

Atlanta, GA

Emory University School of Law

Lewis J. Liman

New York, NY

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Julia D. Mahoney

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia School of Law

Jennifer S. Martin

Albany, NY

Albany Law School

Jonathan S. Mothner

Stamford, CT

Synchrony Financial

John F. K. Oberdiek

Camden, NJ

Rutgers Law School

Eduardo Peñalver

Seattle, WA

Seattle University

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia School of Law

Carlton W. Reeves

Jackson, MS

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi

Patricia Lee Refo

Phoenix, AZ

Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

Liesa L. Richter

Norman, OK

University of Oklahoma College of Law

Beth Robinson

New York, NY

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Randolph Stuart Sergent

Baltimore, MD

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

Robyn S. Shapiro

Mequon, WI

Health Sciences Law Group, LLC

Katharine B. Silbaugh

Boston, MA

Boston University School of Law

David Alan Sklansky

Stanford, CA

Stanford Law School

Carla C. van Dongen

Bloomington, IL

State Farm Insurance Companies (Retired)

Chilton Davis Varner

Atlanta, GA

King & Spalding LLP

Kim McLane Wardlaw

Pasadena, CA

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Jane M. N. Webre

Austin, TX

Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP

Kennon L. Wooten

Austin, TX

Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP

Carolyn Wright

Dallas, TX

Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Retired)

Katrina M. Wyman

New York, NY

New York University School of Law

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Durham, NC

Duke University School of Law