The American Law Institute today announced the election of 50 new members. The group includes exceptional judges, lawyers, and legal academics hailing from 15 states and the District of Columbia, along with two new international members from Austria and the United Arab Emirates.
“Combining diversity of experience and place, and uniform intellectual excellence in our membership has been The American Law Institute’s greatest strength. Our new membership class exemplifies that great tradition,” said ALI President Roberta Cooper Ramo.
“Today we add to ALI’s tremendous breadth and depth of experience with new members who are judges from the state and federal trial and appellate courts, government attorneys, lawyers from large and small law firms as well as major corporations and nonprofit organizations, and law professors who have been recognized for the excellence of their scholarship. I look forward to seeing the great contribution that these new members will make,” President Ramo said.
The newly elected members are:
Alabama
Ben H. Harris III, Mobile - Partner, Jones Walker LLP
John C. Neiman, Jr., Birmingham - Partner, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, PC
California
David B. Goodwin, San Francisco - Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Lucas Guttentag, Stanford - Professor, Stanford Law School
Lucy H. Koh, San Jose - Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Gillian L. Lester, Berkeley - Professor, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Incoming Dean, Columbia Law School, effective January 2015)
Douglas M. Mancino, Los Angeles - Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP
David Lombard Mulliken, San Diego - Of Counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP
Robert A. Wexler, San Francisco - Partner, Adler & Colvin
Connecticut
Bethany R. Berger, Hartford - Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law
District of Columbia
Robert E. Dalton - Sr. Adviser on Treaty Policy, U.S. Department of State
Judith Leonard - General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution
Jeffrey P. Minear - Counselor to the Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Margaret Ann Ryan - Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Sri Srinivasan - Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia
Florida
Christopher A. Jarvinen, Miami - Partner, Berger Singerman LLP
Neal R. Sonnett, Miami - Sole Practitioner, Neal R. Sonnett, P.A.
Illinois
Theresa Amato, Oak Park - Executive Director, Citizen Works
Vanita M. Banks, Northbrook - Corporate Counsel, Allstate Insurance Company
Ruben Castillo, Chicago - Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern Illinois
Indiana
Michael J. Pitts, Indianapolis - Professor, Indiana University, McKinney School of Law
Kentucky
Griffin Terry Sumner, Louisville - Partner, Frost Brown Todd LLC
Massachusetts
Michael F. Aylward, Boston - Partner, Morrison Mahoney LLP
Peter J. Rubin, Boston - Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court
Michigan
John Trevor Gregg, Grand Rapids - Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Michigan
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Ann Arbor - Professor, University of Michigan Law School
Darrell Pierce, Ann Arbor - Partner, Dykema Gossett PLLC
Minnesota
Daniel Schwarcz, Minneapolis - Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
Nebraska
Amie C. Martinez, Lincoln - Partner, Anderson, Creager & Wittstruck, P.C. LLO
New Jersey
Michael J. Holston, Whitehouse Station - Executive Vice President, Merck & Co., Inc.
New York
Mitchell S. Eitel, New York - Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
John M. Gleeson, Brooklyn - Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York [Reinstatement]
Timothy B. Goodell, New York - Sr. Vice President & General Counsel, Hess Corporation
William C. Heuer, New York - Partner, Duane Morris LLP
Thomas H. Lee, New York - Professor, Fordham University School of Law
Jill Manny, New York - Professor & Executive Director, National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, NYU Law
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, New York - Professor, New York University School of Law
David E. Patton, New York - Executive Director & Attorney-in-Chief, Federal Defenders of New York
Deborah Renner, New York - Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP
Anthea Roberts, New York - Professor, Columbia University School of Law
Sandra M. Rocks, New York - Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Lisa J. Sotto, New York - Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP
Pennsylvania
John E. Jones III, Harrisburg - Judge, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
Randy J. Maniloff, Philadelphia - Counsel, White and Williams LLP
Debra McCloskey Todd, Pittsburgh - Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Texas
Aaron-Andrew Paul Bruhl, Houston - Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Justin Brett Busby, Houston - Justice, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District
Grant Dorfman, Houston - Judge, State of Texas, 334th District Court
International
Austria
Helmut Koziol, Vienna - Managing Director, European Center on Tort and Insurance Law
United Arab Emirates
Essam Al Tamimi, Dubai - Founder & Senior Partner, Al Tamimi & Co.