Membership Notes

· Judge Phyllis W. Beck of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania has been named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. The Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania is an organization that honors women for outstanding contributions to their local, state, and national communities. Judge Beck, who was proposed for the award by the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, has served as a member of the Judges Consultative Group for the Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution.

· David L. Callies, the Kudo Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii, and A. Dan Tarlock, Distinguished Professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, are the new coeditors of West Group’s Annual Land Use and Environmental Law Review, which publishes the best land-use and environmental articles from the previous year. Professor Callies also moderated an international panel on land-development regulation at the combined annual meetings of the American Bar Association and the Law Society in London, and his book on United States land-use controls was published in Chinese.

· John G. Cameron, Jr., partner in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, law firm of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, is the author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Construction Law, newly published by ALI-ABA.

· Sheldon S. Cohen of Washington, D. C., has been elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The George Washington University.

· Council member William T. Coleman, Jr., of Washington, D. C., has become the 25th annual recipient of the Fordham-Stein Prize. The award, administered by Fordham Law School’s Stein Center on Law and Ethics, honors individuals whose work exemplifies outstanding standards of professional conduct, promotes the advancement of justice, and brings credit to the profession by emphasizing in the public mind the contributions of lawyers to society and to democracy. Mr. Coleman earlier this year received the Institute’s Henry J. Friendly Medal.

· Another Council member from the District of Columbia, Lloyd N. Cutler, who himself received the Fordham-Stein Prize in 1995, this year received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

· Bernard O. Dow, a shareholder and Chairman of the Transaction Department at the Houston firm of Dow, Cogburn & Friedman, P. C., has been selected to receive the First Annual Award for Texas Lawyer Lifetime Achievement in Real Estate Law from the State Bar of Texas Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section. The award recognizes "significant and sustained contributions by a Texas lawyer to the Texas real estate bar."

· Professor Vincent R. Johnson of St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio served as Reporter for the Standards on State Judicial Retirement, adopted recently by the American Bar Association during its annual meeting in New York.

· Council member Herma Hill Kay has stepped down as Dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law after eight years of service. She continues to hold the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Chair at Berkeley.

· Dianna P. Kempe, Q. C., J. P., Senior and Managing Partner at the Hamilton, Bermuda law firm of Appleby Spurling & Kempe, has been elected President of the International Bar Association. Ms. Kempe, Secretary General of the IBA from 1994-1998 and the organization’s Vice-President since 1998, is the first woman to be named to the IBA presidency.

· Professor Stephen H. Legomsky of the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis has become the first Director of the Law School’s new Institute for Global Legal Studies.

· Judge Albert J. Matricciani, Jr., of Baltimore was the recent recipient of the 8th Annual Rosalyn B. Bell Award for outstanding contributions to the field of family law from the Women’s Law Center of Maryland, Inc. Judge Matricciani has served as judge-in-charge of the family division in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City since 1996.

· Former Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court, Robert Muir, Jr., who at the time of his retirement from the bench was the longest serving judge among active New Jersey jurists, has returned to private practice. He will be Of Counsel to the firm of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, based in Morristown, New Jersey.

· Gregory G. Murphy of Billings, Montana, has been elected Chairman of the National Conference of Bar Examiners. The NCBE produces the Multistate Bar Examination, which is administered as part of the bar examination in all but two states and in several United States territories.

· Jeswald W. Salacuse, the Henry J. Braker Professor of Law at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, last spring held the Fulbright Chair in Comparative Law in Italy. He is also the author of The Wise Advisor: What Every Professional Should Know About Consulting and Counseling (Praeger, 2000).

· Professor Wenona Yvonne Whitfield of Southern Illinois University School of Law has been awarded a Fulbright grant to teach at Tsinghua University’s School of Law in Beijing during the 2001 spring semester.