Members Elected December 2017

In December 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.

James M. Anderson

Pittsburgh, PA

RAND Corporation

Shawn J. Bayern

Tallahassee, FL

Florida State University College of Law

Spyridon V. Bazinas

Vienna, Austria

Theresa M. Beiner

Little Rock, AR

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law

Michelle Browdy

Armonk, NY

IBM Corporation

Jennifer Marie Chacón

Stanford, CA

Stanford Law School

Cynthia K. Ching

Honolulu, HI

Department of Corporation Counsel, City and County of Honolulu

Leon F. DeJulius

New York, NY

Jones Day

Brackett B. Denniston, III

Boston, MA

Goodwin Procter LLP

W. Neil Eggleston

Washington, DC

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Daniel M. Filler

Philadelphia, PA

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Paul Fishman

Newark, NJ

Arnold & Porter

Angel A. Garganta

San Francisco, CA

Venable LLP

Robert J. Gilson

Morristown, NJ

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division

Risa L. Goluboff

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia School of Law

Roberto Jose Gonzalez

Washington, DC

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Steven C. González

Olympia, WA

Supreme Court of Washington

Fatima Goss Graves

Washington, DC

National Women's Law Center

Britt C. Grant

Atlanta, GA

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

James E. Gritzner

Des Moines, IA

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa

Caitlin Halligan

Albany, NY

New York State Court of Appeals

Michael James Harrington

Indianapolis, IN

Eli Lilly & Company (Retired)

Adam L. Hoeflich

Chicago, IL

Bartlit Beck LLP

Sharona Hoffman

Cleveland, OH

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Marie Oh Huber

San Jose, CA

EBay Inc.

Leslie Carolyn Kendrick

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia School of Law

Renee Knake Jefferson

Houston, TX

University of Houston Law Center

William K. Kroger

Houston, TX

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Suzette Malveaux

Boulder, CO

University of Colorado Law School

Lisa Monaco

Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice

Anne M. Patterson

Morristown, NJ

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Ramona E. Romero

Princeton, NJ

Princeton University

Jeremy Ledger Ross

Seattle, WA

Amazon.com Inc.

Yaakov Moshe Roth

Washington, DC

Jones Day

Charlene Sachi Shimada

San Francisco, CA

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Peggie R. Smith

Saint Louis, MO

Washington University School of Law

Steven Davidoff Solomon

Berkeley, CA

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Evan B. Stephenson

Denver, CO

Spencer Fane LLP

Aaron M. Streett

Houston, TX

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Elizabeth Trujillo

Houston, TX

University of Houston Law Center

Alan Van Etten

Honolulu, HI

Deeley King Pang & Van Etten LLP

Palmer Gene Vance II

Lexington, KY

Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC

Christine A. Varney

New York, NY

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Beth A. Wilkinson

Washington, DC

Wilkinson Stekloff LLP

Marc Owen Wolinsky

New York, NY

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz