Members Elected October 2015

In October 2015, The American Law Institute announced the names of 75 newly elected members. These outstanding judges, lawyers, and law professors are from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and three foreign countries.

Please see the list of new members below.  You may link through for a brief biography on each of our newest members. 

Nicole Andreson

Burlington, VT

Dinse

Sharon R. Barner

Indianapolis, IN

Cummins, Inc.

Donald W. Beatty

Columbia, SC

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Charles A. Blanchard

Washington, DC

Arnold & Porter

Roland E. Brandel

San Francisco, CA

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Irene Calboli

Fort Worth, TX

Texas A&M University School of Law

David G. Campbell

Phoenix, AZ

U.S. District Court

Jonathan G. Cedarbaum

Washington, DC

George Washington University Law School

Roland W. Chamblee, Jr.

South Bend, IN

Law Office of Roland W. Chamblee, Jr.

Brent O. E. Clinkscale

Greenville, SC

Independent Arbitrator AAA/IDCR

Michelle Madden Dempsey

Villanova, PA

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Ilana H. Eisenstein

Philadelphia, PA

DLA Piper US LLP

Brian T. Fitzpatrick

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt University Law School

Stephen John Gageler

Sydney, NSW, Australia

High Court of Australia

Stacey Putnam Geis

San Francisco, CA

Michael J. Gerhardt

Chapel Hill, NC

University of North Carolina School of Law

Abbe R. Gluck

New Haven, CT

Yale Law School

Jeremy M. Goldman

San Francisco, CA

California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Four

Andrew T. Guzman

Los Angeles, CA

University of Southern California, Gould School of Law

Douglas Hallward-Driemeier

Washington, DC

Ropes & Gray LLP

David A. Hardy

Reno, NV

Second Judicial Court, Washoe County

Kristin Nicole Henning

Washington, DC

Georgetown University Law Center

Chris Jay Hoofnagle

Berkeley, CA

University of California, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Mitchell A. Imanaka

Honolulu, HI

Imanaka Asato LLC

Phyllis Ann James

Las Vegas, NV

MGM Resorts International

Robert A. James

San Francisco, CA

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Lisa L. Johnsen

Seattle, WA

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Retired)

Herman N. Johnson, Jr.

Huntsville, AL

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama

Abdul Kallon

Seattle, WA

Perkins Coie LLP

Liza Ilona Karsai

Chicago, IL

Cheryl A. Krause

Philadelphia, PA

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Timothy P. Law

Philadelphia, PA

Reed Smith LLP

Gerard J. Lewis, Jr.

Philadelphia, PA

Monica M. Márquez

Denver, CO

Supreme Court of Colorado

Jenny S. Martinez

Stanford, CA

Stanford Law School

Michael C. Massengale

Houston, TX

JAMS

D. Stephen Mathias

New York, NY

United Nations Office of Legal Affairs

Tamarra Matthews Johnson

Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice

Don J. McDermett, Jr.

Dallas, TX

Winston & Strawn LLP

Peter S. Menell

Berkeley, CA

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

John Cruse Merchant

Cincinnati, OH

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Ralf C. Michaels

Hamburg, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Eric S. Miller

Burlington, VT

The University of Vermont Health Network

S. David Mitchell

Columbia, MO

University of Missouri School of Law

Paul Mogin

Chevy Chase, MD

Williams & Connolly LLP (Retired)

Gerald L. Neuman

Cambridge, MA

Harvard Law School

Wendy L. Patrick

San Diego, CA

County of San Diego District Attorney's Office

John Pelander

Tucson, AZ

Supreme Court of Arizona (Retired)

David D. Powell, Jr.

Denver, CO

Garnett Powell Maximon Barlow

Richard J. R. Raleigh, Jr.

Huntsville, AL

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Neil M. Richards

Saint Louis, MO

Washington University School of Law

Theodore Ruger

Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Adam F. Scales

Camden, NJ

Rutgers Law School

Alexander Cochran Schoch

Austin, TX

Railroad Commission of Texas

Ingeborg Schwenzer

Müllheim, Germany

University of Basel, Switzerland

Michael N. Simkovic

Santa Monica, CA

University of Southern California, Gould School of Law

Jacqueline A. Simmons

Indianapolis, IN

Indiana University, Maurer School of Law (Retired)

Abbe Smith

Washington, DC

Georgetown University Law Center

Rosa Solis-Rainey

Las Vegas, NV

Morris Law Group

Nicole France Stanton

Phoenix, AZ

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Lior Jacob Strahilevitz

Chicago, IL

University of Chicago Law School

Linda Sugin

New York, NY

Fordham University School of Law

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.

Washington, DC

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

John Shepard Wiley, Jr.

Los Angeles, CA

California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Eight

Norma J. Williams

Los Angeles, CA

Williams & Associates

Edwin D. Williamson

Washington, DC

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (Retired)