PHILADELPHIA – At today's opening session of the Annual Meeting, The American Law Institute’s membership elected six new members to its Council, which determines projects and activities to be undertaken by the ALI and approves the work as representing the position of the Institute.
The new Council members are Stephen John Gageler of the High Court of Australia, R. Hewitt Pate of Chevron Corporation, Richard L. Revesz of New York University School of Law, Robin L. Rosenberg of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Amy J. St. Eve of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Jennifer Zachary of Merck & Co. Inc.
Short biographies of ALI’s new Council members can be found below. Complete biographies are available here.
Stephen John Gageler is Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. He joined the High Court as a justice in 2012, following his service as Commonwealth Solicitor-General. Before his government service, he practiced as a barrister across Australia, focusing on constitutional, administrative, and commercial law. Gageler earned his law degree from the Australian National University and holds postgraduate qualifications from Harvard University. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000.
R. Hewitt Pate is vice president and general counsel of Chevron Corporation, where he leads global legal strategy and serves on the company’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining Chevron in 2009, he was a partner at Hunton & Williams and led its Global Competition practice. From 2003 to 2005, he served as assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He clerked for Justices Anthony Kennedy and Lewis Powell, and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III. Pate is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Richard L. Revesz is the AnBryce Professor of Law and dean emeritus at NYU School of Law, and a leading expert in environmental and regulatory law and policy. From 2023 to 2025, he served as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, where he advanced significant climate regulations and modernized federal cost-benefit guidance. A prolific scholar, he has authored ten books and over 80 articles. Revesz is the founder of the Institute for Policy Integrity and previously served as director of The American Law Institute. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton, holds an M.S. from MIT, and earned his J.D. from Yale, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.
Robin L. Rosenberg is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Appointed in 2014, she chairs the Judicial Conference Advisory Civil Rules Committee and co-created the Civil Discourse and Decisions civics education program. She previously served on the Florida Circuit Court, held in-house and law firm roles, and began her career at the DOJ and as a federal law clerk. Rosenberg is a graduate of Princeton University and earned both her J.D. and M.P.P. from Duke University.
Amy J. St. Eve serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was previously a district judge in the Northern District of Illinois and a federal prosecutor. Over her judicial career, she has presided over high-profile criminal and civil trials and has been active in judicial governance, including chairing the Budget Committee of the Judicial Conference. She teaches at Northwestern Law and serves on several advisory and nonprofit boards. Judge St. Eve is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School.
Jennifer Zachary is executive vice president and general counsel at Merck, where she oversees global legal, safety, and security operations. She previously practiced at Covington & Burling and held enforcement roles at the FDA and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. Zachary serves on the boards of REGENXBIO and Code the Dream. She earned dual science degrees from Arizona State University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Additionally, at the Annual Meeting, Ivan K. Fong of Medtronic PLC, Steven S. Gensler of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Samuel Issacharoff of New York University School of Law, and Kathleen M. O’Sullivan of Perkins Coie were reelected for another Council term.
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