PHILADELPHIA – At today's opening session of the Annual Meeting, The American Law Institute’s membership elected three 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 David J. Barron of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, William D. Savitt of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Beth A. Wilkinson of Wilkinson Stekloff LLP.
Additionally, at the Annual Meeting, the following Council members were reelected for another Council term: John B. Bellinger III of Arnold & Porter; Roberto Jose Gonzalez of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Wallace B. Jefferson, Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP; Patricia Ann Millett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Janet Napolitano of the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy; Eric A. Posner of the University of Chicago Law School; Virginia A. Seitz of Sidley Austin LLP; Laura Denvir Stith of the Supreme Court of Missouri (Retired); and Larry D. Thompson of Finch McCranie LLP.
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