Six New Council Members Elected

At its 93rd Annual Meeting last week, The American Law Institute’s membership elected six new members to its Council, a volunteer board of directors that oversees the management of ALI’s business and affairs.

The new Council members are John B. Bellinger, III, of Arnold & Porter LLP; Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Gregory P. Joseph of Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC; Patricia A. Millett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Janet Napolitano of the University of California; and Stuart J. Rabner of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

“Our Council is made up of veteran lawyers, judges, and legal scholars who bring their diverse perspectives to all of ALI’s projects,” said ALI President Roberta Cooper Ramo. “I couldn’t be more excited to work with our newest Council members as we move toward ALI’s 100th Anniversary. This unique class includes individuals with a broad range of backgrounds, both in areas of law and experience.”

Brief biographies of ALI’s new Council members can be found below.

John B. Bellinger, III, is a partner in Arnold & Porter LLP’s National Security and Public International Law practices. Before joining the firm, he served as Legal Adviser to the Department of State under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Senior Associate Counsel to the President, and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council. Mr. Bellinger previously was Counsel for National Security Matters in the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice; Of Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; General Counsel of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community; a lawyer at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering; and Special Assistant to Director of Central Intelligence William Webster.

Elected to the ALI in 2007, he is a Counselor for the Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, project. He earned his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, M.A. from the University of Virginia, and A.B. cum laude from Princeton University.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since March 2013. Until December 2014, she also was also a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Prior to serving on the Commission, Judge Jackson worked at Morrison & Foerster LLP, with a practice that focused on criminal and civil appellate litigation in state and federal courts, and served as an assistant federal public defender in the Appeals Division of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the District of Columbia. Before that, she was an assistant special counsel at the U.S. Sentencing Commission and an associate with two law firms.

Judge Jackson was a law clerk to three federal judges: Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Elected to the ALI in 2012, she serves on the Members Consultative Group (MCG) for the Model Penal Code: Sentencing, project. She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University.

Gregory P. Joseph is a founder and partner of Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC in New York, and formerly chaired the Litigation Department at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He is an active trial lawyer and the author of treatises on evidence, sanctions and civil RICO.

Mr. Joseph is president of the Supreme Court Historical Society, and previously served as president of the American College of Trial Lawyers and chair of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association.

Elected to the ALI in 1987, he was a member of the MCG for the projects on Complex Litigation and the Law Governing Lawyers. He earned his J.D., with honors, from the University of Minnesota Law School, and his B.A. from the University of Minnesota.

Patricia A. Millett has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since December 2013. Previously, she was a partner leading the Supreme Court and appellate practices at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. She also worked for four years on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division in the U.S. Department of Justice and for eleven years as an Assistant in the Office of the Solicitor General. She has argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. After working at the Miller & Chevalier law firm for two years, she clerked for Judge Thomas Tang of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Elected to the ALI in 2014, she serves as an Adviser for the Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians, project. She earned her J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and her B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Janet Napolitano has been President of the University of California since September 2013. She leads a university system with ten campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program.

She previously served as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of Arizona, Attorney General of Arizona, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona. Before that, she was a partner at the law firm of Lewis & Roca in Phoenix. She began her career as a law clerk for Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Elected to the ALI in 1989, she served on the MCG for the Complex Litigation, project. She earned her J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law and her B.S. summa cum laude from Santa Clara University.

Stuart J. Rabner has served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey since 2007. After beginning his career as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, he worked in a number of positions in that office including first assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the terrorism unit. He was chief of the criminal division when he was named chief counsel to Governor Jon Corzine in January 2006. He was appointed Attorney General of New Jersey in September 2006 and served in that position until his appointment to the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Chief Justice Rabner was a law clerk to Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Elected to the ALI in 2013, he is an Adviser for the Model Penal Code: Sentencing. He earned his J.D. cum laude from HarvardLaw School and his B.A summa cum laude from Princeton University.
 

Additionally, at the meeting four Council Members took emeritus status.  The four emeritus members are Susan Frelich Appleton of Washington University School of Law, Allen D. Black of Fine, Kaplan and Black, Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Bill Wagner of Wagner McLaughlin.