MAKING THE GRADE

Election Watch: : Come November, three Law School alumni may be holding new seats in office. In Washington’s 8th Congressional District Alexander Alben ’84 (BA ’80) is running in the Democratic Party primary election to be held in September. Eric Fingerhut ’84 has already secured the Democratic Party’s nomination in his run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. And Brian Morris ’92 (BA ’86, MA ’87) is running for an open seat on the Montana Supreme Court. 

Kudos: Kathleen M. Sullivan, Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in May from Suffolk University Law School, Boston. Amy Chen, a first-year Law School student, was awarded one of the 2003 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. In April, Stanford Vice Provost and former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell ’74, was awarded the 2004 Rose Bird Memorial Award by California Women Lawyers. And Kenneth Scott ’56, Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus, was named Fund Trustee of the Year at the Mutual Fund Industry Awards held in March. 

Appointments: In April, Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Jr., JD/MBA ’76 (BA ’72), Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Vice Dean, was named Codirector of the new Stanford Institute for the Environment. In March, Glenn Hara ’71 (BA ’68) was appointed to the Circuit Court bench in Hawaii. Hon. Winslow Christian ’49 (BA ’47) became president of the College of Commercial Arbitrators in January, while James Oldham ’65 was selected to be an impartial arbitrator for the National Hockey League Player’s Association and the National Hockey League. Anne Bingaman ’68 (BA ’65) was named to the Lear Corp. Board of Directors. Sanjay Ranchod ’01 won a seat on the Sierra Club Board of Directors. Louis Eatman, JD/MBA ’73, was named president of the Constitutional Rights Foundation. And Charles Armstrong ’67 and Hon. Pamela Rymer ’64 were elected to the Stanford Associates Board of Governors.

The Press Annoints: : Justice Sandra Day O’Connor ’52 (BA ’50) was named in April one of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the world by Time. Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA ’84, founder and Chairman of Classic Residence by Hyatt, was named one of the 100 most powerful women in Chicago by the Chicago SunTimes. Three alumni were named to the Daily Journal’s list of California’s top young lawyers, “20 Under 40”: Michael Alvarado ’92, Michael Attanasio ’90, and Tony West ’92. California Lawyer named Fred von Lohmann ’95 (BA ’90) one of its attorneys of the year for 2003. And San Francisco Business Times named Mary Cranston ’75 (BA ’70) one of the Bay Area’s 100 most influential women in business and the winner of its Athena award.

FACULTY ON THE MOVE

With the end of the 2004 academic year, Barbara Babcock, Judge John Crown Professor of Law, has retired, becoming the School’s first Professor Emerita. And Lance Dickson, Director of Robert Crown Library and Professor of Law, has retired. John Donohue III, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, has moved to Yale University. And Bernard Black, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, has moved to the University of Texas.

NEW LAW FACULTY

Nationally known corporate law scholar Robert M. Daines joined the Stanford Law faculty this summer as the inaugural Pritzker Professor of Law and Business. He also holds a courtesy appointment at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Daines, a Yale Law School graduate, came to Stanford from New York University.

Mark Lemley, a leading authority on patent, intellectual property, and Internet law, has been named Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology. Before joining the Stanford faculty this summer, Lemley was a Professor at his alma mater, the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and Codirector of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. 

One of the nation’s premier public interest litigators, Alan B. Morrison joined the Stanford Law faculty this summer as Senior Lecturer. Morrison came to Stanford from the Public Citizen Litigation Group, an organization he cofounded in 1972. He holds a JD from Harvard University. 

This summer, Jayashri Srikantiah left her post as Associate Legal Director of the ACLU of Northern California to become an Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) at SLS. She plans to launch an immigration law clinic in the spring. Srikantiah holds a JD from New York University