Our 50th Reunion is a time when I simply feel grateful for the education I received at GULC. The highlight was the time I spent in the Criminal Justice Clinic in our last year. That inspired me to be a litigator, and I was fortunate to begin my career clerking for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson, III on the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. I've spent my career in public service, most recently as a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, since 1988. I've stayed active with Georgetown as a charter member of the Board of Visitors and occasionally making presentations to individual classes and CLE events. Although I technically retired in 2009, I continue to serve the Court as a Senior Judge, in addition to private arbitration and mediation for The McCammon Group and various federal government entities. I grew up in Washington and continue to enjoy my home town. It was a treat to see many classmates at our 45th Reunion, and I hope to see many more for our 50th.

The GULC class of 1974 experienced transformative times during our years in law school in many ways. And we find our world again in transformative times. I look forward to seeing classmates at the fall reunion to share recollections of those times.

Although I retired from teaching law school in 2022 and moved to San Diego, I have remained active in writing, and speaking, and my most recent adventure – making a documentary about high school pathway programs that support diversity in the legal profession and civic leadership. It incorporates the history of Street Law (from 1972 origins at Georgetown), with footage filmed at Georgetown in March. “A Pathway Forward” will premiere in fall 2024, and I hope that it can be shown as part of our class reunion. I was one of the first law students to teach “street law” in 1972, so it was truly a full circle experience to do this film.

Although I now live in California, and it is a long flight, I will be at our reunion. One of the greatest assets of Georgetown Law is the diversity of the student body – including geographic diversity – where we came from and where we went – carrying our Georgetown values with us. I look forward to seeing you in October.

I stayed in D,C, for a year post graduation working for the National Wiretap Commission, and then I took the Iowa Bar and was admitted in June of 1974. I returned to my home town of Waterloo, Iowa in May of 1975 and was in private practice until 2015 there and was engaged in a trial practice that included product liability, living auto accident, medical malpractice, employment law and family law. I represented mostly plaintiffs but also did defense work in these areas. I was active in my local, and state bar associations and also in ATLA and served as the President of the then Iowa Trial Lawyers Association now Iowa Association for Justice and became a member of the honorary Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. Outside of the office, I was active in politics and served as Democratic Chair in three election cycles which was interesting when Iowa went first in contested nominations. I have served on a number of state and local boards for ACLU, Sierra Club, UN Association, our local symphony, Rotary Club, museum and church committees. I also chair a family foundation in our area which supports education, health care, social service groups and the performing arts, I enjoy travel particularly road trips in the US and photography. I have been single since 1998 and raised a daughter and son with my now deceased former spouse under a shared placement plan which was easier as we lived three houses apart, My daughter is a music educator, performer, and composer living in Chicago with her spouse, and my son has a degree in art and lives near me and helps with dealing with the Iowa winter and summer with yard work. I have regularly attended our reunions and enjoy catching up with friends I knew while a student and also meeting classmates I didn't know while at GULC because of the size of our class.