IU MAURER SCHOOL OF LAW
ACADEMY OF LAW ALUMNI FELLOWS INDUCTION CEREMONY APRIL 9, 2021
WELCOME The Academy of Law Alumni Fellows was established in 1985 to recognize alumni whose careers are defined by exceptional personal achievement and dedication to the highest standards of the profession. Academy Fellows are part of an elite group that includes US senators, federal judges, successful business leaders, and distinguished practitioners. A committee of anonymous alumni selects each year’s Fellows from among many deserving candidates. To be named an Academy of Law Alumni Fellow is to receive the very highest honor that the Maurer School of Law can bestow. Although the COVID-19 pandemic prevents us from honoring this year’s Fellows in person, their achievements are no less diminished by our virtual celebration. This year, we are honored to recognize four alumni whose remarkable contributions to the Law School and the profession will last for generations to come: Bonnie K. Gibson, Randy M. Lebedoff, R. Anthony (Tony) Prather, and Randy Seger. We offer our sincere congratulations to our honorees. Best,
Austen L. Parrish Dean and James H. Rudy Professor of Law
PROGRAM WELCOME Austen L. Parrish
Dean and James H. Rudy Professor of Law INTRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF ACADEMY INDUCTEES Bonnie K. Gibson Randy M. Lebedoff R. Anthony (Tony) Prather Randy Seger
BONNIE K. GIBSON
CLASS OF 1978 Bonnie K. Gibson’s distinguished record of professional and community service began when she was a student at Indiana University. A respected and enthusiastic undergraduate, she received the prestigious Herman B Wells Senior Recognition Award for her scholarship and leadership. In law school, she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Order of the Coif. After earning her degree, Bonnie moved to San Francisco, where she built a successful practice in labor and employment law at major Bay Area firms, including Morrison & Foerster and Hanson Bridget llp, where she served on the Management Committee for 10 years and led its Labor and Employment Section for six years. In 2004, the focus of Bonnie’s practice shifted to immigration law when she moved to Phoenix and was named managing director and partner at Littler Mendelson’s global immigration practice. Her responsibilities included managing the firm’s complex, multimillion–dollar immigration practice and its I-9 and E-Verify practice throughout the United States. Four years later, she and two partners founded to the Phoenix office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, llp, where she continued her work in the immigration compliance field. As co-managing partner, she oversaw an office with $12 million in business and 75 employees. She also continued to build her reputation as a national speaker on employer immigration compliance and drafted comments for clients and trade associations in connection with immigration-related rule-making. Bonnie retired from Fragomen in 2016, but she continues to play an active role in the community and as an IU alumna. Bonnie has been an active civic leader throughout her career, appointed by Mayor Dianne Feinstein and serving 10 years as a Retirement Board Commissioner managing the $20 billion San Francisco Employees’ Retirement Fund; on the Executive Committee of the Section of Labor and Employment of the Bar Association of San Francisco; and as a frequent author and lecturer on immigration-related topics. She served in the first class of early neutral evaluators, a national program of US District courts which was initiated in the Northern District of California. From 2012–2016 she was a member of the Law Alumni Board, and she has given generously of her time in networking with and advising students who are interested in careers in immigration law. In 2015, she established the Wells Gibson Scholarship to support exemplary 1L students and to honor the memory of Chancellor Wells, whom she was privileged to know and who encouraged her to attend law school. Bonnie currently serves on the Indiana University Foundation’s Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council and is vice-chair of its Grants Committee.
RANDY M. LEBEDOFF
CLASS OF 1975 Randy M. Lebedoff is senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary for the Star Tribune Media Company llc in Minneapolis. Born into a diplomatic family in Washington, DC, she has lived all over the world. She graduated from high school at the American International School in New Delhi, then returned to the United States, where she attended Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Randy enrolled at the Rutgers University School of Law in 1972 and transferred to the Maurer School of Law the following year. She graduated magna cum laude in 1975 and was elected to Order of the Coif. Randy is a former partner with Faegre & Benson in Minneapolis (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath), where she practiced in the business litigation department, focusing mainly on antitrust and other commercial litigation. She was vice president and general counsel to Star Tribune from 1989–2001, when she was named to a similar position at Twin Cities Public Television. She rejoined Star Tribune in 2007, where she plays a key role in the company’s strategic direction, partnerships, and successful labor negotiations. Despite a demanding professional schedule, Randy has been an active member of a number of organizations in the Twin Cities and across the state. She is a former president of the Minnesota Newspaper Association and has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including Milkweed Editions, the YWCA of Minneapolis, Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Abbott–Northwestern Hospital, the Fund for the Legal Aid Society, and the Downtown Council.
R. ANTHONY (TONY) PRATHER CLASS OF 1983 R. Anthony (Tony) Prather is a partner in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg llp. He has a full-service practice representing management interests exclusively in all aspects of labor and employment law and litigation, including workplace investigations, audits, supervisory training, defense of discrimination and retaliation claims, and preparation of and defense of affirmative action plans. He also negotiates and drafts executive employment, separation and non-compete agreements. Tony also defends management in federal and state courts, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, the Department of Labor, and the National Labor Relations Board. Before joining Barnes & Thornburg, Tony was in-house counsel for Ameritech Corporation, Firestone Building Products Company, Firestone Industrial Products Company and Firestone Polymers. He has been selected for inclusion in the 2004–2006 and 2011–2019 editions of Indiana Super Lawyers®; the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; and The Best Lawyers in America from 2016–2021. He received the Indiana Lawyer’s Leadership in Law Distinguished Barrister Award in 2018, and the Maurer School of Law’s Distinguished Service Award in 2015. Tony is an active member of the community, providing pro bono services to the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault, and the Julian Center. He is a former member of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission. Tony is a founding member of the Law School’s Black Law Student Association Alumni Advisory Board, and he previously served on the Law Alumni Board and Board of Visitors.
RANDY SEGER
CLASS OF 1972 Randy Seger is a partner at Dentons Bingham Greenebaum, practicing in Indiana in public utilities, energy and agri-business for 49 years. His practice includes renewable energy clients in wind and solar, investor-owned and municipal utilities, and agri-business in food production. Randy’s clients range from some of the largest renewable-energy firms to some of the largest poultry growers and processors in the US, including his family’s businesses in Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio. Over five decades, Randy has advised these growth businesses on mergers and acquisitions, administrative and regulatory law, and corporate law. After graduating from the IU School of Business in 1970 and the IU Maurer School of Law in 1972, Randy began his legal career as the eighth attorney in the law firm of McHale, Cook & Welch. He was managing partner of that firm until it merged with Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman in 2001. Through additional mergers, the firm evolved into Dentons, which is one of the largest law firms in the world. Randy and his family are loyal, longtime supporters of the Kelley School of Business, the IU Varsity Club, and the Maurer School of Law. Randy currently serves on the board of directors of the Indiana University Foundation and on the Law School’s Board of Visitors. The Seger family has been associated with and supportive of IU for over 70 years. Randy’s parents and their eight sons were IU graduates (Randy is the oldest). His family—including his wife, Beth, their children, and their parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren—now total over more than 35 IU graduates. Randy hopes this tradition will continue.
ACADEMY OF LAW ALUMNI FELLOWS Shirley S. Abrahamson, JD’56*
Theodore R. Dann, JD’30*
Terrill D. Albright, JD’65*
Samuel S. Dargan, LLB 1909*
Ellis B. Anderson, JD’52
Alecia A. DeCoudreaux, JD’78
K. Edwin Applegate, LLB’48*
Ann M. DeLaney, JD’77
Lowell E. Baier, LLB’64
Jost Delbrück, JD’60*
Birch Bayh, JD’60*
Paul J. DeVault, JD’32*
Robert B. Benson, JD’54*
S. Hugh Dillin, LLB’38*
Joseph B. Board, Jr., JD’58*
Francina A. Dlouhy, JD’77
Jorge Cleofas Bocobo, LLB 1907*
Donald P. Dorfman, JD’57
Sara Yang Bosco, JD’83
C. Benjamin Dutton, LLB’40*
Harriet Bouslog, LLB’36*
J. Leslie Duvall, JD’49
Sanford M. Brook, JD’74
Robert P. Duvin, JD’61
Kathleen A. Buck, JD’73*
Frederick F. Eichhorn, Jr., JD’57*
Joseph T. Bumbleburg, JD’61
David G. Elmore, JD’58
Stephen F. Burns, JD’68
Ewing Rabb Emison, JD’50*
David L. Carden, JD’76
Jesse E. Eschbach, JD’49*
Hoagland Carmichael, LLB’26*
Sidney D. Eskenazi, JD’53
Willard Z. Carr, JD’50*
Penelope S. Farthing, JD’70
John L. Carroll, JD’48*
Stephen L. Ferguson, JD’66
Richard E. Carter, LLB’61*
Thomas G. Fisher, LLB’65
Rodolfo Chapa, Jr., JD’85
James F. Fitzpatrick, JD’59*
Linda L. Chezem, JD’71
Eugene D. Fletchall, JD’34*
John W. Christensen, JD’39*
Ezra H. Friedlander, LLB’65
Franklin D. Cleckley, JD’65*
Dorothy J. Frapwell, JD’73
Catherine A. Conway, JD’78
Leonard D. Fromm*
Laura J. Cooper, JD’74
William I. Garrard, JD’59
George Craig, LLB’32*
Philip C. Genetos, JD’77
Gonzalo P. Curiel, JD’79
Bonnie K. Gibson, JD’78
Carl M. Gray, LLB’61*
Thomas R. Lemon, JD’66
Betsy K. Greene, JD’82
Elliott D. Levin, JD’66
Charles Halleck, LLB’24*
Thomas M. Lofton, JD’54*
Lee H. Hamilton, JD’56
Robert A. Long, JD’71
Bernard Harrold, LLB’51*
Arthur M. Lotz, LLB’65
Russell H. Hart, JD’56
Robert A. Lucas, JD’49*
John Simpson Hastings, LLB’24*
Larry A. Mackey, JD’76
Howard R. Hawkins, JD’41*
J. Keith Mann, LLB’49*
Joseph A. (Andy) Hays, LLB’59
Michael S. Maurer, JD’67
Hubert Hickam, LLB 1913*
Francis X. McCloskey, JD’71*
Willis Hickam, LLB 1918*
Warren E. McGill, LLB’45*
Elwood H. Hillis, JD’52
Robert H. McKinney, JD’51
Leroy W. Hofmann, JD’58*
Rufus W. McKinney, JD’56
John W. Houghton, JD’42*
R. Bruce McLean, JD’71
V. William Hunt, JD’69
Patricia A. McNagny, JD’51*
R. Neil Irwin, JD’71
William F. McNagny, LLB’47
Daniel James, JD’29*
Cynthia A. Metzler, JD’74
Paul G. Jasper, LLB’32*
Jeanne Seidel Miller, JD’48
Pamela Jones Harbour, JD’84
Lloyd H. Milliken, Jr., JD’60
Michael S. Kanne, JD’68
Sherman Minton, LLB 1915*
Robert P. Kassing, JD’64
Masuji Miyakawa, LLB 1905*
Barbara J. Kelley, JD’73
Maryann M. Mukete, JD’74
John F. (Jack) Kimberling, JD’50*
Val Nolan, Jr., JD’49*
Stephen O. Kinnard, JD’72*
Mary Nold Larimore, JD’80
Earl Wilson Kintner, JD’38*
Frank L. O’Bannon, JD’57*
Julia Lamber, JD’72
Joseph D. O’Connor, JD’78
William C. Lawrence, JD’79
John C. Onoda, JD’76
Randy M. Lebedoff, JD’75
Roger L. Pardieck, JD’63
Stephen H. Paul, JD’72
Milton R. Stewart, JD’71
Colleen Kristl Pauwels, JD’86*
William R. Stewart, JD’59*
R. Anthony Prather, JD’83
Juanita Kidd Stout, JD’48, LLM’54*
Rapheal M. Prevot, Jr., JD’84*
Viola J. Taliaferro, JD’77
Jane E. Raley, JD’82*
Milton O. Thompson, JD’79
Jeanette F. Reibman, JD’40*
James F. Thornburg, JD’36*
Ron S. Reinstein, JD’73
John D. Tinder, JD’75
Richard S. Rhodes, LLB’53*
Denice M. Torres, JD’84
John F. (Jeff) Richardson, JD’77
Walter Treanor, JD’22*
James G. Richmond, JD’69
Carl E. Ver Beek, JD’62
Clarine Nardi Riddle, JD’74
Michael E. Uslan, JD’76
William R. Riggs, JD’63
Jose Villarreal, JD’79
Lauren K. Robel, JD’83
John D. Walda, JD’75
Flerida Ruth P. Romero, LLM’55*
Yu-Chi (Tony) Wang, LLM ’93, SJD ’97
Joel Rosenbloom, JD’54*
Martha S. West, JD’74
J. Edward Roush, LLB’49*
Charles Whistler, LLB’51*
Loretta H. Rush, JD’83
Wendell Willkie, LLB 1916*
Tamar Althouse Scholz, LLB 1892*
Mark S. Wojciechowski, JD’81
Glenn Scolnik, JD’78
Darell E. (Gene) Zink, JD’76
Zaldwaynaka L. (Z) Scott, JD’83 Frank Seales, Jr., JD’74 Randy Seger, JD’72 V. Sue Shields, LLB’61 Jacqueline A. Simmons, JD’79 Sarah M. Singleton, JD’74* George P. Smith II, JD’64 Hugo (Chad) Songer, LLB’60 Thomas L. Stevens, JD’55*
*Deceased