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Two Gonzaga-educated Boston lawyers on different paths share a common goal A Tribute: The Salt-of the-Earth Attorneys The Honorable Smithmoore “Smitty” P. Myers
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PURSUING JUSTICE. FINDING SOLUTIONS.
Gonzaga Lawyer 2015 On the Cover: Rich Davey and Jason Leviton are making things happen in Beantown, and no doubt making it, and the world, a better place.
FEATURES
DEPARTMENTS
Boston Legal ...................................................................... 8
In the News................................................................................................. 2
a tribute to
Center for Professional Development .................. 12
The Salt of the Earth Attorneys...................................................................................... 36 The Honorable Smithmoore “Smitty� P. Myers ................................................... 51
Admissions ................................................................................................. 6 Student News ....................................................................................... 14 Clinic ................................................................................................................. 18 Community Service ..................................................................... 22 Alumni .......................................................................................................... 26 Class Action............................................................................................. 38 Faculty Development ................................................................. 43 Honor Roll ................................................................................................ 57 In Memoriam ....................................................................................... 65
Dean Jane Korn Editor Jeff Geldien Managing Editors Sarah Guzman Dale Goodwin
Contributing Writers Falesha Ankton Jeff Geldien Dale Goodwin Sarah Guzman Susan Lee Laurie Powers Catherine Brown
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Message From The Dean
Changes present opportunities
The incoming class includes:
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STUDENTS
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39% WOMEN
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It is hard to believe that I am starting my fifth year as dean at Gonzaga. The changes in legal education around the country have presented both opportunities and challenges and I am proud to be serving Gonzaga Law School and all of you. This past year has brought many changes and the coming academic year will bring more. We were excited to welcome 17 students for the second class in our Accelerated J.D. program. As you may recall, this program is for students who attend law school year-round and graduate in 24 calendar months. The program is intense, yet very rewarding for these students. This summer we also launched our new, innovative program, Internationally Educated Lawyers (JD IEL), for lawyers who already have a law degree from another country, yet want to earn an American J.D. at Gonzaga. Because they already have one law degree, they will earn a J.D. from Gonzaga in as little as 16 months by enrolling in this accelerated program. We welcomed three students this summer – two from Mexico and one from Cameroon. One of the major changes at Gonzaga Law this year is the retirement of Professors Larry Weiser (’76 J.D.) and Gerry Hess. Professor Weiser joined the Gonzaga Law faculty in 1981, and worked in the Clinic his entire career. He served as director for the past 10 years. He is well-known for his expertise in both Elder Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Professor Hess, who began teaching at Gonzaga in 1988, is well-known for his outstanding skill in teaching. He founded the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning in 2008 and has authored many books and articles on best practices for teaching law. He is admired for his gentle, yet effective style of teaching, which I know got many of our alums through Civil Procedure. It is hard to imagine Gonzaga Law without these two beloved faculty members. We wish them all the best in their retirement. We have accomplished so much during the last four years and I look forward to this upcoming year which will bring new energy and once again, commitment to educating lawyers who pursue justice and find solutions through their experience at Gonzaga Law. Thank you for all you do for Gonzaga Law. And if your plans bring you to Spokane, I hope you will stop by and say hello.
Jane Korn, Dean, Gonzaga Law School
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ETHNICALLY DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS
In the News Legal Ethics of Social Media Addressed in Clarke CLE The intersection of social media and legal ethics was the topic of the second annual Clarke Legal Ethics and Professionalism CLE that drew 200 attorneys in April. The CLE course, delivered online and in person at Gonzaga Law, featured five prominent panelists: Washington State Supreme Court Justice Mary Fairhurst (’84 J.D.), J. Donald Curran (’60 J.D. ), Mark J. Fucile, Douglas J. Ende and Professor Brooks Holland. Topics included: • Ethics surrounding social network
listings and ratings;
• Lawyers advising clients to change
their Facebook accounts;
• Ethics of investigating, through
social media, prospective and
sitting jurors; and
• Rules of professional conduct as
applied to blogging.
Meanwhile, the Clarke Family Prize in Legal Ethics and Professionalism writing
Christena Georgas (2L), Prof. Brooks Holland, Stephanie Richards (1L ACC)
competition addressed questions related to employment and ethics in closely held
CLARKE CLE
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corporations. Christena Georgas and Stephanie Richards
well as Gonzaga Law School’s continued
earned first and second place, respectively.
commitment to teaching and promoting
“Ms. Georgas and Ms. Richards submitted
professionalism and ethics. Harvey Clarke
excellent papers that demonstrated the
was a well-respected Spokane jurist known
high quality of legal and ethical analysis
for his commitment to ethics. Both Harvey
for which our graduates are known,” said
and Harriet were involved in the Spokane
Holland, CLE moderator.
community.
The Ethics CLE and writing awards for
Son William Clarke served as professor and
students are made possible by The Harvey
associate dean, 1975-2005. He coached the
and Harriet Clarke Fund for Professionalism
National Moot Court team to eight straight
and Ethics. This endowment began in
trips to nationals in New York. His niece,
the 1980s to support the law library, as
Genevieve Mann (’03 J.D.), is teaching in University Legal Assistance this year.
200
participated
5 panelists
$6,000 prizes awarded
In the News Hearing the McCleary Case Gonzaga School of Law Professor Lynn Daggett and education attorney Tanya Barton presented “McCleary: A Case Study of Washington’s Educational Funding Responsibilities” on campus in November. The month before, the Washington State Supreme Court held the Washington State Legislature in contempt for failing to fund education as the high court had previously ordered. The Washington Constitution indicates education is the state’s paramount duty, therefore the state must fund all basic educational expenses.
Tanya Barton (’14 J.D.) and Prof. Lynn Daggett
Education law Daggett, a specialist in education law, earned a Ph.D. in education and worked as an educator
law and advises public school districts on a wide range of legal
prior to law school. She represented public school
issues. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business and marketing
districts in matters such as constitutional issues,
education from Eastern Washington University, and graduated
student rights, personnel issues, labor negotiations,
first in her class from Gonzaga Law School (’14 J.D.)
special education and tort and civil rights liability.
“Certainly, McCleary substantially impacts educational funding
“Our public schools and how we fund them are important to all students, parents, educators and taxpayers,” she said.
on a level unprecedented in this state’s history,” Barton said. “But its real controversy turns on the unchartered territory the Washington State Supreme Court entered by recently holding the
Barton is an associate in the Spokane law firm
state in contempt for failing to implement concrete timelines to
Stevens and Clay, where she practices education
fully fund education reforms.”
Called to Serve Three 2015 Gonzaga Law graduates have accepted appointments to the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. Air Force JAG welcomed Kathleen Foy and Tyler Rube. Thomas (TJ) Darmofal joined Army JAG, along with 2011 GU law alum David Mabey.
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In addition, two members of the Class of 2015 begin terms as judicial clerks for state Supreme Court justices. Keaton Hille serves Washington State Supreme Court Justice Mary Fairhurst (’84 J.D.) and Anna Keckes serves Montana Supreme Court Justice Jim Rice.
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1 Tyler Rube 2 TJ Darmofal 3 David Mabey 4 Kathleen Foy
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Congratulations to all!
In the News
Malveaux Honored with Myra Bradwell Award
A Career of Good Work
The 23rd annual Myra Bradwell Award for
and was a legal advocate at the YWCA of San Diego. She founded
contributions to women and children went to Regina Malveaux, who, during her last year in law school, was selected as one of 10 national policy fellows. Even before entering Howard University School of Law, she had made her mark on advocacy work, serving as an organizer for the Children’s Defense Fund’s Stand
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for Children in 1996. During law school she served as
Malveaux worked with the Child Advocacy Division in San Diego the Women’s Legal Center, a nonprofit devoted to assisting women with document preparation and resource referrals, before accepting the job as CEO of the YWCA in Spokane in 2013. Here, she led the effort to create the Spokane Family Justice Center, the co-location of a multidisciplinary team of professionals who work together to provide coordinated services to victims of family violence. Together advocates, law enforcement and prosecutors
president and founder of the Child Advocacy Law
work to ensure victim safety and perpetrator accountability.
Association, and was a White House and Congressional
The Gonzaga Women’s Law Caucus awards this honor annually.
intern for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S.
It is named for Myra Colby Bradwell, who was admitted to the
Rep. Maxine Waters, then chair of the Congressional
Illinois Bar Association in 1890 after being denied admission 20
Black Caucus.
years earlier due to gender.
Danielle Shyne (2L) and honoree Regina Malveaux
In the News
Judge Alex Kozinski, Judge Justin Quackenbush (’57 J.D.)
Quackenbush Lecture features Judge Alex Kozinski Romanian-born U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski
the legal profession: “Your real job as a lawyer is to find
talked about using humor to make law more accessible and
peace for your client.”
the job of lawyers and judges more enjoyable at the 2015
Since 2010, the Gonzaga School of Law Quackenbush
Quackenbush Lecture in March. President Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and at age 35 he was the youngest federal appeals court judge.
Lecture Series, supported by the federal judges of the Eastern District of Washington, has featured a variety of talented speakers, intended to honor the achievements
Kozinski is a noted essayist and recognized for his work in
of Judge Justin L. Quackenbush.
making legal opinions not only legally sound, but fun to read. Kozinski also highlighted what he finds most important in
Former law Dean Marty Martin now president at Drake Earl “Marty” Martin, who served as Gonzaga Law School dean from 2005-09, became president of Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) on July 1. Martin most recently served as executive vice president of Gonzaga University. While Gonzaga law dean, Martin worked with faculty to enhance opportunities, increased the academic profile and diversity of incoming students, and expanded international partnerships with law schools in Brazil, China and South Korea.
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curriculum quality by creating more experiential learning
Admissions
Admissions are steady in declining market While America has seen a decline in law school applicants recently, Gonzaga Law has maintained steady enrollment over the past two years. Enrollment dropped significantly in 2010 and 2011, but increased at GU last year and it appears will remain steady when the fall enrollment numbers are recorded.
J.D. Program This in part can be credited to two new programs. The Accelerated Two-Year J.D. Program accepted its first class in summer 2014. This program allows students to complete their J.D. in 24 months. Students take a full schedule over the summer months. This means they go through all of the same coursework as the traditional three-year students. This type of program has been a large draw for the nontraditional students. Most of the students enrolled in the Accelerated Program have been out of school for a while and already have completed a good deal of work experience.
Open House
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Cupcakes!
Assistant director Meghan Adams and Director, Susan Lee
Dean Korn addressing the new students
Admissions
International J.D. Program Gonzaga Law also has created a new J.D. for Internationally Educated Lawyers. This program goal is to expand Gonzaga’s reach globally by offering advanced standing to any student who has finished a law degree internationally. These students can then complete a J.D. and take the bar exam in as little as 16 months. Three students began this summer.
Fresh Ideas Innovative programs are not the only way Gonzaga Law is attracting new students. In the fall, an admissions counselor or an alumnus will visit law fairs, college fairs and other events to speak with students directly. Their reach stretches from Alaska to Hawaii and plenty of places in between. Once students are admitted, the Admissions Office works to help them through the decision process. Admitted students receive a notecard from Director of Admissions Susan Lee, a student ambassador, and Dean Jane Korn. Emails are sent from faculty members working in the admitted student’s field of interest and from the director of the Center for Professional Development, Laurie Powers. Often alumni reach out to these potential students and the Admissions Office is always looking for new volunteers. Students can also visit the campus to sit in on a class, meet with Financial Aid, or get a tour from a student ambassador.
Admissions Numbers Our second incoming Accelerated Two-Year J.D. class:
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59% WOMEN
88%
OUT OF STATE
ALUMNI APPLICATION FEE WAIVER
Contact us:
1-800-793-1710 admissions@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
AVERAGE AGE
4 STUDENTS FOR THE NEW J.D. FOR INTERNATIONALLY EDUCATED LAWYERS (JD-IEL)
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As an alum, you know the true value of a Gonzaga Law education. As you share your story and mentor future lawyers, we ask you to keep an eye out for those you believe would be a good addition to the Gonzaga Law family. You may request to have the admission fee waived for one potential law student per year. To request the fee waiver, contact the admissions office with the student’s name and contact information and request a fee waiver.
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by DALE GOODWIN
Robert Perchio Photography,
Two Gonzaga-educated Boston lawyers, following completely different paths, share one common goal: Leave the world a better place. One attorney fights for consumers against some of the largest corporations in the world. The other worked with some of the biggest names in sports – NBA and Olympic champion Larry Bird, World Series champion David Ortiz, Olympic skater Michelle Kwan and 1980 USA hockey Gold Medalist Ralph Cox – to bring the world to America for the 2024 Summer Olympics. They have different approaches in using their Gonzaga law degrees, but share a similar purpose: Leave the world a better place for generations to come. While Jason Leviton (’03 J.D., ’00 B.A.) and his Boston firm of 12 lawyers are taking on BP, Google, Reynolds American and many other global entities with highly sophisticated counsel and unlimited defense budgets, Rich Davey (’99 J.D.) made every connection he could with political leaders, potential sponsors and athletic organizations around the world to enhance his hometown’s chance of landing the 2024 Summer Olympic games. That effort was cut short in July by the U.S. Olympic Committee, but Davey’s goal to improve Boston for generations to come remains foremost on his mind. It’s a grind, what these two do. But not without reward.
Davey’s gratification is in the distance. “The thing I enjoy most is thinking about the city I love. As a society we are so focused on the ‘now’ that we begin to express our thoughts in sound bites. It’s not often we think in terms of the next decade, or the decade after that,” Davey said. “The Boston 2024 job offered me the opportunity to do that. While this Olympic bid fell short, I know
Both Boston attorneys received a fair measure of their desire to serve and create a just society from Gonzaga Law, while one pursued public service and the other civil prosecution. And they gained motivation and support from their mentors, “To take on these firms who which helps lead them along have committed wrongful their varying paths today. acts is gratifying. Who “When I first came wants to take on Google? to Spokane to look at Google has more money Gonzaga, I met with Fr. Bob than God, and so does BP.” Araujo, who told me it was important to go to a place - Leviton where justice is not just part of the curriculum, but it is part of the DNA of the place,” said Davey. “Dean (John) Clute was great. He challenged us. We enjoyed a great camaraderie with Vern Davidson. And Steve Sepinuck was a Red Sox fan, so he understood my Boston connection and nuance. They all were creative and tough. But these are ‘people’ before they are professors. All these people I either had dinner or a glass of wine with. What I most loved about Gonzaga was that it was an intimate place where people truly cared about each other.” Leviton spent six years at Gonzaga, his first three earning a B.A. in philosophy and serving as a member of the nationally ranked debate team. “I was inspired by our debate coach, Glenn Frappier, who is a brilliant guy, hard worker, who loves his students,” Leviton said. “In the Law School I saw people from different areas of expertise and with different beliefs and strengths, who worked together cooperatively.
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“To take on these firms who have committed wrongful acts is gratifying. Who wants to take on Google? Google has more money than God, and so does BP. But to get calls from people who are helped by our efforts, who say ‘Thank you, we appreciate what you are doing,’ is what makes this worthwhile,” Leviton said.
that it prompts conversation within our city about what we want to be in 2024, 2030 and well beyond. It wasn’t so much about the event in nine years. It’s about what we leave behind.”
“Without Dean Dan Morrissey I wouldn’t be where I am today. He helped structure my career path. Professor Ann Murphy was the bedrock of the law school and is loved by all students. When things got tough I could talk to Professor Murphy and she’d make sure I kept everything in perspective. Professor Cheryl Beckett taught me how to write well as a lawyer,” Leviton said. Davey followed penchant to serve public interests
While a Gonzaga law student, Davey worked in the state Attorney General’s office with several defenders, including Judy Clarke. Following graduation he worked in the U.S. Attorney General’s office in New York for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In 2000, he took a job with a large New York law firm where he received an enriching legal experience. “It made you think hard, clients were very complicated and I learned a lot about pacing myself,” Davey said. After 9/11, Davey returned to his home in Boston, volunteered to work a political campaign and was deemed “crazy” by friends for leaving a good-paying job to come back to Boston and live in his parents’ basement.
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But Davey had a curiosity about him that he credits Gonzaga Law for instilling within him. He went to work for a transportation company, but rather than be content with the legal issues “I spent time helping surrounding his company, he people who had bigger wanted to know more. “What problems than crime, like are my company’s needs? getting and holding a What are our customers’ needs? My curiosity turned job... I saw that law was me on to more than just how was a means to an end.” to defend a case; it made - Davey me curious about how the business works,” he said. In 2010, he transitioned from transportation’s private sector to running the fifth-largest public transportation system in the United States, in Boston. From there he became secretary of transportation for Massachusetts, where his leadership accounted for new trains and train stations, airport improvements that led to new airline routes, and enhanced technology that helped move people more quickly and efficiently. So how do you go from transportation secretary to CEO of Boston’s effort to land the Olympics?
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Both Davey and Leviton are Jesuit-educated. Davey received his undergraduate degree from Holy Cross, and served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Hillsboro, Oregon, where he worked in the public defender’s office. “I spent time helping people who were rightfully accused, but had bigger problems than crime, like getting and holding a job. It was here I saw that law was more than appearing before the court, it was a means to an end.”
Rich Davey (’99 J.D. ) · Former CEO of Boston 2024 Summer Olympics effort · Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary · Ran the fifth largest municipal transportation system in the country
“I would never have predicted this,” Davey said. “But certainly the journey I have been on was launched in 1999 when I graduated from Gonzaga University.” A Boston Globe columnist suggested Davey would be a good choice to run the Olympic effort, and the interest of those handling the effort was piqued. In January, Boston was chosen over San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and Davey took the job. “It’s not the opening ceremony, the cool tickets or the neat events that were so great. It’s about laying the groundwork for transforming the city I love.” Leviton always knew he’d be an attorney Leviton’s mother has a paper on her office wall created by her son at age 4. It reads: My name is Jason. When I grow up I want to be a lawyer. So it is no surprise that he is one of the country’s leading litigators. After graduating from Gonzaga and Gonzaga Law, Leviton earned his master of law in securities and financial regulation from Georgetown and began working for the Securities and Exchange
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Scholars, who have unlimited financial backing. You need to be dedicated, put in the time, the sweat and the energy to go as hard as you can whenever you need to. This is not an easy profession and is certainly not a 9-to-5 job. But this is a profession in which I believe the rewards outweigh the sacrifices.”
Jason Leviton (’03 J.D., ’00 B.A,) · High-profile cases include BP, Google, Reynolds American · Worked for largest class action firms in U.S. · Former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney
Commission in New York. From there he worked for the largest class-action firm in the country, moved to a firm of similar profile in Washington, D.C., then met his future wife and moved to Boston. The senior partner in his Boston firm asked him to branch out. In 2011, Block and Leviton was formed with four attorneys. Now the firm has 12, and recently opened a second office in the San Francisco Bay area. It is likely that the firm will continue expanding in the years ahead.
“I went into this practice to help people,” Leviton said. “My mom and dad were teachers, so that’s why I represent clients having issues with their pension providers. I have taken on attorneys who have argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, who are Rhodes
Advice for grads; future of law schools These two impassioned attorneys offered advice for prospective law students. “Do what your heart tells you,” Leviton said. “If you want to be a public servant, there is a lot of grace in that. I appreciate those people. But whatever you do, don’t be afraid to go where you believe you should go intellectually. And certainly don’t let people tell you what you can’t do.” Davey has a similar take. “Make sure what you choose is right for you. Don’t go to law school without a purpose. Have an understanding of what that purpose is and how law school can help you achieve it,” Davey said. “You must have a strong feeling about serving. Law school demands that of you. As a public defender sometimes I had to take people to a second-hand store to make sure they were dressed properly for court. Be curious. Ask a lot of questions. Students are measured as much by the questions they ask as by the answers they know.” So with declining numbers of people seeking law degrees, how can a law school be most successful in this 21st century? If you want to be successful in this ever-changing environment of legal education, you have to have programs for people who want to do intellectual property law, or transactional law, for example. Focusing on one type of law is not going to work anymore, Leviton advised. “Law schools are very good about putting out law review articles but not as good at putting out a particular set of facts to a particular law and arguing why you do or do not meet that standard. You can’t just quote cases; you must be able to figure strategy, to write effectively, and be persuasive,” Davey says. So it appears Boston Legal is alive and well in the forms of Rich Davey and Jason Leviton. And while the Red Sox, Patriots and Bruins are stirring excitement in this Massachusetts metropolis, cheers are going up every day for a pair of Zags making positive waves – and friends – in Beantown.
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Leviton is passionate about representing individuals and retirement systems that have been negatively affected by fraudulent practices of publicly traded companies. He’s been taking on BP over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for almost five years, alleging BP lied about the size of the oil spill and its ability to clean it up. He’s also prosecuting a case against tobacco giant Reynolds American, which allegedly caused damage to its shareholders when it entered into a multibillion-dollar transaction.
For Leviton, the greatest reward is his wife Kimberly and their 9-month-old son, Jack Cooper. So what is his vision for the next five to 10 years? “My future revolves around my family. We’d like to have more kids, enjoy a successful marriage and hope my golf game is a little better than it is today,” said Leviton, who takes a book with him when he travels for business and reads to his son on FaceTime.
Center for Professional Development
CLASS OF 2014 EMPLOYMENT UPDATE:
Where Did They Go?
Zags Helping Zags
Of the 162 graduates of the Class of 2014, 80.2% were employed 10 months after graduation. Graduates are working in 12 states, with the largest percentages in Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. Of those employed, 61.1% are employed in positions requiring bar passage and 13.6% are in JD advantage positions. The total full-time, longterm employment for graduates in bar passage, JD advantage or other professional positions was 70.4%.
This past year, our ZagLaw alumni repeatedly stepped in to help our students develop their professional skills. From networking events and mock interviews in Seattle and Spokane, to professional attire selection and career seminars on campus, many Zag alumni provided valuable information and feedback to our students. We are thankful to the many Gonzaga Law alumni throughout the country who reply to the Center for Professional Development’s requests to talk with students interested in starting careers in their locales or practice areas. Without fail, you are gracious and generous in providing guidance to our students.
As in prior years, the majority of graduates are in private practice (44%) with an additional 20% in public service (government, clerkships, public interest.) What Suits You 2: 2L Acc Abra Belke and Lee & Hayes attorney Geana Van Dessel ( ’04 J.D. )
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What Suits You 1: Lee & Hayes attorney Jeffrey Smith (’04 J.D. ); Witherspoon Kelley attorney Erik Kukuk (’12 J.D. ); and 2015 grad Kyle Nelson.
Laurie Powers, Director Center for Professional Development
Seattle Trek Interviews: 3Ls Mike Kelly and Dan Fenzel getting ready to interview
Center for Professional Development
“Jim Day”
5 REASONS
Alumni Networking Event Each fall, Gonzaga Regent Jim Day (GU ’65) graciously travels to Seattle to engage Gonzaga Law’s newest graduates in an active networking event with our Seattle-based alumni. Over the years, what the CPD has affectionately dubbed “The Jim Day Event,” has become a popular alumni gathering. Hosted by Lane Powell PC, the networking event brings together experienced law alumni from all sizes of firms, public service and business entities to welcome new graduates to the Seattle legal community and assist them in expanding their professional networks. As referenced in Gonzaga Magazine’s 2010 article, “Jim Day and His Rolodex” (gonzaga.edu/magazine), Day was a driving force in developing GAMP (Gonzaga Alumni Mentoring Program) for the main campus 20 years ago. In recent years, he has extended his helping hand to the law school, using his business acumen and generous spirit to encourage our graduates to be fearless in creating their professional networks. In true Zag style, he reminds them that they will have their turn to help out, giving back to future Gonzaga Law students who will one day look to them for guidance.
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Laurie Powers in the Center for Professional Development at lpowers@lawschool.gonzaga.edu.
All Gonzaga lawyers receive real-life legal experience before they graduate preparing them to pursue justice and find solutions in any setting.
STRONG WRITING SKILLS Our required two-year Legal Research & Writing Program includes a capstone course in Advanced Advocacy, Litigation Drafting, Judicial Opinion Writing or Transactional Drafting.
CHARACTER AND LOYALTY Gonzaga Lawyers are principled, valued leaders in their firms and in their communities.
MEASURABLE SUCCESS Our graduates consistently do well in postgraduate employment rankings.
EASY TO DO The Center for Professional Development customizes the recruiting, interviewing and hiring process to meet student and employer needs.
Contact Laurie Powers, director of the Center for Professional Development, at 509-313-6122 or lpowers@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
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To participate in the 2015 Jim Day Event, please contact
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Student News Jessup Cup Contenders Four Gonzaga Law students participated in the Pacific Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Portland, Oregon, this spring. The world’s largest moot court competition, the Jessup Cup is organized by the International Law Students Organization. While the team did not advance in the competition, one of the team’s memos was ranked in the top 10. The 2015 Gonzaga Jessup Cup Team consisted of Tim Brandle (3L), Asta Margaryan (3L), Daniel Fenzel (2L) and Joseph Meservy (3L). “The team’s knowledge of international law was impressive and they learned a great deal in terms of brief writing and oral argument,” said team co-coach Professor Lisa Bradley (’91 J.D.). The competition had 550 schools from 80 countries participate.
Trademark Tangle Gonzaga Law School competed in the Western Regional of the Saul Lefkowitz National Trademark Moot Court Competition at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. This is Gonzaga’s 19th consecutive year competing in this event sponsored by the International Trademark Association.
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Both Gonzaga Law teams argued against University of California at San Diego, Santa Clara University, University of Washington, and University of California at Berkeley. The level of competition was exceedingly high. The subject matter was yoga, but there was nothing relaxed about this full day of competition. Only a few points of a possible 500 separated the top flight of teams. Gonzaga Law competitors performed with poise, and learned a lifetime of trademark law in nine months of hard work. Plus, students made personal connections in the small world of intellectual property. Participants were: Jamey Minnihan (3L), Charles Allen (3L), Anjali Bhatt (3L), Travis Schwartz (3L – Captain), Josie Isaacson (3L – Captain), Steven Wolfe (2L), Jessica Placensia (3L) and Joseph Cahall (3L).
Spell Service ‘Schermetzler’ Timothy Schermetzler (’15 J.D.) earned the Dean’s Pro Bono Award of Distinction for reporting 1,141 community and pro bono service hours during his three years at Gonzaga Law, the most reported among his classmates. Tim also received the Morey-Maurice Award for Service and Leadership for his active involvement in the Gonzaga Law, Spokane and statewide legal communities. While at Gonzaga, Tim served as president of the Student Bar Association, Gonzaga Public Interest Law Project and the Criminal Law Society. He also volunteered with Gonzaga’s Street Law program in local high schools, the Washington Veteran Wills Clinic, the Moderate Means Program, Spokane County’s Juvenile Prosecutor, Spokane County Superior Court Judge Annette S. Plese, the Center for Justice, the Spokane Smart Justice Coalition, and the Criminal Division of the Seattle City Attorney’s Office. Tim planned and facilitated a community discussion about local criminal justice reform for more than 250 attendees. Tim plans to focus his career on criminal justice reform through community based prosecution and rehabilitation.
Student News 2014 - 2015 Commencement Highlights
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2Ls Sarah Elsden, Caleb Hatch, Kristen Gelbach, 3Ls Tim Murphy, Hannah Campbell, Luke O‘ Bannan
Narrow Losses, Great Performances at Appellate Advocacy Six Gonzaga Law students competed in the annual National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) in San Fransisco. Sponsored by the American Bar Association, NAAC is the nation’s premier appellate advocacy competition. This year’s competition focused on two civil procedure issues: (1) whether a denial of a motion to dismiss pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) can be reviewed on appeal following a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff; and (2) whether the Supreme Court’s decisions in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal altered the showing of plausibility required to state a Title VII race discrimination claim. This regional drew 32 teams from top law schools across the country. The 3L team, comprising Hannah Campbell, Tim Murphy and Luke O’Bannan, came within 5 points of advancing to the knockout round. “Noteworthy individual accomplishments included Hannah receiving scores of 98 and 99 out of 100 in consecutive rounds, Tim deftly answering a barrage of hostile questions about how invalidating a jury verdict would ‘upend fairness,’ and Luke dismantling the opposing team’s arguments with ruthless efficiency,” said John Drake (‘11 J.D.), team co-coach.
Candidates Honored (May 2015)
Professors
Jeffrey Hartje & Mark Wilson Recipients of the Law Medal Co-founders of the University Legal Assistance clinic
Justice Mary Fairhurst (’84 J.D.) Washington Supreme Court Commencement Speaker
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The 2L team of Sarah Elsden, Caleb Hatch and Kristen Gelbach lost by less than two points in the first round, then tied their second-round opponent, only to lose the tiebreaker (brief scores). “Not to be deterred, the team handily defeated their third-round adversaries,” said Alexandria John (‘12 J.D.), team co-coach. “Individually, Sarah drew multiple comments from judges about her ability to clearly and directly answer questions that befuddled other competitors, Caleb was praised for his calm, confident and engaging advocacy style, and Kristen earned high marks for her intimate knowledge of the appellate record and her ability to persuasively apply relevant cases.”
Student News
Competition in New York City. The team was invited to participate in the national finals after winning best brief and second overall in the Northwest regional competition. 175 teams from 123 law schools participated in the 2014 competition. Co-sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers and the National Moot Court Competition Committee of the New York City Bar Association, this is the oldest and largest moot court competition in the nation.
MOOT COURT TEAM
advances to knockout round at nationals The Gonzaga team of Katherine Faber (3L), Meaghan Driscoll (3L) and Kaytlin Sawyer (3L) ranked in the top 16 teams in the finals of the 65th annual National Moot Court
Strong performances in the two preliminary rounds saw Gonzaga through to the knockout rounds. There, the team lost to a George Washington University squad that went on to win the competition. The team was coached by Andrew Biviano (’o6 J.D.) and Joseph Brown (’o9 J.D.).
2015 MISSION: POSSIBLE Group Takes
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on Flood Relief Efforts in Argentina
Despite months of planning for a spring-break, communitybuilding service trip to Argentina, Gonzaga Law students learned just two days before their departure in March that severe flooding in Villa Allende had caused significant damage to this small community. So students quickly re-purposed their Mission: Possible trip south, and in early March, 10 students began a weeklong effort to help clean up homes damaged by 6-foot floodwaters.
discuss what law school in Argentina looks like.
Each morning the group met with the mayor of the community and his wife, who walked them to the worksite. In addition to the ‘dirty work,’ students took a two-hour break each day to take Spanish lessons. “On the last day, Juan, the son of one of the homeowners, gathered us all together,” said Staci Dixon, a student volunteer. “He gave us each a keychain and said, ‘You have two missions in this world – one is to be happy, the other is to help people.’ That statement had a big impact on all of us on the trip.”
The 10 students – three 1Ls, six 2Ls, and one 3L – who went to Argentina committed to spending $2,400 each to provide service over the week of spring break. Through fundraising activities and events, as well as donations, the group raised about 38 percent of the cost for the students. The group included three military veterans and one person who had never before been out of the country. The Mission: Possible student group is accepting donations to offset the remaining portion of students’ expense.
Learning About Argentina
“The joy from helping others in their time of need was gratifying,” says student David Lund. “Our hosts were gracious and the culture was captivating.”
At trip’s end, the Mission: Possible students took time to visit the law school in Cordoba, and met with a practicing attorney to
“I went to Argentina to help people, but they ended up helping me more,” says student Alysha Chandra. “I was reminded that life’s greatest teachings come from struggling and being vulnerable with strangers that you can only communicate with through actions.” Support Mission: Possible
LINDEN CUP: 80 Years and Counting Travis Schwartz (1L) and Danturty Hemachandra (3L) were crowned Linden Cup champions, with Caleb Hatch (2L) and Brandon Dockins (2L) runners-up. The final round was judged by Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Barbara Madsen, and Justices Charles Johnson, Susan Owens, Charles Wiggins and Sheryl McCloud. The Linden Cup is named in honor of Father James Linden, S.J., who founded the “legal argument competition” in 1935. The competition is supported by an endowment created by the late William Kelley in 1991. This year’s case addressed a Fourth Amendment question of the legality of a home sweep, and whether law enforcement may incorporate specialized experience and knowledge to justify a warrantless search under the plain view doctrine. The case was William T. Riker v. the United States of America and involved a state where marijuana was legal and a specialized DEA task force enforcing federal laws, under which marijuana was still illegal. 1L Professor of the Year: Gerry Hess
Professor Gerry Hess has taught at Gonzaga Law since 1988, is co-founder of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, and is nationally recognized for his work in law teaching and learning. Beckett Tabbed Professor of the Year
Cheryl Beckett (’81 J.D.) was elected the Upper Level Professor of the Year by upper-division students. Beckett joined the Gonzaga Law faculty in 1991, and serves as director of the Gonzaga Legal
Research and Writing program, as well as teaching Employment Law. The award is named after former Dean Lewis Orland, who passed away in 2012. Orland taught at Gonzaga Law for more than 50 years, and served as the ninth dean of the Law School, 1968 -1973. Orland is remembered by generations of students for his sharp intellect and mastery of his challenging Socratic method of teaching. Rowland Adjunct Professor of the Year
The Student Bar Association renamed the Adjunct Professor of the Year award in honor of Milt Rowland (’85 J.D.), who won the award every year it was given until 2000, and has been named its recipient several times since. When not teaching, Rowland practices as a civil litigation attorney. Anderson Named Professional Staff of the Year
Barb Anderson, program coordinator for the Externship office, was the inagural winner of this new award by the Student Bar Association. Club of the Year
The Gonzaga Public Interest Law Project was named Club of the Year. A separate 501(c)(3) organization, GPILP’s vision is to empower Gonzaga law students to serve public interest and provide them with opportunities to enhance their education through service.
Trial Run Two Gonzaga Law teams competed at Willamette University for the National Trial Competition (NTC) regional. Twentyfour teams from 12 law schools participated. Gonzaga’s teams included 3Ls TJ Darmofal, Tamara Fundrella, Kyle Nelson, Tyler Rube, Tim Schermetzler and 2L Maren Sorensen. Additionally, Margeaux Fox and Brian Nadler were alternates who participated in preparation. THE GONZAGA LAWYER | 17
Gonzaga’s teams lost in the second round to the two schools that ultimately won regionals. Celebrating its 40th year, NTC was established to expose students to the nature of trial practice, and to encourage and strengthen their advocacy skills through interaction with members of the bench and bar.
CLINIC
SERVING SPOKANE for 40 years Working tirelessly to serve Spokane’s seniors, minorities and children and provide invaluable experiential learning for GU law students
In the midst of an explosion of enrollment, the launch of the brand-new day division of the law school, and new faculty hires, Gonzaga Law School was a place of fast change in the 1970s. In 1974, Gonzaga Law faculty unanimously approved the institutionalization of what had, for the previous two years, been a Student Bar Association-led and funded project: a clinical law program. The initial faculty approved a “true clinical law program” that included two full-time teaching faculty, support staff, and a very limited budget.
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Mark Wilson, a lawyer who was based in Pennsylvania at the time, was tasked with developing a hands-on and studentcentric program at Gonzaga Law. After arriving in Spokane, he asked longtime colleague Jeffrey Hartje to join him. The details of clinical law programs at Harvard, Georgetown and Boston College were studied. “Our original idea of setting up a law clinic was pretty much modeled on medical clinics as adjunct to medical schools around the country. A law clinic would serve that same kind of purpose of teaching students not only what the law is but how one practices law in an effective and compassionate and community-useful way,” explained Wilson. In 1975, the Class Action Newsletter announced the creation of the Clinic: “The planned clinical law program will be multi-faceted and designed to accommodate 60-65 third-year students… Clinical exposure will be divided into two general categories: (1) directly supervised clinics with students working under direct supervision of the faculty and will accommodate approximately 40 students, and (2) an out-placement clinic for 23 students to be supervised directly by the respective agency director…under the general supervision of Profs.” Though the on-campus University Legal Assistance was established in September 1975, six student interns began prepping for their clinical experience in July, establishing the
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. By October the students had taken on 115 cases, serving migrant farmworkers in “misdemeanor representation, consumer problems, job injuries, voting rights and general legal representation. Over the course of the next four decades, Gonzaga Legal Assistance, also affectionately known as “The Clinic,” worked tirelessly to serve the Spokane community, specifically senior citizens and children, as well as to provide invaluable experiential learning experience for Gonzaga law students. Full-time faculty members such as Larry Weiser, Jan Drye, George Critchlow, Tari Eitzen, Al McNeil, Gail Hammer (acting director), Jennifer Gellner and numerous others have ensured the successful model continued all these years. Today, the clinic continues to be modeled after a general-practice law firm. Managed by faculty members, the Clinic gives students the opportunity to apply academics to legal practice. Eight discrete mini-clinics exist: business law, federal tax law, mortgage mediation/consumer law, elder law, Indian law, environmental law and land use, general practice and the medical-legal partnership. The Clinic received the Charles Goldmark Distinguished Service Award from the Legal Foundation of Washington, and the Emil Grumpert Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Trial Advocacy. It also has been recognized by the American College of Trial Lawyers On May 9, Clinic alums, faculty, staff and friends of the law school celebrated 40 years of successful, innovative legal education. Wilson and Hartje, who were awarded the Gonzaga Law Medal earlier in the day, shared their fondest memories of what has been an amazing journey. The Clinic has served clients from all walks of life over the years and helped shape law students into successful attorneys and community leaders all across the country.
CLINIC
Larry Weiser (’76 J.D.), George Critchlow (’77 J.D.), Al McNeil (’77 J.D.), Mark Wilson, Jeffrey Hartje
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The clinic relies on support from alumni and friends of the law school. To make a gift in honor of the past 40 years of clinical education at Gonzaga Law, please visit www.law.gonzaga.edu/give-online/ or contact Jeff Geldien at 509-313-6121 or jgeldien@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
CLINIC
Pursuing Justice Wilson, Hartje Receive Gonzaga Law Medal for Clinic leadership who need protection. This all represents, in its truest form, the mission of both Gonzaga Law School and the University. It was Wilson’s caring attitude and the force of his personality that guided the Clinic during its early formative years as well as Hartje, who recently retired from the University of Denver during the period it won acclaim for its far-reaching efforts and College of Law faculty, is well known for his commitment acknowledged achievements. He and the other clinical faculty, to serving others. Employing his extensive staff and students, who have ably combined experience as a public lawyer involved with issues “It is true to say education with representation, along with of poverty, discrimination and disability, he has that without their many friends of the Clinic in the community, for two generations taught students the skills extraordinary efforts, richly deserve praise for what they created, and responsibility involved in representation nurtured, and brought to full maturity. Gonzaga’s initiative in of vulnerable clients – those generally without access to justice, and often discriminated against. clinical education would “The passage of three decades and the current popularity of clinical education obscures how Hartje says it has been a privilege to attempt to not have endured.” bold and truly innovative Mark and Jeffrey’s help students to do good and not to think only -Dean Korn vision was,” says Dean Jane Korn. “It is true to of doing well. “In the main, my clinical students say that without their extraordinary efforts, have a higher sense of social and professional responsibility Gonzaga’s initiative in clinical education would not have and develop a genuine sense of contribution to society in the endured.” representation of the disadvantaged.” Hartje says. In honor of Professors Mark Wilson and Jeffrey Hartje’s initial efforts to form and shape the Clinic, on May 9 Gonzaga School of Law honored them with the Gonzaga Law Medal.
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Wilson, who taught at Gonzaga for 34 years, received emeritus status in 2005 when he retired. His signature is written all over the Clinic. His imprint is amply evidenced in its character – the unparalleled educational experience it provides to Gonzaga Law students. Most importantly, the Clinic makes legal representation possible for so many who simply could not afford representation such as the poor, the elderly, and children
then and now Professors Mark Wilson and Jeffrey Hartje
In addition to the Law Medal, the law school has established, through the generous support of alumni and friends, the Wilson/Hartje Professorship in Clinical Law. This professorship will support the director of the Clinic as he/she leads the institution into the future. To support this professorship, please contact Jeff Geldien, director of Development and Alumni Relations, at 509-313-6121 or jgeldien@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
Community Service
GPILP Auction Helps Fund Student Public Interest Grants Nearly 160 people attended the 2015 Gonzaga Public Interest Law Project auction and raised $4,000 through bidding wars over events like professor-hosted parties and lunches, signed Gonzaga basketballs, bar review courses, and prime parking spaces. “The fact that we matched an anonymous $2,000 donation, for which donors received nothing but the satisfaction of knowing they did what they could for justice, was simply awesome,” said Milt Rowland, adjunct professor (‘85 J.D.).
2015 Summer Grants • Matthew Brunell (2L) The Unemployment Law Project, Spokane • Nyachom Chiek (1L) Washington State Attorney General-Consumer Protection Unit, Spokane • Kyle Swartz (1L)
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Phoenix
• Jennifer Naegle (2L) Pima County Public Defender, Tucson • Ashley Weyerts (1L) The Unemployment Law Project, Seattle • Deanna Willman (1L) Spokane County Prosecutors Office • Daniel Fenzel (2L)
“When you’re up to your ears in student loan debt, it can be difficult to justify working an entire summer for free,” says Maren Sorensen, a 2014 grant recipient. “GPILP helps solve this dilemma for several students each year by giving them grants to fund their summer public interest work. I received a GPILP grant, which helped me make ends meet while I worked at the King County Prosecutor’s Office. I’m very grateful to both the generous donors who funded my grant and the dedicated students who ran GPILP.”
A Hero Among Us The 2015 GPILP Hero Award recognized Rosey Thurman of TeamChild. Thurman is a dedicated advocate for Spokane’s atrisk and underserved youth, and she has expanded the network of youth advocates to include law student volunteers through Gonzaga’s Juvenile Record Sealing Clinic. They help to grow the next generation of legal public interest workers by mentoring and teaching Gonzaga Law students in their fields and developing their passion for public interest law. Third-year clinic coordinator Katie Merrill says Thurman has “amazing patience with our schedules” and teaches students what they need to navigate the courthouse on their own.
Eastern State Hospital, Spokane
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Community Service
Sustaining Partners: Gonzaga Law Students Reach Out, Connect, Serve Community From sealing juvenile records to preparing estate planning
in October. Students also served low-income clients at
documents for veterans, Gonzaga Law students completed
family law clinics by helping to develop a new citizenship
more than 12,000 service hours for Pro Bono Distinction
clinic to serve Spokane’s refugee population.
during the last academic year through Gonzaga’s Center for Law in Public Service.
Student planners organized a weekly social justice speaker series called Public Service, Brown Bag and
Gonzaga Law students were honored by the Washington
Justice (PBJ) forums for the Gonzaga Law community.
State Bar Foundation for connecting middle-income
PBJ topics included unaccompanied minors in
households to affordable legal help through the Moderate
immigration law; race equity and the criminal justice
Means Program, in collaboration with the Washington State
system, Spokane’s Community Court; post-incarceration
Bar Association and the three Washington law schools. It is
barriers to re-entry; the school-to-prison pipeline;
administered through GU’s CLIPS office. Last academic year,
Japanese-American internment; Spokane’s Smart Justice
40 Gonzaga students fielded more than 1,000 requests for
movement, and many others.
assistance, completed 740 intake interviews and referred 226 cases to private attorneys.
CLIPS connected students with several social justice leaders in Washington state. Fifteen Gonzaga Law
Thomas More students partnered with legal services
students, faculty and staff attended the annual Goldmark
organization TeamChild to assist Spokane’s Juvenile Record
Luncheon in Seattle, and several Gonzaga Law students
Sealing Clinic for a third year. Students worked with
attended the Washington State Access to Justice
attorney volunteers to help nearly 20 pro se litigants seal
Conference in Wenatchee, where 2L student Christena
their eligible juvenile offenses at five clinics throughout the
Georgas presented.
year.
For more information about pro bono and social justice
Gonzaga Law students teamed with local attorneys and
initiatives, please contact CLIPS Assistant Director
organizations to offer free legal assistance. They also joined
Catherine Brown at (509) 313-3688 or brownc@
the Spokane County Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Division
lawschool.gonzaga.edu.
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to present the third annual Washington Veteran Wills Clinic
Student voluteers, sitting: Sally Winn (2L), Luke Eaton (3L), Catherine DiSarno (3L), Lovel Tokic (3L), Anni Glogovac (1L). Standing: Washington Supreme Court Justice Steven González, Angela Jones (2L), Dean Jane Korn, CLIPS Assistant Director Catherine Brown, Cara Verhaeghe (1L), Mary-Ruth Brennan (3L), Shelby Winters (1L), Guin Raikes (2L), CLIPS Director Laurie Powers.
Community Service
Expanding Reach Since the beginning of their enterprise, this duo has partnered with Blessings Under the Bridge, a local service organization that has recently been featured both in People magazine and on the Rachael Ray Show. This spring, the Resume Building Assistance Program also started partnering with other organizations to expand their reach. In addition
Street Wise
to local organizations, Microsoft’s Seattle headquarters has offered to donate cellphones and laptops to the project.
A resume workshop for the homeless
Gonzaga Law students fulfill their required 30 hours of public service in different endeavors. Two first-year law students, Nicholas Pietrack and Matthew Brunell, partnered with organizations serving the homeless to create the Resume Building Assistance Program. Now in its eighth month, it provides help with resumes, cover letters and applications.
Providing Help According to a 2007 estimate from the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, approximately 3.5 million people will experience homelessness in a given year. By
Nicholas Pietrack, Matthew Brunell
Creating Opportunities “Matt and I had help along the way so we felt the need to pay
Brunell hope to help community members pursue their
it forward,” Pietrack says.
dreams and goals. “The first night we were set up with a
“Working with Blessings has made me understand sayings
small folding table and no chairs at the end of the food and
like ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ or ‘Walk a day in someone
clothing line. With our poster board sign we waited for our
else’s shoes.’ Interacting with the volunteers and the people
first person to serve,” wrote Pietrack in a blog post about the
who come for help has broken down the walls of society for
project.
me,” says Pietrack. “No one is rich or poor. No one is smart
Proof Positive
or dumb. Everyone is just a human being and everyone has
Their first client, Destiny, has already been hired in a job
struggles.”
working with animals. “Since starting, we’ve helped many
Learn more about the Resume Building program and
clients design resumes and disseminate applications to area
Blessings Under the Bridge on Pietrack’s blog post
businesses,” Pietrack says.
at butb.org.
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providing resume and job search assistance, Pietrack and
Community Service
Weiser Retires Larry Weiser (’76 J.D.), longtime director of University Legal
the Alzheimer’s Association and past chair of the Dispute
Assistance, retired after 35 years of service to his alma mater.
Resolution Center of Spokane and ADR section of the
Professor Weiser has a lengthy history with Gonzaga Law,
Spokane County Bar Association. He has mediated many
going as far back as 1973 when he started as a student. Fast
cases over the past 35 years and remains a certified mediator
forward to summer 1980. Clinic Director Mark Wilson called
with the Northwest Conflict Management Center (formally
upon Weiser to move to Spokane and become a supervising
known as Inland Mediation Center of Spokane).
attorney at the Clinic to run the elder law program. At that time, Weiser was the managing attorney of the Mount Vernon, Washington, office of Evergreen Legal Services.
Law Section bestowed upon Weiser the Homan Award, given annually to an individual who has demonstrated
Weiser spent his entire Gonzaga Law career as director of
contributions to the improvement or application of
the Elder Law Project, and the last 10 as director of the Clinic.
administrative law.
While he taught different classes, he was best-known for his expertise in Elder Law, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation and Mediation, and Administrative Law. He has been certified as an Elder Law attorney (CELA) by the American Bar Association and National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
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In 2011, the Washington State Bar Association, Administrative
Outside of the law school, Weiser enjoys sailing on Lake Coeur d’ Alene and spending time with his wife Ellie. He is a musician and plays in the local Klezmer Band as well as a reggae-rock band called the Working Spliffs. Gonzaga School of Law and the Gonzaga Law School Alumni Association
In addition to his teaching and scholarly research, Weiser
thank Weiser for his unwavering commitment to Gonzaga
is past chairman of the Administrative Law Section of the
Law and to the legal profession.
Washington State Bar Association and law school liaison and past treasurer of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Washington State Bar Association. He has served on many boards including one of his favorites: the Spokane County Superior Court Guardian ad Litem committee. He also is a former board member of the Spokane Chapter of
To honor Professor Weiser’s many years of service to Gonzaga Law, please consider a gift to the Clinic in honor of his exemplary work. For more information, please contact Jeff Geldien, director of Development and Alumni Relations at 509.313.6121 or jgeldien@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
Alumni
Alumni Update
Looking to the Future BY JEFF GELDIEN At Gonzaga Law we continue to thrive in the programs and
access to as many qualified students as possible who want to
events we stage to connect better with each one of you. We
engage in this life-altering and enriching journey. Therefore,
travel across the country, often to locations never before
the School of Law and the University have embarked on a
visited, to engage with alumni and friends of the law school
major campaign to increase our ability to support our students
who are serving as mentors to our students, and who attend
and future leaders. We will not be able to enjoy success without
events like the Quackenbush Lecture, Red Mass, reunions and
the support of our benevolent alumni base. In our next edition,
the Clarke Family CLE Ethics evening. This ZagLaw nation is
you will learn more about the campaign and understand just
strong, and we love connecting with you.
how big a difference your partnership will make in our journey.
Over the past 100 years, many fine individuals have ensured
Next edition – The Gonzaga Law School Foundation:
that the law school will continue to offer a quality experience
the campaign in detail
for our bright, thoughtful and enterprising students. Through their leadership and vision, Fathers Bernard Coughlin and Robert Spitzer, and President Thayne McCulloh have
ALUMNI EVENTS 2015 • Boise Reception
Nov. 11, 2014
• Season Ticket Holder Social
Jan. 29, 2015
• Las Vegas Luncheon
March 9, 2015
• Judge Justin L. Quackenbush Lecture
March 24, 2015
• Clarke Family Legal Ethics & Professionalism CLE
April 16, 2015
• Dean’s Scholarship Recognition Breakfast
April 17, 2015
• Milwaukee Luncheon
April 29, 2015
excited to announce a major effort to grow the School of Law’s
• Clinic Open House
May 9, 2015
endowment, which directly supports our students and their
• Temple of Justice
June 11, 2015
access to a Gonzaga legal education.
• ’70s Class Reunion
Aug. 14–15, 2015
This work is vital to the future of the law school so that
• Red Mass
Sept. 22, 2015
understood the importance of the School of Law’s work to help shape a just society, serving others less fortunate – and the common good – in the process. Former deans such as Smitty Myers, Jim Vache, John Clute, Dan Morrissey, George Critchlow, Marty Martin and now Dean Jane Korn have all left indelible marks on the school. Each faced unique challenges during his or her tenure, and recognized and celebrated many successes. One constant is the tireless work of each president and dean to ensure the law school remains financially healthy. The importance of giving to the School of Law has long been promoted and much appreciated. Knowing this, we are
environment. In the past five years, 40 percent fewer people
UPCOMING DATES 2015-16
have applied to law schools across the nation. Prospective
• Capital Campaign Launch Event* Oct. 14, 2015
students now approach the admissions process with a sense
• John J. Hemmingson Center Dedication
Oct. 15, 2015
• Zagapalooza All-Class Reunion
Oct. 15–17, 2015
of negotiation. Gonzaga Law offers one of the finest Jesuit legal educations in the country and we want to ensure that the school, specifically our admissions team, is able to provide
• 80s Class Reunion–Save the Date Aug. 2016
* www.law.gonzaga.edu
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Gonzaga Law remains competitive in today’s vulnerable
Alumni
A Conversation with Judge Quackenbush by Jeff Geldien
A year ago on a sunny summer afternoon, I sat down with Judge Justin Quackenbush (’57 J.D.) in his U.S. District
Q. Tell me about your decision to become a lawyer and your experience at Gonzaga Law?
Court chambers in the Thomas Foley Federal Building in
My story has a few turns in it, but to help paint a clear picture,
Spokane. The conversation touched upon everything from the influence of his father and Ralph Foley on him as a young man, to his disdain of legal advertising. What I found was a man deeply committed to the law and serving the public, and one highly influenced by his Jesuit philosophy of finding good in all people. Both attributes, and many others, have served him well throughout his legal career. Q. Tell me about your family and their history with Gonzaga? I have a great family connection to Gonzaga, which started with my father, Carl. He was raised on a homestead in Minnesota. He was a very active football coach, and ultimately in his late 20s, got the job as the football coach at Hillyard High School, which is the predecessor of Rogers. During his time as coach at Hillyard, he met a wonderful man named Ralph Foley. They became close friends and both ended up going to law school, which was held at night, at Gonzaga. My father, who was born in 1898 graduated in ’32 at 34 years old. Ralph Foley, who I still refer to as Judge Foley, as he would later become the first graduate of Gonzaga Law to serve on the Superior Court in Spokane, graduated a year or two ahead of him. Prior to taking a seat on the bench, Ralph Foley and my father would both serve as deputy prosecutors in Spokane. In those days there were only about four deputy prosecutors in
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Spokane because there wasn’t that much work, so they could also practice privately. In 1936, Foley was appointed prosecutor. When he was appointed the prosecutor, my dad became his chief deputy. Finally, in 1940 when Judge Foley was appointed to Superior Court, my dad became the county prosecutor and then a Superior Court Judge. In addition to Judge Foley and my father’s careers as lawyers, they both taught at the law school. So yes, we have a deep connection and commitment to Gonzaga Law, and to Spokane.
I have to tell you about my path to law school, as I didn’t start at Gonzaga, but finished there. My father, who had been in World War I, went back into the Army in World War II at the age of 45 and became General George Patton’s liaison officer for Europe. Shortly after dad came back, I enlisted in the Navy, I believe it was 1946. I was a senior in high school. I had great love and admiration for my father, so I suppose I was following in his footsteps a bit. When I enlisted, I went into the V12 program, which was designed to commission officers. I wanted to go to Stanford but they sent me to the University of Illinois in Champaign. You really didn’t have a say as to where you were going to go, and I was a good athlete in high school, so I had been recruited as a basketball player and a golfer. The Navy thought Illinois was the best place for me, and I had a good experience there, as I lettered on the golf team. I stayed at Illinois for two years and when they terminated the V12 program, I transferred to the University of Idaho where they had what we would now call an ROTC program. I finished there and started law school in Moscow, Idaho. In my first year, the Korean War broke out and I then spent the next three years as an operations officer on a destroyer. By the time I came back from the war in 1954, I was married and had a family. I had the GI Bill, but was then offered a great opportunity as a deputy clerk for Judge Foley, so I came back to Spokane. From that position, I went back to law school at Gonzaga and to work in the prosecutor’s office, again kind of following in my dad’s footsteps. I worked as an intern at the prosecutor’s office for a couple of years while finishing law school, and in 1957, after I graduated from Gonzaga Law, I immediately went to work as a deputy prosecutor. It was there that I became close friends with Tom
Alumni
“I felt law school here was a living, breathing way of learning the law”
Foley, our former Congressman and Speaker of the House.
1951, was like night and day compared to Gonzaga. The dean
He also came to work as a deputy prosecutor. So my path to
at Idaho was an old University of Michigan professor, and he
becoming a lawyer is complex, but it was also very rewarding.
ran it in the old, very structured way of teaching law. When I
I cherish those memories coming up through the ranks.
came back to law school after the Korean War and began at
Q. It sounds like both your father and Judge Foley were really your mentors and helped make you the man you are today? Oh yes, both were great men. Both started as lawyers and then ultimately became judges. When I was with Judge Foley, he was just the kindest man. Lawyers around town used to talk about how tough he could be, but that he always worked to find something good in the person. He brought a very humanistic approach to the law. I try to always find something good in a person, even the toughest criminals. Both
Gonzaga, I felt law school here was a living, breathing way of learning the law. I know that Gonzaga Law continues to promote that type of learning at the legal clinic there. That exposes the students to what the real world is all about and I think that is good. Q. Specifically, the Jesuits often tell us we have to forgive one another. How have you balanced your Jesuit education, forgiveness specifically, with your role as a judge, especially when you see some
of the criminals you do?
men taught me the value of being a good lawyer and a good
I am Christian. I am Episcopalian. I have spent a lot of time over
human being.
the years at the Jesuit House with men such as Father Bernard
Q. You mentioned you taught at the law school for a period of time. What do you remember about that experience? I taught a class on Friday nights if you can imagine that. It was a sort of Torts and Landlord Tenant seminar. It was a great experience. I think I taught for about five years. I remember Smithmoore Myers was our dean. He was one of the best. Such a gentleman and later he became our United States Magistrate. Q. Who were some of the instructors at GU Law
that you remember most?
Joe Nappi, Leo Frederickson, Father James Linden and Willard
religion. I believe my Christian background serves me very well in this job. Also, my background interacting with Judge Foley, who could always find the good in a person, has helped. It can be difficult. I see some very disturbing things and come across some very violent people. I have a job to do, though, and want to make sure that I am doing it well. I believe Gonzaga prepared me both intellectually and emotionally for this career, which is something I will never forget. Q. You were appointed to the Federal Bench by President Carter in 1979. How do you think the legal profession
has changed over the past 35-plus years?
Well, I would say one thing I have seen changed, and it is a pet peeve of mine, is advertising. I always thought if you
Roe were great professors.
were admitted into the sanctorum of being a lawyer, that
Q. So how has your education from Gonzaga Law
need advertising. Like a good doctor, I think lawyers best
advertising is their clients’ word of mouth and referrals. But
influenced your career?
My first year at the University of Idaho Law School, in 1950-
you were part of an honored profession which shouldn’t
I know times have changed. Also, I have seen a big change in
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Well, of course, Smitty Myers comes to mind, but names like
Coughlin and Father Frank Costello. We talked a lot about
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“I tend to move cases along. I take great pride in my past work as a lawyer.”
class actions. There weren’t many of those when I started on
I have seen the highs and lows of being on the bench and
the bench. As a lawyer I never handled any, but as a judge I
credit a great many people for assisting me along the way. One
have had many come through my courtroom. I also think we
specifically is Tom Foley. Obviously, Tom was well-known both
have seen a shift in litigation. It has become very complex
in Spokane and nationally as a great leader. Tom is really the
these days. I probably don’t get through cases as quickly as
one whom I credit with elevating the job of federal judges.
I used to, but I find that they are so complex, it takes longer.
One of his first acts as Speaker of the House was to help get
And yes, I am known for abhorring continuances. I just don’t
our pay increased at a time when it was very low. He was also
like them. I do realize they are needed on occasion, but I think
responsible for obtaining the second, third and fourth judicial
they are overused.
positions in the Eastern District of Washington, when our
Q. What is one of the biggest challenges
of being a Federal Judge?
You definitely have to be a people person in this job, because you are in constant contact with lawyers, staff and other personnel, both in the courtroom and outside of it. Also, we are constantly being updated on new issues as they work
like Tom helped pave the way for us, and I hope I have made them proud and served the community well. Q. You have told me quite a bit about yourself. What do you want people to know about you
and what you are passionate about?
their way up to the Supreme Court, so it is interesting to
I would say how important my family is to me. I kid about
watch the law evolve. One specific challenge I would name
why I am still working. My oldest son is a successful lawyer in
is the sentencing guidelines that Congress and the Justice
Seattle. My other son is an oncologist in Walla Walla. And then
Department agreed on. This is specifically a challenge in the
my daughter, who lives here in Spokane, is a CPA accountant.
drug offenses. Some of the guidelines are draconian, and we
So I say “Why am I still working?”
do have discretion as judges when we sentence, but I think
I am very proud of my children. I also have six grandchildren
this is a very challenging area. We have to balance what an appropriate sentence is for an offender – we have to balance the prison situation with public safety, so it can be very challenging.
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caseload was one of the highest per judge in the country. Men
who are all doing well. Of course, my wife Marie is so important in all of this. We have been married 30 years. She has an amazing way of keeping our lives organized. I definitely could not have done this without her. I am so thankful for all
Q. After practicing law and now serving as a judge, what do you think your reputation is among the legal community?
of the years of support from my family and community. It has
Well, I hope it is firm, but fair. I tend to move cases along. I
held at Gonzaga Law to honor the achievements of Judge
take great pride in my past work as a lawyer. I handled many
Quackenbush. Previous speakers include Cindy Cohn of the
pro bono murder cases over the years when I practiced, and
Electronic Frontier Foundation, former Dean of Stanford
always felt it was the obligation of the profession to provide
Law Kathleen Sullivan, and the most highly cited living law
representation to those who could not afford counsel. I always
professor, Erwin Chemerinsky, and dean of the University of
try and remember where the trial lawyers who are in front
California at Irvine Law School.
of me are coming from and how hard the work can be. I remember being in their shoes. I appreciate when a lawyer is prepared and advocates hard for their clients.
truly been a pleasure to serve. Each year, the Judge Justin L. Quackenbush Lecture is
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John R. Clark Loan Repayment Assistance Program When Melissa Gosline was just 3 or 4, she told her grandmother that she was going to be a lawyer. Years later, Gosline moved to Spokane and enrolled at Gonzaga Law, where she discovered a passion for public interest law. As one of this year’s Clark Loan Repayment Assistance Program recipients, Gosline serves the Spokane community while working in the Spokane Public Defender’s office. An early passion realized “It was in high school, after being involved in mock trial and the We The People program that I decided for sure I wanted to be an attorney,” says Gosline. “After completing law school and taking the bar exam, I Melissa Gosline (‘11 J.D.) found myself unsure of what I wanted Spokane County Public to do next. I was encouraged by a friend Defender’s Office to volunteer at the Public Defender’s office… I realized it was a perfect fit. I loved the office, the work that was being done, and after three years I am still here.” As with most public interest positions, Gosline often faces client issues head-on. “The biggest challenge I have faced in public interest is the nagging feeling that there is always more I could be doing to help my clients. Either there isn’t time or resources, but the feeling is there. I remind myself that all I can ever give is my best. As long as I can reflect back on a case and know I did my best, then my job is done.” Finding satisfaction in providing service
Though Hartnett had decided as an undergraduate to attend law school, it was during an internship in his 2L year that he decided to choose a career in public service. “During the internship I had the opportunity to meet with clients and hear their stories. I realized that, but for a few different circumstances, I could have just as easily been in (the client’s) shoes,” says Hartnett. “I wasn’t talking to a stranger, I was talking to myself or the friends I grew up with. I knew that I could tell their story better than a lot of others. I realized that most of (the clients) had never had a person stand up for them and tell their story. I decided I would be the one to fight for them.” Finding rewards in client success Hartnett is confident in the work he does in the Public Defender’s office, though he is also the first to admit that the learning curve can be a bit steep. “Being a young attorney and working in indigent criminal defense can be very intimidating. Not only is a person’s freedom in your hands, some of the people you represent may be more familiar with certain aspects of the process than you. “I think the most rewarding aspect of my work is when I set a person up for success in spite of the very difficult circumstances they face.”
Benjamin Hartnett (‘12 J.D.) Spokane County Public Defender’s office
A plan for continuing service Looking ahead, Hartnett would like to establish himself as a formidable trial attorney and be able to assist new attorneys in developing their courtroom advocacy skills.
For Hartnett, it starts with a story
About the John R. Clark LRAP
Being able to help tell someone’s story can be a uniquely powerful experience. For 2015 Clark Loan Repayment Assistance Program recipient Benjamin Hartnett, the calling
John R. Clark is a 1980 graduate of Gonzaga Law, a former race car driver, and lawyer who believed that “no one is beyond redemption.” In his honor friends and family created the loan repayment program in 2013.
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Working in public defense is not always a question of needing to do more. “Being thanked by my clients is the most rewarding aspect of my job. There is a lot of work that goes into our cases, but when a client is in tears because they are so happy, it makes it worth all the hard work.” She plans to continue in public defense work, and mentoring younger attorneys as she continues in her career.
to work in the Spokane Public Defender’s office started with stories, and those stories carry him through a job that he calls both “intimidating” and “rewarding.”
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Traditional LRAP Program Recipients find substance in serving others Shelly Haas A dream does not always happen immediately, but when that dream is delayed, the payoff can often feel that much sweeter. For Shelly Haas, Class of 2014 and 2015 Loan Repayment Assistance Program recipient, the process of getting a law degree was one that always has been driven by her desire to help at-risk populations in the Spokane community. A dream fulfilled
resources available for clients to meet their needs. Most need help with the basic elements of survival, such as housing and food. The most rewarding aspect of my job is when I get to tell a parent that a child is coming home. It is very rewarding when I get to congratulate the parent for making changes in their life so they can have their child back in their care. It is incredibly heartwarming to see how excited that child is to be home and to watch them hug their parent, understanding they get to sleep in their own bed and not the home of strangers any longer.” Looking beyond living the dream
Shelly Haas (‘14 J.D.) Spokane County Public Defender’s office
“I have always been interested in the law,” explains Haas. “I loved watching shows like ‘Law & Order’ and ‘Dateline’ and was intrigued with the legal portions of those programs. The idea of law school seemed overwhelming, so instead I earned my paralegal degree thinking that was a good compromise. While I enjoyed the attorneys I worked for, I always thought about how I might handle a case or client’s situation differently if I was the attorney. I realized I was not sure if I would ever be satisfied with being a paralegal and would always wonder if I could have made it through law school. With the encouragement of my husband and children, I began the process of making my dream a reality.”
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Helping those in the most need “I worked as a paralegal for an attorney who had a contract with the Office of Public Defense to represent indigent clients involved with CPS,” says Haas, talking about how she found public interest work. “While it was emotionally draining work, I truly enjoyed helping these clients. Most clients were at an all-time low in their life suffering from various addictions, homeless, or in domestically violent relationships. I enjoyed helping these parents get the services necessary, such as parenting classes, counseling or substance abuse treatment, so that they could better themselves and be reunited with their children. This experience made me want to continue to help this population.” “The biggest challenge that I have faced is the lack of funding or
“I am lucky to say that I have the job that I dreamed of. In 2011, I set the goals to graduate law school and gain employment representing indigent clients involved in the dependency process. I was honored to be offered a job doing just that at Spokane County Public Defender’s. In 15 years, I see myself in much the same role. However, I want to continue to learn more about the population I work with and what can be done differently in our community to help these families. I also want to really understand the impact that the dependency process has on families, both short term and long term, and help minimize any trauma to the children and families. I hope to become more of an expert on permanency options for families and help share this knowledge with others interested in this type of law,” Haas says.
Sally Cooley Often times, lawyers end up playing a dual role for their clients – both advocate and educator. Sally Cooley, who is a public defender in the State of Idaho, embraces both the challenges and successes that come from her work. As one of the 2015 recipients of the Loan Repayment Assistance Program awards, Cooley became an attorney when she realized the great number of individuals in need of help navigating the legal system. Learning about those who most need help “My neighbor while I was in law school, attorney John P. Nollette, took conflict cases from the Public Defender’s office,” explains Cooley. “While working for him, I became involved in these cases, and I realized where I could help the most people, who most needed legal help – when their freedom and/or constitutional rights were at risk.”
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Working with big challenges Working as a public defender, Cooley often encounters big challenges. “The hurdles faced by my clients also discourage and challenge me. Things like inadequate mental health Sally Cooley (‘05 J.D.) care, language barriers, transportation difficulties, lack Idaho State Appellate of steady employment, financial Public Defender’s office problems, lack of education and other obstacles are challenges I see every day. The most rewarding aspect of my work is when I feel like I have really helped a client or, if I can’t win their case, at least I have listened to them and explained the situation and their options, thereby providing them with counsel that they may not otherwise have, and helping them to make an educated decision.” “I am typically a calm person, which helps quite a lot if I am speaking to an agitated or upset client,” explains Cooley. “I’m also generally very logical, which I think helps me to clearly explain to my clients the issues I see in their case, and their available options.”
Raychelle Morrill Sometimes, the desire to prove a point can help set the entire path of someone’s life. For 2008 graduate Raychelle Morrill, the desire to prove that a female could become an attorney started her on the path to law school. Paralegal classes led to law school, which led to public service volunteering opportunities, which eventually led to her current job with the Kalispel Tribe.
The choice of Gonzaga Law was one that Morrill made after meeting a GU law representative who was passionate about the school, and the school provided the best opportunities for her. While at Gonzaga, Morrill found a passion. She explains:
Working with and for children Morrill’s work with the Kalispel tribe focuses mostly on the Indian Child Welfare system. Says Morrill: “It is a difficult area to work in because the cases are often emotional. Knowing what has happened to some of the children involved in the system is heartbreaking at times. The most rewarding part of my job is when we have been able to work with a family and can finally reunify them knowing that the child will be better off because of our help.” “I believe that having worked Raychelle Morrill (‘08 J.D.) hard through all of the ups and Kalispel Tribe downs I have experienced in life is the key to my having been successful,” explains Morrill. “I have tried to be a dedicated worker no matter what situation I found myself in – working in a grocery store, working as a legal administrator for a city attorney, and working for the Kalispel Tribe. I believe that this work ethic will continue to lead me down a positive and successful path.”
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Discovering a love of public interest
“I went to law school not certain of what type of law I wanted to practice when I graduated. During law school, I had the opportunity to be involved with the Gonzaga Public Interest Law Project (GPILP) and Mission: Possible, which I enjoyed immensely because of the opportunities to help individuals and families. Being among the incredibly poor families in Honduras and yet seeing how grateful they are for everything they have and how willing they are to share anything they have was such an eye-opening experience. I also enjoyed volunteering at the Hope House women’s shelter during law school and having the chance to volunteer at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center working with some underprivileged children. When a position with the Kalispel Tribe became available and it was in a public interest area, I knew that I would enjoy it as well.”
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Michelle Hess Hearing no is never easy; for Michelle Hess, hearing no is simply a chance to think outside the box. The challenges of working in indigent defense provide lots of opportunities for Hess to face challenges head-on, while working hard until the job is done and she is satisfied, instead of working until the job has been done “well enough.”
and the legal profession. I would like to have a good amount of trial experience and to have learned the skills necessary to zealously advocate for my clients,” Hess says. Finding the importance of public service
Michelle Hess (‘14 J.D.) Spokane County Public Defender’s office
Learning early that everyone deserves defense Hess recalls learning the values of this profession from her father. “My father has always been a role model and an inspiration for me from the time I was very young. When I was 7 years old my father represented a man who was charged with double homicide and was facing the death penalty. He worked tirelessly for months preparing the case. When I asked him why he wasn’t home very much he explained that he needed to help someone that very few people were helping. He stressed the importance of fighting as hard as he can for someone society had labeled as a ‘problem’ because if my father didn’t fight for him, nobody else would. From that point on, I was determined to become a lawyer,” Hess says.
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Working hard in a difficult profession For Hess, the challenges of her profession are very real. “The biggest challenge so far in my public interest career is not being able to help my clients improve different aspects of their life. As a public defender, I am limited in the scope of my representation. It is difficult having to tell clients that I can’t help them with issues outside their criminal charge.” Despite, or perhaps because of those challenges, though, Hess has every intention of continuing. “In 15 years I see myself continuing my career in indigent defense. I see myself working on more serious cases including felonies and hopefully homicide trials. I hope that regardless of where my career has taken me that I have a good reputation and am upholding the ethics and values of both Gonzaga University
“I love the focus Gonzaga places on public service and the wonderful opportunities students are given to give back to the community. Gonzaga was one of the only programs that I found that required students to give back to the community. I think Gonzaga provides a unique experience that goes beyond the classroom and helps its students grow into well-rounded members of society,” Hess says.
Melissa V. Simonsen The drive to work in public service is one that Melissa V. Simonsen has felt since long before she became a lawyer. Currently serving in the Koror State Legislature in Palau, Simonsen admits that while the money of the private sector might be appealing, it is the personal fulfillment she gets out of public interest work that keeps her going. As one of this year’s recipients of the Loan Repayment Assistance Program, Simonsen’s dedication to public service and feeling of deep personal commitment is one that Gonzaga Law is proud to support. Melissa V. Simonsen (‘07 J.D.) A life lived for more than a paycheck
Koror State Legislature, Palau
“As a graduate of the College of St. Catherine, now St. Catherine University, I was encouraged to be a woman who would lead and influence,” says Simonsen. “After graduating Magna Cum Laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa scholar I was unfulfilled by the work that I was doing for a salary; instead, my life enrichment came from the assistance that I gave my community … Whether it is helping individuals with limited resources with their legal issues or promoting the public interest by protecting endangered species, I gain fulfillment knowing that my life, each and every day, is about more than just a paycheck. I chose public service as a
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career because it was simply that intrinsically important and fulfilling for me.” Remembering the supportive GU community Simonsen chose to attend Gonzaga Law, in large part, because of Gonzaga’s choice to live its Jesuit nature. “Gonzaga not only talks the talk, but it walks the walk. When I conceived my eldest daughter Siriana at the end of my second year of law school, everyone from the dean of the law school to each and every professor worked to ensure that I succeeded in graduating on time and with honors. This assistance is not what I would have received at a state school and I do not imagine that my life would be as enriched today if I had not had the support that I received from Gonzaga,” Simonsen says. “The spirit of the Jesuit faith permeates each classroom, the library, the administrative offices, and of course, the small chapel where I would spend quiet time with my infant daughter.” Recognizing diversity’s importance “Professionally, I hope to continue to improve the diversity of the legal profession. In order to serve our community properly, we must reflect the community that we represent. The only way that this profession can positively evolve is to embrace programs that promote diversity in the law schools. I am thankful for the efforts of Gonzaga School of Law in recognizing the uniformity of the student body and taking active measures to make Gonzaga a hospitable environment where every student can thrive,” she says. “There is a change within our profession and it is for the better, but professionally, I want to continue to promote diversity efforts so that in 15 years, our profession will reflect our community. This must happen both in terms of race and gender, and also in terms of sexual orientation, disability, veteran status and income. I hope to be a part of these efforts and that I will be a part of collaborative efforts to make this vision a reality.” About the Gonzaga LRAP Program
The Gonzaga Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), established in 2007, would like to recognize the 2013-2014 recipients. The LRAP provides up to $4,000 per person per year to a select number of graduates who are pursuing careers in public service. The program reflects Gonzaga University’s humanistic, Jesuit and Catholic mission by supporting those serving in the public interest work sector. Generally, careers in public service pay less than those in the private sector. The program provides financial assistance by encouraging students to work and remain in public interest law. Applicants with outstanding law school student loans, both federal and private, are eligible to apply for the LRAP. If you would like to support either the Traditional LRAP or John R. Clark LRAP, please contact:
Jeff Geldien at 509-313-6121 or jgeldien@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
Want to apply for an LRAP? Please read the revised eligibility requirements and applications. Application Deadline – Postmark or submit by Nov. 12, 2015
www.law.gonzaga.edu
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The Gonzaga Loan Repayment Assistance Program, which was created in 2007, awards outstanding alumni each year with loan repayment assistance. The 2015 recipients are all pursuing careers in public service and reflect Gonzaga’s humanistic, Jesuit and Catholic mission.
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1970s All-Decade Law School Reunion The 1970s All-Decade Reunion was filled with trips down memory lane and creating new ones. Alumni from Missouri, Washington, Alaska and Nevada traveled to Spokane to celebrate with their classmates. The class of 1970 was the eldest year present. The class of 1973 was our most represented class with seven alums. Over the weekend, alums enjoyed a class barbecue, Mass at the Law School Chapel, touring McCarthey Athletic Center, golf, visiting local wineries and a formal dinner with Dean Jane Korn.
A Breakfast for Champions all of which had one thing in common: commitment to being a great Gonzaga Lawyer. Each year the Law School Foundation Scholarship Committee, consisting of faculty and staff members, distribute awards to a number of students who have submitted an application. The awards come from over 50 scholarships, both annual and endowed, and have been established to directly support law students.
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On April 17 Dean Jane Korn and the Law School Board of Advisors hosted a breakfast to recognize and honor those who benefit from, and give to, scholarship support for law students. The breakfast was a great chance to bring together the law students who benefit from annual and endowed scholarship support from donors who once walked in the same shoes as students. Donors and students were able to share stories and experiences,
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a tribute to
The Salt-of-theEarth Attorneys FR. FRANK CASE S.J. VICE PRESIDENT FOR MISSION
Our Gonzaga-educated attorneys serve society in unique, but still very necessary and effective ways. They serve the “mission” of the law and carry forward Gonzaga University’s mission in their own ways. In short, it takes all types to make up a profession. St. Ignatius of Loyola and his first companions deliberated together about how the Lord might be calling them to serve the Church and the world. They had all made the Spiritual Exercises and were filled with a zeal to serve in whatever way the Lord wished of them. In their zeal they wanted to respond to the world’s greatest needs wherever they were to be found. As their discernment unfolded over their first few years together they found themselves drawn to Rome for the purpose of offering their services to the Pope, figuring that with his broad knowledge of the world he would have the best idea of where the greatest needs lay. The Pope took them up on their offer and the Society of Jesus was born. Sounds pretty heroic, and indeed it was.
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Then how do we explain how so many Jesuits ended up in so many rather routine jobs? In lives of unsung ministry as high school teachers, or, worse yet, prefects of discipline? As associate pastors and hospital chaplains? As missionaries in some of the remotest parts of the world? As administrators in support of Jesuit governance hidden away in some provincial office or in the bowels of the Roman Curia? Some Jesuits have indeed matched the heroism of our first fathers – people like Matteo Ricci, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, John Courtney Murray, Cardinal Agustin Bea, and Pope Francis. But we have to acknowledge that the vast majority of us Jesuits serve in rather unheralded ways in a variety of institutions and settings where we try to serve the world’s greatest needs, but do so in less illustrious ways. Why do we take on such roles? What is our motivation? We find ourselves committed to these greatest needs in and through the “missions” – articulated in
mission statements – entrusted by the Lord to our schools and universities, to our retreat houses and parishes, and to our centers of social service and advocacy on behalf of the poor. We believe that through the guidance of the Holy Spirit over the centuries since our founding, we are carrying on that original zeal that led Ignatius and his companions to take off for Rome to offer their services to the Pope. Over the centuries that zeal has been institutionalized for greater effectiveness and continuity. The sense of mission, then, is central to our desire to serve. Whether one is protecting the public from corporate greed, or serving the community to bring world-class events such as the Olympics to their local community, our individual efforts are frequently less than spectacular. They attract little public attention. Yet we believe that they all contribute to a larger reality blessed by God’s goodness and care. What does this all have to do with the law and the practitioners thereof, particularly those serving in such unique, yet sometimes humble roles? Some attorneys, of course, probably a relatively small minority, serve in very high-profile positions, such as U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices, or the stuff of which John Grisham novels are written. But most serve in relatively moderate or low-profile positions. Yet, without them the legal system under which we live and operate would not be able to serve its ultimate purpose, or mission, of caring for individuals and their rights and for building up the common good – the civic, national and global communities to which we all belong. Just as the mission of the Society of Jesus would be weakened without the men who work in the trenches of high-school classrooms, hidden offices, and elsewhere, so too the legal profession’s mission would be weakened without those who serve in its less spectacular positions. Christ told his followers “you are the light of the world; you are the salt of the earth.” The light is placed in an elevated lampstand where it can be seen by all – very high-profile. But the salt works
in hidden ways in the earth, like leaven in the dough. And, in the final analysis, both are necessary for the spread of the gospel which Christ asks us to do, the Christian’s mission of evangelization. Since each of us is both light and salt, most Jesuits serve both in the limelight and in the shadows, while most attorneys, I imagine, have their days in office libraries and eventual opportunities to display their craft in court and in the halls of government. St. Paul used another image to describe these same ideas. We all make up what he calls the Body of Christ. Each, however, receives her or his particular gifts which are given by the Lord not only for the good of the individual but also for the building up of the whole body. Some have gifts of preaching, some gifts of teaching, some of prophecy, some of healing, some gifts of administration, some of speaking in tongues, and some of interpreting tongues. Paul insists that they are all given for the common good, to build up the body of the faithful. We could say that without these gifts the mission Christ gave the Church would be seriously weakened. (One must be grateful to the Holy Spirit that despite the misuse of these gifts on the part of individual believers and leaders over the centuries, the body, the so-called “bark of Peter,” has miraculously survived the stormy seas raised by both internal and external forces.)
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In other words, it all comes down to the old saying: It takes all kinds! And I suspect that without the salt the light would lose its strength and without the light the salt would lose its way. So this issue of Gonzaga Lawyer is dedicated to those among us who are salt for the earth, those serving the public in all ways. Those who form the large majority of the profession, men and women who contribute in their own ways to the shared mission of keeping our legal system relevant, reliable and vital.
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Magistrate Judge James Hutton is retiring in January, after eight years on the federal bench. Hutton served as a Yakima County Superior Court judge from 1996-2007 before being appointed a magistrate judge for the Eastern District of Washington in October 2007.
Thomas W. Hillier II has joined Perkins Coie’s Seattle office Commercial Litigation practice as senior counsel. He will focus his practice on indigent defense pro bono matters. Hillier will also provide support to the firm’s White Collar and Investigations practice. He previously served as Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington for 32 years.
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Craig Beles, Seattle, received his second Fulbright award in four years as a specialist in International Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). He will be spending time at the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arbitration and Mediation Center teaching and training lawyers, judges and industry representatives in an effort to create a culture of ADR on this island nation. Patrick Tondreu received the 2013 Wilmont Sweeney Juvenile Court Judge of the Year award by the Juvenile Court Judges of California and the 2014 Western Sweet Award for Legal Activism from the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP. Tondreu is a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County.
1979 Peter Moye has joined the Spokane firm of Workland & Witherspoon PLLC as counsel. Moye practices law in Washington, California and Idaho and has experience in estate planning, probate and trust, business, tax, planned giving and real estate law. He is a member of the Business Law Section, and Real Property, Probate and Tax Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer is retiring in December. After 30 years of practicing law in southeast Arizona, Cochise County’s top attorney is leaving behind a legacy of prosecutorial control and a passion for the courtroom.
1980 Houston Putnam Lowry was elected a life member of the American Law Institute in 2014. He is an attorney at Brown & Welsh, PC in Connecticut, where he focuses on complex commercial litigation and bankruptcy.
1981
Col. Charles Grinnell (‘81 J.D.) and LTC James Kane (‘90 J.D.) Col. Charles Grinnell (‘81 J.D.) and LTC James Kane (‘90 J.D.) reconnected at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Grinnell and Kane have been Judge Advocate General (JAG) officers in the U.S. Army Reserve for many years. During their deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Grinnell was the deputy director for Task Force 2010 in Afghanistan and Qatar, and Kane was the officer in charge of the legal cell, National Security Justice Development, Bagram, Afghanistan. Kevin J. Curtis, principal and litigator with Winston & Cashatt Lawyers in Spokane, was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in Key Biscayne, Florida. Fellowship in the group is extended by invitation only and is based on a trial lawyer’s advocacy and demonstration of the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality. Curtis has extensive trial experience in criminal defense, complex commercial litigation and class action litigation.
Judge Gary Gibson of Shasta County, California, received the 2014 Family Law Judicial Officer of the Year Award. Gibson joined the bench in 2006 as Shasta County’s child support commissioner. He is the assistant presiding judge of the local Superior Court.
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1 Zag completes Triathlon/Ironman
1982 Stephen M. Lamberson of Etter, McMahon, Lamberson, Van Wert & Oreskovich PC in Spokane was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers at its annual spring meeting in Key Biscayne, Florida. Membership in the American College of Trial Lawyers is extended only by invitation to experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality. Kirkpatrick & Startzel PS announced that retired Spokane Superior Court Judge Jerome J. Leveque has rejoined the firm as counsel. Leveque specializes in private trials, arbitrations and mediations.
CLASS ACTION replaces retiring Judge Tari Eitzen (‘82 J.D.). Clary is a partner at the Spokane firm of Etter, McMahon, Lamberson, Clary & Oreskovich.
Sherry L. Travers Sherry L. Travers, a shareholder in the Dallas office of Littler, has been named a 2014 recipient of the Class Representative Outstanding Service award by the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Leadership Dallas Alumni Association (LDAA). The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the class representative role to the LDAA and the community.
Edmonds, Washington, City Council appointed J. Nelson a member of the City’s Planning Board and co-chair of the Mayor’s Climate Protection Committee.
1984 Judge Benjamin Simpson retired in April after 10 years as a magistrate and the past five years as a District Court judge in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Gov. Jay Inslee appointed attorney Raymond Clary to the Spokane County Superior Court. Clary, who was appointed in December,
1988
Janice Brown
Nena Cook Ater Wynne added Nena Cook as a partner in the Portland, Oregon, firm’s Litigation practice. Cook is a former president of the Oregon State Bar with more than 23 years of experience specializing in complex business disputes, appellate law and professional liability defense.
Susan E. Seabrook Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney announced the addition of tax attorney and shareholder Susan E. Seabrook to the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Seabrook rounds out Buchanan’s Tax Group, focusing their practice on tax controversy and tax planning with regard to the financial, insurance and health care industries.
James Shipman of Everett, Washington, published two historical novels, “Constantinopolis” and “Going Home” through Lake Union Publishing.
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The board of trustees of California Western School of Law in San Diego has elected Janine Sarti as its newest member. She will bring significant business experience and community connections to the law school’s governing body.
Jeffrey R. Ropp was named a principal at Winston & Cashatt’s Spokane office. Ropp joined the firm in 2013 and has practiced for more than 25 years in elder law, estate planning, probate and trust administration.
2 1985
Janice Brown, founder of Brown Law Group in San Diego, was appointed to the California Department of Insurance – Insurance Diversity Task Force for 2015-16. Founded in 2012, the Insurance Diversity Task Force, headed by Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, considers and makes recommendations about diversity in the insurance industry, including the diversity of corporate governing boards and procurement from diverse businesses. To make her service of particular significance, Brown welcomes input from her legal colleagues in the insurance industry and those who do business with carriers.
1986
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Alumni wrote Books
1983 The American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys has recognized Spokane attorney John R. Layman as a 2015 “10 Best Personal Injury Attorneys for Client Satisfaction” for Washington state. Layman was selected based on client and/ or peer nominations, thorough research, and AIOPIA’s independent evaluation.
Brown recently founded Beyond Law, a transformational system aimed at helping law firms reach their business development goals. Beyond Law features mindset training, a proprietary technology tool and reward system called Cloudburst, and ongoing coaching for accountability.
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1992
Michael Harrington Michael Harrington has joined the Seattle office of Helsell Fetterman as co-chair of the firm’s Employment and Labor and Health Care Practice groups. Mike has more than 20 years of experience representing employers in all manner of labor and employment law cases, health care delivery systems, and related business matters.
1993
officer, president, chief operating officer and general counsel. She was an attorney in private practice from 1996-2006 and was executive director of Washington Ceasefire from 1994-95. She is a member of the California New Car Dealers Association and the National Automobile Dealers Association. Patricia Vecera, an experienced labor/employment lawyer, joined the Anchorage office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as counsel. Vecera defends private and public employers in a full range of employment disputes and also is known for her labor law expertise. She joins DWT after spending 15 years at the Anchorage-based firm of Turner & Mede PC. Carson City, Nevada, District Attorney-elect Jason Woodbury appointed Kristin Luis to be assistant district attorney. Luis is the Juvenile Court special master and discovery commissioner for the First Judicial District Court, a position she has held since 2010.
1995 Jason Geller
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Jason Geller was appointed managing partner of the San Francisco office of Fisher & Phillips LLP. Geller specializes in all areas of employment law. Victoria Rusnak, Pasadena, California, was reappointed to the California New Motor Vehicle Board, where she has served since 2009. Rusnak has held several positions at the Rusnak Auto Group since 2006, including chief executive
latest, “The Little Zag’s Welcome to Gonzaga Basketball,” has received positive feedback from all ages. Amy J. Goertz has joined Lynn St. Louis Law Office PLLC as a senior associate. Her practice focuses on the areas of elder law and estate planning.
John C. Dippold John C. Dippold was named president and managing partner at Carney Badley Spellman PS in Seattle. He is co-chair of the Construction Department. His legal practice principally involves construction litigation, commercial litigation, construction law, development, commercial and residential real estate, and federal/state government contracts in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii. His primary clients include owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.
1998 Jacob Keyes Michael (‘98 J.D.) and Theresa (‘95 J.D.) Keyes’ son Jacob has written a book about Zags basketball for kids. Jacob, 13, has published two books and his
Brian Linden completed his first long-course triathlon at Ironman Arizona in Tempe, Nov. 10, which included a 2.4mile swim, 112-mile bike, and 26.2-mile run. “I wore a Gonzaga cycling jersey during the bike course and was encouraged by
the numerous ‘Go Zags’ cheers I heard from spectators and fellow athletes.” Michael Mulvihill was elected Superior Court judge of San Joaquin County, California, in the November election.
2000 The Washington State Bar Association awarded Eric Pedersen with the 2014 Award of Merit. This is the WSBA’s highest honor, given for a recent singular achievement. Upon being recalled to active duty in 2013, Lt. Cmdr. Pedersen became the sole legal adviser for SEAL Team 10, a 1,500-person task force encompassing 10 provinces. He provided training to Special Forces personnel, advised leadership on legal issues related to the rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict during operations. Gaetano Testini was appointed administrative law judge for the Industrial Commission of Arizona. He also serves as adjunct professor for Grand Canyon University and Arizona Summit Law School.
Fast Facts about Gonzaga Law Alumni:
2 Judges retiring
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2001
Tracy DiFillippo Tracy DiFillippo, a Las Vegas partner in Armstrong Teasdale’s Litigation practice group, is a 2014 recipient of the Vince A. Consul Memorial Pro Bono Award from the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. As a participant in the Legal Aid Center’s Partners in Pro Bono program, DiFillippo mentors law students learning to handle pro bono cases. She also participates in the Nevada Appellate Pro Bono Program, which was created by the Nevada Supreme Court to help pro se litigants.
2002
Karlin Itchoak is the new chief administrative and legal officer for Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corp. in Alaska. He oversees UIC’s corporate support services and the development of the organization’s strategic goals and legal matters brought before the company.
2006 John T. Burke and his wife Heidi welcomed their second child, Tessa Jo Burke (6 lbs, 13 oz. 20 in.), on May 16, 2014. Tessa joins brother John. The family lives in Burlington, Washington, and John is an associate at Skagit Law Group in Mount Vernon, Washington. Ryan Jurvakainen was elected Cowlitz County, Washington, prosecutor. Jurvakainen had been an attorney in the county public defenders’ office for six years, representing criminal defendants who could not afford their own lawyers. Christina Estes-Werther is general counsel to the League of Arizona Cities and Towns. She previously served as the state elections director in the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
2007 Winston & Cashatt principal David P. Gardner received the 2015 Professionalism Award for the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Idaho State Bar. He serves on the panel of Chapter 7 trustees for the District of Idaho and on the Washington State Bar Association Professionalism Committee.
2008 Katie Comstock is a shareholder of Levy-von Beck and Associates PS, in Seattle. She and her husband Jeff welcomed their first child, Eleni Theodora, on Sept. 11, 2014. Specializing in issues facing seniors and the disabled, attorney Katherine Monroe Coyle purchased the practice of Wytychak Elder Law in Couer D’Alene, Idaho. Michael Wytychak III will remain as counsel to the firm. Coyle’s firm works with estate planning, trusts, wills, powers of attorney, probate, avoidance of probate, guardianships, conservatorships and planning for long-term care expenses.
PS. He practices insurance defense with an emphasis on construction litigation, the defense of municipal entities and property disputes. The Washington State Bar Association awarded Alicia Levy the 2014 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, recognizing one attorney who made a significant contribution to the professional community, especially the community of young lawyers. Levy is the Greater Spokane representative to the WSBA Young Lawyer Committee and serves on the WSBA Business Law Section Executive Committee.
2009 Brandon Ross is assistant general counsel for Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace implementing the Affordable Care Act.
2010 Peter Morowski, of Ebeltoft Sickler in Dickinson, North Dakota, was nationally recognized with the Top 10 Under 40 Attorney Award from the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys based in Washington, D.C. The award is the highest honor by the Academy, bestowed upon attorneys who pass each level of their multi-phase selection process. Scott Flage joined Campbell & Bissell, PLLC. Flage in Spokane was an associate attorney at Evans, Craven and Lackie
Delia Garza Delia Garza, a firefighterturned-lawyer and political upstart, has made history, becoming the first Latina to win election to the City Council in Austin, Texas.
2012 Jaelynn R. Jenkins of South Jordan, Utah, was named one of the “Attorneys to Watch in 2015” by Attorney At Law magazine. Pamela L. Eaton has joined Paul Frank + Collins in Vermont as associate to work on the Litigation and Insurance Services teams. Her practice will focus on electric utility regulation, insurance coverage and product liability litigation.
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W. Scott Jenkins Jr. joined Quarles and Brady in Phoenix as a partner in the Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights practice group. He is a legal adviser to national, regional and community banks, and helps financial institutions with real estate and commercial loan restructuring and workouts, loan and guaranty enforcement actions, judicial and nonjudicial foreclosures, and receiverships and commercial bankruptcies.
2003
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2013 Attorneys Mari Luna and Stephanie Zimmerman have opened Luna Legal LLC in Spokane. Luna and Zimmerman are members of the Washington State Bar Association and Certified Professional Qualified Mediators. The firm specializes in mediation services, including family law, contract, employment, landlord-tenant, foreclosure and workplace negotiation.
2014 Ewing Anderson, PS, in Spokane has hired Kiley J. Anderson as an associate attorney. Her practice focuses on family law.
Feldman & Lee, PS hired Kathleen Shircliff as an associate attorney in Seattle. Shircliff focuses on misdemeanor criminal defense as a public defender for Lynnwood, Washington.
Bradley Tubbs joined Lee and Hayes in Spokane as an attorney. He works in the Corporate and Litigation Practice group. His focus is on intellectual property and business formation.
Sandy Margulies was elected Town Council member in November 2014 and began employment with the Salt Lake City Prosecutors Office in March 2015.
Fast Facts about Gonzaga Law Alumni:
4 New ZagLaw babies in 2015
Ashley twins Tony (Dallas) Clinger, in Spokane and his wife Ashley welcomed twins Wyatt, (6 pounds 10 ounces, 19.5 inches); and Wren, (6 pounds 15 ounces, 19.5 inches) to the world on Dec. 16, 2014.
Information Updates Please use our alumni update form to update your information, as well as let us know your recent news and accomplishments. We’ll update your alumni records, and where space permits, include your news items in The Gonzaga Lawyer and on our website.
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HOLLAND NAMED ETHICS CHAIR Professor Brooks Holland, who joined the Gonzaga Law faculty in 2005, is the second holder of the J. Donald (‘60 J.D.) and Va Lena (‘58 J.D.) Scarpelli Curran Chair in Professionalism and Ethics. The chair was established by the Currans in 2008. Holland teaches criminal law, procedure, constitutional law and professional responsibility. After graduating from Boston University Law School in 1994, Holland served as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Division in New York City. In 1998, he continued practicing as a public defender and trying criminal cases with the New York County Defender Services in Manhattan. In 2003, he became attorney-in-charge of legal development, where he continued his trial practice and advised office attorneys on developments in criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence, published an office law bulletin, and conducted CLE lectures. In August 2005, Holland joined Gonzaga School of Law as an associate professor. He continues to practice criminal law, handling criminal appeals before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. In addition to normal responsibilities as a faculty member, including teaching, advising and scholarly publication, the Curran Chair holder is also responsible to manage and oversee the Clarke Family Ethics Writing Prize and CLE, which is held at the School of Law each spring.
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MURPHY TEACHES IN CHINA Professor Ann Murphy spent the past academic year teaching in China as a Fulbright Scholar at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the top-ranked Chinese university in that discipline. She taught Introduction to United States Law, the United States Court System, and British and American Law. Her students were primarily Chinese, but her classes also included students from Africa, Europe and South America. Murphy also served as guest lecturer to students and faculty in Beijing, Chongqing, Urumqi, Guangzhou and Nanjing, in China and Taiwan. Her topics included Taxation, Elder Law, the Common Law Versus Civil Law System, Elements of a U.S. Trial, and the Rules of Evidence.
It was Murphy’s second Fulbright award to China.
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ANN MURPHY
Murphy particularly enjoyed personal interactions with students and faculty members from various institutions, as well as events with diplomatic personnel at numerous embassies and consulates. Her favorite visit was to Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Province, an autonomous region of China where approximately one-half of the population are Muslim Turkic-speaking Uighurs. The students in Urumqi are from many areas bordering China, and Murphy was the first foreigner many of them had met.
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Rising Star:
Assistant Professor Jessica Kiser By Jeff Geldien The faculty at Gonzaga Law School are some of the finest teachers and scholars in the country. They bring to the classroom a wealth of knowledge and practical experience, having worked as public defenders, government lawyers, litigators, transactional lawyers, and judicial clerks. The faculty are committed to training students to be practice-ready, and their innovative curriculum and classroom techniques serve as a model for law schools across the country. This edition of the Gonzaga Lawyer magazine marks the beginning of a series of profiles on the Gonzaga Law faculty. These profiles will serve as an opportunity for readers to get to know Gonzaga’s exemplary faculty members. Assistant Professor Jessica Kiser, a rising superstar, joined the Gonzaga Law faculty in 2013. Prior to moving to Spokane, Kiser taught at Loyola New Orleans College of Law. Her professional experience also includes time spent practicing law as a member of the Transactional Intellectual Property group in Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s New York City office. This work focused on transactions involving intellectual property
EDUCATION
and technology, including licensing, settlement, development,
• J.D. Columbia Law School
manufacturing, and distribution agreements, as well as
Managing Editor, Columbia
product acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity
Journal of Law & the Arts
investments and restructuring matters where intellectual
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
property and technology were of significant importance.
• B.S. Communication,
Her research involves intellectual property law, especially
as it relates to emerging technologies, international law and
• B.A. Cultural Anthropology,
contractual relationships. I recently had the chance to sit
down and ask Professor Kiser some questions about who she is and what she is passionate about. What was your path to law school?
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Why did you want to get your law degree?
Boston University Boston University
TEACHING AREAS • Intellectual Property • Advanced Trademarks
and Unfair Competition
I decided to attend Columbia Law School after attaining
• Property
dual degrees from Boston University in advertising and
• Media Law
anthropology. It was my advertising coursework that first interested me in the law and into trademarks law, in particular. I took a media law course with Professor T. Barton Carter, who advised us repeatedly not to go to law school. I understand
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now that Professor Carter wanted to impress on us that law
experience. I think it is an exciting area of the law that can
school is a big commitment and isn’t simply a fallback plan for
lead to a wonderful and fulfilling career, and I am glad that
people who don’t know what else to do. I didn’t listen because
some of my students see this as well.
I knew a law degree could open a lot of different doors for my
What do you think is the biggest opportunity for law
professional future, and I was excited by the possibilities. What kind of work did you do out of law school? What has your career path been?
schools and law students today? Because of the economic recession and the decline in law student enrollment nationwide, law schools are being forced
After law school, I worked in the Transactional Intellectual
to re-evaluate their methods and become more innovative.
Property group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis
This is an exciting opportunity for law students because
LLP. I was part of a specialist group that advised clients on
they are able to benefit from these changes. They can enjoy
IP-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and private equity
more one-on-one time with faculty while they are in law
transactions. We were brought in whenever intellectual
school, and they will be competing with fewer law school
property assets were a critical part of a business negotiation.
graduates when they start to look for full-time employment.
Kirkland & Ellis is a firm that prides itself on internal training
Plus, current students are benefiting from all of the
programs for attorneys. As I found myself frequently
innovative trends being pursued by law schools. Gonzaga
volunteering to lead these trainings, I began exploring the
has been at the forefront of many of these “new” trends
possibility of entering academia. Prior to coming to Gonzaga,
having implemented them into our curriculum years ago.
I taught for two years as a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola
This includes things like an increased focus on developing
University New Orleans College of Law.
legal research and writing skills, training students to be
What attracted you to Gonzaga Law? When I interviewed at Gonzaga, I was amazed by the law school community. There is a real sense of collegiality here and a real love for the law school – from the faculty, the
“practice ready,” and even Gonzaga’s new Accelerated JD. What advice do you give to individuals who want to become lawyers? What advice do you give to young attorneys?
students, the alums and the people of Spokane. That sense
If you are passionate about the law, and about the many
of community doesn’t exist at every law school, and it is
possible career paths within the practice of the law, then
something that we shouldn’t take for granted.
now is an amazing time to apply. Just don’t apply to law
Tell us about the classes you teach. What is your research interest? What kind of law do you focus on? I currently teach the first-year Property Law course as well as Intellectual Property Law, Advanced Trademark and Unfair Competition Law, and International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law. My research focuses on intellectual property law, particularly trademark law. I’m especially interested in how trademark law affects real-world business interests.
I really enjoy teaching and getting to know individual students. I try to convey my passion for intellectual property to students in my introductory IP class, and I am always pleased to see students who are then inspired to take the advanced IP courses and who seek out IP-related professional
to be something that excites you. Once students are in law school, I hope that I impress on them the fact that their law degree can take them in a million different directions. That means that they should never feel stuck. If a particular legal career path is no longer fulfilling, I want them to be open to pursuing happiness with another area or facet of the law. What else are you passionate about? I am passionate about my family. For me, this includes my three dogs (including an 18-year-old miniature pinscher and two Alaskan klee kai). I am also a member of the Junior League of Spokane, a volunteer organization that brings together local women who are passionate about giving back to their community and making Spokane a better place for all of us.
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What do you enjoy most about being a professor?
school because you can’t think of a better option. It needs
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Faculty Activities, May 2014-May 2015
Commercial Law Articles
Stephen Sepinuck (with co-author) published the annual survey “Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Personal Property Secured Transactions” in volume 69 of The Business Lawyer, the peer- reviewed journal of the ABA Business Law Section.
Scott Burnham’s article “The Interstices of Copyright Law and Contract Law II: Finding the Terms of an Implied Nonexclusive License in the Absence of Joint Authorship” has been published by the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA.
Books
Stephen Sepinuck (with co-author) edited and updated the third edition of his textbook, Problems and Materials on Secured Transactions, published by Thomson/West (2014).
Short Pieces
Scott Burnham published “Choice of Law Statutes That Dispense with a ‘Reasonable Relation’ ” in the ABA’s Commercial Law Newsletter in summer 2014. He also wrote new CALI lessons on “Rescission,” “Installment Contracts” and “Covenants, Warranties, Representations, and Conditions,” and revised numerous other lessons.
Stephen Sepinuck published four articles in volume 4 of The Transactional Lawyer: “Drafting a Merger Clause for an Integrated Transaction” in December 2014, “Term Sheets, Letters of Intent, and Preliminary Agreements: Ensuring Recovery of Expenses” in October 2014, “How Not to Describe the Collateral” in August 2014, and “Protecting the ‘Pick-Your-Partner’ Principle” in June 2014. He also published “When to Contract for Remedies” in Business Law Today (July 2014). Finally, Sepinuck published two editions of “Spotlight,” his regular column in the joint newsletter of the UCC and Commercial Finance Committees of the ABA Business Law Section, in which he critiqued four poorly reasoned commercial law cases.
Presentations
Dan Morrissey presented “What is New in Blue Sky Land” at a Securities Law Conference held at Loyola Law School in Chicago in October 2014.
Scott Burnham and Stephen Sepinuck presented “Recent Commercial Law Developments” at a CLE hosted by the law firm of Lane Powell in Seattle in December 2014.
Appointments
Stephen Sepinuck was reappointed to the Editorial Board for The Business Lawyer, the peer- reviewed journal of the ABA Business Law Section.
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Constitutional Law Short Pieces
Dan Morrissey published a book review of Six Amendments by Justice John Paul Stevens in America magazine, in the November 17 issue (2014).
Contracts Books Scott Burnham updated and edited the second edition of his study aid, Questions & Answers: Contracts, published by LexisNexis.
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Education Law Article
Lynn Daggett’s article “Reasonable Supervision of Special Students: The Impact of Disability on School Liability for Student Injury” is published in the Journal of Law and Education, volume 43 (2014).
Presentation
Lynn Daggett presented at a program on “McCleary: A Case Study of Washington’s Educational Funding Responsibilities” at Gonzaga Law School, fall 2014. Daggett’s presentation covered school funding nationally and in Washington, the Washington Supreme Court’s enforcement of its decision by holding the state Legislature in contempt, and possible future developments.
Ethics Books
Kevin Michels updated and revised his treatise, New Jersey Attorney Ethics (Gann 2015).
Presentation
Kevin Michels spoke on a panel on Legal Ethics at a CLE hosted by the Morris County Bar Association in New Jersey in November 2014.
Media
Brooks Holland served as a contributor to the Legal Ethics Forum, www.legalethicsforum.com, fall 2014.
Fulbright Association Presentation
Ann Murphy guest-lectured at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, and the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, fall 2014.
Intellectual Property Jessica Kiser presented “Quality Control, Naked Licensing, and Consumer Trademark Use” at the Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, hosted by the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, in Salt Lake City, November 2014. Kiser also presented “Naked Licensing” at the Junior Scholars Virtual Colloquium, hosted by Michigan State University College of Law, in East Lansing, in August 2014. As a part of the second annual Inland Northwest Scholars Workshop in July 2014, Kiser presented “Trademark’s Fans.”
Stephen Sepinuck presented “Advanced Seminar on IP Traps in Secured Financing” at the ACCFL in Chicago in September 2014. Sepinuck also presented “Secured Transaction Update” and “Ninth Circuit Update” at the Eastern District Bankruptcy Conference in Sun Mountain, Washington, June 2014.
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Presentation
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Law Teaching & Legal Education Article
Gerry Hess’s article “Qualitative Research on Legal Education: Studying Outstanding Law Teachers” has been published in the Alberta Law Review, volume 51 (2014).
Short Pieces Mary Pat Treuthart published a book review of The Cultural Transcendence of Law Teaching Excellence in the Asian Journal of Legal Education, volume 1, issue 2 (2014). Presentation
Stephen Sepinuck presented “Effective Skills Training: Is it More Than Practice?” at a conference held at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, June 2014.
Gail Hammer facilitated and provided the introduction and closing for a panel on “Using Case Rounds in Clinical Teaching” at the Northwest Clinical Law Conference in Skamania, Washington, October 2014.
Gerry Hess conducted the opening and closing plenary sessions for a conference on the subject of his book, What the Best Law Teachers Do (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013), held at Northwestern University School of Law in June 2014. The conference was put on by the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning. Professor Hess, with the Institute, also organized and participated in a two-day workshop on “Community of Teachers Project: Actively Engaging Students,” at Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2014.
Legal Practice
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Book Brooks Holland authored (with Leah Christensen) the first edition of a professional development textbook, Learning Professional Responsibility: From the Classroom to the Practice of Law, published by West (2015). Presentation
Brooks Holland presented “Ethics and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Waivers” at a CLE program organized by the Federal Defender for the Eastern District of Washington in Spokane in December 2014. Holland also presented at an Ethical Dilemmas seminar hosted by the WSBA in Seattle in November 2014. In addition, he presented “Preserving Records for Appeal” during a Washington State Office of Public Defense CLE held in Spokane, September 2014. Finally, Holland presented Confidentiality and Capital Case Mitigation” during a Washington State Office of Public Defense Capital Defense Training Conference in Vancouver, Washington, August 2014.
Larry Weiser presented on the Municipal Administrative Procedures Act at the Northwest Administrative Law Institute in Vancouver, Washington, September 2014. The CLE was co-sponsored by the Oregon and Washington State Bar Administrative Law sections.
Appointments
Brooks Holland was appointed chair of the WSBA Council on Public Defense for 2014-15, and chair of the Washington State Office of Public Defense Capital Defense Training Conference in August 2014.
Legal Research & Writing Presentations
Patrick Charles presented “How Law Librarians Can Easily Get Articles on Legal Research Published” at the Western Pacific Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries annual conference in Seattle October 2014.
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Appointments Patrick Charles was appointed to the editorial board of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, an online legal research and writing journal published by Thomson-Reuters. Media
Patrick Charles was interviewed by Professor Emeritus of Law at American University Patrick Kehoe for Hein Online’s Oral History of Law Librarianship in fall 2014. The interview is posted on HeinOnline.
Natural Resources Law Book
Amy Kelley edited and updated the 2015 edition of the Waters and Water Rights Treatise, a five- volume treatise consisting of 62 chapters, plus state and river basin surveys, in fall 2014. She is the author of a dozen of the chapters.
Short Pieces
Amy Kelley edited two issues of volume 47 of the Water Law Newsletter, published by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.
Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Presentations Kim Pearson organized a panel and presented a segment of an ongoing, long-term project on “Teaching Identity in a Post-Identity Classroom” at the annual SALT conference at UNLV in Las Vegas in October 2014. She also presented her paper “Chemical Kids” at the AALS midyear meeting on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, in Washington, D.C., June 2014. In addition, Pearson organized the second Annual Inland Northwest Scholars Workshop in July 2014 with Professor Richard Seamon of the University of Idaho. The workshop brought together several faculty members from Gonzaga and other schools in the Inland Northwest to share drafts and discuss ideas. As part of the workshop, Pearson presented her paper “Baby Veronica.”
Social Justice Brooks Holland and George Critchlow participated on the panel “Should Law Teachers Committed to Social Justice Champion the De-Structuring of the Legal Profession?” at the annual SALT conference held at UNLV in Las Vegas in October 2014.
Mary Pat Treuthart presented “The U.S. Death Penalty: The Movement Toward Abolition” at Shanghai University for Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China, in November 2014. She also presented “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” at a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Spokane, December 2014. Treuthart presented “Women’s Empowerment in Iceland” at the Center for Women and Democracy in Seattle, October 2014. Finally, she presented ”Two Current Capital Punishment Problems: Actual Innocence and Botched Executions” at Gonzaga Law School, August 2014.
As a part of the second annual Inland Northwest Scholars Workshop in July 2014, Jason Gillmer presented a chapter, “Sex, Race and Family on the Gulf Coast,” from his book manuscript, Slavery and Freedom on Trial: Perspectives from the Texas Courtroom, 1821-1871.
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Presentations
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Tax Law Book Ann Murphy edited and updated the 2015 edition of her 18-chapter treatise on Tax Practice and Procedure, published by LexisNexis Tax Practice. Presentations
Jennifer Gellner presented “Collection Due Process Hearings: Procedures and Strategies with the IRS and Review by the United States Tax Court” at the Spokane County Bar Association, Solo and Small Practice Section Monthly CLE Brown Bag Lunch in November 2014. She also presented “Pennies on the Dollar: An Overview of the IRS Offer in Compromise Program” at the Washington Association of Accountants Monthly Meeting in September 2014.
U.S. Supreme Court Short Pieces
Brooks Holland published two articles in the ABA Preview. The first was “One Fish, Two Fish … 72 Red Grouper Fish: Is a Fish Just a Fish or Is It also a ‘Tangible Object’ under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?” in volume 42 (2014). The second was “Criminal Procedure in the October 2013 Term: Cell Phones and Some Other Stuff” published in volume 41 (2014).
All the Way From Chile
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Chilean law professors visiting Gonzaga Law and Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, pictured with Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Sandra Simpson. Go Zags!
Chilean visitors are Marcelo Barrientos, with GU Associate Dean Sandra Simpson, Cristobal Garcia-Huidobro, Andrea Botto, Juan Louis Goldenberg, Valeria Lopez, Lopez’s friend, and Gonzalo Candia.
Smitty
The Honorable
Smithmoore “Smitty” P. Myers (’39 J.D., ’36 B.A)
A Legend of Gonzaga Law
1914 – 2015 Gonzaga Law is saddened by the passing of our beloved former dean and professor of law, Smithmoore “Smitty” Myers. Dean Myers passed away on May 15 after a short illness. Smitty, who served as dean two times, left an indelible mark on Gonzaga Law, one that will last forever. In this article, we chronicle Smitty’s life and career. Smitty’s Youth
Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1914, Smitty Myers came to Spokane at the age of 3 with his mother, his 6-year-old brother, Robert, and his 9-year-old sister , Nellie. If young Smitty and his siblings had one great advantage in life it was their mother Julia, a single mother and a woman of tremendous strength and spirit
Life in Spokane During his first five years in Spokane, Smitty attended five grade schools. As one might expect, he excelled academically except for one anomalous “F” he received as a first-grader in, of all subjects, public speaking. Smitty’s mother and teacher conferred and concluded the grade was due to the young boy’s shyness and not his lack of ability. Given Smitty’s subsequent prowess in debate, legal argumentation and public speaking, it would seem their assessment of the situation was accurate. Within a year of arriving in Spokane, Smitty’s mother found employment in the women’s shoe department at the Crescent, a job she would have for the next two decades. Although it was a
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In every school or university you will find a few exceptional individuals who have made a truly defining contribution to the life and character of their institution. At Gonzaga Law School, Smitty Myers is one of those individuals.
who was devoted to her children and their welfare. Although his parents had divorced when Smitty was quite young, his mother went out of her way to ensure that their father remained a regular part of the children’s lives.
Smitty demanding six-day-a-week job, Julia Myers made sure she was home every noon to fix the children’s lunch. There was never any question of the priority her children held in her life. In 1922, the family moved to a house in Peaceful Valley. The $15 a month rental provided them with a small home that had one cold water faucet, and toilet facilities located on the screen porch at the rear of the house. As Smitty recalls, they felt very comfortable in their Peaceful Valley residence. They would have been content to stay had not tragedy struck in 1924, when Smitty’s older brother, Robert, died of rheumatic fever. Grieving her loss, Julia Myers could not endure the bittersweet memories so the family moved to an apartment at Fourth and Lincoln on Spokane’s lower South Hill. Academic success Now attending Hawthorne School Smitty was told one day that there would be a debate with a neighboring school and that he had been selected to participate. Although he wasn’t quite sure what it was all about, he prepared and did well. His one enduring memory of the occasion was that he liked it. On that day, a seed was planted. At Lewis and Clark High School, Smitty was a member of the two-person freshman team that vanquished the upper classes in the school’s intramural debate competition. His forensic skills were so good that he made the school’s varsity debate team as a freshman. Myers also excelled academically. He finished his final year at Lewis and Clark as senior class vice president, with the second-highest academic average in his class. Undergraduate career at Gonzaga University There was never any doubt that Smitty Myers was headed to college and that that college would be Gonzaga. Just as he had in high school, Smitty became active in debate and student government. He enjoyed the academic challenge and the quality of instruction he received from teachers such as Father Leo Robinson and Father Albert Lemieux, who was his debate coach.
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To help finance his education, Myers took on the 1-7 a.m. shift at Sacred Heart Hospital where he worked the switchboard and ran the admitting office. It was 42 hours, seven days a week, but during the occasional quiet times, Smitty found time to study. At Gonzaga, Myers was an outstanding member of a very successful varsity debate team. On one occasion, Gonzaga’s forensic juggernaut went up against a team from the University of Idaho that included a young man named Lewis Orland, who would later become well-known to both Myers and generations of Gonzaga students. During his undergraduate career, Smitty Myers served as president of his sophomore and junior classes, and as a senior
was elected Gonzaga Student Body president. He completed his studies with the top academic rank in his class, graduating summa cum laude in 1936. Life at Gonzaga Law School By the time he began his senior year, Smitty fully understood that his talents and interests were a perfect match for a career in law. But law school would have delayed his ability to contribute economically to the family. On a Sunday walk with his mother he carefully broached the idea of going to law school. Although an additional income would have helped, Julia Myers didn’t hesitate in her response: “If that is what you want to do,” she said, “then that is what we will do.” Any doubts Smitty may have had about his presumptive vocation were dispelled early in his law school experience. His subjects interested him and his teachers won his admiration. He saw some very different but effective approaches in the classroom. There was the very scholarly and patient Dean James Emmet Royce; the feisty and demanding Mike Kerley; and the highly professional Frank Weaver, who would go on to serve on the state Supreme Court. Finances were always an issue for students during these times and Smitty tried his best to make ends meet. One summer, while working in a local brewery warehouse, the boss asked Smitty to make a beer delivery for him. The only problem was that Smitty didn’t have a driver’s license. In fact, he did not even know how to drive. But Smitty was a quick study and the boss was a trusting soul. He gave Smitty his personal automobile to practice with and when late afternoon rolled around, he put Smitty in the driver’s seat of a truck with instructions to deliver kegs to a drinking establishment in one of Spokane’s more questionable areas. Smitty successfully negotiated the roads and the alleys and began rolling the kegs off the truck. After observing the relatively slight delivery man wrestling with the heavy kegs, the tavern owner asked Smitty if he intended to make a career out of beer deliveries. Smitty told him he was a law student just doing work for the summer. The tavern owner suggested Smitty would be better served by sticking to law. For Smitty, it was advice well-received and gratefully followed. In law school, as in his undergraduate years, Smitty had the full confidence and respect of his peers. He was a three-time class president, and as a senior he was elected president of the Student Bar Association.
Smitty After law school By his final year of law school, Smitty’s academic skill and solid personal reputation attracted the attention of Superior Court Judge Richard Webster, who offered Smitty a highly coveted position as his clerk. In that capacity, Myers briefed cases for the judge. He also conducted interviews with and prepared assessment reports on young people slated to appear on the court’s weekly juvenile docket. It was an excellent job that paid $150 a month, which was considerably more than most young lawyers in Spokane were making at that time. Because he needed transportation to conduct these interviews, Smitty put down $250 to buy a 1932 Ford Model C. Thanks to prior experience, he was now fully licensed and sufficiently skilled to make use of his new purchase. In April 1939, Smitty’s mother collapsed at her work from complications brought on by pneumonia. Her health was poor and Smitty and his sister Nellie agreed she would not return to work. Smitty received his degree summa cum laude that spring but he put off taking the bar exam due to his mother’s poor health. He continued working at the court and studying for the bar in the evening. In 1940, he finally took the bar and, as he found out some 20 years later, received the highest grade in the state. That same year, he was asked to return to the law school as an instructor of real property. From the moment he began, Smitty Myers loved teaching and he knew he wanted it to be a part of his professional life. Smitty joins the Navy
The following summer, Myers applied for and was accepted to train as a non-pilot navigator. During his navigator training in New York City, he received a call from his law school friend Jack Close, who asked Smitty if he wanted to join him in the VR2 program,
In November 1945, Smitty Myers was honorably discharged from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander. On the recommendation of a deputy state attorney General whom he had met in the service, Smitty applied for and was accepted for a position with the Washington state Attorney General’s office. For the next two years, he did trial and appellate work for the office, including a number of appeals before the Washington state Supreme Court. Becoming dean of Gonzaga Law In 1947, he joined Gonzaga graduates Tom Kelley and Art O’Sullivan as part of a general practice law firm in Seattle. Over the next eight years he developed an excellent practice that included a good amount of appellate work as well as a thriving specialty in the area of motor freight transportation law. In time, he became the chief lawyer for more than 20 local area freight carriers. It was a practice and a life he could have easily maintained had he not agreed in 1955 to go to lunch with Father James Linden, Gonzaga’s Law School regent. Since he came to Gonzaga in the 1930s, Father Linden had passionately pursued the goal of improving the law school and bringing it to full stature. In 1952, he helped Gonzaga become the first night school accredited by the American Bar Association. He was now intent on building a stronger full-time administrative staff and faculty. He wanted to take the law school to the next level and he saw in Smitty Myers a person who could help him get it there. Over lunch, the highly persuasive Fr. Linden asked Myers to become the new law school dean. It was not an easy decision for Smitty. After the meeting, he walked the Seattle waterfront for nearly five hours as he considered his options. In the end, his affection for the school and his love of teaching won out and he agreed to return to his alma mater as dean. Over the next decade, Gonzaga continued to mature and improve as a law school under
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In 1942, with World War II looming, Myers received a call from Creighton Flynn, a law school classmate from Tacoma. Flynn told him about a new naval officer program designed to train administrative officers who could train pilots for flight duty. Smitty liked the idea and convinced another classmate, Norm Johnson, to apply. Both were accepted and received their orders for the Quonset Pointe Naval Station in Rhode Island. After the two-month training, the officer in charge asked Smitty to stay on as his chief administrative assistant. Smitty accepted and remained an additional year at Quonset Pointe, performing administrative duties and teaching naval law.
at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California. For the next two years, Myers was part of an “on call” flight crew that took “flying boats” all over the Pacific. His assignments sent him to Sydney, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand, as well as Guadal canal and the other battle-torn islands. As soon as enemy air defenses were suppressed, the squadron’s “flying boats” came in with much needed supplies.
Smitty the able direction of Dean Myers. The full-time faculty was increased, admission standards were improved, legal writing courses were made part of the curriculum and ABA standards limiting outside work for students were enforced. During that period the quality of graduates was excellent. They performed consistently well on the bar with average pass rates of 85 percent or better. Smitty meets Sandy It was during this initial term as dean that Smitty met the person who would change his life for the better – forever. It was 1957 when he went down to the U.S. Court House to meet with the U.S. District Court Judge. As Smitty tells it, he “approached the counter when this vision of loveliness approached and said ‘May I help you?’ It was Sandy Sandulo. At that point Smitty admits that his voice cracked like a 14-year-old’s. As Smitty describes it, “This is the most beautiful woman I have ever met and I’ve killed myself in the first 15 seconds.” While Smitty’s description of the young lady was accurate, his assessment of the situation could not have been more in error. This first halting encounter with Sandy would mark the beginning of the most important and defining relationship of his life. Unfortunately, it would be two years before Smitty could pursue the relationship in earnest. The day he met Sandy, he was appointed special master for a long, complex water rights case. Due to Sandy’s work, there was at least the appearance of a conflict of interest in Smitty dating someone who worked with one of the party’s litigation teams. Continued career success In 1965, Smitty was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington by President Lyndon Johnson. For Smitty it was as close to an ideal job as you could get. He successfully tried a variety of cases on both the criminal and civil side. Smitty Myers would have been content to stay on indefinitely, but the change of political power in Washington ended his tenure in 1969.
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This same year, Smitty returned to private practice in Spokane with Eldon Reiley, Gene Annis and Paul Bastine. In 1971, the firm merged with a tax group that included Scott Lukins and Gary Randall. The new firm was named Lukins Myers and Annis. Although the law firm was growing and prospering, Smitty could not ignore his increasing desire to return to the classroom. He compromised by teaching an “equity” class from 1971 to 1973 while maintaining his practice, but this only whetted his appetite. In 1973, he returned to full-time teaching, taking on class sections in torts and products liability. Smitty’s return to Gonzaga Law School The school he returned to was far different from the one he had
Smitty with the love of his life, Sandy.
left less than a decade earlier. Gonzaga now had a day school and a large student body drawn from all over the country. The faculty members were no longer predominantly Gonzaga graduates and the old Webster School had been significantly expanded and remodeled. It was an exciting time with a bright and highly engaged student body, but it was also apparent to him that there were strains associated with this rapid transformation. Matters came to a head when the law school’s application to become a member of the American Association of Law Schools was met with a critical review by the association’s membership committee. As a result the law school voluntarily withdrew its application. At the same time, the students were taking a more activist stance regarding facilities and resources. It was in the midst of this turmoil that new University President Father Bernard Coughlin approached Smitty about assuming the deanship. Myers had no illusions about the problems he faced. But in the final analysis his loyalty to the school and sense of service overcame any reservations based on personal interest. After insisting on a vote of confidence from the faculty and student body, Myers accepted. As one who had the confidence of all, Dean Myers moved quickly to restore trust among the parties and to address the critical issue of tuition revenue. He took the concerns of faculty, students and accreditation agencies to Fr. Coughlin and found a receptive hearing and a sincere resolve to rectify the law school’s problems. Smitty opened lines of communications with the students and, as far as practical, implemented their recommendations. He negotiated a highly favorable revenue-sharing agreement with the University and secured expanded building space for the faculty and administration. He also successfully addressed pressing concerns regarding admissions standards and faculty turnover.
Smitty In the final analysis, he managed to restore a high level of trust among all interested parties and put the law school back on solid footing. He was so effective that by fall 1977, the law school was approved for full membership in the American Association of Law Schools. In recommending acceptance, the association’s membership committee expressed amazement at how far the school had come in such a short time. The U.S. Magistrate Judge’s position In 1978, Myers had done what he set out to do. He resigned as dean and returned to full-time teaching. He would have been content to teach until his retirement, but another special opportunity arose when the Federal Judicial District of Eastern Washington received approval for a full-time U.S. Magistrate Judge. Finally, the man with the quintessential judicial temperament could have his own court. The offer was made and Smitty accepted.
in that love and affection for Julia, supported his decision. Smitty’s mother died in 1982 at the age of 96. A few months later, Sandy and Smitty’s 24-year engagement ended when they were married by Father Frank Costello in the Gonzaga Chapel. As anyone who knows them will tell you, you cannot really understand Smitty without reference to Sandy and vice versa. They were the true light of each other’s lives – the perfect complement. But their love was not the exclusive kind. With her outgoing personality, her intelligence, wit, warmth and verve, Sandy ensured that you can never be just their acquaintance. It only took about 60 seconds, a few engaging words and a warm hug from Sandy to initiate you into their large and diverse extended family. They were a generous couple who took time to visit the
The U.S. Magistrate Judge’s position was for an eight-year term. On the criminal side, Magistrate Judges handled only initial appearances. On the civil side, Magistrate Judges could try any case but only with the consent of both parties. In the sixth year of Myers’ term, the Ninth Circuit conducted a study to determine what percentage of trial lawyers in each district would be willing to bring civil matters before their local magistrate. The results were a remarkable endorsement of Magistrate Judge Myers. In the Eastern Washington District, 95 percent of trial lawyers said they would bring their civil cases before the local magistrate judge without reservation. This was by far the highest positive response in the entire circuit. The next highest district recorded only a 65 percent positive result. Smitty thoroughly enjoyed his tenure as U.S. Magistrate Judge. He had a full and varied civil caseload. Indeed, given the speedy trial requirements of criminal cases, he wound up with more civil trials than the U.S. District Court judges. When his term ended in 1987, Myers returned to his first love – the classroom. For the next eight years a very youthful and vigorous Smitty Myers taught Federal Jurisdiction to a new generation of Gonzaga law students. When he retired in 1995 at the age of 81, Myers had completed a teaching career at Gonzaga that spanned more than 55 years. Smitty’s most important relationship
infirm, to encourage those going through difficult times, and to celebrate birthdays and special occasions in other people’s lives. Later life At one of several parties held in honor of Smitty’s 90th birthday, a group of hundreds of friends gathered to celebrate with the Myers. Whether measured in terms of age, ethnicity or occupational status, it was as diverse a group as could be imagined. What they had in common was their great affection for Smitty and Sandy Myers. That was the only reason they needed that evening to interact and enjoy the company of otherwise total strangers. By any measure, Smitty had enjoyed a career that was as remarkable for its breadth as for its longevity, and he received
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As Smitty moved through his career, he maintained that most important relationship with Sandy Sandulo. They had a long but necessary engagement period because Smitty was the only surviving child and the main support of his infirm mother who had lived with him for many years. Neither Sandy nor Smitty wanted to disrupt Julia’s life and they felt their marriage would do just that. Smitty had an undying love for and gratitude to this strong woman who had done so much for him. Sandy, who shared
Flag given to Dean Korn at the funeral is showcased at reception.
Smitty
his share of accolades. His alma mater honored him with the Gonzaga Law Medal and the Distinguished Alumni Merit Award. The Washington State Bar recognized him with its Award of Honor and Merit, as well as the Professionalism Award. Not only did the Spokane County Bar make Smitty Myers the first recipient of its professionalism award, but they named it in his honor. Smitty was not given to self-promotion. It was simply not in his nature. He never sought recognition or even great accomplishments. He simply and generously put his considerable abilities at the service of others for all the right reasons. He was not only a wonderful lawyer, teacher, judge and dean, but he was an exemplar of what a lawyer should be. He won great respect and deep affection. By virtue of his example, he made his professional colleagues proud to be attorneys and the graduates of his alma mater proud to be Gonzaga lawyers.
MYERS MILESTONES
1914
born in Cheyenne, Wyoming
1932
graduated from Lewis & Clark High School
1936
graduated from Gonzaga University
1939
graduated from Gonzaga Law School
1942
served in World War II
1945
began working at the Washington State Attorney General’s Office
1948
entered private practice in Seattle
1955
became dean of Gonzaga Law
1957
met the love of his life, Sandy Sandulo
1959
started dating Sandy
1965
appointed U.S. Attorney for Eastern Washington
1969
returned to private practice
1975
returned to Gonzaga Law as dean
1978
stepped down as dean and appointed U.S. magistrate
1980 received the Gonzaga Law Medal 1982
married his love, Sandy Sandulo
1987
retired from judicial duties
1989
was given the Washington State Bar Association’s Award of Honor and Merit
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1990 awarded the Distinguished Alumni Merit Award by Gonzaga University
Images from Smitty‘s funeral at St. Aloysius Church and reception at Cataldo Hall.
1995
retired from teaching
2004
celebrated his 90th birthday
2010
Smithmoore P. Myers Tribute at the Patsy Clark Mansion
2014
celebrated his 100th birthday
2015
celebrated his 101th birthday
In 2008, the School of Law established the Smithmoore P. Myers Faculty Scholar fund in honor of Smitty and Sandy’s lifelong commitment to Gonzaga Law. If you would like to make a gift in honor of Smitty and Sandy, please contact Jeff Geldien, director of Development and Alumni Relations, at jgeldien@lawschool.gonzaga.edu or 509-313-6121.
Honor Roll | 2015
With sincere thanks to our donors, the Gonzaga Law School Foundation proudly recognizes those whose support ensured the school’s success through May 31, 2015
LIFETIME CONTRIBUTORS $1,000,000 and Above Louis and Kathryn Barbieri †, ‘40 Chester and Catherine J. Chastek †, ‘40 Fred and Barbara Curley † Don ‘60 and Va Lena (Scarpelli) Curran, ‘58 John Hemmingson Paul ‘59 and Lita (Barnett) Luvera, ‘77 $500,000 - $999,999 Gonzaga University Law Adjunct Faculty Norm † and Rita Roberts, ‘59 $250,000 - $499,999 John † and Nancy Clute, ‘63 Joseph P. and Helen K. Delay, ‘52 Jim † and Beverly Rogers Sunbelt Communications Co. $100,000 - $249,999 Holly Louise Caudill †, ‘93 Ben B. Cheney Foundation Harry † and Dorothy Dano, ‘41 William Eddleman †, ‘39 Jerry † and Helen Greenan Mark and Mary Griffin, ‘86 John and Deborah Holleran, ‘79 Jerome and Vicki Jager, ‘57 George † and Shari Kain, ‘58 William V. Kelley † Joseph † and Muriel Murphy †, ‘42 The Honorable and Mrs. Philip M. Raekes, ‘59 Renee R. Reuther, ‘90 Bill Roach † Patrick and Diane Sullivan, ‘59 Washington Trust Bank Carrie Welch Trust Estate
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Great care was taken to ensure the accuracy of this listing. If any discrepancies are found, please contact Sarah Guzman at 509-313-3738 or sguzman@lawschool.gonzaga.edu.
$50,000 - $99,999 Charles Brink, ‘78 The Brink Foundation Loren and Janell Burke, ‘83 John R. Clark † ‘80 and The Honorable Ellen K. Clark, ‘82 Harriet Clarke † Marvel Collins Estate Reanette Cook Estate Michael and Rebecca Costello, ‘96 Vern Davidson †
Delay, Curran, Thompson & Pontarolo, PS James and Frances Flanagan †, ‘40 Jim and Margel Gallagher Bart and Hilke Gallant The Honorable and Mrs. Richard P. Guy, ‘59 Daniel P. Harbaugh, ‘74 Harold and Mary Anne † Hartinger, ‘54 Stephen Haskell, ‘77 Horrigan Foundation Inc. Greg and Susan Huckabee, ‘76 Helen John Foundation Frank and Maureen Johnson, ‘51 Bob and Ginny Kane, ‘77 George and Nancy Lobisser, ‘78 John E. Manders Foundation Richard McWilliams Estate, ‘58 John and Guelda Messina, ‘69 Yale Metzger and Susan Richmond, ‘95 Smithmoore Myers † and Sandy Sandulo-Myers †, ‘39 Wes and Mary Lee (Toepel) Nuxoll, ‘54 Irene Ringwood, ‘84 Elizabeth D. Rudolf John and Nancy Rudolf Dick ‘79 and Karen Sayre, ‘85 Chuck † and Rojean Siljeg, ‘60 Philip † and Margretta Stanton, ‘56 Washington Trust Bank Financial Corp. The Honorable Bob and Diane Waitt, ‘57 Jim and Joyce † Workland, ‘64 $25,000 - $49,999 American College of Trial Lawyers Matt and Eleanor Andersen, ‘76 Gene and Carol Annis, ‘59 Bank of America Foundation David and Nancy Bayley, ‘76 Boise David and Ellen Bolin Jr., ‘85 John † and Kaye Condon, ‘77 Daniel and Susan Corkery, ‘76 Patrick and Paula Costello Philip † and Mary Dolan †, ‘47 John J. and Allison Durkin, ‘80 Mr. Phillip E. and Dr. Nadine Egger, ‘81 Bill Etter, ‘78 Richard C. and Susan Eymann, ‘76 Michael A. and Patricia L. Frost, ‘73
Honor Roll | 2015
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Joe and Joan Gagliardi, ‘59 Jeffrey and Diana Hartnett, ‘76 Michael and Karen Harwood, ‘88 Dennis M. Hottell and Terese Colling, ‘76 Inland Northwest Community Foundation Dan and Margaret † Keefe, ‘74 King County Bar Foundation Lee & Hayes, PLLC Ellen (Kremer) Lenhart, ‘87 Bill and Suzanne Lindberg, ‘73 The Honorable John J. Madden, ‘68 Dick Manning and Jen Gouge, ‘60 Helen McDonald † Alejandra Mireles, ‘04 Joe Nappi Jr. and Mary Nappi, ‘72 Verne † and Mary Oliver † Dean Lewis H. † and Mrs. Jackie Orland † Patton Boggs Foundation Marie Pintler Mike and Betty (Onley) Pontarolo, ‘73 John R. Quinlan, ‘60 Gary and Sharon Randall Diehl † and Anne Rettig, ‘69 The Honorable and Mrs. J. Justin Ripley, ‘64 Kerm and Fran Rudolf †, ‘51 Rudolf Family Foundation James and Marilyn Sachtjen The Honorable and Mrs. Richard J. Schroeder, ‘63 John and Penny Schultz, ‘63 Roger † and Angelika Smith, ‘58 Skip Smyser, ‘77 Jim † and Margaret Solan, ‘49 Lee M. Solomon Estate David and Kay Syre, ‘72 Robert Thompson Jr., ‘73 Union Pacific Foundation United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties United Way of King County J. Prentice Warner Estate Washington State Bar Association Clifford and Karen Webster, ‘77 Dennis and Jackie Wheeler Katharine Witter Brindley and Ralph Brindley, ‘84 $10,000 - $24,999 Keller W. and Kathy Allen, ‘89 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Phillip Armstrong, ‘78 Association of Corporate Counsel Washington State Chapter Basil Badley and Mary Margaret Haugen, ‘60 Jim and Linda Baker, ‘79 BarBri Bar Review The Honorable and Mrs. Paul Bastine, ‘64
Jim and Lynelle (Wahl) Beaulaurier, ‘77 Mark Beggs and Florfina Cacanindin, ‘80 Janice H. Bennett, ‘89 James Berlin † Allen Brecke, ‘77 Janice Brown, ‘84 Roger G. Brown, ‘80 The Honorable Franklin D. † and Mrs. Treava Burgess, ‘66 Paul Burglin and Ramona Sanderson-Burglin, ‘84 Bruce and Judy Butler, ‘80 William and Judy Carlin, ‘76 Carney Badley Smith & Spellman Thomas and Joan Chapman, ‘66 Paul Clausen Estate, ‘40 Mr. Charles A. Cleveland ‘78 and The Honorable Joyce J. McCown, ‘80 Kelly and Sharon Cline, ‘85 John † and Mary S. Close, ‘38 Thomas and Barbara Cochran, ‘75 Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Conklin James P. and Marianne Connelly, ‘53 John and Mary Jo Costello The Honorable Kenneth L. Cowsert, ‘73 James and Carolyn Craven, ‘75 George and Diane Critchlow, ‘77 Fred O. Dennis Estate Ralph Dixon, ‘77 Norb † and Ruby Donahue, ‘41 Kevin and Jackie Driscoll Paul † and Carol Eng, ‘87 Robert Evans and Lisa Fitzpatrick, ‘78 Justice Mary E. Fairhurst, ‘84 Roger A. Felice, ‘73 Joe Fennessy, Jr. †, ‘40 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund James and Mikell Fish, ‘62 Rick Flamm ‘79 and Vesna Somers, ‘81 Dan and Karen Flynn, ‘83 Professor and Mrs. Michael F. Flynn, ‘77 Francois X. and Debra J. Forgette, ‘77 Merrit † and Yolanda Foubert †, ‘51 Gary Gayton, ‘62 Phelps R. and Mary Jean Gose, ‘62 William and Margaret Grant, ‘54 Paul D. and Nancy Greeley, ‘82 Bill † and Norma Grismer Frederick Halverson, ‘61 Hands Off Cain - European Parliament Frank P. Hayes †, ‘43 Lloyd and Linda Herman, ‘66 Prof. Gerald Hess and Dr. Layne Stromwall E. J. Hunt, ‘80
IBM Corp. Mark R. Iverson and Michaele E. Dietzel, ‘88 Steven Jager, ‘80 Jager Law Office PLLC Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix Inc. Mary Lou Johnson and Dr. Daniel Schaffer, ‘92 Richard R. and Janet K. Johnson, ‘75 David and Bernice Kazan Donor Advised Fund Robert Keefe, ‘73 Marcus † and Dorothy Kelly, ‘57 Daniel L. Keppler ‘92 and Meagan Flynn, ‘92 Mike and Terri Killeen, ‘77 James and Mary Anne (Metcalfe) King, ‘78 Paul M. and Kristina S. Larson, ‘75 Alex and Karen Laughlin, ‘85 Tom Lewis Tom J. Lucas, ‘76 Timothy J. Lynes ‘84 and Joan C. Morningstar, ‘83 Earl F. Martin The Honorable Craig Matheson, ‘76 Prof. John Maurice Lenora McBirney † Mr. Leo A. McGavick †, ‘29 The Honorable † and Mrs. J. Ben McInturff, ‘52 Robert and Christina † McKanna, ‘54 Donald and Mary Moore †, ‘53 Daniel and Mary Beth Morrissey Ann Murphy The Honorable and Mrs. James M. Murphy, ‘73 Jerry Neal, ‘69 Northern Trust Bank Northwest Fund for the Environment Stephen and Karen Osborne, ‘73 Charles I. and Helen Palmerton †, ‘52 PEMCO Mutual Insurance Co. Harry B. and Alethea A. Platis, ‘69 Estate of Louis Powell Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, LLP Donald and Christie Querna Tim Quirk and Sally Bulger Quirk, ‘73 Les and Clara Randall † Prof. Speedy Rice and Judy Clarke John and Joy Richards, ‘87 The Honorable Jack J. † and Patricia Ripple †, ‘50 Ronald A. and JoAnn L. (Salina) Roberts, ‘64 The Honorable Michael P. Roewe, ‘74 Sayre & Sayre P.S. Nicholas Scarpelli, ‘74 Albert † and Betty Schauble, ‘58 Gerald and Rita Schears John A. † and Catherine Schultheis, ‘61 Irene Strachen Charitable Trust
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Stritmatter, Kessler, Whelan, Withey, Coluccio Joseph and Parker Sullivan, ‘85 Robert Sullivan, ‘86 Paul and Gail Taylor, ‘84 The Honorable and Mrs. † Joseph A. Thibodeau, ‘66 James and Carmelita † Thomas Phebe Thompson Prof. Mary Pat Treuthart and Mr. Dan Webster James † and Marian Triesch, ‘41 Patrick and Kristina Trudell, ‘80 Joseph and Janna Uberuaga, ‘77 United Way of Spokane County The Unova Foundation The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust Prof. James M. Vache Donald Verfurth, ‘85 Verizon Foundation Marc and Nancy Wallace, ‘75 James and Kathleen Walsh, ‘81 Dr. Thomas and Bonnie Walsh, ‘90 Washington Judges Foundation Stan and Gina Welsh Western Atlas Foundation The Honorable Donna L. (Kamps) Wilson, ‘80 The Honorable † and Mrs. John F. Wilson, ‘56 Mark E. Wilson Winston & Cashatt James and Jackie Wolff, ‘74 Women’s Law Caucus
President’s 5000 Council ($5,000 and above) Janice Brown, ‘84 Myrna Carroll Michael and Rebecca Costello, ‘96 Bill Etter, ‘78 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Rafael A. and Jean C. Gonzales, ‘86 Mark and Mary Griffin, ‘86 The Honorable and Mrs. Richard P. Guy, ‘59 Daniel P. Harbaugh, ‘74 John and Deborah Holleran, ‘79 Steven Jager, ‘80 Jager Law Office PLLC Jewish Community Foundation of the Greater Phoenix Inc. Bob and Ginny Kane, ‘77 David and Bernice Kazan Donor Advised Fund Lee & Hayes, PLLC Tom Lewis Paul ‘59 and Lita (Barnett) Luvera, ‘77
President’s Council $1,000 - $2,499 Steven P. and Deborah Adelstein, ‘74 Susan Alexander, ‘91 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Matt and Eleanor Andersen, ‘76 David and Nancy Bayley, ‘76 Mark Beggs and Florfina Cacanindin, ‘80 Allen Brecke, ‘77 CEMEX Materials LLC Cheryl Clark Daniel and Susan Corkery, ‘76 Patrick and Paula Costello The Honorable Kenneth L. Cowsert, ‘73 George and Diane Critchlow, ‘77 Gary J. and Claire Dmoch, ‘76 Gary J. Dmoch & Associates
When I think of Gonzaga Law I think of community. The relationships I developed with professors and peers have extended far beyond the three years I spent studying on the GU campus. CRISSY GREENBERG, ‘09 J.D.
Timothy J. Lynes ‘84 and Joan C. Morningstar, ‘83 Richard McWilliams Estate, ‘58 The Honorable and Mrs. Philip M. Raekes, ‘59 Renee R. Reuther, ‘90 Jim † and Beverly Rogers John Rudolf Family Foundation Dick ‘79 and Karen Sayre, ‘85 Sayre & Sayre P.S. Patrick and Diane Sullivan, ‘59 Sunbelt Communications Co. David and Angelica Torres, ‘86 Washington State Bar Association Law Deans’ Circle $2,500 – $4,999 Loren and Janell Burke, ‘83 The Honorable Ellen K. Clark, ‘82 Don and Va Lena (Scarpelli) Curran, ‘60 Ralph Dixon, ‘77
Helen (Tutt) Donigan, ‘76 John J. and Allison Durkin, ‘80 Justice Mary E. Fairhurst, ‘84 Dan and Karen Flynn, ‘83 Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Foundation Joe and Joan Gagliardi, ‘59 Paul D. and Nancy Greeley, ‘82 Geoffrey Grote, ‘78 Jeffrey and Diana Hartnett, ‘76 Howard and Darlene Herman, ‘62 Lori W. Hurl, ‘08* Bill Hyslop, ‘80 Thomas and Sandra Jarrard, ‘07 Robert and Carol Kornfeld, ‘79 Kornfeld, Trudell, Bowen and Lingenbrink The Honorable Frank L. Kurtz, ‘74 Richard and Roberta (Scott) League The Honorable John J. Madden, ‘68 Chief Justice Barbara A. Madsen and Mr. Donald Madsen, ‘77 * We regret not listing Lori Hurl in our last issue.
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Skip Smyser, ‘77 Joseph and Parker Sullivan, ‘85 Phebe A. Thompson The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust
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Dick Manning and Jen Gouge, ‘60 George N. and Colleen McCabe, ‘57 Michael McMahon, ‘91 Johnston Mitchell ‘92 and Christine Coers-Mitchell, ‘92 Mike Myers and Carole Rolando, ‘83 Jack Nevin, ‘78 Northwest Trustee and Management Services Tommy and Kirsten Prud’homme, ‘90 John R. Quinlan, ‘60 Sheila C. Ridgway, ‘84 Ridgway Law Group, P.S. Irene Ringwood, ‘84 The Honorable and Mrs. Richard J. Schroeder, ‘63 John and Penny Schultz, ‘63 The Somers Flamm Family Charitable Fund Robert Sullivan, ‘86 James and Denise Tallaksen, ‘93 George E. Telquist, ‘97 Gaetano J. and Melissa Testini, ‘00 Stephen and Carole Trefts, ‘75 Patrick and Kristina Trudell, ‘80 United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Donald Verfurth, ‘85 Victoria L. Vreeland, ‘76 The Honorable Bob and Diane Waitt, ‘57 Washington Judges Foundation Martin G. and Jane Weber, ‘64 Clifford and Karen Webster, ‘77 The Honorable Donna L. (Kamps) Wilson, ‘80 Katharine Witter Brindley and Ralph Brindley, ‘84 Michael and Anita Zdancewicz, ‘88 Barrister’s Club $500 - $999 Gene and Carol Annis, ‘59 Michael L. and Robin Becky, ‘82 Robert Berlin, ‘81 Mr. David Berry and Dr. Kim Hamlett, ‘91 Al and Laura Brogan, ‘96 Dick and Margaret Chastek, ‘56 John and Barbara Cooper Tom and Marcia Cordell, ‘76 Michael and Teresa Crofts, ‘80 Craig B. Davis, ‘78 James Fausone, ‘81 Fosland Law Firm PLLC Jim Giudici, ‘79 Frederick Halverson, ‘61 Charles V. and Marci (Felix) Harrington, ‘84
The Honorable James J. Helbling, ‘73 Bill Hennessey, ‘51 Daniel L. and Jill Hulsizer, ‘02 Robert Kayser, ‘79 Mary P. Kimmel, ‘87 Shannon Reilly Kraus, ‘99 Alan Lamia, ‘70 Alex and Karen Laughlin, ‘85 Paul and Robin Lichter Tom J. Lucas, ‘76 Gordon and Joan (Rogers) MacDonald, ‘81 The Honorable Craig Matheson, ‘76 Ryan R. and Sarah McNeice, ‘05 Steven D. Merriman, ‘11 John Monahan, ‘74 Timothy J. and Carol A. (Grell) Morris, ‘86 Daniel and Mary Beth Morrissey Kent and Gloria Mumma, ‘89 Ann Murphy Jerry Neal, ‘69 The Honorable and Mrs. Justin Quackenbush, ‘57 Tim Quirk and Sally Bulger Quirk, ‘73 Timothy and Julie Reid, ‘83
The Stanley Works The Honorable Gregory Sypolt, ‘76 James and Debbie Topliff, ‘81 Elvin Vandeberg, ‘54 Geana M. Van Dessel, ‘04 Wells Fargo Foundation Gregory Wilson and Linda E. Pfatteicher, ‘95 Arnold Young, ‘69 Solicitor’s Club $250 - $499 Hunter and Sara Abell, ‘05 John Antosz, ‘84 Casey ‘08 and Anne (Benhard) Arbenz, ‘08 Wm. Fred Aronow, ‘81 Aronow Enterpises LLC Tom and Marilyn Jane Baker, ‘61 Tom and Sandra Bassett, ‘76 The Honorable and Mrs. Paul Bastine, ‘64 Cheryl A. Beckett, ‘81 Justin and Leni Bolster, ‘06 Bracepoint Law Robert J. Burnett, ‘96 Heather E. Cannon, ‘06
It’s a cliché but you need to pay it forward. When we came through law school there were unseen people who donated to this school and established support that we drew upon, whether to decrease tuition on the margin of some direct subsidy. We are those unseen people for students now and we need to pay it forward just as others did for us. STEVE JAGER, ‘80
The Honorable Thomas and Mrs. Heather Rice, ‘86 Riverbend Developers LLC Kurt M. Rowland, ‘03 The Honorable and Mrs. Barry E. Ryan, ‘78 The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Dennis P. and Marie T. Sheehan, ‘76 Silver Creek Capital Management LLC Gregory and Elizabeth Smith, ‘86 James Spurgetis, ‘77
Joan Christnacht, ‘57 CNMRW Property Management Mitchel Cohen, ‘76 Jim and Harvelyn (Cornwell) Cooney, ‘80 Robert S. Delaney, ‘76 Pamela J. DeRusha, ‘80 The Honorable Robert J. Doran, ‘57 Robert Downey, ‘86 Peter and Shonah Drakos, ‘83 Alice E. Dupler, ‘05
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Law Society $100 - $249 ACLU of Washington George and Jennifer Ahrend, ‘95 Bethany and Mylo Allen, ‘08 Patrick and Colleen Andreotti, ‘76 Phillip Armstrong, ‘78 Terry Austin and Patricia Powers, ‘76 Walter Ayers, ‘81 Perri Ann Babalis, ‘90 Tom and Jane Baffney, ‘74 Hollis H. and Patricia J. (Anderson) Barnett, ‘69 Cecily A. Becker, ‘97 Jon Becker, ‘79 Eric and Helen Benson, ‘84 Joseph Betzendorfer, Jr., ‘58 Paula Lawton Bevington Justin H. Bingham, ‘00 Jan Bissett, ‘92 Morgan R. Blackbourn, ‘09 Michael and Marianne Bond, ‘78 Jefferson W. Boswell, ‘09 Robert Scott Bowen ‘79 and Vali M. Somers, ‘79 David and Sherry Boyar, ‘79 Roseann Brewer Chris Brumfield, ‘82 Carl and Maureen Butkus, ‘77 The Honorable Norman D. Callan, ‘76 The Honorable Christopher Culp and Ms. Peg R. Callaway, ‘83 Molly Jo Campbell, ‘76 Tawney L. Carrier, ‘06 Patricia M. Cavanaugh, ‘77 Patrick and Dee A. (Leoni) Cerutti, ‘71 Levlyn U. Chandra CNA Nicole A. Corr, ‘07 Crary, Clark & Domanico, P.S. Mary F. (Collins) Cronin, ‘85 Russell E. and Patricia DePew, ‘81 Owen M. Devereux, ‘02 Chris J. and Peggy M. (Regan) Dietzen, ‘73 Francis and Mary Donnelly, ‘83 Frank and Frances Dorsey, ‘52 Abraham and Judy Dorsman, ‘79 John J. Doyle, ‘82 Jack and Julie Driscoll, ‘84 Daniel Duffin, ‘93 Duffin & Associates Attorneys At Law Thomas G. and Christine A. Dunlop, ‘77 Timothy William Durkop, ‘93 Peter D. Eidenberg, ‘07 Hugh Evans, ‘75 James and Corrine Feldman, ‘74
J. Brent Fery, ‘84 Charles C. and Victoria Flower, ‘66 David ‘03 and Anni Foster, ‘04 Foster Pepper PLLC Scott Friedman, ‘77 JoAnn Gibbs, ‘94 James and Stacy Gibson, ‘99 John † and Therese Goodrich, ‘54 Elizabeth Graham, ‘90 Stephen T. Graham, ‘95 Timothy and Suzanne Graham, ‘86 William and Margaret Grant, ‘54 Carissa A. Greenberg, ‘09 Donald and Jean Grell Ina Gunwald John ‘06 and Laura Haberland, ‘06 John and Jennifer Hanrahan, ‘85 Mr. Michal E. Harbeson, ‘96 Wayne and Mary Hardesty, ‘77 Joseph and Sharon Harkrader, ‘81 Randy ‘78 and Bridget (McInerney) Harris, ‘79 Tom and Sue (Rogers) Harwood, ‘87 Tilman Hasche and Eugenia Vasquez, ‘84 Raymond and Geraldine Hasegawa, ‘76 William and Molly Hastings, ‘77 Scott Hatcher, ‘81 Peter and Kristi Herman, ‘84 Prof. Gerald Hess and Dr. Layne Stromwall Ed and Lisa Hilfer, ‘81 Thomas and Stephanie Hillier II, ‘73 J. Blake and Melissa Hilty, ‘08 Wm. Scott and Anja Hislop, ‘98 The Honorable Tany S. Hong and Mrs. Naomi Hong, ‘67 Gary E. and Debbie Hood, ‘96 Stephen R. Hormel, ‘88 Marla (Carey) Hoskins, ‘97 Bo and Rachel Howell, ‘08 Pamela (Simmons) Howland, ‘00 The Honorable Cynthia Imbrogno, ‘79 Ryan I. Inouye, ‘06 LTCOL Gregory Ircink, ‘86 Jeffery M. Jacobs, ‘08 David James, ‘76 Mike Jankovich, ‘79 Jankovich Law Offices Reid V. Jennings, ‘12 Edward Johnson, ‘79 Mary Lou Johnson and Dr. Daniel Schaffer, ‘92 Great care was taken to ensure the accuracy of this listing. If any discrepancies are found, please contact Sarah Guzman at 509-313-3738 or sguzman@lawschool.gonzaga.edu.
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Elizabeth Eagle-Teros and James Teros, ‘77 Brian and Julie Ernst, ‘84 Christopher and Christina Estes-Werther, ‘06 Kathryn L. Gerla, ‘87 The Honorable H. John and Margaret A. (Jansen) Hall, ‘67 Scott Allen Harmer, ‘94 Lloyd and Linda Herman, ‘66 Clifford L. Hill, ‘04 Frank and Nancy Hoover, ‘79 Mark R. Iverson and Michaele E. Dietzel, ‘88 Wayne and Sara Jenner, ‘78 Mark V. and Cynthia Jordan, ‘88 Fred and Amy Karau, ‘86 Robert Keefe, ‘73 Mr. Charles J. Kinnunen, ‘82 Charles and Teresa Langfitt, ‘80 Law Office of Cliff L. Hill, PLLC The Law Office of Heather Cannon P.C. Lone Wolf R&D LLC Matthew and Allison Luedke, ‘08 Michael and Mary Lynch, ‘85 Paul Mancini, ‘95 Eugene A. Marano, ‘76 James and Gretchen McDevitt, ‘75 Maureen McGuire, ‘81 Thomas and Sara McLane, ‘81 Christopher Mecca, ‘76 Robert Merriman, ‘80 William L. Meyer, ‘81 James and Teri Newman, ‘95 Timothy and Inga Note, ‘04 Mike and Jeanette Ormsby, ‘81 Joseph O. Ortiz, ‘08 CDR Eric M. Pedersen, ‘01 Grace Pitt, ‘53 Jeff Donahue and Theresa Rambosek, ‘87 The Honorable Michael P. Roewe, ‘74 Bruce Kubler and Janine A. Sarti, ‘83 Richard and Susan (Bailey) Seabrook, ‘85 Elizabeth M. Sorokac, ‘01 Jack and Sara Stone, ‘90 Scott Storey, ‘83 Lonny and Marcia Suko United Way of Rhode Island Jerry Votendahl, ‘67 Marc and Nancy Wallace, ‘75 James and Wendy Warlaumont Carl and Marimae Warring, ‘75 Todd and Christine (Hohman) Weaver, ‘91 Peter Wilke, ‘77 Mary Sue Wilson, ‘89 James and Darlene Woodard, ‘80
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Robert and Mildred L. (Childers) Johnson, ‘89 Trevor L. Johnson Guy Johnston, ‘64 Keller Rohrback L.L.P. Marcus and Lisa Kelley, ‘06 Dorothy Kelly, ‘57 Tom and Ann † Kelly, ‘66 Amrit Khalsa, ‘84 Mike and Terri Killeen, ‘77 David D. and Shirley G. Kilpatrick, ‘75 James and Mary Anne (Metcalfe) King, ‘78 Jennifer B. Koiles-Pratt, ‘95 Koiles & Associates Neil Korbas and Patricia Thompson, ‘80 Walt Krueger, ‘75 Brooke C. Kuhl, ‘04 Stephen and Kris Lamberson, ‘82 Thomas Lampson, ‘83 The Honorable and Mrs. Thomas Larkin, ‘73 Paul M. and Kristina S. Larson, ‘75 Larry Larson, ‘75 Law Office of Frank R. Hoover, P.S. Law Offices of Wolff & Hislop The Honorable and Mrs. Vincent LeBlon, ‘80 Scott and Peggy Leong, ‘80 Kimberly A. Loranz, ‘87 Mark J. Lorenz and Maryann Moreno, ‘85 Carolyn Gale Louthian, ‘82 Houston Putnam Lowry, ‘80 John P. Lynch, ‘77 William Lynch and The Honorable Jane L. Habegger, ‘81 G. Scott and Susan Marinella, ‘83 William M. Mast, ‘03 Aryn M. (Clark Hendryx) Masters, ‘09 Paul Mathews, ‘76 Kevin McConnell, ‘85 Robert McKanna, ‘54 Thomas McKinnon, ‘67 William Booth and Kristin McRoberts, ‘07 Lawrence S. Merrifield Jr., ‘94 William L. Meyer, Attorney at Law, PLLC James and Diane Miller III, ‘78 The Honorable Terri-Ann Miller, ‘79 Dyan K. Mitsuyama, ‘97 William E. and Janet C. Morgan, ‘70 Dan and Genevieve (Mann) Morris, ‘03 Jed Morris, ‘83 Lynn Mounsey, ‘87 Naegeli Deposition and Trial Jack and Janice Nelson, ‘74 Michael and Susan Nienstedt, ‘76 Gary and Connie Norton, ‘77 Timothy and Sandra O’Doherty
Vicki Lee Anne Parker, ‘75 Michael J. and Kathleen H. (Wiley) Paukert, ‘90 Paukert & Troppman, PLLC Joseph M. and M. Beth Pellicciotti, ‘76 Stephen and Sheryl Phillabaum, ‘89 Harve H. and Alta C. Phipps, ‘53 Kerry and Virginia Pickett, ‘76 Charles Plovanich, ‘78 Gregory J. and Laura M. Potter, ‘84 Kevin C. Potter, ‘81 Laurie A. Powers Kaarin Praxel, ‘12 Patricia Price H. Eugene Quinn, ‘62 Jay A. Rambo, ‘84 Randall & Danskin, P.S. Edward Ratcliffe, ‘86 John and Diane Redenbaugh, ‘78 Tom and Bonnie Reynolds, ‘77 Richard J. Richard, ‘56 Thomas and Maureen Richardson, ‘80 Dan and Jacquie Roach, ‘84 Patrick and Leeann Roach, ‘73 Lowell and Kathleen Ruen, ‘80 Beau and Diana (Powell) Ruff, ‘03 Cindy Runger, ‘94 Barbra L. (Anderson) Ryan, ‘96 Scott and Mary Sage, ‘78 Kenneth A. Scaz, ‘98 Ivan Schertzer, ‘80 Ms. Maxine G. Schmitz, ‘96 Michael and Joyce Sclafani, ‘85 Joseph Seaman, ‘79 James Sedivy, ‘81 Mike Merritt and Jeri Self-Merritt, ‘98 Michele M. Shaw, ‘89 Edmund and Donna Sheehy, ‘78 Robert Shimane, ‘84 Mike and Francesca Shoemaker, ‘76 John G. and Marlene Shudy, ‘82 Leslie Smith, ‘85 Gerald R. Stahl, ‘81 Richard Staub, ‘77 Craig P. and Debra L. (Williams) Stephens, ‘93 The Honorable John F. and Cathy Strohmaier, ‘81 The Honorable and Mrs. Richard A. Strophy, ‘70 Jeffrey and Patricia (Kane) Sullivan, ‘71 William Tarnasky, Jr., ‘88 The Honorable and Mrs. Phil Thompson, ‘62 Tom and Colleen Tracy, ‘81 Sherry and David Travers, ‘82 Prof. Mary Pat Treuthart and Mr. Dan Webster John and Jennifer Trucco Jr., ‘83 The Honorable Miriam A. Trudelle, ‘85
Debra J. Urman-Botkin, ‘00 Larry and Marcia Vance, ‘76 The Honorable Philip and Barbara Van de Veer, ‘88 Vanessa M. Vanderbrug and Paul Ryall, ‘01 Christopher Varallo, ‘99 VMware Foundation Adrian and Nancy Voermans, ‘69 Shannon M. Votava, ‘85 Robert Waldo, ‘72 Ms. Felicia K. Watson, ‘96 Robert and Stacy Webster, ‘85 Meagan E. (Hastings) Westphal, ‘08 Benjamin T. and Karite White, ‘03 Jim and Mary Lou Wickwire, ‘67 Joseph P. Wilson, ‘93 Ray Wimberley, ‘86 Ray P. Wimberley Attorney at Law James Woods and Janet Stauffer, ‘78 Robert F. Young and Nancy L. Mueller, ‘78 Randy and Sandra Zellmer, ‘80 Clayne and Teryl Zollinger, ‘90 Investors $1 - $99 John M. and Peggy Altman, ‘89 Barbara Anderson Falesha Ankton Jennifer Ballantyne, ‘14 Peter and Lyle Baumgarten, ‘80 Abra L. Belke Jesse and Jennifer (Stewart) Bergdolt, ‘05 Dawn M. Berry, ‘13 Andrew and Amy Biviano, ‘06 Myron and Anne Brixner, ‘74 Pamela J. Byerly, ‘89 Dr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Cafaro John Carlson, ‘78 David Carter, ‘76 Thomas and Joan Chapman, ‘66 Maurice and Lolita Clark, ‘58 John and Roselie Cooney, ‘66 John O. and Joleen Cooney, ‘00 Thomas and Sheryl Cooney, ‘76 Larry and Judith Corbin, ‘77 Rebecca M. Coufal, ‘87 Anna E. Courtney, ‘13 Kent Cronquist, ‘82 Robert and Bianca Curzan, ‘81 Edward E. and Cathy (Huntington) Danz, ‘75 Victoria David, ‘14 Mark and Nicky Desmarais, ‘80 Todd R. DeVallance, ‘02 Greg Devlin, ‘76 Randy and Sophia (Santos) Diaz
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Gonzaga is where my family started, literally. My parents met in undergrad and my dad proposed to my mom on the steps of the Administration Building. He then went on to law school at Gonzaga. Thirty-two years later, I graduated from Gonzaga Law. Being a Zag is an important part of who we are. COLLEEN DURKIN, ‘12
Caitlin McGrane, ‘13 Lawrence B. McNerthney, ‘65 Thomas Metzger, ‘79 Clarence and Donna Miller Laura Miller Jamey Minnihan, ‘15 John Monter, ‘76 John Moritz, ‘81 Eugene and Frances Munson Aimee (Racine) Murray, ‘10 Penelope Smith Nerup, ‘91 Robert O’Connell, ‘78 Kitteridge Oldham and Colleen O’Connor, ‘90 Aaron and Rebecca Olson, ‘13 Christine M. Ortega, ‘13 Fred and Barb Palmer, ‘73 Ms. Candace J. Park, ‘96 Jonathan W. Parramore, ‘12 Cody Patterson Michael J. Pellicciotti, ‘04 Mike Perrizo, ‘78 Dr. and Mrs. David H. Peterson, ‘52 Mr. Randolph O. Petgrave, ‘96 Winniefred Pettell Megan Pitzen Brittany Quinn, ‘15 Steven A. Reich, ‘80 Jeffrey Reynolds, ‘77 Randy Roach, ‘78 Bill Roberts, ‘40 Tyler Rube, ‘15 Kimball and Nory C. (Cabrera) Sargeant, ‘78 Charles Schumacher, ‘80 James and Louise Schutt Jason J. Scronic, ‘07 Jonathan B. Shaklee, ‘07 Ron and Vicki Shepherd, ‘76 Alexander J. and Maureen J. (Gordon) Shogan Jr., ‘78
Berkeley and Carole Smith, ‘75 Shepard Smith, ‘76 Steve Smith, ‘86 Lonnie Sparks, ‘81 Mary Spear Tom Sowa and Laura Spradley, ‘82 Rodney Standage, ‘93 Jennifer Stash, ‘12 Matthew and Jean St. John, ‘04 Leon Swerin, ‘77 Walter Tanner, ‘17 Elizabeth R. Tereno, ‘10 Mr. and Mrs. David R. Thompson, ‘93 Marie VanDiver Ryan E. and Mistee (Pitman) Verhulp, ‘98 Paul Vogel Jr., ‘79 The Warehouse Michael D. Waters, ‘13 Ralph Noll and Olivia Wegis Larry A. and Ellen Weiser, ‘76 Ted Wellman, ‘91 Cory J. Wood, ‘10 Martin E. Wyckoff and Adrienne E. Smith, ‘88 Lawrence and Bev (Doupe) Yokoyama, ‘97 A. Kristine Young, ‘91
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Michael Dodds, ‘80 Elizabeth A. Dunfee, ‘11 The Honorable Lynda C. Eaton, ‘91 Kirsten M. Elliott Sinclair, ‘07 John Evans Gary and Jeanette Farrell, ‘80 Feltman, Gebhardt, Greer & Zeimantz, P.S. Elizabeth L. Fitzgerald, ‘07 Sue S. Flammia, ‘78 Jon L. Fletcher, ‘92 Jeffrey and Leslie Geldien Garald Gesinger, ‘68 Jason Gillmer Keith and Donna Glanzer, ‘90 Michael and Maria Goldman, ‘94 John and Marjorie Gray, ‘76 Jordan Griffith GTG Ventures, LLC James and Donna Guyor, ‘77 Sarah J. Guzman Robin L. Haynes, ‘06 Timothy and Theresa Hays, ‘97 Gary Hebl, ‘76 Hebl, Hebl & Ripp, LLP Michael and Melinda † Hirst, ‘91 Lavette N. Holman, ‘08 Adam and Heather Hoover, ‘10 Joel and Chris Huppin, ‘87 Ann and Anthony Holzgang, ‘84 Gregory Ingraham, ‘85 Kenneth Jacobsen, ‘74 Michael E. Johnston, ‘98 Michael and Helen Jones, ‘77 Jeff Schroeder and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder, ‘95 Edward and Linda Joy, ‘73 Octavian B. Jumanca, ‘13 Mr. Michael Kawamura, ‘86 Jeanne Marie Keefe, ‘84 Lisa M. Keeler, ‘07 Kenneth Peacock and Amy Kelley-Peacock Donald and Vickie Kennedy, ‘91 Russell and Sara Knight, ‘08 John T. Krall, ‘61 Christal S. Lam, ‘13 Inga Laurent Dave and Cynthia Ledyard, ‘77 Richard and Patricia Leland, ‘90 Stephen and Mary (Hildahl) Llewellyn, ‘75 Andrew G. Lukes, ‘13 William P. and Carol J. Lyshak, ‘79 Pamela K. Madson, ‘77 Sandra Ann Maginn, ‘86 George Mastrodonato, ‘76 Adam J. McGerty, ‘13
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James E. Rogers Law Student Scholarship Donors Jefferson W. Boswell, ‘09 Adam and Heather Hoover, ‘10 Jim † and Beverly Rogers Sunbelt Communications Co. Elizabeth R. Tereno, ‘10 Thomas More Scholarship Donors Susan Alexander, ‘91 Eric and Helen Benson, ‘84 Jesse and Jennifer (Stewart) Bergdolt, ‘05 Mr. David Berry and Dr. Kim Hamlett, ‘91 Al and Laura Brogan, ‘96 Loren and Janell Burke, ‘83 Chris J. and Peggy M. (Regan) Dietzen, ‘73 Dan and Karen Flynn, ‘83 Kathryn L. Gerla, ‘87 Rafael A. and Jean C. Gonzales, ‘86 Carissa A. Greenberg, ‘09 Donald and Jean Grell Mark and Mary Griffin, ‘86 Tom and Sue (Rogers) Harwood, ‘87 Tilman Hasche and Eugenia Vasquez, ‘84 Lavette N. Holman, ‘08 Frank and Nancy Hoover, ‘79 Bo and Rachel Howell, ‘08 Pamela (Simmons) Howland, ‘00 Mark R. Iverson and Michaele E. Dietzel, ‘88 Thomas and Sandra Jarrard, ‘07 Mary Lou Johnson and Dr. Daniel Schaffer, ‘92 Brooke C. Kuhl, ‘04
Law Office of Frank R. Hoover, P.S. William Booth and Kristin McRoberts, ‘07 Dan and Genevieve (Mann) Morris, ‘03 Timothy J. and Carol A. (Grell) Morris, ‘86 Jack and Janice Nelson, ‘74 Penelope Smith Nerup, ‘91 James and Teri Newman, ‘95 Tommy and Kirsten Prud’homme, ‘90 Edward Ratcliffe, ‘86 The Honorable Thomas and Mrs. Heather Rice, ‘86 Kurt M. Rowland, ‘03 Gregory and Elizabeth Smith, ‘86 Matthew and Jean St. John, ‘04 Rodney Standage, ‘93 Craig P. and Debra L. (Williams) Stephens, ‘93 The Honorable and Mrs. Phil Thompson, ‘62 The Honorable Philip and Barbara Van de Veer, ‘88 Donald Verfurth, ‘85 Robert and Stacy Webster, ‘85 Mary Sue Wilson, ‘89 University Legal Assistance Donors Phillip Armstrong, ‘78 Kent Cronquist, ‘82 Ralph Dixon, ‘77 Gary J. and Claire Dmoch, ‘76 Gary J. Dmoch & Associates Francis and Mary Donnelly, ‘83 Alice E. Dupler, ‘05 Keith and Donna Glanzer, ‘90 Elizabeth Graham, ‘90 Paul D. and Nancy Greeley, ‘82
Giving back to Gonzaga Law is really important to me. It’s important to my family because it’s a big part of who we are. But also I want to see other students have the experience that I had and to enjoy law school and to take the important lessons that you can learn in law school into being a good lawyer.
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ANNIE ARBENZ, ‘08
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Daniel P. Harbaugh, ‘74 The Honorable Cynthia Imbrogno, ‘79 Richard and Patricia Leland, ‘90 Lone Wolf R&D LLC William Lynch and The Honorable Jane L. Habegger, ‘81 Sandra Ann Maginn, ‘86 William M. Mast, ‘03 Aryn M. (Clark Hendryx) Masters, ‘09 Paul Mathews, ‘76 Clarence and Donna Miller Dyan K. Mitsuyama, ‘97 Timothy and Inga Note, ‘04 Winniefred Pettell Jeffrey Reynolds, ‘77 The Honorable and Mrs. Barry E. Ryan, ‘78 The Honorable and Mrs. Richard J. Schroeder, ‘63 Jonathan B. Shaklee, ‘07 Michele M. Shaw, ‘89 Edmund and Donna Sheehy, ‘78 Alexander J. and Maureen J. (Gordon) Shogan, Jr., ‘78 Mary Spear Leon Swerin, ‘77 Ralph Noll and Olivia Wegis Cory J. Wood, ‘10 James and Darlene Woodard, ‘80 A. Kristine Young, ‘91
Lomio a leader among law librarians
Lomio joined the Stanford law school staff as a reference librarian in 1982 and, in 2005, then-Dean Larry Kramer named him director of the library. Over the course of a career spanning more than three decades, he became a specialist in legal research and the development of digital reserves – and much more.
in 1972 before serving in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader until 1975 at Nike Hercules batteries in Fort Story, Virginia and Camp Holliday, South Korea. He earned a law degree from Gonzaga University in 1978 and a master’s degree in law from the University of Washington School of Law in 1979. He was admitted to the Washington State Bar Association in 1978 and served as a guardianad-litem for the King County Juvenile Court and clerked for Judge T. Patrick Corbett of the King County Superior Court in Seattle in 1980. He went on to earn a master’s degree in library science in 1982 from the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America.
Lomio was born in 1950 in Schenectady, New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from St. Bonaventure University
He is survived by his wife, Sharon Inouye, and their daughter, Rita Lomio. Search for Paul Lomio on the Stanford website.
J. Paul Lomio (’78 J.D.), the director of the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford University, passed away on March 6. Lomio led a library team that was the envy of law schools throughout the country. His knowledge and enthusiasm for the work were contagious.
In Memoriam The Gonzaga School of Law extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of the following alumni and friends.
Richard D. Atherton J.D.
1980
Robert Henry
1976
Claude F. Bailey
1967
Paul A. Klasen, Jr.
1951*
Betty Biddle
†
William J. Kochevar
1990
Dorothy F. Campbell
†
Jim Lanza
1981
Frank Carr
1951
J. Paul Lomio
1978
C. Scott Cregger
1979
Smithmoore P. Myers
1939
Donald Disque
1958
Larry V. Pontious
2002
Timothy J. Dolata
1979
Roger Smith
1958
Joseph P. Gagliardi
1959
Nanette H. Songer
1983
John Goodrich
1954
Bennett Tse
1986
*Corrections: We regret our mispelling of Paul A. Klasen Jr.’s name in our last issue.
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