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CREDITS DEAN DAVID A. BRENNEN DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ASHLEY RITCHIE CONTRIBUTING WRITERS WHITNEY HALE WHITNEY HARDER ASHLEY RITCHIE

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DESIGN ASHLEY RITCHIE PHOTOGRAPHY J.A. LAUB PHOTOGRAPHY SHAUN RING PHOTOGRAPHY ASHLEY RITCHIE LEE P. THOMAS PHOTOGRAPHY ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER Law Notes Online is published quarterly for the alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the University of Kentucky College of Law.

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10 08 Faculty Notes 09 Central Kentucky’s Most Famous Cold Case 09 Bird-Pollan named University Senate Council Chair ALUMNI IMPACT.

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10 Raising the Bar, Together Campaign Video

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN It’s the most wonderful time of the year and 2017 is ending as it started: a very busy and successful few months at UK Law. In October, our Moot Court Board hosted the Honorable John M. Rogers, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, as the first speaker of a new litigation speaker series. Through the series, students will have access to prominent attorneys and judges who can speak on litigation related topics at all levels. In November, our Kentucky Law Journal hosted a symposium on “Religious Exemptions and Harm to Others” and our Trial Advocacy Board Mock Trial team of Matt Boggs and Madeline Moss won the 2017 Kentucky Intrastate Mock Trial Competition. This year, UK Law had eight members compete in the annual competition. Finally, students in the UK Law Legal Clinic spread the spirit of giving by providing Thanksgiving dinners to clients and families.

Students, as well as faculty and staff, have also survived the first semester in our temporary facilities. Since hosting our Ceremonial Groundbreaking this fall, phase one of our building project – demolition – has been completed. As you will see in this issue of Law Notes Online, the building has been entirely stripped down to its concrete foundation. The

project is quite extensive and we are making remarkable progress. Essentially, we are getting a brand new building on the same site! I’m also happy to report that we have now moved onto the construction phase of the project. To stay up-to-date on the progress, or to watch our brand new campaign video, visit our website at law.uky.edu/raisingthebar. And, as always, we are grateful for your support on our building project. You are critical to our success as we continue raising the bar, together.

I also want to mention that our world-class, accessible faculty continue to shine a positive light on the law school. Emeritus professor of law Bob Lawson published a new University Press of Kentucky book, “Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery.” It is the first book to examine Brown’s murder, investigation and trial, one of Kentucky’s most legendary cold cases. In addition, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Doug Michael is gearing up to lead the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program with the help of Professor Jennifer-Bird Pollan. Finally, Professor Bird-Pollan was also elected as the next chair of the University Senate Council.

She will serve as chair from June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019, with the opportunity to be elected for an additional one-year term.

It was a pleasure to see alumni at our class reunions, the Homecoming Tailgate before the Cats battled the Tigers and in Chicago at the Champions Classic Alumni Reception.

I look forward to seeing many more of you at the various alumni receptions in 2018.

As always, I hope this newsletter finds you and your loved ones well this holiday season. A new year always brings with it new possibilities. I look forward to seeing all of you rise towards your personal best in 2018.

All rise!

Best,

David A. Brennen Dean and Professor of Law

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Kentucky Law Journal Hosts Symposium on Religious Exemptions and Harm to Others

Speakers for the one-day symposium included:

On Friday, November 3, the Kentucky Law Journal, in conjunction with the University of Kentucky College of Law, hosted “Religious Exemptions and Harm to Others.” The symposium took place at the William T. Young Library and was open to the public.

Featuring a diverse group of scholars from across the nation, the program elaborated on how religious freedoms granted in the United States Constitution and associated religious exemptions play a role in our communities and society. Topics consisted of “Religious Accommodations and ThirdParty Harms: Constitutional Values and Limits,” “The Oldest Religious Exemption,” and “The Cost of Rights.”

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This symposium was both timely and of crucial importance to the Commonwealth of Kentucky as the debate about religious liberties, religious exemptions, and freedom of speech continues nationwide.

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Jordan Shewmaker, 2017-18 Editor-in-Chief

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• Kathleen Brady, Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University • Carl H. Esbeck, R.B. Price Professor Emeritus of Law/Isabelle Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law • Catherine Hardee, Assistant Professor of Law at California Western School of Law • Arnold H. Loewy, George R. Killam Jr. Chair of Criminal Law at Texas Tech University School of Law • Christopher C. Lund, Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School • Micah Schwartzman, Joseph W. Dorn Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law • Eric J. Segall, Kathy and Lawrence Ashe Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law • Elizabeth Sepper, Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law • Gary J. Simson, Senior Vice Provost for Scholarship for Mercer University A luncheon immediately followed the morning panels, featuring William Marshall, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. “My favorite part of the event was the opportunity for our students to interact with the presenters and have legal discussions about their scholarship,”

said third-year law student Shewmaker. “These lively conversations and opportunity for respectful debate are an integral part of the academic opportunities offered at UK Law.” All presenters will publish an article in Volume 106, Book 4 of the Kentucky Law Journal. A subscription that includes Book 4 can be purchased at http://www.kentuckylawjournal. org/index.php/subscriptions/.

In addition to presenters discussing religious freedoms and exemptions, students and other attendees participated by posing questions throughout the symposium. The program was accredited by the Kentucky Bar Association Commission on Legal Education for a total of 4.25 hours of CLE credit.

“We appreciate the support we received from the University of Kentucky College of Law and the University of Kentucky Student Government Association. More importantly, this event would not have been possible without help from Kentucky Law Journal members who volunteered and contributed to make this event a success, including third-year law student and Special Features Editor Christopher Barber, who organized the symposium,” said Shewmaker.

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UK LAW ACCOMPLISHES CLEAN SWEEP AT KENTUCKY INTRASTATE MOCK TRIAL COMPETITION The University of Kentucky College of Law’s Trial Advocacy Board (TAB) Mock Trial team of Matt Boggs and Madeline Moss won the 2017 Kentucky Intrastate Mock Trial Competition, held November 11-12 at Fayette County District Court.

UK Law had eight members compete in the annual competition that rotates between the three Kentucky law schools. Each school fielded two teams, for a total of six sets of competitors. During the championship round, Boggs and Moss defeated UK Law classmates Garrett Gabehart and Ryan Mosley in a 3-2 split decision. Both teams won every judge’s ballot until they met each other.

team and our coaches put in hours and hours of work in order to be as prepared as we possibly could be, and it feels great to have won and made them all proud,” said Moss.

UK Law students MacKenzie DeSpain, Faith Gingrich-Goetz, Ashley Land and Aubrey McGuire served as trial witnesses to provide support to the teams.

Additionally, Ryan Mosley was named Best Advocate of the tournament.

“The work to prepare for these trial tournaments is pretty exhausting, so I was very humbled to be “I feel the tournament was immensely successful. named best advocate,” said Mosley. “I have to give a The final round was against our fellow UK lot of credit to my amazing witness, Ashley Land. It teammates, so in addition to being the most felt like Garrett was pulling us through the hardest challenging, it was also the most fun! Our entire moments during the trials, though, so he would’ve

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gotten my vote.”

Allison Connelly (UK Law ’83), Director of the Legal Clinic and James and Mary Lassiter Professor of Law, serves as the faculty advisor for TAB. Paco Villalobos (UK Law ’11), an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney in Fayette County, has served as the coach of the college’s highly successful trial team since 2011. Jordan Dongell (UK ’12) served as his assistant coach this year.

“I believe it is a testament to the quality of exceptional and bright students we have at the University of Kentucky College of Law,” said Villalobos. “These two teams were about as even as it came and either would have been a deserving winner. These students will make excellent attorneys in the future and I am overjoyed that the hard work they put into this competition is reflected in the results.”

UK Law’s Moot Court Board hosts Judge Rogers as first speaker in new lecture series In October, the University of Kentucky College of Law’s Moot Court Board hosted the Honorable John M. Rogers, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, as the first speaker of a new litigation speaker series.

Through the series, the Moot Court Board hopes to provide students with access to prominent attorneys and judges who can speak on litigation related topics at all levels, not only relevant to moot court members, but to all law students. The idea for the speaker series is credited to Cassie Keck, a third-year law student and the 2017-18 Moot Court Board President.

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UK Law Students Spread Spirit of Giving with Thanksgiving Meals by whitney harder Students in the University of Kentucky College of Law Legal Clinic are known for providing pro bono services to low income community members. A lesser known fact is that each year, the students also provide Thanksgiving dinners – turkeys and all the fixings – to clients and families.

Judge Rogers began the conversation by sharing a little about his background. He told law students, faculty and staff about a decision he was faced with in early adulthood: to study history or law. If he chose history, he’d be a teacher and he didn’t want to do that. “So, I pursued a law degree and became a law professor,” he said. The crowd laughed.

“Helping provide our clients with Thanksgiving dinners encourages us to get involved in pro bono work because it’s amazing to see how grateful our clients are to receive the meals,” said Whytni Cline, a third-year law student who volunteers in the clinic.

He came to love teaching torts to first-year law students.

“I like the challenge of teaching things that seem dry and trying to make them interesting,” Judge Rogers said.

In the UK Legal Clinic, law students advise, counsel and represent those who are unable to afford outside counsel.

Prior to his service as a federal judge, Judge Rogers was a professor at UK Law for nearly 25 years, where he remains a professor emeritus.

“These students are learning how to practice law, and are also learning the joy of helping others for free,” said Allison Connelly, director of the Legal Clinic.

“They're seeing how other people struggle to put a roof over their heads and how hard it is sometimes to make ends meet.”

Judge Rogers went on to discuss the importance of writing briefs, what judges like to see in oral arguments, and what they look for when hiring students for clerkships. He also shared his personal career goals. As a judge he strives to be fair, open, and follow the law. Judge Rogers wrapped up the conversation by answering intriguing questions from students in attendance.

And so the tradition began to make the holidays a little easier for their clients, especially those who have children.

The week of Thanksgiving, students delivered meals to eight families in Lexington. But that’s not all the families will receive this holiday season.

After raising money to purchase the food, a student in the clinic suggested they shop at the grocery store she frequents - Lucky’s Market. They were pleasantly surprised when the manager offered to donate all the items needed – turkeys, sides and pies – for all eight families.

“It was just a great opportunity to say thank you to the students and a chance to give back and make sure these families have a great Thanksgiving,” said Mike Smith, manager of Lucky’s in Lexington.

Thanks to Lucky’s donation, the Legal Clinic can now use the money they raised to purchase Christmas gifts for children in each of those families. And the students say their spirit of giving won’t stop there.

“Working in the Legal Clinic and with Lucky’s Market has encouraged me to personally set a goal for myself each year to provide pro bono help to the less fortunate in my community,” Cline said.

“The program highlighted the connection of the judiciary to UK Law and also showed what is applicable to current students on moot court,” said third-year law student Amanda Combs. “I enjoyed seeing many faculty members, such as Professors Connelly, Davis, and Salamanca, as well as Dean Murphy and Dean Steele come and support their former colleague. It showed a sense of the strong community within UK Law and I liked getting to see that as a student.”

The Moot Court Board will continue the series in the spring.

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FACULTY NOTES Albertina Antognini’s article entitled Against Nonmarital Exceptionalism was accepted for publication in 2018 by the U.C. Davis Law Review.

Richard C. Ausness’ article, Flying Under False Colors: The Continuing Presence of Negligence Principles in “Strict” Products Liability Law, has been accepted for publication and will appear in the Akron Law Review in spring 2018. His work has been cited recently in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Journal of Tort Law, the Faulkner Law Review and the Western Michigan Law Review. In addition, he has been interviewed by Bloomberg Law, the National Law Journal, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, the Lexington HeraldLeader, WEKU and Ohio Valley Resource.

Scott R. Bauries accepted an invitation to publish an article in a symposium issue of the Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review. The article will be entitled, Government of Individuals: The Logic of Speech and Religion Protections in the Public Workplace. It will be published in spring 2018.

Jennifer Bird-Pollan recently discussed the federal tax reform on “Kentucky Tonight.”

The episode is available at https://www.ket.org/episode/ KKYTO%20002502/.

Christopher G. Bradley was quoted in a Bloomberg BNA article entitled, “Bankruptcy Filings Hit 10-year Low, May Rise Again.”

Joshua A. Douglas’ article, The Right to Vote Under Local Law, was published by the George Washington Law Review. He also published the following issue brief for the American Constitution Society: Expanding Voting Rights Through Local Law. In addition, he published op-eds in the Washington Post, AL.com, Reuters, the Huffington Post and CNN. Finally, he was quoted in Bloomberg Radio, Business Insider, CNN and Governing.

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Brian L. Frye recently published the following articles: Fixing Forum Selling, 25 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 1 (2017) (with Christopher J. Ryan); The Possible Redundancy of §230, The Recorder (Nov. 10, 2017); Equitable Resale Royalties, 24 J. Intell. Prop.

L. 1 (2017); Against Creativity, 11 N.Y.U. J.L. & Liberty 426 (2017); Incidental Intellectual Property, 33 Ent. & Sports Lawyer (2017); and Observations on Motion Picture Evidence, World Picture 12 (2017). He also has a number of articles in press, including: The Zapruder Film, in A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Daniel Hunter & Claudy Op den Kamp, eds. Cambridge University Press 2018); Art Law & the Law of the Horse, Kentucky Bench & Bar Magazine; The Lion, the Bat & the Thermostat: Metaphors on Consciousness, Savannah L. Rev.; New Art for the People: Art Funds & Financial Technology, Chicago-Kent L. Rev.; A Revealed Preferences Approach to Ranking Law Schools, Ala. L. Rev. (with Christopher J. Ryan); An Empirical Study of University Patent Activity, N.Y.U. J. I.P. & Ent. L. (with Christopher J. Ryan); Invention of a Slave, Syracuse L. Rev.; The Athlete’s Two Bodies: Reflections on the Ontology of Celebrity, Incite! Journal of Experimental Media, Issue 7; and A Potted Legal History of the Bisbee Deportation of 1917 (2017).

Jane Grisé presented at the West Coast Consortium of Academic Support Professionals Sixth Annual Conference in November on Critical Reading: Strategies for Success. She also presented at the Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference in September on Learning Oral Advocacy and Learning from Oral Advocacy.

Kristin J. Hazelwood presented at the Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference in September on Learning Oral Advocacy and Learning from Oral Advocacy.

Melissa N. Henke presented at the 2017 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana with Beau Steenken. Their presentation, “Putting the ‘Form’ in ‘Formative Assessment:’ The Pedagogical Value of OutcomesBased Rubric Forms as Learning Tools in Law Schools,” was featured in the Graduation Education track of the conference schedule.

Robert G. Lawson signed his latest book, Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery, at the Kentucky Book Fair in November.

Cortney E. Lollar’s article Criminalizing Pregnancy was published in the Indiana Law Journal earlier this fall. She presented her current workin-progress, Criminalizing (Poor) Fatherhood, at a workshop on Legal Transitions and the Vulnerable Subject at Emory University earlier this month. She also gave a presentation to administrative law officers and practitioners on Kentucky evidentiary rules as part of the Office of the Attorney General’s Annual Hearing Officer Training.

Beau Steenken presented at the 2017 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana with Melissa N. Henke. Their presentation, “Putting the ‘Form’ in ‘Formative Assessment:’ The Pedagogical Value of Outcomes-Based Rubric Forms as Learning Tools in Law Schools,” was featured in the Graduation Education track of the conference schedule.

Richard H. Underwood signed his latest book, Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York, at the Kentucky Book Fair in November. He also served as UK Law’s Guest Blogger in November. He wrote a book review on Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery by Robert G. Lawson. Finally, he will serve on a panel at the 2018 Appalachian Studies Association Conference in April. The presentation will focus on the humanities course at the University of Pikeville and the use of his book CrimeSong as a textbook.

Andrew Keane Woods was quoted in a CNN story titled, “Tech companies are hindering criminal investigations, under outdated law.”

UK Law’s Jennifer Bird-Pollan named University Senate Council Chair Jennifer Bird-Pollan, James and Mary Lassiter Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, has been elected as the next chair of the University Senate Council.

Prof. Bird-Pollan will serve as chair from June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019, with the opportunity to be elected for an additional one-year term.

“It’s a chance to work with faculty from all across campus, and to work closely with the central administration, to try to make a difference here at UK. It’s a really exciting opportunity,” said Prof.

Bird-Pollan.

A year ago, Prof. Bird-Pollan was selected as a member of the University Senate Council for a three-year term. She was then nominated by the Senate at large as one of three candidates for the chair position and, after accepting the nomination, she wrote a 200-word statement about her vision for the role. Prof. Bird-Pollan was selected as chair by a majority in the first round of voting.

“It seemed like a lot of important policy decisions and choices about the direction the Senate was taking were made at the level of the Senate Council, before it got to the Senate floor,” said Prof. BirdPollan. “I wanted to be part of that conversation.”

As the chair of the University Senate Council, Prof.

Bird-Pollan will facilitate the Senate Council’s weekly meetings. She will also meet regularly with the President and the Provost to keep them appraised of the Senate’s work. The Senate Council Chair is also often asked to participate in universitywide committees, which currently includes being a member of the Provost Search Committee.

Prof. Bird-Pollan is looking forward to getting to know faculty members from each of the colleges on campus. She wants to find ways to engage everyone interested in faculty governance to be part of the conversation.

Central Kentucky’s Most Famous Cold Case by whitney hale On Oct. 26, 1961, the lifeless body of 19-yearold student Betty Gail Brown was discovered in front of the Old Morrison Building on Transylvania University’s campus. A new University Press of Kentucky book, “Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery” by Robert G. Lawson, emeritus professor of law at the University of Kentucky, is the first book to examine Brown’s murder, investigation and trial, one of Kentucky’s most legendary cold cases.

Brown was found at 3 a.m. strangled with her own bra in the front seat of her parked car. No witnesses or suspects could be immediately found, but police would go on to take testimonies, administer polygraph tests and log the fingerprints of hundreds of students and persons of interest without ever finding motive for Brown’s murder.

The case grew cold until 1965, when an alcoholic drifter by the name of Alex Arnold Jr. confessed to killing Brown while visiting Lexington. Arnold believed so strongly that he was the culprit that he stated he was “99 percent sure” that he had committed the murder. Yet Arnold would never go on to serve time for the young woman’s murder.

Though the Brown case went to trial over 50 years ago, “Who Killed Betty Gail Brown?” by Lawson is the first book-length investigation into the murder and subsequent trial. Lawson served as one of the court-appointed lawyers who personally defended Arnold, and he brings his intimate, firsthand knowledge of the case to bear. He supplements his knowledge of the events with courtroom testimonies, police records and news accounts to construct a chronological account of Brown’s famously unsolved murder and the trial of Arnold.

placing Arnold at the scene, and Arnold’s own unreliable memory due to his alcoholism left the answers to questions about the night of the homicide confused and inconsistent.

Ultimately, with no hard proof, the case was thrown out, and Arnold was never retried. In the years to come, new evidence and leads would surface only to grow cold again leaving Brown’s case unsolved.

Lawson lays out the facts in chronological order and presents only the information that the police knew at any given time, building suspense. This perspective allows readers to draw their own conclusions as the story unfolds and offers the opportunity to explore many possibilities regarding the murder. He includes photographs taken at the scene of the crime as well as diagrams of Transylvania’s campus. By doing so, Lawson puts the reader in the role of detective, heightening the intensity and demonstrating the pressure police officials were under to solve the crime.

Lawson’s personal recollections about the events of Brown’s case evoke the frustration and profound sadness at the loss of such a young woman. Through careful recreation of the murder, subsequent investigations and criminal trial, Lawson places the reader front and center to the events that play out from 1961-1966. Police have refused to give up on the case despite the large passage of time, and new evidence continues to come to light periodically (most recently in 2010). None of these leads have ever panned out, but as long as Brown’s case is open, police will continue to look for her killer.

Robert G. Lawson has been a law professor for 50 years at UK, where he served twice as a dean of the College of Law. He is the author of Lawson offers as complete an account as “The Kentucky Evidence Law Handbook” and possible on a unique murder and bizarre trial “Beverly Hills: The Anatomy of a Nightclub that engrossed Kentuckians across the state. Fire.”

He also demonstrates how complex the law can be and how thoroughly lawyers, attorneys University Press of Kentucky is the scholarly and police are willing to dig to get to the truth publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, of a matter, even for a man who confessed to representing a consortium that includes all of the state universities, five private colleges, and two a brutal murder. historical societies. The press’ editorial program Despite his confession, Arnold was advised focuses on the humanities and the social sciences. to enter a plea of not guilty until sufficient Offices for the administrative, editorial, production evidence could prove otherwise. Bystanders and marketing departments of the press are found packed the courtroom daily, eagerly awaiting at UK, which provides financial support toward a guilty sentence — to no avail. Witnesses the operating expenses of the publishing operation were unable to produce concrete evidence through the UK Libraries.

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CLASS NOTES 2010’s

Alison Zeitlin (2017) joined the Business & Finance Service Group of Stites & Harbison, PLLC. Sarah T. Laren (2013) joined the Lexington office of Littler as an associate.

Jason Woodall (2012) joined Middleton Reutlinger as an associate in the Business Law Group.

2000’s

Tiffany J. Williams (2009) was named the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Enrollment Management of the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Andrew P. Ballard (2003) was elected Judge of the Lawrence County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas on November 8, 2016.

Mindy Sunderland (2003) was named managing director of Morgan & Pottinger’s Louisville office. Sunderland will be the first woman to serve as managing director since the firm was founded in Louisville in 1974.

Shawn D. Chapman (2002) received a 2017 Kentucky History Publication Award from the Kentucky Historical Society for his article, Removing Recalcitrant County Clerks in Kentucky. This article was published in Volume 105, Issue 2 of the Kentucky Law Journal.

Gwen R. Pinson (2000) was named the Kentucky Public Service Commission’s executive director.

1990’s

Daniel P. Murphy, Jr. (1998) received the Torch of Excellence Award for 2017. The award recognizes deserving UK African American alumni, faculty, and staff who exemplify the passion and courage exhibited by Lyman T. Johnson as he led the racial desegregation efforts at UK more than 60 years ago.

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Karla McGrath (1996), Executive Director of the Queen’s Law Clinics in Ontario, received the Ban Righ Foundation Mentorship Award, which recognizes a Queen’s faculty member who has inspired and supported women in achieving their goals.

1980’s

Justice Laurance B. VanMeter (1983) was elected to the Kentucky Supreme Court in November 2016. Upon taking office, he became just the third justice to have served at all four levels of Kentucky’s unified court system: District Court, Circuit Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court, and the first UK Law alum to have done so.

Bill Geisen (1982), Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney, was elected to the Board of Construction Financial Management Association Greater Cincinnati Chapter.

1970’s

Mark Bryant (1973) was elected Vice Chair of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.

Bryant has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2012.

He is founder and managing partner of the Bryant Law Center in Paducah, Kentucky.

Continuing Legal Education Upcoming Programs MARCH 22 & 23, 2018 14th Biennial Consumer Bankruptcy Law Conference Marriott Griffin Gate Resort Lexington, Kentucky APRIL 12 & 13, 2018 21st Biennial Workers’ Compensation Institute Marriott Griffin Gate Resort Lexington, Kentucky APRIL 25, 2018 21st Biennial Family Law Institute Four Points Sheraton Hotel Lexington, Kentucky MAY 2 & 3, 2018 33rd Annual National Conference on Equine Law Keeneland Racecourse Lexington, Kentucky MAY 18, 2018 Cheap & Easy CLE Gatton College of B&E Lexington, Kentucky JUNE 7 & 8, 2018 16th Biennial Employment Law Institute Marriott Griffin Gate Resort Lexington, Kentucky JUNE 28 & 29, 2018 Last Chance Video CLE Gatton College of B&E Lexington, Kentucky

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