P R A C T I C E L AW. P R O M O T E J U S T I C E . C H A N G E L I V E S .

Y EA R IN R E VI EW

2016-2017
 MESSAGE
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FROM THE DEAN

A
cademic year 2016-2017 was a banner year for UDC Law. As a
result of a generous gift from our long-time Foundation Board
member and supporter, Jack H. Olender, we were able to great-
ly expand the capacity of both our Immigration and Human Rights
Clinic and Legislation Clinic with the addition of two new professors,
Lindsay Harris and Marcy Karin. We are already seeing great results in
the breadth and depth of the legal services and academic training both
clinics provide. In addition, our long-time professor and former Aca-
demic Dean, Laurie Morin, has joined the Legislation Clinic to launch
the new Gender Justice Project.
2016-2017 also saw UDC Law successfully complete its seven-year Amer-
ican Bar Association sabbatical accreditation review, increase job place-
ment for graduates within 10 months of graduation by 10% to reach the
national average of 87%, and place 16 graduates in clerkships as part of
our new judicial clerkship initiative. Our US News & World Report rankings
improved to 6th (up from 10th) for clinical programs and 7th (up from 18th)
for diverse student body. Our hardworking students and faculty continued to
provide more than 100,000 hours of legal services to the District of Colum-
bias most vulnerable residents again this year.
On June 1st, UDC Law hosted its first-ever gala, bringing together former
Attorney General Eric Holder and Mayor Muriel Bowser, along with 300
guests from the bench and bar, to honor Leslie T. Thornton of Washing-
ton Gas and Judge William C. Pryor of the DC Court of Appeals. The
event raised more than $400,000 which, with the DC Council match, will
significantly increase support of scholarships and summer public in-
terest fellowships for our extraordinary students. Our community also
weathered what was a difficult presidential election for many. Short-
ly after the election, Senator Cory Booker provided an inspirational
speech at our annual Rauh Lecture and issued a call to action. Our
community was out in force with the Womens March the day after the
inauguration and participated avidly in town meetings, the DC Democ-
racy During the Time of Trump Symposium and countless other activ-
ities designed to move our institution, our community, and our nation
forward in these difficult days.
I am proud to share with our friends some of UDC Laws achieve-
ments during the 2016-2017 academic year. I hope you will enjoy
perusing this book and feel the energy of our community at its best.
Very truly yours,

Katherine Shelley Broderick

Dean and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Chair of Social Justice
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

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 NATIONALLY
xxx
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RECOGNIZED

A+ Diversity Rankings
PreLaw Magazine (2017)

#1 Most Community Service Hours Per Student

PreLaw Magazine (2017)

#2 Most Chosen by Older Students

Princeton Review (2017)

#3 Best Environment for Minority Students

Princeton Review (2017)

#4 Most Diverse Faculty

Princeton Review (2017)

#6 Best Clinical Legal Training

US News & World Report Best Law Schools (2018)

#7 Government/Public Interest Job Placement Rate

National Law Journal (2016)

#7 Diversity
US News & World Report Best Law Schools (2018)

#8 Best Schools for Public Service

PreLaw Magazine (2016)

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 SUPPORTER HIGHLIGHT

JACK & LOVELL OLENDER FOUNDATION

FUNDS CLINIC EXPANSION

T
hanks to the extraordinary generosity of renowned
DC malpractice attorney Jack H. Olender, UDC Law
saw a significant expansion in the capacity of both its
Immigration and Human Rights Clinic and Legislation Clinic
to serve low-income people and the public interest last year.
As a result of the transformative, multiyear commitment
by the Jack and Lovell Olender Foundation, UDC Law has
added outstanding professors in two clinics and conferred
the title of Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Law
upon Prof. Marcy Karin, director of the Legislation Clinic,
and Prof. Kristina Campbell, co-director of the Immigration
and Human Rights Clinic. Both clinics have since successfully
expanded the breadth and depth of their legal services and
training and opportunities offered to our students.
Pictured, left to right: Kristina Campbell, Jack Olender, Lindsay Harris.
Mr. Olenders support for the School has been more than merely Professor Kristina Campbell is a Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Law and
financial over the years. In addition to previously serving on the the Co-Director of the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. One of the newly
University of the District of Columbias Board of Trustees, Mr. funded professors, Assistant Professor Lindsay Harris, co-directs the Clinic with
Professor Campbell.
Olender has devoted decades of service on the DC School of
Law Foundations Board and, for many years, hosted Board meetings at his law firm, Jack H. Olender & Associates. In addition, Mr. Olender hosts
an annual gala to recognize and celebrate unsung heroes in the law and others who have given their time and talent to making the world a better
place. At the gala every year, Mr. Olender invites six UDC Law students to be honored for their outstanding clinical service. Mr. Olender has also
placed his faith in UDC Laws legal education; two UDC Law alumni, attorneys Lesley Zork (88) and Joshua Basile (13) currently work for his
elite law firm. UDC Law is grateful for the steadfast and most generous support of Mr. Jack Olender and the Jack and Lovell Olender Foundation.

Associate Professor Marcy Karin (seated front, center), the Jack and Lovell Olender Director of the Legislation Clinic, is the second newly funded
professor. Professor Karin will be ably assisted by another outstanding young lawyer, Clinical Instructor Monica Bhattacharya (seated front, right). In
addition, Professor Laurie Morin (seated, front left) directs the schools new Gender Justice Project in collaboration with the Legislation Clinic. Pictured
here with students at a US House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee Meeting.

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 FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

JOHN BRITTAIN received the 2017 Gertrude E. Rush Award from the National Bar Association in April. Prof. Brittain is currently writing a book on
his lifetime of legal work to seek equal educational opportunity for all Americans. The book is designed for a general audience but will also contain
legal concepts, scholarly analysis, and suggested remedies to problems wrestled with over his four decades of legal advocacy.

DEAN SHELLEY BRODERICK was honored with the 2016 Education Leadership Award presented by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Dean
Broderick also earned the National Bar Associations 2017 Heman Sweatt Award.
KRISTINA CAMPBELL was chosen as a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and she wrote
an article on Mexicos role in policing the southern border of the US and its role in enforcing its own deportation laws to benefit ours. Earlier this year, Prof.
Campbells article Operation Sojourner: The Government Infiltration of the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s and its Legacy on the Modern Central
American Refugee Crisis was published by the University of Saint Thomas Law Journal.

WADE HENDERSON received the prestigious 2017 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on
Civil and Human Rights. Prof. Hendersons keynote from UDC Laws symposium DC Democracy During the Time of Trump: 51 and 45 will be
published in an upcoming issue of the 2017 UDC Law Review.

FAITH MULLENS work on the Community Listening Project was recognized by the Neighborhood Legal Services Program in 2016. Prof. Mullens
recent scholarly research has focused on how states can better insulate low-wage workers from the catastrophic consequences of wage garnishments
while at the same time providing a mechanism for the payment of judgments.

JOE TULMAN was awarded the 2017 Justice Potter Stewart Award by the Council for Court Excellence. Last year, Prof. Tulman co-authored a book
chapter A Systems Theory Analysis for Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Using Disability Rights Laws to Keep Children in Schools and out of
Courts, Jails, and Prisons. He is currently working on three projects: The Matrix Project: Applying 504 and ADA to Court-ordered Evaluations and
Blocking the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Young Adults, Like Children, Are Different, and Training, Mentoring, and Mobilizing Court-Appointed
Delinquency and Child Welfare Attorneys.

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 FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

LASHANDA ADAMS wrote an article Backward Progress Toward Reinstating Parental

Rights, which will be published in the next issue of the New York University School of Law
Review of Law and Social Change.

NORRINDA BROWN HAYATS article, Accommodating Bias in the Sharing Economy,
was accepted for publication by the Brooklyn Law Review. This summer, she worked on
Residential Race Discrimination as Economic Justice, which examines biases against
Section 8 and voucher housing programs. Prof. Hayat was the keynote speaker for the
Arkansas Fair Housing Commission during Fair Housing Month.
EDGAR CAHN has two publications accepted for 2018: Clinical Legal Education: Where
Next?: Clients as CoProducers of System Change (co-author Christine Gray) in Clinical Legal
Education Review and Unmet Needs and Unused Capacities: Time Banking as a Solution (co-
author Neva R. Goodwin) in Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies. Prof. Cahn appeared
on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour in July to defend the Legal Services Corporation.

RAFAEL COX ALOMAR had two articles accepted for publication during the last
academic year; Investment Treaty Arbitration in Cuba appeared in the University of
Miami Law Review and the second, Cubas Constitutional Moment, was published by
the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy of the University of Texas at Austin. He is
also at work on his third book, The Puerto Rico Constitution, which will be published by the
Oxford University Press. In June, Prof. Cox Alomar spoke on the topic of U.S. and E.U.

Territories at the Institut des Amriques in Paris.
ANDREW FERGUSONS book, The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the
Future of Law Enforcement, was recently published by NYU Press. Over the last year, Prof.
Ferguson wrote five law review articles: The Smart Fourth Amendment (Cornell Law
Review); The Miranda App: Metaphor and Machine (co-author Richard Leo) (Boston
University Law Review); Policing Predictive Policing (Washington University Law Review);
Policing Criminal Justice Data (co-author Wayne Logan) (Minnesota Law Review); and
Predictive Prosecution (Wake Forest Law Review). He also coauthored an amicus brief
to the Supreme Court on behalf of 42 law professors in Carpenter v. US. His many media
appearances included one on WBAL in July on the topic of surveillance technologies
utilized by Baltimore police.

MATT FRAIDIN published two articles this past year. The Importance of Family
Defense, featured in The Harbinger, was derived from the adapted text of his keynote
address at the symposium marking the 25th anniversary of the NYU Law School Family
Defense Clinic, held in April 2016. The second article Reimagining Family Defense was
published by the City University of New York Law Review.
New UDC Law professor TIANNA GIBBS is examining the access to justice issues that
arise in the current voluntary acknowledgement of paternity process, with a focus on the
process in DC. Her article will outline proposed reforms that enhance due process in
areas such as notice and the right to be heard.
MELISSA HALE presented The Lost Art of Professionalism: How Basic Professional
Skills Can Shape Academic Success with Rebecca Flanagan at the AASE conference in
Fort Worth, Texas, in May. Prof. Hales article on that presentation will be published in

an upcoming issue of The Learning Curve.
LINDSAY HARRIS wrote Learning in Baby Jail: Lessons from Law Student
Engagement in Family Detention Centers which explores the proliferation of law
school service learning trips, clinical programs, and spring break projects involving
students working within family detention centers. Prof. Harris published The One-
Year Bar to Asylum in the Age of the Immigration Court Backlog in the Wisconsin Law
Review in 2017 and From Surviving to Thriving? An Investigation of Asylee Integration
in the United States in 2016 in the NYU Review of Law & Social Change.
New Director of Academic Success TWINETTE JOHNSON is looking forward to
the release of the co-authored textbook Advanced Legal Analysis and Strategies, due out
in 2018 from Wolters Kluwer Law Publishers. Prof. Johnsons article Reimagining
Accountability: A Move Toward Re-Entrenching the Higher Education Act will appear
in the University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy.

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 RETIREMENT
HELEN FRAZER served as Director
of Public Outreach under three library
directors and was named Associate Dean
for the law library in 2015. During her
19 years in the law library, Dean Frazer
built a broad array of library services and
was well known for responding positively
and effectively to the faculty, student and
community needs.
During his 10 years as founding
Dean, BILL ROBINSON led successful efforts to secure American Bar Association
accreditation, first at the DC School of Law and later at the UDC School of Law. For
29 years, Dean Robinson was a leader, mentor, and friend to faculty and staff and an
inspirational teacher to our students.

MARCY KARIN published Other than Honorable Discrimination in the Case Western
Law Review and wrote Rights of National Guard and Reserve Members Under the
Uniformed Services Employment Rights and Reemployment Act (USERRA) (co-
author Brian Clauss), a chapter in Servicemember and Veterans Rights. Prof. Karin has been
at work on her new article Protecting Military Association at Work which examines
the needs of those who give care to veterans and workplace discrimination against them.
The article proposes a new protection: antidiscrimination coverage on the basis of
military association.

PHIL LEE served as a panelist at the University of Virginia School of Laws Center
for the Study of Race and Law conference in July. Prof. Lee spent the summer
researching and writing an article titled A Wall of Hate: Eminent Domain and Interest-
Convergence. His article Student Protests and Academic Freedom in an Age of
#BlackLivesMatter will be published this fall in the Ohio State Law Journal.

JACQUELINE LAINEZ FLANAGANS article Holding U.S. Corporations Accountable:
The Convergence of U.S. International Tax Policy and International Human Rights will
appear in the Pepperdine Law Review. This summer, Prof. Lainez Flanagan wrote Taxing
Corporate Behavior, and The Hidden Tax Benefits of Undocumented Immigrant Labor.
She is also working on a book chapter, Securing Relief from Joint and Several Liability
for the 7th Edition of Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS, set to be published later
this year by the ABA. Prof. Lainez Flanagan was interviewed on PGTVOnline in March on
the topic of funds paid into Social Security by undocumented workers.

HANNAH LIEBERMAN and LOUISE HOWELLS (right) contributed to Teaching and
Practicing Community Development Poverty Law: Lawyers and Clients as Trusted
Neighborhood Problem Solvers with co-authors Alicia Alvarez and Susan Bennett,
published in the Clinical Law Review earlier this year.
Dean Lieberman also published Uncivil Procedures: How State Court Proceedings
Perpetuate Inequality in the Yale Law & Policy Review in 2016 and spoke on Achieving
Civil Justice for All: Recommendations, Next Steps, and the Role of Bar Leaders at the
ABA Midyear Meeting in March.

LAURIE MORIN and Legislation Clinic Fellow Monica Bhattacharya (right) organized a
panel for the National Organization for Women 2017 Forward Feminism Conference held
in July. Prof. Morin has been at work on research for Beyond Formal Gender Equality:
Embracing a Human Rights Framework to Ensure Equal Outcomes for Women.

New UDC Law professor ETIENNE TOUSSAINTS research project explores the
development of the Social Impact Bond, an innovative financial tool that facilitates unique

public-private partnerships by leveraging investment capital to finance social programs.

SALEEMA SNOW focused her attention this summer on writing Reclaiming Faith
in Public Space, which addressed how a distorted narrative of religion has created a
culture that positions religion against social justice and violates the Equal Protection
Clause in the name of protecting us from terrorism. Prof. Snow also completed and
submitted for publication to the Drexel Law Review From the Dark Tower: Unbridled
Civil Asset Forfeiture. Among Prof. Snows many engagements was an anti-Muslim

bullying discussion she facilitated on C-SPAN in December 2016.

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UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
 STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Natasha Bennett (16) received the Olender Foundation Award winners. Front, from left: Associate Dean Alex Vasquex (19) was recognized by Veterans
Student Humanitarian & Civic Engage- Annamaria Steward, Jessica JJ Galvan, Erika Cummins, Dean for American Ideals for his exceptional leader-
ment Award (Graduate & Professional Shelley Broderick. Back, from left: Thomas F. Matthews IV, Perfecta ship (Jul. 17).
Degree) on UDC Founders Day (2017). Baffer, Jessica Christy, Michael Wilk (Dec. 16).

Jonathan Newton (17) was awarded the 2017 Deans Cup recipients, recognized for outstanding service to UDC Education advocacy by Stacey Eunnae (left,
Richard Semsker Prize for Civil Rights at Law. From left: Tijuhna TJ Green, Nana Yankah, Aysha Iqbal, Jessica 17) and Nicole Tuchinda (right, 17) led to a
graduation. Christy, Shakira Hansley, Jonathan Newton. Washington Post front page expose (Jul. 17).

Tijuana Barnes (19) was elected Vice Chair Class of 2017 Deans Fellows with Prof. Wade Henderson. In alphabetical order: Brian Burkett, Maria Castro, Jessica
for Law Student Division of ABA. Christy, Kathy Davis, Jessica Galvan, Nathaniel Goodman-Johnson, Tijuhna Green, Jessica Guinyard, Jason Imbiano, Aysha
Iqbal, Polina Ivko, Angele Nsenga, Ben Ofori, Charlotte Resing, Brian Spiegel, Brian Stubits, and Michael Wakefield

70%
MEET OUR INCOMING STUDENTS

87
54 Full-Time / 33 Part-Time 70% Students of Color
(35% African American, 30% Caucasian, 14% Asian,
1L JD 60 Women / 27 Men
24 Graduate Degrees /1 PhD Degree
10% Latino, 11% 2 or more races indicated)

Students 11 Veterans / Active Duty Military

70% receiving at least a partial scholarship

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 SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS

2016-2017 PLACEMENTS
AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly
Advocates for Justice and Education (AJE)
Asylum Access - Ecuador
Catholic Charities Legal Immigration Network
Catholic Charities of Baltimore,
Esperanza Center
DC Chamber of Commerce
DC Council, Office of Councilmember David
Grosso and the Committee on Education Keli Cochran (19) worked at The Judge Alexan- LaNise Salley (center, 19) worked so well at
der Williams, Jr. Center for Education, Justice Tzedek DC during the summer that she was
DC Council, Office of Councilmember Robert and Ethics (Rauh Fellowship). invited to stay on as a fellow this fall (Equal
White, Jr. Justice America Fellowship).
DC Law Students in Court/
UDC Law Criminal Law Clinic
DC Mayors Office on African American Affairs
DC Office of the Attorney General
DC Office of Human Rights
DC Office of Planning
DC Public Defender Service
DC Public Defender Service, Parole Division
DC Superior Court, Chambers of Judge Todd
Edelman
DC Superior Court, Chambers of Judge Makeda Crane (19) worked in the DC Office Theodore Wilhite (second from left, 19) worked
Milton Lee of Human Rights (Hadley Fellowship). in the DC Office of Planning and with DC At-Large
Councilmember Robert White, Jr. (Rauh Fellowship).
DC Superior Court, Washington Bar
Association
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Office of Hearings and Appeals
Department of Justice, Office of Pardons
Department of Justice, US Attorneys Office
District Court of Montgomery County,
Chambers of Judge Zuberi Williams
The Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. Center for
Education, Justice and Ethics
Legal Aid Justice Center
Legal Aid of North Carolina
Maryland Office of the Public Defender The Asylum Access Ecuador staff posed Christian Cooper (19) Tracey Jackson (18)
for a group shot with Heather Kryzak played at the DC Chamber interned with Legal Aid
State of Alaska - Kenai District Attorneys (center, 19) (Rauh Fellowship). of Commerce annual charity of North Carolina (Rauh
Office golf tournament (Rauh Fellowship).
Tzedek DC Fellowship).

UDC General Counsels Office

UDC Law Community Development Clinic
UDC Law Housing and Consumer Law Clinic
UDC Law Immigration and Human Rights
Clinic
US Court of Federal Claims, Office of Special
Masters
US District Court for the District of Columbia,
Chambers of Judge Emmett G. Sullivan
US District Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia, Chambers of Judge Gerald Bruce Lee
Keilah Roberts (19) in- Hamidullah Saahir (20) Amina Malik (left, 18) and Flor de Maria
terned with the Honor- was a Rauh summer Garay (right, 20) were awarded summer
able Zuberi B. Williams fellow through DC Law fellowships from the Peggy Browning Fund.
(Rauh Fellowship). Students in Court.

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 CLINIC HIGHLIGHTS AND NEW PROGRAMS
IMMIGRATION & HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC wins asylum for family fleeing gang violence. From left: Manuel, Michael Wilk
(17), Jason Barros (18), client Josie, Seth Brown (18), Prof. Lindsay Harris (Apr. 17).
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. thanked Prof. Faith Mullens GENERAL PRACTICE CLINIC
and students for their advocacy in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in mat-
ters related to guardianships for patients at the Washington DC VA Medical Center.
The LOW INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC undertook representation for an elderly, disabled cou-
ple in 2014 who had incurred $7,000 in tax debt. In Spring 2017, Aftan Bryant (18), finalized
an Offer in Compromise with IRS Appeals that will settle the couples case for a few hundred
dollars.
10
An asylum victory by IMMIGRATION &
HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC. From left: Prof.
Kristina Campbell, Liana Montecinos (18),
Jarlens Princilis (18) (Jun. 17).
The GENERAL PRACTICE CLINIC is pictured at a Supreme Court lecture. The
Clinic assisted in several cases in 2016-2017, including a Social Security benefits
case for a disabled man and his court-appointed guardian and a custody case
for a disabled father.
The JUVENILE & SPECIAL EDUCATION CLINIC works to break the
school-to-prison pipeline. In the Spring, students represented a 9th
grade student (not pictured) with a disability whose school sought a 45-day
(long term) suspension, alleging he had attacked a teacher. After finding
the story was not as simple as it seemed, the students negotiated a plan to
help the client catch up on missed work to stay on track.
2016-2017 YEAR IN REVIEW
The LEGISLATION CLINIC represented BRAWS (Bringing Resources to Aid Womens
Shelters) and testified before the DC Council in support of the Feminine Hygiene and
Diapers Sales Tax Exemption Amendment Act of 2016.
Students enrolled in the CRIMINAL LAW CLINIC participated in DC Law Students in Courts
Criminal Division to represent defendants in misdemeanor cases in the DC Superior Court.
UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
The HOUSING & CONSUMER LAW CLINIC fights for safe and affordable housing
for vulnerable DC residents. Students fought on behalf of residents of a local
nursing home. Despite the judge ruling against the residents in this particular case,
students gained valuable experience and were able to provide written testimony to
support legislation to preserve affordable housing for older DC residents.
During the 2016-17 academic year, the COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLINIC
assisted three housing cooperatives that provide homes to 57 families with struc-
turing their loans and resolving other financial challenges. Students also helped a
tenant association acquire and renovate 14 units of slum rental housing property
and convert it to a cooperative for the buildings residents.
At the GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
(GAP) CLINIC, students work to protect government
and corporate whistleblowers who expose illegality,
waste, fraud and abuse against retaliation. Over the
last academic year, they worked on case topics in-
cluding cover-ups of heroin and cocaine smuggling at
DEA, fatal negligence at the Department of Veterans
Affairs, abandoning of the National Environmental
Policy Act for off-shore oil drilling, nuclear safety
breakdowns, and occupational threats from uncon-
trolled robots. Recently, our students investigative
work produced over two dozen statements, sparking
congressional oversight, and is likely to result in a
new, independent investigation and an outside audit
of the government program where the whistleblowing
and subsequent cover-up effort occurred. Pictured
left: GAP Clinic Director Tom Devine (80) speaking at
a Congressional Committee hearing.
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 EXPERIENTIAL
OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND CLINIC
In 2007, under the leadership of Professors Will McLain, Susan Waysdorf and Laurie Morin, UDC Law embarked on its first service
learning trip to New Orleans, Louisiana, to provide legal services and recovery aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Prof. Ways-
dorf has led this effort ever since, working with members of the faculty, staff, and students to benefit hard hit communities. In 2016-
2017, students traveled to Mississippi and Karnes City, Texas.

MISSISSIPPI
Over spring break 2017, students traveled to Mississippi to
dive into the states complex and troubling civil rights history.
The visit coincided
with an inspiring
unionizing rally of
Nissan workers
where students
heard speakers,
including Senator
Bernie Sanders, While serving in Mississippi, students worked with the Mississippi Center
talk about how for Justice (MCJ), a highly strategic, non-profit, public interest law firm that
combines direct services and systems reform focused on racial justice and anti-
Jessica Christy (17) and Senator Bernie economic rights are poverty advocacy.
Sanders at the Nissan rally in Mississippi. civil rights.

KARNES CITY, TEXAS

Nine students, Professor Melissa Hale
and Professor Kristina Campbell,
Co-Director of the Immigration &
Human Rights Clinic, traveled to the
Family Detention Center in Karnes City,
Texas, over spring break. The UDC
team spent their vacation helping de-
tained women and their children obtain
release from detention while they await
a hearing on their petition for asylum.

CUBA
Since Dean Broderick and Professor
Rafael Cox Alomar forged the first-ever
MOU between a US law school and the
University of Havana in 2015, UDC Law
and the University of Havana have been
engaging in an academic exchange.

Over spring break, twelve UDC Law

students and four professors traveled to
Havana, Cuba, for a one-week exchange
program. The centerpiece of the program was three days of thought-provoking instructions at the University of
Havana.

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 CAREER DEVELOPMENT

CLASS OF 2016 PLACEMENTS JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS

BY JOB CATEGORY

15%
Law Firms
35% 8% Education
Business
& Industry

17%
Judicial

13% Clerkships

Government 12% Public

Interest

OVERALL % OF GRADUATES EMPLOYED

10 MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION
100
87%
National
Average 80 77%
87% 69%
60 Top row: Qualana Alli, Johan Fatemi, Nicole
Goodman. Second row: Candace Holmes, Karen
Hopkins, Melanie Jones. Third row: Matt Kaplan,
Anthony Marsh, Troy Knight. Fourth row: Sebastian
Monzon Rueda, Alberto Ortiz, Kenrick Roberts.
40 Bottom row: Ben Voight, Tonya Wood.

DEPARTMENT OF
20 JUSTICE HONORS

0
Class Class Class
of 2014 of 2015 of 2016

WITH A 10% INCREASE IN PLACEMENTS IN

2016, UDC LAW HAS REACHED THE NATIONAL
AVERAGE, ONE YEAR AHEAD OF OUR GOAL. Alberto Ortiz Matt Kaplan

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UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
 ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS
MICHELE MIRMAN (76) became the 58th
President of the Brooklyn, NY Womens Bar
Association.
JONATHAN M. SMITH (84) was named the
2017 recipient of the DC Bar William J.
Brennan Jr. Award.
KAREN NEWTON COLE (87) assumed the
Directorship of DCs Neighborhood Legal
Services Program.
14
NINA GINSBERG (78) became First Vice-
President of the National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).
JOE LIBERTELLI (85) was awarded the Paul
Phillips Cooke Lifetime Achievement Award
on UDC Founders Day 2017. With UDC
President Ron Mason (right).
PROF. STEPHEN MERCER (94) discussed
DNA collection by police on Vice News.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
elevated NY State Supreme Court judges
LINDA J. CHRISTOPHER (80) and ANIL C.
SINGH (86) to the State Supreme Court
Appellate Division.
LESLEY ANN FRIEDLAND (85) received the
New York City Bars Kathryn A. McDonald
Award, recognizing Excellence in Service to
Family Court.
ROCHANDA HILIGH-THOMAS (96) received
the Jerrold Scoutt Prize from the DC Bar
Foundation and assumed the leadership of
the Advocates for Justice and Education.
2016-2017 YEAR IN REVIEW
 LISABRITT SOLSKY (96), Executive Director
of Well Sense Health Plan of Manchester,
NH, was named a Top Woman Leader by
Business NH Magazine.
TYRONA DEWITT (left, 02) was elevated to
DC Superior Court magistrate judge, joining
fellow alum Shana Frost Matini (96). Pictured
here with Dean Broderick (center) and Hon.
Judith Bartnoff (right), for whom DeWitt
clerked in the DC Superior Court.
CARAGH FAY (05) and her father, Tom Fay,
received the American Association for Justice
Presidents Award for their perseverance in
the pursuit of justice for victims of foreign
state-sponsored terrorism.

JACKIE SMITH (09) was elected Circuit KERI NASH (center, 09) started Brown Bag Assembly Parties to provide brown bag lunches to local
Court Clerk in a special election in Prince homeless population.
William County, Virginia.

EVAN MASCAGNI (11) published an article in Food Matters about his documentary film, Circle ABENA MCALLISTER (13) was interviewed on
of Poison, that chronicles how pesticides banned in the US are sold overseas by US companies WJLA-TVs Good Morning Washington as
spokesperson for her organization Women of
and then find their way back to US consumers. Action Charles County (WOACC) in response to
the recent reports of children being molested by
a now-former public school employee.

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UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
 EVENTS

Senator Cory Booker delivered an energetic 24th Book Event and signing with Wil Haygood Fatima Goss Graves, CEO and President of the
Annual Rauh Lecture and posed for a selfie with on Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the National Womens Law Center, spoke at UDC
Professors Melissa Hale and John Brittain (Nov. 16). Supreme Court Nomination that Changed Law on the agenda for womens rights during
America (Nov. 16). the Trump Administration (Feb. 17).

LLP

Symposium: DC Democracy During
the Time of Trump: 51 and 45
presented by the UDC Law Review
(Apr. 17).
Bo Shuff (Executive Director, DC Vote), Jon Bouker (Chair, DC Shirley Ann Higuchi, Chair of Heart
Appleseed; Partner, Arent Fox LLP), Mary Cheh (DC Councilmember, Mountain Wyoming Foundation,
Ward 3), Dean Broderick, Eugene Kinlow (Director of Federal and and Professor Phil Lee spoke about
Regional Affairs, Executive Office of the Mayor), and Walter Smith the effect of Japanese American
(Executive Director, DC Appleseed) at UDC Law Symposium DC internment at Japanese Internment:
Democracy During the Time of Trump: 51 and 45 (Apr. 17) . Past or Prologue (Jan. 17).

Prof. Saleema Snow, Associate Dean Hannah Margarita Varela (20) organized an event Professor Susan Waysdorf spoke at a panel on
Lieberman, and Prof. Norrinda Brown Hayat addressed on Puerto Ricos economy (Jul. 17). surveillance, national security, and privacy law issues
post-election impact on UDC Law clients (Dec. 16). (Feb. 17).

Professor Andrew Ferguson (right) and members of the Free Minds Book Board of Ethics and Government Accountability Symposium (Oct. 16).
Club in his Criminal Justice Seminar.

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 Hon. Robert L. Wilkins, Hon. Harry T. Edwards, and Hon.
Stephen F. Williams, all of the US Court of Appeals for The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland visited UDC
the DC Circuit visited UDC Law (Oct. 16). Law (Oct. 16).

New DC Court of Appeals Chief Judge Anna

Blackburne-Rigsby (left, adjunct professor at UDC) and
former Chief Judge Annice Wagner (right) spoke at UDC
during Womens History Month (Mar. 17).

UDC Law alumni, students, faculty, and staff joined the Womens March (Jan. 17).

UDC Law hosted Chasing Liberty Family Detention

Symposium, a day-long conference on the detention of
Central American Families in the United States (Feb. 17).

Author Medea Benjamin discussed and signed Jim Sandman, President of Legal Services
David Cole spoke at the Regional Clinician Summit, her new book, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind Corporation, spoke to students and their
organized by Hannah Lieberman, Associate Dean of the U.S.- Saudi Connection. Pictured here with guests at commencement (May 17).
Experiential and Clinical Programs (Feb. 17). journalist Chris Hedges (Sept. 16).

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UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
 1ST ANNUAL UDC LAW GALA

U
DC Laws first-ever Gala showcased our school DCs only public law school and its impact on the community.
300 guests attended the event on June 1, 2017, to celebrate UDC Law and to honor two outstanding attorneys who
embody the schools missions of public interest and diversity. The Gala was a fundraiser, and with the help of 41
prominent individuals on the Gala Steering Committee, the event successfully raised more than $400,000 for the schools
Summer Public Interest Fellowship Program and Scholarship Funds.

From left: Prof. Wade Henderson, Dean

Dean Broderick and alum James King (center,
12) praised the Honorable William C. Pryor,
Senior Judge, DC Court of Appeals and
beloved UDC Law professor for 29 years, for
inspiring confidence in students like King.
Broderick, Former AG Eric Holder.
Dean Broderick and Former Attorney General
Eric Holder (right) honored Leslie Thornton,
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary of Washington Gas, for her
storied career and her devotion to serving those
less fortunate.

Law student John Blake (18) described his
Housing Clinic work on behalf of tenants
whose right to organize and right to adequate
notice of eviction had been routinely violated.
Referencing his own upbringing in public
housing, he challenged those in attendance to
work with the UDC Law to end such abuses.
Carmen Jones (18), who participated in
the spring 2017 Service Learning Program,
powerfully described an intense interaction
she had with a young man named Rossell at a
family detention center in Karnes, Texas, that
deepened her commitment to serve others.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser presented
appreciation plaques to each honoree. She
extolled the virtues and importance of UDC
Law, describing how students and graduates
help build the fabric of the DC Community.

Dean Broderick announced that longtime supporter, DC developer and philanthropist, Michele Hagans, From left: Leslie Thornton, Dean Broderick,
pledged $50,000 to fund four additional UDC Law scholarships, in honor of Dean Broderick. Ms. Ward 3 DC Councilmember Mary Cheh.
Hagans and Dean Broderick agreed to name one scholarship in honor of founding Dean, Bill Robinson.

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 Thank you!!!
following supporters for making the achievements of our past academic
year possible. (donations between January 1, 2016 and July 31, 2017)
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
Benjamin Abellera
Joyce Aceves-Amaya (2010)
Damon Adams (2008)
LaShanda Adams
Melinda Agee (1977)
Joanna Aguilar (1987)
Sarah Alcorn (2010)
Azmat & Jahanara Ali
James Alissi (1994)
Edward G. Allen
Irwin Altschuler
Janice S. Rodnick
Ambrose (1981)
Anonymous
Donald Aplin (1987)
Joseph Ardito (2016)
Adam Arnold (2014)
Mary Ellen Arnold (1993)
Margot Aronson Levin
Rudy Arredondo
Janet Aspen Polizzotto (1983)
Brandon Atwater (2010)
Amanda Aubrey (2013)
Devin Baer (2008)
Regan Bailey (1994)
& James Sugarman (1994)
Orrin Baird (1977)
A. Cornelius Baker
Morris J. Baller
& Christine Brigagliano
Scott Barash
Mary L. Barcella
Hon. Michael Barnes
Hon. Shirley Barnes
Patricia Barone (1977)
Johnnie Barton (1991)
Lezli Baskerville
Joyce Stanley Batipps (1996)
Maile Huvar Bay (1978)
Julian Bellenghi (1981)
Rachel Bellis (1982) & Harvey
Holtzman (1982)
Hon. James A. Belson
Mitchell Berger (1986)
Paul R. Berger (1982)
& Janice L. Lower
Anthony Bisceglie (1978)
James D. Bishop
Camille Blake Fall (1997)
Beryl Blaustone (1975)
Stephen Block
DC OAG Alumni, from left: Shana Frost Matini (96), Mary Wilson (81), Rick Love (80),
DC AG Karl Racine, Scott Peary (08), Tyrona DeWitt (02), Pegah Eftekhari (14), and
Tracey Ballard Richardson (02).
UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
UDC Law would like to thank the
Susanne Blume (1987)
Warren U. Bolden (1988)
Neda Bolourian (2010)
Marc Borbely (2008)
Charles Both
Gina Botti (2007)
Jon S. Bouker
Michael D. Bowers (2010)
Hon. Diane M. Brenneman
(1982)
John C. Brittain
Mary Brittingham (1980)
& David Plocher (1980)
Janis Broderick
Shelley Broderick (1982)
Matthew J. Bromeland (2006)
Deirdre Brown (2012)
James T. Brown
Sean Brown (2014)
Tamara Simmons Brown (2016)
Sarah Bullard (2003)
B. Bernei Burgunder
Arthur & Frisbieann Burnett
Neil Burns (1985)
Carol Burroughs
A. Lindsay Byrne (1982)
Anthony D. Cade (1997)
Dominique Cahn
Edgar S. Cahn
Catherine Campbell
Kristina Campbell
Jose Campos (2012)
Hon. Russell F. Canan (1976)
Jeffrey Cardone (2006)
Michael Edward Carrigan
(2014)
Joseph Carroll (2007)
Jack Casciato (2011)
Carol Cooper Chadsey (2014)
Megan Marie Challender
(2013)
Leah Chanin
Laura Charity
Hon. Mary M. Cheh
Vikram Surya Chiruvolu
Newton John Chu (1980)
Melissa Gail Cisco (1996)
Carole Clarke
Ty Cobb
Mark Coffey (1996)
Carol Cohen
Alumni reunion in Denver,
Gina Botti (07) and Dean
Broderick.
Debra R. Cohen
Fritzi Cohen
Jeffrey Cohn
David K. Colapinto (1988)
Lionel Collins, Jr.
Reuben B. Collins, II (1995)
Gilbert Thomas Collinson
(2005)
Nancy L. Combs (2008)
Richard Condit (1986)
Annemargaret Connolly
& Ken Frank
Christopher Connolly (2015)
Moses Cook
Tanya Asim Cooper (2012)
Karen Cordry (1977)
Chrysanthe A. Courniotes
(2015)
Felicia Couts (ne Tucker)
(1997)
Raymond Covington (1999)
Thomas More Cowperthwaite
(2007)
Megan Coyle (2012)
Elaine A. Crider
Thomas F. Cullen, Jr.
Beth Curtis
Kirk DAmico (1980)
Stephanie DAngelo Harris
(2007)
V. Nadine Daniel (1992)
Steven Daniels (1987)
Yvonne Davis-Smith (1992)
Emon Dawkins (1988)
Marshall Dayan (1986)
Judith Ferber (1975)
SUPPORTERS
BEGA Alumni, from left: Asia Stewart-Mitchell (15), Dean
Broderick, Ashley Crooks (14), and Darrin Sobin (92),
Chief Programs Officer, DC Bar
Pamela de Ocampo
Joseph De Simone (1985)
Caroline Smith De Waal (1985)
Suzanne DeFelice (2015)
Peter OB Dellinger (1981)
Lisa Pittman Dennis (1996)
Thomas M. Devine (1980)
David J. Dickinson
Justin & Katherine Dillon
Kathleen Dolan (1987)
& John F. Kennedy (1987)
Geno R. Donney (2012)
Karen Donovan
Susan Dorn (1985)
& Roman Lesiw (1983)
Sara Dorsch (1996)
Daniel K. Dorsey (1987)
John Curtis Dortch (1994)
Caroline Downey (1977)
James E. Drew
Gayle Marie Brown Driver
(1993)
R. Michael Duffy (1977)
& Jaqueline Guidry (1977)
Annette Duke (1984)
Susan Dunham (1982)
Amanda Dunlap (2008)
Renee Dupree
Ricardo Durham (1980)
James & Ellen Dyke
April Rashawn Dyson (2000)
William J. Earl
Stephen R. Early (1975)
Daniel & Toby Edelman
Peter B. Edelman
Christopher Edgington (2001)
Hon. Bert T. Edwards
Pegah Ebrahimi Eftekhari
(2014)
William Ehrlich, Jr. (1987)
Lee C. Eisinberg
Jenefer & Damon Ellingston
Elizabeth Elliot (1985)
Karen Engelhardt (1980)
Peter L. Ente (1985)
Ed Fagan (1977)
Johan Fatemi (2014, 2016
LLM)
Sara Fathi-Nejad (2010)
Thomas Fortune Fay
Edward Fegreus, Jr. (1980)
& Karen Greene (2002)
& Gary Altman Marci Greenstein (1981)
Andrew G. Ferguson
Ralph & Barbara Ferrara (1975)
Hon. John M. Ferren
Paul Fields (1975)
Samuel Fields (1983)
Margaret Ellen Fisher (1976)
Angela E. Fitzgerald (1985)
Jaunita Flessas (2014)
Dewight Flinch
Nancy C. Floyd
Julie Fortune (1985)
Alisha Foster
Robert Foster
& Brenda Cureton
Amanda Fox Perry (2015)
Bruce Comly French (1975)
Peter Friday (1987)
Lesley Friedland (1985)
Matthew Frumin
Maryellen Fullerton (1978)
Brenda Fulton
Gerald (Jerry) Gardner (1979)
Edward Garnett
Kateri Gasper (1983)
Henry Gassner (2004)
& Betty-Chia Karro (2008)
Gay Gellhorn
Savas Georgas (2015)
Leslie Gerwin (1975)
Konjit Getachew (1991)
Tarama Giles
Brian Gilmore (1992)
Joan Gilmore (1977)
Karin Gjording (1975)
Ronald Glancz
Greg Glaviano
Margaret Gleason (1982)
Sarah Goldberg (2017)
Daruss Golden (1985)
Leah Golshani (2005)
Richard W. Goodman
Norman Googel (1980)
Alex Gordon
& Samantha Mazo
Walter Gordon (1976)
Adrian Gottshall (2011)
Richard S. Granat
Michael Gray (2016)
Robert Green (2013)
Sally Greenberg
Hon. Henry Greene
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 Thank you!!!
xxx xxx UDC Law would like to thank the
following supporters for making the achievements of our past academic
SUPPORTERS
year possible. (donations between January 1, 2016 and July 31, 2017) (CONTINUED)

USDA Alumni, from left: Sheila Shepperd (94), Jeffrey Pietro (then
acting General Counsel for USDA), Daruss Golden (85), and Ali
Muhammed (92)
Seth Greenstein (1984)
Aysha Gregory (2012)
Nicole Griffin (1996)
Bernard S. Grimm (1983)
Hon. David Grosso
Brian Gruber (1997)
Anne Gustason (1996)
Joseph & Merna Guttentag
Lesley Guyton (1975)
Samad Hafezi (1992)
Michele V. Hagans
Vanessa Hagen (2009)
Melissa A. Hale
Hon. Betty Jean Hall (1976)
Robert Hall
Charles Hamilton (1982)
David J. Hampton (2015)
Sean Hanover (2008)
Keisha Hargo
Shiela Harmon
J. Marinda Harpole (1976)
Barbara Burns Harris (1995)
Dianne Selma Harris (1978)
Lindsay M. Harris & Brian Israel
Mary Harrison (1981)
Mick Harrison (1991)
Peter Hartman (1986)
Robin Harvey (1977)
Michael Hawkins (1991)
Elisabeth & Michael Healey (1976)
Christopher Hekimian (2013)
Wade Henderson
Hon. Kathryn Hens-Greco
(1985) & Sam Hens-Greco
(1985)
Pamela Herbert
Elizabeth Herman (1977)
Susan Herman (1981)
Ryan High (2006)
Rochanda Hiligh-Thomas
(1996)
Theresa Hillhouse (1979)
Timothy Hiskey (1996)
Aaron Holmes
Candace Holmes (2016)
Margaret Hoo-Ballade
Karen Hopkins (2016)
Carol Horwitz (1978)
Virginia Howard
Louise Howells & Sandy Ogilvy
James Hudson (1998)
Sharon Hunt
Ann Hunter (1987)
Judith Ingram (2004)
Hon. Diana M. Irizarry (1979)
Francesco Isgro (1982)
Samantha Jachion (2015)
Hon. Cynthia D. Jackson (1985)
Leta Jackson (2014)
Timothy & Lauretta Jenkins
Bradford Johnson (1984)
Mark Johnson (1980)
James E. Joiner (1975)
Christine L. Jones
Elizabeth & Stephen Jones
Katherine J. Jones (1985)
Juli M. Wyatt Jordan (1995)
Michelle Jordan
Holly Taggart Joseph (2002)
Marcia Jovine (1996)
Valerie Joyner
Emilie Junge (1980)
Matthew Kaplan (2016)
Daniel A. Katz (1994)
George Kendall (1979)
Bettie Kennedy (1992)
Ruth Kerr Jakoby
Armen Kharazian (2016)
Edward King (1982)
Arlene King-Berry (1986)
James Klimaski (1976)
& Katharyn Marks (1976)
Maury Knight (1975)
Paul L. Knight
Susanne Koffsky (1994)
Roy Kozupsky (1985)
Samuel Kramer (1999)
Sheldon Krantz
& Laurie Robinson
Sharlene Kranz (2002)
Richard Kronheim
Rachel S. Kronowitz
Lillian Kronstadt
Sebastian Krop (2006)
Martin Krubit
Michael Kurs (1980)
& Bonnie Roswig (1980)
Jacqueline Lainez Flanagan
Patricia Laird (1986)
Hon. Evelyn LaPorte (1986)
Laura LaPrade (2015)
Rosemary Lyons Larry (2010)
Rachel Lawrence (2012)
Terri LeClercq Getman
Angela Lee (1993)
Philip Lee
Nicholas Lefevre
Charles Leger (1982)
Andrew Levine (2016)
Ariel Levinson-Waldman
Alumni reunion in Honolulu. From left: Newton Chu (80), Robert Merce
(79), Michael Livingston (75), Gino Merez (02), Michael Wilson (79), Dean
Broderick, and Bruce Sherman (79).
Marc Levitt (1987)
Monica Lewis
Wade Zev Lewis
Joseph Libertelli (1985)
Hannah Lieberman
Geryl Renae Liles (1983)
Elisa Lim (1979)
Michael Livingston (1975)
Hon. Jos Lpez
Richard Love (1980)
Susanne Lowen
Michael Lu (1994)
John Wayne Lui (2016)
Andrea Lyon (1976)
James Lyons
Havona Madama (1996)
Tauheed Maddox
Michael & Rose Mage
Harrison Magy (2014)
Dean Makowski (1999)
Maricelly Malave
Robert Malone (1991)
Michael Mann (1981)
JoAnn & Alan Manning
Andrew H. Marks
& Susan G. Esserman
David Marlin
Coury Mascagni (2012)
Evan Mascagni (2011)
Toni Maschler (2004)
Bertrand Mason (1975)
Gregory Mathews (1978)
Robert Mathis (1980)
Hon. Shana Frost Matini (1996)
Sandra Mattavous-Frye (1983)
Scott Mayhart (1987)
Neshonda McCoy (2020)
Diane McDaniel-Jackson (1985)
Susan McDuffie (1978)
James McGrath
Carl McIntyre, Jr.
Madeline McKeller Offen (2014)
H. Vincent McKnight
J.E. McNeil
Gino Merez (2002)
Marcus Migliore
Floris Mikkelsen (1980)
Debra Millenson
Dawn Miller (1986)
Lakesha Miller (2000)
Ruthanne Miller (1981)
Hon. Stephen Milliken (1978)
Candice Mitchell (1997)
Hon. Gregory E. Mize
Heather Molina (2007)
& Elnur Veliev (2007)
James Molloy (1983)
Arlene Montemarano
Jillian Moore
Dana Morgan
Laurie A. Morin
Alan B. Morrison
David Morrison (1975) Faith Powell
Kenneth Morrison (1988)
Beatrice Moulton
Ali Muhammad (1992)
Faith Mullen
Maureen Murat (2016)
Stanley Myers (2003)
Christopher Naab
Geoffrey Naab
Keri Nash (2009)
Jim Nathanson
Brandi Nave (2002)
James Neher (2001)
Robert Newman (2014)
Karen Newton Cole (1987)
Elizabeth Niblack-Sykes &
Matthew Sykes
George Nicholas
Michael Nichols (1998)
Jocelyn Nieva
Chukwuemeka Njoku (1997)
Amy Novick (1984)
Barbara OHearn (1979) Claire Riley (1986)
Maureen OSullivan (1981) Paul Riley
& Laurence Pierce (1981)
Jeffrey OToole (1976) Cynthia Robbins & Jackie Greene
Aimee Occhetti (1996)
Peter Offen (2014)
Tarinna Olley
Abigail Omojola
Iduaoesili Onuorah (2000)
Larry Ottinger
Jacqueline Oudia (2010)
Brion Ovuworie (2014)
Eugenia Padilla
Hon. Peter Panuthos
Zal Parson (2002)
S. Bruce Pascal
Sara Patton (1976)
Lynn Pekkanen
Paul Peloquin (1985)
John Perazich
Matthew Perdoni (2011)
Cecilia Perry (1993)
Gayle Petersen (1996)
James Phillips, Jr. (1988)
Saul Pilchen
Anne Pilsbury (1975)
Catrina Platt
Ruth & Stephen Pollak
Virginia Popper
Vicki Portney
Claudia Postell (1992)
Keisha Potter Awowale (2008)
David & Connie Povich
Sharis & Thorn Pozen
Denise Prescod (1981)
Hon. William C. Pryor
Navarro Pulley (1997)
Ariana Quinones (1994)
Abid Riaz Qureshi
John Racin (1977)
Hon. Charles E. Rainey, Jr. (1980)
Paul Raizk (1996)
Jaime Ramn (1979)
Gershon (Gary) Ratner
B. Michael & Margaret W. Rauh
Carl & Debbie Rauh
Suzanne Rauh Davis
James Rebholz
Kevin Regan (2014)
Paul K. Regan
Linda Leah Reibel (1991)
Wilhelmina M. Reuben-Cooke
Daniel Rezneck
Dana Richard (1997)
Manuel Rivera (1985)
Anne Robinson (2014)
Gwendolyn Robinson (1992)
William L. Robinson
Mark Rochon
Deborah Roher (1980)
Susan Rollins
William L. Rollins (1998)
Eric Rome (1982)
Martha Romney (1985)
Gwen & Leonard Roseman
Albert Ross
Sandra Rothenberg
David Rothwell (1978)
James Rowe
Lori Rubenstein (1985)
Richard Rubenstein
Joseph Russo (1986)
MaryAnn Russo-Marfia (1985)
Danielle Ruttman (1980)
Charles Frederick Ryland (1975)
Ali Salimi (2006)

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 Steven Salky
Jack Sammons (1978)
James J. Sandman &
Elizabeth D. Mullin
Edward Sands
Miguel Santiago (1981)
Veronica Sauceda (2014)
Katherine Savoy (2007)
Claudia Schlosberg (1981)
Rudi Schreiber (1995)
James Schulman
Hon. Carol Schwartz
Jeffrey Schwartz (1984)
Ellen Scully
Theodore D. Segal
& Joyce R. Wasserstein
Eva Seidelman (2013)
James Seidl (1980)
Doug Seidman (1975)
Laura & Neil Seldman
Tamara Seltzer (1996)
Heather Shaner (1978)
Ariel Shea (2008)
Earl Silbert
Anne Simmons-Benton (1982)
Gottlieb C. Simon
Radhika Singh Miller
Hon. Maureen A. Skerda (1985)
Burton Slotnick
Hon. Inez Smith Reid
Jonathan Smith (1984)
Paul M. Smith
Sidney R. Smith, III
Susanne Stout Smith
Therrell Smith
Walter Steven Smitson (1994)
Naomi Smoot (2013)
Saleema Snow (1997)
Luke Sobota
Aviam Soifer
Daniel Solomon
Santosh Reddy Somi Reddy
(2013)
Barry Sooalo (1999)
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTERS
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld LLP
AltaGas
Arent Fox LLP
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
LLP
Ballard Spahr LLP
The Bar Association of the
District of Columbia
BET Networks
Beveridge & Diamond, PC
Buckley Sandler LLP
Burson-Marsteller
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Council of the District of
Columbia
Covington & Burling LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Delaney McKinney LLP
Deloitte.
Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust
Equal Justice America
Feldesman Tucker Leifer
Fidell LLP
UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
Benjamin Soto (1993)
Matt Spangler
Arthur Spitzer & Elisabeth Boas
David Splitt
Sheri Sprigg (1977)
Stephen Stair (1994)
William Statsky
Helen B. Stern
Jamie Stevens (2012)
Elizabeth Stinebaugh (2013)
Philip Stinson, Sr. (1992)
F. Allan Storning (1994)
Marcia Kay Stubbs (1977)
Carol Suzuki
Leroy Swain
Susan Swanson (1979)
Thomas Sweeney, Jr. (1978)
Lisa Tabaku
Nkechi Taifa
Lisa Tapp (1992)
Penfield W. Tate III (1981)
Sherman Taylor (2014)
& Rosana Chavez Taylor (2014)
Kenneth Thau (1987)
L. Jackson Thomas II
Marc Thompson (1996)
Leslie T. Thornton
Ernesto Torres Almodovar (1998)
Peter Torres (1985)
William Torrico (1995)
John Tradewell
Joseph Trapeni, Jr. (1984)
Kymberly Truman Graves (1995)
Athanasios Tsimpedes (1995)
Kathleen Tucker (1978)
& Robert Alvarez
Joseph B. Tulman (1984)
Wayne Turner (2008)
Susie Van Pool
Leonel Vasquez (2003)
Michael Vasquez
Erica Veazey (2006)
Gary Verburg (1978)
Dominic Vorv (1999)
Freddie Mac
Gertrude and William C.
Wardlaw Fund
Goldblatt Martin Pozen LLP
The Jack and Lovell Olender
Foundation
Jones Day
Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP
Kutak Rock LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
LexisNexis
Lippman, Semsker & Salb, LLC
Marriott International
The McCammon Group
McMillan Stewart Foundation
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
The Morris and Gwendolyn
Cafritz Foundation
Morrison & Foerster Foundation
The Nellie Mae Education
Foundation, Inc.
Nelson Mullins Riley &
Scarborough, L.L.P.
Hon. Annice M. Wagner
Hon. Patricia M. Wald
Karen S. Walker (2004) At the Gala, from left: Gina Walton, Councilmember
Jo-Ann Wallace Mary Cheh, Dean Broderick, Paul Regan.
Carolyn Waller (1977)
Mimi Gerdes Warner (1981)
& Scott Warner (1982)
Myrtle Washington (1979)
Donald & Natalie Wasserman
(1994)
Peter Wathen-Dunn (1976)
Virginia Watkin
Robert Watkins, III
Hon. Matthew S. Watson
Keith W. Watters
Susan L. Waysdorf
Camille Webster (2015)
Judith Weiner (1976)
Philana Rachel Weiss (2016)
JoVita Wells
Robert John Wernet (1975)
Jason West (2012)
Gwendolyn Williams (1985) At the Gala, from left: Dean Broderick, Prof.
Paul & Laura Williams Henderson, DCSL Foundation Board member Suzanne
Petur Williams (1976) Rauh Davis, Hunter Davis.
Thomas Williamson*
Donald Wilson (1991)
Michele Wilson
Page Wilson*
Claudia Withers
Kimberly Withers (2010)
Michael Witherspoon (1999)
Carol Wolchok (1979)
Samson Woldemariam (1994)
Susan Wood (1975)
Corrine Yu
Henry Yuen (1985)
Alison Zaremba
Michael Zeldin Mark Rochon, Leslie Thornton, Blair Brown at the Gala.
Anne B. Zill
Katherine Zill (1996)
Lesley Zork (1988)
Jonathan Zucker (1984)
Martine Zundmanis
*deceased
Nordson Corporation
Open Society Foundations
Peace Through Law
Foundation, Inc.
Premium Title & Escrow, LLC
Reed Smith LLP
Prof. Edgar Cahn and Penfield Tate (81) at the Gala.
Regan Associates, Chartered
Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Stewart R. Mott Foundation
Stradley Ronon Stevens &
Young, LLP
UDC Foundation
University of the District of
Columbia
Venable
Verizon
Washington Gas
WilmerHale
Womens Bar Association of
the District of Columbia
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP Dean Nelson and James Brown at the Gala.
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 FACULTY
As of October 1, 2017

LaShanda Adams John Brittain Stephanie Brown Shelley Broderick Edgar Cahn Kristina Campbell

Debra Cohen Rafael Cox Alomar Andrew Ferguson Matthew Fraidin Tianna Gibbs Melissa Hale

Lindsay Harris Wade Henderson Norrinda Brown Hayat Louise Howells Twinette Johnson Christine Jones

Marcy Karin Jacqueline Lainez Flanagan Philip Lee Thomas Mack Laurie Morin Faith Mullen

Lauren Onkeles-Klein Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke Saleema Snow Etienne Toussaint Joseph Tulman Susan Waysdorf

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 ADMINISTRATION
As of October 1, 2017

UDC SCHOOL OF LAW

ADMINISTRATION THE DC SCHOOL OF LAW
Katherine S. Broderick, Dean FOUNDATION
LaShanda T. Adams, Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LAW

Matthew I. Fraidin, Associate Dean of Experiential FOUNDATION EXISTS TO PROMOTE EXCELLENCE

and Clinical Programs
Tajira J. McCoy, Assistant Dean of Admission
William C. Nelson, Jr., Associate Dean of
Administration & Finance
IN LEGAL EDUCATION AND SUPPORT THE
STUDENTS, FACULTY AND PROGRAMS OF
THE DISTRICTS PUBLIC LAW SCHOOL, THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW (UDC LAW).

UDC SCHOOL OF LAW THE FOUNDATION WAS INCORPORATED IN

1993 IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND IS
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF RECOGNIZED AS EXEMPT UNDER 501(C)(3) OF
Sandy Arce, Clinic Staff Assistant THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
Cassandra Bland, Assistant Registrar
Pamala Dunston, Executive Assistant to the Dean
Amanda Gary, Admission Specialist
THE DC SCHOOL OF LAW
Barbara Green, Registrar FOUNDATION BOARD
Michael Harris, Office Manager
B. Michael Rauh, Chair
Ebony Hart, Assistant Director of Financial Aid
Daniel Solomon, Vice Chair
Osamuyimen Muyi Idehen, Financial Analyst
William Robinson, Secretary
Adrienne Jones, Assistant Director of Career and
Professional Development Daniel B. Edelman, Treasurer
Dalmarie Lawrence, Director of Financial Aid
Joseph Libertelli, Director of Alumni Affairs Joyce Stanley Batipps
Erin Looney, Public Outreach Coordinator Jon S. Bouker
David OBrien, Director of Career and Professional Development
Suzanne Rauh Davis
Monique Randall, Payroll Staff Assistant
Robert Hall
Ariel Shea, Website and Database Administrator
Timothy Jenkins
Mizue Suito, Director of Development
Camille Thompson, Assistant Director of Admission Sheldon Krantz
Loretta Young-Jones, Faculty Secretary Andrew H. Marks
Gregory Mize
Robert P. Newman
THE MASON LAW Jack H. Olender

LIBRARY STAFF Inez Smith Reid

Sidney R. Smith, III
John Jensen, Access Services/Reference Librarian Leslie T. Thornton
Joe Marceda, Technical Support Specialist
Yasmin Morais, Cataloging Librarian
Han Ouyang, Assistant Director, Law Library
Lewis Perry, Network Administrator
Lachelle Smith, Systems Librarian
William Thomas, Library Technician

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UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW
 2016 - 2017 | YEAR IN REVIEW

I agree...that all publicly funded law schools should look

to the (David A.) Clarke School of Law for inspiration and
consider a similar service requirement. That would be a
profound and powerful change. And it would lead, no
doubt, to a more just nation and world.
Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Former Attorney General of
the United States (2009-2015)

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