Friends of Emory Law
Harold J. Berman
Berman was Emory’s first Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet law. He was also a pioneer in the study of law and religion. Berman was founder of Emory’s World Law Institute and played an integral role in the development of the University’s Law and Religion Program, now the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Over the course of his illustrious career, Berman wrote 25 books and more than 400 scholarly articles.
William J. Carney
Carney is Charles Howard Candler Professor emeritus and founder of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice. In 2015, he and his wife, Jane, created a $1 million challenge grant to raise funds to further the center’s work.
William D. Ferguson (deceased)
In 1963, Ferguson joined the Emory Law faculty. He took emeritus status in 1998 but remained an active member of the law school community and built a national reputation as a labor arbitrator.
Martha A. Fineman
A Robert W. Woodruff Professor and authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence, Fineman is founder/ director of the Feminism and Legal Theory (FLT) Project and director of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative.
E. Smythe Gambrell (deceased)
Gambrell founded Atlanta’s Legal Aid Society to provide legal assistance to the poor. He was also the first Atlantan to be elected president of the American Bar Association. Gambrell lectured at Emory Law from 1922–1940 and taught “Practice Court,” a required moot court course for all students. He served on the faculty until the eve of World War II and later provided the gift that enabled the construction of the present-day law school building - Gambrell Hall, named in memory of his parents.
Nathaniel E. Gozansky
In 2012, Gozansky retired from Emory Law after 45 years. While here, he was director of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity and a member of the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers.
Howard O. "Woody" Hunter
A highly experienced academic and authority on law, Hunter is a 27-year veteran at Emory University, including over two years as chief academic officer and provost and 12 years as dean of Emory Law. As dean, Hunter oversaw growth in the law school, taking the faculty from 30 to 50, adding five named professorships, increasing the number of scholarships available, and strengthening the endowment. He also oversaw Gambrell renovation and construction of the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library.
L. Q. C. Lamar 1845C (deceased)
Lamar was an American politician and jurist. A US representative and senator, he served as Secretary of the Interior in Grover Cleveland’s first presidential administration and as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court.
Michael J. Perry
Perry is a Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and constitutional law expert. Perry is also a senior fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion and a co-editor of the Journal of Law and Religion.
John Witte Jr.
Witte is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Students have selected him 12 times as the Most Outstanding Professor.
1920s
Eléonore Raoul 1920L 1979H
In 1917, Raoul became the first woman admitted to Emory University. She served as chair of the Fulton and DeKalb County branches of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia. She worked with the national party as a field organizer in West Virginia and at its headquarters in New York. In the early 1920s, she helped organize the Atlanta League of Women Voters and was its president in 1922 and 1930. She remained active with the organization throughout her life.
Granger Hansell 22C 24L (deceased)
Hansell was a law faculty member, a trustee, and president of the Emory Alumni Association. He received the Emory Law Distinguished Alumni Award and the Emory Medal. A reading room is named for him.
Robert T. “Bobby” Jones Jr. 29L (deceased)
After only three semesters, Jones passed the Georgia bar. Upon retiring as a professional golfer, he focused on his practice. In 1976, Emory established a university-wide scholarship in his honor.
1930s
Harllee Branch Jr. 31L (deceased)
Branch was on the Federal Advisory Council on Employment and the National Commission on Productivity. He was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and, eventually, CEO of Southern Company.
Patricia Dwinnell Butler 31L
Butler spent 40 years as an employee of the Justice Department. As a woman, she had trouble finding a job after earning her law degree, but in 1935, the US Department of Justice put her in charge of its library. Eventually, Butler was one of the first female lawyers to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and she helped create the Supreme Court Historical Society. She left a generous $1 million gift to Emory Law.
Henry L. Bowden 32C 34L (deceased)
Bowden was Emory’s general counsel (1952 - 1978) and ushered in its integration, winning a judgment overturning a measure that nixed property tax exemptions for private schools attempting to integrate.
Hugh F. MacMillan 34L (deceased)
MacMillan had a long career as counsel for The Coca-Cola Company. He bequeathed a gift to begin construction of Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library.
J. Pollard Turman 34C 35L (deceased)
Emory’s highest award for alumni service to the University bears his name. An influential humanitarian, Turman supported institutions across Georgia and devoted considerable energy to Emory.
Randolph William Thrower 34C 36L 73P (deceased)
Thrower was the IRS commissioner until fired by President Nixon for refusing to use the IRS to punish enemies. The Emory Law Journal hosts the Thrower Symposium, part of an endowed lecture series.
William H. "The Bull" Agnor 36C 37L
A former professor at Emory Law, Agnor’s Evidence was widely used by lawyers in Georgia. He received the Thomas Jefferson Award for enriching intellectual and civic life at Emory.
Boisfeuillet Jones 34C 37L (deceased)
Jones was an assistant professor, dean of administration, and a vice president at Emory. He wrote a plan that led to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and was among those responsible for bringing the CDC to Atlanta.
Paul H. Anderson Sr. 38C 40L
Anderson established a fellowship that has brought faculty from Yonsei University (South Korea) to study at Emory Eye Center. He has been president of the Emory Alumni Association and a board of trustees member.
1940s
Ben F. Johnson Jr. 36C 40L
James A. Mackay 40C 47L (deceased) Mackay served in the Georgia legislature and US House, fighting for civil rights. He founded the Georgia Conservancy and served three terms as president of the DeKalb History Center.
K. Martin Worthy 41C 47L
Worthy was chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, assistant general counsel of the Treasury, a member of the National Council on Organized Crime, and chairman of the section on taxation of the American Bar Association
Anthony A. Alaimo 48L
US District Court Judge Alaimo presided over a 25-year-long lawsuit that focused on revamping Georgia’s prison system and a 1982 case that stopped illegal foreclosures on 5,600 Georgia farmers.
James C. Hill 48L (deceased)
Hill is a federal judge on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and recipient of the law school’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He served as a member of the Emory University Board of Visitors.
Lewis R. Slaton 48L
Fulton County district attorney from 1965 to 1996, Slaton wrote the first search and seizure laws for the state and hired the county’s first African American assistant district attorney. The county courthouse bears his name.
A. Paul Cadenhead 49L
In 1958, Cadenhead was asked by the Atlanta Bar Association to investigate and prosecute state officials for crimes committed in office, resulting in numerous pleas of guilty and convictions.
Chester N. Posey 49L
Posey was an active member of the Law School Council and an active volunteer for Emory activities in Houston. He established the Chester Posey Endowment, one of the law school’s first endowed funds.
1950s
Judge William L. Norton Jr. 42OX 48C 50L
Norton was the author and editor-in-chief of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, along with several other publications. In 1983, he created Norton Institutes on Bankruptcy Law, which has sponsored more than 100 national seminars on bankruptcy law and practice. Norton taught at Emory Law and was a principal founder of the Richard B. Russell Foundation, the Emory Law School Council, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the American College of Bankruptcy.
G. Conley Ingram 49C 51L
Ingram is a former Georgia Supreme Court justice. He has served as a senior Cobb County Superior Court judge and a trustee of Emory University.
W. Stell Huie 52C 53L
Huie was president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents and a lecturer at Emory Law. He received an Atlanta Bar Association Leadership Award for Service and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Emory Law.
William C. O'Kelley 51C 53L
O’Kelley is a senior US district court judge for Georgia’s northern district. He was chief judge, assuming senior status in 1996. Emory alumni who were his law clerks created an endowed scholarship fund in his honor.
C. B. Rogers 51C 53L
A respected Atlanta attorney, Rogers is a dedicated volunteer at the law school, former president of the Law Alumni Association, and member of the Law School Council. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award.
Aaron L. Buchsbaum 54L (deceased)
In 1963, Buchsbaum served on the biracial committee organized by local business leaders to negotiate an end to segregated public facilities in Savannah, a year before Congress acted on the issue.
Willis B. Hunt Jr. 54L
Hunt is a federal judge on the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award, served on the Law School Council, and was a member of the Law Alumni Board.
Harry C. Howard 55L
Howard was one of the founding members of the Law School Council. He helped create the Emory Law School Fund, which enabled alumni to give directly to the law school. Howard received the Distinguished Alumni Award.
Elliott H. Levitas 52C 56L
Levitas served in the Georgia legislature and US House of Representatives. In 1999, he joined the plaintiffs’ team in Cobell v. Norton, winning a $3.4-billion award - the largest class-action award in US history.
Harold N. Hill Jr. 57L (deceased)
Hill was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1975. He served as chief justice from 1982 until his retirement in 1986. He authored "A History of The Supreme Court of Georgia: 1946 –1996."
Kenneth F. Murrah 55C 58L (deceased)
Murrah received the Distinguished Alumni Award and the J. Pollard Turman Award for exceptional alumni service. He became known as "Mr. Emory" in central Florida, organizing annual alumni gatherings.
Edward E. Elson 59L
Elson served for six years as the US ambassador to Denmark, helped create National Public Radio (NPR), and was the first chairman of NPR and the National Public Radio Foundation.
1960s
Sam Nunn Jr. 61L 62L
A 24-year US senator from Georgia, Nunn is currently co-chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a charitable organization working to reduce the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
J. Ben Shapiro 64C 67L
Shapiro received the Distinguished Alumni Award and Emory Medal. He was a University trustee from 1990 to 1996, is co-founder of Georgia Legal Services Program, and was president of the Law School Alumni Association.
John M. Dowd 65L
Dowd has served on many high-profile cases, including when he represented a US Army colonel in the Iran-Contra hearings. He donated his Dowd Report to Emory Law. The report led to the banning of Major League Baseball player Pete Rose.
Hugh Lawson 63C 65L
Lawson sat on the US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. He served as chief judge (2006 - 2008), assuming senior status in 2008. Lawson served for several years on the Law School Council.
Theodore E. Smith 65L
Smith was the first African American student to enter the law school in the part-time night program, paving the way for the diversity that has become integral to the Emory Law community.
Lucy McGough Bowers 66L
Formerly dean of Appalachian School of Law, Bowers is a member of the ABA Committee charged with producing a new set of accreditation standards for American law schools.
J. Owen Forrester 66L (deceased)
Forrester sat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Known to have helped advance federal courtroom technology, he sought to make federal courts paperless.
Paul M. McLarty Jr. 63C 66L
A former president of the Emory Alumni Board, Turman Award recipient McLarty is active with Emory through philanthropy and service. With his wife, Ruth, he helped create scholarships at the college and the school of law.
Marvin S. Arrington Sr. 67L
In 1965, Marvin S. Arrington transferred (with his friend Clarence Cooper 67L) from Howard University School of Law to become one of the first full-time African American law students at Emory. Arrington became one of the most influential attorneys in Atlanta, serving some 16 years as president of the Atlanta City Council. He helped bring the Olympic Games to the city and introduced legislation that made Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a city holiday.
Hulett H. "Bucky" Askew 67L
Askew is a former consultant on legal education for the American Bar Association. He is chair of the board of directors for the Lawyers for Equal Justice, Georgia’s first law practice incubator program.
William J. Brennan Jr. 65C 67L
Brennan has fought against predatory lenders since founding Atlanta Legal Aid’s home defense program in 1988. The program started with Brennan and a grant from the DeKalb County Community Development Department.
Thomas E. Bryant Sr. 58C 62M 63MR 67L (deceased)
Bryant founded the National Drug Abuse Council, becoming a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. He was appointed as co-chair of the President’s Commission on Mental Health.
Clarence Cooper 67L
Senior judge on the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Cooper was the first African American assistant district attorney hired to a state prosecutor’s office in Georgia.
Tillie K. Fowler 64C 67L
Fowler entered Emory Law in 1964 as one of only five women in a class of 106. She was elected the first woman president of the Jacksonville City Council in 1989 and was elected to Congress in 1992.
Richard O. Keller 64C 67L
A judge for the Superior Court of California, Alameda County, Keller was a member of the Bay Area Regional Programs Advisory Committee, the predecessor to developing a Regional Chapter in San Francisco.
Orinda D. Evans 68L
Nominated by President Jimmy Carter to the US District Court’s Northern District, Evans was the first woman in Georgia appointed to the federal bench. She was chief judge (1999 - 2006), assuming senior status in 2008.
P. Harris Hines 65C 68L
Hines currently serves as chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. He has been an active law alumnus, hosting sessions of the court at the law school and judging moot court competitions.
Robert H. Whaley 68L
President Bill Clinton nominated Whaley to a seat on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. He became chief judge of the district in 2005 and assumed senior status in 2009.
W. Wyche Fowler 69L
Former US Senator and US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Fowler served on the board of the Carter Center and was the key figure in orchestrating a compromise on financing for the National Endowment for the Arts.
1970s
Sanford D. Bishop Jr. 71L
A US congressman, Bishop has served on the House Committee on Appropriations and the subcommittes for Defense, Military Construction/Veterans Affairs, and Agriculture.
Lewis S. "Mike" Eidson 71L
Eidson co-endowed the Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques and has endowed scholarships to encourage women to pursue trial practice. Recently, he served as president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore 71L
Moore is the first woman to serve full-time on the Atlanta Municipal Court and City Court of Atlanta, to serve on the State Court of Georgia, and to be chief administrative judge of a Georgia judicial circuit court.
Felker W. Ward Jr. 71L
A retired Lt. Col., Ward serves as civilian aide emeritus to the Secretary of the Army. He worked three years as a trustee and received both the Distinguished Alumni Award and Emory Medal.
Walter M. “Sonny” Deriso Jr. 68C 72L
A member of the Emory University board of trustees, Deriso chaired Emory’s successful $1.6 billion campaign. He is chairman of the board of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and Atlantic Capital Bank.
C. Robert Henrikson 72L
Henrikson, former president, CEO and chairman of MetLife, was appointed to the President’s Export Council. He serves on the board of trustees and, with his wife Mary, established a scholarship.
Kathleen Kessler 72L (deceased)
The law firm of Colson, Hicks, Eidson, Colson, Matthews & Mendoza, with Richard Kessler Jr. 71L and Grace Kessler, gave the law school $510,000 to establish a scholarship endowment in memory of Kessler.
Mary Margaret Oliver 72L
Representative Oliver serves the district that includes Emory. She has been involved with the Barton Child Law and Policy Center since its inception and is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award.
Frank Mays Hull 73L
Since unanimous US Senate confirmation in 1997, Hull has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. As a trial judge for 13 years and an appellate judge for 19 years, she has presided over thousands of cases.
Thomas B. Wells 73L
Wells sat as judge in the United States Tax Court through a term ending October 9, 2016. He served as chief judge during part of his tenure. He has received the law school’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Henry L. Bowden Jr. 74L
Bowden, elected an Emory trustee in 1986, has served as president of the Emory Law School Alumni Association and was an adjunct professor in the school’s graduate taxation program from 1982 to 1987.
Gordon D. Giffin 74L
Giffin served as the nineteenth US ambassador to Canada. He managed US interests in the world’s largest bi-lateral trading relationship in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Stanley F. Birch Jr. 70L 76L
Birch was a US circuit court of appeals judge for over 20 years. He participated in more than 11,000 opinions and heard arguments in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case.
Philip Syng Reese 66C 76B 76L
Reese was a founder and the first graduate of Emory’s JD/MBA program. He served on the advisory boards of the business and law schools and received the Turman Alumni Service and the Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Chilton D. Varner 76L
The first female partner on King & Spalding’s litigation team and now senior partner in the products liability section, Varner received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998. She is an Emory trustee emeritus.
Brenda H. Cole 77L
After various prestigious positions in the law, Cole was appointed to a state court judgeship in 1998, was deputy attorney general, retired in 2012, and was appointed a senior judge by Governor Nathan Deal.
Leo M. Gordon 77L
Gordon has served as a judge of the US Court of International Trade since March 2006. He is a current member of the Emory Law Advisory Board and previously served three terms as a member of the Alumni Board.
Glenda Hatchett 77L
Hatchett was Georgia’s first African American chief presiding judge of a state court and department head of one of the country’s largest juvenile court systems. She presided over the nationally syndicated show “Judge Hatchett.”
Ruth J. Katz 77L
Emeritus trustee and Distinguished Alumni Award winner Katz was associate dean of Yale School of Medicine and is executive director of the Health, Medicine and Society Program at the Aspen Institute.
Thurbert E. Baker 79L
In 1988, before becoming Georgia’s attorney general, Baker was elected to the state House. He served as Governor Zell Miller’s assistant House floor leader and, eventually, his chief lieutenant. He sponsored the governor’s legislation mandating life in prison without parole for repeat violent criminals and sponsored legislation for the HOPE Scholarship and the “Two Strikes and You’re Out” law. He also served as president of the National Association of Attorneys General. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award.
Mark H. Cohen 76C 79L
Cohen serves as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He served as a member of the Advisory Board for the Emory Public Interest Committee.
Jonathan K. Layne 79B 79L
Layne, a member of the Emory Board of Trustees, serves as chair of the board’s Executive Compensation and Trustees’ Conflict of Interest Committee. He is a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
1980s
Leah Ward Sears 80L
Sears, an Emory trustee, was the first African American female chief justice in the United States. When she was appointed in 1992, she became the first woman and youngest person to sit on Georgia’s Supreme Court.
Lee P. Miller 82L
Miller is regional director of Glenmede’s New York office and a member of Emory’s Board of Trustees. She has written and lectured on fiduciary and wealth management and has taught trust administration courses for the ABA.
Raymond W. McDaniel Jr. 83L
McDaniel is president and chief executive officer of Moody’s Corporation. He is also a member of the board of directors of John Wiley & Sons and the National Council on Economic Education.
Samuel Scott Olens 83L
Olens is the president of Kennesaw State University. Previously, he was the attorney general for the state of Georgia. He is the first person of Jewish faith to win a statewide, partisan race in Georgia. Olens joined forces with legislators to advocate for a stronger human trafficking law in Georgia. HB 200 went into effect on July 1, 2011. Olens worked alongside legislators to pass a re-write of Georgia’s Open Meetings and Open Records Laws. HB 397 was the result in the 2012 legislative session.
Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker 84B 84L
Perkins-Hooker is the former vice president and general counsel for the Atlanta Beltline. She is also a former president of the State Bar of Georgia, the first African American to hold the position.
Luis A. Aguilar 85L
The former Democratic commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Aguilar was previously the general counsel, executive vice president, and corporate secretary of Invesco.
Catharina Dubbelday Haynes 86L
Haynes is a judge in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She was nominated by President George W. Bush and is a member of the Emory Law Advisory Board.
Teri Plummer McClure 88L
McClure, a Distinguished Alumni Award winner, is responsible for human resources, employee communications, and labor relations for United Parcel Service. She currently serves on The Task Force for Global Health.
M. Yvette Miller 88L
Miller was the first African American female judge appointed to the Georgia Court of Appeals. As chief judge, Miller implemented e-filing. She has helped arrange for the Georgia Court of Appeals to sit at Emory Law.
David I. Adelman 89L
Adelman is a former US Ambassador to Singapore and a current partner in Reed Smith’s New York office. He was a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2002 until 2010.
Kristi K. DuBose 89L
Dubose has served as a US District Judge in the southern district of Alabama since her commission in December 2005. Prior to appointment, DuBose was a magistrate judge for the Southern District of Alabama.
1990s
Bernice Albertine King 90T 90L
The youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, she published Hard Questions, Heart Answers: Sermons and Speeches. The minister uses her legal background consulting with youth.
Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming 93L
Fleming was the principal legal advisor of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, overseeing the largest legal program in the Department of Homeland Security.
Elizabeth Lee "Lisa" Branch 94L
Branch sits on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. She previously served as associate general counsel for Rules and Legislation at the US Department of Homeland Security.
Facundo L. Bacardi 96L
Chairman of Bacardi USA, Bacardi serves on the board of trustees of Emory University. He is also the executive director of the Facundo and Amalia Bacardi Foundation.
Carte Patrick Goodwin 99L
Goodwin, who served as a senator from West Virginia, is the youngest living former senator. He is the former chief counsel to the governor and served as the chairman of the West Virginia School Building Authority.
Daniel H. Marti 99L
Marti just completed his term as the inaugural US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). He led the Obama administration’s efforts to develop a strategic plan on the enforcement of intellectual property rights and was responsible for coordinating the efforts of the US government criminal, national security, and economic agencies engaged in intellectual property policy and enforcement. He also reported to the president and to Congress regarding intellectual property enforcement programs.
