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JAMES E. ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW |
OCTOBER 12, 2022 | | |
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Greetings,
It has been a hard and deeply upsetting week for the entire University of Arizona community, with the shocking killing of hydrology Professor Tom Meixner.
There are no words. The grief is raw, especially for those who, like me, knew, worked with, and learned from Tom. We join with our community in our sorrow, and in the celebration of his life and work.
Going forward, President Robbins has committed to a comprehensive review of all aspects of our campus safety, violence prevention and public safety response.
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When tragedy strikes, the world stops.
And yet it also moves forward. For the second week in a row, we feature this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners. This week: the Honorable Margaret “Peggy” Houghton.
Long before most law schools began initiatives to encourage attendance by “non-traditional” students, Peggy began attending community college in her 30s before transferring to the University of Arizona to earn a BA in anthropology. She then earned her JD at the University of Arizona Law while raising three teenage children. Even with all the resources now offered by schools – including ours – to facilitate student bodies with a range of life experience, this is no small feat. When Peggy graduated and started her legal career, it was downright herculean.
One of the things that means the most about this weekly newsletter is the opportunity to engage in an ongoing conversation with our community. We read and appreciate all of your comments. Last week, our readers pointed out an inadvertent typo in Lifetime Achievement Award winner Bob Hirsh’s name. Thank you and my apologies for the error.
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Until the footnotes,
Marc
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Celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Judge Margaret “Peggy” Houghton | |
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This year, the University of Arizona Law James E. Rogers College of Law will honor Robert J. Hirsh (’64), the Honorable Margaret Houghton (’76) and Daisy Jenkins (’96) with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are selected by faculty for their distinguished and exemplary careers, contributions to the legal profession, support for public causes and law reform and commitment to the pursuit of justice. In the weeks leading up to the Lifetime Achievement Awards Reception on October 28, we will highlight the life and work of the recipients.
This week, we honor Judge Margaret “Peggy” Houghton. Peggy, a pathbreaker for women in the law, has worked for the betterment of children and families throughout her career. She was struck by polio in childhood and was denied access to higher education for social and economic reasons. She married, settled in Florida, had two children and volunteered with organizations serving women and girls.
When Peggy and her family moved to Tucson, she attended the University of Arizona, earning a BA with High Distinction in Anthropology in 1973. She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. Her undergraduate Honors Thesis launched her work on gender issues as she developed, surveyed and compiled data for one of the earliest academic studies of differences in the experience of male and female lawyers. Peggy entered law school in 1973 and became one of the founders of the Law Women’s Association. After graduating law school in 1976, she co-founded the Arizona Women Lawyers’ Association (AWLA).
Peggy practiced law in Tucson until 1984, when she was named Superior Court Commissioner, the first woman to hold that position. In 1989, Governor Rose Mofford appointed Peggy to the Pima County Superior Court bench. Serving first as Presiding Domestic Relations Judge and later as Presiding Probate Judge, she was committed to helping families resolve their disputes without rancor.
Peggy held leadership positions throughout her professional life. She served on the board of the National Association of Women Judges and spent a month in India, sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, to lecture on American law. Locally, she has served as president of the Pima County Bar Association and on the boards of Planned Parenthood, Casa de los Ninos, and Child and Family Resources. Peggy was president of the Law College Board of Visitors and was the first woman to be elected president of the Law College Association. She continues to serve on the Honors College Board and the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Board.
Upon her retirement in 2000, AWLA established a need-based scholarship in Peggy’s name at the College of Law to benefit second-year students who are the primary caregiver of a dependent child. After retiring, she regularly taught adult education classes in constitutional law and individual rights. Among other honors, Peggy has received the YWCA Women on the Move Award and is recognized at the University of Arizona’s Women’s Plaza of Honor.
We look forward to recognizing the achievements of Bob, Daisy, and Peggy during the Lifetime Achievement Award Reception:
Date: Friday, October 28, 2022
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Where: James E. Rogers College of Law, Lewis Roca Lobby & Snell & Wilmer Courtyard
This event and free and open to all alumni, friends, family, and students.
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We are looking forward to seeing alumni and other friends in just two short weeks, October 27-29 for Homecoming events planned for the LawCat Community:
Friday, October 28
Arizona Law’s Lifetime Achievement Awards
Honoring:
Robert J. Hirsh, Class of 1964
Hon. Margaret Houghton, Class of 1976
Daisy Jenkins, Class of 1996
Location: James E. Rogers College of Law, Lewis Roca Lobby & Snell & Wilmer Courtyard, or virtually
Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Register for the Lifetime Achievement Awards
Arizona Law’s Alumni Reunion Celebration
Celebrating the reunion classes of: 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992 , 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017
Location: Culinary Dropout, 2543 E. Grant Road
Time: 7-10 p.m.
Register for the Reunion Celebration
Saturday, October 29
Arizona Law Red & Blue BBQ
Location: James E. Rogers College of Law, Snell & Wilmer Courtyard
Time: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. (time may change based on football game kickoff)
Register for the BBQ
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Bobcats Alumni Organization to Induct Janis Gallego as Honorary Bobcat During Homecoming Weekend | |
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On Homecoming weekend, alumna and Part-time Professor of Practice Janis Gallego (BA ’02, JD ’05) will be recognized as one of four Honorary Bobcats of 2022 by the Bobcats Alumni Organization.
Founded in 1922, the Bobcats Alumni Organization consists of 13 undergraduate students and an alumni and Honorary collective of more than 900 individuals who are all deeply committed to the University of Arizona. Each year, the group selects University of Arizona alumni or employees as Honorary Bobcats. An Honorary Bobcat is someone who “has given excellent service, has made a significant contribution and brought honor or recognition to our alma mater.”
The new class of Honorary Bobcats will be inducted during the group’s Bobcat Breakfast October 29. If you are a member of the Bobcats Alumni Organization and would like to come support Janis – along with fellow inductees Lacey John, Bryan Foulk and former Arizona Secretary of State Betsey Bayless – please RSVP no later than October 19.
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Stellar Lineup of Speakers Set for Pitt Series | |
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As we find ourselves in the midst of another contentious election cycle, we are hosting five influential voices to discuss law and democracy for the 2022-23 Pitt Family Foundation Speaker Series.
The Pitt Family Foundation Speaker Series is part of the Participatory Democracy Initiative at the University of Arizona. The Participatory Democracy Initiative is an interdisciplinary and community-engaged program of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, the School of Government & Public Policy, and the School of Journalism.
The free, online series will meet monthly and will be moderated by former Tucson mayor and current University of Arizona Law Professor of Practice Jonathan Rothschild. This semester’s lineup is (all times MST):
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Margaret Renkl - October 19, 2022, 5:30 PM
Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, focusing on politics and culture in the American South. She is the author of “Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss” and “Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South.” She has been a contributing writer to the Times since 2017 and her essays appear each Monday. She is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina and lives in Nashville.
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Thomas Frank - November 30, 2022, 5:30 PM (In-person)
Thomas Frank is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine. Frank is the author of “What's the Matter with Kansas?” and “Listen, Liberal,” among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote “The Tilting Yard,” a column in The Wall Street Journal. A historian of culture and ideas, Frank analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of culture wars in American political life and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States.
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Steve Levitsky
Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is also Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of “How Democracies Die” (Crown, 2018), which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 25 languages.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” (W.W. Norton, 2008). In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy” (UVA Press, 1997); “Vernon Can Read! A Memoir,” a collaboration with Vernon Jordan (PublicAffairs, 2001); “Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History” (Oxford University Press, 2002), a volume of essays that she edited; “Andrew Johnson” (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010); and, with Peter S. Onuf, “‘Most Blessed of the Patriarchs’: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination” (Liveright Publishing, 2016). Her most recent book is “On Juneteenth” (Liveright Publishing, 2021). Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015.
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Margaret Sullivan
Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, she was the New York Times‘s public editor and previously the chief editor of the Buffalo News, her hometown paper, where she started as a summer intern. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Sullivan was a member of the Pulitzer Prize board from 2011 to 2012 and was twice elected as a director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, where she led the First Amendment committee.
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Prof. Griffin Discusses Access-to-Justice Initiatives Including i4J at OECD Roundtable | |
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Professor Christopher Griffin recently presented as part of a panel at the 2022 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Policy Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice hosted by the government of Latvia in Riga, Latvia.
In a session on “What Works in People-Centered Services?” Chris and other panelists discussed how to identify and share information about successful access-promoting strategies. He talked to participants about experimental and qualitative work in collaboration with the Innovation for Justice (i4J) Program at the College of Law. These studies included a user experience evaluation of the Utah courts’ online dispute resolution platform and an online simulation of experiencing medical debt with or without a non-lawyer advocate.
The annual OECD Roundtable advances a longstanding dialogue on making civil justice systems more transparent and user-friendly. During the event, high-level representatives from national Ministries of Justice, other civil servants, and academics to shared best practices in their countries for increasing the justice system’s focus on the needs of all people; enhancing public trust in, and accountability of, the justice system and government; and facilitating the development of integrated and interdisciplinary justice responses to current and future global challenges.
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Do You Have News?
Your success is the college’s success and we want to celebrate with you! If you have landed a new job, received an award or recognition, stepped into a leadership role or have good news in general, let us know.
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Homecoming is around the corner. We hope to see as many friends as possible, celebrate our wonderful alumni, introduce alumni and friends to our amazing new students and colleagues, and build on the community that makes the University of Arizona, and our College, far more than just work and learning – indeed, both home and family. | | | | |
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