Legal Education Board Chairman
From 2009 to 2010, Madzelan served as Assistant Secretary of Post-Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, where he was responsible for primary responsibility for managing a $2.6 billion program budget that financially supported colleges and universities and their students, and had political and budgetary responsibility for programs for Title IV student financial assistance programs. who received nearly $130 billion in subsidies. provided that. Loans and bursaries for more than 14 million post-secondary students and their families. Prior to that, he was the long-time Director of the Forecasting and Policy Analysis Branch in the Department`s Office of Post-Secondary Education. He held various positions in this office before becoming a director. Phyllis D. Thompson (2020) Judge Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Washington, D.C. Phyllis Thompson was appointed by President George W. in 2006. Bush was appointed to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Prior to her appointment as a judge, she served for several years on the court`s admissions committee, evaluating the written component of the District of Columbia Bar exam and conducting character and fitness exams. As a judge of the Court, she now acts as a liaison judge to the admissions committee. Since 2014, she has also been a board member of the National Conference of Bar Examiners. His board duties include chairing the editorial advisory board (which oversees the publication of The Bar Examiner) and serving on the multi-state bar examination committee. Scott Bales became executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver in September 2019 after retiring from the Arizona Supreme Court. Bales has served on the court since 2005, including a five-year term as chief justice from 2014 to 2019. He is also a member of the Board of the American Law Institute and has served as President of the Conference of Appellate Judges of the ABA Judicial Division and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Conference of Chief Justices. Justice Russell is active in numerous professional and legal organizations across the state and country, including the Commission on Judicial Retirement, Removal and Discipline; Missouri Lawyers Trust Account Foundation; a commission to select a federal judge for the Eastern District of Missouri in 1993; American Bar Association House of Delegates; Missouri Bar Council of Young Lawyers; numerous Missouri Bar Associations; Missouri Press-Bar Commission; and the Civil Rules Committee of the Supreme Court and the Practice Committee on Appeal. She was co-chair of the Appeal Practice Committee of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Bar Association (BAMSL) and chaired other BAMSL committees. Mary Campbell McQueen (2020) President National Center for State Courts Williamsburg, Virginia Mary C.
McQueen has been President of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) since August 2004. Previously, from 1987 to 2004, Ms. McQueen served as Washington State Administrator and Director of Court Services in the Office of the Washington State Court Administrator (1979-1987), President of the Conference of State Court Administrators (1995-1996), and Chair of the American Bar Association/Judicial Division Counsel Committee. She is a member of the Washington Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. McQueen has served on numerous ABA committees and working groups, including the Standing Committee on State and Federal Courts, the Commission on the Future of Legal Services, and the newly created ABA Innovation Center. As Chair of the CSC, Ms.
McQueen coordinated key national initiatives for the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ), including the review of model rules and guidelines for admission to the bar, legal education requirements, and professional ethics for lawyers and judges. She is Secretary General of the International Organization for Judicial Training (IOJT), which has 80 member countries. Ms. McQueen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law. Mr. Murphy was a long-time bar member and studied law. He has served as Chair of the Montana Board of Bar Examiners, President of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), Chair of the Multistate Bar Examination Committee, and Chair of the Uniform Bar Examination Committee. For about a decade, he was a member of the editorial board of multistate performance tests.
He has been a member and chair of many other committees and bodies. Lord. Murphy was elected to Council in 2010, served as Vice-Chair from 2014 to 2015, Chair-Elect from 2015 to 2016 and Chair from 2016 to 2017. He is currently a member of the Section Council as Past President. Mr. Murphy also served as Chair of the Accreditation Committee. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has received numerous awards for his leadership and service to the bar and his community. Dr. Nash served for six years on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Alliance of State Science and Mathematics Coalitions.
He is a member of the Alabama Articulation and General Studies Committee, the Alabama Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission, the Board of Directors of the A+ Education Partnership of Alabama, and the New York Academy of Sciences/SUNY STEM Advisory Committee. For the ABA`s Legal Education and Bar Admissions Section, he served as Chair of the Accreditation Committee (CA), the Council and Subcommittee on Foreign Programs, and the Non-JD Subcommittee. For 2013-14, he was President of the ABA Law Student Division. During his tenure as president, his team`s greatest successes were restructuring the department and lobbying for legal education reform. As president, Mathew had the privilege of influencing Congress with other ABA leaders on behalf of the legal profession. In fiscal year 2014/15, Mathew was an emerging leader within the ABA`s Young Lawyers Division («YLD»). As an emerging leader, he was a member of the Law School Truth in Education Task Force. He drafted the resolution of the Unified Bar Examination Working Group, which the YLD Assembly adopted at its semi-annual meeting in February 2015. From 2014 to 2017, he was also co-editor of YLD`s national publication, TYL, The Young Lawyer.
Mathew is currently the editor-in-chief of TYL. A recognized expert in legal writing and research, Ms. Lysaght is co-author of Michigan Legal Research (three issues) and Successful Legal Analysis and Writing: The Fundamentals (four issues), co-creator and co-author of CiteStation, and contributor to Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs (2nd edition).