This past year has been one of continued excellence for Alabama Law. To be sure, we have faced challenges: navigating the sea of uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, recruiting students and faculty in an increasingly competitive environment, and even recovering from extensive flooding in the Law Center following a brutal rainstorm. Still, our students, faculty, and staff have adapted commendably at every turn.
We began the new academic year ranked in the Top 25 among all law schools in the nation – number eight among publicly supported institutions. And while we continue to build a program of national stature, we remain committed to our mission to serve the people of the State of Alabama. Two-thirds of our JD students (across all three classes) qualify for in-state tuition, and in 2021, we enrolled the largest number of Alabama residents in more than seven years.
At the same time, the 1L class is remarkably diverse, hailing from 29 different states, from every region of the country. Members of Alabama Law’s new 1L class attended 65 different colleges and universities, had a median GP of 3.94 (which is among the highest in the country), and studied, lived, or worked in 43 countries outside of the U.S. I am confident that they will flourish as they expand their horizons through a legal education at Alabama Law.
Our strength as an institution is also evidenced through the fruits of our program. According to data provided by U.S. News & World Report, students in the Class of 2020 who took on loans to study law graduated with the lowest average debt of any school in the Top 25. This is important because debt can influence graduates’ professional choices and opportunities. Also, as you’ll see later in this magazine, data from the ABA rank Alabama Law in the Top 10 nationally for the percentage of graduates who secured federal judicial clerkships. Additionally, 96% of the Class
of 2020 are meaningfully employed or pursuing further graduate studies within 10 months of graduation. Each of these points confirms that, even in an employment market that’s been riddled with uncertainty, our graduates are prepared and are succeeding as they enter the profession.
I can assure you that none of our success would be possible without the ongoing support of our alumni and friends. It is you who have built a foundation for these rising students to succeed. It is your donations that help to keep their debt within limits. And it is you who are hiring our students, providing them opportunities to build upon the legacy that you yourselves have created.
I hope that you take satisfaction in the part you have played in making Alabama Law all that it is today. I extend my sincerest thanks for your support and for choosing to be a continuing part of our community.
All good wishes,
Mark E. Brandon
Dean and Thomas E. McMillan Professor of Law
Caroline Stephens Milner (’18) has been selected to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during a soon-to-be determined term.
Milner is the first Alabama Law graduate to earn a SCOTUS clerkship since Charles Cooper, founding member and the chairman of Cooper & Kirk in Washington D.C., who clerked for Justice William H. Rehnquist from 1978-1979.
Looking forward to her clerkship, Milner shared, “I’m truly honored by this opportunity, and I’m going to work very hard to do whatever I can to assist Justice Thomas.”
Until her clerkship begins, Milner will be working for Kirkland and Ellis in Washington D.C. Previously, she clerked for Chief Judge William H. Pryor, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, served as an associate at Bass, Berry & Sims in Nashville, TN, and clerked for Judge Neomi Rao, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
When asked about working with Milner, Judge Pryor said, “She is a delightful person and a great example of the high-caliber students who attend Alabama Law. They can compete with the best from any elite school. When Caroline clerked for me, her co-clerks (who were also excellent clerks) came from Yale and Chicago—and she was every bit as able as they were.”
Judge Pryor also expressed his excitement for Milner’s family —specifically referencing her father Harold Stephens (‘80) and sister Jordan Hennig (‘15) who both are Alabama Law alumni and work for major law firms in Huntsville, AL.
As a 2L Alabama Law student, Halle Diaz represented an elderly, disabled woman at risk of being evicted from her long-term care facility due to confusion over whether she was eligible for assisted living. After months of tireless advocacy, Diaz successfully appealed the insurance termination which allowed her client to remain in their home and recoup over $25,000 in back pay.
While Diaz’s experience is remarkable, she is just one of many Alabama Law students who are gaining experience representing clients while still in school. Alabama Law boasts six specialized clinics in which students provide free legal assistance to low-income individuals under the supervision of a practicing attorney. These clinics focus on a variety of substantive areas and cases such as civil litigation, entrepreneurship, non-profits, children’s rights, and domestic violence law.
Diaz doesn’t know exactly what direction she will go post-graduation. However, she shared that her experience working this case will benefit her long-term career pursuits.
“UA is an incredible law school that gives you hands-on experience. Alabama has great professors who care about who you are and what you want out of law school and try to help you get there,” Diaz explained.
Professor Shahar Dillbary of The University of Alabama School of Law and Professor Griffin Edwards of the Collat School of Business at The University of Alabama, Birmingham were named the Dukeminier Awards’ Stu Walter Prize winners for their co-authored article, An Empirical Analysis of Sexual Orientation Discrimination, 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1 (2019). The Dukeminier Awards are bestowed annually by The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law in recognition of the best law review articles concerning sexual orientation and gender identity.
The study produced by Dillbary and Edwards is the first to empirically demonstrate widespread discrimination across the United States based on perceived sexual orientation, sex, and race in the mortgage lending process. From an analysis of more than five million mortgage applications, their findings reveal that any FHA loan application filed by same-sex male co-applicants is significantly less likely to be approved when compared with the white heterosexual baseline (holding lending risk constant). Dillbary and Griffin trace this pattern to sexual orientation-based discrimination despite the fact that FHA loans are the only type of loan in which discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited.
In April 2021, Alabama Law’s Charles E. Tweedy, Jr., Endowed Chairholder of Law and Director of the Program in Constitutional Studies, Tara Leigh Grove, was selected as a Commissioner for the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States—which was formed by an executive order issued by President Biden.
Serving as a bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the debate over reforming the Court, the Commission consists of top legal and academic scholars from across the country, former federal judges, and leading legal practitioners.
According to The White House, “the Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform—including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals. The topics it is examining include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court’s role in the constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court’s case selection, rules, and practices.”
Professor Grove joined the University of Alabama School of Law in June of 2020. She graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as the Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review. Grove clerked for Judge Emilio Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and
then spent four years as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Appellate Staff, where she argued fifteen cases in the courts of appeals. Grove has served as a visiting professor at both Harvard Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Recent Alabama Law graduate, Scott Sloss, was inducted into the 2021 Equal Justice Works Initiative Class of Fellows. Joining a talented group of awardees among an initial pool of more than 450 applicants, Scott was one of the few students from across the nation to receive this award.
Recipients of the Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellowship can choose between joining an existing EJW program or creating a fellowship of their own that benefits an underserved community. Considering his military career and several years working with the VA,
Scott elected to dedicate his own fellowship to offer legal assistance to Tuscaloosa County veterans.
Through the life of the two-year fellowship, Scott will be sponsored by global companies Shearman and Sterling LLP and Thompson Reuters as he serves the nearly 10,000 veterans living in Tuscaloosa County. He will offer direct representation and legal advice for these individuals and their families and host legal clinics in the Tuscaloosa County area. Upon completion of his fellowship, Scott hopes to create a long-term clinic at Alabama Law.
As a 1L student, Kyra Perkins was selected to join Elie Honig, CNN legal analyst, as a co-host on the Café Studios Podcast “Third Degree.” Perkins was the only 1L and one of
just three law students from across the country who was selected for this honor—the other two selectees being Harvard and NYU Law students.
Perkins’ first appearance on the podcast was in February 2021, and she will continue to join
Honig, on a monthly basis, as a co-host through February of 2022.
Originally from Birmingham, Perkins received her undergraduate degree from Emory University in economics. She chose to attend The University of Alabama School of Law after participating in the annual “Diversity Matters Open House” where she was impressed by the vast array of opportunities, including clinical experience, offered to the Law School’s students. Upon graduation, Perkins is interested in working in entertainment and media law, focusing on contracts and IP.
In February, Professor Susan Donovan was appointed to the Alabama Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution. In this position, Donovan helps lead the development of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Alabama. Her service will run through December of 2023.
At the Law School, Donovan is the director the Mediation Law Clinic—which offers free mediation services to help families reduce the emotional trauma associated with prolonged family court litigation. In this clinic, Alabama Law students receive professional training, as they assume the role of mediator, which gives them real-world experience and prepares them for careers as lawyers and mediators.
Alabama Law is proud to announce that Professor Daiquiri Steele has rejoined the School of Law as an Assistant Professor. Her research examines whether and how anti-discrimination laws help ensure equal access to employment and education—both of which are crucial determinants of socioeconomic mobility.
Professor Steele originally joined The University of Alabama School of Law in 2016 through a hybrid administrative/faculty role as Director of Diversity & Inclusion and Assistant Professor of Law in Residence. From 2019-2021, she served as a Forrester Fellow at Tulane University Law School before rejoining the Alabama Law faculty. Professor Steele formerly served as a Civil Rights Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, where she provided legal counsel relating to federal investigations of discrimination involving the nation’s school districts, colleges, universities, and state educational agencies. Professor Steele’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and Boston University Law Review, and her recent projects focus on retaliation and whistleblower statutes.
In September, the Alabama Law Program in Constitutional Studies hosted an academic
roundtable event to discuss the new book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech written by Harvard Law Professor, Martha Minow.
Moderated by Professor Tara Grove, director of the Program in Constitutional Studies at Alabama Law, the roundtable included a strong lineup of scholars including Martha Minow (Harvard Law School), Jack Balkin (Yale Law School), Jane Roberta Bambauer (University of Arizona Law), Leslie Kendrick (University of Virginia School of Law), Genevieve Lakier (University of Chicago Law School), Helen Norton (Colorado Law), Robert Post (Yale Law School), Geoffrey Stone (University of Chicago Law School), Nadine Strossen (New York Law School), Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law), and Jeremy Waldron (NYU School of Law).
Based on the content in Professor Minow’s book, this group discussed the importance of the First Amendment and what role the government can and should play at a time when our culture has transitioned from relying on traditional fact-checked publications to consuming news through social and online media platforms.
One of the main purposes of the First Amendment Roundtable was to offer an experience that supports the Program’s in Constitutional Studies’ larger Civic Engagement Initiative. In this case, the roundtable created a space for a diverse group of legal scholars, who hold differing opinions and come from various backgrounds, the opportunity to work together to discuss the government’s potential role in regulating the private enterprises whose platforms facilitate the spread of information and, in some cases, misinformation.
According to Professor Grove, “The Civic Engagement Initiative aims to facilitate meaningful conversations across political and ideological lines. That can be more challenging when people disagree about the ‘facts on the ground.’ So, it’s important to think about where people are getting their information. This event was one opportunity to consider the role of the media in our society.”
The September Roundtable was just one of several Civic Engagement Initiative events the Alabama Law Program in Constitutional Studies plans to host. On January 18, 2022, the Program will be holding a panel featuring free speech experts Nadine Strossen—professor at New York Law School and former president of the ACLU, and Keith Whittington—professor of politics at Princeton University. The panel will be moderated by Professor Bryan Fair of Alabama Law, and the event will be open to the public. Additional details about this event are forthcoming. If you are interested in learning more about this panel or about the Program in Constitutional Studies, please reach out to media@law.ua.edu.
Rashad Blossom (’05) of Charlotte, NC recently released his new book Crush Debt, End Stress: An Insider’s Guide to Bankruptcy in North Carolina.
David R. Boyd (’76) was elected president of the Alabama Law Institute in Montgomery, AL.
Lauren M. Carey (’16 LL.M.) joined Kanner Baker, LLC as a partner in Atlanta, GA.
Ayla Luers Connor (’15) has been named partner at Boulier Thompson & Barnes in Spartanburg, SC.
Leigh Davis (’97), vice president for economic community development at Alabama Power Company, was selected to serve as chair to the Board of Overseers at Samford University for a three-year term.
Ashlee Riopka Elrod (’13) was elected shareholder at Maynard Cooper & Gale. She practices in the firm’s Birmingham, AL office.
Ambria L. Lankford (’09) joined Ken Perry Law Firm LLC as an attorney in Birmingham, AL.
Marcus Maples (’06) has been elected as Secretary-Treasurer of the Birmingham Bar Association.
Amy Hubbard Marlowe (’93) of Sylacauga, AL was named the executive director of The Alabama Education Association.
Sid McAnnally (’90) was named president and CEO of ONE Gas Inc. in Tulsa, OK.
Montrece McNeill Ransom (’01) was named director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training at the National Network of Public Health Institutes in New Orleans. She also served as lead editor onthe recently released Springer Publishing textbook Public Health Law: Concepts and Case Studies.
Heather Miller (’12), was appointed as associate circuit judge for the 26th Judicial Circuit in Missouri.
Jilisa Milton (’19) of Montgomery was elected at the vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild.
Russell Register (’15), was promoted to Associate Director of Enforcement and liaison to the Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Tazewell “Taze” Shepard III (’79) recently started his term as the 146th Alabama State Bar President.
Jonathan L. Shugart Jr. (’13), of Birmingham, AL, recently launched B Charitable, Inc. a tax-exempt entity that uses modern technology to streamline charitable giving.
Allison Skinner (’94) has been elected as the 2021 President- Elect of the Birmingham Bar Association. She is also the 2021 Miss Nina Miglianico Paving the Way Award recipient presented by the Birmingham Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Section.
Stephen W. Still Jr. (’05) was elected president of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association in Auburn, AL.
These Notes were Selected from previous Monthly Alumni Newsletters from the past year. To submit a Class Note to be included in a future monthly newsletter, please send a message to media@law.ua.edu
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W. Percy Badham III
J. Alan Bannister
Travis M. Bedsole, Jr.
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Andrew P. Campbell
Samuel N. Crosby
Mark Crosswhite
W. Anthony Davis III
Richard T. Dorman
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Michael D. Waters
Hon. W. Harold Albritton III
Hon. Milton E. Belcher
William N. Clark
John D. Clements
Brittin T. Coleman
N. Lee Cooper
Gregory S. Cusimano
Thomas R. Elliott, Jr.
Dean Charles W. Gamble
Gene Hamby, Jr.
Ben H. Harris, Jr.
James F. Hughey
Jr. William P. Jackson, Jr.
Frank S. James III
D. Paul Jones, Jr.
Stephen D. Kane
Byrd R. Latham
S. Jack Livingston
William D. Melton
Larry W. Morris
E. Maurice Rogers
Sydney S. Smith
Lowell Womack
Dean Mark E. Brandon
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Hon. John H. England, Jr.
Vanessa Leonard
W. Davis Malone III
Evelyn VanSant Mauldin
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Kimberly K. Rucker
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This year, the School of Law honored five individuals during the annual Alabama Law Alumni Society award celebration, which was held virtually. The ceremony featured two new awards —the Alabama Lawyer Hall of Honor and the Rising Young Attorney Award—which were presented alongside the prestigious Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award. Congratulations to the following awardees:
The Sam W. Pipes Award is the highest honor bestowed by the School of Law, and it is given to an outstanding alumnus or alumna who has distinguished himself or herself through service to the Bar, The University of Alabama, and the School of Law.
Frank M. Bainbridge I Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith
Frank M. Bainbridge took his LL.B. from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1956. He is a partner with
Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith in Birmingham, Alabama, and he has practiced law for more than fifty years— representing individuals, small businesses, and closely held corporations. Bainbridge is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a charter member of the Atticus Finch Society of the Alabama State Bar, and a recipient of the Lawyer of the Year Award from the Birmingham Bar Association. He has also been repeatedly listed in Best Lawyers in America.
The Alabama Law Hall of Honor is a new award established by the Board of Governors of the Law School Foundation that recognizes individuals who have contributed significantly to the legal profession and to the Law School over an extended period of time.
Walker Percy Badham III I Badham & Buck
Walker Percy Badham III took his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1982 and is a founding partner of Badham & Buck in Birmingham, Alabama. He has practiced law for more than 33 years, focusing on complex litigation, business disputes, insurance coverage, class actions, and personal injury litigation. In his career, he has served as President of Alabama Young Lawyers, Director of the Trial Academy for the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the American Bar Association, and has consistently been listed in Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers. Badhamis also the immediate past President of the Law School Foundation’s Board of Governors and he currently serves as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Law School.
Bryan K. Fair I The University of Alabama School of Law
Bryan K. Fair took his J.D. from UCLA and is the Thomas E. Skinner Professor for The University of Alabama School of Law—where he has been a faculty member for more than 25 years. Fair has served as Director of Diversity, Director of International Programs, Associate Dean for Special Programs, Coach of Moot Court Teams and Faculty Advisor to numerous student organizations at the Law School. Throughout his career, Fair has been a tireless advocate for the recruitment and retention of minority students. He is also the author of Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action (NYU Press, 1997) and served as an Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Alabama for several years.
Julia Smeds Roth I Eyster, Key, Tubb, Roth, Middleton & Adams, LLP
Julia Smeds Roth took her J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1977, and she is a partner with Eyster, Key, Tubb, Roth, Middleton & Adams, LLP, in Decatur, Alabama. Her practice involves decedents’ estates, elder law, probate law, family law, civil litigation, and complex federal multidistrict litigation. Roth has served as Chair of the Client Security
Task Force of the Alabama State Bar, President of the Morgan County Bar Association, and special counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the Alabama House of Representatives, and she is a member of the prestigious Alabama
Law Institute—having served on the Executive Committee for the Institute. In addition, she is serving on the Law School’s Capital Campaign Committee, is a member of the Law School Patrons, is a
past President of the Law School Foundation’s Board of Governors, and is a recipient of the Athena International Leadership Award from the Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce.
The Rising Young Attorney Award is a new honor that recognizes a recent graduate who has shown significant leadership and purposeful service to the legal profession, their community, and the School of Law.
Sharonda Childs Fancher I Baker Donelson
Sharonda Childs Fancher took her J.D. from The University of Alabama School of Law in 2013, and she is an associate with Baker Donelson where she has built a thriving legal practice advising clients on a variety of employment matters. Previously, she served as a law clerk to The Honorable Inge P. Johnson, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama. Fancher has been listed among the Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch,” was named the Leukemia
& Lymphoma Society’s 2015 Birmingham Woman of the Year, and has provided pro bono legal assistance to the United States Conference of Mayors and other organizations seeking to add the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Nominations for the Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Alabama Lawyer Hall of Honor, and the Alabama Rising Young Attorney Award are open year-round. These awards, established by the Law School Foundation Board of Governors and the Alabama Law Alumni Society Leadership Council, are awarded annually during the Alabama Law Alumni Society Banquet which takes place each February. To learn more or make a nomination visit: https://www.law.ua.edu/alumni/awards/.
While all federal agencies are tasked with the mission of enforcing federal statutes and regulations, they each face the challenge of working with limited resources to advance that mission. For the immigration bureaucracy, comprised of principally of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the challenge is substantial. Since the 1990s, Congress has expanded the grounds for deportation, rendering millions of noncitizens deportable: long- term residents and recent entrants alike. But the government cannot deport more than a small fraction of the deportable population in any given year due to insufficient resources and logistical challenges— in addition to humanitarian considerations. Accordingly, the immigration bureaucracy must select whom to pursue. Congress assigns the responsibility of setting enforcement priorities to the DHS Secretary, but the President has a key role in shaping enforcement priorities, which the DHS Secretary communicates in the form of a guidance memorandum to the DHS rank and file.
My research focuses on the role of the President in structuring immigration enforcement discretion and how different conceptions of the immigration system shape enforcement policy. Under Article II of the Constitution, the President must “take care the laws be faithfully executed.” This generally means that the President cannot suspend valid statutes, and a President who refuses to enforce the law abdicates this constitutional duty. But the Take Care Clause also empowers the President to exercise prosecutorial discretion, to decide not to pursue some offenders due to resource constraints or other considerations.
We saw a surge in discussion of the President’s duty of faithful execution in immigration law when former President Obama announced a program called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), which was ultimately never implemented. A counterpart to the better-known Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, DAPA would have temporarily shielded additional deportable noncitizens from deportation based on being parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
The State of Texas successfully sued to enjoin the implementation of DAPA. Raising statutory and constitutional claims, Texas argued that a policy shielding some deportable noncitizens from deportation, even temporarily, amounted to “abdication” of the duty to execute immigration law. Although the federal courts decided the case on statutory grounds rather than the Take Care Clause, scholars have debated whether DAPA amounted to presidential “abdication” instead of a more ordinary exercise of prosecutorial discretion.
Obama’s immigration bureaucracy implemented both targeted lenience and heightened enforcement. Known in some circles as the “deporter-in-chief” for the record number of deportations during his administration, Obama characterized his enforcement philosophy as focusing on “felons not families.” In a nutshell, he took the view that not all deportable noncitizens are the same.
Since Obama left office, his successors have taken radically different approaches to enforcement discretion. For example, former President Trump took a maximalist approach to immigration enforcement. Disavowing Obama’s approach of protecting some while deporting many, Trump announced that everyone was a target. By adopting unusually broad enforcement priorities, he made virtually every deportable noncitizen a priority. But because only some can be apprehended in any given year, this approach effectively delegated to DHS’s rank and file the decision of whom to pursue. Rather than guide these officers’ exercise of discretion, Trump and his DHS leadership took the view that it didn’t matter which deportable noncitizens were apprehended—they were all equally worthy of deportation.
The total devolution of discretion to low-level officers raises questions about adequate supervision. As supervisor of the bureaucracy, does the President have the responsibility to draw lines among deportable noncitizens, given the impossibility of full enforcement? Or is it appropriate to assign rank and file officers the responsibility for deciding who stays and who’s deported?
These questions continue to dominate immigration debates in the new administration. Consider litigation over President Biden’s temporary moratorium on deportations. On January 22, 2021, Acting DHS Secretary David Pekoske issued agency guidance imposing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations. The moratorium excluded four categories of deportable noncitizens, including recent entrants and those suspected of terrorism or espionage. The Administration justified the moratorium as enabling DHS to focus its “resources where they are most needed.”
The State of Texas sued to enjoin the moratorium, citing irreparable monetary harm of not executing all final orders of removal. The federal government argued that the governing statute, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), contemplates throughgoing discretion on the front end and the back end of the removal process. For a new administration seeking to reset immigration policy and undo the predecessor’s legacy, it argued, a 100-day “pause” was a permissible exercise of discretion.
The district court sided with Texas and issued an injunction on statutory grounds. But it would be a mistake to view the district court’s decision as purely a matter of statutory interpretation. The court’s conclusion follows what some view to be the purpose of immigration enforcement, namely, maximizing the number of deportations. Through this perspective, any policy that impedes the removal of deportable noncitizens frustrates the purpose of enforcement.
But that has not always been how federal courts, or even the immigration bureaucracy itself, characterize the purposes of the immigration system and of enforcement specifically. In
a 2011 case, the Supreme Court emphasized the immigration bureaucracy’s need to consider a deportable noncitizen’s “fitness to remain” in the country when granting relief, gauged with reference to family ties, service in the Armed Forces, and other traditional equities. DHS’s enforcement arm also characterizes its mission not merely as deporting the deportable, but as advancing national security, public safety, and economic welfare through enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. Not every deportation advances the agency’s mission. Not all noncitizens compete for jobs citizens would otherwise take, and few have criminal convictions or threaten national security. In some instances, deportation threatens these objectives. But if that’s true, then it becomes difficult to justify a maximalist strategy that refuses to acknowledge relevant differences across deportable noncitizens.
Although the district court decided Texas’s challenge to the moratorium ostensibly on statutory grounds, Texas had raised a Take Care Clause claim as well. The contours of the President’s duty of faithful execution in immigration law remains an open question. In the near term, the Supreme Court may be called upon to provide answers.
The most recent ABA Employment Report data shows that the Alabama Law Class of 2020 ranks 10th in the nation for federal clerkship placements*. While this may be surprising to some, this standing is not unprecedented—over the past five years, Alabama Law’s aggregate clerkship ranking is, in fact, 13th nationally.
The credit for this incredible success belongs to our students for their hard work and diligence in earning these opportunities. However, their collective success does not stand in isolation. It takes intensive recruiting from an admissions office that is committed to bringing in increasingly impressive classes of first-year students year-over-year; dedicated mentorship from a talented pool of professors, many of whom have performed their own clerkships in years past; and a very proactive Career Services Office that is continually helping our students find and prepare for these opportunities. And none of this would be possible without the generous donations provided by our Law School alumni and friends. To steal from the proverbial phrase, it has taken a village to come this far.
In total, Alabama Law’s Class of 2020 had 15 students who earned federal clerkships and eight additional students who landed state clerkships. Below, a few of these students share their experiences:
Anne-Miles Golson | Clerked for Circuit Judge Andrew Brasher | U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
“Whether I was analyzing briefs, observing seasoned advocates during oral arguments, or reading the Judge’s work, I was constantly learning from some of the best legal minds. I cannot overemphasize the impact that experience has already had or the confidence it has given me as I transition into private practice.”
Shontel Stewart | Clerked for Associate Justice Sarah Stewart, Alabama Supreme Court
“I really enjoy clerking because of the relationships that are formed in close-knit chambers. I am grateful that, because of my experiences as a clerk, I will have a tool belt that is fully-equipped for legal practice. Nothing compares to the feeling of seeing a published opinion that you drafted quoted and relied upon in future cases.”
Atticus DeProspo | Clerked for Judge L. Scott Coogler, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama | Clerked Judge Steven Menashi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
“My clerkship experiences provided me with great institutional knowledge that will be helpful as I pursue a career as a litigator—which will require me to leverage these experiences when serving as an advocate for clients. Most importantly, I gained two great mentors and role models who have supported and advised me as I make decisions about my legal career moving forward.”
Stephanie Avant | Clerked for Judge Madeline H. Haikala, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
“Not having to do the same thing day in and day out is undersold, because it makes you and outside-the-box thinker and that is what will set you apart from others who graduated with you or even before you.”
McGavinn Brown | Clerked for United States District Judge L. Scott Coogler, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama| Clerked for Judge Eugene Siler, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
Clerking has been useful for at least two reasons. For one, it’s given me confidence. I think most new lawyers, me included, have a healthy (or unhealthy) dose of imposter syndrome. Clerking can be a Wizard-of-Oz-like experience; you see that most lawyers—young and old—encounter difficult questions every day, and everyone is just doing their best to figure it out. Second, clerking has given me a chance to improve my writing and research skills. I’m excited to finish this second term and start working with clients of my own. I thank Alabama Law for all of the opportunities it’s afforded me.
Many of the professors and staff members at Alabama Law performed clerkships as well. In doing so, they understand the importance of these experiences and they are able to help prepare the next generation of students to qualify for these most prestigious positions.
Heather Elliott, Alumni, Class of ’36 Professor of Law & Chair of Alabama Law Clerkship Program | Clerked for Judge Merrick Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | Clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States
As the chair of the Law School’s Clerkship Committee, I am lucky enough to help students find post-graduate clerkships with federal and state judges at all levels. I work closely with Dean Megan Walsh of the Career Services Office and with other faculty to ensure that students are aware of clerkship opportunities and know how best to seek them.
I understand how valuable these experiences are, because I was a law clerk: I clerked for then-Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. Both expected a great deal, but neither sought anything from their clerks that they didn’t demand in triplicate from themselves. Serving as a law clerk taught me how to be a better thinker, a better communicator, and a better person. I delight in helping our law students find opportunities for similar experiences.
Ronald Krotoszynski, John S. Stone Chairholder of Law & Director of Faculty Research | Clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
At Alabama Law, we can teach students the legal rules of the road—but we cannot teach them practical judgment about how those rules work in the real world. In a federal judicial clerkship, a law clerk learns how legal rules, many of which contain more than a little play in the joints, actually map on to particular facts and circumstances. The kind of practical wisdom that a law clerk obtains from working with a federal judge is something that we just cannot replicate in a classroom; it’s a particularly useful, and valuable, way of learning by doing.
To learn more about the Alabama Law Clerkship Program, please contact Heather Elliott (helliott@law.ua.edu).
Did you know?
Caroline Stephens Milner, a member of the Alabama Law Class of 2018, was recently selected for a clerkship on the Supreme Court of the United States with the Honorable Justice Clarence Thomas. Read her story on page (2).
*These rankings are determined by calculating the percentage of students who earn these positions
When we think of prosecutors, we typically think of full-time, salaried, government employees. But those who watched the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin saw another model on display—volunteer prosecutors. Volunteer prosecutors are in fact surprisingly common, albeit not in murder cases. They exist in state and federal prosecutors’ offices in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Some cities have large volunteer prosecutor programs. Until last year, a large Minneapolis-based law firm provided a steady stream of pro bono attorneys to the local prosecutor’s office—prosecuting hundreds of misdemeanor cases each year against disproportionately Black defendants. That program lasted for 42 years. Other volunteer prosecution occurs outside a formal program, whether as full-time unpaid employment or part-time pro bono practice. To gain a better understanding of volunteer prosecution, I examined news coverage and interviewed law school career services employees. I wanted to understand why people volunteer as prosecutors, why prosecutors’ offices hire volunteers, and how we should think as a society about volunteer prosecution.
The primary reason that prosecutors’ offices hire volunteers is straightforward: to bring more prosecutions than they otherwise could with their limited budgets. The Los Angeles City Attorney, for instance, was transparent about the benefit of volunteers: “If it wasn’t for this [volunteer prosecutor] program, we wouldn’t have a criminal division.” The U.S. Attorney in Nashville explained that volunteer prosecutors allowed his office to “do more cases.” Houston partnered with local law firms to launch its volunteer prosecutor program when the county refused the District Attorney’s request to hire more paid prosecutors.
The more complex question, perhaps, is why would someone prosecute for free? One important reason is to gain an employment advantage. Some recent law school graduates volunteer as prosecutors because they hope to get a paying job in that prosecutors’ office or elsewhere. Perhaps the DA’s office in their home county does not have an opening when they graduate but expects to have one soon—come work here until we have an opening, the DA might say, and then you’ll have a leg up for that position. Other graduates cannot find paid employment, so they gain work experience and the resume boost of working in the DA’s office. Some law schools subsidize that volunteering to help their alumni get a foothold. Volunteer prosecution is not limited to recent graduates though. Later in their careers lawyers may volunteer as prosecutors (and sometimes as their full-time jobs); one reason is to pave a path to political or judicial office.
People prosecute for free not only to gain employment advantage. Some want to serve their communities and promote public safety. We could think of this as altruism. At least for some, however, locking up members of an outgroup might be what sates that desire to promote public safety, whether consciously or not. It is tempting to say that lawyers giving their time to gain valuable case experience and supplement the government’s scarce resources is noble and good; it is a “win-win,” as one U.S. Attorney put it. My point is that we should not jump to that conclusion so quickly.
Volunteer prosecution should give us some pause when we reflect from a critical distance. Criminal codes are vast, and prosecutors have sweeping discretion about how to implement them. The most important constraint on prosecutorial discretion is limited budgets and the ensuing need to prioritize some cases over others. Yet volunteer prosecution allows the government to evade that constraint to bring more low-level cases than elected officials have been willing to pay for. In this way, volunteer prosecution—much like other criminal law practices such as asset forfeiture or fines and fees—allows prosecutors to cast a wider net than their budgets would otherwise permit.
Last year saw sweeping protests in many parts of the country advocating a smaller footprint for criminal law. Aggrandizing prosecutors’ labor force so that they may cast wider nets does the opposite. That most volunteer prosecutors focus on misdemeanor and petty offense cases raises substantial racial justice concerns too. Misdemeanor defendants are even more disproportionately people of color than are felony defendants. Volunteers thus allow prosecutors’ offices to bring more cases disproportionately ensnaring people of color than they otherwise could. Those concerns led a Minneapolis law firm to cancel its volunteer prosecutor program in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
In closing, I want to briefly raise another concern: perhaps volunteer prosecution, like unpaid work in other economic sectors, favors those with wealth. Who can afford to work for free after law school, sometimes for several years? One answer is people whose families will pay their expenses. Skewing the prosecutor workforce toward those with familial wealth would be troubling. Prosecutors wield massive discretion against largely poor defendants. Prosecutors from wealthier families may have a harder time identifying with largely poor defendants and may thus be overly punitive because they view the defendants as “other” rather than as people like themselves who made a mistake.
I do not seek to besmirch those who volunteer as prosecutors because that is the most promising route to their dream job or because it allows them to gain skills while seeking paid employment in other types of law practice. And I believe that many people prosecute for free out of a desire to serve the public. But I seek to temper enthusiasm for such programs by analyzing systemic concerns that are easy to overlook amidst the desire to praise volunteer work; I question whether expanding the reach of criminal law to sweep in more low-level offenses actually serves the public well.
In sum, volunteer prosecutors represent a complex phenomenon that offers important benefits to the volunteers. But volunteer prosecutors are not the win-win that some have publicly claimed them to be.
This Fall, the University of Alabama kicked off The Rising Tide Capital Campaign—which is scheduled to run through September 2026. Joining the University’s efforts to raise $1.5 billion during the campaign, the School of Law has set a goal of $30 million—all of which will directly benefit the next generation of students and faculty at Alabama Law.
To acknowledge the many donors who are supporting the Law School’s fundraising effort, Dean Brandon introduced The 50 |150 Capital Alliance. The name of the Alliance is linked to two important anniversaries, each of which Alabama Law will celebrate in 2022: the 50th Anniversary of the graduation of the first African American students at Alabama Law and the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the School of Law. The 50 | 150 Capital Alliance consists of a community of alumni, students, and friends who have chosen to invest in the Law School’s future by making financial contributions to the Law School during the Rising Tide Capital Campaign.
As a Top-25 Law School – Top 10 among publicly supported law schools – Alabama Law has established itself as a long-standing institution that is committed to serving the state of Alabama while simultaneously building a nationally renowned program. However, this momentum forward cannot continue without the ongoing financial support of alumni and friends.
Paula Hinton, Chair of the Law School Capital Campaign Committee, urges alumni to give back to the law school that “set each of us on our course.”
“Every donation matters—large or small—in helping the students who have followed after us. We owe it to the legal community and to Alabama Law,” said Hinton.
She explained that donors can request how they want their dollars to be used. This offers the satisfaction of knowing what specific student, faculty member, program or other aspect of the law school has been helped and/or enhanced through each gift.
“Each of us has the responsibility,” says Hinton, “to do what we can to support the next generation of students at Alabama Law and to make our legal profession better.”
Every year, one fortunate and hard-working Alabama Law student is awarded the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Endowed Scholarship—a fund that was formed in memory of Judge and Mrs. Johnson by his former law clerks.
Tyler Smoot, a 2021 Alabama Law graduate who was the recipient of this scholarship during the final two years of his law school, credits the financial support of this endowment for providing the means to allow him to earn his law degree.
“I never would have been able to go to law school in the first place without my tuition being covered. I have a wife and two kids and because of this scholarship my kids are able to have food on the table and go to daycare while I earn my degree,” Smoot explained.
Upon graduation, Smoot began a federal clerkship with Judge Karen Bowdre in Birmingham and he hopes to lead a career in civil rights law.
When reflecting on how the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. scholarship has helped set the stage for his career, Smoot shared, “Because of this scholarship, I can actually find a job in something I’m passionate about instead of settling for the first one I’m offered because I’m worried about my debt. I can focus on creating some positive change and I’m just really glad that someone, somewhere believed in me.”
Experiences like Tyler’s are not possible without generous donations from alumni and friends. If you are interested in making a donation to Alabama Law during the Rising Tide Campaign, please contact Caroline Strawbridge
AccessLex Law Student Emergency Relief Fund
The AccessLex Institute donated $25,000 to establish the AccessLex Law Student Emergency Relief Fund that supports students who have faced undue hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund provides financial assistance including food, shelter, and transportation expenses.
John Gamble Family Scholarship
Joseph G. Gamble, Jr. (’50) formerly of Birmingham, Alabama bequeathed through his estate funds to establish The John Gamble Family Scholarship to honor his grandfather John Gamble, his father Joseph G. Gamble, and other descendants of John Gamble who have been a part of the legal profession in Alabama for five generations since 1871. The endowment will be used to award scholarships to students.
Janie Hall Legacy Scholarship Fund
India D. Williams (’12) of Washington, DC established The Janie Hall Legacy Scholarship Fund in memory of her grandmother. The scholarship will be awarded to a first or second-year female students whose achievements place them in the top 15% of their class and whose enrollment enhances the diversity of the Law School’s student population.
John Hollis Jackson, Jr. and Rebecca M. Jackson Endowed Scholarship
John Hollis Jackson, Jr. (’66) of Tuscaloosa, Alabama established The John Hollis Jackson, Jr. and Rebecca M. Jackson Endowed Scholarship Fund. The award will be given to students who are second or third-year law student interested in practicing local government law, education law, real estate law, or probate law.
The Manley Servicemen and Veterans Program Endowed Support Fund
Alyce M. Spruell (’83) of Northport, Alabama established The Manley Servicemen and Veterans Program Endowed Support Fund in memory of her father Richard S. Manley, class of 1958. The endowment will be used to support veterans’ initiatives including serving the military, the veterans legal assistance program, scholarships and expenses related to the Veterans Legal Assistance Clinic.
The George A. McCain, Jr. Endowed Scholarship
George A. McCain (’56), formerly of Houston, Texas bequeathed through his estate funds to establish The George A. McCain, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund. The fund will be used to provide scholarships for students at the Law School.
The William H. Mills Symposium on Legal Ethics and Professionalism Fund
William H. Mills (’56), formerly of Birmingham, Alabama bequeathed through his estate funds to establish The William H. Mills Symposium on Legal Ethics and Professionalism Fund. The endowment shall be used to support the symposium and the Journal of the Legal Profession.
Formerly the Farrah Law Alumni Society
July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Farrah Fellow (gifts $5,000 or more)
Clara L. Fryer
Hon. Truman M. Hobbs, Jr.
Larry W. Morris
Robert E. Parsons
Dean’s Counselor (gifts $1,000 – $4,999)
Bryan C. Adams
John C. Bell
Mark S. Boardman
Spencer A. Bomar
David R. Boyd
Dean Mark E. Brandon
Robert C. Brock, Jr.
Julian D. Butler
Andrew P. Campbell
Hon. Joseph A. Colquitt
Silas G. Cross, Jr.
Mark A. Crosswhite
Laura L. Crum
Dr. Jonathan J. Davies
Michael T. Dawkins
William H. Donovan III
Joe D. Edge
Judy W. Evans
Hon. D. Gregory Geary
Hon. Eddie J. Hardaway, Jr.
Hon. Robert B. Harwood, Jr.
Oliver P. Head
Helene W. Hibbard
Joyce C. Hobbs
John Hollis Jackson, Jr.
Thomas H. Keene
Hon. Hardie B. Kimbrough, Sr.
Jini Koh
Van W. Lane
Curtis O. Liles III
Mr. Jon N. Loupe
Dale Marsh
James C. McCaskill
Susan B. Molen
Donald R. Moody
Jeffrey W. Parmer
Richard J. Raleigh Jr.
Robert P. Reynolds
Christopher S. Simmons
Michael S. Stutts
Will H. Tankersley, Jr.
Ms. Lynne Windham
Dean’s Partner (gifts $500 – $999)
Jere L. Beasley, Sr.
Thomas W. Bowron II
Heather C. Brock
Richard G. Brock
Dr. David G. Bronner
Eleanor I. Brooks
Col. Todd A. Brown
Johnathan L. Butler
Brian L. Church
Hon. Sue Bell Cobb
Clark A. Cooper
Jill V. Deer
Richard T. Dorman
Charles R. Ducker, Jr.
Patricia F. Emens
Prof. Steven C. Emens
Michael D. Ermert
Matthew T. Franklin
Richard S. Franklin
Emily R. Gnam
Larry W. Harper
William I. Hill II
Hon. J. Gorman Houston, Jr.
Mary Scott Hunter
William P. Jackson, Jr.
Hon. Gay M. Lake, Jr.
Othni J. Lathram
Robin G. Laurie
William B. Long
Victor H. Lott, Jr.
Alan D. Mathis
Joseph B. Mays, Jr.
William D. Melton
Charles L. Newton II
Andrew S. Nix
Maj. Gen. Robert W. Norris
John A. Owens
Herman D. Padgett, Jr.
Virginia C. Patterson
James M. Pool
Jerry W. Powell, Jr.
Frances King Quick
Edward S. Reisinger
Emily L. Santiago
Davis H. Smith
George A. Smith II
Phillip E. Stano
John S. Steiner
Jack P. Stephenson, Jr.
Halron W. Turner
Kevin Vincent
India D. Williams
James W. Wright, Jr.
Dean’s Associate (gifts $250 – $499)
Cynthia L. Almond
Freddi L. Aronov
Hon. Robert W. Barr
Hon. Sonja F. Bivins
Brandy A. Boone
Jess S. Boone
Russell C. Buffkin, Sr.
Davis B. Butler, Jr.
Hon. John F. Butler
Stanley D. Bynum
John C. Calame
Cynthia M. Canada
Larry G. Canada
Tracy W. Cary
Martha A. Chapman
Harwell E. Coale, Jr.
Evelyn H. Coats
Brittin T. Coleman
Paul S. Conger, Jr.
Robert E. Cooper
William R. Corbett
Stewart M. Cox
Ann S. Crosby
Samuel N. Crosby
Gregory S. Cusimano
Mr. Morris S. Dees, Jr.
Hon. Raymond T. Derrick
Matthew T. Dukes
Allyson L. Edwards
William L. Elebash
Prof. Heather Elliott
Clausen Ely, Jr.
Frederick T. Enslen, Jr.
Noah Funderburg
John W. Gant, Jr.
Broox G. Garrett, Jr.
James W. Gewin
Robert M. Girardeau
Reginald T. Hamner
Hon. George N. Hardesty, Jr.
James S. Harvey
Edward T. Hines, Sr.
Johnjerica Hodge
Ralph E. Holt
Ernie Hornsby
Patrick P. Hughes
James F. Hughey, Jr.
Hon. Harold V. Hughston, Jr.
Christopher G. Hume III
Francis M. James
Linda S. James
John Jascob
Norman J. Jetmundsen, Jr.
Stephen D. Kaufmann
Christopher R. Kelley
Col. Lawrence H. Kloess, Jr.
Justin L. Ladner
William R. Lane, Jr.
Byrd R. Latham
Juanita S. Lee
Kenneth E. Little
Deborah J. Long
Marcus M. Maples
Walter F. McArdle
Elizabeth D. McGiffert
Kevin B. McKie
Melissa B. McKie
Glory R. McLaughlin
Hon. J. Lee McPhearson
Charles R. Mixon, Jr.
Dwight L. Mixson, Jr.
Carol G. Moore
Yancey A. Moore III
Harold D. Mooty Jr.
Steven E. Myers
Hon. Claud D. Neilson
Andrew J. Noble III
Hiram Patrenos
David R. Peeler
Thomas K. Pobgee
LeeAnn M. Pounds
Tamara Jenkins Quick
Laura L. Robinson
Patricia B. Rumore
Samuel A. Rumore, Jr.
Hon. William A. Ryan
Woody Sanderson
Bruce B. Siegal
Dwight Sloan
Kyle T. Smith
Matthew W. Stiles
Hon. C. Michael Stilson
Dale B. Stone
Bert P. Taylor
Boice Turner Jr.
Hugh W. Underwood III
Laurence D. Vinson, Jr.
Raymond E. Ward
Bruce C. Webster
Dr. Robert M. Weinacker III
Jeff A. Wells
Jennifer B. Wells
James H. White, Jr.
Hon. Joseph A. Woodruff
David M. Wooldridge
Steven M. Wyatt
Associate (gifts $150 – $249)
James M. Adams
William H. Albritton IV
Frederick W. Allen
Lara M. Alvis
Braxton W. Ashe
Jason Avery
Evan P. Baggett
Hampton Baxley
Travis M. Bedsole, Jr.
Stanley E. Blackmon
Anna M. Blair
Lindsey C. Boney IV
Prof. Kimberly K. Boone
Russell K. Burnette
Philip H. Butler
Hon. Jack Caddell
Lt. Col. John H. Camp, Jr.
Tonja B. Carter
Nathaniel M. Cartmell IV
John D. Clements
Hon. J. William Cole
Kelli C. Cole
Kate G. Courtney
Keith Covington
Timothy O. Coyle
Hon. David W. Crosland III
Christopher T. Dawson
Dr. Sandra B. Dockery
Shirley C. Dorrough
Anne Dutia
Hallman B. Eady
Bruce P. Ely
Hon. John H. England, Jr.
Ross Frazer
Harry W. Gamble, Jr.
William J. Gamble
George C. Garikes
John K. Garrett
Edgar C. Gentle III
Chris Glenos
Vincent J. Graffeo
Hon. John H. Graham
Martha M. Griffith
Juan C. Guerrero
Stephen H. Hall
Ashley H. Hamlett
Stephen Van Hammond
Nathaniel F. Hansford
Judd A. Harwood
Kathryn M. Harwood
Carolyne B. Hess
Ann P. Hill
Jonathan C. Hill
Angela Holt
Joseph C. Hopkins
Gary L. Howard
David G. Hymer
Adam K. Israel
Thomas E. James
Gilbert E. Johnston Jr.
Derrick A. Jones
William A. Just
Dr. Christina Kentros
Jonathan R. Key
Hon. David A. Kimberley
Atley L. Kitchings
Jimmy Long
Roy E. Long
Pamela L. Mable
Kimberly B. Martin
Charles J. Mataya
Paul J. Matthews II
Evelyn V. Mauldin
Robert L. McCurley, Jr.
Edward B. McDonough Jr.
Robert B. McGuinness
Hon. Philip B. McLauchlin, Jr.
Michael S. Mcnair, Sr.
Kimberly H. Memmesheimer
Col. Richard D. Mink
Jamie L. Moore
Marie A. Moore
Daniel P. Ogle
Hon. Charles W. Owen
David W. Owen
James B. Owens III
George R. Parker
Hon. Ali B. Paksoy, Jr.
Dr. Richard J. Pearson, Jr.
Michael K. Perry
Kandice E. Pickett
Gregory B. Pipes
William S. Pritchard III
Thomas B. Proctor
Dr. Paul M. Pruitt, Jr.
Richard A. Rhea
Ryan P. Robichaux
Laura S. Robinson
Hon. John M. Rogers
Paul Vaughan Russell, Jr.
Emily M. Ruzic
Mary F. Samuels
Howard M. Schramm, Jr.
Jack W. Selden
Hon. Jeff B. Sessions III
Elizabeth K. Shaw
Robert H. Shaw, Jr.
William A. Short, Jr.
Clement H. Shugerman
Jade E. Sipes
Edward S. Sledge IV
Frederic L. Smith
John W. Smith T
Hon. William H. Steele
Arthur M. Stephens
Hon. Scott E. Stevens
Joseph G. Stewart
Patricia C. Stewart
Connie R. Stockham
Norman M. Stockman
William R. Stokes, Jr.
Thomas C. Sullivan
James H. Tarbox
David K. Taylor
Michael S. Teal
Braxton S. Thrash
Jeremy D. Tucker
Brooke B. Vinson
Lawrence B. Voit
Megan H. Walsh
Hon. W. Keith Watkins
John D. Watson
Kendrick E. Webb
David B. Welborn
James B. Wiley
Allen G. Woodard
Elizabeth C. Woodard
Junior Associates & Students (gifts of $50 for alumni in the first 4 years after graduation)
Cortlin L. Bond
Philip H. Boyd III
Elizabeth Brown
Daniel S. Culpepper
Austin L. Dickinson
Courtney J. J. Gordon-Tennant
Glenn S. Gray
Joseph S. Green
Sarah E. Gunn
Austin M. Hagood
Hirshel M. Hall
Jeffrey Jimenez
Brenna Johnson
Collin M. Keller
Key Lambreth
Pierce J. Lehr
Tanner A. Love
Julianne Lyn
Douglas C. Martinson III
Kelsie J. Mattox
Shalyn S. McKitt
Stephen P. McKitt
Hunter W. Pearce
Diana J. Snellgrove
William A. Stoll
Marshal Trigg
Andrew B. Tuggle
James A. Walters
Mary Katherine White
Other Gifts
Paul H. Blackwell, Jr.
Hon. Howard F. Bryan IV
Kristi D. Hagood
Hon. Jill L. Vincent
Hon. Milton E. Belcher
Knight Champion III
Patrick B. Collins
Richard L. Daberkow
Bingham D. Edwards
Christopher B. Greene
Rosland T. Hurley
Mr. Stephen W. Mazza
Charles S. Money
Jeffrey T. Powell
Yvonne A. Saxon
Albert J. Schibani
Caroline J. Strawbridge
Gary E. Sullivan
Eric J. Artrip
David Cottingham
William B. Easterling
James E. Ferguson III
Michael L. Forton
Richard A. Furman
Carol T. Montgomery
Ruth Ann Hall
Joseph G. Mitchell
Ann L. Turner
Hugh P. Nicholson
July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Amy Davis Adams
Richard H. Allen
Shawn T. Alves
Noel G. Amason
Grover E. Asmus II
Catherine McCord Bailey
Joyce K. Baker
Jere Locke Beasley
George Lamar Beck, Jr.
Perry Pearce Benton
Melvin S. Blanton
James A. Bradford
Marcus Hill Brakefield
Chad Wesley Bryan
John T. Bryan, Jr.
Brannon Jeffrey Buck
Jennifer Marie Buettner
Glenda G. Bugg
Russell Kane Burnette
Thomas Julian Butler
Frank M. Caprio
Joseph T. Carpenter
Allan J. Chappelle
Edward R. Christian
Thomas H. Christopher
Sara Dominick Clark
Evelyn Hagerty Coats
Brittin T. Coleman
William D. Coleman
William R. Corbett
Steven Christopher Corhern
Roy J. Crawford
Kristen Simms Cross
Mark A. Crosswhite
Donna M. Crowe
Margaret H. Dabbs
Hon. George C. Day, Jr.
Woodford W. Dinning, Jr.
Richard T. Dorman
Bingham D. Edwards, Jr.
Frank C. Ellis, Jr.
Clausen Ely, Jr.
Hon. John E. Enslen
Michael D. Ermert
Louis B. Feld
Harry W. Gamble, Jr.
James W. Gewin
Wesley Bowen Gilchrist
Carl L. Gorday
William Stanley Gregory
Christopher B. Harmon
Ben H. Harris III
Hon. R. Bernard Harwood, Jr.
Robert A. Hawkins
Carleta R. Hawley
Mary Ena J. Heath
Jack E. Held
William F. Horsley
David G. Hymer
Norman Jetmundsen, Jr.
Gilbert E. Johnston, Jr.
Leah P. Ladd
Robin G. Laurie
William L. Lee III
Vanessa Leonard
James C. Lester
Curtis O. Liles III
Michael R. Lunsford
David P. Martin
Stephen W. Mazza
Terrence William McCarthy
Carol A. McCoy
Patricia Powell McCurdy
Robert L. McCurley, Jr.
James B. McNeill, Jr.
Paul Messner
David J. Middlebrooks
Shannon Miller
James H. Miller III
Col. Richard D. Mink
Dwight L. Mixson, Jr.
Elliott Britton Monroe
Marie A. Moore
Henry T. Morrissette
Daniel Lynn Mosley
Hon. Claud D. Neilson
Steven L. Nicholas
Phillip A. Nichols
John A. Owens
Virginia C. Patterson
Thomas Forrest Phillips
Gary A. Phillips
James M. Pool
Robert L. Potts
LeeAnn M. Pounds
Jerry W. Powell
Patricia T. Mandt Prather
Dena D. Prince
Frances King Quick
Kennedy Cabell Ramos
Virginia Broughton Reeves
Archibald T. Reeves IV
Morris W. Richardson
James S. Roberts, Jr.
Robert D. Segall
Hon. Philip Dale Segrest
Lesley Cruickshank Shamblin
Henry F. Sherrod III
Henry F. Sherrod, Jr.
Larry U. Sims
Jade E. Sipes
David C. Skinner
Martin Dunbar Smith
William A. Smith
John W. Smith T
John A. Smyth III
Jack P. Stephenson, Jr.
Norman M. Stockman
Anne Stone Sumblin
Hon. H. Randall Thomas
Andrew Mark Townsley
Kenneth M. Turnipseed
Laurence D. Vinson, Jr.
Carey Tynes Wahlheim
Elizabeth Smith Webb
Jennifer Butler Wells
Sharon E. Wheeler
Misha Mullins Whitman
Sue Willis-Green
Paul O. Woodall
Robert V. Wooldridge III
James W. Wright, Jr.
Laura L. Youngpeter
Hon. Michael A. Youngpeter
Gifts to the Law School Foundation may be designated to a variety of funds. Throughout the year, the Foundation receives generous contributions from individuals and corporations to support the Law School’s programs and scholarships. The following individuals and corporations made gifts to the designated funds from July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021.
1872 FUND FOR STUDENT AID
Claude R. Arrington
Jenna M. Bedsole
Hon. Sonja F. Bivins
Ann Blakeslee
Jennifer H. Booth
Dean Mark Brandon
Katherine R. Brown
Bryant Bank
Brannon Buck
Larry G. Canada
Brantley Cook
Rebecca L. Copeland
Timothy O. Coyle
Prof. Courtney K. Cross
Laura L. Crum
Richard Lee Daberkow
Alexandria W. Darby
Derin Dickerson
Prof. Alan L. Durham
Michael D. Ermert
Judy W. Evans
Katie L. Grayson
Roger C. Gulian
Prof. Anita Kay Head
John D. Humber
Elizabeth H. Huntley
Amy Jackson
Jini Koh
Joe L. Leak
Grace Lee
Curtis O. Liles III
Debra L. Logan
William M. Logan IV
Roy E. Long
Marcus M. Maples
Apsilah Owens Millsaps
Lynlee W. Palmer
Tracy Pearson
Sherrie L. Phillips
Bobby A. Prince
Dr. Paul M. Pruitt
John R. Reynolds
Donald R. Rhea
Candice R. Robbins
Yvonne A.H. Saxon
Grace E. Schepis
Lauren D. Sharbrough
Caroline J. Strawbridge
Hon. James E. Tease
Megan H. Walsh
Jason C. Wear
Peggy Wedgworth
ALABAMA ANNUAL TAX CLINIC SCHOLARSHIP
The University of Alabama Federal Tax Clinic
ALABAMA PATTERN JURY INSTRUCTIONS – WILLIAM C. SULLIVAN SCHOLARSHIP
Alabama Pattern Jury
ALBRITTON FUND
Hon. William H. Albritton III
CAROL ANDREWS MOOT COURT ENDOWED SUPPORT FUND
Keith Andrews
Prof. Bryan K. Fair
Cathaleen A. Filosa
Mollie E. Gillis
Alex W. Jones
William M. Logan
Anthony Lane Morrison
Philip R. Zimmerly
FRANK BAINBRIDGE – WALTER L. MIMS PROFESSORSHIP OF LAW
Frank M. Bainbridge
Raymond James Charitable Foundation for Sally B. Moore and C Richard Moore, Jr.
CHARLOTTE POOL BENNETT MEMORIAL ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Wallace Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Pool
WILLIAM VERBON BLACK SCHOLARSHIP
Alabama Law Foundation, Inc.
BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP
DOREEN S. BROGDEN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Danita D. Edmondson
ARTEMAS KILLIAN CALLAHAN, SR. ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Elizabeth L. Harris
Kayron McMinn Laska
CHARLES F. CARR ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Kevin Fritz
John M. Kunsch
Dan Longo
Michael R. Sistrunk
CHRISTIAN & SMALL ANNUAL DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
Christian & Small, LLP
CLASS COMPOSITE PRESERVATION FUND
David and Laura Hodge
CLASS OF 1979 IN MEMORIAM ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Carol A. McCoy
Scholarship Foundation, Inc. for H. Thomas Heflin, Jr.
CLASS OF 1982 ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Laura L. Crum
CLASS OF 1989 MEMORIAL FUND
Belinda A. Barnett
Thomas H. Brinkley
Gena R. Lentz
James M. Pool
GEORGE P. CREWS, JR. SCHOLARSHIP FUND
George P. Crews, Jr.
CROSBY SUPPORT FUND
Samuel N. Crosby
CRUM FAMILY ENDOWED LECTURE FOR LAW & BUSINESS
Crum Family Charitable Foundation
Laura L. Crum
DOMINIC DESIMONE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Chevron
Duke Energy Foundation
James W. Hart
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INITIATIVES
Freddi L. Aronov
Caroline S. Barge
Johnjerica Hodge
Rosland T. Hurley
Jini Koh
Marcus M. Maples
Derrick A. Mills
Tonya R. Morris
Floyd D. Petty
FREDERICK DOUGLASS MOOT COURT COMPETITION SUPPORT FUND
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
SUSAN DOSS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Susan Doss
MICHAEL & LORI ERMERT SCHOLARSHIP
Timothy Riley
JAMES TIMOTHY FRANCIS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Schwab Charitable for J. Timothy Francis
RALPH D. GAINES, JR. SCHOLARSHIP
Mary Sue Gaines
WILLIAM AND VIRGINIA GAINES ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Garry W. Long
FOURNIER J. “BOOTS” GALE III ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Maynard, Cooper & Gale Charitable Foundation
CHARLES W. GAMBLE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Dean Charles W. Gamble
JOHN GAMBLE FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
James S. Andrews
Lella Clayton Bromberg
Michael L. Edwards
Joseph G. Gamble
John G. Gamble
Theta Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta House Corp., Inc.
THE GARRETT – CANARY FAMILY PUBLIC SERVICE ENDOWED SUPPORT FUND
Leura G. Canary
WALTER P. GEWIN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Fidelity Charitable for James W. Gewin
JANIE HALL LEGACY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
India D. Williams
GENE M. HAMBY, JR. ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Gene M. Hamby, Jr.
NATHANIEL HANSFORD & FRANCES FINCHER HANSFORD SCHOLARSHIP
Dean Nathaniel and Frances Hansford
DEAN M. LEIGH HARRISON FUND
L. Harrison
HOWELL T. HEFLIN FUND
Scholarship Foundation, Inc. for H. Thomas Heflin, Jr.
JOHN HOLLIS JACKSON, JR. & REBECCA M. JACKSON ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
John and Rebecca Jackson
WILLIAM P. JACKSON, JR. & BARBARA SEIGNIOUS JACKSON ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
William P. Jackson, Jr.
JUDGE FRANK M. JOHNSON, JR. & RUTH JENKINS JOHNSON MEMORIAL ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Schwab Charitable Fund for Robert L. Vogel
JUDGE FRANK M. JOHNSON, JR. MEMORIAL ENDOWED LECTURE ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES
Eric J. Artrip
Thomas H. Christopher
Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill for Robert D. Segall
Michael F. Finn
David Moody
Schwab Charitable Fund for Robert L. Vogel
Kimberly R. West
THOMAS L. JONES ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Burr & Forman, LLP
Paul Patterson
LANIER DEAN’S DISCRETIONARY FUND
Brannon J. Buck
Frank J. Daily
Prof. Richard Delgado
Roberts, Raheb & Gradler, LLC
Richard Y. Roberts
Student Bar Association Fund
Bruce C. Webster
LAW SCHOOL BUILDING FUND
Lillian R. Weeks
LAW SCHOOL CLINIC FUND
Civille Owens Brown
Helen W. Hibbard
Madison E. Tucker
John C. Watkins
LAW SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Stewart A. Gorham
William E. Cassady
LAW SCHOOL UNRESTRICTED FUND
AmazonSmile Foundation
Percy Badham III
Bainbridge Mims Rogers & Smith, LLP
James E. Curtis
Jon Emmanual
Ernst & Young Foundation
William R. Gordon
Dean and Mrs. Nathaniel Hansford
Jonathan A. Hardage
Hobbs Foundation
Broox G. Holmes
Elizabeth M. Joynes
Joe L. Leak
Henry S. Long
Dr. Roland Merchant
Felicia J. Nickerson
Bruce A. Pickens
James M. Pool
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Reeves
Carol Ann Smith
Gaynor St. John
Vulcan Materials Company Foundation
Elisabeth W. Whitten
LAW WEEK AWARDS
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Honors Award
Attorneys Information Exchange Group, Inc.
Thomas H. Christopher
Anna Curry Gualano
Price McGiffert
Stone Crosby, PC
Women’s Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association
CURTIS O. LILES III ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP IN TAX LAW
Curtis O. Liles III
JUDGE SEYBOURN H. LYNNE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Robert L. Potts
MANLEY SERVICEMEN & VETERANS PROGRAM FUND
Alyce M. Spruell
Richard R. Whidden
RICHARD S. MANLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Alyce M. Spruell
GEORGE A. MCCAIN, JR. ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
George A. McCain, Jr.
WILLIAM D. MELTON ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Miller Charitable Foundation
WILLIAM H. MILLS SYMPOSIUM ON LEGAL ETHICS & PROFESSIONALISM FUND
William H. Mills
JOHN C. H. MILLER, JR. SCHOLARSHP
Susan R. Miller
JERRY & SUZANNE PERKINS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Fidelity Charitable for Jerry F. Perkins
Vulcan Materials Company Foundation
JUDGE SAM C. POINTER, JR. ENDOWED FUND
Freddi L. Aronov
PORTERFIELD HARPER & MILLS ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP
Lee T. Clanton
Jeremy Dotson
Larry W. Harper
Robert W. Heath
C. Ireland III
Michael R. Lunsford
William T. Mills
William D. Motlow
Keith J. Pflaum
JERRY W. POWELL & CAROLYN W. POWELL PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE FOR LAW & BUSINESS
Jerry W. Powell
WILLIAM S. PRITCHARDS SCHOLARSHIP
William S. Pritchard III
PROGRAM IN LAW & BUSINESS
Alabama Power Foundation, Inc.
Mark A. Crosswhite
Fidelity Charitable for J. Alan Bannister
Stephen D. Kane
PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FELLOWSHIPS
Prof. William S. Brewbaker
Henry G. and Henry U. Sims Foundation
Megan H. Walsh
PATRICK W. RICHARDSON MEMORIAL ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Keysight Technologies, Inc.
James and Nancy Richardson
BRUCE B. SIEGAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MOOT COURT TEAM SUPPORT FUND
Bruce B. Siegal
NORMAN J. SINGER ENDOWED PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FUND
Anna J. Singer
JUDGE IRENE FEAGIN SCOTT TAX LIBRARY COLLECTION FUND
Morgan Stanley for Thomas J. Scott
STUDENT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Rolla E. Beck
LANNY VINES SCHOLARSHIP
Susanne S. Esdale
BRAND WALTON, JR. ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
National Christian Foundation for Allan J. Chappelle
JUDGE ROBERT J. WHEELER SCHOLARSHIP
Wayne Wheeler
Individuals listed below have designated the Law School or the Law School Foundation as a beneficiary of a testamentary or other deferred gift and have given permission to publicize their gifts. This list is current as of June 30, 2021.
Travis M. Bedsole, Jr.
Travis M. Bedsole, Jr. Scholarship Fund
George A. Blinn*
(Patricia Thuss Blinn)
Richard* and Anita Bounds
James E. Bridges III
H.R.* and Phyllis Campbell
The Phyllis and H.R. Campbell Endowed Support Fund
William D. Coleman
Coy Mark Collinsworth
Scholarship Support Fund
Judge Joseph Colquitt
Joseph A. Colquitt Scholarship Fund
Dixie Cooper
Robert P. Denniston*
Susan Doss
Susan Doss Endowed Scholarship
Tom and Jan Elliott
Elliott Law School Fund
Gene Hamby
Gene Hamby Endowed Scholarship Fund
Edward L. Hardin, Jr.
Edward L. Hardin, Jr. Scholarship Fund
Paula W. Hinton
Paula W. Hinton (1979) and James F. Hinton (1948) Scholarship Fund
James C.* and Joan Inzer
James C. Inzer, Jr. and Joan C. Inzer Endowed Law Scholarship Fund
William P. Jackson, Jr. and Barbara Seignious Jackson
William P. Jackson, Jr. and Barbara Seignious Jackson Endowed Scholarship Fund
Frank and Jothany James
Judge Virgil Pittman Endowed Scholarship Fund
S. Johnson* Mineral Trust
Stephen Douglas Kane
Unrestricted Endowment Fund
Alva M. Lambert
George C. Wallace Endowment Fund
Curtis O. Liles III
Curtis O. Liles III Endowed Professorship in Tax Law
Susan R. Miller
John C.H. Miller, Jr. Scholarship
Thomas W. Mitchell
Thomas and Betty Mitchell Scholarship Fund
Louis Salmon*
(Elisabeth Salmon Whitten)
Louis Salmon Fund
John B. Sandage
Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. & Mrs. Ruth Jenkins Johnson Memorial Endowed Scholarship
Robert H. Shaw, Jr.
Elizabeth Kirksey Shaw and Robert H. Shaw, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund
Stephen Wesley Shaw
Manning G. Warren III
Manning G. Warren Endowed Scholarship
*Deceased
When it comes to making a long-term impact at The University of Alabama, there are many giving options to choose from. For more information about these or other gift planning options, please contact the Office of Planned Giving at (205) 348-0999, toll free at (888) 875-4438, or email at plannedgiving@advance.ua.edu.
Will or Living Trust
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Beneficiary Designation
One of the simplest long-range gift arrangements is to designate the School of Law as beneficiary of all or a portion of your IRA, other retirement account, or life insurance policy. Changing a beneficiary is usually quite simple and can be handled through your retirement plan administrator or your life insurance company.
Charitable Gift Annuity
A charitable gift annuity is a simple contract between you and the Capstone Foundation at The University of Alabama. You make a gift of cash or securities, and in return the University agrees to pay you and/or another person a specific amount for the rest of your life or lives. You may direct the remainder of your gift to support the program(s) in the School of Law that you specify.
This summary of funds includes corpus accounts in excess of $5,000 as of June 30, 2021. Endowed funds reflect market value and unendowed funds reflect book value.
ACADEMIC CHAIRS
Endowed:
Tom Bevill Chair of Law $2,338,091.97
Francis H. Hare Chair of Law $1,820,792.37
Robert W. Hodgkins Chair of Law $2,786,576.57
Frank E. Spain Chair of Law $1,611,622.90
John J. Sparkman Chair of Law $2,987,059.27
John S. Stone Chair of Law $2,501,918.65
Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Chair of Law $4,493,533.18
FACULTY SUPPORT FUNDS
Endowed:
Class of 1936 Professorship $277,274.22
Douglas Arant Professorship $152,782.25
Frank Bainbridge – Walter L. Mims Professorship $645,697.21
Jere L. Beasley, Sr. Professorship $156,340.68
Edgar L. Clarkson Professorship $286,941.93
Marc Ray Clement Professorship $123,760.94
John D. and Janis P. Clements Research Fund $51,727.40
Alton C. and Cecile Cunningham Craig Professorship $237,651.02
Lyman F. Holland, Jr. and Leannah P. Holland Endowed Visiting Assistant Professorship $317,807.24
James M. Kidd, Sr. Professorship $506,598.07
Marcus McConnell Faculty Friends and Benefactors Enhancement Fund $235,255.57
Thomas E. McMillan Professorship $269,148.97
Joseph D. Peeler Professorship $328,712.38
Jerry W. Powell and Carolyn W. Powell Professor of Practice for Law and Business $257,107.04
Ira Drayton Pruitt, Sr. Professorship $250,690.96
L. Drew Redden Endowed Fund $173,691.75
L. Drew Redden Endowed Faculty Support $321,750.44
William Alfred Rose Professorship $347,295.29
Gordon Rosen Professorship $300,107.36
* Sadler Support Fund $85,229.63
Yetta G. Samford, Jr. Professorship $880,411.37
John W. Sharbrough III Faculty Support Fund $73,644.29
Irving Silver & Frances Grodsky Silver Faculty Scholar Endowment $321,947.79
Henry Upson Sims Professorship $460,574.41
Thomas E. Skinner Professorship $142,236.25
Elton B. Stephens Professorship $248,837.80
Bruce C. Strother Memorial Fund $31,221.12
University Research Professorship $246,889.39
Judge Robert S. Vance Professorship $165,301.80
Herbert D. Warner Professorship $157,570.85
Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis Professorship $306,494.45
* Perpetual trusts with a market value of $1,434,743.10 benefit this fund.
III. SCHOLARSHIPS
Endowed:
Lillian Duffee Adair $60,647.13
Ralph Wyatt Adams $129,280.35
Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions – William Sullivan $174,265.31
Gary Aldridge Memorial $42,422.02
Captain Howard R. Andrews, Jr. $421,670.01
Kathryn Whittingham Baker – Schuyler A. Baker $164,798.36
Balch & Bingham – John F. Mandt $189,412.04
James C. Baldone, Sr. $35,021.13
Judge Travis Jesse Bedsole Memorial $74,215.27
Travis Massey Bedsole, Jr. $128,693.05
Robert Kirk Bell Memorial $254,375.73
Charlotte Pool Bennett Memorial $74,772.91
Maurice F. Bishop $77,534.43
Judge John G. Bookout Memorial $63,237.68
Donald Richard Bounds, Jr. Memorial $432,039.20
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings $321,564.99
Verne Bradley $904,318.44
Dean Mark E. Brandon $60,805.81
Doreen S. Brogden $23,702.19
James Douglas Brown $65,393.71
Burr & Forman $219,857.53
Samuel H. Burr $35,748.12
David C. Byrd $17,681.01
Artemas Killian Callahan, Sr. $21,721.11
Capell & Howard $70,700.81
Charles F. Carr $154,873.85
Cecil G. Chason $15,341.77
Carey J. Chitwood $1,144,074.82
Raynold Chiz Memorial $89,241.86
Samuel Clabaugh $29,149.09
James E. “Red” Clark $60,371.76
Class of 1979 In Memoriam $174,818.17
Class of 1982 Scholarship $87,196.89
Clayton-Hopper Memorial $592,949.31
Harwell E. Coale, Jr. $27,355.61
Judge Stephen B. Coleman $17,772.85
Camille Wright Cook $50,554.40
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Cooper $61,094.97
Lee and Joy Cooper $283,871.16
Albert W. Copeland $94,963.50
John H. and Lola B. Curry $49,364.59
Gregory S. Cusimano $65,943.85
Delony Family $3,354,538.69
Dominic DeSimone Memorial Endowed Book $88,979.65
Dean’s Discretionary $71,696.50
Judge W. Aubrey Dominick $24,464.08
Chester Ellingson $671,473.65
Mike and Lori Ermert $119,983.43
Robert Foster “Buck” Etheredge Memorial $71,843.21
John C. and Charles H. Eyster $87,118.54
Edward W. Faith and Lyman F. Holland $79,809.74
Michael A. Figures $226,753.68
Anna C. Fitts $38,569.43
McDavid and Jeanie Flowers $135,004.00
Walter Flowers Memorial $23,236.85
John S. Foster $169,496.42
James Timothy Francis $108,082.60
Abraham Franco Memorial $55,641.62
Michael D. Freeman Memorial $15,471.42
General E. M. Friend, Jr. Scholarship presented by Sirote & Permutt $129,400.98
Kenneth T. Fuller and Byron D. Boyett $59,629.86
Ralph Gaines, Jr. $84,557.97
William and Virginia Gaines $50,248.81
Fournier J. “Boots” Gale III $723,413.26
Charles W. Gamble $92,725.54
John Gamble Family $218,675.39
William C. Gamble, Jr. $17,761.34
Lucian D. Gardner $99,838.89
Edgar C. Gentle III $54,486.85
Judge Walter P. Gewin $29,061.74
Edwin L. and Julia T. Goodhue $17,943.63
Janie Hall Legacy $10,000.00
Gene M. Hamby, Jr. $67,485.71
Claude E. Hamilton, Sr. and Family $394,609.82
Powell A. and Magaria Simpson Hamner $79,048.71
Sam Harvey Hamner Memorial $106,089.23
Nathaniel Hansford and Francis Fincher Hansford Endowed Scholarship $177,131.90
Ed and Lila Hardin $144,863.40
Estes H. and Florence Parker Hargis $184,743.79
Larry W. and Nancy L. Harper $25,010.86
Claude Harris, Jr. $83,931.32
Judge Robert B. Harwood Memorial $126,943.75
Edwin I. Hatch $30,513.29
James Luther Hearn $287,968.74
Helmsing, Leach, Herlong, Newman & Rouse $68,357.48
Thomas Henry Henderson, Jr. $191,370.66
Julius W. Hicks $34,700.79
Judge Patrick Higginbotham $54,651.01
Thomas Bowen Hill, Jr. Memorial $60,478.18
Paula W. Hinton (1979) and James F. Hinton, Sr. (1948) $92,327.60
Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial $280,934.06
Judge Robert E. Hodnette $104,063.73
Judge Hugh Edwin Holladay $15,820.11
Perry Hubbard $40,742.67
James F. Hughey, Jr. $61,900.71
John Evans Jackson $52,874.54
John Hollis Jackson, Jr. and Rebecca M. Jackson $68,247.60
William P. Jr. and Barbara Seignious Jackson $356,813.21
Paul W. Jevne $298,178.94
Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and Ruth Jenkins Johnson Memorial $179,943.36
Johnstone, Adams, Bailey, Gordon & Harris $84,526.41
Devane King Jones Memorial $107,775.25
Thomas Goode Jones $1,221,179.65
Thomas L. Jones Fund $138,580.25
Jones Walker, LLP $23,941.24
Stephen Douglas Kane in honor of former Dean Kenneth C. Randall $149,020.55
Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach Civil Rights $235,258.98
Judge Robert G. Kendall $215,016.84
Judge Robert E. L. Key $21,669.53
Judge Hardie B. Kimbrough $129,734.55
James C. “Jimmy” King $122,198.47
Douglas Lanford $71,060.77
Law Minority $20,719.88
Judge Thomas W. Lawson $51,574.21
Blake Lazenby Memorial $61,990.94
The Alice Finch Lee Memorial $124,344.80
James G. Lee Memorial $34,601.62
George A. LeMaistre $90,749.27
William T. Lewis $500,661.91
Lightfoot, Franklin & White $39,016.62
Curtis O. Liles III Endowed Scholarship in Tax Law $62,209.84
Robert J. and Jane K. Lowe $227,291.49
Judge Seybourn H. Lynne $1,970,636.16
Richard S. Manley $37,250.48
Frank J. Martin $60,683.38
Ben May $73,931.06
Maynard, Cooper & Gale $111,444.61
George W. McBurney $57,531.49
George A. McCain, Jr. $112,089.24
Judge and Mrs. Leon C. McCord Memorial $62,889.68
Jan B. McMinn $20,185.25
Oakley W. Melton, Jr. $162,022.18
William D. Melton $164,019.34
Walter J. Merrill $44,129.53
Mavis Clark Metzger $117,034.64
Stanley D. Metzger $601,869.13
Nina Miglionico $481,491.01
John C. H. Miller, Jr. $63,727.40
William E. Mitch $60,839.12
William H. Mitchell, Sr. $78,072.67
Henry H. Mize $241,581.69
Claude McCain Moncus $59,522.80
Charles Morgan $77,617.77
Carl A. Morring, Jr. $160,932.23
Larry W. Morris $171,102.50
Jay W. and Alberta Murphy $60,505.97
Neal C. Newell $125,363.67
Alex W. Newton $136,196.86
Ray O. Noojin $57,065.02
James L. and Lettie Lane North $198,233.09
Lewis G. Odom, Jr. $64,567.79
Richard F. Ogle Memorial $25,874.83
M. Camper O’Neal $17,001.69
Order of the Coif $151,831.11
M. T. Ormond $189,070.89
Prime F. Osborn Fellowships $215,630.04
Craig and Andrea Parker $92,454.63
Judge Eris F. Paul Memorial $70,791.03
John C. Pearson $39,275.68
John C. Pearson Memorial $31,402.95
Jerry and Suzanne Perkins $34,932.45
Phelps Dunbar, LLP (formerly Lyons Pipes & Cook) $112,635.71
Samuel W. Pipes III Memorial $43,847.35
Pittman Dutton & Hellums $139,882.95
Joe and Angeline Pittman $112,770.88
Judge Virgil Pittman $49,814.92
Judge Sam C. Pointer $272,750.21
William S. Pritchards $283,165.88
Proctor Family $81,440.20
Ira Drayton Pruitt, Jr. $16,688.21
Judge John M. Puryear $55,355.45
L. Drew Redden $33,153.99
Hugh Reed Jr. Memorial $564,864.59
Judge Ben Reeves $675,779.55
Reunion $235,390.73
J. Allen Reynolds, Jr. Memorial $156,094.94
Patrick W. Richardson Memorial $209,655.62
Rives and Peterson $74,843.13
Edward Maurice Rogers $622,440.65
W. T. Goodloe Rutland $80,072.91
Leon Y. Sadler, Jr. $32,531.31
M. Louis Salmon Fund $17,777.24
Yetta G. Samford III Memorial $513,403.84
Lucille Tisdale Sauls $262,291.67
Matthew A. Schenck $13,465.20
Charles J. Scott, James M. Scott and Lucy Elizabeth Scott Memorial $27,569.69
Elizabeth Kirksey Shaw and Robert H. Shaw, Jr. $66,602.22
David Walter Shipper Memorial $61,713.62
Arthur Davis Shores $100,480.75
Sirote & Permutt $47,512.40
Morris K. and Joseph H. Sirote $215,515.92
Angus A. Smith $15,844.56
General Holland M. Smith $56,833.75
John Q. Somerville $62,948.47
Spain & Gillon $206,036.45
Frank E. Spain $19,340.01
Nettie Edward Spain $63,168.33
Finis E. St. John III Memorial $127,990.87
Stancil R. Starnes $127,641.86
Cherry and Bart Starr $107,315.57
Robert E. Steiner, Jr. Memorial Fund $77,519.37
Student Alumni Law Society $50,053.22
Eugene Phillip Stutts $132,829.84
David L. Thomas $18,302.30
James W. Traeger Memorial $27,812.05
Charles Stephen Trimmier, Jr. $60,312.49
Edward P. Turner, Jr. Family $67,822.18
Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. $462,237.24
William L. Utsey $157,327.87
William L. Utsey, William D. Melton, and E. Tedford Taylor $86,593.34
Vickers, Riis, Murray and Curran, LLC $69,031.02
Lanny S. Vines $261,650.43
George C. Wallace $15,797.41
A. Brand Walton, Jr. $73,428.72
Marvin L. Warner $134,635.01
Judge Robert J. Wheeler $814,394.28
Jeanne G. Wiggins and Charles Wiggins, Jr. $62,784.10
Wilmer & Lee, P.A. $74,253.31
Jerry D. Worthy $10,601.34
Reuben H. Wright Memorial $35,704.41
Olin W. Zeanah $70,302.19
Unendowed:
William H. Albritton III Fund $8,441.18
Collegiate License Fund $51,962.00
Annual:
Alabama Federal Tax Clinic $37,500.00
Christian & Small LLP Annual Diversity $5,000.00
Order of the Coif $12,000.00
Porterfield, Harper, Mills, Motlow & Ireland $5,000.00
PRIZES
Endowed:
Dean T W Christopher Prize $12,701.93
H M Somerville Law Prize Fund $8,842.85
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS
Endowed:
George M. and Mary C. Akers $69,960.01
Ball Family Endowment $50,989.60
Hugo L. Black Fund $70,011.71
Cathryn and Mark Boardman Endowed Support Fund $23,932.41
The Crosby Support Fund $31,532.86
Dancy Law School Fund $72,451.84
Roy M. Greene $81,809.18
M. Brooks Hayes $37,122.73
Howell T. Heflin $521,566.60
James T. Kirk $89,432.37
Justice Alva Hugh Maddox Fund $16,885.16
Manley Servicemen & Veterans Program Endowed Support Fund $18,024.73
Gessner T. McCorvey $18,287.29
Nina Miglionico Dean’s Discretionary Endowed Fund $638,520.06
Morris, King & Hodge, P.C. Endowed Support Fund $31,216.43
Reese Phifer/Special Law School Fund $15,896.20
Edward Brett Randolph $1,593,159.11
John D. Rather, Jr. $16,885.78
Albert and Hester Rives* $1,842,466.13
Charles Oscar Stokes $513,604.54
* A perpetual trust with a market value of $3,163,626.63 benefits this fund.
Unendowed:
Hugo L. Black Fund #2 $42,009.18
Lanier Dean’s Discretionary Fund $115,073.95
Manley Servicemen & Veterans Program Fund $6,297.85
Joseph Mosby Dean’s Discretionary Fund $6,250.00
2010 Class Reunion Project Fund $5,245.93
School of Law Naming Opportunities Support Fund $103,290.83
James E. Smith, Jr. Memorial $7,318.08
Judge C. C. Torbert Jr. Fund $9,440.88
Unrestricted Funds $203,064.52
Stephen R. Windom Dean’s Enhancement Fund $38,767.93
RESTRICTED FUNDS
Endowed:
The Albritton Fund $127,324.54
Carol Andrews Moot Court Support Fund $42,268.48
Ben & Julie Bucy Public Interest Law Fund $95,152.61
Program for Law and Business $221,142.67
The Crum Family Endowed Lecture for Law and Business $389,478.40
Judge Leon Hopper Academic Award in Bankruptcy Law $13,529.02
Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Endowed Lecture On Constitutional Rights & Liberties $126,580.77
The Daniel J. Meador Annual Lecture Fund $298,513.16
William H. Mills Symposium on Legal Ethics & Professionalism Endowment Fund $200,000.00
L. Drew Redden Endowed Alabama Law Review Support $276,198.95
Dr. Norman J. Singer Endowed Public Interest Law Fund $66,170.75
William Baker Oliver Lectureship $29,437.67
Unendowed:
Class Composite Preservation Fund $27,935.31
Arthur B. Foster Loan Fund $67,129.00
A. G. Gaston Loan Fund $46,195.40
J. W. Mosby Loan Fund $19,393.66
The Jerry Powell Technology Fund $20,099.36
Paul E. Skidmore Award $31,738.63
Silver Annual Faculty Scholar Gift Fund $26,029.39
VII. LIBRARY SUPPORT FUNDS
Endowed:
J. Rufus Bealle $88,122.55
Robert C. Brickell Memorial $57,844.88
Marion Maxell Caskie, Jr. Memorial $9,241.03
Barbara H. Hunter Library Endowment $50,618.79
Irene Feagin Scott Tax Library Collection $327,526.49
C. Dallas Sands Law Library Book Fund $6,343.14
Unendowed:
Judge Gordon Kahn Library Fund $14,930.37
Thomas G. Mancuso Library Collection for Tax and Corporate Law $8,203.67
Francis (Frank) J. Mizell, Jr. Legal History Collection $21,353.24
VIII. ADVOCACY SUPPORT FUNDS
Endowed:
Pittman, Dutton, Kirby & Hellums Advocacy $134,399.35
C. Neal Pope Trial Advocacy $38,730.47
George Peach Taylor Trial Advocacy $34,740.53
L. Drew Redden Trial Advocacy $276,198.95
James A. Yance Trial Advocacy $106,354.28
Lawyers who will be missed
July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Class of 1941
Sara D. Clark Birmingham, AL
Robert P. Denniston Mountain Brook, AL
Class of 1948
Roy M. Greene Seale, AL
Class of 1949
Gov. John M. Patterson Cragford, AL
Class of 1950
Joseph G. Gamble Irondale, AL
Class of 1951
William R. Cherry Vestavia, AL
Durell Whiddon Headland, AL
Class of 1952
William G. Hause Dothan, AL
Mitchell G. Lattof Mobile, AL
Robert R. Locklin Henrico, VA
Class of 1953
J. Fletcher Jones, Sr. Brookhaven, GA
John P. Shealy Dothan, AL
Class of 1954
John B. Scott Montgomery, AL
Donald W. Spurrell Johnson City, TN
Class of 1955
Edward P. Turner, Jr. Chatom, AL
Class of 1956
Robert S. Edington Mobile, AL
Herman B. Franco Montgomery, AL
Bruce M. Harmon Navarre, FL
George A. McCain Houston, TX
Class of 1957
Hon. James H. Hancock, Sr. Birmingham. AL
Lionel L. Layden, Jr. Mobile, AL
Hon. Alva H. Maddox Montgomery, AL
Thomas A. Smith, Jr. Cullman, AL
Robert G. Tate Birmingham, AL
Class of 1958
Houston E. Hamm Huntsville, AL
Class of 1959
Emmett R. Cox Mobile, AL
Class of 1960
Harold I. Apolinsky Birmingham, AL
Robert P. Hunter Alpharetta, GA
Class of 1963
William E. Rutledge Pelham, AL
Class of 1964
David B. Cauthen Decatur, AL
Henry G. Clay Daphne, AL
William P. Powers Columbiana, AL
Class of 1966
Hon. James H. Evans Montgomery, AL
James R. Jenkins Fairhope, AL
Class of 1967
Jerry F. Guyton Winfield, AL
Claude M. Moncus Mountain Brook, AL
Ralph M. Young Florence, AL
Class of 1968
Robert C. Burke Arab, AL
Jimmy G. Kilpatric Sleepy Hollow, NY
Class of 1969
John B. Harper Mountain Brook, AL
Class of 1971
Dan M. Gibson Tuscaloosa, AL
Class of 1972
Rolla E. Beck III Mountain Brook, AL
Louis B. Feld Johns Island, SC
Conrad M. Fowler Mountain Brook, AL
Benjamin E. Pool Pike Road, Al
Joel W. Ramsey Dothan, AL
Class of 1973
William H. Kennedy Tuscaloosa, AL
Class of 1975
Ronald G. Davenport Alexander City, AL
Class of 1976
Ronald W. Self Columbus, GA
Joseph G. Pierce Seattle, WA
Class of 1977
Thomas G. Martin Colorado Springs, CO
Class of 1978
Bailey K. Green Selma, AL
Class of 1980
William G. Kimbrel Cullman, AL
Stephen K. Orso Mobile, AL
Paul C. Wesch Theodore, AL
Class of 1982
Stuart C. DuBose Jackson, AL
James H. Lewis Vestavia, AL
Walter G. Woods, II Stuart, FL
Class of 1983
Brenda A. Dixon Tuscaloosa, AL
Paul C. Wesch Theodore, AL
Class of 1984
Michael E. Criswell Oneonta, AL
William H. Oliver Malaga, Spain
Class of 1985
Antonio E. Gonzalez Saint Augustine, FL
Class of 1988
Jeffrey L. Riley Tuscaloosa, AL
Class of 1989
Keri D. Simms Birmingham, AL
Class of 1990
Robert S. Smith Huntsville, AL
Class of 1993
Courtney B. Potthoff Eufaula, AL
Class of 1997
Patrick F. Gomes Covington, GA
Class of 1999
Eric V. Carroll Cyprus, TX
