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Around Sullivan Hall
The Fourth Annual Reah M. Whitehead Leadership Breakfast will honor Zulema Hinojos-Fall, an administrative judge for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She will be honored at a breakfast sponsored by the law school and the Women’s Law Caucus on Oct. 28 at the Rainier Club. Hinojos-Fall was the first woman of color to sit on the board of the Washington State Bar Association’s Board of Governors, where she promoted and championed professional development and opportunity for attorneys of color in Washington. Under her leadership, the WSBA elected the first African-American president in its 100 year history, increased the number of women and minorities on its board and elected the first Indian attorney board member. In 2004 she was honored with the Outstanding Lawyer Award by the Latino/a Bar Association of Washington. She has also been recognized for her commitment to public service and organizational leadership through the 2001 Federal Executive Board’s Public Service Award and the 2003 EEOC’s First Annual Core Award. Zulema supports and encourages the higher education goals and aspirations of economically disadvantaged at-risk youth in the Seattle community by serving as a mentor to numerous high school students and as a speaker in local stay-in-school programs. She serves as chair of the WSBA’s Bar leader’s Conference, and on the boards of the WSBA Leadership Institute and Verity Credit Union. She also works on behalf of funding for civil legal aid programs as the Chair-elect of the Washington State Office of Civil Legal Aid. Born and raised in Mexico, Hinojos-Fall was the first person in her family to graduate from college and attend a professional school. English is her second language, having learned English at the age of 10 when her family immigrated to the United States. Before her appointment as an administrative judge, she was a senior litigation attorney for the EEOC and a King County deputy prosecutor. She is an adjunct professor at the law school. California State Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno speaks
Justice Moreno is a frequent speaker on the need for a justice system that respects diversity and provides equal access to justice for all. He has served on the California State Supreme Court since October 2001. Prior to that, he held various judicial positions in the state of California, and in 1998 he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In addition, Justice Moreno has held numerous leadership positions within the legal and wider community, including serving as President of the Mexican American Bar Association and as chair of the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and has served on its Board of Visitors. Justice Moreno is only the third Hispanic justice ever to serve on the California Supreme Court, and the first in more than a decade. LatCrit conference travels to Seattle University School of Law this year
In this critical election year, LatCrit XIII brought together distinguished scholars from around the world to explore how the tension between representation and subordination plays out in different settings, and how the practice of silencing and exclusion has gone hand-in-hand with a professed commitment to equal access to political decision-making through representation. The annual LatCrit conference is designed to expand understanding of the impact of race and ethnicity in substantive areas of law and policy ordinarily thought to be about “something other than race” and deepen analysis of the various ways in which identity issues intersect. The first meeting for what would become LatCrit, occurred in San Juan, Puerto Rico as part of a Hispanic National Bar Association Law Professors meeting in 1995. Since then LatCrit has grown from a series of annual meetings to a collection of initiatives and projects with both a local and global presence. Lecture series brings influential voices to law school The public Influential Voices Lecture series will bring a diverse group of legal scholars to the law school to speak throughout the year. Organized by Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development Tayyab Mahmud, the series brings scholars to address critical issues from a range of perspectives. Presentations so far include: Critical Race Resistance in the “Post-Racial” Era, Sumi Cho, professor, Depaul University College of Law. Ahmadinejad Comes to Columbia: Sexuality, Nationalism and Global Governance, Katherine Franke, professor, Columbia Law School. Judith Areen, Paul Regis Dean Professor at Georgetown presented Government as Educator: A New Understanding of First Amendment Protection of Academic Freedom and Governance on Oct. 23. The series continues spring semester with Toward Transformative Justice, Angela Harris, professor, UC Berkeley School of Law, Feb. 17; The Race and Class Nexus, john powell, professor, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, March 9; and Broken Records: Music as a Subject of Cultural Rights, Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair, York University, April 20. PILF reaches out to alumni The law school celebrates the 15-year anniversary of the Public Interest Law Foundation with a program and reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13. The event will help alumni reconnect and provide opportunities for students to hear about ways graduates pursue public interest careers. Throughout the years, PILF has empowered students to pursue public interest no matter where their careers take them. Every summer PILF funds summer grants to allow students to work in the public interest in a variety of ways. PILF helped create the Loan Repayment Assistance Program, which helps graduates who work in the public interest pay their loans. RSVP by Nov. 6 to pilf@seattleu.edu PILF generates money to fund the summer grants program through its annual auction, set for Saturday, March 7, 2009, at 5:30 p.m. in Campion Ballroom on the Seattle University Campus. Last year’s auction raised more than $40,000 to provide grants for students working for the benefit of the community, and organizers hope to exceed that this year. PILF is accepting item donations for the live and silent auctions. If you would like to contribute, contact Dana Diederich at su.pilf.auction@gmail.com. Tickets and tables will be on sale soon. Read about the inspiring work PILF summer grant winners did through their summer journals. Law school co-hosts National Bar Association Symposium The law school co-hosted the National Bar Association's 20th annual Wiley A. Branton Symposium, with events including a film showing, a panel discussion and a reception. The film, “Soul of Justice: The Thelton Henderson Story” documented the life of Thelton Henderson, one of California’s first African-American federal judges who was the first attorney of color hired by the Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights. The filmmaker, Abby Ginzberg, and Professor Hank McGee, led an analytical discussion of the film. The showing was co-sponsored by the Access to Justice Institute as part of Social Justice Week, which provided several opportunities for students to learn about ways to work for justice. Also at the law school was a session on the The Impact of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Reject School Diversity Plan in Seattle, Washington and Kentucky with Professor Bryan Adamson as moderator. Quinton Morris, director of Chamber and Instrumental Music and assistant professor of Music at Seattle University performed during the reception. Earlier in the day, Professor Joaquin Avila spoke at the Issues Symposium Town Hall Meeting on Election Protection.
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Associate Justice Carlos Moreno of the California State Supreme Court gave a presentation on “Justice for All Seasons” at the law school this fall.
Seattle University School of Law hosted the 13th annual LatCrit Conference Oct. 2-4. This year’s theme was “Representation and Republican Governance: Critical Interrogation of Electoral Systems and the Exercise of the Franchise.”
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