Thank You, Marjorie

After 25 years at the Law School, Marjorie Holme has announced her retirement. We are so grateful to Marjorie for her service to the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School and to the Coase-Sandor Institute, and she will be greatly missed.

Marjorie’s University of Chicago career began in the economics department, where she served faculty members George Stigler, Robert Lucas, and Sherwin Rosen and worked with the Journal of Political Economy. Since coming to the Law School in 2000, she has administered the law and economics program, serving under program directors Randal Picker, Richard Epstein, David Weisbach, and Omri Ben-Shahar. During her time in law and economics, Marjorie has worked especially closely with Judge Richard Posner and William Landes, and with Ronald Coase, who came to depend on Marjorie’s administrative talents in his own research endeavors. At the Law School, Marjorie has organized 49 academic conferences, working along side Richard Epstein on many of them. She was instrumental in developing the International Summer Institute in Law and Economics, and completed her fourth year as its administrator last week. And Marjorie has worked tirelessly to advance the goals of the Coase-Sandor Institute since it was founded three years ago. 

As a result of her work at the Law School, Marjorie has developed an impressively large network of friends and colleagues around the globe. They are uniformly grateful for her competent assistance, her caring, and her resourcefulness. Many of us have admired her obvious devotion to our law and economics faculty.

We will miss Marjorie, especially at the Institute. We congratulate Marjorie on this important milestone, and wish her a wonderful retirement.