1949

Abe Krash

July 6, 2024

As an undergraduate at the University, Krash was editor of the Maroon; later, he was a graduate fellow at the Yale Law School before joining the firm of Arnold and Porter. There, as a junior partner, he worked with his senior colleague Abe Fortas on the landmark Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the court ruled unanimously that states must provide legal counsel to indigent defendants in felony cases. Krash authored numerous articles on constitutional law, criminal law, antitrust, trade regulation, and federal civil procedure, and served as president of the Friends of the Law Library of Congress. He spent the entirety of his long career at Arnold and Porter, where he headed the antitrust practice group, and also taught at Yale Law School and Georgetown University Law School. In 2013, he received the American Lawyer Lifetime Achiever Award. He was a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland.

1952

Julian Hansen

October 24, 2024

A graduate of the Lab School, Hansen enlisted in the US Navy in 1945 and remained in the Navy Reserve for many years, attaining the rank of captain. After serving in the Korean War, he was based in California as trial and defense counsel in the JAG Corps; later, he ran his family’s law practice in Chicago. He was an avid sportsman and sailor and involved in civic affairs. Hansen lived in Sarasota, Florida.

Maurice Jacobs

October 5, 2024

Jacobs was a founding partner of the Chicago firm of Greenberger, Krauss, and Jacobs, and practiced there for more than thirty years. He also served as board president of the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago.

Leonard Lamensdorf

October 18, 2024

Lamensdorf earned degrees at the College and Harvard University. In addition to practicing law, he built and owned a number of regional shopping centers. An accomplished writer, he published nine novels and three plays; he was also executive producer and screenwriter of the 1975 film Cornbread, Earl and Me. Lamensdorf lived in Santa Barbara, California.

1953

Daniel Levin

January 11, 2025

Levin earned his undergraduate degree at the College. He learned the business of real estate development as in-house counsel at a Chicago development firm, The Greenwald Company, before cofounding The Habitat Company, now one of the Midwest’s largest development and property management firms. A lifelong supporter of the University, Levin was a member of the visiting committee of the Harris School of Public Policy. The Levin Reflecting Pool in the courtyard in front of the Law School building is named for him and his wife, Fay Hartog-Levin. He was vice chairman of the board of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, a trustee of WTTW-WFMT public broadcasting, and a trustee of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. The rabbinical college and the American Jewish Committee both honored him for his civic leadership. Levin lived in Winnetka, Illinois.

1955

Adrian Kuyper

October 24, 2023

A Swarthmore College graduate and US Army veteran, Kuyper began his legal career at the County Counsel’s Office in Orange County, California, and served for twenty-six years as county counsel until his retirement.

Alan Ward

September 23, 2024

Ward was a graduate of Wesleyan University. He served as assistant chief of the Special Litigation Section at the US Department of Justice and director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission; later, he specialized in antitrust law at Baker & Hostetler, where he was a partner. He enjoyed sports, reading, and traveling, especially by train.

1956

Marvin Sacks

May 5, 2023

Sacks held bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois and was of counsel to the Chicago firm of Sacks, Goreczny, Maslanka & Costello. He lived in Chicago.

1957

Lee Huszagh

July 13, 2024

Huszagh earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and was a US Army veteran. He spent most of his career in private practice in Wheaton, Illinois, where he was a dedicated community and church volunteer. He also loved to hunt, fish, and camp, especially in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. Huszagh lived in Wheaton.

Gordon Insley

July 4, 2024

Insley earned an MCL at the Law School in addition to his JD and was a participant in the Foreign Law Program. He practiced briefly in Chicago before building a career as a Switzerland-based tax and corporate legal advisor to a number of international companies and banking firms.

Howard Krane

November 23, 2024

Krane was a Grinnell College alumnus. He joined Kirkland & Ellis in 1957 as a tax specialist and remained there for his entire career, rising to managing partner and overseeing the firm’s growth as it expanded internationally. He was also an influential leader at the University, chairing its board of trustees and the board of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Krane taught business law classes at the Law School and in the 1980s chaired its capital campaign, which raised more than $25 million.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute, he received many awards for professional excellence and service, including a national diversity award for supporting and mentoring women attorneys. Krane was a resident of Chicago.

1959

George Saunders

June 13, 2024

Saunders served in the US Air Force before earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of Alabama. He clerked for Justice Hugo L. Black of the US Supreme Court and worked at the Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin, where he spent much of his career representing regulated industries, including telecommunications. He left Sidley to found Saunders & Monroe, and later in his career practiced in the Saunders Law Firm. Saunders lived in Chicago.

1960

George Karcazes

June 6, 2024

An alumnus of the Lab School and the College, Karcazes was a US Air Force veteran. He cofounded the firm of Martin & Karcazes and was general counsel of the Metropolitan Bank Group in Chicago. He was active in his church, cofounding the Orthodox Christian Laity, and in the Greek community, serving as president of a number of organizations and cofounding the United Hellenic American Congress. He was also a longtime board member of the animal-rescue organization PAWS Chicago.

1962

James Canivan

July 29, 2024

A Trinity College alumnus, Canivan served in the US Army Reserve. He worked in probate court and at a private firm before opening his own practice in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Sports were a particular passion: He played, officiated, and coached sports for many years and was president of the Greater Hartford Board of Approved Umpires. Canivan was also active in his church and was an avid gardener.

Harry Leinenweber

June 11, 2024

Leinenweber was a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He practiced law in Joliet, Illinois, and spent nearly a decade in the Illinois General Assembly. Nominated to the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by President Ronald Reagan, he served there until shortly before his death. Leinenweber was a resident of Chicago.

David Rothman

June 25, 2024

Rothman was an alumnus of the University of California–Los Angeles and worked in the office of the California Attorney General before entering private practice. He was a passionate volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and later served as a judge in the Municipal and Superior courts of Los Angeles and as presiding judge of the Santa Monica Superior Court. He also taught at the California Judicial College and wrote the California Judicial Conduct Handbook. Rothman was a lifelong artist whose portrait of Rep. John Lewis hangs in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Harold Russell

June 13, 2024

Russell was a graduate of the Lab School who earned his bachelor’s degree at Yale University and earned an MCL at the Law School in addition to his JD. He served in the US Navy and worked at the US State Department, where he was a principal negotiator of the Helsinki Accords. He retired as vice president for government relations of FMC Corporation. Russell both founded and volunteered for a number of organizations serving the homeless and the recently incarcerated; he also served on the Corrections Information Council in Washington, DC.

1963

June Blanchard

August 3, 2024

Blanchard held a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. She worked and taught in Rochester, New York, for several years before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where among other accomplishments she was instrumental in drafting and advocating for the Wisconsin Marital Property Act and helping to create the university’s labor law program. She was also an avid cook, quilter, traveler, and school volunteer. Blanchard lived in Skokie, Illinois.

1964

Calliope Spinellis

June 30, 2024

Spinellis, a graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, earned both master’s and doctoral degrees at the Law School. Before returning to her native Greece, she headed the Office for Juvenile Justice Information for the American Bar Association’s National Council of Juvenile Judges. Professor emeritus of criminology and penology at the University of Athens Law School, Spinellis was a renowned criminologist who had a significant impact on Greek criminal justice reform, particularly in the area of juvenile justice. She also served as an ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

David Williams

September 4, 2024

Williams was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He practiced in Delavan, Wisconsin, at the firm that later became Hammett & Williams. He served on the village board of Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and was elected its first municipal judge, a position he held for thirty-six years. He served on many civic boards, coached youth athletics, and had widely varied interests that included stock car racing, opera, and sailing.

1965

Robert Austin

September 25, 2024

A Denison University graduate, Austin practiced law for more than forty years at the Chicago firms of Lord, Bissell & Brook, where he chaired the department of medical malpractice defense, and Anderson Rasor & Partners. He served as a school board member in Flossmoor, Illinois, and as president of Olympia Fields Country Club.

1967

Fred Morrison

August 16, 2024

Morrison was a graduate of the University of Kansas and a Rhodes Scholar, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Oxford University and later earning master’s and doctoral degrees at Princeton University. In addition to teaching at the University of Minnesota Law School for more than fifty years, he served as Counselor for International Law at the US Department of State and helped represent the United States before the International Court in The Hague. He also volunteered for many professional organizations, serving on the board of the Max Planck Institute on Foreign Public Law and International Law and as director of the American Society for the Comparative Study of Law.

1968

Gordon Berry

May 30, 2023

1971

Mark Silbersack

September 4, 2024

Silbersack was a Boston College alumnus. He spent his legal career at Dinsmore & Shohl in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was best known for antitrust law counseling and litigation. He also chaired the antitrust section of the Ohio State Bar Association for many years. Silbersack was a dedicated volunteer in civic and community organizations and boards, including the United Way of Greater Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Board of Health, and Catholic Social Services. His interests included international travel, supporting the performing arts, and playing golf.

1973

Thomas Neil Harding

February 1, 2024

Harding was a resident of Chicago.

1975

Virginia Aronson

March 2, 2025

Aronson held bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University. She practiced real estate law at Sidley Austin in Chicago, where she became the first woman to serve as managing partner. She and her husband, Simon Aronson, ’73, were also entertainers who performed together for five decades in a mind-reading magic act. Aronson was a talented ballroom dancer and a lifelong learner who took piano lessons, went to cooking school, and attended medical seminars in retirement.

1977

Terrence Slaven

October 28, 2024

Slaven earned his undergraduate degree at St. Lawrence University and a master’s degree at the University of Virginia. He practiced law for forty-two years in Phoenix, Arizona, becoming a partner at Lewis & Roca before joining Phoenix Children’s Hospital, where he served as general counsel and interim president and CEO. He advised on the creation of Arizona’s health insurance program for children and retired as senior associate general counsel of Banner Health. Slaven served on the board of the Phoenix Chorale, rooted for the Arizona Suns and Diamondbacks, and traveled the world.

1978

Joan Marie Shaughnessy

November 24, 2024

Shaughnessy was a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton. For most of her career, she was a professor of law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. Her scholarly publications addressed topics such as legal issues arising from poverty and child neglect, and she was active in the university’s Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability. Shaughnessy also served in a number of leadership roles in governance at Washington and Lee and chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on Children and the Law. She lived in Lexington, Virginia, and New York City.

1982

Joel Riff

June 16, 2024

Riff earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. He began his career as a software engineer and then worked for more than thirty years as a lawyer in Silicon Valley at GCA Law Partners and Fenwick & West, where he served as chair of the licensing and online commerce group. His interests included Yiddish language and culture, political news and discussion, folk music, and cinema.

1983

Gary Kaplan

October 24, 2024

Kaplan was a graduate of Yale University. His legal practice areas included technology, health care regulation and compliance, employment matters, and dispute resolution. He also taught graduate students and law students at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the George Washington University Law School, and was the author of The Law of Health Information Technology and Executive Guide to Managing Disputes. He loved golfing, dogs, and playing the piano.

1989

Andrew Lee

August 27, 2024

Lee earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota. He worked for more than thirty years in the real estate department of Leonard, Street and Deinard (now Stinson LLP) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he chaired the department and was a beloved mentor and colleague who organized cooking competitions, in-office miniature golf tournaments, and weekly gatherings. He lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

1997

Kristofer Hess

July 9, 2024

Hess, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study German legal history at the University of Cologne. He clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before joining the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he became a partner. A world traveler who loved food, technology, and animals, Hess lived in Hamburg, Germany.

2003

Kai-Alexander Heeren

August 24, 2024

Heeren earned his LLM at the Law School. He was the presiding judge at the Hamburg Regional Court and chair of the Hamburg Judges’ Association, and also worked at the German Federal Court of Justice.

2005

Andrew Lamb

June 5, 2024

Lamb earned his undergraduate degree at Trinity University and master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Notre Dame. He worked for several law firms and for the US Department of Justice as a civil attorney and contributed to the fight against human trafficking through International Justice Mission. He studied at Dallas Theological Seminary, taught at the University of Georgia and the John Leland Center for Theological Studies, and was active in his church.

2010

Ryan Kirk

December 1, 2024

Kirk was a University of South Carolina alumnus. During his legal career, he worked at Garfunkel Wild and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he provided legal counsel to health care entities and represented clients in corporate matters; he also volunteered as a legal advocate with Asylum Access in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Kirk also taught English at a middle school in China and social studies at two New York State high schools.