Russell A. Anderson ’68, who served on the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1998 to 2008, the last two years as chief justice, died Tuesday at his home, surrounded by his family. He was 78, and had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, in 2017.
Professor Joan S. Howland, the Roger F. Noreen Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Information Technology, has been elected to a second three-year term as a delegate-at-large to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, the policy-making body of the organization.
Rob Grimsley played as a safety on the North Dakota State University (NDSU) football team for four years, during which the Division 1 powerhouse amassed an amazing 55-4 record. He helped NDSU win three FCS national championships in the 2015, 2017, and 2018 seasons, and was named team captain. Grimsley is a first-gen student in his family and would like one day to be a prosecutor.
Brett Ludwig ’94 today was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
Ludwig has served as a judge the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin since 2017.
Ludwig, 51, will take over the seat long held by Rudolph Randa, who died in 2016.
Today we launch our "Meet the Class of 2023" series with Elisabeth Bernabe, 1L, who spent the last two years as a paralegal in the international trade & investment group of the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan Lovells, one of the world’s largest law firms. As an undergraduate at Yale University, she interned for a summer at a start-up in Belgium, and was a member of the women’s golf team.
Minnesota Law this week welcomes 213 students from 121 undergraduate institutions in 34 states and seven countries to its first-year J.D. class. The Class of 2023 is setting new records for gender and racial diversity at Minnesota Law. In addition to women making up a majority of incoming students for just the fourth time in the school’s history, the first-year class is the most racially diverse to enter the Law School in more than 15 years.
A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of approximately $1.6M will bring together medical and legal experts to produce ethics recommendations for the use of breakthrough MRI technology that is portable and cloud-based.
Eura Chang, 2L, was one of four law students selected nationally to receive the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation’s inaugural Sharon and Ivan Leadership Scholarship for outstanding professional promise and leadership potential.
Chang is a member of the Minnesota Law Review, a Robina Public Interest Scholar, and co-president of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.
