Topic: Government Service
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Impact Winter 2025
New Fellowship to Fund LLM Public Service Opportunities Honors Longtime Assistant Dean for International Affairs Virginia Gordan
A new fellowship at Michigan Law will help fund important postgraduate opportunities for masters of law students, while honoring a longtime champion of international students. The Virginia Gordan LLM Public Service Fellowship is named for the first assistant dean for international affairs at Michigan Law.
Impact Winter 2025
Ashley M. Washington, ’10: Serving the Next Generation
Staying connected to Michigan Law is important to Ashley M. Washington, ’10, and her involvement with her alma mater comes in many forms. She has served on her class’s Reunion planning committee and, since graduation, has remained a loyal donor to the Law School Fund, Michigan Law’s primary discretionary fund.
Impact Winter 2025
Aaron Lewis, ’05: Embracing, and Extending, a Family Legacy
Aaron Lewis, ’05, comes from a long line of Michigan Law graduates. Lewis, a partner at Covington & Burling LLP in Los Angeles, recently made a $100,000 gift to the Wade Hampton McCree Jr. Scholarship Fund. The fund was established in 2006 by a gift from a 1971 Michigan Law graduate who had clerked for Lewis’s grandfather.
Impact Winter 2025
Gillian C. Steinhauer, ’76: Success in All Seasons of Life
Gillian C. Steinhauer, ’76, has developed a knack for finding her footing wherever she lands. Now, in retirement, she balances her personal travel and duties as a grandmother with her involvement at Michigan Law. Gillian recently amended a gift she made to the Law School in 2016, more than doubling the original amount.
In Practice Summer 2025
Aisha Elmquist, ’07: Everyone Has the Right to a Seat at the Table
Throughout history, many Americans with disabilities have been denied fundamental rights like attending school, holding jobs, and choosing homes. However, for as long as these inequalities have persisted, advocates for disability rights have fought back—including Aisha Elmquist, ’07, who leads a state government program in Minnesota that is tasked with helping those with disabilities live their best lives.
In Practice Winter 2024-2025
Nina Ruvinsky, ’13: Historic Fraud in a Nascent Market
When fraud charges against Sam Bankman-Fried jolted the financial world in December 2022, it capped several frenetic weeks of work for Nina Ruvinsky, ’13. She and her colleagues at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in parallel with counterparts at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Securities Exchange Commission, had brought a complex, first-of-its-kind case, which involved more than $8 billion stolen from Bankman-Fried’s FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
Features Summer 2024
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, ’10, and Professor J.J. Prescott Team Up on Transparency Project to Study Racial Disparities in Legal System
Even before he was elected Washtenaw County prosecutor in 2020, Eli Savit vowed to examine racial disparities in the county’s legal system. Led by Savit and Professor J.J. Prescott, the Prosecutor Transparency Project has released its analysis—and it hopes to serve as a model for similar efforts elsewhere.
In Practice Fall 2023
Kristin Johnson ’03: Protecting Consumers by Policing Crypto Markets
As one of five members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a sister agency to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Kristin Johnson and her colleagues are charged with regulating US derivatives markets. As such, they oversee the creation and enforcement of rules to prevent fraud and manipulation in the markets they supervise—including crypto.
Impact Fall 2023
John Bulgozdy, ’84: From Poetry Class to the Courtroom
On the surface, litigation and poetry don’t have much in common. But John Bulgozdy says that the analytical skills he used throughout his legal career can be traced to an undergraduate poetry class at the University of Michigan.
Cover Story Fall 2023
Michigan Law in Service around the World
The University of Michigan Law School is an international institution in every sense of the word. Students come from around the globe to study in the Law Quad, and they go on to represent the Law School all over the world through opportunities as students and throughout their careers. The fall 2023 issue of Law Quadrangle shares some of their stories.