Topic: Government Service
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In Practice Summer 2026
Jennifer Scheller Neumann, ’03: The Ever-Changing Climate of Environmental Law
Jennifer Scheller Neumann, ’03, spent two decades with the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the US Department of Justice before entering private practice in 2024.
Impact Summer 2026
Cathy Fleming, ’76: Learning and Legacy Building
As an homage to the opportunities she has had throughout her education and during her career—a career she says Michigan Law made possible—Catherine “Cathy” Fleming, ’76, has long been a committed and loyal donor to her alma mater.
Impact Summer 2026
John Yun, ’83: Crossing Barriers, Carving a Path for Others
John S. Yun, ’83, a trial lawyer who spent more than two decades with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, says that his education provided him with opportunities not often available to working-class individuals and recently established a scholarship for socioeconomically disadvantaged students at Michigan Law.
Features Summer 2026
Decades of Careers Launched by the Fiske Fellowship Program for Government Service
Robert B. Fiske Jr., ’55, HLLD ’97, understood that having government service experience early in a professional career can be formative. To make it easier for Michigan Law students to pursue that experience, he endowed the Robert B. Fiske Jr. Fellowship Program for Government Service at Michigan Law in 2001. Law Quadrangle spoke with Fiske Fellows from years past to learn more about the impact the fellowship has had on their careers.
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.