Issue: Winter 2022
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In Memoriam
The Hon. Avern Cohn, ’49
The Hon. Avern Cohn, ’49, who served for 40 years on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, died on February 4, 2022. He was 97.
In Memoriam
Professor Douglas A. Kahn
Douglas A. Kahn, the Paul G. Kauper Professor Emeritus of Law, died on October 22, 2021, at his home in Tallahassee, Florida, at the age of 86. He was the longest teaching faculty member in Michigan Law history and a devoted instructor and champion of generations of students.
In Memoriam
Professor Yale Kamisar
Yale Kamisar, a towering, beloved figure in the Law Quad and a nationally renowned scholar of constitutional law, died on January 30, 2022, in Ann Arbor. He was 92.
In Memoriam
Dean Terrance Sandalow
Terrance “Terry” Sandalow, who served as dean of Michigan Law from 1978 to 1987 and was a member of the faculty for 34 years, died at his Washington, D.C., home on January 29, 2022. He was 87.
Class Note Winter 2022
Jeri Looney accepted the general counsel position at Skyryse Inc., a flight operations startup, based in El Segundo, California. She joined Skyryse after two years as general counsel at The Spaceship Company and one year as senior legal director at Virgin Galactic.
Class Note Winter 2022
Chase Cantrell, as part of Speramus Partners LLC, opened Detroit’s first Black-owned brewery, 734 Brewing Company. He is the founder of Building Community Value Detroit, a program that teaches residents how to become neighborhood developers.
Class Note Winter 2022
Mariana M. Long was named the 2020 Federal Librarian of the Year by the Federal Library and Information Network. She is a supervisory reference librarian with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Class Note Winter 2022
Hetali Lodaya was one of 16 law students chosen for the 2021 Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. The program provides a historical lens to engage early-stage legal practitioners in five fields in an intensive course of study focused on contemporary ethical issues in their profession.
Class Note Winter 2022
Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke was renowned for her barrier-breaking career as an attorney, professor, and university administrator, she made her mark on history with a simple yet brave and notable act: attending Duke University. Reuben-Cooke was one of five African Americans who broke the color barrier at Duke when they matriculated in 1963; she went on to graduate with distinction. In September of 2021, Reuben-Cooke’s undergraduate alma mater named an academic building after her, in recognition of her place in Duke’s history and for her contributions to the institution, including twelve years as a member of the board of trustees. Although Reuben-Cooke passed away in 2019, the building dedication was attended by surviving members of her family, including her husband, Edmund Cooke, ’73.