Alumni
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Alana Seixas and Lynn Stopher named 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Fellows
Stopher will work at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago; Seixas will work at the Children’s Law Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Read MoreMay. 17, 2018
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Ingrid Wuerth, Suzanna Sherry, Tracey George and Edward Cheng honored with 2018 Hall-Hartman Awards
Wuerth, Sherry and George were honored for first-year teaching, and Wuerth and Edward Cheng for upper-level courses. Read MoreMay. 16, 2018
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Twenty 2018 graduates honored with awards at Commencement
Richard Turner Henderson received the Founder's Medal for First Honors. Read MoreMay. 14, 2018
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Family of Rick Ferrini ’11 establishes scholarships in his honor at VLS and the School of Medicine
The Rick V. N. Ferrini Law Scholarship and the Rick V. N. Ferrini Medical Scholarship honor an accomplished attorney who died March 10, 2017. “We wanted to do something in memory of Rick that would honor him and make him proud,” said Vino Ferrini, president of the Texas-based leather footwear company Ferrini USA. “His time at Vanderbilt was very special to him, and these scholarships will give that same opportunity and experience to others. We also want to support research on depression, which so many struggle with, as did our son. It is a disease like any other, and we want to see the stigma removed for those who suffer with it and their families.” A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Rick Ferrini began his legal career in Washington, D.C., after earning his law degree from Vanderbilt in 2011. For the next five years he served as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, where he defended D.C. government agencies and individual employees at all levels of government in a variety of civil lawsuits. In 2016, he returned to his hometown of Dallas to serve as counsel to his family’s company, Ferrini USA. Read MoreApr. 30, 2018
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Perry Brandt ’77 (BA’74) and Kito Huggins ’99 (BA’96) appointed to Vanderbilt University’s Board of Trust
Adolpho Birch III '91 was appointed Board Secretary. Read MoreApr. 23, 2018
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Nell Henson ’18 wins the 2018 Nagareda Prize for article on expert witnesses in medical malpractice trials
Henson’s Note, published in the 2018 Vanderbilt Law Review, explores courts’ disagreement over admissibility of evidence of prior malpractice by medical expert witnesses. Read MoreApr. 23, 2018
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Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Frank F. Drowota III ’65 (BA’60) dead at 79
Justice Drowota served on the Tennessee Supreme Court for 25 years and as a judge in Tennessee courts for 35 years. Read MoreApr. 17, 2018
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CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo ’84 delivers Cecil Sims Lecture, “Derivatives Regulatory Reform: A Principles-based Software Update”
Giancarlo also spoke to the VLS Board of Advisors after his Sims Lecture April 13. Read MoreApr. 17, 2018
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Claria Horn Boom ’94 confirmed to shared seat on federal districts courts for Eastern and Western Kentucky
Horn Boom has previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. She was a partner at Frost Brown Todd in Lexington before her confirmation to the federal bench. Read MoreApr. 10, 2018
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Kristen Clarke of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law delivers 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Lecture
Clarke’s lecture, “Democracy under Attack: Race, Rights and Resistance,” addresses the role of lawyers in responding to racial injustice, voter suppression and other civil rights issues. Read MoreApr. 10, 2018