Florence Roisman

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Florence Wagman Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

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Roisman was born in February 1939. [1] She lived in the Bronx of New York City until her junior year of high school, when her family, which included her parents and younger sister, moved to Mount Vernon, New York. She is of Polish and Russian descent. [1]

Roisman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from the University of Connecticut with high honors, a distinction in English and in History, as well as a membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She earned an LL.B. degree cum laude in 1963 from Harvard Law School. [2] [3]

In 2005 Roisman was accused of opposing the tenure of Prof. William Bradford because of some of his conservative views. The feud became a national one when Fox News and FrontPage Magazine, among others, continually reported on the controversy. Bradford claimed that his support of the Iraq War and his refusal to sign a letter in defense of Ward Churchill that was circulated by Roisman were contributing factors and that Roisman "engineered" the vote against him. Roisman has publicly denied most of Bradford's claims. [4] [5]

In December 2005, retired Army Lt. Col. Keith R. Donnelly, then a recent IU McKinney law grad, contacted The Indianapolis Star, suspicious of Bradford's claims that he served in Desert Storm and that he had been awarded a Silver Star. Both Donnelly and the Star independently requested Bradford's army records, which "showed he was in the Army reserve from Sept. 30, 1995, to Oct. 23, 2001. He was discharged as a second lieutenant. He had no active duty. He was in military intelligence, not infantry. He received no awards." [6] (For reference, Desert Storm started on August 2, 1990, and ended February 28, 1991.) [7] Bradford resigned, effective January 1, 2006. [6]

Awards

In 2010 Roisman was awarded the "Servant of Justice Award" by the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. [8]

In 2011 she received the Cushing Niles Dolbeare Lifetime Service Award from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. [9]

In 2014 she received the M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award from the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). She was given the award during the group's annual dinner in New York City. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 Roisman, F. W. (n.d.). Oral history interview with Florence Wagman Roisman. American Bar Association. https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/women_trailblazers/roisman_interview_1.pdf
  2. ↑ "Florence Roisman, Esq. Oral History Package".
  3. ↑ Fran Quigley (December 31, 2003). "Power is over if you want it". Nuvo. Archived from the original on February 19, 2006.
  4. ↑ Pierre M Atlas, "Law school uproar exposes faculty power struggles," Indianapolis Star, June 30, 2005, page A16.
  5. ↑ Ruth Holiday, "Professor enmeshed in flap over collegiality," Indianapolis Star, June 26, 2005, p. B1.
  6. 1 2 "Indy Star". Archived from the original on December 5, 2007. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  7. ↑ "News Archive". Archived from the original on March 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ "21st Annual Servant of Justice Dinner was held April 27th, 2010". Legal Aid Society. Archived from the original on October 1, 2010.
  9. ↑ "National Low Income Housing Coalition". Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Professor Roisman to Receive Human Rights Award". IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. June 28, 2023. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
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