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Judith Resnik is an American legal academic and the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she is also the founding director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Resnik received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1972 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1975. She subsequently clerked for Judge Charles E. Stewart of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She served on the faculty of the University of Southern California Law School from 1980 to 1997. She has served as the first Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School since 1997. [1] She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 [2] and was named a fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018, which included a $200,000 grant. [3] [4]
Judith Arlene Resnik was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.
Hanna Holborn Gray is an American historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago. She served as president of the University of Chicago, from 1978 to 1993, having earlier served as president pro tempore of Yale University in 1977–1978. At both schools, she was the first woman to hold their highest executive office. When named to the post in Chicago, she became one of the first women in the United States to hold the full presidency of a major university.
Richard Halleck Brodhead is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature. He is a former dean of Yale College, and served as the 9th president of Duke University in North Carolina, from 2004 to 2017.
Judith Rodin is an American academic and philanthropist. She was the president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 2005 until 2017. From 1994 to 2004, Rodin served as the 7th president of the University of Pennsylvania, and the first permanent female president of an Ivy League university.
Judith Nisse Shklar was a philosopher and political theorist who studied the history of political thought, notably that of the Enlightenment period. She was appointed the John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard University in 1980.
Barbara Aronstein Black is an American legal scholar. Born and raised in Brooklyn. She was the first woman to serve as dean of an Ivy League law school. when she became Dean of Columbia Law School in 1986. Black is the George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia.
Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and academic administrator. He has been serving as the 23rd and current president of Yale University since 2013. He previously served as provost of Yale University from 2008 to 2013, dean of Yale College from 2004 to 2008, and dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2003 to 2004. Salovey is one of the early pioneers in emotional intelligence.
Ellen Ash Peters was an American lawyer and judge. She was appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1978. She was the first woman appointed to that court.
Arthur Lawrence Liman was an American lawyer and partner at the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Liman served as the chief counsel for both the New York state commission for the Attica Prison riot in 1971 and the investigation of the Iran-Contra Affair in 1987.
Elizabeth Alexander is an American poet, writer, and literary scholar who has served as the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018.
Judy Pfaff is an American artist known mainly for installation art and sculptures, though she also produces paintings and prints. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004 and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1983) and the National Endowment for the Arts. Major exhibitions of her work have been held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Denver Art Museum and Saint Louis Art Museum. In 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Video interviews can be found on Art 21, Miles McEnery Gallery, MoMa, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and other sources.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin is an American legal scholar, historian, and academic. She is dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and a Harvard University professor of history.
Carol J. Greenhouse is an American anthropologist known for her scholarship on law, time, democracy, and neoliberalism. She is currently professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she previously served as Arthur W. Marks Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair. She is also the former president of the American Ethnological Society (2013-2015), former editor of its peer-review journal, American Ethnologist (1998-2002), and former president of both the Law and Society Association (1996-1997) and Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (1999-2001).
Lewis Jeffrey Liman is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Keith E. Whittington is an American political scientist and legal scholar. He has been the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University since 2006. In July 2024, he will join the Yale Law School faculty. Whittington's research focuses on American constitutionalism, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech and the law.
Eli Nachamson Evans was a Jewish-American author from North Carolina whose work encompassed explorations of the Jewish experience in the Southern United States. He "left his biggest mark as the author of three books exploring the culture and history of Jews in the American South", according to his August 2, 2022, New York Times obituary.
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