1952
Norman Goldman
March 26, 2023
Goldman was a graduate of the College and had a long legal career. An avid reader and fan of Chicago sports teams, he lived in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ralph Goren
January 3, 2023
Goren was an assistant state’s attorney for Cook County, Illinois, before establishing a solo practice in Chicago. His volunteer work included serving on the boards of two credit unions and the Anti-Defamation League of Chicago, and as a trustee of Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois. He lived in Wilmette, Illinois.
1955
William Reinke
September 30, 2023
An alumnus of Wabash College and a US Army veteran, Reinke began his legal career at the firm now known as Barnes & Thornburg, eventually becoming senior partner in its South Bend, Indiana, office. He served on numerous boards, including those of the Izaak Walton League and United Way of St. Joseph County. Reinke received an award from the ACLU of Indiana for developing a class on the US Constitution for elementary school students.
1958
Oral Miller
August 6, 2023
Miller was a graduate of Princeton University. He spent two decades working for the US Small Business Administration and later became president and executive director of the American Council of the Blind. An avid traveler and athlete, he was a member of the US Association of Blind Athletes and the International Blind Sports Association and helped established athletic programs for people with disabilities worldwide.
1959
Tom Tritschler
September 8, 2023
Tritschler was an alumnus of Brown University and a US Army veteran and held a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He was professor emeritus at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, where he was head of the art department before retiring.
1960
Walter Williams
January 23, 2023
A graduate of the College, Williams lived in Palm Desert, California.
1961
Eric Bergsten
July 1, 2023
Bergsten earned his DCompL at the Law School after studying law at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University and serving in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He taught law and was a senior legal officer of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, of which he eventually became secretary. In Vienna, Austria, Bergsten founded the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, known as Vis Moot, an international competition. His honors and awards included the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria.
Richard Fox
May 6, 2023
Fox was a veteran of the US Marines and a graduate of the University of Rochester. He spent six decades as a corporate and tax attorney. An outdoorsman who summited all forty-six of the highest peaks in the Adirondacks, he loved to travel, read, sail, and tell stories. Fox lived in Jensen Beach, Florida, and Peaks Island, Maine.
1962
Peter Bilakos
July 1, 2023
Bilakos was a US Army veteran and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. After a short stint working for the City of Chicago, he returned to his hometown of Ann Arbor. He enjoyed traveling, gardening, and attending productions of Shakespeare’s plays in New York City and Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
George Moorman
June 28, 2023
A Yale University alumnus, Moorman began his legal career as a public defender and served briefly as an associate circuit judge. He practiced law in a number of small firms and as a solo practitioner in Missouri. He was a lifelong fan of the St. Louis Cardinals and taught an adult education class about the team. He also loved reading, writing, and travel and was a volunteer with the Innocence Project. Moorman lived in St. Louis, Missouri.
1964
William Goodman
November 17, 2023
A graduate of the College, Goodman was a civil rights attorney whose Detroit firm, Goodman Hurwitz & James, focused on representing victims of police misconduct and constitutional abuses. He began his career working on desegregation cases in the South, later becoming legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City. He also cofounded the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice in Detroit, where he lived.
1965
Grady Norris
June 14, 2023
Norris was a US Army veteran who earned a bachelor’s degree at Birmingham Southern College while working as a reporter for the Birmingham (AL) Post-Herald. He began his career as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice, fighting illegal restrictions on voting and overseeing voter registration. He coauthored the federal Fair Housing Act under the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Norris later held a managerial role at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Atlanta, Georgia. He lived in Arlington, Virginia.
Daniel Pascale
April 18, 2023
Pascale earned a bachelor’s degree at Harvard University. He worked in the City of Chicago Office of Corporation Counsel and was a partner in the firm now known as DLA Piper. He also served as a judge on the Circuit Court of Cook County. Well known as a mentor to law students, Pascale taught law and volunteered as a mock trial judge. He loved reading, traveling, and music.
1966
James Raden
September 16, 2023
Raden was a resident of Highland Park, Illinois.
1968
Thomas Lippard
June 7, 2023
Lippard was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. He was a partner at Houston, Cohen, Harbaugh & Lippard and at Thorp Reed & Armstrong, and later became executive vice president, secretary, and general counsel of TMS International. He loved playing golf, following the Pittsburgh Steelers, traveling, and horses. Lippard lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1969
Linda Hirshman
October 31, 2023
Hirshman earned her undergraduate degree at Cornell University. Her first legal job was as an attorney at a firm that represented labor unions. She later taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and went on to earn a PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois Chicago, after which she taught philosophy and women’s studies at Brandeis University. Hirshman was well known for her best-selling books, including Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World and Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World.
Robert Johnson
April 15, 2023
Johnson was a University of Michigan alumnus. After clerking for a federal judge, he joined the Chicago law firm of Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, now known as K&L Gates, and became a partner there. After retiring, he became general counsel and a board member of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. He enjoyed spending time reading, writing, golfing, and jogging. He also loved New Orleans–style jazz and was president of the Maestros, a jazz band in Pasadena, California.
1974
William Block
August 19, 2023
Block was a graduate of the Lab School and Pomona College. After clerking for Associate Justice Harry Blackmun on the US Supreme Court, he practiced real estate law in Seattle, Washington, later becoming director of the King County Committee to End Homelessness. After retiring, he was appointed a regional administrator of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and subsequently served the department as a special consultant on homelessness. He chaired the Seattle Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, served as president of the Board of AIDS Housing of Washington, and volunteered for many other organizations. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was a Public Health Reserve Corps volunteer.
Michael Mills
October 1, 2023
Mills was a graduate of Reed College who served as the Oregon campaign manager for Eugene McCarthy and was later drafted into the US Army. He practiced litigation as a partner at two firms in New York City before moving to Davis Polk & Wardwell, which he left to cofound Neota Logic, one of the first software companies to apply artificial intelligence to legal work. Mills helped to found the Central Park Conservancy, was president of the College of Law Practice Management, and was a founding director of the nonprofit Pro Bono Net. He lived in St. Helena, California.
1975
Bruce Larson
May 27, 2023
Larson was a Princeton University alumnus. He spent his forty-five-year career at Karr Tuttle Campbell in Seattle, where he was managing partner for more than twenty-five years. A dedicated volunteer, he received the Washington Supreme Court Award for Outstanding Service on behalf of the Washington Pattern Jury Instruction Committee. Larson lived in Seattle.
1977
Martin Greene
April 3, 2023
Greene was a graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago. An accomplished trial attorney who focused on employment litigation, he worked at several Chicago firms, most recently Zuber Lawler, and taught employment law at the Law School. He frequently offered his services pro bono and was involved in the Business Leadership Council, the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession, and the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms, which recognized him with its Yolanda Coly Advocacy Award.
1999
Joseph Cannon
July 12, 2023
A Brigham Young University graduate, Cannon worked in his family’s business, Cannon Structures. He was a diehard fan of the Chicago White Sox, an avid reader, and a volunteer in his church. Cannon lived in Chicago.
2016
Morgan Sharma
September 21, 2023
Sharma was a graduate of the George Washington University. She interned in the US Attorney’s office in Chicago and clerked for Judge Matthew Kennelly of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Sharma was a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice in San Francisco, California, before joining the firm of Keker, Van Nest & Peters as an associate.
