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Following law school, she served as law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1975 to 1976. From 1976 until 1984, Huvelle was an associate at the firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. and in 1984, she became the first female partner at that firm, [ 5 ] where she remained until 1990.
Fullerton earned a B.A. in 1968 at Duke University and a J.D. in 1978 at Antioch School of Law. [3] [4] She was a law clerk to both Judge Frank Minis Johnson (U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama; 1978–79), as well as to Judge Francis Van Dusen (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; 1979–80).
Ed Howard, J.D. 1990, senior counsel for the Children's Advocacy Institute and Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego School of Law; Annette Nellen, J.D. 1987, professor as well as the director of the graduate tax program at the San José State University
Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died.
The San Fernando Valley College of Law (the first law school in the San Fernando Valley), co-founded as an independent school by Leo L. Mann and Joseph P. Lamont in 1962, was acquired and merged into UWLA in 2002. Robert W. Brown is the current President of the University while Jay Paul Frykberg was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2013.
Ellen Ash Peters (March 21, 1930 – April 17, 2024) 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 .
New England Law is ranked No. 147-193 among law schools and No. 55-70 among part-time law schools by U.S. News. [33] According to the Princeton Review , New England Law is ranked the 3rd best law school with the greatest resources for women based on two criteria: student surveys and the percentage of the student body that are women.
The school offers the Juris Doctor (JD) law degree, which can be completed on a full-time basis over three years or part-time over four years.The school also offers two dual-degree programs in conjunction with the University of La Verne College of Business and Public Management: the Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA) and Juris Doctor/Master of Public Administration (JD/MPA).