by promoting community-wide understanding of the laws protecting the rights of tenants and employees.
Our faculty also model professional and public service for our students at the local, state, and national levels. Here are just a few examples of UND Law faculty’ s current service:
• Brad Myers serves on the North Dakota Uniform Law Commission, is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and serves on the SBAND Editorial Board for The Gavel.
• Mike McGinniss serves on the Joint Committee on Attorney Standards and provides educational training to support the Disciplinary Board.
• Jim Grijalva serves on the Minority Justice Implementation Committee and has assisted the national Environmental Protection Agency in programming related to tribal environmental issues.
• Margaret Jackson serves on the Joint Procedure Committee, as well as the SBAND Volunteer Lawyer Program Committee. She also serves as President of, and helped to found, the High Plains Fair Housing Center, which assists both home-seekers and housing providers.
• Steve Morrison holds a leadership position on the Academics Committee of the ABA’ s Criminal Justice Section, and Alex Sickler co-chairs a task force on defining the competencies of a business lawyer within the ABA’ s Business Law Section.
• Tammy Pettinato serves on the North Dakota Association of Nonprofit Organizations’ Working Group on Principles and Practices.
UND Law faculty also serve in leadership roles in legal education. Professors Kirsten Dauphinais and Anne Mullins both hold leadership roles within the Association of Legal Writing Directors, as well as other national organizations dedicated to legal writing and research education. Professor Jackson is involved in planning for the 2017 national Conference on Clinical Legal Education. And Professor Kit Johnson serves as president of the Central States Law Schools Association and coordinated the CSLSA annual conference held at UND Law in September 2016.
Our professional staff similarly are engaged in service. Trish Hodny, our director of career development, was reappointed by the governor to the Administrative Committee on Veterans Affairs( ACOVA). Trish was elected as chairman for the ACOVA Legislative Subcommittee and serves as an advisor for the UND American Legion Post. In the Law Library, Laurie McHenry serves as North Dakota’ s councilor on the American Library Association Council, and Anne Mostad-Jensen serves on several national and international committees related to legal information services. I, too, have
been grateful for opportunities to serve our state and our profession, including on the SBAND Board of Governors, the North Dakota Bar Foundation Board of Directors, and the Judicial Branch Education Commission, as well as a leadership role on the Gaming Law Committee within the ABA Business Law Section.
These professional and public service opportunities not only fulfill our obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, but give our faculty, staff, and students a chance to learn more about our profession, to work directly to improve the law and legal services, to better connect law practice to legal education, and to be actively engaged with the bench and bar. North Dakota’ s law school is strengthened through the public and professional service of our faculty, staff, and students. We are grateful for these opportunities to serve.
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