Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityParticipant Biographies
Stephen Presser (will present the arguments of Frank Parks, the then-assistant attorney general of Arizona)
Stephen Presser is a leading American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts. He is frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of constitutional law. He holds a joint appointment with the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and also teaches in Northwestern’s history department.
Randolph Stone (will present the arguments of the chief lawyer for the appellants, Norman Dorsen, New York University School of Law)
Randolph Stone is currently serves on the University of Chicago Law School faculty as Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Randolph’s legal career has included working as a public defender in Cook County, serving as director and staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, presiding as the chair of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, as well as being a partner in the Chicago firm of Stone & Clark. In addition to clinical legal education, his teaching and writing interests have included criminal law, juvenile justice, the legal profession, indigent defense, race and criminal justice, evidence, and trial advocacy.
Scott Turow (will play the role of Justice Abe Fortas,the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Gault decision)
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of seven best-selling novels including the #1 New York Time best-selling Presumed Innocent (1987). In November, 2006, Picador published his latest novel, Limitations, which was originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine. He has also written two non-fiction books—One L (1977) about his experience as a law student, and Ultimate Punishment (2003), a reflection on the death penalty, and has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as The New York Times Washington Post, Vanity Fair The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic Mr. Turow’s books have won a number of literary awards, including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages and have sold more than 25 million copies world wide.
Anne M. Burke (will play the role of Justice Hugo Lafayette Black, one of the Supreme Court justices who concurred in the Gault decision)
Anne Burke was admitted to the Federal Court, Northern District of Illinois, in 1983, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in 1985, and certified for the Trial Bar, Federal District Court in 1987. In that same year, Governor James Thompson appointed her Judge to the Court of Claims and, in 1991, she was reappointed by Governor Jim Edgar. In April 1994, she was appointed special counsel to the Governor for Child Welfare Services. In August 1995, she was appointed to the Appellate Court, First District. In 1996, she was elected to the Appellate Court, First District, for a full term. In July 2006, Anne was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court where she currently presides.
Honorable William J. Hibbler (will play the role of Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Associate Judge William J. Hibbler was admitted to the practice of law in Illinois in 1973 He currently presides over the Juvenile Justice Division and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Chicago/Kent College of Law. Judge Hibblefs previous judicial assignments included serving as a Felony Trial Judge in the Criminal Division, an Assistant Supervising Judge of the Chicago Traffic Court, and a Trial Judge in the First Municipal District Judge Hibbler is a member of the Illinois Judges Association, Illinois Judicial Council, Chicago Bar Association, Cook County Bar Association, and Illinois State Bar Association.
Honorable Ilana Rovner (will play Potter Stewart, the only Supreme Court justice who did not concur with the Gault decision)
Ilana Diamond Rovner is a Judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe (will play the role of Justice John Marshall Harlan II)
Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where she is also a Staff Attorney with the Children and Family Justice Center of the Bluhm Legal Clinic. Prior to joining the Bluhm Legal Clinic, Uzoamaka Nzelibe worked for three years at Patton Boggs LLP, where she was as an Associate in both the Employment Law Group and the Immigration Law Group and represented indigent clients seeking asylum and other types of relief on a pro bono basis. Upon her move to Chicago, Illinois, Uzoamaka Nzelibe worked as an Associate for Novack and Macey, a civil litigation boutique law firm and as a contract attorney for Bank One, N.A.
Luis A. Pinedo (will play the role of Justice William Brennan Jr.)
Luis is an associate attorney within the Business and Securities Litigation Department at McGuire Woods LLP and a 2006 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law.
