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Angela Onwuachi-Willig is one of the country’s leading scholars of race and the law, but in a letter addressing her students after the killing of George Floyd, she confessed that she had struggled over what she would say to them. As a Black woman and a law school dean the first dean of color at Boston University’s School of Law and first Black woman to lead a top-20 law school Onwuachi-Willig wrote that she wondered if she
could say anything publicly, “imagining the backlash when certain words come out of my Black mouth.
“Perhaps surprising to some of you, racism regularly disempowers the seemingly powerful dean,” wrote Onwuachi-Willig, who was appointed as dean, and a professor of law, in 2018.
What Does The Future Hold For Mike Pence?
The veep was Donald Trump’s most loyal defender for the past four years. We asked the experts what might come next.
January 6, 2021
At some point on or before January 20, Inauguration Day, moving trucks will roll up outside Number One Observatory Circle, a 9,150-square-foot Queen Anne–style house in Northwest Washington, D.C., where Pence and his wife, Karen, have lived the last four years. Movers will pack up all their earthly belongings. Then the trucks will likely head west back to Indiana, where political allies say Pence will regroup and plot out his next four years in a territory not all that unfamiliar to him: the political wilderness.
Madison County Circuit Judge Kyle Napp has been appointed Chief Criminal Judge, filling the role previously held by Circuit Judge Richard Tognarelli who retired Jan. 4.
Napp is the first woman to hold the position of Chief Criminal Judge in the Third Judicial Circuit and was appointed to the role on Dec. 1. The Third Judicial Circuit includes Bond and Madison Counties.
Napp said she is honored to join the ranks of former Chief Circuit Judge Ann Callis, who was also the first female to hold her position.
Napp said she is “really excited about the opportunity” to follow in the footsteps of former Chief Criminal Judge Charles Romani. She also considered former judge Larry Keshner a role model in her career.
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Will Ross, MD, associate dean for diversity and a professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the Alumni Endowed Professor of Medicine. Ross was chosen for the honor because he has demonstrated continued excellence as a nephrologist and public health epidemiologist, among numerous other accomplishments.
Will Ross, MD, associate dean for diversity and a professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the Alumni Endowed Professor of Medicine.
Ross was chosen for the honor because he has demonstrated continued excellence as a nephrologist and public health epidemiologist. He is noted for his skilled, compassionate bedside manner when treating patients, and for his research involving chronic kidney disease, diabetes, obesity and digital-messaging health platforms. Among medical students and alumni, Ross is often cite
As Vice President Pence prepares to preside over Congress’s Jan. 6 session making Biden’s victory official, he faces dueling pressures from his constitutional role and demands by Trump supporters that he derail the process.