National Policy Board Members

Dennis W. Archer, the National Policy Board chair, is the immediate past president of the American Bar Association and was the first African American elected to lead the ABA. Archer served as mayor of Detroit from 1994-2001. During his last year as mayor, he also was president of the National League of Cities. Archer’s distinguished career in public service also includes five years as an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, at the end of which he was named the most respected judge in Michigan by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. Other honors include: 2000 Public Official of the Year by Governing magazine, one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans by Ebony magazine and one of the Most Powerful Attorneys in the U.S. by the National Law Journal. Archer earned his Juris Doctor from Detroit College of Law in 1970 and served as an associate professor there and as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School. Archer currently serves as Chairman of Dickinson Wright PLLC, a 225-person Detroit-based law firm with offices in Michigan and Washington, D.C., and sits on the corporate boards of Johnson Controls, Inc., CompuWare Corporation and Covisint, and North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.

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Horst H. Schulze is the president and CEO of The West Paces Hotel Group, a newly formed company focused on creating and operating luxury hotels. He joined The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company as a charter member in January 1983 as the founding president and chief operating officer where he was instrumental in the conceptualization of the operating and service standards of the newly formed company. Mr. Schulze was responsible for the $2 billion Ritz-Carlton operations, worldwide. During his tenure, The Ritz-Carlton expanded from one property to over 40 worldwide in 41 countries. Under his leadership, the Group was awarded the 1992 and 1999 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and has been continuously voted “best hotel company in the world” by convention and trade publications. In November of 1991, Mr. Schulze was recognized as "corporate hotelier of the world" by HOTELS Magazine. In 1995 he was also awarded the prestigious Ishikawa Medal for his personal contributions to the quality movement. He relinquished his responsibilities with Ritz-Carlton in February 2002. Mr. Schulze is a recognized leader in the service world. His vision has indeed helped reshape customer service concepts in both the hospitality and the service industries. Mr. Schulze serves as a director on several boards. These fine institutions include: Reliance Trust Company; Cancer Treatment Centers of America; Georgia Family Council and The Travel Institute.

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Rudolph Hasl is dean of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, Calif. He is a former dean of Seattle University School of Law, St. John's University School of Law and St. Louis University of Law. Dean Hasl has chaired the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar which, among other things, oversees the law school accreditation process. The National Association for Public Interest Law named Dean Hasl Law School Dean of the Year in 2001.

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Arthur R. Miller is the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1971. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his law degree from Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he practiced law in New York City and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. Among lawyers he is nationally known for his work on court procedure, a subject on which he has authored or co-authored more than forty books, copyright and unfair competition, and remedies. The general public, however, knows him for his work in the field of the right of privacy, a subject on which he has written, testified, debated, and helped formulate legislation. His book The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (1971) has been extremely influential.

Professor Miller also carries on an active law practice, particularly in the federal appellate courts. He has argued in all of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. He has worked in the public interest in the fields of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts. Among the responsible positions he has held are those of Commissioner on the United States Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, reporter for and member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Project on Complex Litigation. Professor Miller is a critically acclaimed legal writer and commentator, having contributed to numerous media outlets, including ABC, PBS, Court TV, among others. For many years Professor Miller was the legal editor of ABC’s Good Morning America and hosted a program on the Courtroom Television Network. He also hosted his own weekly television show Miller’s Court for eight years; he wrote a book of the same name. Professor Miller won an Emmy for the PBS Series The Sovereign Self. He continues to provide regular analysis for Boston’s WCVB-TV.

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Charles E. “Bud” Jonesis the immediate past chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, having served in the state’s top judicial post for three years. Justice Jones was first appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 1996 and served as vice chief justice from 1997-2002. Prior to his appointment to the Court, Justice Jones spent more than 30 years in private practice as a partner with Jennings, Strouss & Salmon in Phoenix. He served as chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Department, handling a wide variety of employment disputes before federal and state court and administrative agencies. Justice Jones’ honors include the Alumni Distinguished Service Award from Brigham Young University. He also was the first recipient of the University of Arizona ‘Feuerstein Award’ for Ethics in the Law of Industrial Relations in 1998. Justice Jones earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif. and his B.A. from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

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Martha Walters Barnett is a partner in the Florida law firm of Holland & Knight LLP, has had a distinguished legal career, having held the positions as president of the American Bar Association (2000-2001), member of the ABA Board of Governors and as the first woman to serve as chair of the ABA House of Delegates. Florida Governor Charlie Crist appointed her to the State’s Taxation and Budget Reform Commission in 2007.

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Robert K. (Bob) Walsh, served as dean of the Wake Forest University School of Law and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. He has held the position of chairperson of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and has chaired both the Accreditation Committee and the Standards Review Committee.

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Richard T. White is senior vice president, secretary & general counsel for AAA Michigan (The Auto Club Group) and was a founding partner of a nationally known minority-owned law firm. He twice was appointed by Governor John Engler to the Michigan Transportation Commission and serves on Board of Directors of the American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA), which he chaired in 2007.

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