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Laurence H. Tribe ’66

Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, has taught at its Law School since 1968 and was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000. The title “University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to just a handful of professors at any given time and to just 68 professors in all of Harvard University’s history. Born in China to Russian Jewish parents, Tribe entered Harvard in 1958 at 16; graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum laude in Law (1966); clerked for the California and U.S. Supreme Courts (1966–68); received tenure at 30; was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at 38 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2010; helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands; has received eleven honorary degrees, most recently a degree honoris causa from the Government of Mexico in March 2011 that was never before awarded to an American and an honorary D. Litt. from Columbia University; has prevailed in three-fifths of the many appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court); was appointed by President Obama and Attorney General Holder to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice; and has written 115 books and articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited more than any other legal text since 1950. Professor Tribe’s most recent book is Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, published by Henry Holt (Macmillan) in 2014 and co-authored with Joshua Matz. Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law,” and the Northwestern Law Review opined that no-one else “in American history has… simultaneously achieved Tribe’s preeminence… as a practitioner and… scholar of constitutional law.”

Edith Brown Weiss ’66

Edith Brown Weiss is Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Judge on the Administrative Tribunals of the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank, and a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Advisory Council for Environmental Justice.

From 2003 – 2007, she served as Chairperson of the World Bank Inspection Panel, an appointment at the level of World Bank Vice President. Previously, she was President of the American Society of International Law, Associate General Counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she established the Division of International Law, and U.S. Special Legal Advisor to the North American Commission on the Environment. She has received many prizes for her scholarship and legal achievements and is an editorial board member of many international journals. She will be delivering the General Course on Public International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2017. She has been a director, trustee, or advisor to national and international organizations.

She received an A.B. from Stanford University, J.D from Harvard Law School, Ph.D. in political science from University of California Berkeley, Doctorate honoris causa from Heidelberg University, Germany, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Stephen A. Weiswasser ’66

Steve Weiswasser ’66 has been with Washington DC law firm Covington & Burling since 1998. There, he provides legal and strategic assistance to companies in the rapidly changing media and telecommunications industries. During his tenure at Covington, from 1999 to 2001, Steve also served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Gemstar-TV Guide. Prior to joining Covington, Steve was President and Chief Executive Officer of Americast, a joint venture of SBC Communications, Ameritech, BellSouth, GTE, Southern New England Telephone and The Walt Disney Company (1995–1998). From 1986 to 1995 Steve served as Senior Vice President of Capital Cities/ABC, as well at various times as President of the Capital Cities/ABC Multimedia Group, Executive Vice President of ABC News, Executive Vice President of the ABC Television Network Group, and General Counsel.

Steve joined Capital Cities/ABC from the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he practiced from 1967 to 1986. He had previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable David L. Bazelon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Steve has also served on the boards of, among others, the Greater Washington Educational Television Association (WETA), the Center for Communications, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Arena Stage, National Cathedral School, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Collegiate Directions, Inc., and The Washington Ballet. He is a past President of the International Radio and Television Society Foundation.

Betty Whelchel ’81

Betty A. Whelchel is Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for BNP Paribas CIB United States.

Before joining BNP Paribas in September 2005, Betty worked with Deutsche Bank AG from 1990 to 2004, first as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. and then as global General Counsel for Deutsche Asset Management. From 1984 to 1990, Betty was an attorney with Shearman & Sterling, where she spent two years in Tokyo, and was admitted to the Japanese bar as a “gaikokuho-jimu-bengoshi.”

Betty began her career at the U.S. Department of Treasury as an Attorney-Advisor in the Treasury Honors Program in 1981 to 1984. At the U.S. Treasury, among other things, she served as a staff attorney to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, and worked on various efforts to rationalize regulation of U.S. and international financial markets.

Betty is a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School. She is on the Board of Trustees and a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute of International Bankers. Betty was a recipient of the 2015 Legal 500 Individual of the Year in Financial Services, the 2015 Brooklyn Volunteer Lawyers Project Tradition of Excellence Award, the 2013 Burton “Legend in the Law” Award and the 2013 Bronx Defenders Corporate Partner Award.
Andrea L. Zopp ’81

Andrea Zopp currently serves as Deputy Mayor, Chief Neighborhood Development Officer for the City of Chicago. Ms. Zopp has dedicated her career to being a force of change. She has championed job creation, access to education, corporate responsibility and promoting economic development initiatives in underserved communities.

She served in the United States Attorney’s Office and was the first woman and African American to serve as the First Assistant in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. In these roles, she has fought to keep neighborhoods safe by taking on illegal guns, violent crime and gangs, and worked to protect victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Andrea is a successful businesswoman and has held executive leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies, including Sara Lee, Sears Holdings and Exelon. As President and CEO of the Chicago Urban League, she led the nationally-recognized organization’s focus on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities, helping youth and young adults achieve academic and career success, and advocacy for social justice.

Andrea has held multiple civic and business appointments. She was appointed to the Chicago Board of Education by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and to the Cook County Health and Hospital System Board by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Andrea also currently serves on the board of the Urban Partnership Bank. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Law School.

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