Judge James Wynn of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and Associate Justice Harold Frend See, Jr., of the Alabama Supreme Court will discuss methods of judicial selection at a luncheon Thursday, January 29, 2009, Noon at the University Club, 924 East Wells Street, Milwaukee.
Reservations may be made by printing and completing the
registration form and mailing with $15.00 Federalist Society, c/o Dan Kelly, Suite 1700, 1000 North Water Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, for receipt on or before January 27, 2009. There will be a $20.00 charge at the door for those without reservations. Seating is limited. Refunds cannot be given to those who choose not to attend.
James Wynn received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, his Juris Doctor from Marquette University Law School, and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He received a UCMJ Arts 42(a) and (b) Military Judge Certification in 2000.
He practiced with the U.S. Navy JAG Corps, was a North Carolina Assistant Appellate Defender, and with the firm of Fitch, Butterfield & Wynn. He was a Judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1998, and Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court in 1998, and again a Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals since 1999. He has also been a Certified Military Trial Judge in the U.S. Navy Reserves from 2000 to the present.
Judge Wynn chairs the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association and has served in numerous other leadership positions with the ABA. He is a director of the Justice at Stake Campaign. He is a member of the American Law Institute. He has held various positions with the National Conference of Uniform State Laws and has been active with the North Carolina Bar Association, North Carolina State Bar, and North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin. Among his awards is the 2004 – Marquette University “All University Alumni Merit Award”. His publications include “Judging the Judges,” Marquette University Law Review, 86 Marq.L.Rev. 753, Spring 2003.
Harold See received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Emporia State University, Kansas, his Master of Science degree in economics from Iowa State University, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he graduated with honors and was awarded the Order of the Coif.
He served as Assistant Professor of Economics at Illinois State University and practiced law with Sidley & Austin. Justice See then joined the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he served for over twenty years successively as Associate Professor, Full Professor, and Herbert D. Warner Professor of Law. In 1996, he was elected Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
Justice See has served as a contributing editor to the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, and he is a member of the American Law Institute, the Alabama Law Institute, the American Law and Economics Association, the Federalist Society, the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar Association, and V.O.C.A.L., a victims' rights advocacy group. He served as reporter for the Alabama Trade Secrets Acts and the revisions to the Alabama Trademark Law. Justice See has authored or edited over 40 books, chapters, articles, and reviews.
Presented by the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and the
Milwaukee Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
