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S P R I N G 2 0 0 5 AROUND THE LAW SCHOOL Alumni Award Winners T HIS SPRING THE LAW School Alumni Association honored four of its members for their outstanding work. James B. Sales, ’60, received the Lifetime Achievement Award; the Honorable Wallace B. Jefferson, ’88, was named Outstanding Alumnus; Laura Beckworth, ’83, was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Community Service; and Darren Walker, ’86, was awarded the Honorary Order of the Coif. Laura Beckworth LAURA BECKWORTH HAS BEEN the vice president of Hobby Communications since 1994 and a vice president and trustee of the Hobby Family Foundation since 1995. The Hobby Family Foundation provides funding for education, medicine, human services, and arts and cultural organizations, primarily in Texas. In 1996 the foundation helped to provide the initial charitable funding for the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston. Beckworth was the foundation’s representative for the complex project. The worldclass center opened in May 2002, when it was presented as a gift to the city of Houston. She continues to serve on the center’s board of directors. (See cover story, Winter 2005.) She graduated from UT Law in 1983 and from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill in 1980, Phi Beta Kappa. Beckworth helped launch the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. WYATT MCSPADDEN ROCKY KNETEN Wallace B. Jefferson is Texas's first African American chief justice. Wallace B. Jefferson THE HONORABLE WALLACE B. Jefferson was sworn in as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court by Governor Rick Perry on September 20, 2004. He is the first African American to serve as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and the 26th person designated chief justice in Texas history. When Governor Perry appointed him to the court in 2001, Jefferson already had won two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, within 10 years of graduating from UT Law. He was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court before the age of 40 and will serve as chief justice at the age of 41. The chief justice is a lifelong resident of San Antonio, where he worked at the law firm of Groce, Locke & Hebdon before starting his own civil appellate practice, Crofts, Callaway and Jefferson, in 1991. He earned his law degree from UT Law in 1988 and his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University. Darren Walker DARREN WALKER IS THE DIRECtor of Working Communities at the Rockefeller Foundation, a foundation established to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and exclud-
ed people throughout the world. He oversees the development and implementation of the foundation’s domestic anti-poverty strategy, focusing on public education, employment, community development, and democracy building. Before joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Walker served as chief operating officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a faith-based communitydevelopment organization in Harlem. There he led efforts that resulted in the development of more than 1,000 units of housing for low- and moderate-income residents; Harlem’s first large-scale privately financed commercial project in more than 30 years, a Pathmark Supercenter; and construction of the Thurgood Marshall Academy—the first public school ever built by a community organization in New York City. He is a 1982 graduate of UT-Austin, where he was named one of 10 Dean’s Distinguished Graduates. He graduated from UT Law in 1986 and received the Law Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Award. He attended the Kennedy School of Government as a Fannie Mae Foundation Walker's work has transformed the lives of the poor in New York. ROCKY KNETEN PETER YANG James B. Sales, ’60, has improved access to legal services for all Texans. Fellow. He holds a joint appointment at the NYU School of Law and Wagner School of Public Policy, and he is also a fellow of the Institute for Urban Design. In 1998, the Ex-Students’ Association recognized him with its Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award. James B.Sales JAMES B. SALES HAS SERVED the Texas legal community in numerous capacities during his 40 years as a trial lawyer. The Best Lawyers in America has selected Sales for inclusion in every issue of its publication and in 1994 Texas Lawyer named him one of the Legal Legends in Texas. The American College of Trial Lawyers has named him a fellow, as has the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. For 20 years, Sales served as a senior partner and head of the Litigation Department at Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. He currently is of counsel in the Houston office. He has also served as the president of the Houston Bar Association, chairman of the board and then president of the Texas State Bar, and chair of the Texas Bar Foundation. Currently, he serves as chair of the Texas Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission. He is also a prolific author, having published more than 40 law review and journal articles and books. Sales holds an undergraduate degree and an LL.B. (with honors) from UT-Austin. While at the Law School he was on the Texas Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Delta Phi. He served as president of TLRA, and in 2004 TLRA presented the Leon Green Award to him. S pring 2005 UTLAW 17
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