2012 Competition Judges

Each year we are happy to welcome leading scholars, practitioners and judges to the National Animal Law Competitions.  We are honored to have them as our guest judges, and we are appreciative of them taking time out of their very busy schedules to participate.

Appellate Moot Court Judges

Final Round Judges:

• The Honorable D. Brooks Smith, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

• The Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

• The Honorable Margaret M. Morrow, United States District Court for the Central District of California

Preliminary & Semi-Final Round Judges:

• Don Cocek, Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office
• Carter Dillard,  Director of Litigation, Animal Legal Defense Fund
• Robert Friedlander, Attorney, MetLife
  
• Thomas Kelch, Professor of Law, Whittier Law School
• Cheryl Leahy, General Counsel, Compassion Over Killing
  
• Matthew Liebman, Staff Attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund
  
• Russ Mead, General Counsel, Animal Law Coalition
  
• Tracy Miller, Shareholder, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
• The Honorable Patricia Norris, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
• Adam M. Reich, Attorney at Law, Paul Hastings LLP
• Nicole Roth, Attorney, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  
• Ani Satz, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Law, Rollins School of Public Health, and Center for Ethics
  
• Matthew Strugar,  Counsel, PETA Foundation
• Mariann Sullivan, Board President, Our Hen House
  
• Amy Trakinski, Partner, Egert and Trakinski
  
• Bruce Wagman, Partner, Schiff Hardin
  
• Sonia Waisman, Partner, McCloskey Waring & Waisman LLP
  
• Paul Waldau, Lead Faculty, Anthrozoology Graduate Program at Canisius College & Religion and Animals Institute
  
• David Wolfson, Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
  

 

Legislative Drafting & Lobbying Competition

Final Round Judge:

• United States Attorney Robert Pitman, United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas

• Kara Holmquist,  Director of Advocacy, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Preliminary Round Judges:

• Kara Holmquist,  Director of Advocacy, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• Councilmember Paul Koretz, Council District 5, The City of Los Angeles
• United States Attorney Robert Pitman, United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas

 

Closing Argument Competition

Preliminary & Final Round Judges:

• Diane Balkin, Former Chief Deputy District Attorney - Denver; Contract Attorney, Criminal Justice Program, Animal Legal Defense Fund
• Madeline Bernstein, President & CEO, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles
• Liz Carle, Attorney, City of Eugene City Prosecutor’s Office & The Reynold’s Law Firm
• Pamela Hart, Attorney & Director, Animal Law Program, Animal Legal Defense Fund
• Deborah Knaan, Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office