April 8, 2005

Wayne State Law School to honor several prominent alumni

DETROIT - Five Wayne State University Law School alumni will be honored by the school and its alumni association at the annual Treasure of Detroit Ball on Saturday, April 9, at The Parade Company headquarters in Detroit. Two others with close ties to the law school will be recognized as honorary alumni. Those being honored are as follows:
  • Nancy Diehl of Detroit is president of the State Bar of Michigan and chairs the organization's public policy and rules committees. She heads the Felony Trial Division in the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, chairs the Wayne County Council Against Family Violence and serves on the Governor's Task Force on Children's Justice.
 
  •  Cynthia Faulhaber of East Lansing is Michigan deputy state treasurer for state and local finance. Before joining the Department of Treasury she was with the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone.
 
  • Janet Findlater of Ypsilanti is a Wayne State law professor who teaches classes on contracts, criminal law and family violence. She has served on Michigan's Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board and is co-author of a manual on domestic violence that is used in the instruction of law enforcement officers.
 
  • Aretha Glover of Southfield is president of the Wolverine Bar Association and president of the WSU Law School Alumni Association. She is general counsel with Sterling Bank and president of the WSU Law School Alumni Association. She is general counsel with Sterling Bank and Trust.
 
  • Marilyn Kelly of Bloomfield Hills is a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.  Prior to being elected to the Michigan Court of Appeals in 1988 she was a courtroom attorney. She was re-elected to the Court of Appeals in 1994 and was elected to the state's highest court in 1996 and again in 2004.
 
Being recognized as "honorary alumni" during the law school's eighth annual ball are:
 
  • Sherrie Farrell of Southfield  is an attorney with the firm of Dykema Gossett, where she serves in the Litigation Practice Group and specializes in commercial litigation, products liability and other business dispute matters. She earned a bachelor's degree from Wayne State and is a graduate of Detroit College of Law. Farrell serves on the advisory board for the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program of Detroit.
 
  • Eleanor "Coco" Siewert of Birmingham has served as assistant to the dean at the WSU Law School for several years and, before that, as special assistant to former WSU President David Adamany. She has taught as an adjunct faculty member in the WSU College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, from which she holds a master's degree in dispute resolution, and is president of its alumni association. A past mayor of the city of Birmingham, she is a professional parliamentarian who has conducted numerous workshops on parliamentary procedure.
 
 
Note: Saturday evening's festivities begin with a strolling supper at 6:30 p.m. A silent auction to benefit student organizations at the law school also begins at 6:30.  The recognition ceremonies will be at 8:30 p.m. For information, call (313) 577-3113.

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