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Longtime professor, former Hamline Law dean Marie Failinger retires

Posted: January 20, 2023
Marie Failinger, a longtime professor who was Hamline University School of Law’s final dean in the months before the 2015 combination with William Mitchell College of Law, has retired after nearly 40 years. Failinger, 70, said she still plans to be involved with Mitchell Hamline, but she’ll no longer teach full time because of her …

Longtime professor, former Hamline Law dean Marie Failinger retires

Doug Heidenreich, longtime professor and dean, dies at age 90

Posted: January 5, 2023
Doug Heidenreich, an instrumental leader and professor at William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law for more than 60 years, died Wednesday at the age of 90. “There are very few people who have had more of an impact on our law school than Doug did,” said President and Dean Anthony …

Doug Heidenreich, longtime professor and dean, dies at age 90

Alumni Association names three newest award winners

Posted: August 30, 2022
A tribal general counsel working to raise the profile of Native people and their sovereignty, a Florida judge who teaches about baseball and the law, and a defense attorney working for justice reform are being honored with this year’s alumni awards from the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Association. Jessie Stomski ‘08 is receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award …

Alumni Association names three newest award winners

Ed Butterfoss, longtime professor and former Hamline Law dean, retires

Posted: July 28, 2022
Ed Butterfoss always returned to teaching. During his time as a faculty member at Hamline University – and later Mitchell Hamline – schools of law, Butterfoss found himself elevated – sometimes drafted – for leadership positions, including several years as Hamline Law’s dean. But he always felt the pull of the classroom, eschewing a long …

Ed Butterfoss, longtime professor and former Hamline Law dean, retires

Anthony Winer, trailblazer for LGBTQ+ people in legal education, retires from Mitchell Hamline

Posted: July 1, 2022
Anthony Winer spent the 1980s working at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, then two big firms in New York City. By all accounts, he could have stayed in New York and had a lucrative career in international banking law. But Anthony Winer also spent the latter part of the 1980s watching many of his …

Anthony Winer, trailblazer for LGBTQ+ people in legal education, retires from Mitchell Hamline