Board Members
Accomplished and professionally dedicated, the board members of Phoenix School of Law are leaders and authorities in law, education, government and business.
National Policy Board
Dennis Archer, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Archer is the immediate past president of the American Bar Association and a partner with Dickinson Wright in Detroit. During his extraordinary career he has served as a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and is a two-time Mayor of Detroit.
Rudy Hasl
Mr. Hasl has dedicated his life to legal education. He is the former Dean of Seattle University School of Law, St. John's University School of Law, and St. Louis University of Law. Dean Hasl has chaired the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar which, among other things, oversees the law school accreditation process. He was also named Law School Dean of the Year in 2001 by The National Association for Public Interest Law.
Arthur R. Miller
Mr. Miller is the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1971. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his law degree from Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he practiced law in New York City and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. Among lawyers he is nationally known for his work on court procedure, a subject on which he has authored or co-authored more than forty books, copyright and unfair competition, and remedies. The general public, however, knows him for his work in the field of the right of privacy, a subject on which he has written, testified, debated, and helped formulate legislation. His book The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (1971) has been extremely influential.
Charles E. "Bud" Jones
Mr. Jones is the immediate past chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, having served in the state's top judicial post for three years. Justice Jones was first appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 1996 and served as vice chief justice from 1997-2002. Prior to his appointment to the Court, Justice Jones spent more than 30 years in private practice as a partner with Jennings, Strouss & Salmon in Phoenix. He served as chair of the firm's Labor and Employment Department, handling a wide variety of employment disputes before federal and state court and administrative agencies. Justice Jones' honors include the Alumni Distinguished Service Award from Brigham Young University. He also was the first recipient of the University of Arizona 'Feuerstein Award' for Ethics in the Law of Industrial Relations in 1998. Justice Jones earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif. and his B.A. from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Horst Schulze
Mr. Schulze understands quality, excellence and attention to every detail. He is the co-founder and former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company. Under Mr. Schultze's leadership, the Ritz Carlton became the first two-time winner of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award.
Phoenix Board of Advisors
Don Bivens, Partner, Snell & Wilmer, LLP
A Partner at Snell & Wilmer, Mr. Bivens' practice is focused in the areas of complex business, securities and tort litigation, and officer and director liability. He is past president of both the State Bar of Arizona and the Maricopa Bar Association, and was the Founding President of the Thurgood Marshall Inn of Court. Since 1999, he has served as Arizona's elected state delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates. Mr. Bivens is listed as one of the Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona, The Best Lawyers in America® for business litigation, and Top 1% of US Lawyers by Law Dragon. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1977, where he served as a Note and Comment Editor for the Texas Law Review, and was a member of the Order of the Barristers.
George Dean, President and Chief Executive Officer, Urban League of Greater Phoenix
Mr. Dean is currently the President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Phoenix, an organization dedicated to assisting minorities and the disadvantaged in the achievement of social and economic equality. Previously he served as CEO of the Urban League in Sacramento, where he was President of the California Council of Urban Leagues. He is a nationally recognized leader on minority advancement and affordable housing.
Patrick J. McGroder III , Partner, Gallagher and Kennedy
Patrick J. McGroder III received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from the University of Arizona.
He was selected by his peers as one of Arizona's finest trial lawyers and appears yearly in the publication “Best Lawyers in America.” He has been selected as a fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an organization representing the 500 best trial lawyers in the United States.
In 2005 he was a finalist for the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice's “Trial Lawyer of the Year” for his work in representing victims in the national Ford Crown Victoria police interceptor litigation.
He was recently named as one of the top 10 best lawyers in Arizona by the Arizona Business Journal and by Law Dragon as being in the top 1% of all plaintiff lawyers in the United States.
Alex E. Navidad, Partner, Navidad, Leal & Silva
Mr. Navidad, a Partner with Navidad, Leal & Silva, is the immediate past President of the local Hispanic Bar (Los Abogados) and is chair of its Civil Rights Committee. A recognized leader in and advocate of the Hispanic community, Mr. Navidad is a member and former chair of the State Bar Criminal Justice Section and is a Member of the State Bar Criminal Rules Committee and the Business Section of the State Bar. Mr. Navidad is part of the USAID project that is responsible for training lawyers in Latin American countries as their governments transition from a civil based to a trial based system.
Laura Palmer-Noone, President Emeritus, University of Phoenix
In addition to once leading University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private university, Ms. Noone, President Emeritus, has served as Vice-Chair of the United States Department of Education's National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity and as a Director of the American Council of Education. She also holds a J.D. from the University of Iowa and practiced law for several years.
Carolyn Warner, President, Corporate Education Consulting
Carolyn Warner is founder/president of Corporate//Education Consulting, Inc. Her firm offers consulting, speaking, seminar and training services focusing on workforce/work place issues, education, leadership, women's issues and public/private partnerships. She served for twelve years as Arizona's State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the first non-educator to hold that post, and is a leading voice on state and national education and public policy issues. Warner was a Congressional and Presidential appointee to the National Skill Standards Board and a Presidential appointee to the White House Conference on Small Business. She currently serves as Treasurer of Jobs for America's Graduates and as co-chair of the Arizona Skill Standards Commission.
