Officers & Committees 

Officers

Chair
Michael Widener
Rare Book Librarian
Yale Law School
Lillian Goldman Library
New Haven CT
(203) 432-4494
mike.widener@yale.edu

Vice Chair
Jennie C. Meade
Director of Special Collections
George Washington University
Jacob Burns Law Library
716 20th St, N.W.
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-6857
jmeade@law.gwu.edu

Secretary/Treasurer
Kasia Solon Cristobal
Reference Librarian
Tarlton Law Library
The University of Texas School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 232-3801
kcristobal@law.utexas.edu

Immediate Past Chair
Sarah Yates
Foreign Law and Rare Book Cataloger
University of Minnesota School of Law.
120 Walter Mondale Hall
229 – 19th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-1898
yates006@umn.edu

Newsletter Editor:

Mark Podvia
Associate Law Librarian and Archivist
Dickinson School of Law Library
Carlisle, PA 17013
(717) 240 5015
mwp3@psu.edu

Webmaster

Kurt X. Metzmeier
Associate Director
Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
University of Louisville
Louisville,  KY 40292
(502) 852-6082 /FAX (502) 852-8906
kurt.metzmeier@louisville.edu

LHRB-SIS Committees

Executive Committee
 

• Michael Widener, Chair
• Jennie Meade, Vice Chair
• Sarah Yates, Past Chair
• Kasia Solon Cristobal, Secretary-Treasurer

Education Committee

Charge: Solicit, review, submit and rank proposals for Annual Meeting educational programming, including regular programs, workshops, roundtables and other educational opportunities.

• Laura Ray, Chair
• Warren Billings
• Daniel Blackaby
• Joe Custer
• Fred Dingledy
• Joel Fishman
• Kurt Metzmeier
• Mark Podvia
• Michael Widener (LHRB-SIS Chair, ex officio)
• Sarah Yates

Newsletter Committee

Charge: Responsible for writing and soliciting content for the LHRB-SIS Newsletter, published three times per year. Also responsible for compiling and mounting on the LHRB-SIS website an annual e-journal consisting of featured articles and book reviews from the Newsletter: “Unbound: An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books.“  

• Mark Podvia, Editor-in-Chief
• Daniel Blackaby, Legal History Column Editor
• Joel Fishman, Ph.D., Book Review Editor
• Jennie Meade, Articles Editor
• Kurt X. Metzmeier, Articles Editor and Webmaster
• Kasia Solon Cristobal, Exhibits Column Editor
• Linda Tesar, Acquisition News Editor
• Michael Widener, Member News Column Editor
• Sarah Yates, Special Collections Cataloging Column Editor

Publications Committee

Charge: Spearhead, review, and provide advice about print and electronic publication projects of the LHRB-SIS.

• Joni Herbst, Chair
• Glen-Peter Ahlers
• Stacy Etheredge
• Lucinda Harrison-Cox
• Kurt X. Metzmeier

Morris L. Cohen Essay Contest Committee

Charge: Determine policies and procedures for the competition, publicize the competition, review essays and select a winner each year.

• Marguerite Most, Co-Chair
• Rob Mead, Co-Chair
• Warren Billings
• Kurt X. Metzmeier
• Mark Podvia
• Laura Ray
• Sabrina Sondhi