Election as Fellow of The American Bar Foundation

Professor Linda S. Mullenix has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. According to the Board of Directors of the Bar Foundation, “Membership in The Fellows is a significant honor, limited to one third of one percent of legal professionals in America.” . . . “The Fellows of the American Bar Association is an honorary organization of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession. Fellows are nominated by their peers.” “Selection as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation is recognition of a lawyer as one whose professional, public and private career has demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of the community, the traditions of the profession and the maintenance and advancement of the objectives of the American Bar Association.” Professor Mullenix was previously elected a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation in 2005. Professor Mullenix holds the Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate who earned Masters and Ph.D. degrees in political science at Columbia University, and a J.D. at Georgetown Law School. She teaches federal civil procedure, mass tort litigation, and class actions; and she has taught federal courts and conflicts of law. Professor Mullenix has published ten books and hundreds of articles on complex litigation, federal courts, and civil procedure, including LEADING CASES IN CIVIL PROCEDURE (2010); MASS TORT LITIGATION (2d ed. 2008); and FEDERAL COURTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY (3d ed. 2007). In 2007 she held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento, Italy. In 2002, she was a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. She has been at visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan Law School, as well as a number of other institutions. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the International Association of Procedural Law. During 1989-90, she was a Supreme Court Fellow in Washington D.C. She has been a regular columnist for the National Law Journal for twenty years, writing about complex litigation. She has been teaching since 1974.