November 2007 Virtual Seminar :: Speaker Information

Stephen S. Dunham

Kathleen Santora

Stephen S. Dunham is Vice Presidentand General Counsel of Johns Hopkins University. He previously worked as a litigation partner and Chair of the Firm at Morrison and Foerster and as Vice President and General Counsel of the University of Minnesota. He served on the Board of Trustees of Mills College for nine years and currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Soka University of America in California. He has taught higher education law, professional responsibility and other subjects at various law schools, including the University of Minnesota and the University of Denver College of Law.

Mark B. Rotenberg

Mark B. Rotenberg has served as the University of Minnesota’s General Counsel since 1992. Before coming to the University, he was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, specializing in employment litigation and labor law. Previously he served in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal counsel to the President, the White House staff, and heads of federal executive departments and agencies. He also served in Washington as law clerk to Judge Patricia M. Wald on the United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Brandeis University, and J.D., M.Phil. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University where he served as editor of the Columbia Law Review and was twice named Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar in the Law School. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, teaching a seminar on the constitutional powers of the presidency, and an Adjunct Professor in the University’s College of Liberal Arts, teaching a seminar on public education and the Constitution. During the spring semester 2004, Mark was on sabbatical as Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. Mark has argued and won cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Minnesota Supreme Court, Minnesota Court of Appeals, and other forums. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Kathleen Curry Santora has been Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) since February 2001. Before coming to NACUA, she was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). She previously served in various positions at Georgetown University - as Secretary of the University; as Assistant to the President for External Relations, and as Assistant to the President. For nearly ten years prior to that, from 1982-1986 and again from 1987-1992, Ms. Santora worked for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) - as Vice President for Operations and Counsel; as Executive Director and Counsel for State Relations; as Associate Director of Government Relations and Associate General Counsel; and as its Legislative Representative. In the intervening year 1986-87, she served as Director for Public Policy and External Relations at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB).

Ms. Santora earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Scranton and a Juris Doctor from the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and currently serves on the board of EDUCAUSE, as well as its .edu Policy Board. She also serves as a member of the Washington Higher Education Secretariat Steering Committee (WHES) and the Council of Higher Education Management Associations (CHEMA) Steering Committee. She served previously on the boards of the American Council on Education; Academic Search Consultation Service, and as Chair of the WHES Steering Committee.