[Vision2020] Former Idaho Justice To Head Law School

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (December 11, 2008) Spokesman Review -

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Former Idaho justice to head law school 

Jessie L. Bonner 
Associated Press
December 11, 2008

Former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Cathy Silak
http://tinyurl.com/CathySilak

BOISE – A private Lutheran university has named former Idaho Supreme Court 
Justice Cathy Silak dean of the law school it expects to open in Boise in 
2010.

The board that governs Concordia University in Portland picked Silak, one 
of only two women to serve on Idaho's high court and the first female 
judge appointed to the Idaho Court of Appeals, from among 50 candidates.

"Cathy rose to the top pretty quickly," Concordia President Charles 
Schlimpert said Wednesday in Boise.

Silak offers a familiar public face to plans by the private Oregon 
university to open a law school in two years. Part of her job will be to 
help nail down the rest of the $7 million Concordia needs before it can 
enroll students.

"She's extraordinarily passionate about starting this law school," 
Concordia Vice President Gary Withers said.

Silak, 58, was on the high court for seven years, losing her seat in 2000. 
She served on the bench with former Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice 
Linda Copple Trout, who is backing the University of Idaho's plans to 
expand its law school in Boise.

The Moscow-based university wants to expand its law school by adding a 
full-fledged branch campus 300 miles south in the state capital. Concordia 
announced late last year that it wanted to open a three-year law school in 
Boise.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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