Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Assistant Dean Robert Keller has responsibility within the administration for alumni relations and the fiscal affairs of the law school. In this role he is in charge of both fund raising and disbursement, as well as relations between the school and alumni societies throughout the United States. In 1951 Dean Keller received a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the University of Oklahoma in his native state. After serving with the United States Navy from 1951 until 1955, the last two years with the Navy Hydrographic Office in Washington, D.G., he came to Stanford and earned his LL. B. in 1958. While in law school he was a member of the board of editors of the Stanford Law Review He practiced law from 1958 until 1965 with the San Francisco firm of Orrick, Herrington, Rowley Sc Sutcliffe, concentrating on antitrust and public utilities law and general corporate litigation. He became assistant dean in 1965. ROBERT A. KELLER A ssistant Dean

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THOMAS E. HEADRICK A ssistant Dean As special assistant to Dean Manning for a whole range of projects - one of which is the advance planning for the new law school - Thomas Headrick characterizes his duties as anything once, nothing twice. Hidden away in a tiny office in the old business school so that nothing of the routine and ordinary will interrupt his concentration on special projects, Dean Headrick qualifies easily as Stanford's candidate for the Mission Impossible team, and this conclusion seems to be well substantiated by his background. Valedictorian of the class of 1955 at Franklin and Marshall Colle ,-5EMir1Headrick majored in government and was an All-American nominee in soccer. He spent two years at Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar, receiving a B.Litt. in 1958. He returned to Yale where he earned an LL.B. in 1960. While at Yale he spent a summer as research assistant to then-Professor Bayless Manning. He was clerk to Judge Foster of the Supreme Court of Washington from 1960 until 1961, and then he practiced law with the San Francisco firm of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro from 1961 until 1964. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1966, Dean Headrick spent two years in London as a management consultant. He is the author of The Town Clerk in English Local Government, and co-author of The Legal Key to International Trade and Investigation. He and his wife, Maggie, have two children: Trevor, 8, and Todd, 6.

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THOMAS E. ROBINSON Assistant Dean Thomas Robinson was born in Nebraska in 1933. He attended Yale University and received his B.A. in politics and economics in 1957 and his LL.B. in 1961. He fulfilled his military obligation as an officer in the United States Coast Guard from 1959 to 1960, assigned to sea duty in the North Atlantic. After practicing law in Washington, D.C. from 1961 to 1963, he left private practice to become a legislative assistant to the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1964 he came to Stanford as assistant to the dean, and he became Assistant Dean in January, 1967. As Assistant Dean, Mr. Robinson directs the law school admission program and also administers financial aids. He and his wife, Alice, live in Sharon Heights.