Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Thelton Henderson is new this year to Stanford. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1933, he grew up in Los Angeles and received his B.A. in political science from Berkeley in 1956. He then spent two years in the army as a clinical psychology technician and one year working as a research scientist and as a professional musician in order to earn the money to go to law school. In 1962 he received his J .D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley. After one year of working in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Justice Department, he practiced law in Oakland, and then in 1966 he became the directing attorney of the East Bayshore Neighborhood Legal Center in Menlo Park. Dean Henderson spends half of his time working for the law school as the Coordinator of Legal Opportunities Program, the minority recruitment program, the Stanford Legal Aid Program, and the Civil Rights Research Council, among others. He also assists in teaching the course in trial advocacy. The other half of his day is devoted to the East Palo Alto Neighborhood Center. The scope and responsibilities of his duties give Dean Henderson, in effect, two full time positions rather than the official part timew positions. Dean Henderson somehow is able to find time to devote to a number of outside activities, such as Herbert Hoover Boys' Club of Menlo Park, the Volunteer Bureau of Alameda County, the Berkeley and Menlo Park branches of the NAACP, and the Green Power Foundation, Inc. He also is a consultant for the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Rumor has it that he also plays a very good folk and blues guitar. THELTON E. HENDERSON A ssistant Dean