NSU Horizons Fall 2017

14 NSU HORIZONS FIRST GRADUATING CLASS OF SHEPARD BROAD COLLEGE OF LAW REUNITES The NSU Shepard Broad College of Law celebrated the 40th anniversary of the charter graduating class of 1977 with a reunion that welcomed alumni and friends from the initial class through 2017. The NSU Law reunion coincided with NSU’s Homecoming week of events November 4–11. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity to see former classmates and professors from the Charter Class,” said Daniel Wilensky, J.D., 4th Judicial Circuit of Duval County, a member of the original class 40 years ago. “We all took a chance on a brand new law school. The professors and our education were top-notch. I’m sure NSU is also proud of the accomplishments and careers of its thousands of graduates over the years. I have not seen most of my peers from the charter class in 40 years.” The law school also recognized the more than 100 alumni who have served as members of the judiciary. NSU Law’s judiciary alumni serve in Georgia, Illinois, Texas, and throughout the state of Florida. “This is an important benchmark for NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law,” said Jon M. Garon, J.D., dean. “For more than four decades our alumni have made a difference to the clients they serve and the quality of justice in our nation. The impact our alumni have had while serving as judges serves as a role model to our current students and all those who study law.” NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law opened on September 5, 1974, with eight faculty members, and the college gradu- ated its first class of 154 students in 1977. By 1979 there were 23 faculty members and an incoming class of 210 students who studied at the then-new East Campus building located at 3100 SW 9th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. The Leo Goodwin Sr. Hall Law Building on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus was opened in 1992 with 636 students. In 2017, with 48 full-time faculty members and 78 adjunct faculty members, NSU Law welcomed 244 new students, bringing the total enrollment this year to more than 700 students. Since 1974, NSU Law has added more than 10,000 graduates to its list of alumni. n Celebrating a Benchmark