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Professor Warren Binford accepts endowed chair at University of Colorado

Former Willamette Law Professor Warren Binford accepted a new position this summer. She is now a professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine and CU Law School.

“Teaching at Willamette has been one of the highlights of my life,” Binford says. “I will always consider Willamette my first academic home.”

Binford joined Willamette in 2005 as an assistant professor and director of the Clinical Law Program. She expanded experiential law programs and taught in other Willamette schools, in addition to making admirable scholarly contributions.

Dean Emeritus Symeon Symeonides still remembers the impression Binford made when he first interviewed her.

“Since then, she more than exceeded my expectations,” Symeonides explains. “Besides doing such an outstanding job reorganizing and reenergizing the [Clinical Law] Program, she was a respected community leader, a thoughtful university citizen and a trustworthy colleague.”

Binford taught business law, business organizations, the Child and Family Advocacy Clinic and other courses. She has authored nearly 60 academic pieces, essays and book chapters and shared her expertise via op-eds and media interviews.

“Professor Binford made numerous contributions to our community, and we are so proud of all of her many accomplishments,” says Dean Brian Gallini. “We congratulate her and wish her well in this next chapter of her career.”

Former Willamette Law Professor Warren Binford