Len's 2011 Autobiography

After we won the state high school tennis championship, I went to the University of Wisconsin, where I played varsity tennis. Most importantly, I met Linda. We married in 1964, in her home town of Green Bay. I “converted” to become a Packers fan, with decades of games at Lambeau Field.

After graduation, we returned to Connecticut, where I went to Yale Law School and Linda worked as a speech therapist. In 1969, we moved to Chicago, where our daughter Edie was born later that year. After a couple of years at HUD, I began at Northwestern, where I have taught at the Law School for 35 years. My teaching and research have focused primarily on Civil Rights. I have had the good fortune to win a number of teaching awards over the years.

Linda received a Ph.D. at Northwestern and began her career as a clinical psychologist. She has spent 25 years doing therapy. She also directed Northwestern’s master’s program in Marital and Family Therapy for almost a decade. She continues her clinical practice and teaches in the program.

Edie graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. After almost a decade as an NPR reporter in Chicago, she began teaching at Northeastern Illinois University. In 2009, she married Scott, and their son Max arrived in March, 2010. Fortunately, Max lives 10 minutes from us. He hangs out with us regularly.

I continue to enjoy teaching, the students, writing, and playing tennis—with no end in sight.