[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 93 (Friday, May 31, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E571-E572]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO HARRIET M. ROLNICK

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                          HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 31, 2024

  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Harriet M. Rolnick, 
who is retiring as Associate Dean of SCALE and Associate Professor of 
Law at Southwestern Law School. A former civil litigator and federal 
prosecutor, Ms. Rolnick has dedicated her career to the pursuit of 
justice and inspired her students to fully investigate the complexities 
of the law and legal processes.
  Ms. Rolnick earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the 
University of Miami, then spent four years working as a psychiatric 
social worker for Florida's state welfare department, as well as 
clinics and hospitals. Choosing to apply her administrative and 
counseling expertise into a different field, she enrolled in 
Southwestern Law School and after graduating magna cum laude, she 
joined the law firm of Adams, Duque, & Hazeltine as a litigation 
associate.
  In 1984, Harriet became an Assistant United States Attorney at the U 
S Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Her duties 
included managing trials before the U.S. District Court, crafting and 
arguing ninth circuit appeals, conducting grand jury investigations, 
brokering plea agreements, and supervising federal enforcement agents 
in the investigation of criminal cases. Her cases involved a myriad

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of criminal matters ranging from counterfeit currency, child 
pornography, and illegal drugs, to complex bank and pension fraud and 
security fraud. Ms. Rolnick found her job particularly fulfilling, as 
she was able to handle these intricate criminal cases from the 
beginning to the end of the appellate process. It was during her 
fourteen years in the U.S. Attorney's Office, that I was immensely 
privileged to work alongside Harriet.
  Ms. Rolnick joined the Southwestern Law School faculty in 1999, and 
in 2006 she become Director and in 2014 was named Associate Dean of 
SCALE, the school's accelerated Juris Doctor program. During her 
tenure, she remodeled the curriculum, including revising the 
organization of the program and scheduling, established a SCALE 
Academic Improvement Program, a new summer session, and implemented a 
three-year Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration concurrent 
degree in partnership with the Drucker School of Management at 
Claremont Graduate University.
  Dean Harriet M. Rolnick has created an enduring legacy in both law 
and education, and her commitment and leadership in empowering the next 
generation of litigators is unparalleled. I ask all Members of Congress 
to join me in thanking Harriet M. Rolnick for decades of outstanding 
service and wish her well upon her retirement.

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