Justin heads ACC’s program to engage chief legal officers in addition to the Corporate Membership program for large law departments. At ACC, Justin created its General Counsel Summit, the Executive Leadership Institute for the next generation of general counsel and runs the CLO Club and Next Generation Leadership Club at the Annual Meeting. 

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Robert J. Cindrich was appointed by President Bill Clinton and unanimously confirmed by the Senate to serve as District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In 2000, President Clinton nominated him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, but the Senate did not act on the nomination.

Before becoming a district judge, Cindrich served as an assistant public defender and assistant district attorney in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. From 1978 to 1981, he served as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, after which he entered private practice until his judicial appointment.

Cindrich earned his A.B. from Wittenberg University in 1965 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1968, while serving in the Army Reserve. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1968 to 1969.

Cindrich has also held positions on various boards, including Mylan’s board of directors and the Heinz History Center. For his contributions to law and public service, Cindrich received the University of Pittsburgh Legacy Laureate Award.

Judge Allyson K. Duncan retired from the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit after sixteen years on the federal bench, hearing appeals and crafting opinions in a variety of complex civil and criminal cases. In addition to her service on the federal bench, she has long been an active in the legal profession, on both the national and international levels. United States Chief Justice John Roberts appointed her to chair the International Judicial Relations Committee of the US Judicial Conference, the entity serving as a clearing house for requests for judicial assistance from around the world. She also currently serves as a Vice President of the International Association of Judges, and President of the North American, Asian, Australian and Oceanian Region of that Association. At the national level, Judge Duncan has served as President of the Federal Judges Association, the organization representing the Article III, Presidentially-appointed members of the federal bench.

Judge Duncan’s career reflects a number of “firsts:” she was the first African American to serve as President of the North Carolina Bar Association, and the first African American woman to serve on both the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the 4th Circuit. Among other things, she has also been a partner in a major law firm, served as an associate professor of law at North Carolina Central University, and as Legal Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Following her retirement from the bench, Judge Duncan joined JAMS, an organization providing Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Mediation Services, focusing on complex civil and commercial matters. She nevertheless remains very active in her profession and community.

Judge Deanell Reece Tacha was the Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine Caruso School of Law from 2011-2016. She was appointed by President Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit where she served as a circuit judge from 1986-2011. She served as Chief Judge from January 2001 through 2007. Deanell Tacha earned her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1968 and her juris doctorate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1971. She was a White House Fellow (1971-1972).

She returned to the University of Kansas where she served as associate professor at its School of Law from 1974-1977 and as professor of law from 1977-1985. She served as associate dean from 1977-1979, as associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs from 1979-1981, and as vice chancellor for Academic Affairs between 1981-1985. In 1992, Tacha received the KU Alumni Association's Fred Ellsworth Medallion for extraordinary service to the university and received its most prestigious award, the Distinguished Service Citation, in 1996. In January of 2010, she was named "Kansan of the Year" by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas.

Prior to joining the University of Kansas, she practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Kansas, and was for three years Director of the Douglas County Legal Aid Clinic (1974-1977). During her distinguished career, Tacha served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and was named in 2006 by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to the Conference's Executive Committee. Previously, Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed her to serve two terms as Chair of the Conference's Committee on the Judicial Branch which oversees the federal judiciary's relationship with Congress and the executive branch. Tacha also was a member of the United States Sentencing Commission which is responsible for studying and making recommendations to Congress about federal sentencing policy.

She has represented the judiciary of the United States internationally on several occasions, including participating in the American College of Trial Lawyers Anglo-American Legal Exchange among members of the bench and bar in the United States and in the United Kingdom. In 1992, the American Bar Association selected Deanell Tacha as a member of a delegation of lawyers and judges who traveled to Albania to assist that nation in developing a new constitution and government, and in 2007, she represented American judges in the Canadian-American Legal Exchange.

As a spokesperson for enhanced ethics, professionalism, and civility in the legal profession, Deanell Tacha has been active in the American Inns of Court movement. She helped found the Judge Hugh Means American Inn of Court in Lawrence, served on the national Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court, and was its national president from 2004-2008. Her contributions to the legal profession were recognized when she was named recipient of the Devitt Award in 2007, the highest honor given to a federal judge for distinguished lifetime service. In 2008, she was recipient of the John Marshall Award, which the American Bar Association bestows for positively impacting the justice system. In 2012 she received the Christensen Award for distinguished service from the American Inns of Court.

Deanell holds professional memberships in the American Bar Association, American Bar Foundation (Life Member), American Law Institute (Life Member), Kansas Bar Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Order of Coif. She is admitted to the Bar in Kansas, Missouri, and the District of Columbia. Additionally, she is a past chair of the Appellate Judges Conference and a former member of the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession.

Deanell Tacha currently serves on the California Bar Task Force on Admission to the Bar and the California Supreme Court Power of Democracy Steering Committee. She also serves on the National Board of Trustees of Equal Justice Works and the ABA's Rule of Law Initiative.

She has held leadership positions in numerous civic and charitable organizations including chairing the Kansas Territorial Sesquicentennial Commission, the Lawrence/Douglas County Heritage Area Commission, and the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area Board of Trustees. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Kansas University Endowment Association. She has served as a member of the board of directors or as a trustee at Kansas State Historical Society, Kansas Health Foundation, Baker University, Saint Paul School of Theology, Lawrence Arts Center, and First United Methodist Church, Lawrence, to name a few.