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Erica Moeser, the former President of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, was the speaker for the James P. White Lecture on Legal Education. The event took place in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall on October 29.

Prior to the lecture, Professor James P. White was presented with an Indiana University Bicentennial Medal. The medals are awarded to organizations and individuals who, through their personal, professional, artistic, or philanthropic efforts, have broadened IU's reach around the state, nation, and world. The medals are made from materials that were salvaged from the old bells which hung in the Student Building on the IU Bloomington campus. In the photo at left, Dean Andrew R. Klein, left, presents Professor White with the Bicentennial Medal.

Professor White, for whom the lecture is named, retired in 2000 after 26 years as Consultant on Legal Education to the ABA; he continues to serve as Consultant Emeritus. The office is responsible for law school accreditation, collection of statistics, among other duties. He continues to represent the ABA in a number of international legal education activities. The ABA and friends established this annual endowed lecture on legal education at IU McKinney in his honor.

Moeser's topic was "Admission to the Bar: Reflections on History, Policy, and Perils." She retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Conference of Bar Examiners in 2017, a position she had held since 1994. She is a former chairperson of the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association, and has served as a law school site evaluator, as a member of the Section’s Accreditation and Standards Review Committees, and as the co-chairperson of the Section’s Bar Admissions Committee.  She served as the director of the Board of Bar Examiners of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin from 1978 until joining the National Conference.

Moeser received her law degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she subsequently taught Professional Responsibility as an adjunct professor. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 1992. She received the Kutak Award in 2013, which honors “an individual who has made significant contributions to the collaboration of the academy, the bench, and the bar,” from the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

In the photo at right is Erica Moeser is with Professor White.