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Fellows Officers, Biographies

Doreen D. Dodson is Chair of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.  As a partner in The Stolar Partnership LLP, Doreen represents for profit, non-profit and governmental entities in a range of legal matters, sometimes serving in the capacity of outside General Counsel.  For these clients, Doreen provides corporate advice, including employment and immigration counsel.

Doreen is a past President of The Missouri Bar and currently serves as one of its delegates to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.  She is a past Chair of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Judicial Independence, a past Chair of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and of its Commission on IOLTA.  Doreen served for three years as the Eighth Circuit Representative to the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary and on the Nominating Committee of the ABA.  She is a member of the Missouri Supreme Court Advisory Committee and is Chair of the Missouri Bar Foundation.

Doreen earned an A.B. at Duke University, a Master’s of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a J.D. from the St. Louis University School of Law.  She is co-author, with Susan Nell Rowe and Jennifer J. Raymond, of Prohibition Against Harassment in the Workplace.  Doreen is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2005 Outstanding Fellows State Chair Award, the 2007 ABA Legislative Advocacy Award, and the 2009 Burnham “Hod” Greeley Award from the ABA Coalition for Justice.  She is included in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of immigration law.

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Myles V. Lynk is Chair-Elect of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. He is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU), and a Faculty Fellow at ASU's Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Duke University. His research and teaching are in the areas of civil procedure, legal ethics and bioethics, corporate governance, and law and literature. In 2010 he received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the College of Law's Alumni Association. He is also an affiliated faculty member in Justice Studies in the School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU. He has taught previously at the Georgetown University Law Center, George Mason University Law School, George Washington University School of Law, and the University of Maryland School of Law.

Myles was a partner in the law firm of Dewey Ballantine LLP before joining ASU's faculty in 2000. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served on the Legal Aid Bureau, he has served as a law clerk to Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; as a special assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; as an assistant director on the White House Domestic Policy Staff in 1979-1980; and as a counsel on the staff of the Special Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in 1982-1983. In 1998, Myles was appointed by then-Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court William Rehnquist to the first of two three-year terms on the Civil Rules Advisory Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Myles is a member of the governing Council of the American Law Institute. In the ABA, he chairs the Standing Committee on Professional Discipline and is secretary of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. He was a founder and co-chair of the Section of Business Law's Committee on Community Economic Development, and is a past member of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. Myles is a past president of the District of Columbia Bar and past co-chair of the State Bar of Arizona's Task Force on Multijurisdictional Practice.

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Don Slesnick is Secretary of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.  He is the managing partner for the Law Offices of Slesnick & Casey, LLP. He has been in private practice since 1978, representing public sector employee organizations. Prior to this he held management positions with the Dade County Public Schools and the Dade County Police Department. He has recently concluded ten years (four terms) as Mayor of Coral Gables, Florida - a post to which he was first elected in April 2001. He served as the 2009-10 President of the Florida League of Mayors. 

Don received a B.A. (Foreign Affairs) from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from the University of Florida and a M.P.A. from Florida International University. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985; is a Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Labor & Employment Relations and a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator. He was a Fellow of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers and a member of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators.

Active for many years in his profession, Don has been Chairman of the Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Section, Co-Chairman of the ABA State and Local Government Bargaining and Employment Law Committee. He is presently serving as a member of the governing council of the  ABA Labor & Employment Section and represents the Section in the ABA House of Delegates. He holds an ABA Presidential appointment to that organization’s Commission on Civic Education in the Nation’s Schools.

Don is a Vietnam veteran and a former U.S. Army advisor to NATO forces in Germany. He has been active in numerous civic and business organizations which include the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee (Former Chairman of the award winning program for Ethics in Business & Government) and served two terms as Chairman of the Coral Gables Community Foundation.

Included among his awards he has received: the Bill Colson Community Leadership Award from Leadership Miami; the Distinguished Service Award - American Bar Association; the Miami-Dade County Medal of Merit for Leadership, in 2007 was included in the SunPost's list of the “50 Most Influential Persons in South Florida”, was chosen in 2004 by South Florida CEO magazine as one of the “Top 101 Global Leaders of South Florida”, and was recently awarded the Friend of Foreign Service Medal by the Republic of China (Taiwan). Additionally, Martindale-Hubbell has awarded Don a rating of “AV Preeminent.” He was included in the The Best Lawyers In America”, has been designated as a Florida “Super Lawyer” (2006-2011) and named as one of South Florida’s “Top Lawyers” (2005-2011).

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