Rising Star

by David J. Garrow

  32. Tammerlin Drummond, “Barack Obama’s Law,” LAT, 12 March 1990, pp. E1–E2 (reprinted in Toronto Star, 18 March 1990, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 April 1990, and Punahou Bulletin, Fall 1990, pp. 40–42); Diana Quinn Rose, “Why Not Call Him ‘Interracial’?,” LAT, 30 March 1990, p. E10; Caroline V. Clarke, “A First Choice at Harvard Law Review,” American Lawyer, April 1990, p. 92; “Law Review Firsts,” National Law Journal, 2 April 1990, p. 4; Peter M. Yu and Barack H. Obama to Erwin N. Griswold, 10 April 1990, and Griswold to Yu and Obama, 12 April 1990, EGP Box 200 Fld. 2; Allison J. Pugh (AP), “First Black President of School’s Law Review Uninterested in a Cushy Job,” 15 April 1990 (and in Miami Herald, 18 April 1990, p. C1, Philadelphia Tribune, 20 April 1990, p. A6 [more complete text], and Chicago Daily Herald, 3 May 1990, p. 2); “Alumni Album,” Punahou Bulletin, Spring 1990, p. 56; “Movers and Shakers,” Emerge, May 1990, p. 62; “Illinois Organizer Heads Harvard Law Review,” Illinois Issues, May 1990, p. 33; “A Landmark Election at the Harvard Law Review,” Harvard Magazine, May–June 1990, p. 86; Elise O’Shaughnessy, “Harvard Law Reviewed,” Vanity Fair, June 1990, p. 106; “Law Review Election Reflects Growing Diversity,” Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer 1990, p. 26; “HLS in Perspective: Obama Elected,” and “Law Review,” Harvard Law School Yearbook 1990, pp. 74 and 182; Roxanne Brown, “In Pursuit of Excellence,” Ebony, August 1990, pp. 112ff.; Drummond, “Sen. Obama Was Real Deal Even Way Back Then,” Contra Costa Times, 5 November 2006, p. F4; Lee in Remnick, The Bridge, p. 209; DJG interviews with Tammerlin Drummond and Christine Lee. Notwithstanding that Illinois Issues references a 9 February 1990 Obama interview with PBS, Barack did not appear on that evening’s PBS NewsHour and no other PBS video, audio, or transcript of Barack from early 1990 has surfaced.

  33. HLS Advisor #23, 8 February 1990, p. 5, #25, 22 February 1990, p. 9, #27, 8 March 1990, p. 6; Maggie S. Tucker, “Affirmative Action Debated,” HC, 9 March 1990; Sharon Stone, “BLSA Spring Conference Raises Issues for Professionals in ’90s,” HLRec, 16 March 1990, p. 15; Schuker, “Obama Stars at Convention,” HC, 30 July 2004; Serrano and Savage, “Obama’s Harvard Law School Days,” LAT, 27 January 2007; Levenson and Saltzman, “At Harvard Law, a Unifying Voice,” BG, 28 January 2007, p. A1; Heilemann, “When They Were Young,” NYM, 22 October 2007; Kennedy in “The TNR Primary,” TNR, 13 February 2008, p. 16; Jodi Kantor, “For a New Political Age, a Self-Made Man,” NYT, 28 August 2008; Mack on “Obama: Professor President,” BBC Radio 4, 6 January 2009; Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line (Pantheon Books, 2011), p. 43; DJG interviews with Tynia Richard, Alan Jenkins, Nicole Lamb-Hale, and Ken Mack.

  34. Harvard Law School Schedule of Courses 1989–90, HLSA; Obama to Andrew Roth, 19 March 1990, ARP; Paul Simon to Obama, 7 March 1990, PSP; O’Shaughnessy, “Harvard Law Reviewed,” Vanity Fair, June 1990, p. 106; Obama Remarks at the Illinois State Library, 7 March 2001; J. Michael Kennedy, “Speech Gives a Boost to Obama’s ‘Dreams,’” LAT, 6 August 2004; Charles Leroux, “The Buzz Around Obama’s Book,” CT, 6 August 2004; Cindy Adams, “Obama’s Memoir Really 18 Years Old,” New York Post, 9 June 2008; Jane Dystel e-mail to Robert Draper, 2009; Obama on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, 14 March 2008; DJG interviews with Ken Mack, Rob Fisher, Dan Rabinovitz, Bernard Loyd, Bruce Orenstein, David Troutt, Scott Siff, and Cassandra Butts.

  35. Greg Galluzzo to Ed Shurna, 17 April 1989, Gamaliel Papers; “SSAC Rally to Launch New Cities Community Development Corp.,” 27 April 1989, Flossmoor, Tom Knutson Papers; Darren Hillock, “Cardinal Joins SSAC to Initiate New Housing Rehab Program,” Star, 30 April 1989, pp. A1–A2; Bill Kemp, “Community Organizing in South Suburban Islands of Poverty,” Illinois Issues, May 1989, pp. 23–27; Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “School Revolt,” CR, 26 May 1989; Mary O’Connell, “School Reform,” TNW, August–September 1989, p. 3; Isabel Wilkerson, “New School Term in Chicago Puts Parents in Seat of Power,” NYT, 3 September 1989; Barbara B. Buchholz, “Hard-Hit NW Indiana to Get Housing Grant,” CCB, 2 October 1989, p. 7; “LIFT Obtains Housing Grants,” GPT, 10 August 1989; “LIFT Raises $1 Million for Rehabbing,” GPT, 25 September 1989; “LIFT Battles Blight,” GPT, 12 November 1989; “Elementary School Council Election Results,” CT, 23 October 1989; William Ayers, “Reforming Schools & Rethinking Classrooms: A Chicago Chronicle,” Rethinking Schools, October–November 1989, pp. 6–7; Ayers, “Chicago, Laboratory for Schools,” NYT, 18 December 1989, p. A19; Ayers, The Good Preschool Teacher (Teachers College Press, 1989); Ben Joravsky, “Mad as Hell,” CR, 1 March 1990; Wilkerson, “Fate of Principals Splits Some Chicago Schools,” NYT, 2 March 1990; Patrick J. Keleher Jr., “Business Leadership and Education Reform: The Next Frontier,” Heritage Foundation Forum, 28 April 1990; “School Reform Marches On,” TNW, June–July 1990, p. 11; “Coalition Pushes to Add 45,000 Hispanic Voters,” CST, 14 September 1990; Kyle and Kantowicz, Kids First, pp. 219–20; Wieboldt Foundation Annual Report 1990, p. 14; Alex Poinsett, “Corporate Chicago Weighs in with Clout, Money, Time,” Catalyst, March 1991, pp. 2–5; G. Alfred Hess Jr., School Restructuring, Chicago Style (Corwin Press, 1991), pp. 162–91; Joe Reed, “Grass Roots School Governance in Chicago,” National Civic Review 80 (Winter 1991): 41–45; James G. Cibulka, “Local School Reform: The Changing Shape of Educational Politics in Chicago,” Research in Urban Policy 4 (1992): 145–73; Hess, “City Schools Can’t Wait for Poverty Cure,” Catalyst, May 1992, pp. 17–18; William S. McKersie, “Philanthropy’s Paradox: Chicago School Reform,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 15 (Summer 1993): 109–28; Wilfredo Cruz, “From Blue Jeans to Pin Stripes,” Illinois Issues, December 1993, pp. 20–23; Sharon G. Rollow and Anthony S. Bryk, “Democratic Politics and School Improvement: The Potential of Chicago Reform,” in Catherine Marshall, ed., The New Politics of Race and Gender (Falmer Press, 1994), pp. 97–106; Hess, “School-Based Management as a Vehicle for School Reform,” and “The Changing Role of Teachers,” Education and Urban Society 26 (May 1994): 203–19 and 248–63; Dorothy Shipps, “Big Business and School Reform,” pp. 55, 101, Anthony S. Bryk et al., Charting Chicago School Reform: Democratic Localism as a Lever for Change (Westview Press, 1998); Madeline Talbott, “Parents as School Reformers,” in Alexander Russo, ed., School Reform in Chicago (Harvard Education Press, 2004), pp. 55–62; Lynne Mock, “The Personal Vision of African American Community Leaders,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999, pp. 29–30; James G. Kelly, “Contexts and Community Leadership: Inquiry as an Ecological Expedition,” American Psychologist 54 (November 1999): 953–61, at 955; L. Sean Azleton, “Bounday Spanning and Community Leadership: African American Leaders in the Greater Roseland Area,” M.A. thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996, p. 16; William Rohe et al., Sustainable Nonprofit Housing Development: An Analysis of Maxwell Award Winners (FannieMae Foundation, 1998), pp. 123–30; Kelly et al., “On Community Leadership: Stories About Collaboration in Action Research,” American Journal of Community Psychology 33 (June 2004): 205–16, at 207; DJG interviews with Bill Ayers, Greg Galluzzo, Mary Gonzales, Phil Mullins, Danny Solis, Josh Hoyt, Bruce Orenstein, Harvey Lyon, Todd Dietterle, Mary Ellen Montes, Mike Kruglik, Johnnie Owens, Ken Rolling, Alvin Love, Aletha Strong Gibson, Desta Houston, Len Dubi, Tom Knutson, Kathy Kish, Jerry Kellman, Paul Scully, David Kindler, and Kerry Taylor. Many additional 1989–90 Gary Post Tribune stories mention LIFT’s development, and Gamaliel’s 1990–91 success in Milwaukee is superby analyzed in Stephen Hart, Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 27–120, esp. pp. 33. On Gamaliel since the early 1990s, see especially Robert Kleidman, “Community Organizing and Regionalism,” City & Community 3 (December 2004): 403–21.

  36. R. Bruce Dold, “Opposition Enlists a Top Fundraiser for Bid to Unseat Savage,” CT, 26 June 1989; Dold, “Savage’s Rival Hit by Allegation,” CT, 20 August 1989; Dold, “Prospective Savage Rival Says Allegations Are Lies,” CT, 22 August 1989; Dold, “Ald. Shaw Landed Job for Reynolds’ Accuser,” CT, 26 August 1989; Dold,
“Savage Challenger Opens Campaign,” CT, 13 September 1989; Dold, “Savage’s Foe Acquitted of Sex Charges,” CT, 7 October 1989; Gilbert Jimenez, “Reynolds Cleared on Sex Charges,” CST, 7 October 1989; “Educator’s Office Robbed, Petitions Taken,” CT, 3 December 1989; Weston Kosova, “Savage Gus,” TNR, 29 January 1990, pp. 21–22; Paul Merrion, “Reynolds Groundswell Poses Savage Threat,” CCB, 29 January 1990, p. 4; David C. Rudd, “Sawyer Backs Reynolds Over Savage,” CT, 19 February 1990; Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “The Street Scrapper and the Rhodes Scholar,” CR, 8 March 1990; Dirk Johnson, “Challenge at Home for Adept Player of Racial Politics,” NYT, 11 March 1990; Vernon Jarrett, “Defeat of Savage Would Be a Blow to Black Independence,” CST, 13 March 1990; Jarrett, “Reynolds’ Support Isn’t Homegrown,” CST, 15 March 1990, p. 37; William E. Schmidt, “Rep. Savage Claims Victory in Illinois,” NYT, 21 March 1990; John Camper and Andrew Fegelman, “Savage Overcomes Tough Challenge,” CT, 21 March 1990; Camper, “Everything Falls in Place for Savage,” CT, 22 March 1990; Jarrett, “Why Gus Savage Keeps Winning,” CST, 29 March 1990; Michael Miner, “Savage Appeal,” CR, 29 March 1990; Robert Davis, “Shaw Finds Cheers Quickly Turn to Jeers,” CT, 29 June 1990, p. M1; DJG interview with Andy Schapiro.

  37. HLS Advisor #31, 12 April 1990, p. 7, #33, 26 April 1990, p. 5; Kerlow, Poisoned Ivy, pp. 170, 182–83; Susan Higgins on travelingmanrick.blogspot.com, 16 May 2008; Lisa Hay in Neal Conan, “Who Is Barack Obama,” Talk of the Nation, NPR, 5 August 2008; DJG interviews with Lee Hwang, Andy Schapiro, Lisa Hay, Scott Smith, Jorge Ramírez, Kevin Downey, Cassandra Butts, Susan Higgins, and Chad Oldfather. See also Frank J. Tipler, “The Obama-Tribe ‘Curvative of Constitutional Space’ Paper Is Crackpot Physics,” unpublished paper, SSRN.com, 26 October 2008, esp. p. 3 (“Tribe’s paper demonstrates an appalling ignorance of elementary mathematics”).

  38. David Warsh, “Rebuilding Beirut: A Liberal Vision for Harvard Law,” BG, 11 February 1990, p. A1; Jay K. Varma, “Law School Hires New Prof,” HC, 15 February 1990; Philip M. Rubin, “Despite Advances, Hiring Plans Criticized,” HC, 17 February 1990; Rubin, “Law Students Seek Curriculum Change,” HC, 2 March 1990; Patrick Miles Jr., “Public Interest Committee Prepares Position Paper,” HLRec, 2 March 1990, pp. 1, 12; Daniel Golden, “An Unconventional Traditionalist,” BG Magazine, 4 March 1990, pp. 12ff.; Rubin, “Clark Holds Forum on Public Interest,” HC, 8 March 1990; Jim Houpt, “Clark: HLS Should Further Public Interest,” HLRec, 16 March 1990, pp. 1, 16; Brian Timmons, “That’s No Okie, That’s My Torts Professor,” WSJ, 3 April 1990, p. A20; Rubin, “Harvard Law Students to Boycott Classes,” HC, 4 April 1990; Linda Popejoy, “Students Protest Dean on Diversity,” HLRec, 11 April 1990, pp. 1, 12; Popejoy and John Thornton, “Clark and Students Talk at Forum,” HLRec, 20 April 1990, pp. 1, 12; Ken Emerson, “When Legal Titans Clash,” NYT Magazine, 22 April 1990, pp. 26ff.; Diane Bartz(AP), “Harvard Law Professor May Request Leave to Protest Lack of Diversity,” 23 April 1990; Fox Butterfield, “Harvard Law Professor Quits Until Black Woman Is Named,” NYT, 24 April 1990, p. A1; John H. Kennedy, “Harvard Black Eyes a Leave in Tenure Dispute,” BG, 24 April 1990, p. 1; WGBH News footage, 24 April 1990, 11:39, Item 7232, WGBH Archives; Kennedy, “Harvard Students Rally in Support of Bell’s Vow,” BG, 25 April 1990, p. M1; “Students Rally in Support of Harvard Professor’s Protest,” NYT, 25 April 1990, p. A16; Tynia Richard on CBS This Morning, 25 April 1990; Butterfield, “Harvard Law School Torn by Race Issue,” NYT, 26 April 1990, p. A20; Derrick Bell, “Why We Need More Black Professors in Law School,” BG, 29 April 1990, pp. A1, A4; Robert Zafft, “Bell’s Message Is Repugnant,” HC, 30 April 1990, and HLRec, 4 May 1990, p. 9; Anthony Flint, “Jackson Offers to Mediate Harvard Dispute,” BG, 3 May 1990, p. 27; Popejoy, “Clark Offers Cool Response to Bell’s Protest,” Houpt, “Timmons Attracts National Attention for CLS-Bashing,” and Matt Kairis, “In Defense of Randall Ken-nedy,” HLRec, 4 May 1990, pp. 1, 3, 4, 8, 16; Flint, “Bell at Harvard: A Unique Activisim,” BG, 7 May 1990, p. M1; Flint, “Harvard Dean Says No to Jackson Parley,” BG, 8 May 1990, p. 21; “Harvard Law Declines Jackson Offer of Help,” NYT, 8 May 1990, p. A20; Flint, “Jackson Says Eyes Are on Harvard,” BG, 9 May 1990, p. 41; Meg Vaillancourt, “Jesse Jackson at Harvard Law School,” Ten O’Clock News, WGBH, 9 May 1990, 5:43, WGBH Archives; Butterfield, “At Rally, Jackson Assails Harvard Law School,” NYT, 10 May 1990, p. A14; Flint, “Rev. Jackson, at Harvard, Urges National Conference on Racism,” BG,10 May 1990, p. 1; David Troutt, “The Challenge of Diversification,” LAT, 13 May 1990, and HLRec, 14 September 1990, p. 9; Richard Cohen, “The Question of Merit at Harvard Law,” WP, 15 May 1990, p. A23; George F. Will, “Academic Set-Asides,” WP, 17 May 1990, p. A27; “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” TNR, 21 May 1990, p. 8; Butterfield, “Old Rights Campaigner Leads a Harvard Battle,” NYT, 21 May 1990, p. A18; Alfred Edmond Jr., “Derrick Bell Lays Down the Law at Harvard,” Black Enterprise, July 1990, p. 15; Timmons, “Fraudulent Diversity,” Newsweek, 12 November 1990, p. 8; Sharon Stone, “Law Student’s Column Heats Up Diversity Debate,” HLRec, 30 November 1990, pp. 3, 7; Ian Haney López, “Community Ties, Race, and Faculty Hiring: The Case for Professors Who Don’t Think White,” Reconstruction 1, #3 [August 1991]: 46–62, at 49; Derrick Bell, Confronting Authority (Beacon Press, 1994), esp. pp. 63, 110–11; David A. Hill, “Thoughts on the Diversity Movement at HLS,” Keith Boykin, “The Initial Meeting: A Reflection,” and Marie Lott Pharoah, “Reflections on the Diversity Movement,” in HLS Diversity: A Celebration of the Movement, 30 October 1998; Keith Boykin, “Barack Obama, Blacks and Harvard Law,” KeithBoykin.com, 26 January 2007; Ian Haney López, Dog Whistle Politics (Oxford University Press, 2014), esp. p. x; DJG interviews with David Hill, Hill Harper, Tynia Richard, Mark Kozlowski, Cassandra Butts, Keith Boykin, Linda Singer, Ken Mack, Morris Ratner, Steve Ganis, Derrick Bell, Ursula Dudley Oglesby, Paolo Di Rosa, Micki Chen, Michael Weinberger, Nathan Diament, Ian Haney López, Gerry Singsen, and Rob Fisher. See also Randall Kennedy, “Racial Critiques of Legal Academia,” Harvard Law Review 102 (June 1989): 1745–1819, and Derrick Bell, Tracy Higgins, and Sung-Hee Suh, eds., “Racial Reflections: Dialogues in the Direction of Liberation,” UCLA Law Review 37 (August 1990): 1037–1100.

  39. Robin West, “Jurisprudence and Gender,” University of Chicago Law Review 55 (Winter 1988): 1–72; Tushnet and Lynch, “The Project of the Harvard Forewords: A Social and Intellectual Inquiry,” Constitutional Commentary 11 (Winter 1994): 463–500; John Parry to Brad Berenson, “Results,” and Berenson reply comments, 2 May 1990, “To: Two-L Editors, ‘Results of Faculty Case Comment Mailbox Vote,’” 2 May 1990, and Parry to Berenson, 3 May 1990, JPP; HLR 103 (May 1990): McConnell, “The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion,” 1409–1519, “Developments in the Law—Medical Technology and the Law,” 1520–1676; Obama to Griswold, 10 May 1990, and Griswold to Obama, 17 May 1990, EGP Box 133 Fld. 1; HLR 103 (June 1990): Vicki Schultz, “Telling Stories About Women and Work,” 1749–1843, “Colloquy—Responses to Randall Kennedy’s Racial Critiques of Legal Academia,” 1844–87, [Radhika Rao,] “The Priest Who Kept His Faith But Lost His Job,” 2074–81, “Scholarship Admired: Responses to Professor Lasson,” 2085–86; Obama to Griswold, 10 [June] 1990, Susan M. Higgins to Griswold, 13 June 1990, and Griswold to Obama, 18 July 1990, EGP Box 133 Fld. 1; Jeffrey Ressner and Ben Smith, “Obama Kept Law Review Balanced,” Politico, 23 June 2008; DJG interviews with Michael Weinberger, David Goldberg, Lourdes Lopez-Isa, Adam Charnes, Jennifer Collins, John Parry, Brad Berenson, Robin West, Gordon Whitman, Scott Siff, Susan Freiwald, Michael Guzman, Lisa Hay, Susan Higgins, Brad Wiegmann, Chad Oldfather, Kevin Downey, Jacqueline Scott Corley, Michael Cohen, David Nahmias, Chris Sipes, David Wilkins, Christine Lee, Radhika Rao, Barbara Schneider, Debbie Brake, Brian Bertha, and Ken Mack.

  40. Harvard Law School Annual Examinations in Law 1989–90, pp. 66–69, 572–77; Obama remarks at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library, 20 September 1995, and at the Illinois State Library, 7 Ma
rch 2001; Dystel in Cindy Adams, “Obama’s Memoir Really 18 Years Old,” NYP, 9 June 2008; Dystel’s 2009 e-mail to Robert Draper; Dystel in Jeremy Greenfield, “Agents Unwilling to Adapt Won’t Last,” DigitalBookWorld.com, 3 January 2013; DJG interviews with Dan Rabinovitz, Gerry Frug, Rob Fisher, and David Troutt.

  41. HLS Adviser #36, 17 May 1990, p. 2; PR Newswire, 13 June 1990; David Rubinstein and Jennifer Juarez Robles, “Law Firms Still Lag in Minority Hiring,” and Rubinstein, “Top Student: What Kind of Minorities Do Firms Want?,” Chicago Reporter, July–August 1990, pp. 1, 3–7; Louis Aguilar, “Survey: Law Firms Slow to Add Minority Partners,” CT, 11 July 1990, p. B1; Roy Abon’go Obama v. Mary K. Cole, #90-16597, Prince George’s County Circuit Court, 16 July 1990 (judgment signed 9 October 1991); Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652, 660–61 (27 March 1990); Obama to Trent Norris, 23 July 1990, TNP; Mary Flood, “At Law Review, Number of Women Members Falls Sharply,” HLRec, 12 October 1990, pp. 1, 16; “Suzanne Alele ’85,” Princeton Alumni Weekly, 24 October 1990; Kenan Heise, “Albert Maule, 40, President of Police Board,” CT, 12 October 1995; Tom Maliti (AP), “Obama’s Brother Chooses Life in Slow Lane,” 26 October 2004; Obama’s June 2006 interview with Jacob Weisberg; Obama, TAOH, p. 331; Laura Washington, “What Has Brown Done?,” CST, 23 October 2006, p. 39; Ray Gibson and David Jackson, “Rezko Owns Vacant Lot Next to Obama’s Home,” CT, 1 November 2006, p. 1; Dave McKinney and Chris Fusco, “Obama Spells Out ‘Regret’ After Land Deal with Rezko,” CST, 5 November 2006, p. 4; Tim Novak, “Obama and His Rezko Ties,” CST, 23 April 2007, p. 22; Novak, “Broken Promises, Broken Homes,” CST, 24 April 2007, p. 20; James L. Merriner’s essential “Mr. Inside Out,” Chicago Magazine, November 2007; Edward McClelland, “How Close Were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?,” Salon, 1 February 2008; Martin Fricker and Graham Brough, “Barack Obama’s Stepmother in a Bingo-Lover from Bracknell,” Daily Mirror, 9 February 2008; “Complete Transcript of the Sun-Times Interview with Barack Obama,” CST, 15 March 2008; Transcript of Obama’s Chicago Tribune Interview, CT, 16 March 2008, p. 22; Reardon, “Obama’s Chicago,” CT, 25 June 2008, p. T1; Wolffe, Renegade, pp. 34–35; Obama remarks at the White House, 19 June 2009, and Q&A session with students, 8 September 2009, Public Papers of the Presidents, 2009, Vol. 1, p. 858, and Vol. 2, p. 1352; Yang Suwan in Judith Kempfner, “The Untold Story of Obama’s Mother,” Independent, 16 September 2009; Scott, A Singular Woman, pp. 290–91, 295–96; Auma Obama, And Then Life Happens (St. Martin’s, 2012), pp. 39–40, 210; Slevin, Michelle Obama, p. 132; Newton Minow’s 2008 interview with Jim Gilmore; DJG interviews with Elvin Charity, Alan Solow, Geraldine Alexis, John Levi, Newton Minow, Linzey Jones, Greg Dingens, Eden Martin, Evie Shockley, Jerry Kellman, David Brint, Lisa Hay, Susan Higgins, Sean Lev, Charlie Robb, Marisa Chun, Brad Berenson, John Parry, Frank Amanat, Leonard Feldman, Darin McAtee, Sondra Hemeryck, Chris Sipes, Trent Norris, Lori-Christina Webb, Bruce Spiva, Lee Hwang, Nancy Cooper, and Zeituni Onyango. Sheree and Abon’go’s union would last less than six years. See Sheree A. Obama v. Abon’go M. Obama (c/o Nyangema Kogelo Primary School, Siaya), #96-04351, Prince George’s County Circuit Court, 4 March 1966, granted 11 July 1997. See also Si Van Lee v. Maya K. Soetoro, Hawaii 1CC90-0-002339 (motor vehicle tort), 19 September 1990, dismissed 4 February 1991.