Susette M. Talarico Lecture

2009: Valerie E. Caproni, general counsel of the FBI
2010: Joe D. Whitley, former general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security
2011: Leah Ward Sears, Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice
2013: John Hagan, John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University / Co-director, Center on Law & Globalization at the American Bar Foundation
2014: Michael P. Downing, Deputy Chief, Los Angeles Police Department
2015: Victor Rios, University of California-Santa Barbara
2016: Steven E. Clark, Director, Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies Director / Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
2017: Dr. Christopher Uggen, Regents Professor and Martindale Chair in Sociology and Law, University of Minnesota
2018: Chief Louis M. Dekmar, Chief of Police and Chief of Public Safety for the City of LaGrange
2019: Judge Steve Goss, Superior Court Judge for the Court of Appeals of Georgia
2020: Dr. John Patrick Jarvis, Academic Dean, FBI Academy
2021: Dr. Brian N. Williams (AB ’88, MPA ’91, PhD ’95), Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Batten School of Leadership at the University of Virginia
2022: Dr. Valarie P. Hans, Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law, Cornell Law School  |  View Lecture Recording »
2023: Jim Newton, Veteran Journalist, Author & Teacher  | View Lecture Recording »
2024: Dr. Reuben Miller, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and University of Chicago sociologist