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          Tacha is known for her keen intellect, creative problem solving and ability to grasp issues quickly....

          Metropolitan News-Enterprise

           

          Thursday, January 14, 2016

           

          Page 6

           

          PERSONALITY PROFILE:

          DEANELL REECE TACHA

           

          From Kansas to Malibu, Federal Judge-Turned-Law School Dean Has ‘Done It All’

           

          By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer

           

          t’s 1,241.8 miles from Goodland, Kansas to Malibu.

          With her distinguished record of public service, her commitment to the integrity of the judicial role, and her warm and winsome manner, Judge Tacha is the ideal.

        1. With her distinguished record of public service, her commitment to the integrity of the judicial role, and her warm and winsome manner, Judge Tacha is the ideal.
        2. Deanell Reece Tacha, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and former Dean of Pepperdine Law School, said she's.
        3. Tacha is known for her keen intellect, creative problem solving and ability to grasp issues quickly.
        4. Digging through the archives again this weekend, I found this 7 Questions article with Judge Deanell Reece Tacha.
        5. Federal judge Deanell Tacha expressed a view that is widely shared among judges and others:I like the fact that federal judges are generalists.

          6. But distance alone hardly describes the route Deanell Reece Tacha has taken. The prairie native—she still has a home in Kansas—has probably had as varied a career as any lawyer in America.

          Can you name anyone else who has been a small-town sole practitioner, an associate at one of the country’s largest firms, a law professor and dean, and a federal appellate judge in between those two?

          Not to mention being a 2015 MetNews Person of the Year.

          It’s a story of determination, drive, and good timing. And like many such stories, it begins in a small town in the American Midwest. 

          Deanell Reece was born just after World War II in Goodland, just east of the