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Samuel S. Dargan was the first African-American graduate of Indiana University Maurer School of Law. This year marks the centennial of his graduation. Dargan was a dedicated law librarian and active community member, who worked to expand educational and professional opportunities for African Americans.
Dargan was born in South Carolina in 1870. He attended Cornell University and MIT, and ultimately graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in science in 1905. Dargan began his legal studies at IU in 1905, and in 1906 he won the junior year oratory prize for his speech “Tariff in the United States.” He received his LLB in 1909.
The legal profession afforded few opportunities to African-American lawyers in Dargan’s day, and so he accepted the position of assistant law librarian at IU. From 1924 until his retirement in 1948, he held the position of curator of law. While working at the Law School, Dargan also operated a business selling law books to students. He was beloved by the law students, and his generosity and quiet dedication to the students earned him the title “father of the IU Law School.” Renowned graduates of the day like Wendell Willkie, Sherman Minton, William Jenner, Paul Jasper, and John Hastings remained close to Dargan throughout his life.
With his Law School salary and the proceeds from his book business, Dargan purchased several properties on the west side of the IU campus. He operated several boarding houses for African-American students who were not permitted to occupy any university housing until after World War II. The Dargan House became the first residence for African-American women students, and his other houses served as social centers for black students. Kappa Alpha Psi, the first black fraternity on campus, leased one of Dargan’s properties.
In the 1940s, Dargan served on the Bloomington Draft Board, and also on a committee of prominent African Americans who developed ways of helping Bloomington’s black population secure jobs on national defense projects.
When Dargan retired in 1948, a group of law alumni honored him with a portrait in appreciation for “looking after us like a brother and a father.” Dargan died in 1954 at the age of 84. In 1988, he was inducted into the Monroe County Hall of Fame for his community service to Bloomington and IU.
With unwavering dedication to her practice at Baker & Daniels for the last 31 years, Francina Dlouhy has built a reputation as one of the leading tax lawyers in America. Since graduating from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1977, Dlouhy has represented clients around the country and the state in tax planning and tax litigation. In addition, she has been involved in many of the largest projects involving new investment in the state, utilizing her knowledge of tax and economic incentives to promote job creation and capital expansion.
Dlouhy has received numerous awards and honors from her peers for her achievements in the law. She is among a distinguished group of attorneys who have been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 20 years. She is also an Indiana Super Lawyer, a distinguished fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, and a recipient the highest civilian honor given by the governor, the Sagamore of the Wabash.
Beyond her distinguished practice, Dlouhy has also devoted time and talent to the management of her firm. She has been particularly instrumental in promoting the advancement of women in the firm and the profession. She has served on virtually every one of the firm’s key committees, and is currently the leader of Baker & Daniels’ state and local practice group. She was the first woman appointed to the firm’s compensation and management committees and has served on the Executive Committee and Strategic & Policy Board. Dlouhy’s efforts on behalf of women in the legal profession have resulted in Baker & Daniels’ adoption of policies that emphasize striking a balance between work and family obligations. Dlouhy has received the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Antoinette Dakin Leach Award, which is named in honor of the first woman to practice law in Indiana, and has twice been recognized as a YWCA Salute to Women of Achievement Honoree.
Dlouhy also serves the community through memberships on boards that reflect her interests outside of the law. She is on the Board of Governors for Riley Children’s Foundation and is a board member and former chair of the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute. She has also been involved with the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute LLC, the statewide Tax Equalization Steering Committee, and the Board of Advisors for the Sisters of St. Benedict of Beech Grove, Ind.
Arthur M. “Art” Lotz is an outstanding legal professional, who through his creativity, common sense, good judgment, and integrity has contributed enormously to the advancement of the Maurer School of Law and Indiana University.
A native of Illinois, Lotz attended the University of Illinois until 1951 when he joined the Air Force during the Korean War. After 10 years as an Air Force pilot, he returned to Indiana to complete his degree in business in 1962 at Manchester College and then relocated his family to Bloomington to attend law school.
After receiving his law degree in 1965, Lotz began a lifelong career in academic administration. Lotz first joined the IU Treasurer’s office and then accepted a position as the associate director of the IU Alumni Association. In 1978, Lotz joined the Law School as the assistant dean for placement and bar relations, and in 1980, he assumed the duties of assistant dean for budget administration, bar relations, and development, the position he held until his retirement in 1996.
During his 18 years at the Law School, Lotz worked with four deans, three acting deans, and numerous faculty and administrators. When Lotz recognized that state support and tuition were inadequate to fund the School’s vision and mission, he worked to bring alumni relations and development programs into the Law School, when they had previously been handled solely by the IU Foundation and IU Alumni Association. Under Lotz’s direction, the School’s annual fund went from less than $50,000 per year to more than $800,000 by 1996. During Lotz’s tenure, the School received new funding for 27 endowed student scholarships, several lecture funds, the Wallace teaching award, and seven named professorships. Lotz was also instrumental in securing support and funding for the major renovation of the Law School during the 1980s.
Lotz’s vision for expanding alumni involvement and support at the Law School has served as a model for other schools in the IU system. His tireless work as an ambassador for the Law School built the alumni goodwill that is the foundation for the School’s current and future successes. In 2005, Lotz’s classmates, colleagues, and fellow alumni created the Arthur M. Lotz Endowment for Alumni & Development, which funds alumni outreach efforts and honors the legacy that Lotz has created for the School.
Robert A. Long has enjoyed an extraordinary legal career, and has served both private and pro bono clients with his exceptional trial skills. Retired since 2005, Long spent his entire career at Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles, where he served as managing partner from 1992 to 1997 and held a variety of management roles prior to that time.
A business litigator and trial lawyer, Long has represented many of the country's leading aerospace and computer companies. In the early 1990's, he was lead trial counsel for the international law firm, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue LLP, in defense of the Lincoln Savings securities class action and related government claims, in cases that received considerable press coverage, as well as academic interest, because of the professional liability issues they raised. Following the conclusion of those cases and until his retirement, Long's practice consisted primarily of the representation of other major law firms, in both professional liability and partnership matters, and he became a frequent speaker at bar events and law schools on these issues. In 1999, he was elected to the American College of Trial Lawyers.
One of the most professionally satisfying chapters in his legal career was his pro bono prosecution of a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Mario Rocha. Although he was only 16, Rocha was tried as an adult, and because of inadequate trial representation, was convicted of murder and attempted murder on the basis of unreliable eyewitness identification testimony and improper gang associations. Rocha was sentenced to life in prison. Long persuaded the California Court of Appeal to hear the habeas petition and eventually to set aside the conviction. The State dismissed all charges against Rocha last year, and Rocha is now enrolled in George Washington University, aspiring to become a lawyer and pursue social justice issues. An award-winning documentary entitled Mario’s Story details Long's eight-year fight to secure Rocha's freedom.
Long is currently a member of the California Commission on Access to Justice, a collaborative effort involving all three branches of California government, as well as judges, lawyers, professors, and business and labor leaders dedicated to finding long-term solutions to the lack of legal assistance for low-income, vulnerable Californians, and he chairs the Pro Bono Task Force of that Commission.
A committed Indiana Law alumnus, Long served as a member of the Board of Visitors from 1994 to 2005 and was chair of the Board in 2001.
For nearly 50 years, Lloyd Milliken has been a forceful advocate for an efficient, fair, and balanced civil justice system, and the maintenance of America’s jury system in civil litigation. Milliken has spent his entire career with Locke Reynolds, which recently merged with Frost Brown Todd, and has achieved national recognition for his work as a trial lawyer and leader of the defense bar.
Milliken’s practice has focused primarily on representing defendants in product liability cases. He has represented product manufacturers of automobiles, heavy equipment, hand and power tools, industrial machinery, medical devices, and many other products. Milliken has served as national counsel for a major seatbelt manufacturer. He gained national recognition for his service as Indiana counsel for General Motors in the litigation against NBC arising out of the Dateline program that misrepresented the effect of high speed crashes involving GM pickup trucks. Milliken’s investigative efforts led directly to an unprecedented retraction and apology by Dateline NBC, and established a new standard of fairness and accountability for investigative reporting.
Milliken’s success as a trial lawyer has garnered him the respect and recognition of his peers. He has been inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, the most prestigious organization of its kind. In 1993, the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana named Milliken Defense Lawyer of the Year.
Milliken's leadership of the defense bar is evidenced by his service as president of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the world's largest organization of defense lawyers. Milliken has served DRI in many significant roles for more than a quarter of a century as well as serving as president of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. More recently, Milliken was elected the inaugural president of the National Foundation For Judicial Excellence which provides continuing education to America's state appellate court judges. In recognition of these activities, Milliken was the recipient of DRI's Louis B. Potter Lifetime Professional Services award in 2007.
Milliken’s professional life is also notable for his dedication to the mentorship of young lawyers, the expansion of diversity in the profession, and to the promotion of civility among members of the bench and bar.
Milton R. Stewart is an outstanding lawyer and engaged community member, who has established himself as a leader in the legal profession, particularly as business and law become increasingly global.
He received a bachelor’s degree in government from IU, and then went on to graduate summa cum laude from the Maurer School of Law in 1971. After finishing his legal education, he served in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant. He then moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he joined the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine in Portland. Stewart served for 13 years on the Firm Management (Executive) Committee of Davis Wright Tremaine, an international, full-service firm with nine offices, including a Shanghai office. He currently serves as the firm’s Client Relations Partner.
During his distinguished career, Stewart’s practice has focused on structuring merger and acquisition transactions, reorganizations, and management buyouts. He is experienced in structuring and advising joint ventures and strategic alliances, both domestically and internationally, and has served as general counsel for several Northwest companies. His business experience also includes his ownership and operation of manufacturing, distribution, and retailing enterprises.
Stewart frequently speaks and publishes regarding mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and the globalization of the legal profession. He is the co-author of Mergers & Acquisition Law 2007 and Winning Legal Strategies for Mergers & Acquisitions and authored International Joint Ventures: A Practicum for the Journal of the Association of Corporate Counsel. He has taught business development and client relations skills to international lawyers at the Lex Mundi Monterey Institute for the past five years. He also consults to international law firms on these topics. His peers selected him as a “Super Lawyer” in 2006, and he received the Rella Lossy Award from the Legal Marketing Association, Bay Area Chapter recognizing his professionalism and career-long contributions to the practice of law firm marketing. Two lesser-known facts are that from 1982 to 1984 he owned and operated a northwest fine chocolate company, and in 2007, he spent the year on Wall Street in NYC as special counsel to AIG Corporation.
Stewart is also active in service to his community, his profession, and to Indiana University. He is a past member and current advisor to the Board of Directors of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He recently served as a member of the Board of Directors of Lex Mundi, the worldwide association of international law firms. His commitment to Indiana University includes membership in the Law School’s Board of Visitors, the IU Foundation’s Board of Directors, and the IU Art Museum’s Board of Directors.
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