Liz Magill and Elena Kagan

There have only been 9 Presidents (plus Interims and Actings) in Penn's History.  I have worked under four of them (Hackney, Rodin, Gutmann, and Magill) as well as Fagin (Interim) and Pritchett (Acting).  And the 294th day of 2022 was a historic day on the Penn Campus as we celebrated Dr. Liz Magill's Inauguration on 10/21/2022.  As an Open Expression Observer and frequent event volunteer, I have been lucky to be in a lot of events this weekend.  And, although the dinner was celebratory and the ceremony was filled with Pomp & Circumstance, laughter, humility, and wise words from Dr. Magill, my favorite event of the weekend so far is also my Two for 2022 for today, Liz Magill and Elena Kagan.  Although the two speakers were a University President and a Justice of the US Supreme Court, it felt like a conversation between two friends.  And they made law seem empathetic, meaningful, and important.  Different from the image of law from the "lawyer jokes" one sometimes hears.  So lucky to have been in that room for this amazing event on this historic weekend.