Sallyanne Payton | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California |
Education | 1964,
Stanford University 1968, Stanford Law School |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Employer | University of Michigan Law School |
Sallyanne Payton is an American lawyer. She is the William W. Cook Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She was Stanford Law School's first African-American graduate.
Payton was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, [1] to an insurance underwriter and schoolteacher. [2] She earned her law degree from Stanford Law School in 1968, becoming their first African-American graduate. [3] During her time at Stanford, Payton served as an editor of the Stanford Law Review. [4]
With her newly obtained law degree, Payton was hired at the law firm Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. [5] While there, she caught the attention of President Richard Nixon who hired her to sit on the White House Domestic Council staff in 1971. [6] Her alma mater Stanford also elected her as an alumni-elect on their Board of Trustees. [7] Payton was later appointed to Chief Counsel of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1973. [5]
In 1976, Payton and Christina B. Whitman were hired full-time at the University of Michigan Law School. [8] The following year, she was elected to Stanford's Board of Trustees for a five-year term. [9] During the Clinton presidency, she served as an adviser for the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force, which led to her election as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. [5]
On May 28, 2008, Payton was reappointed the William W. Cook Professor of Law until May 31, 2013. [10] Two years later, she was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance [11] and a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States. [12] In 2013, Payton officially retired from the University of Michigan Law School. [5]
said Payton, who grew up in Los Angeles