New members on Lakeville Journal executive board

LAKEVILLE — The Lakeville Journal Company is pleased to announce two new members on its executive committee. They are Keith R. Johnson of Sharon and New York City and Norman Dorsen of Cornwall and New York City.Norman Dorsen is Counselor to the President of New York University and Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, where he has taught since 1961. Previously, he served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshal Harlan. He was the founding director of NYU’s Hauser Global Law School Program in 1994. He is the author or editor of 15 books on aspects of constitutional law, and he was the founder and editorial director of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON).Dorsen served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1976 to 1991. Earlier, while ACLU general counsel, he argued many cases in the Supreme Court, including those that won for juveniles the right to due process and upheld constitutional rights of out-of-wedlock children. He also helped write petitioner’s brief in Roe v. Wade and appeared amicus curiae in the Gideon case, the Pentagon Papers case and the Nixon Tapes case. Dorsen was the founding president of the Society of American Law Teachers and the founding president of the U.S. Association of Constitutional Law, an affiliate of the International Association of Constitutional Law. Dorsen chaired the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (Human Rights First) for four years, and he chaired commissions for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and for the Treasury Department.In 1983 Dorsen received the Medal of Liberty from the French Minister of Justice. In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Dorsen the Eleanor Roosevelt Medal for contributions to human rights, and in 2007 the Association of American Law Schools presented him with its first triennial award for “lifetime contributions to the law and to legal education.”Keith R. Johnson retired as a member of the Board of Editors of Fortune magazine at the end of 1993. He is a graduate of Exeter and Cornell, where he was editor in chief of the Cornell Daily Sun and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He joined the New York Herald Tribune as a reporter in 1957. Four years later he moved to Time magazine, where he served as a writer and editor in New York and as a correspondent based in Los Angeles, Washington, Paris and London, with other assignments in West Africa, Bonn and Saigon. He became a senior editor of Money when Time Inc. began publishing it in 1972, rising to executive editor before moving to the same job at Discover in 1982. He joined Fortune in 1985.Since his retirement, Johnson has been a visiting scholar at Cornell. He has contributed to The Lakeville Journal on diverse subjects and has been a volunteer editor on a number of projects, including Dr. Jerome Groopman’s 2007 bestseller, “How Doctors Think.” Johnson is a member of the Cornell University Council and a member and former chairman of the Advisory Council of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell. He served for 13 years as a vestryman of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City. He is a board member and secretary of the Connecticut affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and a trustee of the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon. The two new members join three of The Lakeville Journal Company’s founding members on the board’s executive committee, who are: its chairman, William E. Little Jr., of Lakeville; Albert Gottesman of Salisbury; and Dr. Michael Alderman of Salisbury.The Lakeville Journal Company, founded in 1995, is an independent, locally owned community media company. It includes The Lakeville Journal, established in 1897; The Millerton News, assumed by the late editor and publisher Robert Estabrook in 1972; The Winsted Journal, begun in 1996; and www.tricornernews.com.