A Tribute to Professor Barbara Green

• Publication year: 2000
• Citation: Vol. 35

35 Creighton L. Rev. 3. A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR BARBARA GREEN

Creighton Law Review

Vol. 35

RICHARD E. SHUGRUE(fn*)

When all is said and done, Barbara Green will be remembered as a person who loved to teach.

An accomplished pianist, a gourmet chef, a doting mother, this Smith College graduate joined the Creighton family after a chance encounter with the faculty search committee at the annual recruitment conference late in 1979. Barb Green had been a schoolteacher before earning her law degree at Boston University in 1971. After serving as an editor for the American Trial Lawyers Association, she dove into private practice in the Boston area and then went back to B.U. for an L.L.M in taxation.

Her real interest was in teaching, and she was hired by Creighton for her skill, practical experience and passion to work with lawyers-in-training. She devoted 20 years to the Creighton mission, teaching courses ranging from Federal Income Tax, to Trusts and Estates to Remedies. A voracious reader who brought her love for literature, both classical and provocative, to the classroom, Barb Green's sight began to fail, forcing her to retire from her teaching duties. She has no intention of retiring from service to her church and the community and will continue to be an adoring mother and grandmother.

Her twenty years at Creighton were filled with good humor, inspiration, a humanist's love for her students and her colleagues and delight in immersing herself in the life of the university around her. Long after her retirement, her students will remember that goofy little rubber bat-on-a-stick which she carried to class to tease and inspire...