Professor Cheryl Rosen Weston has been named the 2005 recipient of the Warren H. Stolper Award, which recognizes excellence in teaching and commitment to the University of Wisconsin Law School on the part of an adjunct professor.

Comments Dean Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., “To describe Cheryl as an adjunct is somewhat misleading. She, like Robert Schnur, a past award winner, is in residence at the Law School and is an integral part of the Law School community. Cheryl and the many outstanding practitioners who bring their experience and expertise to the Law School contribute greatly to the overall mission of the school.”

Weston, a graduate of the Class of 1971, began her law teaching career as a legal writing instructor in her second year of law school. She worked for 20 years as a litigator, and was founder of the Madison law firm Cullen Weston Pines & Bach, LLP, for which she remains of counsel.

In the late 1990s, Weston began teaching several courses at UW Law School as she substituted for faculty on leave. At the same time, she began her journey into the business world, becoming CEO and owner of The Douglas Stewart Company, Inc., a distributor and marketer of computer products, consumer electronics and school supplies. Weston recently was named Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by the Wisconsin chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

At the Law School, Weston has taught Civil Procedure I and II, Family Law, Legal Ethics, Torts, Constitutional Law, and Legal Process. “The interactions with students and colleagues, along with the demands of class preparation, have been a constant source of energy and brain food for me,” Weston says of her unplanned teaching career. “I could say that teaching is my way of repaying the Law School community for all the opportunities a UW Law School education has provided for me,” she says, “but the truth is I enjoy it so much I find myself further in debt.”

This is the fourth year the Stolper Award has been conferred. The award is named in honor of Attorney Warren H. Stolper, who taught at the Law School for 40 years as an adjunct professor and was the first recipient of the award.

Submitted by on October 24, 2005

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