Judge Myron Thompson & Dean Heather Gerken

Myron Thompson Wins Yale Law’s Award of Merit

Judge Myron Thompson first visited Yale Law School when he was 15 years old, invited by a YLS student-volunteer who taught Myron during a 1963 Freedom Summer enrichment program. Owing to Myron’s slow recovery from polio, that student carried Myron around to show him the colleges, encouraging him to apply. In a 37 year career as a federal district court judge, Myron ruled Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional and struck down Alabama’s restrictive abortion law, among other opinions. Now he receives Yale Law’s Award of Merit.

|

Banner Bio – Thomas Igoe

THOMAS JOSEPH ICOE, JR. Born April 20, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri, son of Thomas Joseph Igoe and Ruth Louise Gruner Igoe. Attended St. Louis Priory School, St. Louis, Missouri. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. History major; Dean’s List, 1965-66, 1966-67 (fall term). Resident: Jonathan Edwards (Gilbert & Sullivan Society, 1965-69; College Aide, 1967-69, Head Librarian,…