Alumni
The Senate’s Tax Man
Albert Einstein once said the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. If this is true, then Mark Prater JD’84 must be a genius. Prater, chief tax counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, has spent the past 15 years maneuvering his way through the political relativity of tax law in Washington.
Students
Madame President
“At a school like Willamette, you don’t run for student government for a line on your resume,” said Judith Parker, president of the third-year class in 2006. “Here, there’s an intrinsic motivation to do good things for the school because you’re so closely tied to it and your classmates.”
Faculty
Devout Defender of the First Amendment
Take a look at Professor Steven Green’s genealogy and you might conclude that he is the black sheep of his family. Green comes from a long line of clergyman that includes his father, brother, uncle, grandfather and great-grandfather. Although the associate professor of law did not directly choose a life of religious service, his career has kept him deeply embedded in family tradition. Green has remained true to his Baptist roots — and stayed in the good graces of his family — by working to safeguard religious freedom in the U.S. and preserve the separation of church and state.
