WMU-Cooley Board of Directors chair Lawrence Nolan (second from left) with WMU-Cooley Associate Dean Michael McDaniel (left) and WMU-Cooley graduates Sharan Levine and Hon. Joseph Farah (right). McDaniel, Levine and Farah were each honored as “Leaders in the Law” by Michigan Lawyers Weekly on March 23.
Photo Courtesy of WMU-Cooley Law School.
WMU-Cooley associate dean and graduates honored as Leaders in the Law
Three of Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s 30 “2017 Leaders in the Law” have connections to WMU-Cooley Law School, including Lansing campus Associate Dean Michael McDaniel, and graduates Hon. Joseph Farah of Flint; and Sharon Levine of Kalamazoo.
In addition to teaching constitutional law, McDaniel is the director of the Homeland and National Security Law LL.M. program at WMU-Cooley Law School, a program he created in 2013. McDaniel is a retired Brigadier General and was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense Strategy, Prevention and Mission Assurance at Department of Defense prior to joining the law school. In 2003, he was also Homeland Security Advisor to then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and has been the chairperson for Great Lakes Hazard Coalition (GLHC) since 2012. He also served as the Assistant Adjutant General for Homeland Security with the Michigan National Guard. McDaniel has been on the board of directors for the Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) since Dec. 2012, assisting in national infrastructure security and resiliency planning. In 2016, McDaniel was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to the Flint Water Interagency Coordinating Committee (FWICC) and helped to secure $100 million from Congress, which sped up the process of removing hazardous water pipes, with over 600 pipes replaced by the end of 2016.
From 1982 to 1984, Levine served as president of the southwest region of Women’s Lawyers Association. Shortly thereafter, she was appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court as a commissioner to the State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners. At the local level, Levine served as the legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio Station WMUK in Kalamazoo from 1985 to 2005. Levine is a member of the Small Business Forum of the Business Law Section of the State Bar. In the last several years, she has developed a private practice representing business entities and families. Recently, Levine focused her efforts on raising awareness for the need of a Veterans Treatment Court in Kalamazoo.
In 1998, Farah was appointed to Genesee County’s 7th Judicial Circuit Court and was assigned for his first seven years to the Family Division. Since 2005, Farah has presided over cases in the court’s civil and criminal division. Before his appointment to the court, Farah spent 18 as a criminal defense attorney in Flint. Beyond the courtroom, Farah has become involved in two organizations; he was recently sworn in as a board member of the West Flint Optimist Club and he serves on the Metro Community Development Board.
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