IADC elects Detroit attorney as new board member
Bonnie Mayfield, a member at Dykema Gossett PLLC in Bloomfield Hills, was elected as a new member of the The International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) board of directors earlier this year. She is serving a three-year term, which began in July.
A recognized thought leader and frequent lecturer on employment law and diversity and inclusion topics, Mayfield is a member of Dykema Gossett’s Litigation and Labor & Employment Law practice groups. She has successfully litigated employment discrimination, labor, hybrid §301, retaliation, wage and hour, whistleblower, tort, product liability (automotive, pharmaceutical, medical device, chemical and toxic tort), and commercial matters. She also regularly advises and counsels clients about administrative, internal and labor matters.
Prior to her board appointment, Mayfield served as chair of the IADC’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, for which she was formally recognized at the IADC’s 2019 Annual Meeting.
This past year, Mayfield was instrumental in the launch of the IADC Diversity and Inclusion Award to help raise awareness of the value of and need for a diverse and inclusive legal profession. The inaugural award was presented to the Diverse Attorney Pipeline Program (DAPP), which is a non-profit organization founded to advance opportunities for women of color.
Mayfield also is a former chair of the IADC’s Employment Law Committee. This year, the IADC recognized Mayfield as its 2019 Richard L. Neumeier Excellence in Service Award recipient in recognition of her contributions to the organization.
Mayfield received her J.D. from New York University and her Bachelor of Arts from Dillard University.
Keith estate leaves $100,000 to school
INSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) — The estate of prominent federal Judge Damon J. Keith, who was the grandson of slaves and a figure in the civil rights movement, made a $100,000 bequest to a scholarship fund in his name, West Virginia State University announced Wednesday.
Keith, who was sued by President Richard Nixon over a ruling against warrantless wiretaps, died in April in Detroit at 96. He spent more than 50 years on the federal bench. Before his death, he still heard cases about four times a year at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
In the 1971 wiretapping case against Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell, Keith said they couldn’t engage in the warrantless wiretapping of three people suspected of conspiring to destroy government property. The decision was affirmed by the appellate court, and the Nixon administration appealed and sued Keith personally. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the judge prevailed in what became known as “the Keith case.”
He was a 1943 graduate of what was then West Virginia State College and went on to graduate from Howard University Law School in 1949 and Wayne State University Law School in 1956.
“Our father, Judge Damon J. Keith, would frequently say, ‘I don’t know what would have happened to me if I hadn’t gone to West Virginia State,’” Keith’s daughter, Cecile Keith Brown, said in a news release from the school.
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