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97 Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/ndalro97 and id is 1 raw text is: JOHN COPELAND NAGLE: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Patricia O'Hara* Many fine law schools have faculty members who are outstanding teachers, preeminent scholars, and generous colleagues. Few law schools are as blessed as we were at Notre Dame to have someone as singular as John Copeland Nagle-a person who was all those things professionally, but who was also a man without self-serving ego or guile; a man possessed of a moral compass that made him true north to so many of us; a person who consistently acted out of charity in an effort to do the right thing in all things. John was genuine, authentic, self-giving, and humble with every person with whom he was in relationship. John lived with one face- in my mind, the face of Jesus Christ. He searched to see Christ in everyone whom he met, even the most difficult; he strove to be Christ- like to all whom he encountered. John called each of us to be our best selves. Like Thomas More, the lawyer-saint depicted in stained glass in our chapel, John was the law's good servant, but God's first. In twenty years of daily kindnesses and good cheer, it is hard to pick my favorite memories of John, but two, in particular, come to mind. The first is an example of hundreds of times thatJohn came to the aid of a colleague. John and his family first came to Notre Dame Law School in 1998 on a visiting appointment from Seton Hall. I became dean a year later following the retirement of a long-serving dean of twenty-four years. The search for a successor had been rocky, and I was an unlikely choice-unlikely for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had been outside the Law School serving in the University's central administration for nearly a decade. I quickly assessed that even thoughJohn had been in the academy for only five years and was new to Notre Dame, he was a well-established scholar to whom both junior and senior faculty members would listen. © 2022 Patricia O'Hara. Individuals and nonprofit institutions may reproduce and distribute copies of this Essay in any format at or below cost, for educational purposes, so long as each copy identifies the author, provides a citation to the Notre Dame Law Review Reflection, and includes this provision in the copyright notice. * Professor Emerita of Law, University of Notre Dame. 1

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