Beau Baez (Liberty): "I grow ever thankful to God for my wife, children, church, and chosen profession."- Linda Beale (Wayne State): "Having colleagues who care what I am thinking about, students who want to learn what I have to teach them, and a network of tax professionals through NYSBA, ABA, and AALS who are among the brightest and most thoughtful people in the lawyering profession."
- Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark): "The willing buyer and the willing seller."
- Johnny Buckles (Houston): "I am thankful for the grace of God, the love of my wife, the constant chatter of my daughter, the cheerful dimples and joyful shrieks of my son, the consistent support of my professional colleagues, genuine friends, a rewarding profession, a caring church home, and a truly abundant life."
- Paul Caron (Cincinnati): "I am thankful for my wonderful wife and children, the best job in the world, our church community (particularly the men in my Friday morning accountability group), and the God that makes it all possible."
- Stephanie Hoffer (Northwestern): "This wonderful vocation, its delightful colleagues and engaging students. I cannot think any better occupation than this one."
- Francine Lipman (Chapman): "Family and friends."
- Michael Livingston (Rutgers-Camden): "I am thankful that I live in a country where you can say what you want and the worse that can happen is you don’t get any lateral offers."
- Michael McIntyre (Wayne State): "I’m grateful for the friendship of great tax people who have passed on to their reward, including Nick Tomasulo, Paull Mines, Stanley Surrey, and Betty Owens."
- Jim Maule (Villanova): [see here]
- Reginald Mombrun (Florida A&M): "The opportunity to become a better teacher every semester."
- Ann Murphy (Gonzaga): "I am thankful because I am one of the luckiest persons in the world — I’m lucky to have been born into a family that happened to live in the most wealthy country in the world. I’m lucky in that my parents valued education above all else. I’m lucky that I got to go to college, then graduate school, then law school. I am lucky that I had the brains to succeed in law school. I am lucky that I got a job I loved after law school – believe it or not, working for the IRS. And I am ultimately lucky to have been chosen for one of the most coveted jobs in the country – teaching law. And to top it all off, I am unbelievably lucky to have a husband and children and all are healthy and full of love."
- Bob Peroni (Texas): "I am thankful for living in the best country on the planet, having the best job in the world at wonderful educational institutions (Tulane, GWU, Northwestern, and Texas), and, most importantly, having incredibly loving and supportive parents and other family members and friends."
- Michael Vinson (Golden Gate): "I am thankful for January 20, 2009."
- Alan D. Westheimer (Houston): "I am most grateful for the complexity of our tax laws and the utter inability of everyone in Washington DC to do anything about it. I love my job."
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