Susan Frelich Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law, is a nationally known expert in family law. Her research, scholarship, and writings address such legal issues as adoption, reproductive rights, parentage, gender, and sexualities. She has co-authored a family law casebook, now in its sixth edition, as well as a casebook on adoption and assisted reproduction, and she has published extensively on family law matters in law reviews. A member of the American Law Institute (ALI), she serves as an adviser on two projects, Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses and Restatement of the Law: Children & the Law. Previously, Professor Appleton held the office of Secretary of ALI (2004-13), sat on the ALI Council (beginning in 1993 and continuing now as a member emerita), and served as an adviser to the ALI’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. She also served on the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation (2004-14) and worked as consultant to the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, assisting that agency in its recommendations for laws addressing surrogacy arrangements. Professor Appleton is a recipient of the law school’s Triennial Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and Washington University’s Distinguished Faculty Award. She was the John S. Lehmann Research Professor in 2009–10 and held the Israel Treiman Faculty Fellowship during 2012-13. She is a prolific speaker and panelist on family law and related topics at workshops, conferences, and other venues, including UC Davis Law School, where she delivered the Brigitte Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law in March 2013; Fudan University in Shangai, where she spoke about feminism and family law at a conference on feminist jurisprudence in the US and Asia in May 2015; and the Radzyner Law School at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, in December 2015, when she taught a course on the Modern Law of Parentage as a Visiting Professor and presented a paper at a symposium on “Families-in-Law: Setting New Agendas.” At the law school, she served as vice dean (2013-14) and associate dean of faculty (1998-2003). In 2010-12, she served as Washington University’s first Ombuds, facilitating the informal resolution or management of faculty-related conflicts or concerns on the Danforth Campus. Before becoming a law professor, she clerked for law school alumnus, the Hon. William H. Webster, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.