For
several decades Dean L. Overman was a senior partner of Winston
& Strawn, a large international law firm. He became a
partner in a prominent Chicago law firm after only four years
as an associate and, at age thirty-four, was appointed the partner-in-charge
of Winston’s Washington office, practicing corporate law
on behalf of multinational clients in a broad spectrum of legal
areas. He is presently co-chair of the Advisory Board of First
Trust Portfolios, L.P., an asset management firm, and a Visiting
Senior Research Fellow at The
Van Raalte Institute. While practicing in the area of international
law, he taught a secured financing course as a member of the faculty
of the University of Virginia Law School and also served as a
Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He was a White
House Fellow and served as Special Assistant to Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller and as Associate Director of the White House
Domestic Council for President Ford. He is the author or co-author
of several law books and many law review articles. He is the author
of A
Case Against Accident and Self Organization, for which he
was selected as a Templeton Scholar at Oxford University for seminars
in religion and science. He received his Juris Doctor from the
University
of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and did graduate work
at the University of Chicago and Princeton Theological Seminary.
He is a member of the Triple
Nine Society and the International
Society for Philosophical Enquiry.
For further information, please see his curriculum
vitae and biographical listings in Marquis Who’s Who
in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Business
and Finance, and Who’s Who in American Law.
Dean L. Overman (White House Fellow) with President Ford, May
1975. Dean is pictured to the left of President Ford during his
speech and at 4:55 during presentation.
For
several decades Dean L. Overman was a senior partner of 