Teresa Stanton Collett is a Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, where she has taught since 2003. Her courses include Property, Constitutional Litigation, Bioethics, and Catholic Social Thought, and she has served as a visiting professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctorate with Honors and served as Oklahoma Law Review Symposium Editor, she is a lifetime elected member of the American Law Institute and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, six federal courts of appeals, and the state courts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Professor Collett is a nationally recognized scholar and advocate in constitutional law, bioethics, and questions of religious liberty and family law. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters, testified before state legislatures and Congress on a range of constitutional and family-law matters, and participated in many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate courts through amicus briefs and as counsel. She has also served in advisory roles to the Pontifical Council for the Family and as a Fulbright Visiting Specialist, and her contributions have been recognized with awards including the University of St. Thomas Law School's Living the Mission Award.

Michael S. McGinniss is Professor of Law and J. Philip Johnson Faculty Fellow at the University of North Dakota School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2010 and served as the Dean from 2019 to 2022. In 2026-2027, he is teaching courses on Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure, Advanced Legal Ethics, and Federal Courts. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the North Dakota Law Review and the UND Law Federalist Society student chapter, and in 2026 received the UND Outstanding Advisor Award for his work with the Federalist Society, which he also received in 2023.

In 2022, Professor McGinniss received SBAND’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest and most prestigious honor given by the Association. He recently completed a two-year term as Chair of the North Dakota Joint Committee on Attorney Standards, where he continues to serve as a member, and he is Chair of the Operations Committee for the North Dakota Lawyer Disciplinary Board. He is a long-time active member of the national Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, and he now serves as Chair for the national Executive Committee of its Professional Responsibility & Legal Education Practice Group. He also serves on the boards of directors of the North Dakota Catholic Conference, the All Saints Catholic Schools Network, and the St. Anne’s Building Corporation.

Judge Erickson serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.