Professor Howe has been a faculty member at Boston College Law School for over 40 years.
LAYTON, UT, January 26, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Ruth-Arlene W. Howe, JD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Though she has been a faculty member at Boston College Law School for over 40 years, Prof. Howe originally began her professional career as a social worker. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College, she earned a Master of Social Work from Simmons College School of Social Work the beginning of June, 1957; and at the end of the month became Mrs. Theodore Holmes Howe. Until 1961 she worked as a psychiatric social worker at the Catholic Youth Service Bureau in Cleveland, Ohio while her husband attended Case-Western University Mandel School of Social Work, earning his graduate degree in group work, then working for the Mount Pleasant Community Center. Returning to Boston, she borne four children during the 1960s and became involved with the League of Women Voters and particularly active in the non-profit's efforts to promote the building of low-income housing.
Prof. Howe's late husband Theodore Holmes Howe's joining the Boston College School of Social Work faculty in 1968 later enabled her, as a faculty wife, to audit courses at no cost. The family spent the summer of 1969 in Mound Bayou, MS, while he supervised a group of BCSSW student interns at the Tufts-Delta Health Center (the rural counterpart to the urban Columbia Point Tufts Health Center in Boston); and she worked as a Housing Development Consultant. In 1970, she taught her first course at her Simmons College alma mater; and audited at BC Law School their required first year linked courses of Contracts and Legal Writing & Research. After becoming a full-time law student in 1971, she continued teaching basic required first year courses at Simmons as a Special Social Policy Instructor. After earning her JD in 1974, she developed and taught new second year electives in Family Law & Social Work until recruited by Boston College in 1978 as an assistant law professor. Tenured as an associate professor in 1981; promoted full professor in 1998; she has since been designated as a professor emerita at Boston College where she remains one of the school's most respected law educators.
Professor Howe in 2017 received the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association's top honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, at their Annual Gala in March, 2017. A founding member in 1985 of the Black Alumni Network (BAN) of the Boston College Law School, who continues to serve on the BAN Board of Directors as an emerita director, Prof. Howe was deeply honored to be the recipient of the prestigious St. Thomas More Award at the 2015 BC Alumni Association Annual Law Day on April 30. She also is deeply honored that in 2013 BAN's Black Student Leadership Initiative (BSLI) launched in 1995 as an endowment was renamed the "Ruth-Arlene W. Howe Black Student Leadership Initiative" ("RAWH BSLI") in order to enable current distribution of funds to 2L and 3L students.
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