Trudell H. Guerue, Jr. '74
 Trudell Guerue, Jr. is dedicated to achieving equal justice for underrepresented individuals with legal problems associated with juvenile justice, criminal justice, and child welfare systems. As an attorney with the Legal Rights Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Guerue upholds the center's philosophy of offering restorative justice approaches to crime and supports the center's purpose "to build strong communities, not more prisons." He is known by his colleagues and the community as "a guiding light," "a pillar of strength," and "a compassionate and intellectual witness of justice."
Guerue is a member of the Sicangu Lakota, Burnt Thigh Sioux, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. He was an enlisted man, non-commissioned officer in the United States Army in the U.S., Germany, and Vietnam. In 1987 he earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Guerue has served on the board of directors for the Northern Plains Tribal Court Judges Association in South Dakota and for the National American Indian Court Judges Association in Washington, D.C. He has been an associate judge and chief judge for the South Dakota Intertribal Court of Appeals and chief judge of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court. He has been a law clerk and staff attorney for various courts in Minnesota and New York. Currently, Guerue is an attorney-at-law at the Legal Rights Center in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The only non-profit poverty criminal defense law firm in Hennepin County, the Legal Rights Center provides free criminal defense, social referral services, and restorative justice opportunities for people with low incomes and for people of color, juvenile and adult, in Hennepin County.
Guerue also has served as a Dartmouth Partners in Community Service alumni mentor to a number of Dartmouth undergraduate interns working at the Legal Rights Center.
David K. Shipler '64
 Trustee Emeritus David Shipler is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He is widely recognized for his books on race, class, group identity, and foreign affairs.
Shipler's career in journalism began in 1966 when he joined the Times as a news clerk. After being promoted to city staff reporter, Shipler covered housing, poverty, and political issues, earning awards from the American Political Science Association and the New York Newspaper Guild. From 1973 to 1975, Shipler served as a Times correspondent in Saigon, reporting from South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma. Then, to prepare for an assignment in Moscow, he spent a semester at the Russian Institute at Columbia University, studying Russian language and Soviet politics, economics, and history. He was a correspondent in the Moscow Bureau for four years, becoming Moscow bureau chief from 1977 to 1979. He served as Jerusalem bureau chief from 1979 to 1984. In 1983, Shipler was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for his work covering the Lebanon War. That same year, he published the best-selling Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams, which was widely acclaimed by critics and winner of the Overseas Press Club Award for that year's best book on foreign affairs.
From 1984 to 1985 Shipler was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. There, he wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, which explores the mutual perceptions and relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the West Bank. Shipler went on to produce, write, and narrate a two-hour PBS documentary, Arab and Jew, which won the 1990 Dupont-Columbia Award for broadcast journalism. In 2002, PBS aired a follow-up film titled Arab and Jew: Return to the Promised Land.
After serving as chief diplomatic correspondent in the Washington Bureau of the Times until 1988, Shipler was senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writing for the New Yorker and other publications on transitions to democracy in Russia and Eastern
Europe. In 1997, Shipler published A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. Shipler's most recent book, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, was a national bestseller in 2004.
Shipler has taught at Princeton and American University and was a writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. He also has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at several college campuses. He holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College, Glassboro State College, and Dartmouth College. He served on Dartmouth's Board of Trustees from 1993 to 2003 and was a Montgomery Fellow and visiting professor of government at Dartmouth in 2003.
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