There are certain honors that most lawyers aspire to such as clerking for the Supreme Court, or being selected for it. And there are others that descend unwished for, like a boon sent by the gods to the wrong supplicant. One of these is winning the annual contest for hottest law school dean. In 2006, this “honor” went to Yale Law School Assistant Dean Asha Rangappa who the sponsoring web page called “as hot as a fire in a crowded theater.(That’s a little Con Law joke for those of you who don’t remember high school civics) “
Here’s what one of the nominations had to say:
“I write to nominate Asha Rangappa in your beautiful law school dean contest. First, she’s a genius: Princeton, Yale Law, a Fulbright, a First Circuit clerk. Second, she’s totally badass: from 2002 to 2005, she worked in the FBI as a Special Agent, focusing on counterintelligence investigations in New York City. How cool is that?“
“Third, and most importantly, Asha is simply gorgeous. There hasn’t been this beautiful a woman in federal law enforcement since Jennifer Lopez pretended to be a U.S. US Marshal in ‘Out of Sight.’ This South Asian beauty — with her milk-chocolate skin, lively eyes, Julia Roberts smile, and reddish black tresses — will demolish the rest of your field…” [Link]
As if all that wasn’t hot enough, she also “founded the Yale Law School’s first theater troupe, the Court Jesters.”
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For all you guys who are lining up to play George Clooney to her Jennifer Lopez, settle down, she’s taken:
Rangappa said she realizes the contest is not meant to be taken seriously. “More than anything I’m amused, because there’s some irony to winning a hottest anything contest when you’re eight months pregnant,” she said. [Link]
Her response to the award shows that the title hasn’t gone to her photogenic head:
“It’s heartening to know that, despite the terrorists’ attempts to destroy our way of life, a healthy objectification of lawyers continues unabated [Link]
Those looks, a former spy and sense of humor to boot? Smoking hot most definitely, but are you sure she’s a lawyer? [Ducking …]
BTW, in a coda to the whole story:
A month later she gave birth to a boy. Law School dean Harold Hongju Koh dubbed him “America’s hottest law baby.” [Link]
A whole family of hotties it seems …
Uh, ennis? Being 8 months pregnant doesn’t show that one is “taken.” 😉
I’m just sayin’!
Wow! So she’s a hot law school dean and a hot mommy!
Good for her!
MILF=HOT. Intellectual badass=HOT. Counter intelligence= … :-/ But good on her still. I’m glad she just sort of graciously shrugged off the title. Memsaab is a baller.
I think E. Nkonye Iwerebon, a dean at Columbia Law, is pretty hot too.
Impressive lady, and as for the picture – wowaweewa!
I know her! Not as the badass-hottie-dead of admissions at Yale, but as the teenager whose graduation party I was dragged to by my own parents in the early 90s. How bizarre, and fantastic, at the same time!
Brings back memories of a certain hot tax prof. Ahhh Mr Reddy, I’d love extra credit! 🙂 hee hee hee
i ♥ her sense of humor!
Definitely good-looking.
guessing from her last name – family is karnataka i think
That’s right, keep ducking!
Something you wanna say about Law school girls?…
I was actually trying to say that they usually don’t have a sense of humor 🙂
I want one?
…umm…too?
she’s not pretty.
Oh.
:p
shuffles away
My kind of gal. In the words of the great Eddie Murphy, “I want a woman who arouses my intellect as well as my loins”.
RE: jj on January 20, 2007 03:12 PM · Direct link guessing from her last name – family is karnataka i think
she’s prolly from coorg 😉
i thought the same damn thing, maisnon. maybe it is a lady lawyer thing.
Yes, she’s gorgeous! A totally impressive person…