{"id":4125,"date":"2007-01-20T08:29:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T13:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4125"},"modified":"2007-01-20T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T10:30:47","slug":"asha_rangappa_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/asha_rangappa_h\/","title":{"rendered":"Asha Rangappa: hottest female law school dean 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. In 2006, this “honor” went to Yale Law School Assistant Dean Asha Rangappa<\/a> who the sponsoring web page called “as hot as a fire in a crowded theater<\/a>.(That’s a little Con Law joke for those of you who don’t remember high school civics) “<\/a> <\/p>\n\n

Here’s what one of the nominations had to say:<\/p>\n\n

“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?<\/font>“

“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<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

As if all that wasn’t hot enough, she also “founded the Yale Law School’s first theater troupe, the Court Jesters<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n

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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: <\/p>\n\n

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<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Her response to the award shows that the title hasn’t gone to her photogenic head:<\/p>\n\n

“It’s heartening to know that, despite the terrorists’ attempts to destroy our way of life, a healthy objectification of lawyers continues unabated<\/font> [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Those looks, a former spy and sense of humor to boot? Smoking hot most definitely, but are you sure she’s a lawyer? [Ducking …]<\/p>\n\n

BTW, in a coda to the whole story: <\/p>\n\n

A month later she gave birth to a boy. Law School dean Harold Hongju Koh dubbed him “America’s hottest law baby.” [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

A whole family of hotties it seems … <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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