After practicing law for twenty years, Judge Aquilina was elected as a District Court Judge where she also served as Chief Judge and Sobriety Court Judge for 4 years. Thereafter she was elected to the Circuit Court where she has served for the past 18 years serving also as the Judge for the Juvenile Weapons Court she created. Judge Aquilina served honorably for 20 years in the Michigan Army National Guard as the first female JAG Officerin its history.  She is an award-winning Law Professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and at Michigan State University College of Law, in addition to teaching undergraduate students in the Political Science Department at MSU. She has been featured in multiple documentaries, served as a legal analyst for various media outlets and serves as a world-wide Motivational Speaker.

Some thirty years ago, Doug Fierberg established the first legal practice focused on representing school violence victims and survivors nationwide. That work includes representing students (K-12 and college) in cases involving sexual misconduct by coaches, teammates, volunteers, and others. That work also includes representing survivors (non-students) of sexual abuse and misconduct by professional athletes, coaches, and other personnel assigned to club sports, high-profile members of the clergy, and members of the entertainment industry. The legal representation has taken place in Title IX proceedings and the U.S. Department of Education, matters before SafeSport, and in state and federal courts across the country. The firm has recovered more than $375 Million in settlements and verdicts for its clients against fraternities, colleges, schools, students, perpetrators/rapists, liars, and other wrongdoers. Of equal importance, the firm has helped empower its clients by causing rapists to be expelled, holding universities, schools and other organizations financially liable to survivors, and causing the implementation of specialized accommodations for survivors necessary to protect their rights. The firm’s work has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN, Hulu, The New York Times, and multiple other media platforms.

Doug was an All-State wrestler during high school and recruited by the University of Michigan. There, he was a starter on the varsity wrestling team, briefly, before realizing – admittedly too late – that the “benefits” of browbeating others, and having the same done to him by coaches, were far outweighed by the personal and academic detriments. Doug graduated from the University of Michigan with class honors and earned his law degree, with honors, from The National Law Center, George Washington University.