STEPHEN L. SEPINUCK became a full-time academic in 1989, teaching courses on Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy, Sales, Contracts and Transactional Skills, and authoring more than 20 books and 100 articles. In the 1990s, he was an adviser to the drafting committee that revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and he chaired its Task Force on Deposit Accounts. From 2006 to 2009, he chaired the ABA’s UCC Committee and served as the ABA Advisor to the Joint Review Committee for Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He was the Reporter for the Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act and for the Amended Model Tribal Secured Transactions Act and was the Associate Reporter for the 2022 UCC Amendments on Emerging Technologies. He returned to full-time private practice at Paul Hastings in 2022, as Special UCC Advisor but continues to teach as an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt law School. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, the Executive Director of the Commercial Law Amicus Initiative, and has won awards for his teaching, his scholarship, and his public service.