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Ellen Oran Kaden, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of CBS Inc., and Dr. Clyde Y. Wu, prominent cardiopulmonary specialist at Wayne State University School of Medicine, have been elected Trustees of Columbia University, President George Rupp has announced. Both are alumni of the University.
The Trustees chose them this month to serve six-year terms, beginning immediately. Ms. Kaden fills the seat previously held by Jerry I. Speyer, who has been named chair emeritus of the Trustees and co-chair for the current year with Lionel Pincus. Dr. Wu succeeds Margaret E. Mahoney, who stepped down upon reaching the mandatory retirement age for Trustees.
Ms. Kaden began work at CBS in 1986 on a wide range of corporate, regulatory, transactional and broadcast matters. She became deputy general counsel in 1989 and general counsel in 1991. She was appointed senior vice president in 1993 and executive vice president two years ago. Before CBS she had practiced law at Cravath, Swaine and Moore for five years.
A 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University, Ms. Kaden earned the M.A. in American history in 1973 from the University of Chicago and the J.D. in 1977 from the Columbia University School of Law, where she was a James Kent Scholar, a member of the Law Review and a recipient of the Charles B. Beck Prize and the Young B. Smith Prize. After serving as law clerk to Judge Marvin E. Frankel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, she joined the Columbia law faculty and taught contracts, civil procedure and commercial law. She also served from 1979 to 1981 as reporter to the advisory committee on planning for the district courts of the Judicial Council for the Second Circuit.
Ms. Kaden is a member of the corporate advisory committee of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and a director of the Institute for Judicial Administration.
Dr. Wu is a practicing cardiologist in Dearborn, Mich., an associate clinical professor of medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit and a major civic and philanthropic leader. He has been active in creating collaborative associations between Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which he is a graduate, and distinguished medical schools in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.
Born in Hong Kong in 1933, Dr. Wu came to the United States in 1949, earned the B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and received his M.D. degree from Columbia's medical school in 1956. Following postgraduate training in Rochester, Boston and San Francisco, he began his academic and clinical career at Wayne State University in 1963.
In civic affairs, he is a major benefactor of the Detroit Institute of Art and a founding member of its Friends of Asian Arts. He has long been associated with the Chamber Music Society of Detroit and is now a member of the executive committee of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians, in Edinburgh.
Columbia has 24 Trustees, elected for a maximum of two, six-year terms. Twelve are chosen by the Trustees acting alone, six by the Trustees working with the executive committee of the University Senate, and six elected, one each year, after nomination by the University's alumni. Both Ms. Kaden and Dr. Wu were elected by the Trustees acting alone.
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