But how are their decisions to be known?

Gary Spivey was born on July 20, 1940, in Madison, Indiana. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, studying journalism and political science, and worked during the summers as a journalist. After graduation, he enlisted in the United States Army and served for more than three years in Vietnam in the Army’s signals intelligence service. Returning to Indiana University after military service, he entered the School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the Indiana Law Journal, and received his doctor of jurisprudence degree in 1970. Pursuing his dual interests in law and writing, he then started a legal publishing career as a legal editor with the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (LCP) in Rochester, N.Y., where he rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief of the organization. His tenure was marked by a broad expansion of the LCP product line, including the development of a number of multi-volume publications on federal law topics. His responsibilities at LCP included the contract for the publication of the New York Official Reports, and in this role he first became familiar with and visited the office of the State Reporter. In 1988, he became a director of LCP and the first president and CEO of LCP’s electronic publishing subsidiary, Veralex Inc., which developed and distributed on-line, diskette, and video disc products in a joint venture with the Mead Data Central (LEXIS) organization. In this capacity, he worked with the State Reporter’s office on the development of the Official Reports on CD-ROM. At the end of 1991, he accepted a position at the Shepard’s Citations company in Colorado Springs, where he served as vice-president, Electronic Publishing and Development, and led the development of Shepard’s CD-ROM product line. In March 1999, Spivey became the only person other than Leland F. Coss (1945 to 1953) to come to the position of State Reporter from a background in legal publishing. To date, 94 volumes of the Official Reports have been published under his name: eight of the New York Reports, 66 of the Appellate Division Reports, and 20 of the Miscellaneous Reports. In his role as State Reporter, Spivey has served as a member of the Commission on Public Access to Court Records and the Computer-Assisted Legal Research Committee. He is a member of the New York and federal bars and is chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section’s Committee on University Intellectual Property Law. He is a past president of the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects (Scribes). Spivey is the author of numerous articles on a variety of legal subjects, including some 80 annotations in American Law Reports, and has testified on a number of legal publishing industry issues before the U.S. Department of Justice, the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts, and the ABA. He is a past president of the West Irondequoit, New York Board of Education, a former chair of the St. Margaret Mary Parish Council in Irondequoit, and a president-elect of the Southeast Asia Army Security Agency Veterans Association. He and his wife, the former Miriam Lang, are parents of three adult sons.

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