Michael C.H. McDaniel, WMU-Cooley Law School associate dean and professor of law, and retired Brigadier General, was presented with the Champion of Justice Award during the State Bar of Michigan’s annual meeting on Sept. 27 in Detroit.
The award is given to practicing lawyers and judges of integrity who adhere to the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession, superior professional competence and who have an extraordinary professional accomplishment that benefits the nation, state or local community.
In addition to teaching in the Constitutional Law department of WMU-Cooley’s Lansing campus, McDaniel serves as director of the law school’s Homeland and National Security Law LL.M. program, which he created in 2013. It is the only Homeland Security Law LL.M. program outside of Washington D.C., and the only one completely online in the country.
Before joining the law school, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense Strategy, Prevention and Mission Assurance at Department of Defense. In 2003, he was also Homeland Security Advisor to then-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and has been the chairperson for Great Lakes Hazard Coalition since 2012. He also served as the Assistant Adjutant General for Homeland Security with the Michigan National Guard.
McDaniel was a member of the National Governors Association's Homeland Security Advisors Council, was elected to its Executive Committee in 2006, and re-elected in 2008. He was named by the Office of Infrastructure Protection, Department of Homeland Security, as Chair of the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Coordinating Council in 2007.
McDaniel has served on the board of directors for the Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) since December 2012, assisting that organization in national infrastructure security and resiliency planning. In 2016, McDaniel was appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to the Flint Water Interagency Coordinating Committee (FWICC) and helped to secure $100 million in funding from Congress. The funding sped up the process of removing hazardous water pipes, with over 600 pipes replaced by the end of 2016.
Following Lansing’s 2013 power outage when 96,000 customers — 40 percent of Lansing’s Board of Water and Light's customers — went without power for up to 11 days, McDaniel was named leader of the Community Review Team that investigated and reported on BWL’s response to the outage. McDaniel’s team issued a report with 75 recommendations to the BWL. The report was endorsed by the Public Service Commission, and all recommendations were implemented by the BWL.
McDaniel graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1982. He has been with WMU-Cooley Law School since 2011.
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