Professor Mark E. Wojcik of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago married Professor David W. Austin of San Diego’s California Western School of Law on Aug. 14, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The marriage was performed by former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Steven Levinson. In 1993, Justice Levinson wrote the world’s first decision recognizing that government had to demonstrate a compelling interest to deny marriage to same-sex couples.
Wojcik and Austin met in Japan 20 years ago when they both were attending the 10th International AIDS Conference in Yokohama. They celebrated their 20th anniversary on Aug. 6, 2014, by getting a marriage license in Hawaii, where they both had lived when Austin was a law clerk for the chief justice of Hawaii.