Barbara Krause, J.D. '86, is comfortable with courts -- law courts and basketball courts. In fact, her basketball accomplishments at Duke University during her undergraduate years are so notable that she has just been named an Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Legend.

Krause, who captained Duke's women's basketball team in 1980 and 1981, holds the record for rebounds in a single game (24), and she is ranked 10th in the Duke record books for her career 732 rebounds. Her average 9.9 rebounds per game is the second-best in school history and tied for seventh-best in ACC history.

At Duke, she was also named All-State. In high school, Krause led her Freeport, Maine, team to the state championship; she was inducted in the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 1999. Krause played professional basketball in Germany for two years after finishing at Duke.

And while she was making all those rebounds, she was no slouch in the classroom. She graduated summa cum laude with a double major in philosophy and German and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Krause, the executive director of the Office of the President and coordinator of strategic initiatives at Skidmore College, previously held positions at Cornell, where she was judicial administrator, assistant secretary of the corporation, associate university counsel and senior adviser to President Jeffrey Lehman. Before that, she was a shareholder at Drummond Woodsum and MacMahon in Portland, Maine. While a student at Cornell Law School, she was editor-in-chief of the Cornell International Law Journal.

"Barbara was an excellent student of mine and a terrific administrator at Cornell," said Robert Hillman, the Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law. Hillman and Krause often hit the courts together when she was at Cornell. "However," he laughed, "it is clear from the picture of the faculty-student basketball game who was the better rebounder."

Bridget Meeds is a freelance writer. This story is adapted from the Cornell Law School news site.