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Name: Apollo D Carey
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Apollo D. Carey (LLM) has joined Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard PC in St. Louis as an associate. He has extensive experience in litigation and real estate valuation. Carey was formerly associated with the Brown & James law firm.

Name: John Evans
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: John R. Evans has joined the St. Louis office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, as an associate. His practice focuses on litigation.

Name: Rebecca Feldmann
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Rebecca Feldmann has joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) as a staff attorney with the Immigration Law Project. Feldmann’s prior experience includes her work with Human Rights First and Interfaith Legal Services for Immigrants and Refugee Services of South Bend, Indiana.

Name: Richard Finneran
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Richard E. Finneran has joined the St. Louis office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, as an associate. He concentrates his practice in real estate.

Name: Jung-Whan Kim
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Jung-Whan Kim recently joined the Chicago office of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, as an associate. He previously was a summer associate at the firm, which specializes in intellectual property law.

Name: Johnny Lam
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Johnny Lam has joined Patterson & Sheridan LLP, national intellectual property law firm as an associate. Prior to law school, Mr. Lam worked for Chevron as a software developer while undertaking postgraduate coursework at Stanford University. At Patterson & Sheridan, Mr. Lam focuses his practice on patent preparation and prosecution in the electronic arts including software design and engineering, computer graphics, databases, artificial intelligence, networking, user interface design, programming languages, compilers, and operating systems.

Name: Vidhya K Reddy
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Vidhya K. Reddy has joined Nyemaster, Goode, West, Hansell & O’Brien PC in Des Moines, Iowa, as an associate in the litigation department.

Name: Akiko Shiono
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Akiko Shiono (LLM) is working at a think tank in Tokyo called Japan Initiative, which deals with government issues.

Name: Tony Verticchio
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Tony Verticchio recently joined Keating Muething & Klekamp in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is in the firm’s litigation group and has been admitted to practice law in Kentucky.

Name: Melanie Daily
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Melanie Daily has joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) as a staff attorney with the Lasting Solutions Program. Prior to joining LSEM, she worked for the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson in New York; and the city of St. Louis. Her other experience includes working with the City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office; as a program coordinator for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Charleston, S.C.; and an executive assistant for the 34th Street Partnership/Bryant Park Restoration Corporation in New York.

Name: Camille Gerwin
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Camille Gerwin and Keith McLamb announce their engagement. The wedding is scheduled for March 29, 2009 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Name: Ahu Guneyli
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Ahu Guneyli (LLM) has received her law license and is working for Istanbul Patent & Trademark Consultancy. She continues to focus on trademarks, designs, and internet law issues. Guneyli works with her Turkish clients to register their trademarks/designs internationally, deals with disputes occurring in the international arena, and defends foreign clients.

Name: Tie Hu
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Tie Hu (LLM) and his wife, Xuping Liu, welcomed their daughter, Marian Hu, on October 4, 2008. He currently is a JD student at Washington University Law.

Name: Tina Ikpa
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Tina Ikpa and her husband, Nsisong, welcomed their first child, a daughter, Idara Sharell, on October 6, 2008. Ikpa is an assistant corporation counsel in the Municipal Prosecutions Division of the City of Chicago Department of Law.

Name: Marisa Maclennan
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Marisa Maclennan has completed a six-month consultancy in the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime, in Vienna, Austria. She is now working as a district attorney at the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office.

Name: Matthew Nagel
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Matthew Nagel has joined the firm of Wuestling & James LC in St. Louis. He recently completed his LLM in intellectual property.

Name: Edward Rasp
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Ed Rasp recently joined Linklaters LLP in New York as an associate.

Name: John M Reeves
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: John M. Reeves recently joined the Criminal Appeals Division of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in Jefferson City as an assistant attorney general.

Name: Marguerite Roy
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Marguerite Roy was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by her undergraduate alma mater, Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Roy currently is head of office for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. She was Misericordia’s keynote speaker at their convocation ceremony on August 22, 2008.

Name: Xueping (Sophia) Xiong
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Xueping (Sophia) Xiong (LLM) is working in the Hong Kong office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP; next June she will be transferred to the Shanghai office. Xiong is working in the corporate group as a foreign registered lawyer.

Name: Yeena Yoon
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Yeena Yoon received a “Leader of Tomorrow Award,” as part of the 2008 Women’s Justice Awards given by the St. Louis Daily Record. The award is given to a law student or recent graduate who “demonstrates leadership, professionalism, and passion for making a difference in the justice system and/or legal profession.” Yoon was cited for her service as a VISTA attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and for her work with other Washington University students and faculty on a clemency case through the law school’s Civil Justice Clinic.

Name: Ricky Fong
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Ricky Fong published “Universal Suffrage in Hong Kong: Promise or Illusion? A Critical Analysis of National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s Interpretation of Hong Kong Basic Law Annexes” in the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal. He originally wrote the paper for a seminar taught by Professor Frances Foster.

Name: Yang Gao
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Yang Gao (LLM ’06) announces the birth of her second child, Aaron Lin, on September 24, 2008. She currently is a JD student at Washington University Law.

Name: Kapyeon Ha
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Kapyeon Ha (LLM ’06, JD ’08) is a partner at Lotus, a Korean law firm specializing in international transactions.

Name: Jaeyoung Jung
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Jaeyoung Jung (LLM ’06, LLM ’07) and his wife, Hyunsui, announce the birth of their son, Ian Jung, on November 8, 2008. He currently is a JD student at Washington University Law.

Name: Harrison Lord
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Harrison Lord; his wife, Annie; and their son, Andrew, announce the arrival of Hadley Peggy Lord, who was born April 4, 2008. Lord, who finished a two-year clerkship with Judge Richard Elmore of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, is now an associate with the Charlotte law firm of James, McElroy & Diehl PA.

Name: Laura O Burke
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Laura Osterman Burke is an associate with McIntyre, Hartye, & Schmitt, a civil litigation defense firm located in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She focuses her practice in the area of medical malpractice defense.

Name: Tzu Chou
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Tzu Chou is now a partner at Rajah & Tann LLP, one of the top law firms in Singapore and also a worldwide top 25 international arbitration firm. Chou practices general commercial litigation and also arbitration work.

Name: Katherine Lieb
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Katherine M. Lieb recently returned to Sills Cummis & Gross PC in New York City, after a brief leave of absence, during which she served as law clerk to the Honorable Joseph E. Irenas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Name: Paul Eisner
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Paul D. Eisner (LLM) wrote an article, “Will Someone Please Clean Up the Form Interrogatories Mess?,” which was published in 31-7 Los Angeles Lawyer 44 in October 2008.

Name: Michael  T Evans
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Michael T. Evans has joined the firm Tribler, Orpett & Meyer in Chicago.

Name: Jennifer  Mann Bortnick
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Jennifer Mann Bortnick and Joshua Bortnick were married on May 25, 2008 in St. Louis. Jennifer is currently an associate at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC in St. Louis.

Name: Jordan Siverd
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Jordan M. Siverd was awarded an LLM with distinction in Canon Law from Cardiff University at a ceremony in English and Welsh on July 14, 2008. Earlier this year, Siverd was promoted to a career appointment in his work as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, Louisiana

Name: Ajia Johnson Tenney
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Ajia Johnson Tenney, an approved civil and family mediator in Kansas and Missouri, has started a new company in Kansas City, Missouri, called Kansas City Mediation Group. The Web site is at http://www.kcmediation.com/.

Name: Hsiu-Yuan Yang
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Hsiu-Yuan Yang (LLM ’04, JSD ’06) was married to Tudor Pascu in Brest, France, on August 8, 2008. They chose their wedding date because the pronunciation of “eight” in Chinese is the same as another Chinese word that means “fortune.” Currently, Yang works in Taiwan for a computer manufacturer.

Name: Kazuhiro Koide
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Kazuhiro Koide (LLM) is working on both civil and criminal cases in Osaka, Japan. He recently visited St. Louis, where he observed a jury trial and visited with Professor D. Bruce La Pierre and his wife, Kathryn Adamchick.

Name: Chris J Macchiaroli
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Christopher Macchiaroli has left White & Case LLP in Washington, D.C. to become an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Name: Rebecca  A Niburg
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Rebecca A. Niburg is working for the Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship & Immigration Services’s Administrative Adjudications Office. She previously worked for the Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation for two years. Her daughter, Alyssa Natalie Niburg, was born on October 27, 2008.

Name: Scott Stone
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Scott Stone is living in Washington, D.C., and is an associate working on climate change-related issues for Hunton & Williams LLP. He previously worked for an international environmental law and policy think tank in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland. In May 2008, he was awarded the U.S. EPA’s Climate Protection Award for his contributions to an international agreement to accelerate the phase-out of a group of ozone-depleting and global warming chemicals. He was married in May 2007 to longtime girlfriend, Julia Watkins. Their son, Benjamin Watkins Stone, was born on September 18, 2008. He’d love to hear from old friends and classmates at stone.scott@yahoo.com.

Name: Itzu Su
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Itzu Su (LLM) wrote an article on the German Stock Corporation Amendment that was published in the Taiwan Law Review. He currently is working on his JSD at Washington University Law.

Name: Kristin Trulock
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Kristin Trulock has joined Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson LLP in Atlanta as an associate. She concentrates her practice in employment litigation and complex litigation, as well as in employer counseling, training, and litigation prevention. Trulock previously was a law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Walker in the Northern District of Georgia and for U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara L. Major in the Southern District of California.

Name: Emily (Quandt) Kahn and Brian Kahn
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Emily (Quandt) Kahn and Brian Kahn have moved with their son, Noah, to Indianapolis. Brian has opened a retail furniture and flooring store, Mr. WiseBuys.

Name: Emily Maki-Rusk
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Emily Maki-Rusk has joined the Dispute Resolution Group of Whirlpool Corporation’s Law Department, managing product liability lawsuits. Emily, her husband, Simon, and their two daughters, Stella and Fiona, live in St. Joseph, Michigan. Emily’s work e-mail address is Emily_M_MakiRusk@Whirlpool.com.

Name: Emily Maki-Rusk
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Emily Maki-Rusk and her husband, Simon, welcomed Fiona Claire on January 19, 2008. Fiona joins big sister, Stella, who turned three in May 2008. Maki-Rusk works part time as an associate at Hunt Suedhoff Kalamaros LLP in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Name: Sophya N Qureshi
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Sophya N. Qureshi is one of 10 people comprising the Clayton Chamber of Commerce Leadership Clayton graduating class of 2008. She is the sixth attorney at Danna McKitrick PC to complete the nine-month program. Participants are selected based on both their leadership potential and demonstrated community involvement. Qureshi and her leadership classmates devoted their time to helping Clayton “go green,” including encouraging local businesses to promote reusable shopping bags made out of recycled materials. At Danna McKitrick, Qureshi concentrates her practice in family law matters.

Name: Jill Witkowski
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Jill Witkowski was recently appointed deputy director of the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.

Name: Matthew J Bresette
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Matthew J. Bresette has been elected partner at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP. A member of the Trusts & Estates Department, Bresette works out of the firm’s Boston and Hyannis offices. He concentrates his practice on probate and trust administration, guardianship, and sophisticated estate planning for high-net-worth individuals. Bresette is a member of the Boston and Barnstable Bar Associations and the Estate Planning Council of Cape Cod and the Islands. He has served as a guardian ad litem appointed by the Barnstable Probate & Family Court; chair of the Regional Coordination Committee for legal services for indigent clients in Barnstable, Plymouth, and Bristol Counties; and member of the New Center for Legal Advocacy’s board of directors.

Name: Melissa M Merlin
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Melissa Marglous Merlin has been elected a partner at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP in St. Louis. She joined the firm as an associate in 2005 in the Business Litigation and Product Liability & Toxic Tort Groups. Merlin concentrates her practice in defending clients in business litigation and product liability matters across the country. She previously served as chambers counsel for Chief Judge David R. Herndon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois and as a litigation associate at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, D.C. Merlin is active in a number of civic and charitable organizations in St. Louis, including the Saint Louis Art Museum and the United Way of Greater St. Louis.

Name: Justin Pitt
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Justin Pitt and his wife, Kimberly, announce the birth of their first child, Robert Buchanan Pitt, on May 24, 2007. Pitt is an associate at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC in Nashville, Tennessee.

Name: Jovita Foster
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Jovita Foster was named a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis. She practices in the area of employment and labor law litigation. Foster is a member of the Missouri Bar, Illinois State Bar Association, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (Commercial Law Committee), Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, and the Missouri Credit Union Commission, where she has been commissioner since 2005.

Name: Christopher Hite
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Christopher Hite announces the birth of his daughter, Georgia Kate Hite, on October 4, 2007.

Name: Adam S Hochschild
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Adam S. Hochschild has been elected a partner at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP in St. Louis. He joined the firm as an associate in 2000. Hochschild works in the firm’s Business Litigation Group and practices in numerous areas of litigation including securities, telecommunications, class actions, and real and intellectual property.

Name: Thomas S Kim
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Thomas S. Kim joined VGX Pharmaceuticals in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, as senior director of intellectual property. Kim is also of counsel at the Short Hills, New Jersey, office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.

Name: Lisa C Langeneckert
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Lisa C. Langeneckert has joined the firm of Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard PC in St. Louis as an associate. She has extensive experience in public utility regulation. Langeneckert previously worked for The Stolar Partnership LLP.

Name: Chenglin Liu
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Chenglin Liu (LLM ’00, JSD ’05) is teaching Torts and Law & Economics as an assistant professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. He previously taught EU Law in the University of San Diego Law School’s summer program in London.

Name: Laura McNeal
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Laura McNeal, who earned a PhD in education, is serving as an assistant professor in urban education in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University.

Name: Alisha C Smith
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Alisha C. Smith, a New York State assistant attorney general in the Investor Protection Bureau, has been appointed a member of the Corporate Accountability Project Group of the North American Securities Administrators Association. The group is composed of five securities regulators from five different states.

Name: Lee
Class Year: 19xx
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Name: Dominic Daher
Class Year: 1999
Class Note: Dominic Daher is pleased to announce the publication of his new book, The Hornbook on Federal Income Taxation (co-authored with Josh Rosenberg and published by West 2008). In addition to his full-time position as the director of internal audit and tax compliance at the University of San Francisco, Daher serves as an adjunct professor in both the School of Law and School of Business at the University of San Francisco.

Name: Russell Makepeace
Class Year: 1999
Class Note: Russell L. Makepeace has been selected as one of Missouri’s Up & Coming Lawyers for 2008 by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. The recognition is for those lawyers who have “dedicated themselves to their work as a vocation, not merely as a job.” The award notes: “They take pride in being of assistance to their clients, whether individuals or organizations. They know that being a lawyer means more than winning a big verdict or writing a killer contract – it means contributing to the legal profession and making their communities better places to live.” Makepeace is shareholder and a member of the Health Law Group at Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard PC in St. Louis.

Name: Lee Marshall
Class Year: 1999
Class Note: Lee Marshall, a partner at Bryan Cave LLP, was named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” Marshall specializes in appellate and intellectual property litigation. He is a member of the bar of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. An adjunct professor at Washington University Law, he teaches the Appellate Clinic. Marshall also is one of two Missourians appointed to the Federal Advisory Committee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Name: Charissa Steffensmeier
Class Year: 1999
Class Note: Charissa Steffensmeier and her husband, Ryan, announce the birth of their fourth child, Elijah Richard, on February 16, 2009. Elijah joins big brothers, Xavier and Tobias, and big sister, Helena. Charissa continues to work as labor and employment counsel for Macy's, Inc. in St. Louis.

Name: Patrick Chavez
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Patrick Chavez has been elected a partner at Williams Venker & Sanders LLC in St. Louis. Chavez, who joined the firm as an associate in 2003, focuses his practice exclusively on the defense of complex civil litigation matters. He concentrates in the areas of medical malpractice defense, products and professional liability defense, commercial litigation, and catastrophic personal-injury claim defense. Chavez is involved in a number of community and professional organizations. He co-chairs the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’s Minorities in the Legal Profession Committee and sits on the organization’s board of governors as a member-at-large.

Name: Raylene D Grischow
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Raylene D. Grischow is married to Jason Grischow and is a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Springfield, Illinois. Her practice includes civil litigation and defending professionals in the legal and medical fields. She would love to hear from classmates at rgrischow@hinshawlaw.com.

Name: Stephen C Honikman
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Stephen C. Honikman; his wife, Abby; and children, Talia and Rylan, welcomed the arrival of Sage Alizee on April 29, 2008. Honikman continues to perform accident reconstruction and liability assessment consulting while working with his father in Santa Barbara, California. Honikman can be reached by e-mail at sch@etachase.com and would like to hear from fellow classmates.

Name: Aimee Oravec
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: In August 2008, Aimee Oravec and her husband, Scott, opened Oravec Law Group LLC in Fairbanks, Alaska. The firm represents business and utility clients in transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters. It also assists clients with procurement and military affairs issues.

Name: Jennifer A Schwesig
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Jennifer A. Schwesig, firm partner, has been named leader of Armstrong Teasdale’s International Practice Group. Members of the International practice group counsel U.S. and foreign companies all over the globe including Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific Rim (especially China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, India and Thailand) in a broad range of matters. These include international commercial and financial transactions, foreign direct investment global management, intellectual property protection, and international trade. Schwesig’s practice focuses on international corporate compliance and transactions. She serves as Chair of the International Law Committee for The Missouri Bar, and a member of the International Section of the American Bar Association, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the American Society of International Law.

Name: David E Wolfe
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: David E. Wolfe has been named general counsel at Alex Brown Realty Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland. Responsible primarily for the company’s transactional legal matters, Wolfe previously was assistant general counsel.

Name: Karl R Barnickol
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Karl R. Barnickol IV and Sara S. Lippold announce the birth of their daughter, ClareBarrett Barnickol, on March 12, 2008. Clare joins big brother, Karl V, who turned two years old in August. Barnickol is a partner in the litigation department of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Chicago.

Name: Heidi Forster Gertner
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Heidi Forster Gertner and her husband, Gregory Gertner, welcomed their second child, Jason Lincoln Gertner, in March 2009. Jason joins big sister, Abby. Gertner is an attorney for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The family resides in Bethesda, Maryland. Heidi can be reached at heidigertner@yahoo.com.

Name: Christopher G Hill
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Christopher G. Hill was named principal at DurretteBradshaw PLC in Richmond, Virginia.

Name: Craig Rosenthal
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Craig Rosenthal, senior vice president of SuddenLink Communications, was named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” and selected by Missouri Lawyers Weekly as “Missouri’s Best In-House Counsel.” He established and now oversees a full-service legal department for SuddenLink, a multi-state provider of video, high-speed data, and telephone services.

Name: Amy T Ryan
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Amy Tucker Ryan has joined Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen PC’s St. Louis office as a senior associate. Ryan’s practice is concentrated in bankruptcy and creditor’s rights. She and her husband, Andy, reside in Webster Groves. Ryan would love to hear from classmates, and can be reached by e-mail at atr@mllfpc.com.

Name: Thomas N Bolling
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Thomas Newton Bolling received the 2008 Global Counsel Award in the area of Regulatory (Non-Financial Services). The award was presented by the International Law Office of Globe Business Publishing along with the Association of Corporate Counsel. Bolling is managing attorney for regulatory affairs at Continental Airlines.

Name: Suzanne Brown
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Suzanne Brown received the Richard B. Teitelman Distinguished Service Award from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) for her outstanding volunteer work, including working with LSEM to provide free legal services to indigent clients needing assistance with immigration matters. Brown is a founding partner of the Law Offices of Suzanne Brown, specializing in immigration and naturalization law.

Name: Jennifer Hoekel
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Jennifer Hoekel, a partner at Senniger Powers LLP, was named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” Her practice is concentrated principally in intellectual property litigation, with representations involving utility patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trade dress and trademark infringement, trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, unfair competition, and copyright infringement.

Name: Seth D Holliday
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: D. Seth Holliday has been named a partner at the Chattanooga law firm of Eric Buchanan & Associates PLLC. Holliday primarily litigates long-term disability cases and specializes in Social Security disability claims. He is past president of the Chattanooga Trial Lawyers Association.

Name: Doug Passon
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Doug Passon is an assistant federal public defender in the District of Arizona. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife, Rachel, and his two boys, Nate and Dylan. For the last several years, he has been combining his passion for filmmaking with his practice of law by producing short documentaries for use as mitigation at sentencing. He has taught lawyers across the country how to effectively integrate videos into their sentencing practice. He recently wrote, filmed, and edited a (non-work-related) short documentary, Letter of Thanks, which is the true story of a young soldier in the first Gulf War whose desperate letter from the front lines was transformed into one of Elvis Costello’s finest songs. The film took top honors at the SCC Film and Video Fest, and was an official selection at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. It also was as an official selection for the St. Louis International Film Festival, and played at the Tivoli on November 22, 2008.

Name: Patricia  L Musick
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Patricia L. Musick has been named to the board of directors at McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, a full-service law firm with offices in Kansas City, Kansas; St. Louis; Roeland Park, Kansas; and Springfield, Missouri. Musick’s practice includes administrative law, business litigation, education, insurance, labor and employment law, litigation, personal injury law, and workers’ compensation defense. She represents the first female board member in the history of the firm.

Name: Carlos Narváez-Hasfura
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Carlos Narváez-Hasfura (LLM ’95, JSD ’97) married Angeles López-Ortega on July 12, 2008. The couple is expecting their first child in May 2009. Narváez-Hasfura also established his own law firm, NH Lawyers Company SC, with offices in Mexico City and Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The firm specializes in corporate and intellectual property law.

Name: Christopher J Nelson
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Christopher J. Nelson has been elected a shareholder at Butzel Long LLC. Previously a senior attorney at the firm, he practices in the Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, office. Nelson concentrates his practice in the area of business and commercial litigation, including disputes involving contracts, corporate management, real estate, fraud, insurance coverage, employment, and the Uniform Commercial Code.

Name: Daniel A Schwartz
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Daniel A. Schwartz has joined the Litigation Department of Pullman & Comley LLC as a partner in the Hartford, Connecticut, office. Schwartz has extensive trial and litigation experience in both the federal and state courts in a variety of areas, including commercial litigation and trade secret enforcement. He also represents employers in various employment law matters such as employment discrimination, restrictive covenants, human resources, retaliation and whistle blowing, and wage and hour issues. Schwartz was recently named one of two finalists for the American Bar Association’s Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award for 2008. He also is the author of The Connecticut Employment Law Blog, found at www.ctemploymentlawblog.com.

Name: Jessica  Zeldin
Class Year: 1995
Class Note:  Jessica Zeldin was married to Johnston “Jay” deForest Whitman, Jr. in Beaver Creek, Colorado, on March 16, 2008.

Name: Ann E.  Bauer
Class Year: 1994
Class Note: Ann E. Bauer was named a Super Lawyer in 2008, a recognition by her peers as one of the top attorneys in Missouri. Only five percent of lawyers in the state are so designated. Bauer is a partner in the Clayton law firm Carter Bauer Soule LLC.

Name: David Linenbroker
Class Year: 1994
Class Note: David Linenbroker, a partner at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, was named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” His practice is concentrated in the areas of real estate and development, banking and finance, public finance, entertainment and media, and corporate law.

Name: Teresa Bartosiak
Class Year: 1993
Class Note: Teresa Bartosiak, a shareholder at Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard PC, was named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” She is the practice group leader for the firm’s Health Law Practice Group and chairs the Medical Device Section of the Products Liability Practice Group. Her practice is concentrated in the areas of medical malpractice, nursing home litigation, products liability, and personal injury litigation.

Name: Elizabeth Christmas
Class Year: 1993
Class Note: Elizabeth Christmas received the F. William McCalpin Pro Bono Award from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri for her outstanding volunteer work. Christmas is a solo practitioner, specializing in family law.

Name: Andrew Last
Class Year: 1993
Class Note: Andrew Last is in his third year of medical school at the University of California–Davis. He jokes that his classmates should avoid getting sick in the Sacramento area. Last also reports that his daughter, Flora, is “hitting the ‘Terrific’ Twos early” at a year-and-a-half.

Name: Sherry Wolk
Class Year: 1993
Class Note: Sherry (Gutnick) Wolk is a vice president and assistant general counsel in Wachovia Securities’ Law Department in St. Louis. Wolk and her husband, Danny, welcomed their daughter, Natalie, in July 2007. Natalie joined siblings, Joshua, 5, and twins Jonah and Noahm 2. Wolk would love to hear from classmates through her e-mail sherrywolk@charter.net.

Name: Geri L Dreiling
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Geri L. Dreiling announces the formation of Legal Media Matters, a public relations and multimedia writing firm based in St. Louis. After practicing law for several years, she worked as a legal and investigative journalist. Her articles have appeared in several publications, including the ABA Journal, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, The Riverfront Times, the National Catholic Reporter, and St. Louis Magazine, as well as a 2005 anthology published by Chamberlain Brothers showcasing some of the best articles from the alternative press.

Name: Tom Niemann
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Tom Niemann announces the opening of his new law firm, Niemann Rourke LLC in West St. Louis County. Along with his partner, John Rourke, Niemann will continue to emphasize business and commercial law, fidelity and surety law, construction and real estate law, and civil litigation.

Name: Jonathan  M Rolbin
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Jonathan M. Rolbin recently returned to the United States after spending almost three years overseas doing humanitarian work, including two years serving as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Romania. He and his wife, Roxana, now reside in Washington, D.C., where Rolbin works as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Name: Jonathan  A Wasserman
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Jonathan A. Wasserman has become vice president and senior counsel for litigation and government investigations for the pharmaceutical company of Bristol-Myers Squibb. He was formerly senior legal director for Schering-Plough Corporation. Wasserman lives in New Jersey with his wife, Sue Greenebaum Wasserman, JD ’93, and their two sons.

Name: Ronald M Daignault
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: Ronald M. Daignault has joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in New York City. He previously worked at Jenner & Block LLP, Jones Day, and the former IP boutique of Pennie & Edmonds LLP. Daignault has represented companies across a broad range of industries in a variety of patent, trademark, unfair competition, false advertising, trade secret, and copyright cases.

Name: Bruce Galloway
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: Bruce Galloway has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Galloway’s law office is in Ozark, Missouri, and his practice focuses on litigation in the areas of criminal defense and family law. He lives in Ozark with his wife, Melissa, who is also an attorney and works with him in his office.

Name: Peter L Lopez
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: Peter L. Lopez has been selected by The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of real estate law. Lopez is a partner at Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed PA in Orlando, Florida.

Name: Paul Henry
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Paul G. Henry was elected to the Missouri Bar Association’s Board of Governors. Henry is a member of the Clayton eminent domain law firm of Denlow & Henry, where he has practiced since graduation. In recent years, Henry has served as the chair of four committees of the Missouri Bar, including the Solo & Small Firm Committee. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the Solo & Small Firm Conference. His election to the Board of Governors is his first and will be for a term of two years.

Name: Cheryl Walker
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Cheryl Walker received a “Citizenship Award,” as part of the 2008 Women’s Justice Awards given by the St. Louis Daily Record. She was recognized for “improving the quality of justice in the community at large.” Walker is of counsel at Bryan Cave LLP and also co-manages Obasi Enterprises, a residential real estate development company. Walker was cited for her development and legal work that has benefited the City of St. Louis. A member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators, she also has held leadership and public service roles with the Tower Grove Park Board, United Way, and Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel.

Name: Andrew Wheeler
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Andrew Wheeler has joined B&D Consulting in Washington, D.C., as a senior vice president with the Energy and Climate Change Practice Group. The group focuses on climate change, energy security, and renewable energy issues. B&D Consulting is a division of Baker & Daniels LLP. In addition to energy matters, Wheeler will advise clients in surface transportation and infrastructure. He previously served as staff director and chief counsel to the Senate Committee on the Environment & Public Works, where he worked on key legislative and environmental policy initiatives. He also was staff director and counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee for Clean Air, Wetlands & Nuclear Safety; general counsel to U.S. Senator James Inhofe; and special assistant in the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

Name: Charles H Fendell
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Charles H. Fendell was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Information Technology Law. He is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Yingxi Fu-Tomlinson
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Yingxi Fu-Tomlinson is serving as chief representative of Kaye Scholer LLP’s Shanghai Office. Lin Zhang (LLM ’04) also works for Kaye Scholer.

Name: Lori W Jones
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Lori W. Jones (LLM) was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Employee Benefits Law. She is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Seth Ptasiewicz
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Seth Ptasiewicz was honored by the New Jersey Essex County Bar at its annual Officers Installation and Awards Dinner with the Walter A. Lucas Special Merit Award. The award recognizes his efforts through Volunteer Lawyers for Justice to provide legal services for the indigent. He also was cited for his service as secretary to the VA, VB, and VC District Ethics Committees, which cover parts of Essex County.

Name: Lucy Unger
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Lucy Unger, a partner at Williams Venker & Sanders LLC in St. Louis, was recently named chair of the firm’s Management Committee. Unger practices principally in the areas of commercial litigation, products liability, and medical malpractice in both state and federal courts in Missouri and Illinois.

Name: Julie Compton
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Julie Compton recently published her first novel, Tell No Lies, St. Martin’s Minotaur. A psychological and legal thriller set in St. Louis, Tell No Lies is the story of an idealistic young prosecutor who gradually trades his principles and comfortable life for ambition and desire. The novel has been released in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Compton previously practiced law in St. Louis and was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. She now lives in Florida with her husband, Rick, and daughters, Jessie and Sally. More information about the book can be found at her Web site: www.julie-compton.com.

Name: Mark A Kern
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Mark A. Kern was recently re-elected board chairman for St. Clair County. Kern resides in Belleville, Illinois, along with his wife, Erin, and children Fred, Laura, and Matt.

Name: Dan Sherman
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Dan Sherman and other members of The Sherman Group were recognized by Research Magazine and Smith Barney as a Top-Ranked Advisor Team in America.

Name: Debbie C Snyder
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Debbie Champion Snyder received a “Lawyer’s Lawyer Award,” as part of the 2008 Women’s Justice Awards given by the St. Louis Daily Record. The award is given to private practitioners who “improve the quality of justice and/or contribute to the betterment of the profession.” Champion Snyder is a partner at Rynearson, Suess, Schnurbusch & Champion. She was cited for her integrity in her civil defense practice and her ability to keep “legal battles from becoming personal.”

Name: Sava A Vojcanin
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Sava Alexander Vojcanin and his wife, Valerie, welcomed the arrival of their daughter, Elizabeth Sophia, in August 2007. Elizabeth, along with her parents and big brother, John, resides in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Vojcanin is a shareholder with Clausen Miller PC in Chicago.

Name: James A Borchers
Class Year: 1987
Class Note: James A. Borchers (LLM) was appointed chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce by the chamber’s board of directors. He will serve as liaison between the chamber and government officials on local, state, and federal levels. A principal at Danna McKitrick PC, he writes bimonthly legal articles for the Saint Charles Business Magazine and is an adult education instructor in the St. Charles District Adult Education Program, teaching estate planning, new business creation, and business growth strategies.

Name: Michael Rickman
Class Year: 1987
Class Note: Michael Rickman is serving a term as president of the Valparaiso University Alumni Association, in addition to serving as the representative to the Lutheran University Association (d/b/a Valparaiso University Board of Directors). His term coincides with Valparaiso’s 150th Anniversary. Rickman also recently co-edited with Dan Warncke, The Valentine Act: A Monograph on Ohio’s Antitrust Law, which includes a chapter co-authored by Rickman and Jack Donson on “Ohio Civil Investigative Demands” (2008). Rickman leads the law team for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s North American Tire Business Unit. He and his wife, Dawn (who was assistant registrar at Washington University Law from 1986-87), live in Akron, Ohio. They have two children, Martin, a senior at Wake Forest University, and Rebekah, a sophomore at Bowling Green State University.

Name: Russell A Willis, III
Class Year: 1987
Class Note: Russell A. Willis, III (LLM) has moved his consulting practice to Portland, Oregon. Willis will continue to work as an editor for CharitablePlanning.com, a Web site that provides daily coverage and in-depth analysis of developments in tax law affecting gift planning. A transportational bicyclist and part-time bike mechanic, Willis was a founding board member of the St. Louis Regional Bicycle Federation and chaired its policy and advocacy committee until his move to Portland. He is certified by the League of American Bicyclists as an “effective cycling” instructor.

Name: Steve  Gorin
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Steve Gorin is a Fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel. He also serves on the governing council and co-chairs the membership committee of the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section.

Name: Steve Gorin
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Steve Gorin was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Trusts and Estates. He is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Karen Kellen
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Karen Kellen was elected to the City Council for Lakewood, Colorado, which is the fourth largest city in Colorado.

Name: Timothy "Tim" R Van Valen
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Timothy R. “Tim” Van Valen has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP as senior counsel in the firm’s Albuquerque office. Van Valen is working in the firm’s Corporate and Business Department. His practice focuses almost exclusively on state and local tax matters, including administrative and judicial litigation, planning, refund claims, managed audits, incentives, legislation, and regulations. He also has extensive experience assisting clients on New Mexico gross receipts tax, property, fuel, tribal, severance, tobacco, and corporate income tax issues.

Name: Sandra Hochstetter
Class Year: 1985
Class Note: Sandra Hochstetter recently left her position as chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission to join the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation as vice president of Strategic Affairs.

Name: Janette Lohman
Class Year: 1985
Class Note: Janette Lohman (LLM) was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Tax Law. She is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Cary Mogerman
Class Year: 1985
Class Note: Cary J. Mogerman was presented with the 2008 “Roger P. Krumm Family Law Practitioner Award” by the Missouri Bar and its Family Law Section. The award recognizes “exceptional competence, skill, integrity, commitment, and dedication toward the improvement and advancement of the practice of family law.”

Name: George Thomas
Class Year: 1984
Class Note: George C. Thomas III (LLM ’84 and JSD ’86), a professor of law at Rutgers School of Law-Newark (New Jersey) recently published a book that proposes significant changes to the criminal justice process in the United States. In The Supreme Court on Trial: How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants (University of Michigan Press), Thomas argues that while due process of law is most importantly about protecting innocent suspects and defendants, it often fails to do so. Drawing on history and comparative law, particularly the French system, he shows that the U.S. system is not nearly as good as it could be and offers a realistic blueprint for reform.

Name: Craig Bryant
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Craig Bryant, a Foreign Service officer with the State Department, recently briefed President Bush on the activities of civilmilitary Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan. Bryant has been a desk officer in the State Department’s Office for Afghanistan since September 2007, following an assignment as political advisor to the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. He has also had Foreign Service assignments in Jerusalem; Ottawa, Canada; and Yaounde, Cameroon. Bryant is a member of the Oklahoma Bar and practiced law in Oklahoma before beginning a second career with the State Department.

Name: Stacy Clark
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Stacy Clark, president of Stacy Clark Marketing LLC, recently addressed members of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) on “How to Develop Business in a Down Economy.” Her talk was part of the PBA’s Commission on Women in the Profession retreat, which was attended by more than 100 lawyers from around the state. For more than 20 years, Clark has been advising law firms and lawyers on how to grow their businesses. A Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, she is a founder of the Delaware Valley Law Firm Marketing Group, a 300-plus person group of local law firm marketers that meets for educational programs monthly.

Name: Mary G Eaves
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Mary G. Eaves has been elected chair of the board of directors of Family & Children’s Place, the newly named social service agency resulting from the merger of The Family Place: A Child Abuse Treatment Agency Inc. with Family & Children First Inc. She has served on the agency’s board since 2004. Eaves is a member of the Louisville office of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC, where she is chair of the firm’s Employee Benefits Team and a member of both the ERISA Controversy Team and the Privacy Team. She also is a member and past president of the Louisville Employee Benefits Council and a member of the International Pension and Employee Benefit Lawyers Association and of the Southern Employee Benefits Conference, for which she serves on the Legal and Legislative Committee.

Name: Robert J Hille
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Robert J. Hille has been named general counsel and chief compliance officer at Laird Norton Tyee, a Seattle-based wealth management firm.

Name: Cathy Kelly
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Cathy Kelly is deputy director for the Missouri State Public Defender System, where she is in charge of training, media relations, and legislative affairs for the agency, as well as participating in the supervision and policy-making for the organization. Missouri’s public defender system employs 360 lawyers who handle close to 88,000 cases per year. In her spare time, she serves as a trial practice adjunct at Washington University Law on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College at Mercer Law School in Macon, Georgia. She is divorced and the mother of two daughters, one a sophomore in college and the other in her senior year of high school.

Name: Perry  B Newman
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Perry B. Newman, founder and director of Atlantica Group, an international business development consultancy and a division of Pierce Atwood LLP, has been named to the “Next” list by Mainebiz, a leading business publication in Maine. Newman’s international business, cultural and diplomatic work characterized him as an individual most likely to impact Maine’s economy over the next decade. Newman, who serves also as Canada’s first Honorary Consul to the state of Maine and was the state’s first director of International Trade, consults with clients in the private and public sectors in North America, Israel, and Europe to develop international growth opportunities.

Name: Craig A Olschansky
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Craig A. Olschansky was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Real Estate Law. He is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Linda Shapiro
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Linda Shapiro was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Immigration Law. She is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Paula Young
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Paula M. Young recently was granted tenure at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. She is an associate professor of law and director of the Lawyer as Problem-Solver Certificate Program. Young teaches negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and dispute resolution system design.

Name: Paula Young
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Paula Young is an associate professor at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. She is serving on two committees created by the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution that focus on mediator ethics. She is a member of the Standing Committee on Ethical Guidance and co-chairs the Standing Committee’s Ethics Advisory Opinions Database Subcommittee.

Name: Douglass W Dewing
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: Douglass W. Dewing received the Traver Scholar Award from the Virginia Continuing Legal Education and the Real Estate Section of the Virginia Bar Association for outstanding service to continuing legal education in Virginia. Dewing is a member of several continuing education panels on real estate title and title insurance topics for various groups, including Virginia CLE. He also is in charge of the case law update for the Annual Real Estate Programs. His presentation, “As a Matter of Fact, I Do Own the Road” delivered at the 10th Advanced Real Estate Seminar, is the most viewed real estate online or CD-ROM seminar available at VaCLE. Dewing is Virginia State Counsel for LandAmerica- Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation. Additionally, he recently published chapters on title examination and title insurance in Real Estate Transactions in Virginia. complex state and federal commercial cases, and has achieved success in multimillion dollar cases, including commercial insurance claims, financial service litigation, computer software disputes, and intellectual property matters.

Name: Stuart  Katz
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: Stuart Katz was sworn in as an associate judge of the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois on April 11, 2007. He is currently assigned to the traffic and misdemeanor division. Judge Katz had previously served as an attorney in the Cook County Public Defender's Office for 23 years, where he specialized in capital murder litigation.

Name: R. Mark McCareins
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: R. Mark McCareins was selected in 2008-09 to Chambers, Best Lawyers in America, Leading Lawyers Network, and SuperLawyers in areas of antitrust and commercial litigation.

Name: Carl T Bauer
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: Carl T. Bauer has joined the St. Louis office of Armstrong Teasdale LLP as a partner specializing in international trade matters. He previously was vice president, associate general counsel, and assistant secretary of the diversified global-manufacturing and technology company, Emerson. Bauer will continue to work with the St. Louis-based company on projects in international trade, antitrust, and other areas. During his tenure at Emerson, he was lead counsel for more than 50 successful domestic and international acquisitions and responsible for all international legal affairs in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Canada, and Africa. Bauer’s legal experience also includes working in the law departments at Energizer and Ralston, serving as counsel to the St. Louis Blues Hockey Club during Ralston’s ownership of the team.

Name: Ross Bricker
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: Ross Bricker received the Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award. Bricker, a partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago, was the only out-of-state award recipient. A member of the Florida Bar since 1989, Bricker was cited for his work on behalf of poor and indigent clients throughout his career, including more than 3,600 hours of pro bono efforts throughout the last 12 years. The Florida Bar particularly recognized his work on behalf of migrant farm workers in Florida, his efforts to redress housing discrimination directed at persons with disabilities, and his representation of displaced residents of public housing in New Orleans in their efforts to return to that city.

Name: David Littman
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: David Littman was named chairman of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association for 2008–09. In private practice for 28 years, he is the founder of David Littman PC in Denver. Littman continues to be active in the family law area, serving as mediator, arbitrator, child and family investigator, and counsel in family law matters. He has been a leader in bringing collaborative law to Colorado. He previously served part time as a magistrate in Jefferson County, Colorado, and then in Denver County.

Name: Robert B Bodzin
Class Year: 1979
Class Note: Robert B. Bodzin has been named a managing partner of Kleinbard Bell & Brecker LLP in Philadelphia. He specializes in trying be active in the family law area, serving as mediator, arbitrator, child and family investigator, and counsel in family law matters. He has been a leader in bringing collaborative law to Colorado. He previously served part time as a magistrate in Jefferson County, Colorado, and then in Denver County.

Name: Mark Clevenger
Class Year: 1979
Class Note: Mark B. Clevenger is semi-retired from the practice of law, and now resides in Longmont, Colorado. He has started Marklight Photography LLC, specializing in nature, landscape, and event photography. He continues to do a limited practice in Social Security disability appeals.

Name: Caleb Melamed
Class Year: 1978
Class Note: Caleb Melamed is a legislative liaison and legal counsel for the Illinois Gaming Board. He has spent his entire legal career working for state government, including positions with the Illinois House Speaker (for more than 20 years), the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. He and his wife, Selma, have been married for more than 16 years and have a 12-year-old daughter, Genie.

Name: Mary Bonacorsi
Class Year: 1977
Class Note: Mary M. Bonacorsi was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law. She is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Jerry Hunter
Class Year: 1977
Class Note: Jerry Hunter received the Mound City Bar Association’s Legal Service Award for his more than 30-year commitment to community, public service, and improving the quality of justice. A partner at Bryan Cave LLP, Hunter was presented with the award at the Scovel Richardson Scholarship Dinner, named in honor of Judge Richardson’s efforts to help create a judiciary that is more responsive and accountable to African-Americans and other minorities. Hunter was selected for the Legal Services Award by the Scholarship Dinner Planning Committee and the officers of the Mound City Bar Association.

Name: Stephen  Ludwinski
Class Year: 1976
Class Note: Stephen Ludwinski is a wealth management & personal-finance consultant with Cornerstone Select Advisors LLC and Saxony Capital Management LLC.

Name: Rick Mueller
Class Year: 1976
Class Note: Rick Mueller was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Product Liability Litigation. He is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Richard Mueller
Class Year: 1976
Class Note: Richard Mueller was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Product Liability Litigation. He is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Donald B.  Dorwart
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Donald B. Dorwart was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions Law. He is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Alana Bowman
Class Year: 1973
Class Note: Alana Bowman has moved to New Zealand where she is an advisor to the Ministry of Justice and several nongovernmental organizations concerned with violence against women and human rights issues. She previously worked for 20 years with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office as Special Assistant for Domestic Violence Policy and Supervisor of the Domestic Violence Prosecution Unit.

Name: Robert L Browne
Class Year: 1973
Class Note: Robert L. Browne is serving as chair and past president of the Prince William County Greater Manassas Chamber of Commerce. He is among a select group of Virginia lawyers named in Virginia Business Magazine’s 2008 “Legal Elite.” Browne is the principal of Robert L. Browne PC., a firm in Manassas providing legal services to clients in three main practice areas: business law; wills, estates and probate; and civil litigation.

Name: Jay A Summerville
Class Year: 1973
Class Note: Jay A. Summerville has been named to the new position of general counsel at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis. Summerville’s practice focuses in the area of litigation, including commercial, banking, antitrust, and intellectual property law. He previously served as co-leader of the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group. Summerville also has served as the City of Lake Saint Louis’ city attorney since 1986, and he is an officer and director of MERS/Goodwill Industries, Project C.O.P.E., and the Second Presbyterian Church.

Name: Jean Hamilton
Class Year: 1971
Class Note: Judge Jean Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri was named “Woman of the Year” as part of the 2008 Women’s Justice Awards given by the St. Louis Daily Record. She was cited for her extensive mentoring of new lawyers and her efforts to promote diversity. Judge Hamilton also was recognized for her trailblazing in the legal profession, including being the first woman appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Missouri, first female chief justice of that court, and first woman judge on the district court where she currently serves.

Name: J. Stuart Showalter
Class Year: 1971
Class Note: J. Stuart Showalter is chief compliance officer of FMOL Health System in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For the previous 10 years, he was director of Compliance for Orlando Regional Healthcare System, Orlando, Florida. Among other positions in his career, he taught health law in the Health Administration Program of Washington University School of Medicine. He is the author of The Law of Healthcare Administration, now in its sixth edition.

Name: Patrick “Pat” T Callaway
Class Year: 1970
Class Note: Patrick “Pat” T. Callaway has moved his office to his home in Overland Park, Kansas. He is “transitioning to retirement” and has established a “virtual office” for meeting clients. He can be reached by e-mail at pat@pcallawaylaw.com and would love to hear from his classmates.

Name: Michael Hannafan
Class Year: 1970
Class Note: Michael Hannafan contributed a chapter to the book, Your Witness: Lessons on Cross-Examination and Life from Great Chicago Trial Lawyers (Law Bulletin Publishing, 2008, S. Molo and J. Figliulo eds.). Hannafan is the founder of Hannafan & Hannafan Ltd. in Chicago, specializing in general trial and litigation.

Name: Keith Hazelwood
Class Year: 1970
Class Note: Keith Hazelwood received the 2008 Citizen of the Year Award from the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce. The award is given to an individual who has exemplified all aspects of selfless giving to the community and has made St. Charles a better place to live and work. In 2004 he received the Lifetime Distinguished Service Award in the area of civic involvement. He is a partner at Hazelwood & Weber LLC in St. Charles, Missouri.

Name: Robert F Higgins
Class Year: 1969
Class Note: Robert F. Higgins has been selected by The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the areas of bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights law and corporate law. He is a partner at Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed PA in Orlando, Florida.

Name: Robert F Higgins
Class Year: 1969
Class Note: Robert F. Higgins has been selected by The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the areas of bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights law and corporate law. He is a partner at Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed PA in Orlando, Florida.

Name: Robert  F Higgins
Class Year: 1969
Class Note: Robert F. Higgins was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the areas of Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights Law and Corporate Law. He is partner at Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed PA in Orlando, Florida.

Name: Joan Dillon
Class Year: 1966
Class Note: Joan Dillon has been named for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in American in intellectual property. This recognition has been given to her for more than 13 consecutive years. Additionally she has been named one of the “Best of the Best” international trademark counsel in the last several years, by Who’s Who Legal, published by Law Business Research Ltd of the UK.

Name: Joan Dillon
Class Year: 1966
Class Note: Joan Dillon was named for the 16th year in a row to appear in The Best Lawyers in America, and is one of only six attorneys in Georgia to be listed in The International Who’s Who of Trademark Lawyers.

Name: John  M Howell
Class Year: 1966
Class Note: John M. Howell was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the area of Intellectual Property Law; he has received the honor for at least 10 years. Howell is a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.