Class Notes Display

1980 - 1989

1989:

Mark Anson
was hired as president and executive director of investment services at Nuveen Investments in Chicago, effective September 2007. (9.13.07)

Mark Anson
was profiled and interviewed about leaving Hermes Pensions Management to become president and executive director of investment services at Nuveen Investments in Chicago. (12.05.07)

Mark Anson
was interviewed by Pensions & Investments as president and executive director of Nuveen Investments Inc. in Chicago. (3.17.08)

Mary Clare Bonaccorsi
was named to the executive committee of Chicago law firm Bryan Cave. (11.9.06)

Judge Michael Brennan
joined the trial law firm of Gass Weber Mullins LLC. (12.18.08)

James Connaughton
was named executive vice president of corporate affairs, public and environmental policy at Constellation Energy. (2.24.09)

Benjamin Cooper
moved from Securities Counsel at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Atlanta to Associate General Counsel at FSC Securities Corporation, a member of the AIG Advisor Group and wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary of American International Group. (10.26.06)

Christopher Dewees
was named vice president and general counsel of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. (12.29.08)

Stephen Galler
was hired by The Habitat Co. as general counsel and senior vice president. (9.14.07)

Peter Ginsburg
was named managing director of Massachusetts-based CWCapital Investments, the second largest investor in the U.S. (5.29.07)

Julie Hanusa
promoted from principal to equity principal at Much Shelist (6-8-09).

Sara Hays
was named to Carleton College’s board of trustees as an alumni trustee. (7.31.08)

David Locascio
joined law firm McDermott Will & Emery as a partner in its new Houston office. (3.17.08)

Scott McDonald
accepted the Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property position at the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in January 2007. (4.3.07)

Jane McFetridge
joined the Chicago law office of Jackson Lewis LLP as a partner. (12.05.07)

William Rudnick
was promoted to managing partner of the Chicago office of DLA Piper. (3.17.08)

Greg Spitzer
was hired by international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker as a real estate partner in the Chicago office. (4.3.07)

1988:

Richard Agin
joins Steptoe & Johnson as partner in its Chicago office that will open in January 2007. His focus will be commercial and securities litigation. (1.4.07)

William Boyce
was named a justice of the Texas 14th Appellate District, representing Harris County. (1.24.08)

Maria Boyce
was named partner in charge of the Houston office of law firm Baker Botts LLP; she is the first woman to hold a managerial position at this level at the firm. (9.13.07)

Sandy Callahan
On October 15, 2007, Sandy Callahan, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Judge Advocate General Corps, United States Army Reserve, was mobilized for six months of active-duty service with the Department of the Army Inspector General, Investigations Division, where he will advise criminal investigations into alleged misconduct by General Officers and Senior Executive Service civilian employees. Prior to this mobilization, Sandy was serving as the Command Judge Advocate for an Army Reserve Medical Brigade in Nashville, TN. (12.05.07)

Camille B. Conway
joined Chicago law firm Barnes & Thornburg as a partner and member of its litigation department. (9.5.06)

David Eichman
married Richard Mehlman on September 27, 2008 in West Hollywood. (12.18.08)

Kathryn Browning Fuller
admitted to the CNMI Supreme Court Bar Association (5-12-09).

David R. Hill
named a partner and co-head of the global energy practice of Sidley Austin (4-27-09).

David Hill
an attorney for the U.S. Department of Energy, was nominated by President Bush to be general counsel for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. (5.07.08)

David R. Hill
was nominated by President Bush to the post of assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Air and Radiation. (12.05.07)

Bruce Lundstrom
joined Tidewater Inc., an offshore energy company based in New Orleans, as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. (10.23.07)

Gay Parks Rainville
a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been appointed to the board of directors of the SeniorLAW Center, a nonprofit organization that serves the legal needs of Philadelphia’s elderly. (9.5.06)

Ronald Prague
hired by Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. in New Jersey as vice president and general counsel. (9.5.06)

Carol A. Sobczak
recently formed her own firm, The Law Office of Carol A. Sobczak, in St. Helena, California. (4.3.07)

James F. Stern
is joining A.O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, effective June 1st. (4.3.07)

1987:

Neal Aizenstein
named partner in the business and finance practice at Morgan Lewis in Chicago (7-28-09).

Rex Bossert
joined the University of California, Irvine’s School of Law faculty as director of communications and public affairs. (8.01.08)

Adam Cooper
senior managing director and general counsel of Citadel Investment Group in Chicago, was interviewed by International Financial Law Review about leading legal and compliance issues for the hedge fund. (3.17.08)

David Fine
was appointed Denver’s city attorney, effective October 29th. (10.24.07)

Steven Hilfinger
was promoted from partner to managing partner at Foley & Lardner (6-26-09).

Andrew Hochberg
a managing principal and managing broker of Next Realty, was named general chairman of the 2008 Jewish United Fund-Israel Emergency Fund (JUF) Annual Campaign. (5.07.08)

Sanford Kaynor
Sanford Kaynor was named special counsel in the corporate and securities practice group at law firm Jones Walker. (7.25.08)

Daryl Lapp
has been named the Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association’s College & University Section. Lapp is a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP in Boston. (10.6.06)

Scott McCleary
was hired by the Chicago offices of the U.S. General Services Administration as assistant regional counsel. (1.23.08)

Robert F. Messerly
was hired by law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP as managing partner in its Chicago office. (8.9.06)

Andy Missan
appointed vice president, general counsel for Bytemobile, Inc. (7-23-09).

Fred Nathan
was appointed to the Williams College board of trustees. (2.15.09)

Lori Nugent
joined the firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker as a partner. (1.27.09)

David Rone
recently left his position as Executive Vice President of Fox Sports Networks and General Manager of Fox College Sports to join CAA Sports along with Howard Nuchow and Michael Levine to combine all of their expertise to guide the agency’s growing sports business. (2.12.07)

M. Allison Thompson
opened her solo law practice as an estate planning and probate attorney in November 2006 and it loving it. Best decision she ever made! (4.3.07)

Judith Weissman
successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in chronic disease epidemiology, more specifically risk factors in children for adult onset cardiovascular disease. She will now have a Ph.D., JD and M.P.H. She is currently working in medical research at Columbia University. She lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with her husband and two children. (3.17.08)

Matthew Zapf
was elected to the Board of Director's of the Chicago Bar Foundations (CBF). (12.05.07)

1986:

Diane Marie Amann
received the degree of Doctor honoris causa in law on the occasion of the 371st birthday of Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands. In his nominating speech at the ceremony, Professor J.A.E. Vervaele made particular note of Professor Amann's scholarship on post-September 11 executive detention and on the use of external norms in constitutional decisionmaking. The only other American woman to have been so honored by the Utrecht law faculty was Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1948, as she was helping to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (6.21.07)

Diane Marie Amann
became a professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. (8.01.08)

Jill Sugar Factor
joined Guggenheim Investment Advisors as managing director and general counsel. (2.07.08)

Michael Legamaro
named a partner in the business and finance practice at Morgan Lewis in Chicago (7-28-09).

Manvin Mayell
was named partner of Kaye Scholer LLP. (1.23.08)

Rand Peppas
was named a partner in law firm DLA Piper’s corporate and finance practice. (10.09.08)

Andrew Weil
named a partner in the business and finance practice at Morgan Lewis in Chicago (7-28-09 ).

1985:

Luigi L. De Ghenghi
became a member in the London office of Davis Polk & Wardwell. (10.6.06)

Douglas H. Frazer
was named a 2007 Burton Award Winner. He was chosen for his article “Absurdist Humor and the Form-Substance Dialectic in Tax Law” which appeared in the August 21, 2006 edition of Tax Notes. (5.29.07)

Douglas Frazer
was named a Super Lawyer in the third annual edition of Wisconsin Super Lawyers. (12.05.07)

Mark Havens
began work as the director of the Gritman Foundation in 2006. He is also the member of six nonprofit boards of directors, and continues his work as a consultant to small nonprofit organizations. He also authored the book “Dream Big: Creating and Growing your School Foundation.” (5.29.07)

Lawrence C. Marshall
will receive the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s Cunningham-Carey Award during a reception to be held on October 19, 2006. The Coalition is honoring Larry with its highest award for his heroic work to free the wrongfully convicted and expose the flaws and injustices in the Illinois death penalty system during his tenure at the Northwestern Law School Center on Wrongful Convictions. (10.6.06)

Retta Miller
was named one of the Dallas Business Journal’s “2008 Top Business Defense Lawyers.” (7.31.08)

Nancy Olson
was recently named Senior Vice President and General Counsel for John Muir Health, a nonprofit health care system in northern California. (7.25.07)

Hugh Totten
formed a new law firm, Valorem Law Group, with two partners. (1.23.08)

Andrew Troop
joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in its New York office as a partner in the financial restructuring department. (4.3.07)

Barbara Weil Laff
is making the transition from law to teaching, and has spent the year teaching elementary school while advising clients while the children are at lunch! (5.9.07)

John Weis
recently joined the Chicago office of Duane Morris as a partner in its Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group. (11.9.06)

Rodney Zerbe
joined Crowell & Moring’s insurance/reinsurance group. (8.01.08)

1984:

Steve Berlin
was named Executive Director of the Board of Ethics for the city of Chicago. (12.05.08)

Kagan Bierman
was named one of the top 4 Entertainment Industry Labor Attorneys in the Hollywood Power Lawyer Issue.

Zena Crenshaw
will be honored as one of the founding members for the Black Alumni of Notre Dame during the 2009 Black Alumni Triennial Reunion June 4-7, 2009 (6-1-09).

Rodney Ferguson
was ranked #67 on Forbes magazine’s “Midas List” which lists the best dealmakers in high-tech and life sciences. (2.12.07)

Kenneth A. Grady
was named general counsel and secretary of footwear manufacturer Wolverine World Wide. (10.27.06)

Gregg Harris
has been named to the Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers list for his project finance work. (7.25.07)

Edgar Heizer
was elected to the board of directors of LCA-Vision Inc. (2.19.09)

Mark Lerdal
was named a member of KKR Financial LTD in San Francisco. (10.6.06)

Thomas Lynch
joined Baker & Daniels LLP as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. (2.17.09)

Terri Mascherin
was profiled in the January 2009 edition of Leading Lawyers Network Magazine about Achieving Balance in a Mixed Marriage. (1.23.09)

Terri L. Mascherin
was installed as First Vice President of the Chicago Bar Association. (6-18-09).

Terri Mascherin
was honored at the 77th annual Northwestern Alumni Association Alumni Awards presentation as one of 18 outstanding individuals (11.6.09)

Terri Mascherin
Terri Mascherin was elected Second Vice President of the Chicago Bar Association. (7.25.08)

Terri Mascherin
was named among the “Top 50 Women Illinois Super Lawyers”(3.2.07) and also was listed among the National Law Journal’s “50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America.” (7.24.07)

Terri L. Mascherin
was honored by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 “most influential women lawyers in America” at a special ceremony held September 10th in New York City. (10.24.07)

Dwayne Morris
joined CARE as General Counsel in its Atlanta headquarters. (5.9.07)
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Kay Pashos
was appointed VP of Regulatory Affairs & Deputy General Counsel at Alliant Energy Corporation (11-6-09).

Kay Pashos
was named counsel at Baker & Daniels. (12.18.08)

Randi Ilyse Roth
joined the Otto Bremer Foundation as executive director. (2.27.08)

Christina Tchen
was named among the “Top 50 Women Illinois Super Lawyers.” (3.2.07)

Tina Tchen
was appointed as head of the Office of Public Liaison under Barack Obama. (12.18.08)

Margaret R. Young
is a candidate for the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court in Ohio. (10.27.06)

1983:

Lonni Berkley
a partner in the Chicago office of McGuire Woods, presented on several issues at a daylong seminar titled “How to Structure the Real Estate Deal” in Naperville, Illinois. Her presentations focused on how to effectively evaluate, finance, acquire and sell complex commercial real estate transactions. (6.21.07)

Leslie Dent
was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in June, 2008. She has also been named one of the Top 50 Female Super Lawyers in Georgia for the past three years. She is a partner at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Atlanta, Georgia. (7.31.08)

David Dranoff
was promoted to head of the Commercial Finance Practice Group at Goldberg Kohn law firm. (9.14.07)

Graham Grady
was named a new member to the Board of Directors for The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation. (10.09.08)

Mark D. Litvack
joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. (8.9.06)

John D. Malarkey
was named a partner at Freeborn & Peters.

Lawrence M. Reifurth
was promoted to director of Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. (5.9.07)

1982:

Ross Baker
After serving the King County Council as its Chief of Staff for two and a half years (the 2nd longest in the position), Ross Baker will be leaving his position at year's end. He is looking forward to his next professional opportunity and to continue his community work on the Seattle Public Library foundation, Seattle Parks foundation and CityClub boards of directors. (12.18.08)

Arthur Steven Beeman
was named partner in the IP practice at Jones Day. (10.10.08)

Pamela Berman
was elected President of the Comtemporary Museum's Board of Trustees in Baltimore. (7.31.08)

Matthew Hooper
was hired by Halozyme Therapeutics Inc. in San Diego as vice president and general counsel. (12.05.07)

Sheri Hubbard-Edison
was promoted to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Office at Hill-Rom, the health care unit of Hillenbrand Industries Inc. (9.13.07)

Andrew M. Johnston
was recognized for legal excellence in the 2007 Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Securities Law, a prestigious list published in Corporate Counsel Magazine. (9.14.07)

David Krischer
global head of international capital markets at British law firm Allen & Overy, was interviewed by The Lawyer. (10.24.07)

Patricia H. Lee
has been named Executive Director of the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County, a non-profit organization that offers collaborative problem solving services to residents of the community. (7.25.07)

Sharon Porcellio
was named partner at the Rochester law firm Ward Norris Heller and Reidy. (12.18.08)

Leslie Weiss
joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner. (10.09.08)

1981:

Duane Bailey
will speak at Southern Illinois University's 26th Annual Martin Luther King. Jr. Birthday Celebration Luncheon on February 3rd. (1.07.09)

Hon. Duane Bailey
associate judge in the 3rd Judicial Circuit of Madison County, Illinois, provided the keynote address at the Edwardsville Branch NAACP’s Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on May 10th. (7.25.07)

Hon. Duane Bailey
was appointed associate judge for the 3rd Judicial Circuit in Madison County, Illinois. He is the third African American judge in the county’s history. (2.28.07)

David Barry, Jr.
settled a case for $11.5 Million on behalf of the parents of a boy born brain damaged and with cerebral palsy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. (1.23.08)

David Barry, Jr.
became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. (10.14.08)

David Barry, Jr.
was a featured speaker at the “Medical Malpractice Seminar” sponsored by the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. (12.17.08)

Paul Cleveland
was elected to the board of directors of Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (12.18.08)

Paul Cleveland
chief financial office and executive vice president of corporate development at Affymax, was appointed to the board of directors of Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc. (10.24.07)

Mark Damisch
organized a peace concert tour in the Middle East. (8.04.08)

Maureen Downs
was promoted to president of Chicago futures clearing firm Rosenthal Collins Group, effective immediately. (9.14.07)

Steven Eaddy
was appointed senior vice president in the public finance group at Cabrera Capital Markets. (10.09.08)

Jonathan Entin
received the 2008 Distinguished Teacher Award of the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association. (3.05.09)

Scott Harris
was honored by his firm, Leonard, Street and Deinard, for his demonstrated commitment to pro bono legal service benefiting the greater Twin Cities community. (10.09.08)

Susan Lichtenstein
will be honored at the 16th Annual Women of Achievement Awards Dinner in Chicago. (12.17.08)

Craig Lubben
has been appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court to serve on the Attorney Discipline Board. (7.30.08)

Craig H. Lubben
was the recipient of the NALS Foundation's esteemed Scales of Justice Award (11.12.09).

William Lyons
was appointed to the board of directors of Morningstar Inc. (10.23.07)

Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.
is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw’s Chicago office and was inducted into the prestigious College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Inc. (10.26.06)

Bruce Metge
was recruited to become general counsel and corporate secretary of HealthExtras, Inc. (8.01.08)

David Olson
a partner with international investment firm the Yucaipa Companies, was named a director of Chinese financial and media company Xinhua Finance Media. (10.24.07)

Lee Sheppard
was profiled as an irreverent and fashion-conscious IRS commentator and well-known writer for Tax Analyst magazine. (9.14.07)

1980:

Bobbie Gregg
vice president and global chief compliance office for Aon Corp., was profiled and interviewed about her career by the Chicago Tribune. (9.13.07)

Kathryn Kennedy
was given special recognition for her outstanding achievements during the January 2008 commencement ceremonies. (2.28.08)

Kathryn J. Kennedy
appointed to the Internal Revenue Service's Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) 5-27-09.

Jeffrey Langer
has moved his consumer financial services and bank regulatory law practice to Chapman and Cutler LLP in Chicago, where he has become a partner. (5.07.08)

Michael Peregrine
a partner at McDermott Will & Emery in Chicago, has been announced as a member of the American Health Lawyers Association 2006-2007 class of Fellows, approved by the Association’s Board of Directors. (8.9.06)

Sherilyn Peterson
received the 2009 President's Award for challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection (6-15-09).

Pat Quinn
was appointed Governor of Illinois. (2.02.09)

David Silverman
became partner of Davis Wright Tremaine when it merged with his former firm, Cole, Raywid & Braverman. (1.24.07)

William Welnhofer
was named managing director of Baird’s new corporate restructuring investment banking group. (1.24.07)