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Name: Sana Abdullah
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Sana Abdullah has joined the Boston office of McDermott Will & Emery, as an associate.

Name: Jacalyn  Bolles
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jacalyn Bolles has joined the Indianapolis firm of Baker & Daniels LLP, as an associate. She is working in the firm's corporate finance practice.

Name: Joshua S Frick
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Joshua S. Frick has joined the Chicago office of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, as an associate. He is focusing his practice on trademark law. Frick previously worked as a summer associate at the firm.

Name: Salvatore B Gianino
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Salvatore B. Gianino has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, as an associate. He is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. His practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of United States and foreign patent applications.

Name: Jennifer D Growe
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jennifer D. Growe has joined the St. Louis firm of Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard PC, as an associate.

Name: Jessica Hawkins
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jessica L. Hawkins has joined Hepler Broom, as an associate. She is working in the Litigation Department of the firm’s St. Louis office.

Name: Jessica Hawkins
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jessica Hawkins won second place in the Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest, sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section of Family Law for her essay on “My Two Dads: Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Applying California’s Recent Supreme Court Cases to Gay Couples.”

Name: William R Irwin
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: William R. Irwin has joined Hepler Broom, as an associate. He is working in the Litigation Department of the firm’s St. Louis office.

Name: Julie Lam
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Julie Lam has joined Warner Norcross & Judd LLP in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as an associate. Lam also has been admitted to the State Bar of Michigan.

Name: Jamie Metzger
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jamie M. Metzger has joined the Indianapolis firm of Baker & Daniels LLP, as an associate. She is working in the firm’s intellectual property practice.

Name: Jason Schultz
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jason D. Schultz has joined the Indianapolis firm of Baker & Daniels LLP, as an associate. He is working in the firm’s health and life sciences practice.

Name: Matt Bunda
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Matt Bunda completed a clerkship with Judge Deborah L. Cook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, as an associate in the firm’s New York office.

Name: Daniel J Burke Jr.
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Daniel J. Burke Jr., an associate in Armstrong Teasdale LLP’s Real Estate Practice Group in St. Louis, was recently admitted to the State Bar of Nevada. He is also a member of the Missouri Bar, Illinois State Bar Association, and American Bar Association.

Name: Winston E Calvert
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Winston E. Calvert, an associate in Armstrong Teasdale LLP’s Litigation Department in St. Louis, was recently admitted to the State Bar of Nevada. He concentrates his practice in the areas of business and appellate litigation. Calvert is also a member of the Missouri Bar, Illinois State Bar Association, American Bar Association, and the Council of Appellate Lawyers.

Name: Jennifer (Greene) Gustafson & Edward Gustafson
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Jennifer (Greene) Gustafson and Edward Gustafson were married December 16, 2006 at the First Presbyterian Church of Mishawaka, Indiana. Groomsmen included Shanti Kulkarni and D.J. Owens. Many law school alumni attended. The couple lives in Geneva, Illinois.

Name: Lauren M Doyle
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Lauren Melissa Doyle married Andrew Smith Exnicios on June 16, 2007. A captain in the United States Army, she served as a judge advocate at Fort Carson, Colorado before being reassigned to Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Name: John H Bornhofen
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: John H. Bornhofen has joined litigation firm of Foley & Mansfield, as an associate in its St. Louis office. Bornhofen practices in the Toxic Torts and Mass Litigation Group. He previously was an associate at an Edwardsville, Illinois firm, where he managed the defense of asbestos personal injury lawsuits in Illinois and Missouri.

Name: John Karasek
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: John Karasek recently married Leigh Marcus. He has joined the international tax services group of Ernst & Young LLP in Washington, D.C.

Name: Ryan McConnell
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Ryan McConnell, his wife, Alyson, and their daughter, Caitlyn, welcome Jack Ethan, born on May 24, 2007. The McConnell family planned to move from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Houston, Texas in fall 2007. McConnell transferred from the United States Attorney’s Office in Baton Rouge to the Untied States Attorney’s Office in Houston to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division.

Name: Amy K Shasserre
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Amy K. Shasserre has joined the law firm of Behr, McCarter & Potter PC in Clayton, Missouri, working in the areas of professional negligence defense and civil litigation.

Name: Becky Rubin & Stephen Tountas
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Becky Rubin and Stephen Tountas announce their engagement. They look forward to seeing many Washington University classmates at their upcoming wedding this spring.

Name: Jon Ebner & Amanda Grace
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Jon H. Ebner and Amanda K. Grace were married in April 2007 in Jamaica. Ebner is an associate at Baker McKenzie in Chicago, focusing on international litigation. He previously worked for Gerling Insurance in Cologne, Germany. Grace is an associate with Greenberg Traurig LLP, focusing on employment and franchise litigation.

Name: Jake DeBoever
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Jake DeBoever is serving as assistant general counsel at Galderma Laboratories LP in Fort Worth, Texas. He previously was an assistant general attorney at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway in Fort Worth.

Name: Megan C Phillips
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Megan C. Phillips has joined Blackwell Sanders’ Omaha, Nebraska, office, as an associate. A member of the Corporate Department, she will focus her practice on the area of health care. Previously, Phillips was an associate at Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Maura Yusof
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Maura Yusof is working in the Chicago office of Foran Glennon Palandech & Ponzi PC. She practices in the Subrogation Group.

Name: Tenille (Washburn) Prendergast
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Tenille (Washburn) Prendergast and husband, Brad, announce the birth of their second child, a daughter, Avery Kieran, born July 2, 2007. Avery joins her big brother, Colin Joseph. Prendergast and her family live in Falls Church, Virginia. She continues to work as an attorney at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, specializing in fair housing and civil rights work.

Name: Katie Holt
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Katie Holt has joined the St. Louis office of Bryan Cave LLP, as an associate in the Health Care Group.

Name: Kathryn F Taylor
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Kathryn F. Taylor was named a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She practices commercial litigation in the firm’s Chicago office.

Name: Andrew M Hansell
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Andrew M. Hansell was named labor counsel with Northwest Airlines in Eagan, Minnesota.

Name: Greg Jones
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Greg Jones is a founding member of the law firm of Jones & Watkins LLC in Columbia, Missouri. The firm focuses on estate planning and business law.

Name: Amy E Skrien
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Amy E. Skrien is a district defender with the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office. She and her husband, Michael A. Skrien, live in New Madrid, Missouri with their son, Jacob Michael, born August 31, 2004.

Name: Neil A Kraetsch
Class Year: 1999
Class Note: Neil A. Kraetsch is serving as senior counsel for the Oakland Athletics in Oakland, California.

Name: Kelly Koenig Levi & Dan Levi
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Kelly Koenig Levi and Dan Levi welcomed their third child, Sam Gabriel, born on February 2, 2007.

Name: Deborah S Davidson
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Deborah S. Davidson was elected to the partnership of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. She is a member of the firm’s labor and employment practice group and focuses her practice on ERISA litigation and complex employment litigation. Davidson and her husband, Alistair Rogers, live in Chicago, Illinois.

Name: Andrea Khoury
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Andrea Crowder Khoury and her husband, Paul, welcome their fourth child, Cruz Roumanos Khoury on November 9, 2007. Khoury practices family law at Crowder & Scoggins Ltd. in Columbia, Illinois, and serves as a guardian ad litem and mediator in contested custody cases.

Name: Danica Mathes
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Danica (Rodemich) Mathes was recently selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of Entertainment Law. She is an entertainment and intellectual property attorney with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP in St. Louis and an adjunct professor of entertainment law at Washington University. She is on the Board of Directors for St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts, serves on the StarPolish.com Attorney Panel, and is a member of the American Bar Association Entertainment & Sports Law Forum.

Name: Nicole O Saunders
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Nicole Ottmer Saunders and her husband, Dan, announce the birth of their daughter, Cassidy Joy, on March 1, 2007. Saunders continues to practice as an associate with Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago, focusing on product liability litigation. She also assists with the family vacation rental business, NewBuffaloVacationRentals.com.

Name: Nimrod "Rod" Chapel, Jr.
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Nimrod “Rod” Chapel, Jr. (LLM) was appointed to a six-year term on Missouri’s quasi-judicial Administrative Hearing Commission. He currently heads the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Name: Max R Delsoin
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Max R. Delsoin has been admitted to the Riordan Volunteer Leadership Development Program. The program was founded by former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan to educate and train young professionals for life-long service in the governance of non-profit organizations in Los Angeles.

Name: Chris G Hill
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Chris G. Hill was recently named by Virginia Business Magazine as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” in the field of construction law.

Name: Ho Arthur Kwok
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Ho Arthur Kwok has joined the New York office of BNP Paribas as a director in the Structured Capital Markets Group. He originates and structures bespoke financial solutions. Previously, Kwok worked at ABN AMRO in the Structured Funding and Investments Group.

Name: Joe Yeckel
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Joe Yeckel received the David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award from the Missouri Bar Foundation. The award recognizes outstanding appellate advocacy work performed by a young lawyer.

Name: Randall Kelly
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Randall Kelly was elected to partnership at Nixon Peabody LLP in Washington, D.C. Specializing in affordable housing, Kelly represents for profit and non-profit developers in the acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of existing federally insured and assisted multifamily properties, particularly properties receiving subsidies under the Section 8 and Section 236 programs. Kelly is chairman of the Affordable Housing Production Trust Fund and of the DC Homestart Initiative; he is a board member of the Jubilee Support Alliance.

Name: Jennifer A Marler
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Jennifer A. Marler has been elected a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP in St. Louis. Co-chair of the firm’s national Real Estate Finance group, she concentrates her practice in complex real estate and commercial transactions.

Name: Daniel A Spirn
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Daniel A. Spirn has been elected a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP in St. Louis. He concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate, construction, and commercial litigation.

Name: Meredith Wolfarth Perkins
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Meredith Wolfarth Perkins was named assistant vice president-legal for Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis. She is a member of the Missouri Arts Council and recently participated in several triathlons. She and her husband, Peter, have two daughters, Lambert and Campbell Perkins.

Name: Timothy O Schranck
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Timothy O. Schranck recently joined the law firm of Damian & Valori LLP, as a partner. He will head up the Miami-based firm’s labor and employment practice. Schranck has specialized in labor and employment law for over 12 years and has extensive trial experience. He regularly lectures and consults on a wide variety of employment law issues.

Name: Brian A Benczkowski
Class Year: 1994
Class Note: Brian A. Benczkowski is chief of staff at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in Washington, D.C. Part of the United States Department of Justice, ATF is tasked with fighting violent crime, preventing terrorism, and regulating the gun and explosives industries. He previously served as counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives.

Name: Lori Wolf
Class Year: 1994
Class Note: Lori Wolf was named a “New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star” through Law & Politics and Super Lawyers magazine. She a member of the Tax, Trusts & Estates Department at Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard PA in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Name: Adam Ruttenberg
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Adam Ruttenberg was named the “Best Technology Transaction Attorney” in Washington, D.C. by Washington Business Journal. He runs the technology transactions department for Cooley Godward Kronish LLP’s East Coast offices.

Name: Ann R Sachar
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: Ann R. Sachar joined the Corporate Department of Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP in the St. Louis office as senior counsel. Her practice focuses on taxation and corporate law areas. She previously worked at Edward Jones, specializing in tax and security regulations; as a tax attorney; as an attorney in the tax division at the United States Department of Justice; and as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Name: L. Cartan  Sumner
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: L. Cartan Sumner, Jr. has been named to the new position of director of International Government Relations at Peabody Energy in St. Louis. Sumner will be responsible for working with governments to “create a policy friendly framework for the greater use of coal to meet growing global energy needs.” He previously served as director of Corporate Development, participating in Peabody’s recent international expansion efforts.

Name: Nick H Varsam
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Nick H. Varsam has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, as a partner in the firm’s Business Services. He concentrates his practice in the areas of securities and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. He previously was general counsel of the $1 billion NYSE-listed Huttig Building Products Inc., where he was responsible for counseling the board of directors and executive management on all legal matters.

Name: Cheryl Walker
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Cheryl Walker was elected to a one-year term as chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators. She previously served as the board’s vice chair. Walker is president and general counsel of St. Louis-based Obasi Enterprises LLC, a residential real estate development company.

Name: Virginia Busch
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Virginia Busch received the Guardian Angel Award from the Saint Louis Crisis Nursery for her work and dedication toward the goal of child protection. Busch is a partner at Busch & Conrad PC, where she practices family law.

Name: Bob Benbenek
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Bob Benbenek and his partner, Thomas DeVoto, have relocated their law firm of DeVoto & Benbenek LLC to 7646 Watson Road in Shrewsbury, Missouri. Benbenek concentrates in the areas of estate planning, tax, and commercial and securities litigation. The firm’s Web site is at www.devotobenbeneklaw.com.

Name: Sidney Calloway
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Sidney Calloway received the Margaret Roach Humanitarian Award from the Urban League of Broward County, Florida. He was honored for “inspiring change and demonstrating ongoing leadership in the advancement of race relations and social justice.” Among his many contributions, he created a program to mentor young attorneys and won a class-action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture on behalf of black farmers who were seeking loans in the southeastern United States. He is a partner at Shutts & Bowen LLP of Fort Lauderdale.

Name: Peter W Hahn
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Peter W. Hahn has been elected a Shareholder at Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs LLP in Columbus, Ohio. He is a member of the Litigation and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. He represents public and private companies in complex business and intellectual property litigation. He also has expertise in media and mass communications issues. He was recognized as one of “Ohio’s Super Lawyers-Rising Stars” in the 2006 Cincinnati Magazine, as voted by his peers. Hahn resides in Upper Arlington, Ohio with his wife, Susie, and his daughters, Anna and Julia.

Name: David G Ott
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: David G. Ott (LLM), a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of personal injury litigation.

Name: Michael Goo
Class Year: 1987
Class Note: Michael Goo has been named climate legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, D.C. He previously was the majority counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, the minority counsel for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, and team leader and acting assistant general counsel in the Office of General Counsel for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Name: Steven Groth
Class Year: 1987
Class Note: Steven Groth has been named to the 2007 Indianapolis Bar Foundation’s Class of Distinguished Fellows for his “outstanding dedication and contribution to the legal profession.” He is a partner in the Indianapolis-based law firm of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of insurance defense and commercial litigation.

Name: Lawrence B Finn
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Lawrence B. Finn has co-founded the Chicago-based civil trial law firm of Clewis & Finn PC. The firm represents individuals and their families who have experienced significant personal injuries or wrongful death resulting from nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, defective products, exposure to toxic chemicals and substances, and other wrongful conduct. The firm’s Web site is at www.clewisfinn.com. Finn reports that this has been a busy year for him personally, as he celebrated 20 years of marriage to Hyla Sabesin Finn, and their twin daughters, Willow and Chloe, began kindergarten.

Name: Steven R Selsberg
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Steven R. Selsberg is working as a litigation lawyer for the business empire of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu. He previously specialized in tobacco litigation in Houston, Texas, including work for client Philip Morris.

Name: The Hon. Michael Burton
Class Year: 1985
Class Note: The Hon. Michael Burton received Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s (LSEM’s) Ashley Award. Burton is Circuit Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit. Since becoming a judge, Burton has primarily presided over family court matters, currently serving as a judge in the Juvenile Division of the St. Louis County Family Court.

Name: Lee Schaefer
Class Year: 1985
Class Note: Lee Schaefer received the Workers’ Compensation Distinguished Lawyer Award from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and Kids Chance Inc. Schaefer is an assistant attorney general and director of the division of labor in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office.

Name: J. Douglas Wilson
Class Year: 1985
Class Note: J. Douglas Wilson is the co-author (with David S. Kris) of a new treatise, National Security Investigations and Prosecutions, published by Thomson/West. The treatise is described at the following link: http://west.thomson.com/store/product.aspx?r=142197&product_id=40420190 Wilson is an assistant United States attorney in San Francisco.

Name: Diane M Andrew
Class Year: 1984
Class Note: Diane M. Andrew has joined the Toxic Tort practice group at Simon Passanante PC in St. Louis. She began her career as assistant division counsel for National Supermarkets. Most recently, she was senior counsel for a plaintiff’s law firm based in Dallas, where she litigated numerous cases in Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio.

Name: Thomas R Galganski
Class Year: 1984
Class Note: Thomas R. Galganski (LLM ’84) recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of his law firm, Galganski PC, based in Webster Groves, Missouri. His firm focuses in the areas of estate and succession planning, business and owner representation – including the buying and selling of businesses, probate and trust administration, commercial and real estate matters, fringe benefit issues, and general contractual representation.

Name: Stacy Clark
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Stacy Clark was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. She serves as principal of Stacy Clark Marketing LLC in Devon, Pennsylvania. Clark helps small and mid-sized law firms improve their marketing and is a frequent speaker on marketing, ethics, and business development topics.

Name: Larry Frazen
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Larry Frazen received the Michael R. Roser Excellence in Bankruptcy Practice Award from the Missouri Bar Association’s Commercial Law Committee. Frazen heads the Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights Group for Bryan Cave LLP’s Kansas City office. His practice involves representation of debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, and other interested parties in bankruptcy proceedings locally and across the country. His practice also includes commercial workouts and out-of-court restructurings. Frazen has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous articles and publications on bankruptcy and reorganization, as well as presented lectures nationally on these topics.

Name: David L Going
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: David L. Going, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of bankruptcy and creditor – debtor rights law.

Name: Susan Nell Rowe
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Susan Nell Rowe received Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s (LSEM’s) R. Walston Chubb Award. A partner at The Stolar Partnership, Rowe was a member of the Board of Directors of LSEM for more than 10 years, before serving as board president from 2002 to 2007.

Name: Glenn E Davis
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Glenn E. Davis, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of antitrust law, business litigation, and franchise law.

Name: Fredric Firestone
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Fredric Firestone was recently appointed associate director of the Division of Enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. He will assist in planning and directing the commission’s investigations and other enforcement efforts.

Name: Stephen C Jones
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Stephen C. Jones, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of corporate law.

Name: John M Hall
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: John M. Hall was appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell to the new position of Deputy Secretary for Long-Term Living. He will be responsible for coordinating and improving the extensive network of state-supported long-term living services, which are funded and administered by the Departments of Aging and Public Welfare. Hall most recently served as Deputy Commissioner for Health, Integrated Access & Strategy in the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. He also held a number of executive-level positions in the Vermont Agency of Human Services, including Commissioner of the Department of Prevention, Assistance, Transition & Health Access.

Name: Bruce A Harwood
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: Bruce A. Harwood, a shareholder at Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been appointed to a three-year term on the board of directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). He also serves on the board’s Education Committee, which is responsible for presenting 16 educational seminars and programs during the year across the United States and in Europe. He just concluded four years as co-chair of the ABI’s Northeast Bankruptcy Conference, which consistently attracts over 400 bankruptcy professionals, judges, and educators from throughout New England and across the United States.

Name: Steven Feirman
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: Steven Feirman has joined Nixon Peabody LLP in Washington, D.C., as a partner and co-leader of the firm’s Franchise and Distribution practice. He has specialized in domestic and international franchise and antitrust matters for nearly 20 years.

Name: John Lamming
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: John H. Lamming is corporate counsel at E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in Wilmington, Delaware. He specializes in patent, other intellectual property, and commercial areas of the organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) industry, especially organic semiconductors, small molecule electroluminescent materials, thin film transistors, device architectures, and solution printing technologies. He resides with his family in Hockessin, Delaware.

Name: John L Sullivan
Class Year: 1979
Class Note: John L. Sullivan, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of financial institutions law.

Name: Kenneth W Bean
Class Year: 1977
Class Note: Kenneth W. Bean, a shareholder at Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard PC in St. Louis, was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of health care and medical malpractice law and of personal liability litigation.

Name: Diane Felix
Class Year: 1977
Class Note: Diane Felix, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of health care law.

Name: Terry R Lueckenhoff
Class Year: 1977
Class Note: Terry R. Lueckenhoff has joined Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP’s Litigation Department, as a partner in the St. Louis office. Lueckenhoff has experience in business and commercial litigation with a particular focus on pharmaceutical, products liability, class action, and commercial cases. He has been a member of national trial teams and regional counsel in several multi-district mass tort/products liability litigation cases, involving pharmaceuticals and genetically engineered crops.

Name: John J Inkley
Class Year: 1976
Class Note: John J. Inkley, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of financial institutions law.

Name: Judith D Lohaus
Class Year: 1976
Class Note: Judith D. Lohaus recently joined the legal department of First Banks Inc. in Hazelwood, Missouri, as vice president and associate general counsel.

Name: James Robertson
Class Year: 1975
Class Note: James Robertson’s article, “ ‘Separate But Equal’ in Prison: Johnson v. California and Common Sense Racism,” appeared as the foreword in the 2006 Supreme Court Review issue of the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (vol. 96, no.3, 2006). His article, “The Rehnquist Court and the ‘Turnerization’ of Prisoners’ Rights” appeared as the lead article in the New York City Law Review (vol. 10, no. 1., 2007). Robertson is the Distinguished Research Professor of Corrections & Correctional Law at Minnesota State University.

Name: The Hon. Michael C Dunston
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: The Hon. Michael C. Dunston has been named a judge on the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands. He previously worked for several public defender offices in Illinois; was in private practice in Illinois and the Virgin Islands; and worked for the Attorney General’s Office in the Virgin Islands, as assistant Attorney General, chief of the Criminal and Family Division, and acting Attorney General.

Name: Gary H Feder
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Gary H. Feder, a partner at Husch & Eppenberger LLC in St. Louis, was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Land Use & Zoning Law, and Real Estate Law.

Name: Andrew T Hoyne
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Andrew T. Hoyne (also LLM ’82), a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of information technology law.

Name: Arthur L Smith
Class Year: 1971
Class Note: Arthur L. Smith, a partner at Husch & Eppenberger LLC in St. Louis, has been appointed to the Client Advisory Council for Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc., a leading national provider of e-discovery services. Smith’s practice includes electronic discovery and complex commercial litigation. He also advises clients in business transactions involving eCommerce, computer hardware and software acquisitions, licensing and Internet issues, and records retention. Additionally, he has an active practice in customer-broker securities law disputes and serves as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Name: H. William Allen
Class Year: 1969
Class Note: H. William Allen has been appointed to the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission. Owner of the Allen Law Firm PC based in Little Rock, he has held numerous leadership positions in both the Arkansas Bar Association and the American Bar Association, including finance chair of the ABA Board of Governors and special assistant to the ABA president. He previously served as an assistant United States attorney in Chicago and was a member of the Clinton-Gore transition team for the Commercial Litigation Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Name: Maury B Poscover
Class Year: 1969
Class Note: Maury B. Poscover, a partner at Husch & Eppenberger LLC in St. Louis, has been appointed a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee for the Federal Judiciary. As the Eighth Circuit representative to the committee, Poscover is responsible for evaluating judicial appointments in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, along with assisting in other circuits as needed.

Name: Harvey Tettlebaum
Class Year: 1968
Class Note: Harvey Tettlebaum received Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s (LSEM’s) Equal Justice Award. Tettlebaum heads the Jefferson City Office of Husch & Eppenberger LLC. A recognized expert in the health care and administrative law areas, Tettlebaum currently serves as chair of Husch & Eppenberger’s Health Law Practice Group. He is also a member of the firm’s Litigation and Appellate Practice Groups. He recently was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of health care law.

Name: Robert M Washburn
Class Year: 1968
Class Note: Robert M. Washburn was honored with the New Jersey Builders Association Associates’ Committee Chairman’s Award for his work with the Legislative Committee. He is a professor at Rutgers School of Law - Camden and of counsel at Flaster/Greenberg PC in its Cherry Hill, New Jersey office.

Name: Joan Dillon
Class Year: 1966
Class Note: Joan Dillon was recently named in World Trademark Review as a “Trademark Experts’ Expert.” She was the only sole practitioner to be named among the group of leading practitioners of trademarks in the United States. Dillon has also been listed for the last 13 years in Best Lawyers in America.

Name: Frank N Gundlach
Class Year: 1963
Class Note: Frank N. Gundlach, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of business litigation and personal injury litigation.

Name: Fred Leicht Jr.
Class Year: 1962
Class Note: Fred Leicht Jr., a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, was named to the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of labor and employment law.