Class Notes Russell T. Libby 91L was named vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Sysco Corp.
Jeff L. Milsteen 84L was reappointed chief deputy attorney general for Georgia by Samuel S. Olens 83L. Judge Stephanie Davis 85L was awarded the Judge Horace T. Ward Legacy Award by the Gate City Bar Association during its 2010 Legacy Awards. Julie I. Fershtman 83C 86L, of counsel with Zausmer, Kaufman, August, Caldwell & Tayler PC in Detroit, was honored at Inforum and Crain’s Detroit Business 2010 Women to Watch Inner Circle event Oct. 5. Damian C. Georgino 86L 86B was appointed executive vice president, corporate development and chief legal officer for Heckmann Corp. of Palm Desert, Calif. Previously, he served as senior advisor to Starwood Energy Global Group. Benjamin H. Grumbles 85L is president of the Clean Water America Alliance. Previously, he served as director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Greg Hanthorn 85L, partner at Jones Day in Atlanta, was the graduation speaker at the December commencement at Berry College in Rome, Ga. He graduated from Berry College in 1982. Debra M. Schneider 85L has been appointed coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Va., In 2008, she received her master of arts in English with a concentration in writing and rhetoric from Virginia Commonwealth University. Robin Frazier Clark 88L has been elected presidentelect of the Georgia Bar Association. She will be the second woman to be president of the Georgia Bar.
Martin P. Duffey 89L has been named a shareholder with Cozen O’Connor in its Philadelphia office. Lisa Narrell-Mead 89L of Birmingham, Ala., has been elected secretary for the Alabama Humanities Foundation Board. She is executive vice president of Corporate Associate Relations and Employment Counsel for Regions Financial Corp. Gregory Parker Rogers 89L had his book, Cincinnati’s Hyde Park: A Queen City Gem, published by History Press. He is chair of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister’s labor and employment law department.
Dana K. Maine 91L, a partner with Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, has been appointed chair of the Defense Research Institute’s Governmental Liability Committee. Julien Xavier Neals 91L, former corporation counsel and municipal court chief judge, became the City of Newark’s business administrator, the highest ranking nonelected city official for the New Jersey town, on Dec. 3.
90s Jane Harris Downey 90L was selected as a 2010 SuperLawyer for bankruptcy and creditor/ debtor rights in South Carolina. She also was selected by her peers as one of Greater Columbia Business Monthly’s 2010 Legal Elite.
Brian T. Casey 92L, a partner with Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP in Atlanta, was elected to a fifth consecutive Board appointment for the Life Insurance Settlement Association. He also was named to the national list of the 100 Most Powerful People in the Insurance Industry in North America for 2011.
William R. Horwitz 93L joined Porzio, Bromberg & Newman PC in New Jersey as counsel, working in the employment department.
Warren Kampf 93L, partner with White and Williams LLP in Philadelphia, Pa., was elected to represent the 157th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Suzanne Mawhinney 95L earned her master of library and information science in 2008 and is a reference librarian for Zief Law Library at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Joel R. Nied 95L, a partner with Williams Mullen in Virginia Beach, Va., has been named co-chair of the long-term care industry service group. Peter Ladig 96L has become a partner at Morris James LLP in Wilmington, Del. He practices corporate and commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on litigation in Delaware’s Court of Chancery.
Liz Lindley 93L has launched Lindley PR with a specialty in law firm public relations.
John F. Lomax 96L joined Snell & Wilmer’s labor and employment group in Phoenix as a partner.
Karlise Yvette Grier 92L ran for judge on the Fulton County Superior Court. John J. Jacko III 92L was named partner Fellheimer & Eichen LLP in Philadelphia.
Michael C. Hefter 91L joined Bracewell & Giuliani LLP in the commercial litigation practice.
Russell Rogers 92L, a partner in Thompson Hine LLP’s business litigation and product liability litigation practice groups, assumed leadership of the firm’s Atlanta office in December.
Carrie N. Baker 94G 94L 01G, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Berry College, is the first honoree of the Jane Velez-Mitchell Journalism Award for her article, “Jailing Girls For Men’s Crimes,” about sex trafficking. The award honors a journalist who brings attention to the issue of violence against women and girls.
Ian Levin 92L has joined Willkie Farr Gallagher as a partner in the executive compensation practice in New York. Previously, he was with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Eric Wang 93L joined Reed Smith LLP as a partner in its tax, benefits and wealth planning practice in the Falls Church, Va., office. He was previously a partner with Patton Boggs.
Elliot S. Berke 97L is a partner and co-chair of the political law group at McGuireWoods LLP in Washington, D.C. He also is president-elect of the Wake Forest Alumni Council and lives in Arlington, Va., with his wife, Lindsey, and their two children, Julia and Collin.
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