a regulator with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and with the Federal Home Loan Bank in San Francisco. Chuck Poochigian was appointed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prior to his appointment, he was an attorney with Dowling, Aaron & Keeler in Fresno, practicing in the areas of regulatory and general business law and consulting on public policy. A 46-mile stretch of state Highway 180 was named in honor of the former legislator, who represented the region in the state assembly and state senate from 1994 until 2006.
77 Mary Lou Fenili and her partner of 22 years, Karen Hansen, were married in Carmel on Sept. 27, 2008, by fellow classmate, Santa Clara County Superior Court Commissioner Jessica Frischling. Mary Lou retired from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2005, and writes that she finds retirement to be “even more wonderful than anticipated.” The couple lives in Denver with three cats and a dog. Pamela Rhodes teaches an annual art class in Tuscany. She also teaches in the Certified Financial Planner program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her financial planning firm, Rhodes & Fletcher, added a service to its financial planning practice, called Legacysure, which is a review of a client’s estate plans with pictorials to illustrate it. Robert Schuchard was named an outstanding healthcare transaction lawyer of 2008 by Nightingale’s Healthcare News. He represented Providence Health System of Southern California in its acquisition of Tarzana Regional Medical Center, and Good Samaritan Health System of Puyallup, Wash., in affiliation with Multicare Health System. He represented Portals, a
nonprofit mental health provider in Los Angeles, in a merger with Pacific Clinics, and represented USC in the sale of USC/Kenneth Norris, Jr. Cancer Hospital to Tenet Healthcare. He is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine in Los Angeles.
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81 Michael A. Isaacs is a partner in the San Francisco office of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps. He leads the commercial, finance, and insolvency practice group and represents clients in a broad range of bankruptcy and insolvency situations. 82 Manuel “Manny” Fishman is a shareholder at Buchalter Nemer’s San Francisco Real Estate Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of real estate developers, owners, and secured lenders in commercial property transactions as well as lease representation for several Bay Area property owners. Previously, he was at Cooley Godward Kronish. He recently completed his second ultra marathon (30 miles), saying, “It was the hardest and best thing I have ever done.” He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Leslie Kane ’84, who is the executive director at the Holocaust Center of Northern California. They have one son who attends Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. Lynne (Thaxter) Brown has been certified as a legal specialist in appellate law by the State Bar. She and her husband and teenage son live in Fresno. 84 Judy Alexander has been recog-
nized as a leader in the field of media and entertainment litigation in the
85 Arleen N. Kaizer is back in Arizona caring for her 98-year-old mother. Since she’s not licensed to practice law in the state, she has successfully combined her two degrees (law and pharmacy), working as a Medicare appeals judge in a private company. She previously served as an appellate attorney taking cases to the Nevada Supreme Court, where she was undefeated. Amongst her best works, she cites the drafting and adoption of a federal law labeling alcohol for possible birth defects if consumed during pregnancy (which she authored at SCU). Vanessa Wells is a partner at the San Francisco office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold. Her practice Send Us Your News!
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