Class Notes
Aniruddha Gadre ’94 left his position as Facebook’s general counsel. He is now the Vice President of Business Operations at Seattlebased Evri, where he will be in charge of legal issues, intellectual property and marketing. Brian Deagle ’95 has been
named the President of the Issaquah School Board.
80s Katherine Steele ’82 joined
William Kastner’s Seattle office, where she will focus on civil litigation, with an emphasis on product liability and asbestos defense. Blaine Tamaki ’82 was named
Washington State Association for Justice’s Trial Lawyer of the Year. He was also included on the Washington Law & Politics’ list of the state’s Super Lawyers. Peter Maassen ’83 was appoint-
ed to the Alaska Supreme Court.
90s Kristen (Lichtenberg) Fraser ’91 accepted a position as an ad-
Ken Schubert ’97, a partner in Garvey Schubert Barer’s Litigation Group, ran unopposed to replace Judge Bruce Hilyer ’79 on the King County Superior Court. Michelle de Blasi ’98 has joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Phoenix office as a shareholder. She will serve as chair of the office’s Energy & Infrastructure Group. Donna Perdue ’99 has joined
Duckor Spradling Metzger & Wynne Law Firm in San Dieago as an IP attorney.
00s Shelley Buckholtz ’01 joined Helsell Fetterman as an Of Counsel attorney.
junct professor at Seattle University School of Law. She teaches Washington state constitutional law.
served as the Manager of the King County ADR Program/Interlocal Conflict Resolution Group and the ADR Coordinator of the City of Seattle. Bell will continue to teach Negotiations at the University of Washington, Evans School of Public Affairs, Executive Masters Program. Amanda Carr ’06 received the
King County Bar Association’s “Outstanding Young Lawyer Award”. Carr founded the Plauché & Stock firm with her law partner, Billy Plauché. She is recognized for her successes in counseling clients on environmental land use and natural resource matters. Monica Hammer ’06 accepted a position at the Network for Public Health Law. Laura Norton ’06 was appointed
Equal Employment Opportunity Manager for the Mid-Pacific Regional Office of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, in Sacramento, California. On transfer, she completed over five years of public service in the Department of the Army and received the Commander’s Award for Exceptional Service as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Practitioner in EEO (2009-2012). Her Law note, “Neutering the Transgendered: Human Rights and Japan’s Law No. 111,” originally published in 2006 by the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, is scheduled to be reprinted in the Transgender Studies Reader, Volume II (Routledge, forthcoming December 2012; Aizura and Stryker, eds.). Anneke Diem ’07 has been select-
Shelley Buckholtz
Craig Day ’92 joined Lane
Powell as Counsel to the Firm in the Employee Benefits, Taxation and Business Practice Groups. His focus is on ERISA-related matters, employee benefits issues and executive compensation.
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Lisa Lui
Lisa Lui ’03 has been named to the Washington Women In Need (WWIN) board of directors at Miller Nash LLP. Stephanie Bell ’0 6 joined the Pepperdine University School of Law as Assistant Professor of Law and an Assistant Director of the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution. She joins Straus after having
ed as one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 – Class of 2012 by the National LGBT Bar Association. Benjamin Kostrzewa ’07 joined
the Office of the United States Trade Representative as Assistant General Counsel. He focuses on the monitoring and enforcement of China’s WTO obligations, including bringing suits against China before the WTO’s dispute settlement body.