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tice focuses on providing counsel to entrepreneurs, directors, venture capitalists and investors involved with rapid growth businesses in the Pacific Northwest. Christopher J. Nye JD’95 of Seattle, Wash., recently returned to the practice of law after serving as the director of program development for Law Seminars International. Nye’s private practice will focus on complex commercial litigation. Craig P. Wagnild BS’89, JD’95 of Honolulu, Hawaii, is the hiring partner at Bays Deaver Lung Rose & Baba. Karin L. Holma JD’89 is a partner at the firm, and Jennifer R. Sugita JD’03 is an associate. Gregory P. Zerzan BA’93, JD’96 of Washington, D.C., has resigned as acting assistant treasury secretary for financial institutions. Zerzan had worked for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Domestic Finance since March 2003. He plans to return to Oregon, where he was in private legal practice before working as counsel to U.S. House committees from 1997 to 2003.
Tara M. (Mikkelson) Hendison JD’97 of Portland, Ore., a vice president and trust officer for Allen Trust Company, was recently named to the board of the Albertina Kerr Centers. She will serve a three-year term. Guy R. Jeffress JD’97 of Falls Church, Va., recently joined the firm of Greenstein, DeLorme & Luchs PC. His practice will focus on real estate transactions, including development and financing issues. Craig P. Lindsay JD’97 of Silverdale, Wash., has opened his own law office in Silverdale. Lindsay runs a general practice encompassing several areas of law and has extensive litigation experience. He was formerly a deputy prosecutor in Kitsap County, Wash., for several years. Abigail E. (Beacham) Sheldon JD’97 of Wasilla, Alaska, has been promoted to assistant supervisor for the Alaska Public Defender Agency.
Steven G. Blackmer JD’96 of Pittsburgh, Pa., was named partner in the firm of Willman & Arnold LLP. Blackmer will be spearheading growth of Willman & Arnold’s Corporate Practice Group. He will take on larger and more complex cases in the areas of corporate and transactional law, as well as environmental litigation, toxic torts, hazardous materials and substances, insurance coverage, and insurance defense. Blackmer also has taken a leadership role in the firm’s defense group, which is nationally recognized for coordinating strategic large-scale toxic tort defense matters. Blackmer and his colleagues will continue to serve as liaison counsel for all asbestos litigation in Allegheny County.
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Michael E. Adams JD’98 of Sweet Home, Ore., has been appointed to the Planning Commission by the Sweet Home City Council. Adams is in private practice and specializes in real estate, estate planning, business succession planning and general business law. Kathleen M. Fischer JD’98 of Elizabeth City, N.C., is an assistant professor at Elizabeth City State University. She teaches oceanography and environmental science, conducts research in coastal and wetland areas, and incorporates environmental policy issues and state and federal regulations into courses. Fischer is a member of the University of North Carolina Marine Sciences Advisory Board and the Alternate-Pamlico National Estuary Program Science and Technical Advisory Panel. Peter J. Johnson JD’99 of Seattle, Wash., has left the Philadelphia, Pa., firm of Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager to join the Trusts and Estates Group in the Seattle, Wash., office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Calliste (Flynn) Warfield JD’99 of Portland, Ore., has been named a board director of the Multnomah Bar Association Young Lawyers Section. Warfield is with Hoffman Hart & Wagner LLP and practices in the area of professional liability defense. She has served on the Young Lawyers Section CLE Committee and was its chair in 2004-05. Warfield is a member of the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel and the Defense Research Institute.
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Christina L. McMahan JD/C’00 of Roseburg, Ore., has been named director of the Douglas County