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In addition, Ms. Wolf was recently elected to the Board of Directors of The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. She practices business law with a concentration in technology matters, including E-commerce, trademark, and copyright law.

Ogden PLLC, created from the merger of Ogden Newell & Welch and Stoll Keenon & Park in January 2006. Mr. Williams is also the new president of the Louisville Bar Association. Douglas L. Henley, ’93, has joined the General Electric Company as counsel in litigation and preventative law supporting the Aviation and Transportation businesses. Prior to joining GE, Mr. Henley was a partner with Keating Muething & Klekamp, PLL.

1980’s Patricia Jane (Huffman) Koprucki, ’81, was elected President of the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association, Columbus, Ohio.

Todd M. Rodgers, ’93, has been named an Ohio Rising Star by Law & Politics Magazine. Only 2.5 percent of Ohio lawyers received this honor. Mr. Rodgers works at the firm of Chester Willcox & Saxbe, LLP in Columbus, OH.

Jeffery Peck, ’82, an attorney with Ulmer & Berne, LLP, has been recently recognized by The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Peck, who chairs the firm’s Product Liability Group, practices in the area of liability defense, business litigation, risk management and employment and labor law. Practicing for more than 20 years, he has experience in general commercial litigation as well as products liability litigation. Rick Chesley, ’85, is the office chair of law firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP’s new Chicago (IL) office. In this role he is responsible for building a Chicago presence for the firm. Kelly McDonald, ’88, has been elected president of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association.

1990’s Thomas Williams, ’90, was appointed a member of the Management Committee of the newly-merged firm Stoll Keenon

Deborah Nelson Willis, ’93 has been elected president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association (WSTLA). She was also recently elected President-Elect of the Council of Presidents of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and named a fellow of the Melvin Belli Society. In addition she was named “Super Lawyer” by Washington Law & Politics Magazine for the fourth consecutive year. Ms. Willis practices plaintiff’s personal injury law and insurance bad faith litigation. Maureen H. Krueger, ’96, was appointed the first District Attorney of the newly created 19D Prosecutorial District (Moore County in Carthage, North Carolina). She was appointed to this new position by North Carolina Governor Michael Easley.

digital film technology, and film production education. H. Toby Schisler, ’97, was a recipient of the Alice Neely Memorial Award awarded by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. The Alice Neely Memorial Award was established to recognize outstanding associates who are dedicated to the practice of law, relate well to clients, have a positive attitude in adverse situations, and make a genuine effort to personally know others in the firm. Leslie A. Boozer, ’99, has worked as a high school teacher in South Los Angeles for the past three years. She recently entered the Urban Superintendent’s Doctoral Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Ms. Boozer was recently awarded a Zuckerman Fellowship. Jennifer Wolfe, ’99, founder of the Wolfe Practice, has seen the firm she began in 2000 grow into a firm of nine attorneys with more than 250 clients. The Blue Ash (OH)-based practice specializes in everything from corporate law to real estate law to litigation. Ms. Wolfe is the president of the Greater Cincinnati Venture Association, a non-profit group that helps entrepreneurs find investors to start up and expand business.

2000’s

David Jimerson, ’97, has left his position at Bank of America to cofound Wrightsville Beach Studios, an independent niche studio which will concentrate on feature film production,

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Helen F. Bean, ’00, joined Keating Muething & Klekamp LLP (OH) as an associate in the labor and employment practice group.

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