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IN MEMORIAM
estate planning, trust, and probate law. / Shigh Sapp is consul at the U.S. Embassy in Cape Verde. / Minal Tapadia writes: “I am starting my third year of orthopedic surgery residency at UC Irvine, and was awarded the 2014 Orthopedic Research Educational Foundation Resident Clinician Scientist Grant. Not sure yet how to combine my background in law and medicine, but considering either patent or venture capital work in addition to starting a practice.”
Jim Ponichtera ’96 passed away on June 2, 2014. He was the longtime marketing director, communications, at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jennie Rhine ’69 died on May 11, 2014. She graduated first in her class and went into private practice on civil rights cases, including representing Native Americans arrested in the 1973 Wounded Knee protest in South Dakota.
Ronald William Johnson ’67 passed away on May 21, 2014. He practiced in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, for many years before returning to California to specialize in family law. He retired in 2004.
William Francis Garman ’62 passed away Feb. 14, 2014. He was a respected trial attorney and taught at Western State College of Law. Raymond Clark Clayton Sr. ’60 passed away on Dec. 27, 2013. He started his career in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and then entered private practice in family law.
’01 Chelsea Bonini opened
her own firm, Kiski Law, in August 2010. Chelsea was appointed a school board trustee in the San Mateo-Foster City School District in December 2013. / Shaye Diveley has joined the Meyers Nave land use and environmental practice group. She litigates and counsels on issues related to
Chelsea Bonini ’01
Richard “Dick” A. Hickman ’52 passed away after a long illness on May 1, 2014. He served as the city attorney of Thousand Oaks in Ventura County. He was a pilot for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
water quality, endangered species, land use, and related issues. She previously was at
Ray Mueller ’01
Morrison & Foerster. / Ray Mueller was selected as the new mayor of Menlo Park by the City Council. Ray had served as vice mayor. In his acceptance speech, he said he was “a little bit excited, a little nervous, and very grateful” to serve as mayor. He was first elected to the City Council in 2012. / Rona Rathod writes: “After 10 years in the Foreign Service, the State Department is sending me to the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University to do a master’s
in public policy. This follows postings in Afghanistan, India, Lithuania, and West Africa. I’ll be working in Washington, D.C., on energy policy at the State Department after Princeton.”
’00 Dean Fealk, a partner in
the San Francisco office of DLA Piper, has been named an official trade adviser in a joint appointment by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and U.S. Secretary of Commerce UC HASTINGS 53