John Wesley Hall ’70 leads national defense attorney association
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JOHN WESLEY HALL ’70 OF LITTLE ROCK, AN ATTORNEY who specializes in criminal defense, was recently sworn in as president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at the association’s annual meeting in Milwaukee. Hall previously served as NACDL’s secretary, treasurer, second and first vice president and president-elect, as well as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors from 1989-1995 and 19972003. In addition, he was chair of the NACDL Ethics Advisory Committee from 1990-2005. Hall is a past president of the Arkansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, an NACDL affiliate. Hall has tried approximately 250 jury trials, handled over 200 appeals, argued twice in the U.S. Supreme Court, and defended a military officer accused of war crimes in an international tribunal in Sierra Leone. He is a frequent speaker and expert witness on criminal defense ethics. Since 1979, Hall has worked in private practice at his own firm, the Law Offices of John Wesley Hall, Jr., P.A. He is a member of the bars of Arkansas, Nevada, New York, Tennessee, the District of Columbia, and the International Criminal Court where he also is the only American lawyer elected by the list of counsel to the ICC’s Disciplinary Appeals Tribunal. �
Continued from page 23 ’83 Mary Selah Stoll, her husband Ken and their two daughters Shelby, 13, and Kai, 10, live in Carson Valley, Nev., just east of Lake Tahoe. She is in her 16th year of teaching K-8, the last two of which she has worked with a K-8 art program.
’85 Aubrey Nixon of Little Rock is now senior vice president of development with Bank of the Ozarks. � Dr. Susan Russell of Gettysburg, Pa., directed a staged reading of a new musical she wrote about Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan called Helen & Teacher with student actors at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg and later staged a professional reading in New York City.
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Susan Roberts Robbins is the upper school librarian at All Saints Episcopal School in Tyler, Texas. Her daughter Rachel is a student at Hendrix. � P. Luevonda Ross, of Montgomery, Ala., an associate professor of law at the Jones School of Law of Faulkner University, coaches a mock trial team. Her students won the Southern Regional Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, which was held in Columbia, S.C., and went on to become the national champions. She also had her first article published in the Southern University Law Review. � Don A. Taylor, a partner in the Fayetteville law firm of Davis, Wright, Clark, Butt & Carithers, PLC, has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Taylor has been practicing in Fayetteville for 19 years.
years, Kevin. Morse has been with CA, Inc. for eight years, where he is currently a principal product manager in the service management line-of-business.
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Dr. David Deal has taken over his father’s medical practice in Macon, Ga. � Roger Morse received a master of business administration from Seattle University in June 2008. He has made his home in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Wash., for the past 12 years with his husband of 14
David Willock ’76 new dean of TCU’s College of Communication DR. DAVID WHILLOCK ’76 OF Grapevine, Texas, has been appointed dean of the College of Communication at Texas Christian University. Whillock, who has been at the college since 1991, began his career there as an assistant professor and coordinator of the Dr. David Whillock ’76 graduate program in the radio, television, and film (RTVF) department. He also has served as an associate professor and curator of the Tandy Film Library for RTVF; chair and associate professor for RTVF; and interim dean of the College of Communication. In addition, Whillock served as the director of assessment for the College and coordinated the College’s graduate programs and policies, faculty, financial aid, curriculum and operating budget. �
Stuart Jackson, a partner with Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP in Little Rock, has been named by Chambers USA as one of the top labor and employment lawyers in Arkansas for the fourth year in a row. A graduate of Duke Law School, he has been practicing law in the employment field for 16 years. � Darren Reeves has been employed by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry for two years. He serves as the program manager at the Child Study Center at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, directing the program, supervising the clinical staff, and providing mental health treatment for children ages 2-14. He and Laura Rasco Reeves ’92 enjoyed their first trip to Disney World in Florida in October 2008 with their children 7-year-old son Jamie and 4-year-old daughter, Carle. � Susan Cosby Ronnenberg of Winona, Minn., a recently promoted associate professor of English, is Viterbo University’s 2008 Teacher of the Year. She has been teaching English Renaissance Literature courses at Viterbo since 2002.
’90 Edward Swaim of Little Rock is serving on the board of the University District Development Corporation housed at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
’91 Jason McClelland of St. Louis, Mo., changed careers over the last few years and now teaches high school math in the St. Louis city schools. � Glen Hooks of Little Rock has been promoted to senior regional representative with the Sierra Club, where he works in 10 states to stop coal-fired power plants from being constructed. � Carla Crouch Tate of Rogers is working as a social worker with Ozark Guidance in Bentonville. She serves as a clinical facilitator for a prevention-based grant in an elementary school. She is presenting the grant data and results to other agencies and school districts to secure funding and to spread the program to other schools. � Vince Tate of Rogers recently toured the Holy Land in Israel for 10 days and Egypt for seven days.
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