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Christina Hartman Vassey is a client representative at Thomson Reuters in Washington, D.C. John F. Wilcox Jr. was elected secretary/treasurer of the Transportation Lawyers Association. Wilcox is a shareholder/ director at Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle & Montemore PC in Kansas City, Missouri. 1995 Cynthia Bryant is special counsel for alternative dispute resolution in the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Workplace Diversity. She has been selected to serve as a mediator in the Sharing Neutrals Program, a free service that provides collateral-duty mediators to participating federal agencies. Bryant was also chosen through the African American Federal Executive Association as a fellow in the senior executive service program. Alice Craig was inducted into the Topeka West 2016 Graduate Hall of Fame. Craig is an attorney in KU Law’s Project for Innocence & PostConviction Remedies and an instructor in the school’s trial advocacy and mock trial programs. Sal Intagliata was named Best Lawyers’ Wichita Lawyer of the Year for General Practice Criminal Defense. Intagliata is a shareholder at Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, in Wichita. 1996 Terence E. Leibold was elected secretary of the Douglas County Bar Association board of directors. He is a partner at Petefish, Immel, Heeb & Hird LLP in Lawrence. Gwendelyn Garcia Milligan is an attorney at Garrison Law Office in Overland Park. 1997 Grant D. Bannister, formerly of Knopp & Bannister PA in Manhattan, has
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been appointed a judge for the 21st Judicial District, which covers Clay and Riley counties. Hale E. Sheppard, a shareholder in the Atlanta office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka, received recognition in the annual Chambers & Partners directory for his work in tax law. 1998 Jeff Rogers became associate director of tax planning and analysis at MGP in Atchison. He previously worked as a senior tax manager for Stratagem in Lakewood, Colorado. Tom Wagstaff Jr. has joined the Kansas City firm Miller Schirger LLC as of counsel. Wagstaff comes to the firm from Wagstaff & Cartmell, where he partnered with Miller Schirger on several cases. 1999 Jean Block is chief legal officer of Little Rock Wastewater, serving as legal adviser and counsel to the wastewater utility’s staff and the Little Rock Water Reclamation Commission. She was previously chief legal counsel at the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. Sarah Deer represented more than 100 women’s organizations as interested parties in the Dollar General Corporation v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians case before the U.S. Supreme Court by co-authoring an amicus brief on the proceedings. Deer delivered a public lecture at KU titled “Gendering Federal Indian Law” as part of her appointment as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor. Karrie Clinkinbeard became managing attorney of Armstrong Teasdale’s Kansas City, Missouri, office, effective Sept. 1. She is the first woman elected to the role of office managing attorney in the firm’s 115-year history. Jody M. Meyer was elected to the board of the Douglas County Bar Association. She operates a solo law practice in Lawrence.
2000 Amy Fellows Cline was honored by the Wichita Business Journal as part of its 2016 Women in Business issue. Cline is an attorney at Triplett, Woolf & Garretson in Wichita. Stephanie Goodenow was welcomed into the Kansas Fellows of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She is an attorney at Goodenow Law in Lenexa. Christopher M. Joseph was named Best Lawyers’ Topeka Lawyer of the Year for Criminal Defense: General Practice. Joseph is a managing member of Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC in Lawrence. Michael Porter is a partner at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn in Portland, Oregon. 2001 Bill Yanek was named CEO of the Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association. He currently serves as executive vice president of the Glass Association of North America and will begin his new role in September. 2002 Michelle Meier received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service from the Wichita Bar Association. Meier is an attorney at Kansas Legal Services in Pittsburg. U.S. Rep. Kevin W. Yoder received a Champion of Science Award from the University of Kansas in recognition of his support for federal funding for basic scientific research. David E. Waters received the Kansas State University College of Arts & Sciences Young Alumni Award in October 2015 and was elected in April to the Westwood (Kansas) City Council. Waters is a partner at Lathrop & Gage LLP in Kansas City, Missouri. 2004 Jeffrey Li became an owner at Garvey Schubert Barer in Washington, D.C. Li will advise Chinese companies in strategic business activities in the United States, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment, securities and compliance matters. He will also guide