CLASS NOTES
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1961 Mikel Stout was elected chair of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission by attorneys in a statewide election. Stout is a senior partner at Foulston Siefkin LLP in Wichita.
the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka. Christopher Coyle retired from Balcomb & Green PC. He resides in Carbondale, Colorado.
1967 Frank Kirk was inducted into
1972 Dan Boulware, managing partner
the Kansas Golf Hall of Fame for the Class of 2016 by the Kansas Golf Foundation. Kirk is vice president and senior financial adviser at Merrill Lynch in Kansas City, Missouri.
and shareholder at Polsinelli PC in Saint Joseph, Missouri, is the lead attorney representing Missouri River flood victims across six states against the federal government in Ideker Farms Inc., et al v. the United States of America. He filed the mass action lawsuit in 2014 and took it to trial this spring in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. A judgment is expected later this year.
1968 Larry Armel retired as an independent director of the BMO Funds located in Milwaukee and affiliated with Bank of Montreal. Roger Hughey and his wife, Nancy, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with two weeks at a lovely beach house in Costa Rica. Hughey is an attorney at Adams Jones Law Firm PA in Wichita.
1969 Hon. John Bukaty was selected to serve a four-year term on the Ethics Commission for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas. Bukaty is a retired Wyandotte County District Court judge who serves as a special master in Johnson and Wyandotte County district courts and is engaged in alternative dispute resolution practice.
1971 James Concannon received the Distinguished Service Award at the Kansas Bar Association’s Annual Awards Luncheon. Concannon is a Senator Robert J. Dole Distinguished Professor of Law and former dean at
1973 James Gilhousen retired from Crockett & Gilhousen in Wichita. Catherine McGuire retired from the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission after 44 years of service. McGuire was counsel in the SEC’s division of trading and markets in Washington, D.C.
1974 Peter Goplerud joined Spencer Fane as of counsel in St. Louis.
1975 Charles R. Hay was inducted in the Clay Center Community High School Hall of Fame for exceptional success in the fields of health care and health law. Hay is special counsel at Foulston Siefkin LLP in Topeka.
1976 Bion Beebe retired from West Publishing/Thomson Reuters after 35 years as a legal editor. He
previously worked at Kansas Legal Services and now spends part of his time as a freelance legal editor. Ross Hollander was ranked among the state’s top labor and employment lawyers by Chambers USA 2017. Hollander is a partner at Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC in Wichita.
1977 Pete Heaven joined Spencer Fane LLP as a partner in the Overland Park office. A member of the Real Estate Solutions Group, Heaven’s practice focuses on counseling residential and commercial real estate developers in the Midwest. Jan Bowen Sheldon was inducted into the KU Women’s Hall of Fame. Sheldon, a professor in the department of applied behavioral science and a courtesy professor at KU Law, is a leader in advancing the quality of life for women and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and at-risk youths through her research, teaching, service and advocacy.
1980 John Bowman received the Institute for Energy Law’s Lifetime Achievement in Energy Litigation Award, which is given to one energy litigator each year whose achievements “have won the admiration of his or her peers.” Bowman is a partner at King & Spalding LLP in Houston.
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