decades, Smiley has led e-discovery initiatives at some of the world’s largest banks, financial institutions, government agencies and aerospace organizations. 1993 Sally A. Howard joined Human Longevity Inc. in San Diego as head of regulatory affairs and policy. With more than two decades of health policy and regulatory expertise, Howard will lead efforts related to federal and state regulatory oversight. She previously served at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as senior advisor and acting chief of staff to the FDA commissioner. Evan Ice, a partner in the Lawrence office of Stevens & Brand LLP, received the Courageous Attorney Award from the Kansas Bar Association. The award recognizes a lawyer who has displayed exceptional courage in the face of adversity. 1994 Holly A. Dyer, a partner in the Wichita office of Foulston Siefkin LLP, was elected as a new member of the American Law Institute. Kimberly Jones was elected managing partner of Seyferth Blumenthal & Harris LLC in Kansas City, Missouri. She is one of only a handful of women filling this role in the metro area. Joe Reardon became president and CEO of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Erin Syring was promoted to executive vice president of operations at IMA Inc., a financial services company specializing in risk management, insurance and employee benefit solutions. Syring will oversee resources in Denver, Dallas, Kansas City and Wichita. 1995 Karen K. Cain has joined Littler’s Kansas City, Missouri, office as a shareholder. A lead defense litigator, Cain’s experience includes individual and class claims, including defense of lawsuits
filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She has also defended claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, constructive discharge and more. Cain previously served as counsel in the Kansas City office of Bryan Cave. Sal Intagliata was named a shareholder at Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, in Wichita, Kansas. Intagliata started his career with the firm in 2006 and rejoined in 2010 after serving as an assistant district attorney in the gangs and violent crimes division of the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office. 1996 Kurt R. Erskine was appointed first assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia in August 2015. He also serves as chief of public corruption prosecutions for the office, located in Atlanta. 1999 Sarah Deer published a book, “The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America,” to much acclaim. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Deer is a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, a 2014 MacArthur fellow, and an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence in Native American communities. In November, she participated in a panel at “Advancing Equity for Women & Girls of Color: A Research Agenda for the Next Decade,” a conference hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls. Deer was inducted into the Mvskoke Hall of Fame in October 2015. 2000 Devon Reese is an attorney and partner at Reese Kintz and Guinasso in Incline Village, Nevada. He and his husband, Felipe Cisneros, live in Reno with their three children.
Terrence Campbell, L’97
Obama nominates KU Law alumnus to federal bench FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO years, President Obama has nominated a KU Law graduate to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Terrence J. Campbell, L’97, practices civil and criminal law at Barber Emerson LC in Lawrence, Kansas. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran called Campbell “a respected lawyer with high qualifications that make him a strong nominee.” Campbell began his legal career as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum from 1997 to 1999. His resume also includes service as a traffic judge pro tem for the District Court of Douglas County from 2005 to 2008 and as an adjunct professor teaching Contracts at KU Law in 2001. Pending Senate confirmation, Campbell will join Judge Daniel Crabtree, L’81, also an Obama nominee, and several other KU Law alumni on the federal court.
2002 Diana Toman was appointed senior vice president, general counsel and
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