alumni news anticorruption, and securities and commodities enforcement matters. Jeff K. Brown, L’96, was selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Kansas City in the areas of personal injury litigation – defendants, medical malpractice law – defendants, and appellate practice. Brown practices with the firm of Logan Logan & Watson LC in Prairie Village, Kan., and lives in Olathe with his wife and two sons. Carolyn and William Matthews, both L’97, are pleased to announce the birth of a daughter, Millicent Ann, in August 2012. She joins brother, George, and sister, Beatrice. William Matthews is a partner in the Wichita, Kan., office of Foulston Siefkin LLP. Megan L. Brackney, L’98, was recently elected to the partnership of Kostelanetz & Fink LLP in New York, where she practices in the area of civil and criminal tax controversies. Brackney also is the secretary of the section of taxation of the American Bar Association and the chair of the New York County Lawyers’ Association Committee on Taxation. Tyson M. Avery, L’99, is the senior vice president for global compliance at CBRE Inc. in Los Angeles. Brian D. Goodman, L’99, has been appointed by Experis as managing director for the western region of Experis Finance. Goodman oversees business development and consultant recruitment in the western United States in the areas of risk advisory, tax, and finance and accounting. Experis is the global leader in professional resourcing and project-based solutions and part of ManpowerGroup. Robert Hockett, L’99, professor of law at Cornell University Law School, was welcomed as a new fellow of the Century Foundation, a progressive nonpartisan think tank. The Foundation’s work focuses on issues of equity and opportunity in the United States, and how American values can be best sustained and advanced in a world of more diffuse power. Geoffrey J. Lysaught, L’99, is vice president for strategy and finance at the Heritage Foundation, a research and educational institution that formulates and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional Ameri-
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can values, and a strong national defense. Lysaught will also continue as a member of the Board of Overseers for the Searle Civil Justice Institute at George Mason University School of Law.
2000s Heather Jones, L’00, accepted an assistant district attorney position in the Johnson County Attorney’s Office in Olathe, Kan., where she is a section chief of the sex crimes and child abuse division. Jones was formerly the Franklin County Attorney. Michael Porter, L’00, was named to The Best Lawyers in America list for 2013 for litigation – labor and employment. Porter practices with Miller Nash LLP in Portland, Ore. Kelleen Brennan, L’01, has been named vice president, corporate compliance at Universal Technical Institute (UTI) in Scottsdale, Ariz. UTI is the leading provider of postsecondary education for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians. Betsy Blake, L’05, has accepted a judicial clerkship position with the Hon. Ralph Guy, senior judge for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Megan Winter, L’05, married Matthew Beckman in October 2011 in San Diego, Calif. She is an associate in the San Diego office of Fisher & Phillips LLP, and Matt is director of digital partnerships for The Active Network. Kara Bemboom-Grefrath, L’06, is one of four Rockhurst University alumni recognized for outstanding achievements at the 2012 Family and Alumni Weekend celebration, where she received the Faber Young Alumni Award. She has served on the university’s Kansas City Alumni Council for several years, including two years as the council’s president. Bemboom-Grefrath currently serves as the first young alumni member of the Rockhurst University Leaders Council. She is assistant vice president and assistant general counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. Carly E. Farrell, L’06, received a Pro Bono Certificate of Appreciation from the Kansas Bar Association during the Installation and
Awards Dinner at the annual meeting in Overland Park, Kan., in June. Farrell is a family law practitioner from Johnson County who is finalizing her mediation certification. She was previously a domestic violence prosecutor with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kan. Andrew Kovar, L’07, was appointed by the president of the Kansas Bar Association to serve on the 2012 Kansas Bar Association Annual Survey Committee, along with 12 of the state’s preeminent lawyers and legal scholars in 30 separate subject areas. In August, the committee published the 2012 Kansas Annual Survey of Law, which gives Kansas practitioners a comprehensive survey of legal developments over the previous 12 months in the appellate courts and the legislature. Kovar was re-appointed to the committee for 2013. He practices with Triplett, Woolf & Garretson LLC in Wichita, Kan. Amanda Voth, L’07, is pleased to announce her marriage to Anthony Cook in September 2012 near Goessel. A reception followed in Newton, Kan. Voth is an assistant attorney general in Topeka and teaches criminal procedure for a private Kansas college. Dustin Bradley, L’08, is associate title landman for Chesapeake Energy in Oklahoma City. Bradley previously worked as a staff attorney for the Kansas Department of Transportation in Topeka, Kan. Eugenia Charles-Newton, L’08, began working for Texas Tech University School of Law as a law librarian and professor in legal research in May 2011. Recently, she was nominated for the Texas Tech University President’s Excellence in Diversity and Equity Award. She was also awarded the 2012 American Association of Law Libraries Minority Leadership Development Award. She recently published her first chapter in an upcoming climate change book edited by Elizabeth Kronk and Randall Abate. She has been invited to consult on the Indian Law Collection at Yale Law School. Justin D. Elkouri, L’08, has accepted a position as vice president for corporate development and legal at Texas Premier Resources LLC in Houston.