John R. Weech of Roseville, Calif., has been appointed assistant general counsel of the California State Teachers Retirement System. It is the second largest public pension fund in the U.S.
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Michon Walker Lunsford married James Arthur Lunsford Jr. in Augusta on May 19.
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Justin Cabral was appointed by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to be the Solicitor General of Lowndes County in March. Cabral was formerly with the Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.
Kathleen L. Wright partner at Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore LLP in Roanoke, Va., has been named a 2012 Virginia Super Lawyer Rising Star in Business Litigation.
Patrick B. Webb joined the Atlanta office of Burr & Forman LLP as Counsel in the firm’s Banking and Real Estate practice group.
Kelly O. Wallace and his wife, Kristy, announce the birth of their son, Jack, born Jan. 25, 2011.
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Taylor B. Drake, of the law firm Glover & Davis in Newnan, has been selected as a 2012 Georgia Rising Star. Drake specializes in family law, construction law and personal injury/wrongful death.
Amanda M. Morris has been named a partner in the law firm Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer LLP.
Lauren Shurling Finley was promoted to chief assistant district attorney in the Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.
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April Lee Ramirez married Francisco Ramirez on April 28, 2012. Matthew R. Hall and Aimee J. Hall ’02 announce the birth of their daughter, Matilda “Tilley” Jane, born June 27.
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Brian Burkhalter, of the MJ Patel Law Group in Atlanta, has been named a 2012 Super Lawyer.
Jun Li joined the faculty for the Corporate Compliance and Ethics Forum 2012.
Theresa Critchfield joined the law firm of Husch Blackwell LLP as an associate in their Chattanooga, Tenn., office where she will focus her practice in the area of insolvency.
Amy Landers May joined the South Carolina Bar Foundation board of directors in July 2012. May is a shareholder at Rogers Townsend & Thomas PC in the Estate
Anne Kaufold‑Wiggins and her husband, Todd, announce the birth of their daughter, Kathryn Elizabeth, born Jan. 3.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal ’66 appointed Judge Michael P. Boggs ’90 to the Georgia Court of Appeals in December 2011. A former Georgia state representative, Boggs has been on the Waycross Judicial Circuit bench for over six years. He is the founding director of the Waycross Judicial Circuit Drug Court program.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal ’66 appointed Macon attorney Philip T. Raymond III ’79 as Macon Judicial Circuit Judge in February. Raymond had been a partner at Macon’s Shaffer, Raymond and Dalton law firm. Raymond was appointed to fill a Superior Court judgeship vacated in 2011 by Chief Judge Martha Christian’s ’80 retirement.
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Nathan T. Lee, of the law firm Glover & Davis in Newnan, has been selected as a Georgia Rising Star. Lee specializes in general civil litigation.
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