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and health and safety matters. Maureen McGlynn, a principal with the Kortenhof, McGlynn and Burns law firm, joined the board of directors for the St. Patrick Center, a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless. James Scott became the district attorney for Juneau, Alaska in early July 2013. He was appointed by the Department of Law to replace the previous district attorney who retired at the end of April. Patricia A . Zimmer, a partner in the law firm Ripplinger & Zimmer, was re-appointed to the Tort Law Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association. The Tort Law Section Council advises the Association in all areas of tort law: medical and other professional malpractice, auto collision law, and other areas of negligence and strict tort liability.
1993 David Bub, of Brown & James, P.C., was selected to the 2013 Missouri Super Lawyers in civil litigation defense. Anthony DeWitt, a partner at the law firm Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Gorny’s Jefferson City, Mo., office, was honored with the Missouri Bar’s 2013 Pro Bono Publico Award. James Hammerschmidt, a principal at the law firm of Paley Rothman located in Bethesda, Md., was elected to serve as co-president of the firm. He also serves as the co-chair of the firm’s labor & employment law group. Joan Lockwood, a partner at the St. Louis plaintiff law firm Gray, Ritter & Graham, PC , was named a 2014 Best Lawyer in America in the categories of medical malpractice law-plaintiffs, product liability litigation-plaintiffs and personal injury litigation. Patricia Williams was named corporate vice president general counsel by SSM Health Care. She will lead SSM’s newly formed Legal Affairs Department and be responsible for overseeing legal affairs for the hospital system.
1995 Bradford Cytron joined the
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Clayton, Mo., law firm of Spencer, Fane Britt & Browne, LLP as a partner. His practice area includes the representation of public and private entities in the acquisition, disposition and development of office, retail, multifamily, industrial and hospitality buildings.
wide range of industries on technology transactions, Internet law, e-commerce and intellectual property matters.
Lisa Parker Freeman joined Husch Blackwell in the firm’s Chicago office as senior counsel, practicing in the areas of educational institutions and education litigation, bringing extensive on-the-ground industry experience.
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Patricia Kievlan was appointed an associate judge in the 20th Judicial Circuit, St. Clair County, Ill., in May 2013. She lives in Belleville, Ill., with her husband and three sons.
1996 Nicole Colbert-Botchway was elected president of the Mound City Bar Association. In 2013 she was also elected to the board of governors of the Missouri Bar, where she serves on its professionalism task force, the Missouri Supreme Court ’s child support guidelines review subcommittee and its joint committee on gender and justice. Colbert-Botchway was honored with the 2013 University of MO-St. Louis’ Distinguished Alumni Award. Amy Collignon Gunn, an attorney at The Simon Law Firm, PC , was one of the winners of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’ President ’s Award, as well as the recipient of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys’ 2013 Thomas G. Strong Trial Attorney Award. Kevin Gunn joined Polsinelli’s St. Louis office as a shareholder, focusing his practice on energy issues. He is also the former chairman of the Missouri Public Service Commission. Eric Kukowski, of counsel at the law firm Evans & Dixon, was elected secretary of the Bar Assocation of Metropolitan St. Louis. Saraann Parker joined Armstrong Teasdale as a partner. She is a member of the corporate services practice group, focusing her practice on the technology area, advising clients in a
Julie Siegel was admitted as a partner at the Clayton, Mo., law firm Frankel, Rubin, Bond, Dubin, Siegel & Klein, PC .
Robert Brady, of Brown & James, P.C., was selected to the 2013 Missouri Super Lawyers in insurance coverage. Carl Geraci joined HeplerBroom LLC as an associate attorney in the Edwardsville, Ill., office, focusing his practice on complex business litigation matters, including products liability, asbestos defense, toxic tort defense, and premises liability. He served as a judicial law clerk for the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Missouri before entering private practice. Jim Guest, director of the Volunteer Lawyers Program at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, was re-elected to the Missouri Bar’s board of governors. Garrett Hoerner was chosen the new Belleville Ill., city attorney by the Belleville City Council. He is currently a partner at Becker, Paulson, Hoerner & Thompson. Dawn M. Lewallen was recently promoted to senior underwriting counsel for Stewart Title Guaranty Company. She is also one of 18 employees selected to participate in a year-long accelerated leadership development program designed to develop future leadership within the company.
1998 James Arnold was hired by the St. Louis law firm Williams Venker & Sanders, LLC as a litigation support specialist. Jeffrey Jensen joined Husch Blackwell’s St. Louis office as a partner. Joseph McCulloch, a partner at the St. Charles, Mo., law firm of Todt, Ryan & McCulloch, was reappointed to the St. Charles County Convention & Sports Facilities Authority.
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