CLASS NOTES
RUSSELL S. POST has
been elected a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. He is a partner with Beck Redden in Houston, where his practice focuses on civil appellate litigation. Post is listed in Best Lawyers 2016, Chambers USA 2016, and in Benchmark Litigation 2016 as a litigation star. KATHY SHEEHAN was promoted to vice president, compliance and customer trust for Amazon.com. She is responsible for Amazon’s global anti-corruption program and serves as their lead information security lawyer. She also serves on the boards of Food Lifeline, Washington state’s largest hunger relief organization, and Feeding Washington. She writes, “I spend the rest of my spare time destroying golf courses in Seattle (and not in a good way).”
1997 CAROLINE W. LAGUERRE-BROWN is
George Washington University’s vice provost for diversity, equity and community engagement. In addition to leading GW’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, she oversees the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service, the Office of Disability Support Services, the Multicultural Student Services Center and the Title IX Office. Laguerre-Brown was previously vice provost for institutional equity at Johns Hopkins University.
SAMANTHA PELOSI is senior vice president of payments and innovation at Bankers Association for Finance and Trade, the leading global financial services association for international transaction banking. In her new position, she defines and drives the association’s strategy with respect to payments, emerging technology and combating financial crime. Pelosi was previously the manager of retail payments at the Federal Reserve Board. She lives in McLean, Va., with her husband and twin girls.
TIMOTHY B. PHILLIPS
was one of 10 lawyers who serve as general counsel in the U.S. to be named Legends in the Law for 2016. The award is given by the Burton Foundation, co-sponsored by the American Bar Association, and held in association with the Library of Congress. Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at the ceremony, held at the Library of Congress in May. Phillips is chief legal executive and general counsel of the American Cancer Society Inc., where he leads an Atlanta-based team that develops and implements legal and risk-management strategies that advance the mission of eradicating cancer. He was named general counsel in 2012, and has also served as senior counsel and interim general counsel. Previously Phillips was a special tax counsel in private practice, providing legal counsel to nonprofit business clients in the health
care, faith-based, education and health science areas. He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy’s elite special forces and is currently counsel to the Navy SEAL Foundation. He is chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s nonprofit organizations committee and a member of the advisory boards of the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta and the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. ANDY ROSENBERG and
her children and serving as a part-time staff attorney for the Georgia Senior Legal Hotline of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. MARK H. CHURCHILL
joined Holland & Knight as a partner and member of the litigation and dispute resolution practice in Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. Churchill lives in Arlington, Va., with his wife, Betsy, and their four children.
ALLAN COHEN were ex-
cited to return to their hometown of Philadelphia from Washington, D.C., and New York, respectively, to get together for events on the sidelines of this year’s Democratic National Convention. Rosenberg co-founded the bipartisan government affairs firm Thorn Run Partners in Washington, D.C., in 2010.
1998
EARSA JACKSON is listed in Best Lawyers 2017 in franchise law. She is a partner with Strasburger & Price in Dallas, where she is the practice area leader for the franchise and distribution group and serves as chair of the diversity committee. Her new book, “Annual Franchise and Distribution Law Developments 2016,” was presented at the 39th annual American Bar Association Forum on Franchising in Miami in November.
national security, export control, sanctions and other international trade laws. He and his wife, SANDY MCCARTHY ’99,
live in Maryland with their two daughters, Cara and Anna. PAUL MCCOY relocated to the New York office of Morgan Lewis, where he is head of the private equity funds practice area. CARRIE O’NEIL was appointed senior vice president with JLT Specialty USA, a U.S. subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, one of the world’s leading specialtyfocused providers of insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits related–advice brokerage and associated services. O’Neil joins JLT’s legal and claims practice as financial lines product leader in the U.S. She was previously with Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. KATHERINE RAMSEY
THOMAS J. MCCARTHY
has been promoted to head of the international trade section at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on
recently moved her practice to Virginia Estate and Trust Law, a boutique trusts and estates firm in Richmond. She and her four partners—HELEN
NANCY NEWTON ROGERS ’85, DEREK L. SMITH ’76 and DAVID W. WHITEHEAD ’77—are
all members of the American College of Trusts & Estates Counsel
1999 CMANDA PERSAUD
joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in the private investment funds practice in New York City. She focuses her practice on the formation, fundraising and operation of private investment funds. She was previously with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
2000 CHRIS CONVERSE is
listed in Chambers USA 2016 in corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, and in Best Lawyers 2017 in corporate law. He is co-chair of the private equity industry team and private equity partner with Gardere Wynne Sewell in Dallas.
LEWIS KEMP ’87,
W. ALTENBERND LL.M.
joined Carlton Fields as shareholder in the national appellate practice and trial support group in Tampa, Fla. He will also practice in the firm’s national trial practice and whitecollar crime and government investigations groups. Altenbernd served on Florida’s Second District Court for 27 years and wrote nearly 1,400 opinions for the court. For more than two decades, he was a faculty member of the Florida Judicial College of New Appellate Judges. ADRIENNE PRUDEN ASHBY is in her fifth
year of homeschooling
THE UVA GRAY ALUMNI TEAM took runner-up honors at the 33rd Annual UVA Law Softball Invitational in April. Gray notched comeback wins over current law students at Florida Coastal and Georgia, only to lose in the finals to Ave Maria in extra innings. TEAM MEMBERS INCLUDED MATT DAVIS ’98, ADAM BRAUN ’98, DAVID TURK ’99, ANDY JOHNSON ’99, PAUL EVANS ’99, ERIC CHENOWETH ’98, JOSH KLATZKIN ’99, JOHN MARK GOODMAN ’06, TYLER DUVALL ’98, BRAD MOYERS ’98, ANDREW LOHMANN ’98 and FRANK BACELLI.
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