CLASS notes

Hon. Thomas E. Fairchild('38), Senior Judge on theU.S.Court ofAppeals for theSeventh Circuit, and Irvin B.Charne ('49), a partner inthe Milwaukee law firm ofHall, Charne, Burce & Olson,were recently awarded theAmerican Inns of CourtProfessionalism Award for theSeventh Judicial Circuit asthe individuals "who bestexemplify the ideals of theAmerican Inns of Court."

Hon. Nathan S. Heffernan('48), retired Chief Justiceof the Wisconsin SupremeCourt, and Hon. John B.Reynolds ('49), Senior Judgefor the U.S.District Courtfor the Eastern District ofWisconsin, each receivedhonorary Doctor of Lawsdegrees during the May 1999Commencement ceremoniesat the University ofWisconsin.

Earl H. Munson ('59)has joined Boardman LawFirm LLPas a partner. Hecontinues to do trial lawand complex litigation.

James L. Forbes ('60) hasbeen elected Chairman andChief Executive Officer ofBadger Meter, Inc., inMilwaukee. Forbes joinedBadger Meter in 1979 as ageneral manager and becameits president in 1982.

Donald S. Taitelman ('62),of Quarles & Brady in Milwau-kee, has been named oneof Milwaukee's top attorneysin Milwaukee Magazine's1999 Best Lawyers guide.Taitelman was praised forhis work in corporate law.

G. Lane Ware ('65), of Ruder,Ware &Michler in Wausau,has become Chairman of thefirm's Board of Directors afterserving 27 years as presidentand CEO.Ware is also the pastpresident of the WisconsinLawAlumni Association.

T. Dennis George ('66)has been named to the postof Senior Vice Presidentfor Corporate Affairs andGeneral Counsel of DendreonCorporation in Seattle. Georgepracticed law in Seattle for33 years before joining Den-dreon, a biotech company.

Robert B. Moberly ('66)has been named Dean ofthe University of ArkansasSchool of Law in Fayetteville.Moberly had been onthe faculty at the Universityof Florida College of Lawwhere he served as Directorof the Institute for DisputeResolution.

Benjamin G. Porter ('66)is the senior partner in thenew Seattle law firm of Porter,Kohli & LeMaster, a generalpractice firm with emphasison commercial litigation,business transactions andtax planning.

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Richard M. Clinton ('67)has joined the Seattle officeof Dorsey &Whitney. Clintonhad previously practice lawin the Seattle area.

PaulJ. Cherner ('68), Chi-cago, was recently honored byThe Hillels of Illinois.Cherner,who practices in the Chicagooffice of Michael, Best &Friedrich, has served in leader-ship roles with Hillels begin-ning with the Hillel at theUniversity ofWisconsin.

J. Adam Moore ('69), ofYakima,Washington, hasreceived the 1999 William O.Douglas Award from theWashington Association ofCriminal Defense Lawyers.The Douglas Award,WACDL'smost prestigious award, isgiven in recognition ofextraordinary courage andcommitment in the practiceof criminal law.

Cheryl Rosen Weston ('71)has been selected as the CEOand Chair of the DouglasStewart Company in Madison.

Thomas J. Kennedy ('72)has joined the Phoenix firmof Gallagher & Kennedy.Kennedy practices in theareas of labor law, employeerelations and employmentlitigation.

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Mad Gursky Shaw ('72)has joined Morgan, Lewis &Bockius, the nation's fourthlargest law firm, as a partnerin the litigation section of thePhiladelphia office. Shaw isalso a member of the UWLaw School's Board ofVisitors.Shaw focuses her practiceon intellectual property.

Gerald Mowris ('73), apartner in the Madison firmof Pellino, Rosen, Mowris andKirkhuff, has been designatedPresident-elect of the StateBar of Wisconsin.

Lon E. Roberts ('73) has

been named President andCEO of Ruder,Ware & Michlerin Wausau. Roberts practicescommercial, health andgeneral business law.

Benjamin Mandelman ('73)has been appointed DeputyRegional Attorney of theMilwaukee Regional Officeof the National LaborRelations Board.

Terry F. Peppard ('73)has been elected a Fellowof the Chartered Instituteof Arbitrators, an organizationof international commercialarbitrators. Peppard practices

as a commercial arbitratorand mediator from officesin Madison.

JohnJ. DiMotto ('74), aMilwaukee County CircuitJudge, has been electedPresident of the JustinianSociety of Lawyers, WisconsinChapter, which is affiliatedwith the National ItalianAmerican Bar Association.

Daniel o. Bernstine ('75),former Dean of the UW LawSchool and now President ofPortland State University, hasbeen named as the Chairmanof the Urban League of

G. Lane Ware receives Gargoyle for his service to WLAA.

Portland, Oregon.

Lawrence R. Hitt II('75),of Hitt and Associates inGreenwood Village, Colorado,has been elected Presidentof the Episcopal ChancellorsNetwork.

Andrew M. Barnes ('75),of the Milwaukee office ofQuarles & Brady,has beennamed one of Milwaukee'stop attorneys in MilwaukeeMagazine's 1999 Best Law-yers guide. Barnes practicesbankruptcy law.

Paul P. Eyre ('75) has beennamed National Chair ofBaker & Hostetler's LitigationGroup. A partner in theCleveland office, Eyre willcoordinate 200 lawyers in thefirm's nine offices.

John E. Lange ('75) has beennominated as U.S.Ambassadorto the Republic of Botswana.A career member of theForeign Service, Lange hadserved as the Deputy Chiefof Mission at the AmericanEmbassy in Tanzania, wherehe led the mission followingthe terrorist bombing inAugust, 1998.

Susan R. Steingass ('76) pastPresident of the State Bar ofWisconsin and Vice Presidentof the Wisconsin LawAlumniAssociation, has been namedto the Board of Directors ofthe American JudicatureSociety. Steingass, a formerDane County Circuit Judge,is a partner in the Madison,office of Habush, Habush,Davis & Rottier.

MichaelJ. T. McMillen ('76)has joined King & Spalding, inNew York City,where he willcontinue to practice in proj-ect financing and leasing, par-

ticularly in the Middle East.

Bette Briggs ('77) has beennamed Regional Director ofthe u.S. Department ofLabor's Pension and WelfareBenefits Administration officein San Francisco. For ten years,Briggs had been in the Officeof Regulations and Interpre-tations in Washington, D.C.

Kris Foate ('78) has beennamed Vice President andGeneral Manager of KTNV-TY,in LasVegas.Foate had previ-ously been General Managerof an FM radio station alsoowned by the Milwaukee-based Journal BroadcastGroup.

James J. Hoecker ('78) hasbeen appointed Chair of theFederal Energy RegulatoryCommission. Hoecker hasserved as a member of FERCsince 1993 and has promotedwholesale electric competition.

David K. Sparr ('78) hasopened an art gallery knownas "Memories on Market" inOshkosh. The gallery featureslimited edition prints by DoorCounty artists.

Jane Muller-Peterson ('79),featured in the last Gargoyle's"mystery picture," has joinedthe faculty of The DickinsonSchool of Law,PennsylvaniaState University, in Carlisle,Penn. She is the formerexecutive director of a four-county legal services programin Carlisle.

Jeffry P. Brown ('79) hasjoined Bear,Stearns & Co.,New York City,as Senior Man-aging Director and Director ofInstitutional Marketing andClient Service for Bear StearnsAsset Management. Brownhas 18 years experience in

investment banking.

Elena A. Cappella ('79) hasbeen re-elected as a DeputyDirector of the American LawInstitute, Philadelphia. Cappel-la came to the Institute in1990 after six years as Execu-tive Director of the WisconsinJudicial Commission.

Juliet P. Kostritsky ('80)has been appointed to theJohn Homer Kapp chair atthe Case Western ReserveUniversity School of Law.Kostritsky joined the CWRULaw School faculty in 1984.She teaches contracts, proper-ty, commercial paper andcontracts jurisprudence.

Joyce Ann Seiser ('80)has been appointed RegionalAttorney for the NationalLabor Relations Board officein Milwaukee. Seiser hasbeen with the NLRBsincegraduation.

Terry W. Frazier ('81) hasbeen appointed AssociateDean of the MississippiCollege School of Law.Frazieris also on the editorial adviso-ry board of the Land Use andEnvironmental Law Review.

Lynn L. Sarko ('81), of theSeattle office of KellerRohrback, has been named a"Washington Super Lawyer"by Law & Politics magazine.Sarko, a member of theWisconsin LawAlumniAssociation's Board ofDirectors, leads the firm'sComplex Litigation Group.

Laurie J. Levin ('81), a part-ner in the Orlando office ofBaker & Hostetler, has beennamed the "Best HealthcareAttorney" by the FloridaMedical Business group.

Carl Gulbransen (' 81) hasbeen appointed ManagingDirector of the WisconsinAlumni Research Foundation

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in Madison.WARF is thenon-profit agency thatcommercializes intellectualproperty for the University.

David Marks ('82), who haspracticed law in Houston sincegraduation, has stepped downas President of Stella Link,aprivate effort that has raisedover $9·million to redevelopan area of southwest Houstoninto a 40-acre corridor of pub-lic service facilities, includingathletic fields for the youth ofthe surrounding communities.

Susan B. Eisenhauer ('82),Fort Wayne, Indiana, has beenselected as the first ExecutiveDirector of the Indiana Judgesand Lawyers AssistanceProgram. The program assistspersons in the legal profes-sion to combat addictions.

Sylvan A. Sobel ('83),Director of Communicationsfor the Federal Judicial Centerin Washington, D.C., hasauthored two children'sbooks entitled How the US.Government Works andPresidential Elections andOther Cool Things.

Ami Jaeger ('86), of Santa Fe,New Mexico, was featured inan article in the Decemberissue of the ABA Journal. jae-

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ger is the co-chair of the Com-mittee on Reproductive andGenetic Technology of theABASection of Family Law.

David Gordon ('86) waschosen by the ABAtorepresent it in advising theRomanian Parliamenton matters relating to smalland medium-sized businesses.Gordon is an attorney inthe Small BusinessAdministration's IllinoisDistrict Office and serves asan adjunct professor at JohnMarshall Law School.

Pamela A. Hay ('86) hasbeen promoted to SeniorVice President of CorporateDevelopment for Dyax Corp.,Boston, where she willbe responsible for corporatedevelopment and licensingof biotechnology.

Jon Counsell ('87) has beenappointed a Clark County Cir-cuit Judge. Counsell formerlypracticed law in Green Bay.

Lynn Stathas ('88), whopractices civil litigationand employment law atReinhart, Boerner,Van Deuren,Norris & Rieselbach inMadison, has received the 1999Distinguished LeadershipAward from the NationalAssociation for CommunityLeadership and Spirit.

Hiram E. Puig-Lugo ('88)has been named AssociateJudge of the District ofColumbia Superior Court.Puig-Lugo had been a trialattorney with the U.S.Department of Justice.

Todd A. Rowden ('89), withthe Chicago office of Quarles& Brady,co-chaired the recent"ClassAction Litigation Sum-mit" sponsored by Fulcrum

Information Services Inc.Aaron R. Bransky ('89) hasjoined Brown, Andrew, Signor-elli and Zallar in Duluth, Minn.

Kathryn M. S. Catherwood('90) has been admitted topartnership in the San Diegofirm of Luce, Forward, Ham-ilton & Scripps. Catherwoodis a member of the firm'sCommercial, Finance andInsolvency Practice Group.

Ernesto Romero ('90) wasrecently named one ofMilwaukee's top attorneys inMilwaukee Magazine's 1999Best Lawyers guide. Romerohas opened Wisconsin's firstbilingual firm doing personalinjury and family law.

Jacob J. Meister ('90) hasbeen named a partner in theChicago firm of Schwartz& Freeman. Meister doescommercial, real estate andERISAlitigation.

Walter E. Zimmerman ('90)and Joseph N. Ziebert ('91),both of the Milwaukee officeof Foley & Lardner, havereceived the firm's FoundersAward in recognition of theirwork on behalf of clients inthe Intellectual PropertyDepartment.

David Gabianelli ('91)has been named a partnerin the San Francisco firm ofHancock Rothert & Bunshoft.Gabianelli practices employ-ment, insurance and businesslitigation.

Lisa D. Peck ('91) has beenelected principal in the Troy,Michigan, office of Miller,Canfield, Paddock and Stone,where she practices corporatelaw,mergers and acquisitions,securities and litigation.

Michael]. Pendleton ('92)is now a shareholder atIenkens & Gilchrist in Dallas.Pendleton is in the firm'sCorporate & Securities LawPractice Group.

Jennifer Pflug Murphy ('92)has become a partner in theMilwaukee firm of Gonzalez,Saggio,Birdsall & Harlan. Mur-phy specializes in complex realestate transactions, construc-tion, and environmental law.

Leonard E. Martin ('93)has joined Gonzalez, Saggio,Birdsall & Harlan in Milwau-kee. Martin previously servedas an Assistant WisconsinAttorney General.

Jeanette c. Lytle ('94) hasbeen named a partner at Sol-heim Billing & Grimmer, inMadison. Lytle practicesgeneral business litigationand employment law.

Stephen Lesavich ('95) hasbeen elected partner atMcDonnell Boehnen Hulbert& Bergoff in Chicago.Lesavich, who also holds aPh.D. in computer science,practices in the intellectualproperty law area.

Sarah A. Davies ('95) hasjoined the Madison office ofBalisle & Roberson. Daviespractices family law, estateplanning, probate andappellate law.

David S. Lu ('95) has joinedArter & Hadden in Cleveland,Ohio. Lu will do corporateand securities law.

Virginia R. Finn ('96) is thenew Development Directorfor the College of Letters andScience at the University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee.

and Evan Y. Lin ('98) arenew associates at Metzler andHager, Green Bay.Petersonwill practice estate planning,probate and business lawand Lin, a CPA,will do estateplanning, corporate andbusiness law.

Robert A. Kirschner ('98)is the CEO of IdeaOneTelecom Group in Fargo,North Dakota. Kirschnerhad 25 years of telephoneindustry experience prior toobtaining his law degree.

James A. Fricano ('99)has joined Charles RiverAssociates in Boston, asa Senior Associate in corpo-rate finance, securities andbusiness litigation.

Joshua A. Blakely,Elizabeth M. Drew,

James S. Swiderski andDaryllJ. Neuser (all '99)have joined the Milwaukeefirm of Reinhart, Boerner, VanDeuren, Norris & Rieselbach.Blakely will work in theBankruptcy Department inMilwaukee. Drew will be inthe Labor and EmploymentDepartment in Milwaukee.Swiderski is in the BusinessOrganizations Department,also in Milwaukee. Neuser isa member of the Labor andEmployment Department inthe Madison office.

KenyaJ. H. Smith ('99) haspassed the Louisiana bar examand joined the New Orleansoffice of Adams and Reese.

Margaret M. VanDeHey('99) has joined the Clevelandoffice of Baker & Hostetler.

Deborah J. Davidson(formerly Wilson) ('99) hasjoined the Alumni Relationsoffice of the University ofWisconsin Law School asAssistant Director .•

IN MEMORIAMARTHUR 1. MORSELL, Jr. '27

in Oconomowoc andformerly of Milwaukee

ARTHUR H. BEERMANN '30in Chicago

ROBERT D. JOHNS '35in Palm Beach

MAURICE 1. MARKEY '37in Milwaukee

JOHN P. VON ROHR '41in Belleair Beach, FL

ARTHUR KNEIBLER '42in Lake Forest, IL

JAMES C. HERRICK '43in Madison

LEO LEARY '45, in Milwaukee

THOMAS S. O'MALLEY, Jr. '48in Milwaukee

EDJ. HARRISON '48in Galveston, TX

JOHN JENSWOLD '48in Madison

ROBERT C. VOSS '48in Madison

ROBERT W. DEAN '50in Janesville and

formerly of Wausau

RALPHJ. GEFFEN '51in Los Angeles

R. ARTHUR LUDWIG '54in Milwaukee

ROBERT E. TEHAN, Jr. '55in Milwaukee

JOHN K. CALLAHAN '58in Monroe

ROBERT T. ITO '58, in Hilo, Hawaii

MILTON R. BURMASTER '59in Geneva, Switzerlandand formerly of Milwaukee

CHARLES BALDWIN '62in Fort Worth, TX

VICTOR A. MUSSALLEM '68in Madison

JACK F. OWEN '72in Rhinelander

ANDREW S. ZIEVE '78in Telluride, CO

JACQUEliNE MACAUlAY '83in Madison

JEFFREY BOWERSOCK '89 inTanzania and of New York City

JOHN E. OFFERDAHL '90in Mt. Horeb

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