Alumni in the News
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november 1, 2009
Former corporate lawyer J. Travis Laster '95 on his first weeks on Delaware's Court of Chancery. More
October 28, 2009
In a Congressional hearing, DeMaurice Smith '89, executive director of the N.F.L. players association, called for more independent study of head injuries and promised that players’ safety would not be a bargaining issue with the league. More
October 26, 2009
Stephanie Tsacoumis '81 has been appointed Georgetown University’s new General Counsel More
October 16, 2009
Following confirmation by the Senate, Timothy Heaphy '91 was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. More
October 9, 2009
New York ADA Pierce Moser '99 is a member of the elder abuse prosecution team that secured a victory in the case against Brooke Astor's son. More
october 6, 2009
Matthew Winter LL.M. '91 has been named President and CEO of Allstate Financial. More
october 2, 2009
Ronald P. Sokol '62, LL.M. '63, wrote an Op-Ed on the Polanski Case. More
September 29, 2009
Philip K. Howard '74 penned an Op-Ed on health care reform: Why Medical Malpractice is Off Limits. More
september 15, 2009
President Barack Obama has nominated Justice Barbara Keenan LL.M. '92 of the Virginia Supreme Court to the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Keenan has served on the Virginia Supreme Court since 1991. More
September 11, 2009
George Bostick '73, one of the founders of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Team, has been appointed Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. More
September 2, 2009
Behind every pervert, including the California man accused of keeping a sex slave for 18 years, there’s invariably a complicit community, writes Linda Fairstein '72 —and an enabling wife. More
September 1, 2009
Sports manager and teacher Donald Dell '64 likes to think his honesty with clients is a key selling point. "Smart athletes will demand the truth." More
August 28, 2009
His former professor, Mortimer Caplin '40, and classmate, A.E. Dick Howard '61, comment on Senator Edward Kennedy '59 as a law student. More
August 26, 2009
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '59 of Massachusetts, one of the most influential senators in history, has passed away. More
august 24, 2009
Lobbyist Heather Podesta '97 was featured as an "Insider's Insider" in the Washington Post. More
august 19, 2009
Delaware's governor has nominated corporate lawyer J. Travis Laster '95 for the state's Court of Chancery, which hears a large number of high-profile business and shareholder disputes. More
August 7, 2009
Neil MacBride '92 has been nominated by President Obama to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. More
August 3, 2009
President Obama has nominated Richmond lawyer Timothy Heaphy '91 for U.S. Attorney of Virginia's Western District. More
July 31, 2009
R. Hewitt Pate '87 was tapped by Chevron to become its general counsel. Pate has been global competition group head in Hunton & Williams' Washington, D.C. office, after serving as head of the DOJ's antitrust division. More
july 26, 2009
Jack Graveley '72, former head of the Virginia NAACP, and radio talk show host, finds satisfaction in being part of the daily conversation in Richmond again. More
july 23, 2009
Mary Bauer '90, who has directed the Southern Poverty Law Center's Immigrant Justice Project since its inception in 2004, has been named as the SPLC's new legal director. More
July 21, 2009
Randal J. Kirk '79 of Pulaski County, replacing the outgoing Thomas F. Farrell II '79, joins fellow Law alumni on the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors. Appointed to second four-year terms: A Macdonald Caputo '66 and Alan A. Diamonstein '58. More
July 7, 2009
Jeff Kreisler '99 chronicles his life from Law School to comedian and author. More
Glenn Saks '97 was interviewed on National Public Radio's Marketplace report and on WLRN Miami Herald News about the mortgage foreclosure crisis and how it is impacting tenants. More
July 2, 2009
Leah Ward Sears LL.M. '95 stepped down as Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. In 1992, she became the first woman -- and youngest person -- appointed to Georgia's highest court. Sears recently wrote about "disposable marriage." More
June 28, 2009
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office veteran Irene Daisy Williams '87 has found new success in her life as a novelist and publisher of erotic romance literature. More
June 24, 2009
Paul Lombardo '85 has no plans to abandon his fight to publicize the terrible history of eugenics. With genetics playing an increasingly important role in science, Lombardo and other bioethicists fear the lessons of the eugenics debacle matter more than ever. More
June 23, 2009
Shannon Nash '95 and her husband were featured in Black Enterprise magazine article on the family's approach to financial matters. More
june 21, 2009
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has given the first David Carliner Public Interest Award to Tim Freilich '99, the legal director of the Charlottesville-based Immigrant Advocacy Program. More
Lt. Arthur Karell '05 and his Marine battalion were sent to Now Zad, Afghanistan, to train Afghan police. Instead, they had to fight the insurgents who had taken over the town. More
June 19, 2009
John O. "Dubby" Wynne '71 of Virginia Beach begins his two-year term as the University of Virginia's 40th rector, or chairman of the board. More
June 1, 2009
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appointed Judge Harold W. Burgess Jr. '72 to Virginia's 12th Judicial Circuit, which serves Chesterfield County and Colonial Heights. More
Kaine appointed Joel Cunningham '75 to the judicial circuit serving Appomattox County. More
May 24, 2009
Joyce White Vance '85 of Birmingham is one of the first six people picked by President Obama as U.S. Attorney nominees - the start to changing leadership in 93 U.S. attorney offices. Obama's selection of Vance shines a national spotlight on the lawyer who moved to Alabama 21 years ago to marry Robert Vance Jr. '85. More
may 19, 2009
Margot Rogers '92 has been appointed as Chief os Staff of the U.S. Department of Education. More
May 13, 2009
Judge A. Lee McGratty '67 stepped down from general district court and hasn't looked back. More
May 9, 2009
Susan G. Harris '87 has been named to the oldest administration position at the University of Virginia, secretary to the Board of Visitors. More
may 1, 2009
Kaye Hearn LL.M. '98, the first female chief judge of the S. C. Court of Appeals, is unopposed in her bid to join the S.C. Supreme Court. She once served as the first female law clerk to that court's chief justice. More
Senator Edward Kennedy '59 was named to TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People list. More
april 24, 2009
West Point's Center for the Rule of Law was dedicated in a grand opening conference facilitated by Center Director Sali Rakower '99. Keynote speakers included the former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, Queen Noor of Jordan, and retired General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto Mora. More
april 23, 2009
Bobby Sturgell '94, who served as acting administrator of the FAA, has joined Rockwell Collins as senior vice president of its Washington operations. More
april 9, 2009
Fred Fielding '64, White House counsel to former President George W. Bush and a former member of the 9/11 Commission, is joining Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in its Washington office. More
In his first two years on the U.S. Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse '82 (D-R.I.), from his seat on the Judiciary Committee, has carved a niche in national politics as a forceful critic of the Bush administration. More
april 6, 2009
Tally Parham '96 has gleamed wisdom from each of her roles: lawyer, F-16 pilot, and mother. More
april 3, 2009
Three Washington, D.C.-based alumni, Bryan Cave associates, David Zetoony '03 and Patrice Hayden '02, and Catholic Charities' Debi Sanders '78, are combating individuals who fraudulently represent themselves as immigration attorneys or consultants qualified to help clients with immigration-related legal tangles by filing federal and state cases to stop them and asking the American Bar Association and the FTC for help. More (login required) or PDF
april 1, 2009
Covington & Burling partner and noted author, Philip K. Howard '74, penned the op-ed, "Just Medicine," in the New York Times. More
march 28, 2009
President Barack Obama nominated Helen Elizabeth Garrett '88 to the post of Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the Department of Treasury. More
march 26, 2009
Jody Calemine '99 was named general counsel for labor issues to the House Education and Labor Committee. Calemine had been the Committee's deputy director of labor policy. More
march 21, 2009
David Baldacci's '86 sixteen books were all bestsellers. NEWSWEEK asks, "Why do people have such a problem with that?" More
march 20, 2009
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alice Hill '83 is leaving the bench to become counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, her former law school classmate Janet Napolitano '83. More
Edward Kelly III '81 was named the CFO of Citigroup. More
march 19, 2009
Mike Danko '83 and Terry O'Reilly, well-known California plaintiffs' attorneys, have announced that they are ending a 14-year partnership on April 1. More
Anthony Trenga '74 is the newest U.S. District judge at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, one of the nation's highest-profile legal assignments. More
March 18, 2009
Rob Plummer '94 is a sports agent who works with talented, young Dominican baseball players. Plummer was featured in an ESPN magazine story on the current state of MLB and the youth of the Dominican Republic. More
March 16, 2009
The United Nations expert body monitoring compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights opened its 95th session in New York, electing its Chairman, Yuji Iwasawa SJD '97, and members of its Bureau, and adopting its provisional agenda. More
DeMaurice Smith’s '89 ties to presidential power and business experts trumped football experience, leading the Washington-based attorney to become the NFL Players Association’s new executive director. More
march 12, 2009
Former U.S. Senator John Warner's '53 memorabilia is going on the auction block -- everything from U.S. flags and Navy cufflinks to oil paintings and a model train. The reason? Warner doesn’t have room for it at home. More
march 8, 2009
Washington, D.C. businessman Eric Broyles '95 was interviewed about fundraising for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Newark Mayor Cory Booker. More
march 4, 2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown bestowed a knighthood on Senator Edward Kennedy '59 on behalf of the Queen of England, in a recent address to the U.S. Congress. More
DeMaurice Smith '89, a Washington attorney and a Redskins fan, is the only football outsider among the three finalists to succeed the late Gene Upshaw as executive director of the NFL Players Association. More
march 3, 2009
Ronald Sokol '62, LL.M. '63, writes about the impact the Muslim presence in France has on the development of French law. More
february 25, 2009
In his 14th term in Congress, Virginia Rep. Rick Boucher '71, has assumed the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. More
Robert Burton '79 and Jerry Cox '79 agree that one of the most substantial and lasting contributions President Obama can make to American government is to ensure purchasing practices at the Pentagon are transformed. More
february 20, 2009
Queen Elizabeth II herself is expected to meet privately with former U.S. Senator John Warner '53 at Buckingham Palace, ask him to kneel and confer upon him what the British Embassy says is the highest honor that country affords. She'll pronounce him John Warner, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. More
february 13, 2009
U.S. Rep. J. Randy Forbes '77 is in his fifth term representing Virginia’s 4th District. As the top Republican on the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee, Forbes answers five questions about the current state of affairs. More
February 6, 2009
Former Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor and best-selling author Linda Fairstein '72 discusses her careers, past and present. More
february 4, 2009
The Virginia Press Association has selected former Gov. Gerald Baliles '67 as Virginian of the Year. More
February 3, 2009
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan '86 entered the U.S. Senate race, seeking to follow in the political footsteps of her mother and late father. Carnahan, a Democrat, is the first candidate to officially seek Kit Bond's '63 seat. More
february 1, 2009
Congressman Tom Davis '75 reflects on his 14 years in the House. More
january 31, 2009
As personal and political attorney to President Barack Obama and as the Democratic Party's new lawyer, Bob Bauer '76, has unmatched power in Democratic legal circles, according to POLITICO. More
january 29, 2009
Neil MacBride '92 is joining Attorney General-designate Eric Holder’s team at the Justice Department as associate deputy general. Before his stint as general counsel and vice president for anti-piracy at Business Software Alliance, MacBride was chief counsel and staff director to then-Sen. Joe Biden. More
january 24, 2009
Ralph Baxter '74, chairman of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, was featured in an article about the changing landscape of salaries at law firms. More
january 22, 2009
Dorothy Boucher '46, an Abingdon attorney who blazed the trail for Southwest Virginia women in the legal profession, died at her home Wednesday. Her son, U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher '71, said his mother was the first woman to practice law in what is now the 28th Judicial Circuit of Virginia. More
january 21, 2009
David A. Chandler '04 LL.M. took the oath of office to become a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice. His investiture ceremony is scheduled for later in the month. More
january 13, 2009
Gahanna (Ohio) City Councilwoman Beryl Anderson '83 was a featured performer at an Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Birthday concert. Anderson is a classically trained vocalist and flautist. More
January 10, 2009
United Arab Emeriates resident and businessman, John Sinders '79, is the man behind the Khaleji Motorsport team in the 24 Hours of Dubai race. More
january 8, 2009
Missouri Sen. Kit Bond '63 will retire in 2010. "In 1972, I became Missouri's youngest Governor," Bond said in an address to the Missouri General Assembly. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I do no aspire to become Missouri's oldest Senator." More
January 7, 2009
Ridge Schuyler '87 is serving as his district director to newly elected U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, Virginia, a position that oversees staff and operations of the newly elected congressman’s district offices. More
january 6, 2009
Luis Fortuno '85, the first Republican governor of Puerto Rico in 35 years, is being hailed by the RNC as the future of the GOP. More
The Honorable M. Yvette Miller '04 LL.M.was sworn in as the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia at the Georgia State Capitol. She is the first African American woman to hold this position. More
December 31, 2008
Peter S. Kiernan '68 is retiring from public service after more than 40 years working at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kiernan served as Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was a key liaison between the Commission and the Congress. More
Through District Court and Circuit Court, Frederick C. Wright III '63 oversaw justice in Washington County, Maryland, for nearly four decades. Mandatory retirement at age 70 forced him to stop presiding full time. In honor of his work, Wright has been named The Herald-Mail’s 2008 Person of the Year. An administrative judge for most of his career, Wright said the credo “justice delayed is justice denied” guided him. More
december 25, 2008
J. Samuel Johnston '72 said he saw the good in 99 percent of the people who stood before him during his 31 years as a Campbell County (Virginia) judge. "And those who aren't, you deal with them in the right way," Johnston said shortly after his portrait was unveiled this week in the county's circuit courtroom. More
December 23, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama tapped Thomas E. Donilon '85 to serve as deputy national security adviser. More
december 17, 2008
PG&E Corporation elected Roger H. Kimmel '71 to the holding company's Board of Directors, as well as the Board of its subsidiary, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which provides utility service for 15 million people in northern and central California. More
December 8, 2008
Timothy B. Goodell '84 has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Hess Corporation. Goodell has been a partner in the law firm White & Case, where he has worked since 1984. More
december 2, 2008
Dow Jones & Company named Andrew Langhoff '87 as publisher of The Wall Street Journal Europe and managing director of Dow Jones Consumer Media Group in Europe, Middle East and Africa. More
december 1, 2008
Mary K. Porter '94, founder of Curiosity Zone, a hands-on science center for children in Ashburn, Va., was interviewed for a piece on the versatility of a law degree. More
november 27, 2008
Republicans in Washington cheered when Luis G. Fortuño '85, one of their own, was elected governor of Puerto Rico on Nov. 4. But on the island, where American affiliations are often worn and dropped like accessories, he now describes his victory as Obamaesque. More
november 23, 2008
Cynthia Hogan '84 has been named Counsel to the Vice President-elect Joseph Biden. Hogan has been a legal advisor to Biden for nearly 20 years. More
november 21, 2008
Two of the nation's most prominent organizations supporting higher education selected Arizona State University engineering professor Brad Allenby '78 as one the winners of its 2008 U.S. Professors of the Year Awards. More
november 20, 2008
Kent Alexander '83 became friends with Janet Napolitano in their first year of Law School. The pair remains friends and Alexander spoke with NPR about Napolitano's potential in the Obama cabinet. More
november 18, 2008
Michael R. Chesman '69 was named senior vice president, associate general counsel, and director of tax law at the Hartford Financial Services Group. Chesman, joins The Hartford from the Internal Revenue Service, where he was director of the Office of Professional Responsibility. More
November 12, 2008
W. Geoffrey Carpenter '78 has been named general counsel of spice maker McCormick & Co. Inc. More
November 11, 2008
Peter Kaufman '78 of Gordian Group was on CNBC Power Lunch discussing why the government's bailout policy is wrong and what changes should be made to it. More
Kaufman was also on the Today Show on November 12, discussing aid to automakers. More (Links will open in a media player.)
November 9, 2008
Drawing on years of research and firsthand interviews with both American and Japanese survivors, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy '92 has authored a book that about the men serving their countries in war and the advent of a new weapon, suicide bombing. More
William Sanders II '42, LL.M. '48 fought on Pacific beaches in World War II, then battled segregation in the courts. Now, the West Virginia attorney has received one of the state’s highest honors. Sanders, 91, was inducted into the Order of the 35th Star. The induction is granted to West Virginia citizens who have achieved a distinguished honor or is a distinguished veteran of military service. More
November 5, 2008
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano '83 was named to President Elect Barack Obama's transition team. More
November 4, 2008
The U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico voted in record numbers to elect fiscal and social conservative Luis G. Fortuno '85 as the next governor of Puerto Rico - making him the Island's first Republican governor since 1968. Fortuno, Puerto Rico's current sole representative in the U.S. Congress, ran in a four-way gubernatorial race as president of the Island's pro-statehood New Progressive Party. More
October 19, 2008
Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore ’77 — a self-described “Reagan Republican” — discusses his political record, platform, and bid for U.S Senate. More
October 7, 2008
When President Teddy Roosevelt’s Southern Albemarle retreat, Pine Knot, was on the verge of being forgotten, Roger Leclere ’49 and friends worked to ensure future generations would have the opportunity to be moved and inspired by it as well. More
October 1, 2008
John B. McCammon '76 stopped practicing in 1993 to enter the relatively unused method (in Virginia) for settling disputes and lawsuits: mediation. McCammon was heavily involved in mediating the claims of families who had children or spouses killed in the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007. More
September 29, 2008
Ellis "Skip" Prince '77 has been named as the new commissioner of the United States Hockey League. More
September 23, 2008
Robert H. Edmunds LL.M. '04, working in the halls of justice in North Carolina for 30 years, is campaigning for another eight years on the North Carolina Supreme Court. More
september 11, 2008
City Council President, William J. Pantele '83, is running for mayor of Richmond, Virginia. More
September 20, 2008
Finis E. St. John IV '82 has been elected the president pro tem of the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees. More
september 9, 2008
Beth Ann Wilkinson '87 was a star partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins in 2006, when she took a gamble and joined Fannie Mae as general counsel. At the time, the mortgage company was trying to dig itself out of an $11 billion accounting scandal. But the effort to turn around Fannie has taken a radical, indeed humbling turn: The federal government has seized control of the company and its sibling, Freddie Mac. More
september 6, 2008
In a surprise decision, the College of William and Mary's Board of Visitors decided to forego a national search for a new president and appoint W. Taylor Reveley III '68 as the 27th president in the more than 300-year history of the school. More
September 4, 2008
Sean May '98, a rising star in the Adams County District Attorney's Office, was killed in the backyard of his northwest Denver home. The prosecutor will be remembered by friends and colleagues as "one of the best." More
august 23, 2008
Former federal judge, C. Timothy Corcoran '73, plans to enter a Catholic seminary at age 62. Corcoran hopes a fully ordained Roman Catholic priest by age 66. More
Glenn Gundersen '80, trademark and copyright lawyer at Dechert in Philadelphia, says there's a powerful correlation between trademark filings and the overall health of the economy. And using that metric, things aren't as bad now as they might seem, he asserts. More
august 18, 2008
Kevin Martingayle '91 never imagined his practice would be at the center of so much conflict. "Anytime I detect someone is behaving like a bully, I will take up that battle." More
august 5, 2008
Few members of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors have been as influential as Gordon Rainey '67, who this year steps down after two four-year terms. He was rector during restructuring, and since 2006 he has been chairman of UVA’s $3 billion capital campaign, which he will continue to lead. More
july 31, 2008
G. Steven Agee '77 was featured during his first month as judge on one of the nation's most important appellate courts. Agee now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. More
Tim Ryan '96 is featured in an article about attorneys are returning to the fold after seeking opportunities elsewhere. "While it is typical for lawyers to rejoin a firm after a political appointment comes to an end, increased lateral shuffling in the current legal market has some attorneys heading back home after a stint with the competition." More
july 30, 2008
On July 23 a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the city of Fredericksburg, Va., acted properly in banning a member of its city council from invoking the name of Jesus Christ in prayers at the start of meetings. People for the American Way, a nonprofit, took up the city's case but recruited two Hunton & Williams litigators to share brief-writing duties and make the oral arguments. An associate, Terence Rasmussen '02, argued the case in district court; a partner, Robert Rolfe '76, took over on appeal. The two talked to The Am Law Daily about the case. More
july 18, 2008
Louise S. Sams '85, executive vice president and general counsel of Turner Broadcasting Systems, as well as president of Turner Broadcasting System International, was featured for her many roles as general counsel. More
july 14, 2008
Charles Lee '76 made a call to Peter Ueberroth in the middle of the night on May 12, 1984, over a crackling phone line from Beijing that carried the news that determined the fate of the Olympics. Lee was sent to persuade China to send their team to the Olympics for the first time — defying a Soviet Union-led boycott. More
july 12, 2008
David Baldacci '86 talks about his writing life on the occasion of his recently released 12th thriller novel, "Stone Cold." More
july 9, 2008
If Congress takes up legislation next year to increase consultation with the White House over any future war plans, it may have a trio of Virginians to thank. The National War Powers Commission, which proposed a new consultation process, was the brainchild of former Virginia Gov. Gerald L. Baliles '67. To run the commission, Baliles turned to two Virginians from academia: W. Taylor Reveley III '68, interim president of the College of William and Mary, and John Jeffries Jr., '73, former dean of the Law School. More
july 7, 2008
Virginia Supreme Court Justice G. Steven Agee '77 has been sworn in as a judge on the U.S. Court Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Agee is replacing J. Michael Luttig '81 , who resigned in 2006 to become senior vice president and general counsel at the Boeing Co. More
July 2, 2008
Acting New Jersey criminal justice director Deborah Gramiccioni '97 said she wants the crime-fighting arm of the state's Attorney General's Office to focus more closely on financial crimes, such as mortgage fraud and money laundering. More Law.com featured Gramiccioni in her role as New Jersey's new head of the Division of Criminal Justice. More
july 1, 2008
Ted Mathas '92 was named chief executive officer of New York Life Insurance Company, the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States with 15,000 employees and 50,000 agents worldwide, and more than $280 billion in assets under management. Mathas also retains the title of president of the company, a post he's held since July 1, 2007. As CEO, he will oversee all of the company's U.S. and international operations including individual life insurance, retirement income, investments and long-term care insurance. More
June 19, 2008
Retiring Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles Lee '76 will be inside Beijing Stadium, marching with the U.S. Olympic team in the opening ceremonies of the Summer Games soon. Lee, fluent in Mandarin, is the U.S. team's Chef de Mission for the Beijing Olympics. Lee will serve as the head of the U.S. delegation, bringing any problems the athletes have to the attention of Beijing Olympic officials. More
June 16, 2008
Janet Napolitano '83 was featured in the Wall St. Journal's Washington Wire column as a potential pick for vice president. At 50 years old, the Arizona Governor is an appealing red-state Democrat. More
may 14, 2008
Charlie Peters '57 is quoted in New York Times column on Barack Obama's primary loss in West Virginia. Peters' is quoted as saying Obamba needs imagination and a “tremendous effort” to dispel bias in West Virginia, and quickly, “because once it’s set in concrete, you’ll have a hell of a time.” More
May 8, 2008
Allen W. Groves '90 has been appointed as the University of Virginia’s associate vice president and dean of students. Groves has served as the university’s interim dean of students for the past nine months. He joined UVa’s administration in May 2006 as a student affairs fundraiser, a position that he continued to hold while serving as interim dean. Prior to coming to UVa, Groves was a labor and employment attorney with Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Atlanta. More
may 6, 2008
Thomas G. Slater Jr.'69, a partner in the Richmond law firm Hunton & Williams, was elected president of the Virginia Military Institute’s Board of Visitors. Slater has been a member of the board since 2003 and has been active in VMI alumni organizations since his graduation. More
may 1, 2008
The United States Olympic Committee has appointed Judge Charles Carter Lee '76 as Chef de Mission for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team at the Beijing Olympic Games. Judge Lee speaks Mandarin and has given various lectures on the California legal system in China in both English and Mandarin. He has served as a judge with the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 1989. More
April 26, 2008
In a rare display of bipartisan camaraderie in an otherwise heated election year, a caravan of the state's political stars — past and present — made its way to an occasion of tribute to retiring U.S. Senator John Warner '53. The event marked the first time that eight Virginia governors appeared at the same forum. More
April 23, 2008
Will Hopkins '86, a former partner in the Washington office of Ross, Dixon & Bell, was featured on the WSJ's Law Blog as one of the finalists in American Idol's songwriter competition. Hopkins's song, "When You Come From Nothing," is among the contest's final top 20. More
April 22, 2008
Bill Pollock '75 is so passionate about protecting directors of companies that he started National Insurance Partners, an independent insurance and risk management organization dedicated in large part to advising company executives and directors on compensation, benefits, wealth management and insurance matters. More
april 9, 2008
A. Stephens Clay '67, a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton, discusses why he became a lawyer and his thoughts about the practice of law. More
april 8, 2008
Robert Burton '79, deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, plans to retire in July. While at OFPP, Burton has played a key role in directing and developing governmentwide acquisition policies, regulations and initiatives. He has guided agencies through changes in contracting and acquisition policies as OFPP handled contracting issues. More
april 3, 2008
Maurice Jones '92 was named the next publisher of The Virginian-Pilot. Jones' appointment makes Landmark Communication's The Pilot the country's largest daily newspaper with a black publisher. More
Charlottesville's crossword enthusiasts and word-savvy students put down their puzzles long enough to hear a talk at the University by Will Shortz '77, crossword editor for The New York Times. Shortz holds the world's only college degree in "enigmatology," the study of puzzles. More. Listen to Shortz's UVA tribute puzzle on NPR's Weekend Edition, More.
March 28, 2008
When Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III '72 took the bench in 1984 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, he had no idea that things would be so different decades later. A featured speaker at the Virginia Festival of the book, Wilkinson gave the audience a glimpse of his life on the bench by answering frequently asked questions about his position. More
March 27, 2008
Gloria Cordes Larson '77 was inaugurated as the president of Bentley College on March 28. Larson, who has been on the job since July, joined the school from the law firm Foley Hoag, where she co-chaired the government strategies group. Larson is Bentley's first female president. More
March 17, 2008
Tyler Duvall '98 and his colleagues have ignited a national argument — the first real debate about how to fund transportation in 50 years, according to the Washington Post. Duvall is the assistant secretary for transportation policy and is committing discretionary DOT funds to seed five high-profile experiments to combat road congestion. More
March 16, 2008
Jeff Wells '87 has embarked on a new career as an innkeeper with his life partner, Mac Pence, in Richmond. Maury Place at Monument, the luxury four-guest room bed and breakfast was featured in a Richmond Times Dispatch special publication. More
March 13, 2008
President Bush nominated Virginia Supreme Court Justice G. Steven Agee '77 to the Richmond-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Both Virginia senators, Republican John W. Warner '53 and Democrat Jim Webb, applauded the move. Agee is nominated to fill the vacancy left by J. Michael Luttig '81, who resigned in 2006 to become general counsel for Boeing Corp. More
March 2, 2008
kstreet lounge and its owner, David Chung '98, were featured in a Washington Post article about the late-night bars and lounges have opened within a block of 14th and K streets NW in the past few years, transforming the area into the District's trendy new nightspot. More
Charles Elson '85, the first director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, is raising questions about Delaware's incorporations gold mine. He's publicly urging the state to consider small changes to its corporate law code in response to growing calls for greater rights for stockholders in public companies. "One of Elson's great strengths is his massive Rolodex that includes people who are dealing with corporate governance issues in the trenches," said Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron Steele '70, LL.M. '04. More
February 16, 2008
John W. Warner '53 has been named a 2008 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal, the highest external honors given by the University of Virginia. Warner, R-Alexandria, is a five-term senator who is retiring this year. He will receive the medal for citizen leadership. More
february 14, 2008
PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem '73 sat for a roundtable airing this weekend on GolfChannel.com. Commissioner since 1994, Finchem addressed drug-testing, the success of the FedExCup and the Tour's new cut policy in the discussion. More
February 10, 2008
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office sent Deputy DA Shanna Batten '95 to Washington, D.C., to help federal counterparts handle increased requests to return criminal suspects who flee across the Mexican border. Batten handles requests from DAs in California to have criminal suspects hiding in Mexico or Central America returned to U.S. soil. Officials said one-fifth of the nearly 600 active extradition cases in which criminals fled to Mexico originated from California. More
February 7, 2008
Jim Malone's '72 active membership in six golf clubs, along with his ability to play multiple rounds in a single day, won him the title of Golf Nut Society's Golf Nut of the Year title. More
January 29, 2008
Citigroup Inc. has hired Ned Kelly '81, former chief executive of Mercantile Bankshares, as president of its alternative investment unit. More
January 25, 2008
Alex Mejias '05 was featured as a recent alumnus who in addition to passing the New York Bar Exam has ventured into a professional music career. Mejias was in Charlottesville to celebrate the release of his first solo pop/rock CD. More
January 21, 2008
Nancy L. Buc '69, a partner in the law firm of Buc & Beardsley in Washington, D.C., has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Food and Drug Law Institute, the leading non-profit association comprised of food and drug attorneys and manufacturers. More
The ground-breaking work and distinguished career of former Manhattan assistant district attorney Linda Fairstein '72 are the basis for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and was featured in an article in The Scotsman. More
January 16, 2008
The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership will honor U.S. Sen. John W. Warner '53, R-Alexandria, at its annual Spring Gala in April. Warner, 80, has served in the Senate since 1978. He is retiring this year, at the end of his fifth term. More
After years of practicing law in New York, NY, Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA, Lee Anne Washington '88 has returned to her hometown of White Stone, Virginia. Washington is now the Republican candidate for Virginia's 99th District House of Delegates position that was vacated one month ago. More
January 14, 2008
The Virginia Bar Association has renamed its Distinguished Service Award in honor of Gov. Gerald L. Baliles '67, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and will present the first renamed award to Supreme Court of Virginia Senior Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy LL.M. '92 at its annual meeting in Williamsburg on Friday, Jan. 18. VBA President Glenn C. Lewis said, "The renaming of the award for Governor Baliles and its presentation to Justice Lacy are entirely fitting. They have been not only two of the most outstanding public servants in Virginia of this generation; for many years they also have been consistently and visibly dedicated to the mission and programs of The Virginia Bar Association." More
January 9, 2008
Bart Epstein '99, Tutor.com's chief legal counsel and Internet safety advisor was a winner of the Norton Cyber Smackdown at CES 2008. The quiz show, co-hosted by a FOX "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" whiz kid Nathan Lazarus, Miss America 2007, Lauren Nelson, and Symantec Internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, challenges contestants to discover how much — or how little — they know about online lifestyles and online safety. Epstein easily won his round and earned the highest score of any Smackdown contestant. More
January 7, 2008
Though his retirement is official today, Augusta County (Va.) Circuit Court Judge Thomas H. Wood's '67 schedule won't change too much during the next three months. Until legislators name his successor in March, Wood plans to fill in on the bench. Wood has overseen a variety of cases in his 23-year career on the bench. More
January 1, 2008
Judge J. Michael Williamson '67 will take over as president judge of the Clinton County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas. More