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1980
Leonard “Len” C. Martin, left, a shareholder in Baker Donelson in Jackson, Miss., was recognized as a leading practitioner in the 2023 Chambers High Net Worth Guide, which covers the private wealth market. Martin earned a Band 1 ranking in private wealth law.
Scott D. Michel, right, was named chair of the American Bar Association’s 12,000-member Section of Taxation. Michel, a member and previous president of Caplin & Drysdale, has more than 40 years of experience in complex and sensitive tax controversy matters. He has been active in the section his entire career, having served as the vice chair for committee operations, section council director, and as the chair of the section’s committees on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties and Standards of Tax Practice. He also served as a mentor in the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, advising government officials responsible for tax enforcement in the Croatian Ministry of Finance.
William Nusbaum wrote that he is enjoying serving as president of the Hampton Roads Association for Commercial Real Estate. Nusbaum continues his practice with Williams Mullen in its Norfolk, Va., office, where he focuses on tax-exempt municipal bonds, commercial real estate and some corporate law and alcoholic beverage control work.
1982
Thomas A. Ryan was recognized in Chambers USA 2023 for environmental law in the Kansas City area. Ryan is senior counsel with Lathrop GPM.
Dennis Duffy, a director in the Houston office of Kane Russell Coleman Logan, was recognized in 2024 Best Lawyers in America for employment law.
1983
After more than 29 years of federal service, Mark A. Bradley retired in June as the director of the Information Security Oversight Office at the National Archives and Records Administration. Bradley’s appointment by David S. Ferriero, former archivist of the United States, was approved by President Barack Obama in 2016. He led several initiatives with far-reaching impacts for NARA and the federal government, serving as an advocate for modernizing and reforming the classified national security information system to meet today’s challenges. His efforts have helped elevate these concerns to senior White House National Security Council staff, who have begun an interagency process intended to make long-needed changes to the current system.
Before joining NARA, Bradley served in several key positions with the Department of Justice and the CIA. He was U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s legislative assistant for foreign affairs and intelligence matters and his last legislative director. In that role, he co-drafted the legislation that established the Public Interest Declassification Board.
Bradley wrote that he considers his two most demanding assignments to have been his service as a CIA intelligence officer in Pakistan after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan and as one of the Department of Justice’s voting members who served on the Periodic Review Board, the interagency body that reviews which detainees at Guantanamo no longer pose a significant national security threat to the United States.
The Rev. Rich Hendricks was named a One Iowa and DSM Magazine LGBTQ Legacy Leader for 2023. The award honors Iowa’s LGBTQ leaders whose contributions to equality and justice have helped ensure that gender and sexual orientation are not stigmatized or marginalized in Iowa. Hendricks is pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities in Davenport. He is the co-founder of One Human Family QCA, QC Pride and Quad Cities Pride in Memory, and the Creation Care co-chair for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
Jay Mitchell is a professor of law and the founding director of Stanford Law School’s Organizations and Transactions Clinic. In a three-year project, the clinic created a mission-critical suite of contracts for Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger relief organization. “The scale of the Feeding America network’s work is huge: its members provide food to one in seven Americans, totaling 5.2 billion meals last year. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 34 million people in the United States, including 9 million children, experience food insecurity,” according to a Stanford Law news story. The complex contracting landscape included nearly 200 partner food banks/independent nonprofits that have relationships with each other, 75 affiliate food banks, 21 state associations of food banks, eight regional food purchasing cooperatives, roughly 60,000 points of distribution, and the Chicago-based national organization Feeding America.
Janet Napolitano is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and was appointed by President Joe Biden to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
1985
Eva Dillard was named one of the Alabama River Alliance’s River Heroes at their 2023 Water Rally. This recognition is given to individuals who profoundly impact Alabama’s river movement through their hard work and leadership, and who go above and beyond to protect rivers, the health of local communities and the environment. Dillard has been the staff attorney at Black Warrior Riverkeeper in Birmingham since 2010.
Paul A. Lombardo was named Distinguished Professor of Bioethics and Law by the Sindh Institute of Medical Sciences in Karachi, Pakistan, for his contribution to teaching there over the past two decades. Lombardo was also recognized as a fellow of the Hastings Center for work that “has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science and technology.”
James Wheaton joined William & Mary Law School as clinical associate professor of law and as director of the PELE (Parents Engaged for Learning Equality) Special Education Advocacy Clinic.
1986
William S. Brewbaker III was named dean of the University of Alabama School of Law. Brewbaker is a native of Montgomery and practiced law in Birmingham from 1986 to 1992 before pursuing a Master of Laws in health care law at Duke University. He became a full-time faculty member with the UA School of Law in 1993 and taught courses in health care law, property law, antitrust and jurisprudence, as well as seminars in bioethics, law and economics, and Christian legal thought. His research interests include health care law and legal philosophy.
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Brewbaker served as the school’s associate dean for special programs in the 2011-12 calendar years and as interim dean during the 2013-14 academic year.
1987
Kim Boyle made the nonprofit Lawyers of Color 2023 Power List. One of the only comprehensive collections of minority leaders in the legal profession, the list recognizes influential attorneys pushing diversity forward in law practice.
Boyle, who helps to lead Phelps Dunbar’s New Orleans office as a vice managing partner, represents public and private employers in employment-related claims and commercial and tort litigation matters. She often speaks on employment-related topics, litigation and issues of procedure, as well as diversity, ethics and professionalism. She served as the first female African American president of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the first African American president of the New Orleans Bar Association.
She also serves on the boards of Dillard University, the Amistad Research Center, the United Negro College Fund and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. She previously provided leadership for the Anti-Defamation League, ACLU of Louisiana, and other organizations advancing the rights and inclusion of Black Louisianians and Americans.
1988
Sarah Borders, a retired partner with King & Spalding in Atlanta, was honored for her 33-year career with the firm. She was featured in a Q&A on Law.com in June. Borders had a leading restructuring and finance practice in the Southeast.
Gregory A. Hayes was named managing partner of Day Pitney. Based in Stamford and Greenwich, Conn., Hayes has served on the firm’s executive committee for five years and before that was chair of the firm’s private client department. In addition to his leadership role, Hayes will continue to practice, advising private clients on all aspects of their estate planning. He is a fellow of the prestigious American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and a former member of the executive committee of the Estates and Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. He has been ranked in Chambers HNW Guide and named to the Best Lawyers in America in trusts and estates.
David A. Stutzman was promoted to partner with Seward & Kissel in New York. Stutzman focuses on complex estate, trust and charitable planning and administration for high net-worth individuals and families. He co-authored Bloomberg BNA’s tax management portfolio, “Planning for Authors, Musicians, Artists and Collectors (Portfolio 815),” part of Bloomberg’s estate planning series, an interdisciplinary guide to representing artistic creators and collectors.
1989
J.A. “Jay” Felton was recognized in Chambers USA 2023 for general commercial litigation for the Kansas City area. Felton is a partner with Lathrop GPM.
Tom Moriarty joined Albertsons as executive vice president and general counsel in June. Moriarty was the longtime legal chief at CVS Health.
