Stephen D. Busch (Col ’77 L/M) is president-elect of the Virginia Bar Association. He is a partner with McGuireWoods in Richmond, Va., and has chaired the VBA’s Young Lawyers Division and Civil Litigation Section. Mr. Busch is a former president of the United States Law Firm Group and is a member of the Defense Research Institute, Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys and American Bar Association.
Posted 05/12/2009
Trent Stevenson Dickey (Col ’77 L/M) is included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in his specialty of commercial litigation. Mr. Dickey was elected chairperson of the operations committee of Easter Seals New Jersey’s board of directors as well as its executive committee. Mr. Dickey was also elected to the board of Permanent and Advocacy Support Systems, Inc., a non-profit corporation providing professionally supported community residences for adult mental health consumers. Mr. Dickey is a member of the national law firm Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. with offices in New York City, Newark, N.J., and Princeton, N.J.
Posted 10/07/2009
H. Richard “Dick” Duden III (Col ’77 L/M) was appointed by Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley in August to sit as an associate judge for the District Court of Maryland for Anne Arundel County. The District Court, Maryland’s first-tier trial court, dockets traffic, criminal, landlord-tenant matters, civil litigation, domestic violence petitions and other cases. Mr. Duden has practiced law for 23 years, most recently with the firm of Hyatt & Weber in Annapolis as a senior litigator.
Posted 02/12/2009
Kel-Ann Sheldon Eyler (Com ’77 L/M) received the 2009 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award by the Educational Foundation of the Georgia Society of CPAs. The lifetime achievement award was announced at the Foundation’s annual meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 15, 2009. Ms. Eyler is associate professor of accounting and interim chair of the business and economics department of Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga.
Posted 07/06/2009
Amy Ginensky (Law ’77), a partner with the law firm of Pepper Hamilton, chair of its commercial litigation practice group and leader of its media and communications practice, was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Ms. Ginensky practices in Pepper Hamilton’s Philadelphia office and, in addition to handling class action and commercial litigation matters, has an active media and communications practice that focuses on First Amendment, defamation and other media-related areas. Outside of the firm, Ms. Ginensky is president of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and co-chaired the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Law Firm Pro Bono Committee for many years.
Posted 02/12/2009
Edward B. Heyden III (Educ ’77) is associate professor and practicum coordinator at Carlos Albizu University in Miami. Mr. Heyden was named the president-elect of the Florida Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors for the 2009-10 term.
Posted 05/12/2009
John P. Kowalski (Col ’77, Med ’81 L/M) is clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has precepted first, second and third year VCU medical students in his private practice. Dr. Kowalski is the vice president of Chickahominy Family Practice in the Richmond, Va., area, where he has worked for the last 25 years.
Posted 01/04/2010
Scott Milburn (Col ’77 L/M) is chief operating officer and general counsel for the software company QL2 Software. He oversees operations in the company’s Seattle headquarters, as well as in Atlanta, London and Delhi. Mr. Milburn lives in Seattle with his wife, Melissa; and their 8-year-old son.
Posted 02/12/2009
Richard O. Mines Jr. (Engr ’77) is director of graduate programs and a professor of engineering at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. He is the primary author of Introduction to Environmental Engineering, a text published by Prentice Hall in 2009.
Posted 05/12/2009
John E. Noyes (Law ’77) is the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at California Western School of Law. His scholarship focuses on the law of the sea and examines international law limits on the use of force, the history of international law, the intersection of religion and international law and international dispute settlement. With 50 professional publications to his credit, Mr. Noyes’ works include books, articles, book chapters and essays. He co-authored The United Nations at 50: Proposals for Improving Its Effectiveness, Cases and Commentary on International Law, Cases and Materials on the Law of the Sea and International Law Stories. Mr. Noyes is also president of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He was named “Faculty Member of the Year” at California Western and received the Outstanding Service Award from the ABA Section of International Law. While at U.Va., Mr. Noyes served as executive editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law.
Posted 06/30/2009
Clare Mimi Petrich (Educ ’77) was elected president of the Port of Tacoma Commission for 2009. She was first elected to the position in 1995, then re-elected in 1999, 2003 and 2007. Ms. Petrich is also secretary for the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle. She serves on the board of directors for the Tacoma-Pierce County Convention and Visitors Bureau and on the economic development board for Tacoma-Pierce County. She is vice president of the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Economic Development District Board and is a fellow of the American Leadership Forum. Ms. Petrich is co-founder of the Commencement Bay Maritime Fest and served as chair for Tall Ships Tacoma 2005 and 2008.
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