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1930s
Dermot P. Shea '39 received the Esther Peterson Consumer Service Award at
the Consumer Federation of America's thirtyfirst annual awards dinner in Washington,
DC, in June. US Representative Edward Markey '72 made the presentation.
Described as the "conscience of consumer protection," Shea was lauded for his
decades of consumer advocacy, leadership in consumer protection legislation,
and counsel to agencies and individuals in this field. Retired since 1985, Shea
is on the federation's board of directors and is a member of the Massachusetts
Consumers Coalition.
1950s
Francis X. Bellotti '52, a former Massachusetts attorney general, had an
award created in his name by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG)
in Washington, DC. The award will honor those who have served NAAG and promoted
its mission to encourage interaction among attorneys general. He is with the
Boston firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., where he
practices in the litigation department. He is a fellow of the American College
of Trial Lawyers.
1960s
Paul R. Lawless '65 received the Essex County (New Jersey) Bar Association
(ECBA) 2001Ð2002 Family Law Achievement Award for his excellence in the
practice of matrimonial law. He was commended for his service to the Family
Law Section of the ECBA, for his contributions as a speaker and instructor on
topics relating to family law, and for his service to the Institute for Continuing
Legal Education and the Essex County Family Law Inn of Court. A fellow in the
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a certified arbitrator in family
and matrimonial matters, he is one of the originators and a current member of
the Matrimonial Early Settlement Panel in Essex County. He is a partner in Miller
& Lawless in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. He and his wife, Joyce, live in North
Caldwell, New Jersey. William A. Garrigle '66 is board certified as a
trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and was recently elected
senior counsel to the American College of Barristers. He is a partner in Garrigle
& Palm in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Paul M. Coran '67 has been appointed
to the Office of Compliance of the US Congress as deputy executive director
for the Senate. He shares responsibility for administering eleven labor and
employment laws to covered employees and offices of the legislative branch.
He recently retired from his employment law position with the US State Department.
He lives with his wife, Brenda, in Rockville, Maryland. David A. Mills '67
was appointed associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court by unanimous
vote of the Governor's Council. As a partner in Mills, McTeague & Patten
in Danvers, Massachusetts, he specialized in zoning and land use matters, environmental
and administrative law, and criminal defense. He is a member of the American,
Massachusetts, and Essex County (Massachusetts) bar associations. He was the
recipient of the Massachusetts Bar Association Award for Community Service for
his work on behalf of the lesbian and gay community, the legal profession, and
his hometown of Danvers, Massachusetts, in May. A co-founder of the LAMBDA Association
of Boston College Graduates, he hosts a cable television show, SpeakOut, which
deals with law-related issues of interest to the lesbian and gay community.
He received the 2001 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award
from the Danvers Diversity Committee. Neal E. Minahan '69 was promoted
to general counsel of Raytheon Company, in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1970s
Edward R. Leahy '71 was elected the first Sir Maurice Shock Visiting Fellow
at University College in Oxford, England, where he will lecture during the 2001-2002
academic year on the impact of the technological revolution on national and
international law. From 1996-1998, he was distinguished scholar from practice
at BC Law, where the students presented him with the Most Outstanding Faculty
Member Award. In May, he received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree
from the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is managing partner
of AEG Capital in Washington, DC. Robert J. McDonough '72 was appointed
vice president of tax at Axcelis Technologies, a semiconductor industry company
in Beverly, Massachusetts. James M. Micali '73, chairman and president
of Michelin North America, was named to the Executive Council of the Michelin
Group, which has its headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in July. Known
as Conseil Executif du Groupe, the council comprises senior executives within
Michelin who assist the CEO and managing partners. Micali is the first native-born
North American to sit on the council. Steven Weisman '73, veteran Boston
radio personality, is cohost of a business show on 1060AM that received an Achievement
in Radio Award in 2001. Live Money with Steve and Ginger addresses the
real-life personal, legal, and financial issues consumers face. William T.
Baldwin '75 was named to the 2001 list of America's elite financial advisers
in the September issue of Worth Magazine. He and his partner, Beth Gamel,
founded Pillar Financial Advisors, the oldest independent financial planning
firm in the Boston area. John J. McHale Jr. '75 was named CEO of the
Tampa Bay Devil Rays in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was formerly president and
CEO of the Detroit Tigers. He is on the board of directors of Caring Athletes
Team for Children's and Henry Ford Hospitals, is in his sixth year as chairman
of the Southeast Michigan March of Dimes WalkAmerica, and is a member of the
President's Advisory Council of Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village and
the Youth Sports and Recreation Commission. In addition, he serves as a member
of the Commissioner's Blue Ribbon Panel on Baseball Economics and Major League
Baseball Enterprises. He and his wife, Sally, have three children. Kenneth
Boger '76 has joined Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a global biotechnology company
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as senior vice president and general counsel. His
legal practice focuses on venture capital, start-up and development-stage company
representation, technology licensing and joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.
He formerly was with the Boston's Warner & Stackpole, and was the chief
negotiator in effecting the 1999 merger of that firm and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart.
Robert L. Collings '77 was appointed chair of the litigation services
department at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP, where he is a partner
resident in the Philadelphia office. He specializes in environmental law. He
and his wife, Susan, have three children and live in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
Charles E. Gilbert III '77 was recertified as a trial advocate by the
National Board of Trial Advocacy in civil trial law. Admitted to the bars of
Maine and Massachusetts, he maintains a general and trial practice as managing
partner of Gilbert & Greif, P.A., in Bangor, Maine. He recently completed
a two-year term as secretary-treasurer of the John Waldo Ballou Inn of Court,
and was succeeded by Nathaniel Rosenblatt '80. Dennis J. Krumholz
'77, a partner in the Morristown, New Jersey, firm Riker, Danzig, Scherer,
Hyland & Perretti LLP, was elected chair of INFORM, a national non-profit
organization dedicated to conserving resources and reducing pollution. Chair
of the environmental group of Riker, Danzig, he is an author and frequent lecturer
on environmental topics. He has been named in the past four editions of The
Best Lawyers in America. He serves on the advisory board of the Practicing
Law Institute, and is pro bono counsel to, and board member of, the Community
Theatre of Morristown, New Jersey. Mitchell E. Rudin '78 was appointed
to the board of directors of TurboChef Technologies, a leader in kitchen technology.
As president of US Transaction Services for Insignia/ESG in New York City, he
oversees the company's tenant representation, investment sales, industrial sales
and leasing, and strategic agency operations nationwide. He was recently honored
by the American Friends of the Jerusalem College of Technology, which annually
recognizes a New York region professional who promotes Israeli culture and tradition.
Last summer, Rudin represented the US on the Masters Basketball Team in the
Maccabiah Games in Israel. He and his wife, Bonnie, and their two sons live
in Scarsdale, New York. Scott J. Tucker '78 is one of three founding
partners in the newly formed law firm of Tucker, Heifetz & Saltzman LLP.
The attorneys in the Boston-based firm practice in all areas of civil litigation.
1980s
Robert C. Mendelson '80 has returned to Morgan Lewis as a partner-resident
in the New York office. He will co-chair the firm's global Securities Interdisciplinary
Initiative. Mendelson rejoined the firm after two years with Wit SoundView Group,
an investment bank and online broker. He was featured in the Spring 2001 issue
of BC Law Magazine in a story about financial careers. David P. Rosenblatt
'82 was reelected managing partner at Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston.
He is also chairman of the firm's environmental group, which he created in 1989,
and is a member of the real estate group. His expertise lies in environmental
law, with particular involvement in environmental litigation and regulatory
matters. He has been selected for the past five editions of The Best Lawyers
in America. William E. Simon Jr. '82 is a potential governor candidate
for the state of California. The primary election will take place in March 2002.
He is co-founder, with his father and brother, of the private investment firm
William E. Simon & Sons in Los Angeles, California. He formerly served as
assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, and is known for
his roles as philanthropist, businessman, social commentator, and national television
talk show host. He and his wife, Cindy, have four children. George H. Foster
Jr. '83 was appointed to the Maricopa County (Arizona) Superior Court as
commissioner/judge pro tempore by the presiding judge of that court. Prior to
that, he was managing attorney of Wilenchik & Bartness, P.C., in Phoenix,
Arizona. He recently attended a forum on equal justice in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
where he ran into Professor Alicia Alvarez '84, who has been revising
the civil code in Costa Rica under a Fulbright scholarship. Anne Van Graafeiland
'84 was installed on the board of the Greater Rochester (New York) Association
for Women Attorneys for the 2000Ð2002 term and is a delegate from that group
to the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York. Charla Bizios Labbe
'84 joined the litigation department of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton,
P.A., in Bedford, New Hampshire, where she focuses on domestic relations and
general litigation. She is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and
the Women's Business Forum. For the past year, she has been involved in New
Hampshire Partners in Education. Tracy A. Miner '85 was elected president
of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She is a partner
in the Boston firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., where
she practices in the litigation section. She is a member of the Criminal Law
Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association and serves on the Federal Court
Justice Act Panel. Angel M. Cartagena Jr. '88 was appointed chair of
the Public Service Commission (PSC) of the District of Columbia by unanimous
vote of the District Council following a nomination by Mayor Anthony Williams.
He is the first Hispanic to be appointed head of an independent agency in the
District of Columbia, and the first Republican to be named to the PSC. Since
becoming chair, he was named to the telecommunications committee of the National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. He is also the first vice president
of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Cartagena
is assistant director of Family Life Ministries at Bridgeway Community Church
in Columbia, Maryland. He and his wife, Alicia, have two children and live in
Washington, DC. Jeffrey J. Chomko '88 joined the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
office of White & Williams LLP as an associate in the property department.
He brings more than ten years of litigation experience to his current position,
including six years with Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in
Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Maria E. Recalde '88 was appointed chair of
the board of editors of the Boston Bar Journal, on which she has served
for the past year. She is an attorney with the Boston firm Burns & Levinson
LLP, where she chairs the firm's internet and technology group and is a member
of the business and intellectual property group. She is a member of the Massachusetts
and Women's bar associations and the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys.
She is serving a three-year term as a member of the Council of the Boston Bar
Association and chairs the Internet/E-commerce Committee of the Hispanic National
Bar Association. Leon Rodriguez '88 joined the white-collar criminal
defense group at Ober/Kaler in Baltimore, Maryland, where he will counsel and
defend physicians, hospitals, HMOs, PPOs, nursing homes, home health agencies,
and labs against claims of health care fraud. As former first assistant US attorney
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he directed complex white-collar criminal investigations
and prosecutions. He is frequently invited to speak at national non-profit programs
on white-collar crime and civil rights issues. John G. Rusk '88 has been
board certified as a trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Gretchen Van Ness '88 presented "And Justice for Whom? Paradoxes in the
Pursuit of Equality" as Sherman F. Levey Distinguished Law Lecturer at Syracuse
University College of Law in Syracuse, New York, in October. In May, she was
a presenter at the Suffolk University Advanced Legal Studies program, discussing
her case AZ v. BZ, the first in Massachusetts on the disposition of frozen
embryos in a divorce. In November, she was on a panel titled "Patterns in the
Culture: If Backlash Is a Response to Women Coming to Their Power, What Is Our
Response to Backlash?" as part of the Theological Opportunities Program at Harvard
Divinity School. A general practitioner specializing in civil rights employment
discrimination, gay and lesbian issues, and small business and non-profit advising,
Van Ness recently argued her second case at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial
Court concerning the application of the state's public accommodations law to
an event organized in part by a religious organization. She is currently president-elect
of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts.
1990s
Claudia Leis Bolgen '90 received the Mary C. Fitzpatrick Children and Family
Law Award from the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services in recognition
of her outstanding legal service. Bolgen practices law with her husband, Stig
Bolgen, in the firm Bolgen & Bolgen in Woburn, Massachusetts, where she
specializes in appeals of family law and criminal defense cases. Walter E.
Judge Jr. '90 was appointed Vermont state representative of the Defense
Research Institution, the nation's largest association of civil litigation defense
lawyers. He is director of the Burlington, Vermont, law firm Downs, Rachlin
& Martin PLLC, where he practices commercial, intellectual property, and
products liability law. He lives in Charlotte, Vermont, with his wife, Jean,
and their two children. Midori Sonoda '90 was married to Myoung-Jae Im
in Central Park, New York, in June. Prior to the wedding, she was an account
supervisor at Suissa Miller Advertising, an agency in Los Angeles, California.
Her husband is a senior tax accountant at Gleason, Sklar, Sawyers & Cumpata,
an accounting firm in Chicago, Illinois. Michael W. Klein '91 published
"Not in My Parents' Backyard" in the July 2000 issue of the ABA Journal.
Other articles include "Send in the Kleins" in the July 22 New York Times
and "Sweet Dreams," a hockey piece about his appearance at the New York Rangers'
first fantasy camp, in Blueshirt Bulletin. He is working on a potential
law review article on the ownership of copyright of distance education courses.
Klein is director of government relations at the New Jersey Association of State
Colleges and Universities in Trenton, New Jersey. Steven P. Eakman '92
is a new member of the Seattle, Washington, law firm Foster, Pepper & Shefelman
PLLC, where he is co-chair of the mergers and acquisitions practice group. In
addition to handling asset and stock acquisitions, he has experience with regulatory
compliance matters. He is a member of the board of directors for the Northwest
Chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum. John F. Malitzis '92 was promoted
to vice president of the Transaction/Marketing Service of Nasdaq Stock Market,
where he will focus on market structure, corporate strategy, and legal issues.
He has been with Nasdaq since 1995. Megan Carroll Shea '92 began teaching
business law last fall at the Boston College Carroll School of Management and
continues to teach a course in law and the visual arts at New England School
of Law. She is the owner of Boston-based Carroll Associates, a law firm that
provides services to patrons of the arts. She is on the board of the Boston
College Club, the French Library, and Boston Ballet. She and her husband, Timothy
J. Shea III '92, a patent attorney, have two children. Julia T. Thompson
'92 and Ward R. Welles '93 are the proud parents of Cy William Welles,
born in June 2001. John N. Affuso '93 has joined Boston's Economic Development
and Industrial Corporation as counsel. His practice consists of economic development,
real estate, leasing, and finance. Previously, he worked in the real estate
management and sales division of the City of Boston's Department of Neighborhood
Development. Emily J. Lawrence '93 became a partner in Morgan Lewis's
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, office. She focuses on products liability and toxic
tort litigation. Katherin A. Nukk-Freeman '93 is partner and hiring manager
of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione in Newark, New Jersey,
where she practices employment law. She is a board member of the New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra. She and her husband, Tim Freeman, live in Short Hills, New
Jersey. Stephanie Roberts Hartung '94 was featured in an article, "The
Burden of Defense," in the East Bay Express, describing aspects of her
rookie years as assistant deputy public defender for Alameda County, California.
She and her husband, Karl, are the proud parents of a daughter, Payton Jeannette,
born in May. The family lives in Oakland, California. Ingrid C. Schroffner
'95 published "The Law of Escheat: A Practical Application" in Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly. She is with the Boston law firm Burns & Levinson LLP.
David Charapp '97 is an associate in the San Diego, California, office
of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP, practicing in the areas of life
sciences and corporate securities. Formerly, he worked at Ecker, Seamans, Cherin
& Mellott LLC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. H. Lamar Willis '99 won
a runoff election for a City Council post in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia,
in November. An attorney with the Federal Aviation Administration, he lives
with his wife, Kamili, and their daughter, Kayla. Elizabeth Bruton Charapp
'97 is an associate in the estate planning department of Seltzer, Caplan,
McMahon & Vitek in San Diego, California. She used to work at Buchanan Ingersoll,
P.C., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sandra M. Rodriguez '99 completed
an LL.M. in taxation with a concentration in estate and gift tax at the New
York University School of Law, in May. She worked previously for PricewaterhouseCoopers
as a tax consultant in the international tax group.
2000s
Cleora Anderson '00 has been accepted to the Boston Fellows Class of 2001-2002.
The fellows program provides forums on professional and personal development
for mid- and senior-level professionals of color, with an emphasis on corporate
leadership. She is a litigation associate at the Boston firm Nutter, McClennon
& Fish LLP. Christopher B. Kaczmarek '00 published "Public Law Deserves
Public Justice: Why Public Law Arbitrators Should Be Required to Issue Written,
Publishable Opinions" in the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal.
David K. McCay '00 was named an associate of Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie
& Lougee LLP in Worcester, Massachusetts. Brian W. Sheppard '01 joined
the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP as an associate in the litigation
department. Lina Choi '01 is a new associate in the Boston office of
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in the business law practice.
In Memoriam
John D. Lyons '42
James M. Quinn '62
Joseph A. Dornig '64
Otis H. Troupe '70
Charles E. Blumsack '71
Colleen M. Rooney '82
Stuart J. Williams '94
Katherine Holly Riley '02
also:
Geoffrey W. Cloud, husband of Mio Cloud '91