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Class Note Fall 2023

William “Bill” R. Bay, a partner with the St. Louis office of national law firm Thompson Coburn LLP, was recently appointed president-elect of the American Bar Association (ABA). He is a longtime leader in the ABA, where he has been a member of the House of Delegates and has chaired or co-chaired several boards and initiatives. He has represented major corporations, including financial institutions and manufacturers, in high-stakes litigation for more than 30 years.

Class Note Fall 2023

Elizabeth Campbell has become Beebee Healthcare’s first director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Previously, she was a specialist manager for Deloitte Consulting in Philadelphia, where she oversaw diversity, equity, and inclusion projects. Before that, she served as the director of inclusion and diversity for the Campbell Soup Company.

Class Note Fall 2023

The Hon. Hildy Bowbeer, who served as a magistrate judge with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota for eight years, recently retired. She continues to be active with the Sedona Conference, the Hon. Jimmie V. Reyna Intellectual Property Inn of Court, the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the Infinity Project, and the District of Minnesota’s Federal Practice Committee. She also serves on the board of Ten Thousand Things Theater Company. She and her husband, Bill Klein, ’79, live in Minneapolis, where he is a partner with Lathrop GPM.

Class Note Fall 2023

Charles Lowery Jr. joined the National Housing Conference as the new senior policy director. He most recently served as director of legislative policy and external affairs for New American Funding. Lowery also was sworn in as the president of the DC Bar at the 2023 Celebration of Leadership: DC Bar Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner in June.

Class Note Fall 2023

Ron Heller recently earned a master of fine arts in theater with a concentration in directing from the University of Hawaii. In recent years, he received Po’okela Awards as director of a play from the Hawaii State Theatre Council for two separate productions. Memorial Day, the latest production Heller directed, centers on the early years of the AIDS crisis. He still actively works as an attorney in Honolulu, concentrating on tax and business law.

Class Note Fall 2023

Mark Lezotte, attorney and shareholder at Butzel Long PC, is now chair of SourceAmerica’s board of directors, on which he has served since 2013. SourceAmerica is a nonprofit that focuses on creating employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Lezotte is based in Butzel Long's Detroit office, where he is co-chair of the firm's health care industry team. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Clarence D. Armbrister has retired after serving as the 14th president of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before assuming that role, his higher education leadership experience included serving as senior vice president at Temple University, chief of staff and senior vice president at Johns Hopkins University, and president and CEO of Girard College. Read more on page xx.

Class Note Fall 2023

Anita Porte Robb, attorney and founding partner of Robb & Robb LLC, has been named one of Forbes’ Best Personal Injury Lawyers in Kansas City, Missouri, for 2023. Since becoming co-founder with her husband and business partner, Gary C. Robb, their firm has handled cases in the fields of aviation law, hazardous product liability, personal injury, medical malpractice, and more. The National Law Journal recognized her as one of the top 10 women trial lawyers in the country. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Jayne Rizzo Reardon is the 2023 recipient of the Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award, a top ethics honor within the American Bar Association (ABA). She has served as a leader in a number of roles within the ABA, during which she has become nationally recognized for her work on ethics and professionalism in the legal system. She retired in 2021 from her role as executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Read more on page xx.

Class Note Fall 2023

Patricia “Trish” Lee Refo, partner at Snell & Wilmer, received the 2023 Walter E. Craig Award from the Arizona Bar Foundation. She concentrates her practice in complex commercial litigation and internal investigations, and she chairs Snell & Wilmer’s professional liability litigation group. She is a past president of the American Bar Association (ABA) and has served as chair of the ABA House of Delegates and the ABA Section of Litigation. She also served on the Arizona Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence and is a former member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence of the US Judicial Conference.