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Class Note Summer 2024

Bruce Frederick Howell received a 2023 Distinguished Service Award from the Texas State Bar Health Law Section. He counsels clients on a broad range of health law issues, including reimbursement, fraud and abuse, managed care issues, physician practice management issues, and the Affordable Care Act. Previously, he served as a health care industry group leader and shareholder at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC. He is a co-founder of the Dallas Bar Association’s Health Law Section and a distinguished professor from practice at Willamette University College of Law. 

Class Note Summer 2024

Larry Thompson received the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award from Michigan State University. He is a former US deputy attorney general, US attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and general counsel and executive vice president of PepsiCo Inc. Upon his retirement from PepsiCo, the company created the Larry Thompson Fellowship Program to honor his life’s commitment to adding diversity to the legal profession.

Class Note Summer 2024

Connye Y. Harper was appointed to the advisory board of directors for the College of Southern Nevada School of Business Administration. She began her career as a litigator as associate general counsel for International Union in Detroit. Today, her practice, Harper Strategies, focuses on implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for organizations, management and staff training, policy development, and nonprofit management. She also has served on the boards of the Southern Nevada Society for Human Resource Management, 50/50 Women on Boards Inc., the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, and the ACLU of Nevada.

Class Note Summer 2024

William “Bill” R. Bay is president-elect of the American Bar Association (ABA). He will assume the position in August. He is a partner with the St. Louis office of Thompson Coburn LLP and is a longtime leader in the ABA, having served as chair or co-chair of several committees and as a fellow in the American Bar Foundation. He also is a past president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and a Missouri Bar Board of Governors member.

Class Note Summer 2024

Monica Hargrove, a veteran aviation attorney, was reelected secretary to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. She previously served as general counsel for the North America region at Airports Council International and associate general counsel at US Airways. Before her work in the private sector, she was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice.

Class Note Summer 2024

Adele Rapport Seymour was added to the A. Felch Pendill Wall of Excellence at Marquette (Michigan) Senior High School, her alma mater. Honorees must distinguish themselves in a chosen profession, be involved in public or community service, and demonstrate philanthropy. She is the regional director for the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in Chicago and previously was the regional attorney for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Detroit District office.

Class Note Summer 2024

Robin L. Harrison, a partner at Hicks Thomas LLP in Houston, was named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America for 2024. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in trials and arbitrations in America and Europe for more than 35 years and is a member of the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the American Bar Association, and the Texas Bar Association. He served as a director of the litigation section of the Houston Bar Association from 1997 to 2001 and the Houston Trial Lawyers Association from 2002 to 2004; he remains a member of both organizations.

Class Note Summer 2024

Howard Kramer joined SEDA Experts LLC, a financial witness firm, as a senior adviser. Kramer, who is retired from practice, was a financial regulatory attorney for more than 40 years. He has experience in securities and derivative products and markets, equity, options and debt market trading, broker-dealer compliance, US financial regulatory structure, and US securities law and regulations. He spent 14 years with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and later worked in private practice as a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and Murphy & McGonigle PC. 

Class Note Summer 2024

Clarence Armbrister was elected chair of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health’s National Board of Trustees, of which he has been a member since 2013. He was president of Johnson C. Smith University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023, and he previously served in leadership positions at Temple University, Johns Hopkins University, and Girard College. Before that, he held various roles in the Philadelphia city government and was a partner at Saul, Ewing Remick & Saul.

Class Note Summer 2024

Ross Crown joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as of counsel in the firm’s Albuquerque, New Mexico, office. His focus is on government contracts and commercial litigation at the federal, state, and local levels in New Mexico, Colorado, and the broader Western region. Before joining Brownstein, Crown was a government contracts lawyer at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie.