Issue: Winter 2022
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Class Note Winter 2022
Shawn A. Strand joined Varnum LLP as a partner in Ann Arbor. An experienced tax attorney with a focus on corporate and partnership taxation issues, he previously served at Honigman LLP.
Class Note Winter 2022
Donica Varner was named vice president and general counsel at Cornell University. Previously, she served as vice president, general counsel, and secretary at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Class Note Winter 2022
Dmetri Culkar joined the Greenspun Corp. as an associate general counsel in Henderson, Nevada. Previously, he served as an associate at Holland & Hart LLP in Las Vegas.
Class Note Winter 2022
Laura Varela-Addeo became the head of the newly formed Immigrant Affairs Commission in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 2020. Prior to the commission, she worked as a civil rights attorney for 14 years, specializing in immigrant services in the Washington, D.C., area.
Class Note Winter 2022
Jaye Quadrozzi was elected as the chair of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority’s board of commissioners in Southeast Michigan. She is the second woman to serve as chair in the park system’s 81-year history.
Class Note Winter 2022
Jonathan Fombonne was appointed first assistant county attorney in Harris County (Houston), Texas, where he oversees all litigation, enforcement, and regulatory work. Previously, he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
Class Note Winter 2022
Nada Llewellyn joined Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP as chief diversity and inclusion officer, based in New York. Previously she served as chief diversity officer, associate vice president for human resources, and deputy general counsel for St. John’s University.
Class Note Winter 2022
Jeri Looney accepted the general counsel position at Skyryse Inc., a flight operations startup, based in El Segundo, California. She joined Skyryse after two years as general counsel at The Spaceship Company and one year as senior legal director at Virgin Galactic.
Class Note Winter 2022
Chase Cantrell, as part of Speramus Partners LLC, opened Detroit’s first Black-owned brewery, 734 Brewing Company. He is the founder of Building Community Value Detroit, a program that teaches residents how to become neighborhood developers.
Class Note Winter 2022
Mariana M. Long was named the 2020 Federal Librarian of the Year by the Federal Library and Information Network. She is a supervisory reference librarian with the U.S. Department of Justice.