Issue: Winter 2022
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Class Note Winter 2022
Stanley Jaskiewicz was appointed to the American Bar Association board that oversees the Voice of Experience, the senior lawyers division’s monthly newsletter. He is a member at Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci PC in Philadelphia.
Class Note Winter 2022
Kenneth Salazar was confirmed as the latest U.S. ambassador to Mexico. He previously served as the Secretary of the Interior from 2009 to 2013.
Class Note Winter 2022
John McGonagle, now retired from the position of managing partner of The Helicon Group and from the competitive intelligence profession, wrote his first one-act play, Mirrors. It is one of four category finalists in the Shawnee Original Playwrights Short Play Festival in Pennsylvania. The festival received more than 200 submissions for its three categories.
Class Note Winter 2022
Suzanne G. Mason joined Fox Rothschild LLP in Atlanta as a partner in the firm’s taxation and wealth planning department. She centers her practice on estate administration.
Class Note Winter 2022
Myint Zan, LLM, edited Legal Education and Legal Traditions (Springer Link Publications, 2020). He also is an active adviser in Myanmar for University of Mandalay teams participating in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Class Note Winter 2022
Denise J. Lewis
Denise J. Lewis, has received the 2021 Distinguished Alumna Award from her undergraduate alma mater, Barnard College of Columbia University. The award is in recognition of her professional accomplishments and for her efforts to revitalize underserved urban areas through nonprofit economic development programs and other forms of community investment, particularly in Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan. Before her retirement, Lewis was a senior partner at Honigman in Detroit for nearly four decades, and she served as a member of the management committee and founded the firm’s urban redevelopment practice. Known for handling complex transactions, particularly involving public-private partnerships and mixed use development, Lewis has represented developers involved in projects all over the country. She has served on the boards of many nonprofit organizations and other civic organizations, including the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, Invest Detroit, and the McGregor Fund, and was elected to an eight year term on the Wayne State University Board of Governors, where she served as chair and vice chair for four years.
@UMICHLAW Winter 2022
@UMICHLAW: Winter 2022
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson gives Constitution Day address | Luis C.deBaca, ’93, joins faculty | Professors Margo Schlanger and David Uhlmann nominated for government posts | and more...
Impact Winter 2022
A New Garden in the Law Quad
The Jardin St. Antoine-Fetter, which was made possible by a $1 million gift from Steven M. Fetter, ’79, and his wife, Bonnie K. Kellogg celebrates Fetter’s cherished friendship with Ted St. Antoine, ’54, the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor Emeritus of Law.
In Practice Winter 2022
Law at the Bottom of the Earth
Ted Kill, ’07, covered a lot of ground between Michigan Law and his arrival in Antarctica, when he travelled to the continent as part of an interagency federal government inspection team. His journey to the bottom of the earth started with a clerkship at the International Court of Justice that he secured through Michigan Law, which served as a bridge to joining the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser.
Impact Winter 2022
Inspired by Friend and Mentor, Alumnus Launches New HBCU Scholarship
Inspired by their decades-long friendship, Ronald Falls Jr., ’05, recently established a new scholarship fund in honor of Rasheeda Creighton, ’02. It will support Michigan Law students who graduated from historically Black colleges and universities, like they did.