Issue: Fall 2022
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Class Note Fall 2022
Rick Bendix was named the 2021 Volunteer of the Year by Legal Aid Chicago for his work assisting pro se consumer debtors with bankruptcy cases. He is a partner at Advocate Capital Advisors, a boutique investment bank.
Class Note Fall 2022
Nancy Schiffer was awarded a Distinguished Service Award by the State Bar of Michigan Labor and Employment Law Section, which is presented to individuals who have made major contributions to the practice of labor and employment law. Schiffer spent several decades representing unions and most recently served a term on the National Labor Relations Board.
Class Note Fall 2022
Fred Krupp, leader of the Environmental Defense Fund for 37 years, was elected to serve a six-year term as an alumni fellow of Yale University’s board of trustees.
Class Note Fall 2022
The Hon. Gilbert M. Román became the chief judge of the 22-member Colorado Court of Appeals in January and is the first Latino to hold the position. He has served on the state’s intermediate appellate court since 2005.
Class Note Fall 2022
Kent Matsumoto and his wife, Constance, will publish their debut novel, Of White Ashes, in early 2023. Inspired by the true stories of the authors’ family, the story follows two Japanese Americans during World War II as they endure internment camps and other hardships. After spending 36 years as legal counsel for several publicly held companies, Matsumoto was recently appointed director of Peoplesbank, an independent community bank that operates financial centers in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Class Note Fall 2022
John Glowney published his debut full-length poetry collection, Visitation (Broadstone Books, 2022). His work has received recognition from organizations including the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Seattle.
Class Note Fall 2022
Mark L. Jones published Professions and Politics in Crisis (Carolina Academic Press, 2021), which suggests that encouraging people to pursue a life of meaning and purpose can remediate professional and political crises of well-being, distress, and dysfunction. He is a professor at Mercer University Law School in Macon, Georgia.
Class Note Fall 2022
Patricia “Trish” Refo received the Medal of Honor from the World Jurist Association for her leadership and efforts to promote the rule of law around the world, particularly for her service as president of the American Bar Association from 2020 to 2021. Read more.
Class Note Fall 2022
The Hon. Manuel I. Arrieta of the Third Judicial District of the State of New Mexico published “Solving the Puzzle: The Water Court Structure and Process of Water Administration in New Mexico” in the University of Denver Water Law Review. The article is an analysis of the legal regime for water administration in New Mexico. Judge Arrieta also recently walked the Camino Frances and the Camino Portugal, a 740-mile trek that ended in Santiago de Compestela in northern Spain.
Class Note Fall 2022
Cheryl Bush, founding member of Bush Seyferth PLLC, was sworn in for a four-year term as a regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers.