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Class Note Fall 2023

David Meyer was installed as president and dean of Brooklyn Law School in September, the 10th person to serve in that role since the school was founded in 1901. Meyer had served as the dean of Tulane University Law School since 2010. Before that, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Law.

Class Note Fall 2023

Kevin A. Mills joined GMTO Corp. as vice president for legal affairs and general counsel after eight years serving as general counsel to University of the Pacific. GMTO Corp. is an international nonprofit whose mission is to design, build, and operate the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), part of the United States’ Extremely Large Telescope Program. Now under construction in the high mountains of Chile, the GMT will be one of the most powerful telescopes in the world when completed. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Ronald Wheeler was promoted to associate dean of law libraries at Boston University's Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries. He joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law in 2016 as director of the law libraries and associate professor of law and legal research. In his 22-year career as an academic law librarian, he has taught and mentored law students and aspiring law librarians at law schools throughout the US, in Shanghai, and in study abroad programs in Germany and Brazil. He served as the first Black male president of the American Association of Law Libraries from 2016 to 2017, and he is a proud resident of Providence, Rhode Island. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Colin J. Zick received a Band 1 rating for health care law in Massachusetts from Chambers USA. He is a partner at Foley Hoag LLP in its Boston office. His practice focuses on compliance issues related to life sciences, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, laboratories, hospitals, health care providers, and provider organizations.

Class Note Fall 2023

Kevin Conroy has been named one of the Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2023 by The Healthcare Technology Report. He is a director at Epizyme Inc. and Adaptive Biotechnologies. Previously, he was the chief executive officer and later the chairman of Exact Sciences, where he led a team of more than 6,500 experts through the development, clinical trial, regulatory approval, and commercialization of its noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test, Cologuard.

Class Note Fall 2023

Lisa Crooms-Robinson has been serving as interim dean of the Howard University School of Law since June. She earned her undergraduate degree at Howard University and has served as a faculty member since 1993. She also served as the School of Law’s associate dean of academic affairs from 2012 to 2019. Her expertise includes constitutional law and human rights, and she has been a consultant for human rights organizations such as the United Nations, the US Human Rights Network, the Urban Justice Center, Amnesty International USA, and the Paul Murray Center for History and Social Justice. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Phyllis Marcus has been recognized by Business News as one its 2023 top 10 transactional and regulatory lawyers. Marcus is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Washington, DC, where she leads the firm’s advertising compliance and counseling team.

Class Note Fall 2023

Julie Manning Magid has been named vice dean of the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Since fall 2022, she had served as the campus’s executive associate dean. She joined the school nearly nine years ago as a venture fellow and then a professor of business law. For the past seven years, she also has served as the executive and academic director of the Tobias Leadership Center. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Richard “Dick” Pogue received the Ramey Award for Distinguished Community Service from the Ohio State Bar Foundation in October. The award recognized him for a “career [that] has been exemplified by dedication of the goals and values sought to be furthered by the foundation and a lifetime of service to the public and the community, all while working with integrity, honor, courtesy and professionalism.” Jones Day also recently celebrated his decades of service to the firm at an event hosted at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Pogue joined Jones Day in 1957 and in 1984 became its fifth managing partner. Today, he is a senior adviser in the firm’s North Point Cleveland office.

Class Note Fall 2023

Wilbert Ziegler, president at Ziegler & Schneider PSC and president and CEO of the RC Durr Foundation, recently received honors from two community organizations, Life Learning Center and Horizon Community Funds, for his service and philanthropy. Life Learning Center supports at-risk citizens with employment services and continuing education programs. Horizon Community Funds supports education, anti-poverty programs, and other nonprofit services in Northern Kentucky. He is a member of Ziegler & Schneider’s business and corporate law group in its Covington, Kentucky, office.