Issue: Summer 2024
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Class Note Summer 2024
Kate St. Vincent Vogl co-authored two books that were recently published. Lady Ref: Making Calls in a Man’s World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) tells the story of the National Football League’s first female official. The second book, Iron Horse Cowgirls (McFarland, 2023), explores the events that led to the founding of the Women’s International Motorcycle Association. She is a longtime writer and teacher who most recently served as a creative writing instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
Class Note Summer 2024
Victor King, who has served on the California Law Revision Commission since 2011, was reappointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. He is the legal counsel and information privacy officer for California State University, Los Angeles. Previously, he was a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP.
Class Note Summer 2024
Anne Kiley was appointed to serve as a judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. She has been a partner at Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben & Gartside LLP since 2016. She began her career as an associate at O’Melveney & Myers LLP and later joined Trope and Trope LLP.
Class Note Summer 2024
Robert D. Gordon joined New York firm Herrick Feinstein LLP as a partner in the restructuring and finance litigation department. He has more than three decades of experience as lead counsel advising companies, creditors, and directors in complex corporate and public sector restructurings. He has worked with retirement systems and pension funds and most recently acted as lead counsel to a committee of independent directors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of global satellite communications provider Intelsat SA.
Class Note Summer 2024
Steven J. Cernak will become chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section in August. He has been an intermittent lecturer at Michigan Law since 2009 and has taught a number of classes on antitrust and in-house practice. He is a partner in the Detroit office of Bona Law PC.
Class Note Summer 2024
Lisa Batey retired in 2022 after a career working on immigration issues for the federal government. Following her retirement, she ran for and won the mayoral race in Milwaukie, Oregon, a Portland suburb. She previously served the Milwaukie community as a planning commissioner and city councilor for nearly 18 years.
Class Note Summer 2024
Janet Welch, founder and owner of Impetus Law Consulting, was appointed to the Michigan Appellate Defender Commission by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Previously, she was the general counsel for the Michigan Supreme Court and served as the executive director of the State Bar of Michigan for 15 years. She currently serves as a co-chair on the Regulatory and Practice Reform Committee for the Michigan Justice for All Commission, as a delegate of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, and as a board member for the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society.
Class Note Summer 2024
Suzanne Hard was named the associate dean of professional development and career strategies at the George Washington University Law School. Previously, she was the director of the Center for Career Development at the University of Connecticut School of Law, director of education and section programming with the Connecticut Bar Association, and an associate professor of legal studies at Post University.
Class Note Summer 2024
John B. Thomas, a co-founder of the Houston-based boutique law firm Hicks Thomas LLP, was named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America for 2024. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation related to oil and gas, securities, environmental matters, banking, transportation, intellectual property, and health care.
Class Note Summer 2024
Reed Rubinstein has been appointed senior vice president of America First Legal. He joined the organization in 2021 as senior counselor and director of oversight and investigations after spending more than 30 years in private practice representing manufacturing and retail corporations, financial institutions, and trade associations. He also has served as deputy associate attorney general at the US Department of Education and senior adviser to the US secretary of the treasury.