Issue: Fall 2022
176 results
Class Note
Steven Hanton, ’12: Using a Big Law Platform to Give Back
Marathon runner by morning, structured finance attorney by day, and community organizer by night, Steven Hanton, ’12, has time for it all—and then some.
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Dana Schmitt, ’95: Building a League of Her Own
Dana Schmitt, ’95, has had a passion for baseball ever since she and her father were invited to a Detroit Tigers game by a family friend. Thirty years later, she’s still wearing her baseball cap—but now she wears it as the president of the United Shore Professional Baseball League, the first professional developmental baseball league in Metro Detroit.
Class Note
Khalilah Spencer, ’01: Fighting for Voting Rights
As president of Promote the Vote 2022, Khalilah Spencer, ’01, is leading the campaign for an amendment to Michigan’s state constitution that would expand voting rights.
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Jesse Medlong, ’13: Addressing Climate Change across Borders and Sectors
It was only as he sat in Paris at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties that Jesse Medlong realized he might be an environmental lawyer.
In Memoriam
Rep. John E. Porter, ’61
Rep. John E. Porter, ’61, a Republican who served for more than two decades in the US House of Representatives as the representative for Illinois’s 10th congressional district, died on June 3, 2022. He was 87.
Class Note Fall 2022
The Hon. Sarah Radke Smisek was appointed an administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration at the Office for Hearings Operations in Livonia, Michigan.
Class Note Fall 2022
Claire (Holloway) Ness was appointed deputy attorney general for North Dakota. She had previously served as senior counsel and code revisor at the North Dakota Legislative Council since 2016.
Class Note Fall 2022
Jeff Kayes joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a partner in the firm’s energy and infrastructure practice group. Based in San Francisco, he previously served as partner at Baker Botts. He specializes in energy and renewables project financing and tax equity transactions.
Class Note Fall 2022
Dana Jewell was appointed general counsel and corporate secretary to Mixhalo Corp., a San Francisco-based real-time audio streaming company. Previously, she served as vice president, deputy general counsel, and corporate secretary at Chegg Inc.
Class Note Fall 2022
Deirdre Hamilton was appointed to the National Mediation Board. Previously, she worked as a staff attorney at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, focusing on the union’s airline division.