Issue: Fall 2022
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Class Note Fall 2022
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 Fall 2022
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.
Class Note Fall 2022
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.
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.
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
Gates S. Hurand was promoted to senior counsel to Commissioner Caroline D. Pham at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Previously, he served in the commission’s enforcement division as senior trial attorney.
Class Note Fall 2022
Aaron Cutler was named the practice area leader for the government relations and public affairs practice group at Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC. He has been a partner at the firm since 2014.
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
Shannon Shin was promoted to partner at Dentons US LLP in Chicago, where she is a member of the firm’s litigation practice.
Class Note Fall 2022
Erin Dickinson was appointed to serve as a member-at-large on the Summit County Council in Akron, Ohio. She was formerly a business litigation associate at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP.