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Class Note Fall 2022

Walter Lanier was hired as the president and chief executive officer of the African American Leadership Alliance of Milwaukee. He most recently served as an executive at Milwaukee Area Technical College, where he led the creation of the college’s Men of Color Initiative, as well as the student resource center and the counseling and psychological services department. Lanier is also in his 11th year of service as the senior pastor of the Progressive Baptist Church.

Class Note Fall 2022

Colin Owyang assumed the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer at Vermont Electric Power Company. Previously, he served as general counsel and head of strategy at Franklin Energy.

Class Note Fall 2022

Thomas B. Cochrane joined the Chicago office of the United Airlines Master Executive Council of the Air Line Pilots Association as senior labor relations counsel. He has nearly 26 years of experience representing labor unions.

Class Note Fall 2022

Michael J. Thomas, while at the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, spearheaded litigation resulting in a $74,000 judgment against a defendant who unlawfully killed a deer. The judgment, which is the largest ever obtained under a department-specific statute allowing for civil restitution regardless of criminal charges, was attributable to the deer’s trophy-level antlers. The New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld the judgment in fall 2021. Thomas recently transferred to the Criminal Appeals Division of the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General.

Class Note Fall 2022

Dina Bakst, co-founder of A Better Balance, was a 2021 recipient of the Heinz Award, which recognizes individuals who make lasting contributions to the arts, the economy, and the environment. Her organization conducts policy work and provides direct legal services and public education to advance worker protections on issues such as equal pay, paid family and medical leave, protections for pregnant and breastfeeding workers, and affordable quality child care and elder care.

Class Note Fall 2022

Brian Bernhardt joined Fox Rothschild LLP in Charlotte, North Carolina, as counsel in the firm’s tax controversy and litigation department.  Previously, he was a partner at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP.

Class Note Fall 2022

Enoh Ebong was appointed director of the United States Trade and Development Agency. In this role, she leads the agency’s efforts to develop sustainable infrastructure, foster economic growth in emerging economies, and support job growth through the export of goods and services.

Class Note Fall 2022

Angela Onwuachi-Willig co-edited Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten US Court Opinions on Race and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which reimagines some of the most influential legal cases in US history using a racial justice lens. She is dean and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University.

Class Note Fall 2022

Laura Mate was nominated to serve as commissioner and vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. Before this appointment, she was the director of the Sentencing Resource Counsel, a project of the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the District of Arizona.

Class Note Fall 2022

Jason Mendelson published How to Be a Lawyer: The Path from Law School to Success (Wiley, 2022), which includes contributions from guest authors Lynne Davis, ’98, and Greg Mann, ’98. Outside of writing, Mendelson is a full-time musician performing under the stage name Jace Allen. In 2020, he retired as a co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado.