Issue: Fall 2022
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Class Note Fall 2022
Myra Selby was honored by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession with the 2022 Margaret Brent Award, which recognizes women who have achieved professional excellence and paved the way for other women in the legal field. She is a partner at Ice Miller LLP in Indianapolis.
Class Note Fall 2022
John Glowney published his debut full-length poetry collection, Visitation (Broadstone Books, 2022). His work has received recognition from organizations including the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Seattle.
Class Note Fall 2022
Mark L. Jones published Professions and Politics in Crisis (Carolina Academic Press, 2021), which suggests that encouraging people to pursue a life of meaning and purpose can remediate professional and political crises of well-being, distress, and dysfunction. He is a professor at Mercer University Law School in Macon, Georgia.
Class Note Fall 2022
Patricia “Trish” Refo received the Medal of Honor from the World Jurist Association for her leadership and efforts to promote the rule of law around the world, particularly for her service as president of the American Bar Association from 2020 to 2021. Read more.
Class Note Fall 2022
Cheryl Bush, founding member of Bush Seyferth PLLC, was sworn in for a four-year term as a regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Class Note Fall 2022
George Higgins was named the Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Cornell University Law School. Formerly a public defender and trial lawyer, he also is an avid dramatic improviser and taught a seminar titled Improv, Storytelling, and Trial Advocacy during the fall 2021 semester.
Class Note Fall 2022
Elliot Regenstein published Education Restated: Getting Policy Right on Accountability, Teacher Pay, and School Choice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), which offers a pragmatic approach to education improvement at the local and state level. He is a partner at Foresight Law+Policy in Chicago.
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.
Class Note Fall 2022
Tiffany Pollard has joined Davis+Gilbert as a partner in the firm’s corporate and transactions practice. Most recently, she was head of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions at Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS), where she helped lead Paramount Global’s acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Miramax and its joint venture with Tyler Perry to launch its first direct-to-consumer offering (BET+ streaming). Her practice will focus on representing public and private companies in M&A, joint ventures, minority investments, and general corporate matters.