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Frank Murphy Jr. B.A. ’55 and his wife, Sally, are enjoying life in the Oregon high desert and visits by children and grandchildren.

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John Sanbrook B.S. ’56 has published a biography of his father’s life, In My Father’s Time. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Yuba City and have two grown children and two grandchildren. John retired in 1995 from a Marysville law firm. He has remained active, serving on the Yuba City and Sutter County Planning Commissions, the Sutter County Assessment Appeals Board, and the Sutter/Yuba County Mosquito and Vector Control Board.

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Allan Nicholson and his wife, June, traveled to Daytona Beach in April for Allan’s 60th high school reunion.

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Charles Botsford is fully retired. Terrence Stinnett has been general counsel and corporate secretary for Fremont Bank, a $2 billion community bank owned by his family, since 2006.  He has been on the board of both the bank and the holding company for 19 years. 

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Calvin R.X. Dunlap is no stranger to high-profile cases. He is representing a woman who has accused Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexually assaulting her. He is also representing Nevada’s first lady, Dawn Gibbons, in her divorce from Gov. Jim Gibbons. He was the district attorney in Washoe County, Nev., from 1979 to 1983, and was named the 2007 Nevada Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Nevada Trial Lawyers’ Association. He practices at the Reno firm of Dunlap & Laxalt, which specializes in personal injury, malpractice, liability, criminal defense, and insurance claims.

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Steve Siner is managing shareholder of the business law firm Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel.

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Timothy “Pat” Hannon B.A.’70 retired in Oct. 2008 from the Navy Reserve after 36 years. He has returned to his civilian job in San Jose as a federal administrative law judge for the U.S. Social Security Administration. Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Martin Wegman retired in 2008 after 19 years of service. The German native was elected commissioner by the court’s judges in 1989.  He served as a deputy public defender for 13 years prior to his election to the bench.

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Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren was the 2009 commencement speaker for San Jose State University. Stephen Moloney B.S.’71 was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, he worked at the law firm of Gilbert, Kelly, Crowley & Jennett, where he had been a partner since 1985. In recent years, his practice emphasized labor and employment law. His wife is Nancy Barile ’76, B.A. ’71. Michael Patriarca is managing director in the San Francisco office of Promontory Financial Group, a global consulting firm for financial services companies. Previously he held executive positions at Visa International and Wells Fargo Bank, and was also a regulator with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and with the Federal Home Loan Bank in San Francisco. Chuck Poochigian was appointed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prior to his appointment, he was an attorney with Dowling, Aaron & Keeler in Fresno, practicing in the areas of regulatory and general business law and consulting on public policy. A 46-mile stretch of state Highway 180 was named in honor of the former legislator, who represented the region in the state assembly and state senate from 1994 until 2006.

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Mary Lou Fenili and her partner of 22 years, Karen Hansen, were married in Carmel on Sept. 27, 2008, by fellow classmate, Santa Clara County Superior Court Commissioner Jessica Frischling. Mary Lou retired from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2005, and writes that she finds retirement to be “even more wonderful than anticipated.” The couple lives in Denver with three cats and a dog. Pamela Rhodes teaches an annual art class in Tuscany. She also teaches in the Certified Financial Planner program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her financial planning firm, Rhodes & Fletcher, added a service to its financial planning practice, called Legacysure, which is a review of a client’s estate plans with pictorials to illustrate it. Robert Schuchard was named an outstanding healthcare transaction lawyer of 2008 by Nightingale’s Healthcare News. He represented Providence Health System of Southern California in its acquisition of Tarzana Regional Medical Center, and Good Samaritan Health System of Puyallup, Wash., in affiliation with Multicare Health System. He represented Portals, a nonprofit mental health provider in Los Angeles, in a merger with Pacific Clinics, and represented USC in the sale of USC/Kenneth Norris, Jr. Cancer Hospital to Tenet Healthcare. He is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine in Los Angeles.

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Michael A. Isaacs is a partner in the San Francisco office of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps. He leads the commercial, finance, and insolvency practice group and represents clients in a broad range of bankruptcy and insolvency situations.

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Manuel “Manny” Fishman is a shareholder at Buchalter Nemer’s San Francisco Real Estate Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of real estate developers, owners, and secured lenders in commercial property transactions as well as lease representation for several Bay Area property owners. Previously, he was at Cooley Godward Kronish. He recently completed his second ultra marathon (30 miles), saying, “It was the hardest and best thing I have ever done.” He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Leslie Kane ’84, who is the executive director at the Holocaust Center of Northern California. They have one son who attends Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. Lynne (Thaxter) Brown has been certified as a legal specialist in appellate law by the State Bar. She and her husband and teenage son live in Fresno.

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Judy Alexander has been recognized as a leader in the field of media and entertainment litigation in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She is counsel at Nixon Peabody in Palo Alto.

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Arleen N. Kaizer is back in Arizona caring for her 98-year-old mother. Since she’s not licensed to practice law in the state, she has successfully combined her two degrees (law and pharmacy), working as a Medicare appeals judge in a private company. She previously served as an appellate attorney taking cases to the Nevada Supreme Court, where she was undefeated. Amongst her best works, she cites the drafting and adoption of a federal law labeling alcohol for possible birth defects if consumed during pregnancy (which she authored at SCU). Vanessa Wells is a partner at the San Francisco office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold. Her practice focuses on complex business litigation involving insurance pricing matters, regulation and unfair practices. She represents life and property casualty insurers in commercial litigation, including the regulation of insurance rates and litigation challenging pricing and underwriting practices

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Jil Dalesandro is the current president of the Santa Clara County Bar Association.  She has her own law and mediation firm in Santa Clara, specializing in business litigation and employment law. She has been a mediator since 1995. John Schreiber is a certified specialist in appellate law and practices in Alamo. His practice focuses on appeals of civil issues. He is a member of the State Bar’s Committee on Appellate Courts and has been named a “Northern California Super Lawyer” by SuperLawyer.com the past three years.

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Kimberly M. Briggs has been appointed an Alameda County Superior Court judge by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, she worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney since 1995, and as an Alameda County Deputy District Attorney from 1987 to 1994.

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Mark Stone was appointed to the California Coastal Commission, the state agency charged with protecting the state’s coastline. Stone is also a member of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, where he represents the city of Scotts Valley and other communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Deb Kristensen, a partner at Givens Pursley in Boise, Idaho, has been named one of the “Top 40 Women Mountain States Super Lawyers” by SuperLawyers.com. She is a general business litigator, with an emphasis in employment and media law. She is a former president of the Idaho State Bar Association and lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Conference of the U.S. Courts. Marissa Ronald is a certified law specialist with an office in San Jose. Her daughter, Alexandra Pavlidakis, is a 2009 graduate of Santa Clara Law.

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Craig Langley is associate general counsel at Siemens Corporation in Atlanta.

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Lisa Baker practices law in Gilroy, focusing on family law, guardianships and bankruptcy. Charles Holland is a partner at K & L Gates in Palo Alto where he is a member of the intellectual property practice. He was previously with Morrison & Foerster. Larry Sokoloff spent a semester teaching in Moscow, Russia, as a Fulbright Scholar. He taught American communications law and critical thinking classes to undergraduate and graduate students at the Moscow Higher School of Economics. Stephen Sullivan is a partner at Virtual Law Partners in Mountain View. He focuses on patent prosecution and client counseling of high tech companies, with an emphasis on software. Previously he was the president of Strategic Patent Group, a partner at Sawyer Law Group, an IP counsel for FlashPoint Technology, and an attorney at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe.

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Shana Bagley is in the professional enforcement unit of the California Attorney General’s Office in Oakland. She is currently a member of the crew for the boat California, one of nine boats in the Clipper Round of the World Race. The race began Sept. 13 and ends in Hull, United Kingdom on July 13, 2010. Anne Leach received the Athena Award for Business Woman of the Year from the Salinas Chamber of Commerce. She was honored for her legal and volunteer efforts. She is chair of the Steinbeck Center board and president of the board of the Sun Street Centers. She is a managing partner with Abramson Church & Stave, where she focuses on business transactions and on estate and tax planning.

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Mary Ahern is the director of corporate affairs and compliance for the Cheesecake Factory, Inc., in their Calabasas corporate support center. Evie (Quezada) Cruz received tenure at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. She teaches immigration, asylum, and comprehensive law practice. Her husband, Darrel Cruz ’93, practices securities law in Scottsdale.

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Jeff Ball J.D./MBA is vice president of corporate development for Kilopass Technology. He has 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, most recently heading up JP Morgan’s semiconductor investment banking practice. Paul Delucchi was appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He had been a deputy district attorney in Alameda County since 1996. He is the son of the late Alameda County Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi ’60. Robert Forni is a partner at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley in Redwood City. His practice focuses on insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, and appellate law. He predominantly represents insurers, employee welfare plans and agents in ERISA, bad faith and coverage litigation matters, as well as Financial Authority regulatory arbitrations. Gretchen Jacobs left the Phoenix office of Greenberg Traurig to set up her own autism lobbying group. Jacobs, who has an autistic daughter, has been widely noted for her advocacy for autism research.

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Karen McLeod and her husband, Gavin Fleming, welcomed a daughter, Annalise Kate, on June 23. She joins brothers Malcolm, 4, and Graydon, 2, at home in Cambridge, United Kingdom. John Piccone III is a partner at Hopkins & Carley in San Jose, where he focuses on intellectual property litigation.

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Grace Hum is an assistant professor of legal writing at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Previously, she taught legal writing at Stanford Law School and was a California bar exam grader. Her website is www.gracehumconsulting.com.

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Michelle Adams B.S. ’95 is senior counsel in the San Diego office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, a business and real estate law firm. She works in the firm’s labor and employment and litigation practice groups. Lisa Poll lives in Pretoria, South Africa, where she works for an AIDS orphan program run by AFnet Aid. Previously, she was a deputy district attorney in Monterey County for nine years and spent five years heading the Elder Abuse Prosecution Unit. 

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Greg Czarkowski and Susan Garcia B.A. ’98, M.A. ’02 welcomed their second child, Xavier Francisco Garcia-Czarkowski on March 23, 2007. Marwa Elzankaly was honored with a 2009 Clay Award by California Lawyer magazine in the area of civil rights. The magazine said she “took Ibrahim v. Dept. of Homeland Security to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that lawsuits against the no-fly list can proceed, giving federal trial courts the option of compelling the government to explain how the names on that list have been chosen.” She is a partner at McManis Faulkner in San Jose.  Alexander Nestor is senior counsel at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis in San Francisco. He represents employers in litigation. Previously, he was with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Emily (Felt) and Joe Schultz ’98 announce the birth of daughter Lauren, on July 14, 2009. She joins brother Evan.

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Cassandra Joseph is a partner at Watson Rounds, which specializes in intellectual property litigation, business litigation and transactions, and insurance law and defense.  Jessica (Feldman) Perry is a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Menlo Park, where she practices employment law. Her son, Connor, was born Dec. 19, 2008, and joins big sister Madeline, 5. Selena Ontiveros is a business litigation attorney with Gonsalves & Kozachenko in Fremont. She was featured in a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News about a business she launched with a friend, called Simplify Home Solutions, which the newspaper described as “a personal assistant/concierge/contractor/therapist service rolled into one” for overworked mothers. Anthony Powelson is secretary of the Intellectual Property Section of the California State Bar, and will become chairman in two years. He practices law with LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne in Monterey, and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on developing international brands, dealing with the black market and enforcing trademark rights in Asia. Travis Wise is the international tax counsel for Google. He previously was director of international tax for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

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Susan Rickard Hansen B.S. ’97 and her husband, Carl, welcomed twins John David  and Catherine Rickard on April 7, 2008. The family lives in San Francisco, where Carl is a real estate broker and Susan is an attorney.

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Christine (Carlson) Donovan and her husband, Dennis, welcomed a second child, Claire, on Sept. 19, 2008. She joins brother Devin, 4. Christine is a certified family law specialist. Since April 2007 she has worked as a staff research attorney with the Solano County Superior Court, where she handles family law, probate research and some administrative matters. She was named Employee of the Quarter for the Fairfield branch court in July. Chelse Ferrero has been elected to the United Way Silicon Valley’s board of directors, where she serves on the Law United Committee. She is an intellectual property and litigation attorney at White & Case in Palo Alto, where she handles disputes over patents, copyrights, trademarks and technology licensing.  Previously, she worked in the biotech field at Genentech and Nuvello. James Leventis is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina, where he prosecutes narcotics and violent crimes cases. He received the U.S. Attorney Award for outstanding service in 2008.

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Tyler Folck B.S. ’04 married Ann Nguyen B.S.C. ’05 on May 9 at Mission Santa Clara. The couple lives in Sacramento. Ann works as a demand planning analyst at Verifone, Inc. in Rocklin and Tyler is an attorney at Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard in Sacramento. Keith Gillette LL.M. is a partner with Archer Norris in Walnut Creek. His practice encompasses trial work in the areas of admiralty, intellectual property, and large-exposure tort litigation.

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Summer Krause is employed by DLA Piper in East Palo Alto, and will be working at the non-profit Watsonville Law Center for the first year of her practice.