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Hon. Lawrence Terry B.S. ’57 was given citizen’s award by the Santa Clara County Medical Association in recognition of his contribution to the health field. Judge Terry helped establish the Drug Treatment Court in Santa Clara County, which has gained recognition for its work in introducing treatment and recovery in criminal drug cases.

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David Mousel is a at Lewis and Roca in Reno. He focuses on the purchase and sale of gaming businesses in Nevada. Previously, he was a partner Bible Mousel.

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Jim Jones retired after more than seven years as county counsel for Calaveras County.

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Jeff Cost is semiretired from practicing family law in San Mateo, traveling, enjoying five grandchildren and, he writes, “enjoying every day as a blessing.” Alfred Morici practices law in Florida. He specializes in estate planning, probate, and immigration law.

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William T. Loris B.A. ’68 is PROLAW’s program director and a senior lecturer at Loyola University Chicago’s Law School. He previously had a long career in international service. He served for five years in the Ivory Coast as a regional legal adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and also for five years in Cairo at USAID’s Egypt mission. He co-founded the International Development Law Institute, now known as the International Development Law Organization. Esau Herrera is back on the board of education of the Alum Rock Elementary School District in San Jose, after a voluntary absence of three years.

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Thomas L. Simpson B.A. ’69 is a certified family law specialist with his own three-attorney firm in Glendale, Calif. He is president of the Southern California chapter of the American Society of Matrimonial Lawyers. He lives in La Canada with his wife, Lili.

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Doug Barry B.A. ’66 was honored with the university’s Louis I. Bannan, S.J., Award. Henry Bunsow was named by California Lawyer Magazine as a 2010 Attorney of the Year within the Intellectual Property Law category, for prevailing in two high-profile patent cases. John Cruden is the president of the Environmental Law Institute, a nonpartisan research and education center. Previously, he was deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. He supervised all federal civil environmental litigation, including work on landmark cases like the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska and the conclusion of the Love Canal case. Gary Ritchey is a partner at Hopkins & Carley in San Jose, where he focuses on patent litigation. James M. Schiavenza BSC ’71 is dean of Lincoln Law School in Sacramento. Previously he was an adjunct professor of law there for more than 25 years. He is retired from the State Attorney General’s Office, where he had worked since 1975. James Stoelker was appointed as a Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He had been a principal at Mount and Stoelker since 1988. He also was a partner at Mount, Kraw and Stoelker, and at Eller, Burt and Stoelker, and Garrison, Townsend and Orser. He was a staff litigation attorney for Western Title Insurance from 1976 to 1983 and an associate for Atwood and Hurst from 1974 to 1975.

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J. Mark Atlas is of counsel at Downey Brand, working in the firm’s water law practice. He was previously with McDonough Holland & Allen. Michael Burk practices law, primarily in Santa Clara County. Richard Dubois is a direct calendar family law commissioner in San Mateo County, a position he was appointed to in 2002. Previously, he practiced law in the areas of criminal defense, personal injury, business transactional and litigation, family law, and estate planning. Art Jaramillo is a partner at Cuddy & McCarthy, focusing on complex commercial and tort litigation, insurance law, antitrust and trade regulation, and public utility regulation. Previously, he was Secretary of the New Mexico General Services Department, Superintendent of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, and spent 26 years as director and trial lawyer with the Santa Fe law firm formerly known as Jones, Snead, Wertheim, Wentworth & Jaramillo. He is also a past president of the State Bar of New Mexico and a regular presenter of continuing legal education programs. Elvira Robinson received an honorary degree from Gavilan College in Gilroy. She served on the Gavilan College Board of Trustees from 1990 to 2010, and on its Latino AdvisoryvCommittee. She was honored with Woman of the Year Awards from the 28th Assembly District (2011), the San Benito County LULAC (2000), and the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission (1994). Active at the national level, Elvira has served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention on many occasions. She served for 11 years as the first Latina Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County. In her community of Gilroy she has served as the Director for the Women’s Legal Clinic, coordinator of the Bethany Youth Empowerment Center, and on the Board of Directors for El Teatro Campesino. An attorney for 35 years, she is currently in criminal private practice. David B. Samuelson B.A. ’72 writes, “Still enjoying living up in the San Juans— probably never retire.” G. Judson Scott Jr. is a U.S. Administrative Law Judge, hearing and deciding appeals for the Social Security Administration in the San Francisco office of Disability Adjudication and Review. He participates in the judicial division of the American Bar Association, serves on the Executive Committee of the National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary, and also in the House of Delegates for the ABA. Hon. James Tamm has joined the faculty of the Wallenberg Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Gregory Brose retired as chief deputy district attorney for the Ventura County District Attorney‘s Office in February, and moved to Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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Hon. Brian Back was elected as assistant presiding judge on the Ventura County Superior Court. He has been a judge since 1997. Lee Bissonette is chair of Hellmuth & Johnson‘s Medical Malpractice/ Catastrophic Injury Group in Minneapolis, where he assists clients with a broad range of injury cases. He has more than 25 years of experience representing victims. In 2006, he was named a “Super Lawyer” by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. John Hardy is general counsel for Lee Enterprises of Little Rock, Ark. Hon. Eugene Hyman received a local hero award from the Midpeninsula Media Center for creating a program of early intervention, counseling, support and therapy for young people who have acted violently against family members. Since realizing his first seven-figure recovery in 1998, Carlos A. Lloreda Jr. has realized numerous seven-figure recoveries. He recently tried to verdict a lawsuit representing a plaintiff for breach of contract, fraud, and breach of director‘s fiduciary duty. Deborah Ryan was appointed a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge by Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger. She previously had been a court commissioner for Santa Clara County Court since 1999, and senior assistant counsel for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority from 1995 to 1999. M. Dean Sutton married Adriana Frederick on May 21 at Pt. Lobos, overlooking Carmel. They live in Santa Cruz. He practices law in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties. She is a TV reporter in Monterey.

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Mario Cordero has been nominated to be a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission by President Barack Obama. He is an attorney in Long Beach, and is serving his second term on the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners. He is also a part-time political science professor at Long Beach City College. James Hartnett, former mayor of Redwood City, was appointed by the California State Senate to the California High Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors. He is a partner at Hartnett, Smith & Patekau, emphasizing buinsess and real estate law. Stephanie West Allen had an article, “Rules of Engagement: Generation Y,” published in the Sept./Oct. 2010 issue of the ABA’s Law Practice magazine. Patti White has been appointed to a four-year term on the California Committee of Bar Examiners.

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Lesli Caldwell is Solano County’s Public Defender. She joined that office in 2007, and previously spent more than 25 years with the Contra Costa County PublicDefender’s Office. Ross Nadel is a partner at King & Spalding. Previously he was senior legal counsel for worldwide antipiracy at Adobe Systems, and was a prosecutor for many years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco.

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James P. Baker was named the 2012 “Best Lawyers Litigation, ERISA, San Francisco Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers. Baker is a partner in the labor and employment department at Winston & Strawn, San Francisco. James P. Cunningham is a partner at Liner Grode in San Francisco. He was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates. Sarah Felix is an assistant attorney general for the State of Alaska. Tim Galloway runs the Galloway Company in Neensah, Wisconsin. “We live on a large lake so the summers are spent sailing and motorboating and the winters ice skating and cross-country skiing,” he writes. Delbert Gee has been a judge of the Superior Court, County of Alameda, for the past eight years. Philip Gregory is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, in civil and environmental litigation. Karl-Otto Hartmann was nominated to be an independent trustee for FocusShares. He has over 17 years in the ETF/Fund industry. Previously, he served as senior VP, general counsel, and director at J.P. Morgan Investor Services Company. Joseph Lodge B.S. ’76 was appointed to Arizona’s Coconino County Superior Court. Previously, he worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office and as a Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Army. Patricia Mahan is mayor of the city of Santa Clara. She practices tax and estate planning law in Santa Clara. William Mahan is of counsel to the firm Gates Eisenhart Dawson in San Jose and has an independent law practice emphasizing tax, estate planning, and business. Alice Mead is a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry. Joe McGee is executive director of a statewide public employee labor union in Seattle, Wash. Stephen Pahl is senior partner at Pahl & McCay, a 13-attorney San Jose firm. In addition to practicing law, he has developed a number of real estate projects and helped start Lighthouse Bank in Santa Cruz. Rolanda Pierre-Dixon was named Woman of the Year in the 23rd Assembly District by Assemblywoman Nora Campos of San Jose. Rich Ruben is CEO of PEG Bandwidth. He has been CFO of Bell Atlantic Mobile, president of Comcast Spectacor (owner of the Philadelphia Flyers and Sixers), CEO of Wire One Communications, and CEO of XOS Technologies. Cerene St. John (Valerie Lenz) runs her own company, It’s A Natural Product, and does environmental consulting on recycling and solid waste. She is expanding into organic farming, community gardens, and localization of food supply. Drew Takaichi was appointed to be a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, he had been a sole practitioner since 1994. He was a partner with Brockman and Takaichi from 1983 to 1994; and Hamrick, Hoffman, Guillot and Taikaichi from 1982 to 1983. He was an associate for the law offices of Diana Levitz from 1980 to 1982. Robert Temmerman manages a small boutique trust and estate law firm in San Jose. He recently cycled across North America, from Neah Bay, Wash., to Bar Harbor, Maine, a distance of over 4,200 miles. Jeanine Tucker B.A./B.S. ’76 is court operations manager for the Stanislaus County Superior Court. She oversees daily operations of several court divisions and has participated in labor negotiations for both labor and management. Anita Paleologos Yagjian practiced law for 17 years, and now volunteers as a tutor and mentor for girls in a home for abused and neglected children.

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Eduardo Calvo is the founder of Calvo & Clark, a 20-lawyer firm with offices in Guam and San Francisco. Stephen Opperwall was named a Super Lawyer for the fourth year in a row in creditors’ rights and business litigation. He has his own law firm in Pleasanton. He volunteers for his two sons’ activities in the Amador Valley High School marching band and in the world-champion Concord Blue Devils drum and bugle corps. Diana (Sutton) Van Cleve and her husband, Bill, welcomed their eighth great-grandchild in May, a boy.

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Javier Alcala was appointed to a Santa Clara County Superior Court judgeship by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously he had been a deputy district attorney for Santa Clara County since 1983. Laura Lung Cha is a member of the executive council of the government of Hong Kong special administrative region, and non-executive deputy chairman of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Previously, she was vice chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and was the first person from outside Mainland China to serve in the central government of the People’s Republic of China. She is currently vice chair of the international advisory council of the CRSC. She also worked for the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, and was an attorney for Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro and Coudert Brothers. She is a director of the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing and China Telecom Corporation, and a senior adviser to Investor AB, a Swedish-listed company. She has been honored by the government of Hong Kong for her public service, and received an honorary doctoral degree in law from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Christopher Healey and Michael Thamer ’81 were named by California Lawyer Magazine as 2010 Attorneys of the Year in the elder law category.

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Simao J. Avila is senior counsel, legal and government relations, for Kaiser Permanente. He lectures at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, on negotiations and ADR. He coauthored Terror and Violence in the Workplace and A Litigator’s Guide to Effective Use of ADR in California. Robert G. P. Cruz B.S. ’71 completed two terms as a member of the Guam Election Commission. He also served as an international observer of the Philippine national elections in May 2010, and at earlier elections in Kosovo. He works parttime as a traffic and small claims referee for the superior court of Guam.

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Timothy McMahon was named one of the Irish 100, in recognition of the top 100 Irish-American attorneys in the U.S. He was also nominated as a 2010 finalist by the CAOC for “Street Fighter of the Year” for his cutting-edge work in litigating one of the first cyber-bullying cases in the nation. He is a partner at Corsiglia McMahon and Allard in San Jose, a firm that handles catastrophic injury and medical negligence cases.

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Bill Alexander practices law in Bakersfield, doing complex business and real estate litigation. Nancy Battel has her own law practice in San Jose, after being a partner in a large firm in San Jose. Robert Camors is of counsel at McPharlin Sprinkles & Thomas, where he focuses on intellectual property and business litigation. Previously, he was with Foley & Lardner. He is also counsel to the board of Habitat for Humanity of Silicon Valley. Noel Cook practices copyright and trademark law at Owen, Wickersham & Erickson in San Francisco, where he has been a principal of the firm since 1994 and has worked since 1989. Bradley Elkin is a principal at Diepenbrock Harrison in Sacramento. His practice focused on real estate and business transactions. He is married with three children. Robin Pearl Fine is a probate court investigator for Sacramento County Superior Court, after working as an attorney in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Lawrence Kelly is a sole practitioner handling estate planning, probate and trust law in Sunnyvale. He has been an active member of the Santa Clara County Bar and Silicon Valley Bar Associations for many years. Elizabeth Viney Parker is in her second term on the board of education for the Aspen, Colo., School District. She and her husband, David, have three children, with two in college. Brad Pizer practices at Pizer & Associates in Beverly Hills. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Credit Unions. He is a past recipient of the California Credit Union Collectors New Millennium Award. Karen Porter is corporate and securities counsel for Applied Materials. She also volunteers for progressive political causes and candidates. Phillip Reich is a partner and trial lawyer with Mullen & Filippi in San Francisco. S. Diane Rynerson is executive director of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations, and has a part-time family law practice. Janice Tilden is the technical director of the Board of Adjustment for Zoning Appeals in Denver. She started working there in 1986. James Trapp is a sole practitioner in San Jose, representing consumers in bankruptcy cases. He has also taught part-time, and written several novels. Evelyn Tolbert has ended 12 years of service as a city council member in Tracy. She previously was a planning commissioner and on the board of directors of the chamber of commerce there. A playwright, Tolbert founded the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation and the Tracy Women’s Forum Association. Bob Wieckowski was elected to the California State Assembly for the 20th District in November 2010. Previously he was vice mayor of the city of Fremont.

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Christopher Aker is senior director of legal affairs and secretary of Regulus Therapeutics. Previously, he was corporate counsel and senior director of administration at Phenomix, and also worked at Cureline, SUGEN and with the law firm of Selman Breitman in San Francisco. Eric Davis has completed a residency in family medicine and is practicing medicine in Georgia. He practiced law in Los Angeles from 1986 to 2001. Laura Fennell is senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary for Intuit. She was honored in a special Women of Influence 2011 section by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Elizabeth Harris is senior corporate counsel for Safeway in Pleasanton. She oversees labor and employment matters for Safeway’s 31,000 employees in California, Nevada, and Hawaii. She was named Best Labor and Employment Lawyer by the San Francisco Business Times in its Best Bay Area Corporate Counsel Awards 2011. Andrea Hawkins Sloan B.S. ’82 is a federal immigration judge in Portland, Ore. Previously, she worked in the office of administrative hearings in Salem, Ore., as an administrative law judge, interim chief administative law judge, and executive/ deputy chief administrative law judge. She also worked as a deputy district attorney in Humboldt County, Calif., from 1987 to 1991. She lives in Beaverton, Ore., with her husband, Chris ’84, and two children. Anastasia (Steinberg) Torres-Gil is CEO and chief designer of Myfavoritecouture.com, a dog clothing boutique, which features her handtailored fashions (including pillbox hats) from repurposed designer clothing. The business was featured on the Sabado Gigante variety show. Anastasia lives in Santa Cruz with her husband, Rafael, and daughters, Crystal and Cassy.

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The Hon. Christopher Acker is vice president of the Colorado County Court Judges Association. Dana Curtis has received the Mediation Society’s award for outstanding contribution in the field. Based in Sausalito, she has worked full-time as a mediator since 1991, and has emphasized elder mediation in recent years.

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Bradford DeMeo was appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to a judgeship on the Sonoma County Superior Court. Previously, he was a partner in the law firm of DeMeo, DeMeo and West in Santa Rosa, and a professor at Empire College of Law. Michael Jacques was elected as commissioner of the Placer County Superior Court. He lives on a smallscale farm with wife, Kyle, and sons, Nathan, 15, and Philip, 9. Jan Howell Marx is mayor of San Luis Obispo. Previously, she operated the Law Offices of Jan Howell Marx for more than 20 years. Elisabeth Mineta was appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to a judgeship on the Monterey County Superior Court. Previously, she was a legal research attorney for the court, and had earlier been in private practice.

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Wayne Montgomery is vice president, legal affairs and intellectual property, for iPierian, a biopharmaceutical company. He has over twenty years experience as an intellectual property law attorney in the biopharmaceutical industry, and previously served as vice president of patents at Exelixis. Before entering the legal profession, he was a pharmacologist with Syntex Research.

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Jacqueline Anderson practices family law in San Jose. She recently completed a whitewater rafting and hiking trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Ellen Arabian-Lee has been a litigator for the past 20 years at several private law firms. She lives in Folsom with her husband and four children, including an infant daughter. Janis Carney is a senior partner in the elder law firm of Carney, Sugai & Sudweeks, in Los Gatos. In 2005, she became the first certified elder lawattorney in Santa Clara County, and in 2009 becameone of the first accreditedattorneys by the Veterans Administration in California. Andrea Carlisle is a partner in a boutique civil litigation firm in Oakland, specializing in employment litigation,civil rights, and public entity defense. She and her husband, Chuck, own a tapas restaurant in Alameda called BarCeluna. She is a board member of the Conference of California Bar Associations. Sean Higgins is a lobbyist,and handles government affairs for the law firm Gordon Silver. He also owns two bars, Three Angry Wives Pub and Tomfoolery Pub & Eatery. Previously, he was associate counsel at Cohen, Lee & Johnson, general counsel for Herbst Gaming, and head of government affairs for gas retailer Terrible Herbst. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Lynn, and children, Samantha and Connor. John Goold is chief prosecutor in the Merced County District Attorney’s Office, a position he previously held in Stanislaus County. He has also worked in civil law, and for the Napa County District Attorney’s Office. Tracy (Sloan) Olsen is assistant director at Liberty Mutual Insurance for the Boston/home office personal market claims department. She lives with her husband, Mark,and their two children in Wheaton, Ill.

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Sharon Kirsch was named to the Northern California Super Lawyers 2010 Edition, and honored in a special Women of Influence 2011 section by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She is a partner at McManis Faulkner.

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Charlene Bellinger is an administrative appeals judge for the Social Security Administration. Michele Hales is the managing partner at Hales & Hales, in San Jose, a family law firm. She is active with Emmaus House, a domestic violence shelter in San Benito County, and Baler Backers Athletic Organization, a nonprofit group that provides funding for athletics at San Benito High School. She lives in Hollister with her husband, Chris, and their three children. Niall McCarthy is president-elect of the Consumer Attorneys of California. Luis Rodriguez B.S. ’89 was elected to a three-year term on the State Bar of California’s Board of Governors. He is a Los Angeles County public defender. John Patzakis is president of eDiscovery at X1 Technologies. Previously, he was a consultant on strategic planning and product strategies for eDiscovery and compliance solution providers. He also spent nearly a decade at Guidance Software, where he held senior management positions, including serving as president and CEO. Sonya Sigler is general counsel at Cataphora. Douglas Wilson B.S. ’89 is a deputy attorney general for the criminal law division of the California Attorney General’s Office in Los Angeles. He argued a case before the California Supreme Court, People v. Albillar, in October 2010. The court affirmed the conviction of three street gang members in an opinion issued in December 2010. He credits an externship with Sixth District Court of Appeal Associate Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian and an internship with the attorney general’s office while at SCU with introducing him to a rewarding career in public service. Stacey Zartler is of counsel at Kelly, Hockel & Klein, focusing on employment law. Previously she was at Littler Mendelson.

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Thomas McCracken is vice president of intellectual property at MAP Pharmaceuticals. Previously he was vice president and chief patent counsel at Durect Corporation, managed IP assets and services for PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, and was a private patent lawyer. Timothy Warriner has been appointed to a three-year term on the Criminal Law Section Executive Committee of the California State Bar. He is a certified criminal law specialist. His practice is in Sacramento, where he lives with his wife and twin sons. Braden C. Woods is managing attorney of the homicide unit for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. Previously he was head of the DNA Cold Case Unit.

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Susan Coleman is a partner at Burke, Williams & Sorensen in Los Angeles. A marathon runner, she lives in Hermosa Beach. She was recently admitted to the Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Fernando Gutierrez has been certified as a qualified medical evaluator by the California Department of Industrial Relations, Workers Compensation Medical Unit. He has a clinical and forensic psychology practice in Pasadena, Calif. He lives with his domestic partner of 33 years. Alysa Erdman Meyer is managing attorney of the Yolo County office of Legal Services of Northern California, where she represents low-income individuals on housing, homelessness prevention, public benefits, education, employment, and health rights. She also advises nonprofit organizations. Previously, she worked for Contra Costa Legal Services Foundation in its housing unit, and for an insurance defense firm in Sacramento. Vedica Puri is on the board of the Bar Association of San Francisco Foundation. She is a partner at Pillsbury & Levinson, focusing on bad faith insurance claims. She was named as a rising star in the Northern California Super Lawyers 2010 Edition. She has achieved combined settlements and verdicts of more than $15 million. Vince Sampson is president of the Education Finance Council, an association of nonprofit and state-based student-loan providers in Washington, D.C. Sampson previously worked for the U.S. Department of Education, as deputy chief counsel on the House Natural Resources Committee, and at the Association for Competitive Technology. Tyler Wall MBA, is secretary and director of Foundry Networks. He has been vice president and general counsel of Brocade Communications Systems, as well as chief compliance officer and company secretary, since 2005. Previously, he worked for Chordiant Software and Oracle. He is also a member of the advisory board of V-soft.

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Larry Elam III is a sole practitioner, with clients in plaintiff’s personal injury, employment discrimination, and business disputes. Jan Farrell is a lawyer for DIRECTV in Colorado. Michelle Ferreira was a finalist for Tax Analyst’s 2010 Person of the Year. According to the publication, Ferreira “exerted a lot of influence in 2010 from the West Coast, holding numerous administrative positions within the tax community.” She is a shareholder in the San Francisco office of Greenberg Traurig, and is immediate past chair of the State Bar of California taxation section. Brian Frank is senior director of sales at LinkedIn. Bill Harmon works on intellectual property for Microsoft and teaches law school at night in the Seattle area. Sandra (Mittelbuscher) Kent lives in Germany with her husband, Peter, and two children. During the school year, she works as an Air Force Reservist attorney at Ramstein Air Base. Darren Milliken is general counsel, senior vice president, and corporate secretary for Accuray in Sunnyvale. The company’s main product is CyberKnife, a robotic radio surgery system that treats tumors. He was named best general counsel for a small public company by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Jeremy Pasternak practices law, representing individuals in employment and other civil rights matters in San Francisco. Jonathan Skiles was appointed to be a judge on the Fresno County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, he was a commissioner on the same court. He also worked for the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office, the Fresno City Attorney’s Office, and the law firms of Thoits Love Hershberger and McLean and Gray Carey Ware and Freidenreich. Carol Stratford is general counsel for KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, where her work includes a mixture of transactional contract work and intellectual property.

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Timothy Branson is a partner at Gordon & Rees in San Diego, where he focuses on commercial litigation. Shelyna Brown was honored in a special Women of Influence 2011 section by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She is a deputy public defender for Santa Clara County. Patrick Premo B.S. ’89 received a pro bono services award from the Santa Clara County Bar Association. He is a partner at Fenwick & West, and had chaired the firm’s pro bono program since 2005. He also has provided direct legal services to low-income clients. Jeff Rich B.A. ’92 and his wife, Molly (Foy) Rich B.S. ’92, announce the birth of their third child, Findlay George Rich, on June 12, 2010. Finn joins brother, Jeffrey Jr., and sister, Molly, in Palo Alto. Jeff is assistant general counsel at Juniper Networks.

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Michele Corvi was named to the Northern California Super Lawyers 2010 Edition. She is coleader of the family law team at McManis Faulkner. Clare Frank is the assistant deputy director, cooperative fire, training and safety program, for CAL FIRE, the largest fire department in California and second largest in the United States. Robert Greeley B.S. ’87 received Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Diversity Award in recognition of his commitment and leadership in promoting diversity in the legal profession. Greeley’s San Jose law firm focuses on employee rights. Gerry Houlihan B.S. ’87 married Karen Dalhuisen on Nov. 24, 2010. They live in San Jose. Gerry is an attorney with Matteoni, O’Laughlin & Hechtman in San Jose. Jeff True is vice president and general counsel at Palo Alto Networks. He previously held a similar role at 2Wire for five years before its acquisition by Pace.

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Michael Reiter has his own law firm in Redlands, after serving as an assistant city attorney there for four years. He handles personal injury, criminal, business, real estate, and municipal law. Nader Yasin B.S. ’94 and his wife, Lynn, announce the birth of their third child, Max Julien. Nader handles intellectual property and general business litigation with his law firm, La Fleur & Yasin.

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Neda Mansoorian was named to the Northern California Super Lawyers 2010 Edition as a rising star. She is an attorney at McManis Faulkner in high tech litigation. Natasha Parrett is a shareholder at Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel in San Jose. Previously, she was a litigator representing New York City in serious child abuse and neglect cases, and was a trial attorney in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. She was named a Northern California Rising Star in 2009 and 2010, and a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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Jason Baker is mayor of the city of Campbell. Ian Carter is a partner at Downey Brand in Roseville. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, corporate governance, and intellectual property. Susan Edwards is senior corporate counsel in employment law for Marvell Semiconductor in Santa Clara. She was honored in a special Women of Influence 2011 section by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Annaliese (Smith) Dolph is director of public policy for Disability Rights North Carolina. She and her husband, Donavan, have two daughters, Lillian, 6, and Cecelia, 3. Dori Rose Inda, executive director of the Watsonville Law Center, received a $125,000 award from the James Irvine Foundation for the center’s Agricultural Workers Access to Health Project. Nanci Lewellen is in solo practice, as a business and real estate attorney. Anne Ortel is general counsel of Future US, a publisher of special interest print and digital magazines and interactive digital content. Traci Pickering is a partner at Mello & Pickering in San Jose, where she practices family law.

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Samuel Dalesandro Jr. and Heather Mardel Jones ’02 announce the birth of their first child, Lila Mardel Dalesandro, on Aug. 11, 2010. Sam is a deputy district attorney in Fresno County, in the Career Criminal Unit. Heather is an associate at Dowling, Aaron and Keeler in Fresno, focusing on civil, probate, and trust litigation. Abdi Shayesteh is vice president and counsel with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in New York. Previously, he was at King & Spaulding for four years. Scotty and Angela (Foster) Storey welcomed their second child, Spencer, on Nov. 2, 2010. He joins big brother, Alastair, 3. Scotty has a law firm in Santa Clara, and Angela is a trial attorney with Farmers Insurance. Amin Zoufonoun B.S. ’98 is director of mergers and acquisitions at Facebook. Previously, he was director of corporate development at Google, and director of intellectual property and corporate counsel at ArrayComm.

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Matthew Ellis is a partner at Downey Brand in Sacramento, where he focuses on real estate law. Kristina Lawson is a partner with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, in its San Francisco office.

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Erin Dungan is an associate with Briggs and Morgan, where she practices intellectual property litigation. Scott Gilles was appointed Deputy Secretary for Elections in Nevada in January 2011, and is responsible for administering the state’s election process, including enforcing state and federal election laws and procedures and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Brian Hennessy B.S. ’00 is one of the recipients of the 2011 Ignatian Award from Santa Clara University’s Alumni Association. It is given for exceptional service to humanity. Gina Policastri is a certified family law specialist and a senior associate at Lonich & Patton in San Jose, where she has worked since 2003. Christina and Michael Vigilia announce the birth of a daughter, Jamie Frances, on Aug. 4, 2010. They live in Fresno. Cyril Vidergar writes a column called “Pondering the Pint” for the Longmont Times- Call newspaper in Colorado. The column addresses beer, brewing culture, tradition, and alcohol law.

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Christine Peek was named to the Northern California Super Lawyers 2010 Edition as a rising star. She practices general civil litigation with a focus on constitutional law and lawsuits against governmental entities.

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Kevin Allen is an associate with Minami Tamaki in San Francisco. He is a civil litigator, with an emphasis on employment law, wage and hours issues, and class action litigation. He volunteers as a supervising attorney at the San Francisco Legal Aid Society’s Employment Law Clinic. Monica Burneikis does civil litigation for Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel in San Jose. She primarily handles catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases for plaintiffs. Kevin Grange telecommutes to a job with the Silicon Valley law firm of Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, from a home office near Salt Lake City, Utah. James Huie is an associate in the life sciences practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, where he focuses on corporate and securities law. Michael MacDonald B.S. ’02 and his wife Stephanie (Deddens) B.A. ’01 announce the birth of their first child, Luke Michael, on April 19, 2010. Michael is a real estate attorney in Palo Alto, and the family lives in San Jose. Paul McLean is an associate at DLA Piper in East Palo Alto. Elizabeth Pianca is a deputy county counsel for Santa Clara County. Michael Renzi is vice president of West Valley College. David Thompson is an associate with Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson in Portland, Ore., where he focuses on labor and employment law. His volunteer work includes serving on the Black Parent Initiative Fundraising Committee, the Portland Higher Education Task Force, the advisory board of Friends of the Children, and chair of the Connector Project. He was named an Up and Coming Lawyer 2010 by the Daily Journal of Commerce.

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Devin Brown and his wife, Melissa ’07, welcomed a daughter, Olivia Louise, on June 17. Elia DeLuca B.S. ’02 married James Robinson ’05 on June 26, 2010, at Our Lady of the Snows Church in Sun Valley, Idaho. She is an associate at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton in San Francisco, and previously was at Littler Mendelson. In 2009, she was a law clerk in the office of the prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. James is a partner at Shopoff & Cavallo in San Francisco. Michael “Mica” Estremera B.S. ’02 married Jennifer Prieb ’07 at the Mission Church on Sept. 4, 2010. Mica is an attorney at the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office, and Jennifer is a litigation associate at Downey & Whitney in Palo Alto. Justin Miyai practices labor and employment law with Mastagni, Holstedt in Sacramento.

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John Bianchi married Julie Gabelein B.A. ’07 on July 24, 2010, in Whidbey Island, Wash. Presiding was Chris Boscia ’08. Guests included Kristin Boscia ’08, Kevin Metti, and Asheesh Mohindru. Michael Bonetto is a family law associate with Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel. Previously he was an associate with Whiting, Fallon, Ross and Abel in Walnut Creek. Laurel Sevier is co-chair of the Women Lawyers Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Association.

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Kristin (Love) Boscia and Chris Boscia announce the birth of their first child, Katherine Love Boscia, on June 23. The family lives in Santa Clara. Melissa (Meek) Corica B.S. ’04 and her husband, Craig B.S.C. ’04, welcomed their first child, a son, Logan Michael, born on April 17. The family lives in Alameda. Jessica Elgort is an associate in the health care section of Hanson Bridgett in San Francisco.

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Molly Healy is an associate at Murchison & Cumming in Los Angeles, where she works in the firm’s insurance law practice group. Alison Kwan works for Bradshaw and Associates law firm. Leslie Maglione married James Jensen on Oct. 9, 2010. Guests included Crystal Riggins¸ Danielle Colombo ’08, Bridget Colbert, Eddie Colbert, Toni LaRosa, Stephanie Rocha, Tim McInerny ’96, Jarisse Moore ’09, Daisy Nishigaya ’96 and the Hon. Dan Nishigaya ’95. Lindsey Scott-Florez B.A. ’04 married Jason Tola B.S.C. ’04 on Oct. 2, 2010, in Palo Alto. Guests included Naomi Pease ’08 and Jason Stimac ’09. The couple lives in San Francisco.

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Derek Chien MBA is an associate with Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, where he works with the firm’s intellectual property and corporate practice teams. Oz Levia is vice president of marketing and business development and corporate counsel for Jasper Design Automation, which provides verification solutions based on formal technology. Previously, he was vice president of marketing and business development at SpringSoft. Ashley (Hansson) Meyers is an associate with Sackett and Herrera, a law firm in San Jose. Luke Steidlmayer is an associate attorney for Downey Brand in Sacramento in the litigation division. Linda Wuestehube won the Jan Jancin Award for top intellectual property law student in the nation.