HAVE YOU HEARD? Philip S. Habermann ('47) Todd J. Mitchell ('68), a partner Christopher Hexter ('72) has received the 1997 Goldberg Award in the Milwaukee based firm of been elected chair of the American from the State Bar of Wisconsin. The Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols, Bar Association's Developing Labor Award recognizes lifetime contribu- has opened a branch office for the Law Commission. Hexter practices in tions to the legal profession and pub- firm in Hartland, Wisconsin. St. Louis. lic in this state. Habermann also won Paul J. Cherner ('68), a senior Bradford Dewan ('72) has the 1994 UW Law School partner with Michael, Best and joined the San Francisco office of Distinguished Service Award. Friedrich's Chicago office, has been [effer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, David Beckwith ('52), senior elected Chairman of the Schwab where he will concentrate in estate partner with Foley & Lardner, has Rehabilitation Hospital and Care planning. Dewan previously practiced been honored by the Wisconsin Network's Board of Directors. in Oaldand, California. Alumni Association with its 1997 Paul Eggert ('68) has been Bruce Kerr ('72) has been Distinguished Alumni Award for con- appointed Regional Director for the named Contracts Manager- tributions to the legal profession and National Labor Relations Board Technology Licensing & Commercial to the university. office in Seattle, Washington. He Transactions for Sun Microsystems A. Glenn Epps ('56) has been moves from the NLRB office in Computer Company in Mountain honored by the Flint, Michigan, Oaldand, California, and has been View, California. Common Council for his efforts to with the agency since graduation. Francis L. Kenney III ('73), an advance civil rights. Epps is a retired Steve Cohen ('69) is a Senior alderman in the St. Louis suburb of administrative law judge who now International Tax Parmer at Deloitte Clayton, is a candidate for mayor of maintains a private practice. & Touche in San Francisco. He that city. Warren L. Kreunen ('61), a advises multinational corporations David Ullrich (,73) has been partner in the Milwaukee firm of von around the world. appointed acting Regional Briesen, Purtell & Roper, has Ellen M. Kozak ('69) has Administrator for Region 5 of the received the George Tippler Award authored the second edition of Environmental Protection Agency. for distinguished service in school law "Every Writer's Guide to Copyright Ullrich has been with the EPA since from the Wisconsin School Attorneys Law." Kozak is the author of several graduation. Association. fiction and non-fiction books. Kay Oberly ('73) was recently Chief Justice Shirley S. William J. Keppel ('70), retired featured in the National Law Journal Abrahamson (SJD, '62), of the partner at Dorsey & Whitney in as the vice-chair and General Counsel Wisconsin Supreme Court, delivered Minneapolis, has been appointed of Ernst & Young in New York and the 1997 Louis Caplan Distinguished Distinguished Practitioner in as one of the most important female Lecture in Law at the University of Residence at Hamline University attorneys in the United States for Pittsburgh School of Law. School of Law. He also recently 1998. Bernard R. Fredrickson ('63) receive the Lifetime Distinguished Donald Leo Bach ('74) has been has joined the Menomonie, Service Award from the Minnesota appointed chair of the Bench and Bar Wisconsin, firm of Schofield & Justice Foundation for his career committee of the State Bar of Higley. commitment to pro bono work. Wisconsin. The mission of the com- James Roethe (,66) has been John W. Rowe ('70) has been mittee is to review, evaluate and rec- appointed General Counsel of selected a Chairman and Chief ommend changes to the state justice BankAmerica Corp. He had been Executive of Commonwealth Edison system. serving as interim general counsel. Co., Chicago. Rowe comes from a Donald J. Barry ('74) has been Roethe is also the chair of the Law similar position with New England appointed Assistant Secretary for School's Board of Visitors. Electric System. Fish, Wildlife and Parks at the U.S. Joel Hirschhorn ('67), practic- Margaret Dadd ('70), formerly Department of the Interior. He has ing in Coral Gables, Florida, has been practicing law in Attica, New York, spent his career in the Department of elected to the Board of Trustees of has been appointed to the three- the Interior after beginning with the the Freedom to Read Foundation. member Civil Service Commission in Office of the Solicitor. Hirschhorn is a member of the Law New York state. School's Board of Visitors. 12 Gargoyle HAVE YOU HEARD? David Beckwith Joel Hirschhorn James Koebl Jane Clark Peter M. Weill ('74) is serving a term as chair of the Los Angeles Planning Commission. Weil practices real estate law in Los Angeles. Paul J. Papak ('75) has been appointed Federal Public Defender in Iowa. A senior litigator with that office since 1994, Pepak will head a staff of seven expected to handle more than 500 cases each year. Jerome E. Barnett ('75) has been made a vice-president of Marubeni American Corporation in Michael Gratz Michael Hermes New York. Marubeni is a major Japanese trading company. Barnett continues to serve as Senior Counsel Kathleen Falk ('77) was elected Thomas E. Bush ('77), practic- and Corporate Secretary. last fall as Dane County Executive. ing in Milwaukee, is the president of Michael Simpson ('75), a share- She replaces Rick Phelps ('71). the National Organization of Social holder with the Milwaukee firm of Thomas Pieper ('77), a former Security Claimant's Representatives. Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Norris prosecutor and public defender, has NOSSCR's 3,600 members practice & Rieselbach, has been appointed to been selected as a Waukesha County Social Security law in all 50 states. the Wisconsin Small Business Court Commissioner. Bush has been on the Board of Environmental Council by Gov. G. Stephen Long ('77), formerly NOSSCR for a number of years. Tommy Thompson ('66). president and managing director of Seward M. Cooper ('78) has Kristine Euclide ('76), a mem- Coghill & Goodspeed, announces the published an article on doing busi- ber of the Law School's Board of formation of Long, Steese, DeGarlais ness in Africa in the Visitors, has taken a leave of absence & Beier, a new litigation practice in January/February issue of Business from her firm, Stafford Rosenbaum Denver. Law Today, an ABA publication. Rieser & Hanson. She is working in James A. Koebl ('77), formerly James J. Hoecker ('78) has been the Office of the County Executive assistant vice president and general appointed chairman of the Federal for Dane County. counsel for National Guardian Life Energy Regulatory Commission. A Daniel J. Mulvanny ('76) is a Insurance Company in Madison, has member ofFERC since 1993, founding partner of Hogan, Marren joined Northwestern Mutual Life Hoecker was previously a partner & McCahill, a Chicago health care Insurance Company in Milwaukee as with Jones, Day, Kreavis & Pogue. firm. Mulvanny formerly practiced assistant general counsel. with Katten Muchin & Zavis. Gargoyle 13 HAVE YOU HEARD? Mark E. Sostarich ('78) has Robert L. Gegios ('81), a share- Maureen McGinnity ('82), a joined the Milwaukee firm of Petrie holder in the Milwaukee firm of von partner at Foley & Lardner in & Stocking. Briesen, Purtell & Roper, has been Milwaukee, has received the 1997 Susan Steingass ('78) has been appointed to a fourth term as Chair Community Involvement Award elected President of the State Bar of of the Civil RICO Subcommittee of from the Wisconsin Association for Wisconsin. Steingass will take office the American Bar Association and as Women Lawyers. in July 1998. vice-chair of the Class Actions Barbara Cox ('82) has been Michael Fox ('79) has received a Subcommittee of the ABA Section of named Associate Dean of Academic MFA degree in Drama from the Business Law. Gegios also serves as Affairs at California Western School University of California- Irvine and is Editor-in-chief of "Private Antitrust of Law in San Diego. Cox has been now a Professor of Theater at Long Litigation News", a publication of on the faculty there since 1987. She Beach City College. the Section on Antitrust Law. will focus on faculty, student and cur- Brian L. Anderson ('80) has Thomas H. Taylor ('82), for- ricular topics. joined the Madison firm of DeWitt merly Deputy Secretary of the Paul S. Berg ('82) has received a Ross & Stevens where he will practice Wisconsin Department of Superior Honor Award from employee benefits law. Commerce, has joined the Madison Secretary of State Madeleine C. Scott Pryor (,80) has joined firm of DeWitt Ross & Stevens where Albright. Berg is a career member of the Orlando firm of Zimmerman, he will practice business and employ- the Foreign Service, most recently Shuffield, Kiser & Sutcliffe. He will ment law and litigation. stationed at the Embassy in Mexico practice in the secured transactions City. He will soon begin a new and finance law areas. assignment as Political Officer in the Paul G. Kent ('81) is the Embassy at Hanoi. President of the Dane County Bar Association. Kent is a shareholder at DeWitt Ross & Stevens. Susan Bauman ('81) was elected Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. Bauman replaces Paul Soglin ('72). Paul Bel'lf (left) 14 Gal;goyle HAVE YOU HEARD? James Hoecker Gregor)'Kult Elizabeth McMeen Todd Rowden Narciso L. Aleman (' 83) has joined the Milwaukee firm of Mallery & Zimmerman where he will engage in civil, criminal and immigration practice. Cynthia Van Bogaert ('83) has joined Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field in Madison where she will do ERISA and employee benefits law. Richard L. Bolton ('84) has become a partner at Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field in Madison where he will do business, employment and Barbara Cox Kathryn Finn patent litigation. James F. Koeper ('85), formerly Leny K. Wallen-Friedman, for- Eric W. Hoaglund ('87) has a Wall Street lawyer, has recently merly with Furth & Anthony in been elected a shareholder in the published his first novel, Exposed, an Minneapolis, has opened his own health care practice group of von adventure thriller.