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All the President's Men (and Women)

President George W. Bush appointed Dale Cabaniss, '93, to be the chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. He has been a member of the three-person Federal Labor Relations Authority since 1997, and prior to that he was a professional staff member at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. He served as chief counsel for the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil Service from 1993 to 1996 and was a member of Sen. Frank Murkowski's staff from 1984 to 1993.

President Bush also appointed Andrew Lundquist,'93, staff director since 1998 for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to be director of the newly designated National Energy Policy Development Group. In a seamless convergence, Lundquist will now begin working directly with the vice president on the policy side. Before becoming Senate Energy staff director, Lundquist served as chief of staff in Murkowski's office, counsel on the Energy Committee and a staffer for Sen.Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) "I have every faith that Andrew will be an asset to the President in this new task force," Murkowski stated. "He will offer a wealth of knowledge and experience on energy issues that will make his advise and counsel invaluable."

President Bush nominated Robert Fabricant, '90, former Gov. Christie Whitman's chief counsel, to be general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency. Fabricant served as senior associate counsel to the governor for three years before becoming chief counsel last May.

President George W. Bush intends to name Dirksen Lehman, '95, as special assistant to the president for legislative affairs for the U.S. Senate. Lehman will be leaving his position as counsel with the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Edwina Rogers, '91, has joined the Bush White House as director of external affairs for the National Economic Council.

1941
Allan L. Kamerow and brother, Stanley Kamerow, '38, continue to practice in their law firm Kamerow & Kamerow, PC., in Washington, D.C.
1949
Ferdinand F. Bionaz received an honorary doctorate in law from St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa.
1963
William J. Brown, a tax law professor, retired from the University of Pittsburgh. He began his career at The Catholic University of America, teaching contract and domestic relations law. It was upon joining the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1969 that he began the instruction of tax law. During a 31-year tenure at the University of Pittsburgh, Brown taught courses in such areas as corporate shareholder taxation, merger/acquisitions tax policy and federal income taxation. Since his retirement, he has been named director of the graduate taxation program at Duquesne University.
1964
 Matthew J. Mullaney is combining law and nursing experience in a solo elder law practice in McMinnville, Oregon, and he is about to be a grandfather for the first time.
1967
James A. Nugent is the proud grandfather to Kayly Mary Nugent, born on October 20, 2000, his tenth grandchild and first granddaughter.
1968
J. James Gallagher was appointed to the board of directors of Telxon Corporation, a world leader in delivering quality, innovative solutions for mobile information and wireless communications systems.
1969
James E. McDonald is the founder of Ocean Race Miami, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that is serving as a host organization for Miami in Volvo Ocean Race. McDonald is very active in the community and has been a member of the Miami River Commission and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. He was recently named to "Who's Who in South Florida - Our City's Most Influential Movers and Shakers" by Miami Metro Magazine.
1970
Frank Dunham is Eastern District of Virginia's first public defender. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit appointed Dunham to head up defender offices to be opened in Richmond, Norfolk and Alexandria by June 2001.
1972
William D. Dolan III, a partner in Venable, Baetjer and Howard's McLean office, was recently nominated as a fellow to the American College of Trial Lawyers. Dolan has practiced law for more than 28 years in the Washington, D.C. region. For more than 50 years, the American College of Trial Lawyers has recognized excellence in trial lawyers. The college identifies and recognizes outstanding trial lawyers from every segment of the civil and criminal trial bar in the United States and Canada. Its purpose is to improve the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the ethics of the profession.
1973
Stanley Croydon Jr. is the webmaster and computer security officer for the Office of the Solicitor at the Department of Labor.

Raymond N. Satter was appointed by Denver Mayor Wellington Webb as presiding judge of the Denver County Court. Judge Satter's one-year term began Jan. 1, 2001. Judge Satter has served as a judge since October 1987. He is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and serves on the Bar's Ethics Committee and its Professional Committee Sub-committee on Civil Rules and Discovery Abuses.

1974
Julius J. Brecht is a frequent lecturer on securities regulation/offerings and most recently participated on a SEC panel discussion on small business capital formation held in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska. He also constructed a thirty-inch diameter, eleven-foot long Newtonian telescope for use in astronomical observations.

Michael L. Koempel coauthored with Judy Schneider, Congressional Deskbook 2000, published by The Capitol.Net, June 2000.

William M. Loafman, a former chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Tax Exempt Financing and a former Internal Revenue Service official, has joined Duane, Morris & Heckscher as a partner in the law firm's New York City office. He will continue to focus on municipal finance.

Michael J. O'Neill works as staff counsel for Landmark Legal Foundation, a national public interest law firm that specializes in constitutional law issues.

1975
Alyce C. Halchak, partner and chair of the tax department at the law firm of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society and Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society. Halchak's practice is primarily transactional with a concentration in the areas of corporate and partnership law, federal and state taxation, compensation and benefits counseling, ERISA and trust and estates.

Clyde Hart Jr. took over as acting deputy administrator of the Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Hart's previous positions include maritime administrator and senior counsel for the democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

J. Philip Kessel, a partner with Karp, Frosh, Lapidus, Wigodsky and Norwind, was president of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. for a one year term which began in May 2000.

Roberta D. Liebenberg, of Liebenberg & White, has joined Fine Kaplan & Black as a partner.

1976
Constance Belfiore will assume a new position as executive director of the National Association of Women Judges.

Robert V. Eberhard is member of the board of governors and House of Delegates of the Connecticut Bar Association.
1977
Mark D. Cowan has joined Patton Boggs as a partner.

1978
William P. Barry was appointed judge to the Los Angeles Superior Court. Barry is a partner with the Long Beach, Calif. law firm of Flynn, Delich & Wise.

Alexandra J.K. Finucane supervises government relations, public policy and legal advocacy for the Epilepsy Foundation of America. She is also developing a grassroots network, promoting legal and civil rights of people with seizures and expanding public recognition of the impact of epilepsy, particularly on the forty percent of those whose seizures cannot be controlled with any current treatment.

George Oram Jr. works for Arent Fox, focusing primarily on patent prosecution and opinions concerning patent validity and infringement matters.

Antonio Rodriguez is special litigator for the Office of the Attorney General, state of Texas.
1979
Lorraine Halloway was promoted to partner for Washington, D.C.'s Crowell & Moring. Halloway practices in the international and aviation section, where she represents airlines and other companies before the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.
1980
Kathy A. Grant is managing attorney for Assigned Counsel in Vienna, Va. She works with law firms, private practices, corporations and associations to provide them with skilled attorneys on a temporary, temp-to-perm or permanent basis. Grant has been married for 14 years and has two children, David, 11, and Laura, 8.

Jack A. Panella has been elected president judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline.

Barry Reed, former MetLife vice president of medical underwriting, is now vice president of medical underwriting at Coventry Financial, the nation's leading source for lifetime settlements. He will be responsible for the medical evaluation of all lifetime settlement transactions. Reed has been a medical underwriter since 1977 when he worked as medical director for several Washington, D.C. life insurers including Acacia, Equitable of Virginia and Union Labor Life.

Susan Ringler has joined the staff of The Central and East European Law Initiative, a public service project of the American Bar Association, as deputy director of the criminal law reform program. She recently completed eighteen months as CEELI's criminal law liaison in Moscow, Russia. A former assistant United States attorney in Maryland for 13 years, Ringler led CEELI's efforts in advising and assisting the Russian criminal justice community. She initiated a training partnership between CEELI and the newly formed Russian Judicial Department providing continuing legal education for criminal law judges throughout Russia's regions; conducted training seminars for investigators and prosecutors on economic and organized crime issues; and held monthly roundtable discussions in Moscow on public corruption, money laundering and other criminal justice issues.

Stephen Scavuzzo opened up a law practice in November 2000 in Vienna, Va. The practice is devoted exclusively to the resolution and litigation of federal government employee workplace issues.

1981
Yvette Hutchinson Birdsong married Leonard E. Birdsong in November 1999. After 17 years at Washington Gas in Washington, D.C., she joins her husband in Orlando, Fla., where he is a law professor at Barry University Law School.

David C. Rinebolt operates a non-profit advocacy group working for affordable energy policies for low-and-moderate income households.

William J. Roberts has been a sole practitioner for fifteen years with an office in Poolesville, Md. He has served as municipal attorney for the town of Barnesville, Md. since 1989 and the municipal attorney for Washington Grove, Md. since 1998. He has also served as hearing examiner for the Board of Education of Montgomery County, Md. since 1998, hearing diverse matters ranging from student expulsions to disability retirement appeals.

Vincent L. Usera was promoted from assistant attorney general to head of the securities division for the state of Alaska, Division of Banking, Securities and Corps.

1982
Eric P. Bernard became the managing member of Bernard & Merrill, a Manchester, N.H. law firm in January 2000. The firm concentrates in workers' compensation defense, litigation defense and insurance coverage matters.

David L. Meyer joined Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, as of counsel in the tax department after serving in the IRS Office of Assistant Chief Counsel, Financial Institutions and Products.

Karen A. Tramontano, a senior White House adviser under Clinton since 1997, will now be working for the citizen Bill Clinton. Former President Clinton announced that Tramontano will serve as his chief of staff in his post-presidency, first in temporary quarters in Washington, D.C. and then in New York City.

1983
Matthew Clark was hired by Arent Fox. An international trade law specialist, Clark focuses largely on U.S. trade and customs laws.

Michael A. Curto was appointed to the management committee of Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C.

Kathleen Curry Santora has been named chief executive officer for the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Santora comes to NACUA from the American Association for Higher Education, where she served as vice president and chief operating officer. She has close to 20 combined years of significant experience in higher education governance and in higher education management.

Donna Lee Yesner joins McKenna & Cuneo in Washington, D.C. as of counsel. Yesner focuses on federal health care procurement and health care contracting. She also works on export controls, national security issues, and intellectual property rights under government contracts.

1984
Jill Rangos joined the litigation group at the Pittsburgh law firm Babst, Calland, Clements and Zommir as of counsel.

Colin Sandercock has joined the law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. His focus is on the life sciences as well as biotech intellectual property issues. In addition to his practice at the firm, he lectures on the licensing of intellectual property rights at George Washington University Law School.
D. Michael Reilly, '84, was named a "Superlawyer" by the magazine Washington Law and Politics for his practice in employment litigation. Last year Reilly was lead counsel in the case Wal-mart v. Amazon.com, a case reported in the Wall Street Journal which involved corporate raiding and theft of trade secret information.

1985
Julia Going Becker obtained her LL.M. in taxation from Villanova University School of Law. Becker has been a partner for McTighe, Weiss, O'Rourke, Troncelliti & Morgan since 1990. She and her husband, Eric, had a son, Benjamin, born in 1999.

Timothy P. Creagan is a public policy program coordinator at Self Help for Hard of Hearing People. He works directly with the 11,000 members nationwide on issues affecting people with hearing loss.

Roger Hilton Gray continues to practice as mediator and arbitrator. He also serves as chair of the Pasadena Transportation Commission.

Carla Walsh has joined Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky as of counsel.

1986
The Rev. Charles Antonicelli has been appointed as secretary to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington. Father Antonicelli will also continue serve as vice chancellor for the archdiocese, a position he was appointed to last March.

Deborah Doyle Belknap received her doctorate in psychology from Temple University in May 2000. She is a faculty member in the psychology department of East Stroudsburg University and in the criminal justice department of Keystone College.

M. Elizabeth Bierman was named partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. She works in the firm's food and drug administration practice and represents clients in government regulatory and compliance matters.

Bradford Brown is the chairman of the National Center for Technology and Law, a leading think tank and research center in Arlington, Va. that examines the existing legal framework as it relates to the information-based economy. Brown was named chairman of the Steering Committee for the 2001 Global Internet Summit. He and his wife, Alicia Billings Brown, live in Washington, D.C. and have a nineteen-month-old daughter, Annie.

Neil F. Doherty has joined Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore to specialize in medical malpractice after ten years of service with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.Neil lives in Floral Park, N.Y. with wife, Jean, and three sons, Neil Patrick, Kyle Pierce and Sean Peter.

Harry Lee is a partner with Steptoe & Johnson, in Washington, D.C. Harry and his wife, Carley D. Lee, '86, have three sons, Michael, 11, Danny, 9, and Billy, 5.

Paul H. Schieber, chairman of the consumer financial services/retail banking group for Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley in Philadelphia, Pa., addressed the Mortgage Bankers Association of America's Regulatory Compliance Conference; spoke before the Annual Conference of the Real Estate Settlement Services Providers Organization; and spoke at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Real Estate Institute on the effect that federal and state electronic signature legislation will have on commercial and consumer real estate transactions.

CUA Alum Helps Attorneys Keep Licenses with Internet-based Service On January 1, 2001, Maine became the 40th state to mandate that its attorneys earn continuing legal education credit (CLE) to maintain "good-standing" status with their bar. Many attorneys subject to CLE requirements do not have the time to keep up with changing education rules or how and where to get the credits they need. These facts inspired attorneys Jason Shrensky and CUA law school alumni, Michael Michetti, '97, to start a new Internet-based service called Reqwired, Inc. that provides a simple solution for attorneys.

Reqwired's Website, www.reqwired.com, supplies attorneys with an online tool for tracking their CLE credits and locating educational offerings which will satisfy outstanding requirements. Simply put, the attorney logs on to the Website and answers a few simple registration and jurisdictional questions. Then, for each jurisdiction in which the attorney is licensed, the system creates a customized status report, which informs the attorney of CLE credit needs and deadlines. "Our system tracks every detail affecting an attorney's compliance with applicable CLE requirements," says Michetti, who decided to stop practicing law to join forces with Shrensky, as director of business development, "and our propriety CLE tracking system is updated monthly to ensure accuracy." The system also creates a "customized course" page containing specific courses listed in Reqwired's database that meet the attorney's particular CLE need and preferences.

Most importantly, Reqwired's service reaches beyond the Web and into attorneys' e-mail in-boxes. "Because attorneys are not proactive about their continuing education, we e-mail our registered attorneys once a month with information concerning their CLE status and a customized list of educational opportunities," notes Michetti.

While attorneys have been attracted to the convenience of Reqwired's service, they are ecstatic over the price - free! Reqwired's goal is to become the nation's clearinghouse for continuing education courses, and the company offers special services to law firms and bar associations that wish to track the CLE status of their employees or members. The company also has plans to expand its services to other professions with the continuing education requirements such as accountancy, medicine, real estate and insurance.

Andrew Squire and wife, Theresa, announce the birth of their daughter, Marya Tereze Squire, on May 21, 2000. Marya joins brothers, Owen, 4, and Drew, 2.

Jehanne M. Edwards, '86, works for CourtLink in Seattle, Wash. Edwards, a regional account manager, sells electronic access and electronic filing to law firms, businesses and courts.

1987
Daniel Addison, former of counsel, was elected partner for Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C. Addison works in the firm's public policy and environmental practice, where he focuses on complex transactions with multilateral institutions.

Joseph Bottiglieri has been promoted to partner for Gilberg & Kiernan. Bottiglieri focuses on litigation, handling medical malpractice and product liability cases as well as general negligence and contractual disputes.

Sheila Caudle left Rudloff, Wood & Barrows to join Burnham Brown as an associate in Oakland, Calif. She will focus her practice on insurance bad faith actions.

Michael F. Forrester joined the legal department of Alcatel USA as director of licensing and contracts.

Nancy Brouillard McKenzie was honored with the Commissioner's Citation and a Deputy Commissioner's Award from the Social Security Administration for her extraordinary, tenacious, innovative and spirited efforts in the interest of justice. McKenzie's honors are the two highest awards in the Social Security Agency and an extraordinary achievement for any employee to receive both awards in the same year.

Andrew Palmieri, former managing partner of Hewes, Gelband, Lambert & Dann in Washington, D.C., has joined the Alexandria office of Ohio-based Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease as a partner. Palmieri focuses on complex commercial, corporate and real estate transactions in addition to his work on residential and commercial real estate.

Patrick M. Rost of the financial consulting firm, PMR & Associates, will be providing MLM World New Today Inc. with professional guidance in the areas of business development and investor relations.

Scott E. Squillace is senior vice president and general counsel for the Grand Circle Corporation in Boston, Mass. Grand Circle Corporation is the nation's leading provider of international travel experiences to mature Americans.

1988
Carla P. Aldarelli has joined the Capehart & Scatchard's Workers' Compensation Department as an associate. The firm is located in Mt. Laurel, N.J. Aldarelli concentrates her practice in the representation of employers, self-insured companies, third party administrators, and insurance carriers in workers' compensation defense matters.

John Graykowski, the former deputy administrator of the U.S. Maritime Administration, has joined D.C.'s Dyer Ellis & Joseph as a partner. Graykowski will focus on transportation law, with a concentration on maritime finance issues. He joined the Maritime Administration as a 1994 Clinton appointee and, among his other duties, played a large hand in implementing the National Shipbuilding Initiative.

Anne-Marie Howard is the newly appointed general counsel for 4,000 member trade association, Charlotte Regional Realtor Association, after serving as deputy executive director of the Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition for five-and-a-half years.

R. Todd Johnson is a partner at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Palo Alto, Calif.

Susan W. Longley is a state senator in Maine. She has chaired the judiciary committee for two terms and is now chairing the health committee.

Virginia Metallo was promoted to full partner for Howrey Simon Arnold & White. She handles counseling and litigation matters in the antitrust group.

Laura A. Oxley is litigation consultant and environmental counsel for Risk Enterprise Management.

Aetna M. Thompson was invited by the Montgomery County Women's Bar Association, and the Montgomery County district and circuit court judges to give a luncheon seminar on immigration. Her practice focuses on immigration law, primarily temporary visas and extraordinary ability permanent residence applications.

1989
Matthew Bailey, patent lawyer, left the D.C. office of Philadelphia's Morgan, Lewis & Bockius to join Hogan & Hartson as a partner. Bailey began his career as an attorney-adviser with the International Trade Commission and has patent experience in computer, electrical, and mechanical technologies. His recent emphasis has been in software patent protection.

Michael Beller is the new vice president for business and legal affairs of the National Georgraphic Channel. His work involves handling copyrights, talent and contracts for the channel, which officially made its broadcast debut in January 2001.

Benjamin J. Lambiotte has joined Garvey, Schubert & Barer's communication practice.

Kathleen Cooney-Porter has joined Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt concentrating in trademark and copyright matters.

1990
Wilfred P. Coronato was reappointed borough attorney for the Borough of Fanwood, N.J.

Denis C. Dice, of the regional defense litigation law firm Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, recently received a Masters of Laws in Taxation from Villanova University School of Law. Dice is a member of the firm's professional liability department and concentrates in defending broker dealers in arbitration, litigation and regulatory matters.

Maureen Donohue Feinroth has been named legal editor for Privacy Law Adviser, a Pike and Fischer publication.

Mark Feinroth is assistant secretary of labor and licensing for the State of Maryland. Maureen and Mark have one daughter, Annie, 3.

Bradley T. Knott is administrative judge at the U.S. Department of Labor and currently on detail to the Senate Labor Policy Committee (minority staff).

Angelo A. Rinaldi announces the birth of his son, Coret Joseph Rinaldi, on May 15, 2000.

Sanford B. Ring has joined Dykema Gossett's Government and Policy Practice Group in Washington, D.C.

Mitchell B. Waldman was appointed in September 2000 by the secretary of the Navy to serve as the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy (ship programs). In this capacity, Waldman is responsible for executive oversight of all naval shipbuilding programs. In addition, he is the principal advisor to the secretary regarding all shipbuilding matters. He and his wife, Debbie, also announce the birth of their daughter Emily Jean Waldman, on June 11, 2000.


Deborah Gray Bilotti, '90, was elected to partner at Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe, where she practices real estate law.

1991
John M. Aragona has been appointed vice president and national manager in charge of legal recruitment for S. R. Clarke, Inc., an executive search firm.

Philip Bangert, a former associate, was elected partner for Patton Boggs. Bangert focuses on public policy issues, including transportation, environmental law and international trade.

Joan Sylvain Baughan is a partner with the law firm of Keller and Heckman.

John Cleary II has been promoted to corporate attorney for Morrison & Foerster's New York office.

Martin Kirkwood has been named partner for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. He is a member of the firm's government regulation group and energy practice.

Jeff L'Hote is a principal in Korn/Ferry International's New York office where he is a member of the Global Financial Markets Group. L'Hote focuses exclusively on senior-level search assignments in the investment banking industry. He has more than ten years of banking and legal experience. Previously, he was an associate partner with the Westgate Group LLC., which Korn/Ferry International acquired in 2000.

Michael R. McCarthy joined Collier Shannon Scott's litigation department.

Michael Ryan has been promoted to executive vice president and appointed general counsel for the American Stock Exchange. Ryan joined the American Stock Exchange LLC in November 1998 as chief of staff and senior legal officer and will continue in his role as chief of staff.

A. Christopher Sega has joined Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, LLP as a partner.

Thomas Wells is newly elected to the District of Columbia School Board and chair of the National Organization of State Associations for Children 2001-2002.

1992
Amy E. Alissi promoted to partner at Hartford's Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. Alissi is a member of Updike's commercial lending and banking practice group, which among other things, represents lenders involved in programs sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Connecticut Development Authority and the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

Anatolio B. Cruz III was promoted to vice president of Corporate Affairs and Entertainment at BET Holdings II Inc., the parent company of Black Entertainment Television, Inc.

Alice Fisher was promoted to partner at Latham & Watkins. Fisher practices in the firm's litigation group, where she concentrates on business matters and white-collar criminal investigations. She was deputy special counsel to the U.S. Senate special committee to investigate Whitewater development and related matters before joining the firm in 1996.

Judith Bernstein-Gaeta former associate of the firm's litigation practice was promoted to partner at D.C.'s Arnold & Porter.

William Lutz and his wife, Shawn, are the proud parents of Phoebe Marie on Nov. 1, 2000. Lutz is with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold in San Francisco.