Class Notes

1951

Irvin Emerson has been a judge in Hillsboro, Missouri, for 23 years.

Joseph Nacy has been an Administrative Law Judge at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. since 1980.

Edward Warner has retired from an active law practice of 50 years.

1953

Roland Wegmann has been in general practice in Hillsboro, Missouri, for 43 years.

1956

John Nangle is retired and enjoying life “as it comes” in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

1960

Ted Salveter III is an attorney in Springfield, Missouri. His book, The Accidental Lawyer, was published in 2006.

1962

Many of John M. “Jack” Bray’s cases as a Washington, D.C. attorney have become the subjects of books. Now, one is headed to the silver screen. The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald is based on an FBI investigation into Archer Daniels Midland and charges of price-fixing lysine, a farm animal food additive and citric acid. Bray’s client, ADM Vice President Mick Andreas, was convicted in the case. Steven Soderbergh will direct the film, which stars Matt Damon and is set to start shooting in April. No word yet on who will play Jack Bray.

1964

Daniel T. Rabbitt of Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass, P.C., St. Louis, received the 2007 Award of Honor from The Lawyers Association of St. Louis.

1965

David Spitznagel writes that he obtained an alligator trappers license and caught two gators on Lake Hipochee, Florida.

1967

David Dalton served as the elected Prosecuting Attorney for St. Charles County from 1970-1975 and as a Circuit Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit, from 1975-1995.

1968

Robert Ritter, chairman of the St. Louis firm Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C., was profiled in Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, 2007.

Robb Scoular has been elected president and chair of the 62-member Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which serves more than 53,000 youth in greater Los Angeles. He is the founding managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.

1970

Joseph P. Conran was named in the Best Lawyers in America in the area of Commercial Litigation. Conran is chairman of the management committee at Husch & Eppenberger, LLC, St. Louis.

James C. Wirken was named in the Missouri Super Lawyers for the third year in a row. He was named in the “Best of the Bar 2007” by the Kansas City Business Journal. He was also re-elected to the Board of Governors of the Missouri Bar for the 2007-2008 term.

1974

Michael Forster was named managing partner of Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, P.C., St. Louis, in November 2007. He practices in the firm’s business practice group and concentrates on representing financial institutions, and he specializes in real estate, contract, general corporate and commercial law.

1975

John P. Long is writing the third book in a series analyzing the 168 cases Abraham Lincoln argued before the Illinois Supreme Court.

James Welsh was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. He will be vacating the bench in Clay County.

1976

Charles Elbert, partner and member of the management committee in the law firm of Kohn, Shands, Elbert, Gianoulakis & Giljum, LLP, was selected for inclusion in the 2008 Best Lawyers in America for Labor and Employment Law.

Daniel J. Stack was appointed Madison County, Illinois, Circuit Court Judge, Civil Division, by Madison County’s Chief Judge Ann Callis, ’90.

1978

In honor of their son Colin, who was killed in a car accident in 2006, David, ’78, and Fritz Fahrenkamp and their daughter Megan have founded the SAVE-A-LIFE CAMPAIGN, which encourages kids to have the moral courage to make good choices. For information visit www.savealifecampaign.com.

1979

Kurt Odenwald, former St. Louis County councilman and attorney with Guilfoil Petzall & Shoemake, LLC for 21 years, was named to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.

1980

Ronnie E. Dixon has been the Deputy District Attorney, Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, Head of Trial Division since 2001.

Mary D. Fox was named District Defender in St. Louis city for the Missouri State Public Defender system in July 2007.

Carol Chazen Friedman was re-elected to a two-year term on the Board of Governors of the Missouri Bar.

Laura O’Sullivan was named District Defender in St. Louis County in July 2007.

Terry Schnuck is producer of the Broadway musical “Spring Awakening,” which won several Tony Awards this year, including Best Musical.

1984

Salvador Hernandez has been named Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles division.

1985

Mary Tolle was elected a Dallas County Criminal Court Judge in November 2006.   

1986

Donald K. Anton will return to the University of Michigan School of Law to serve as a Visiting Professor of Law from 2008-2010. He will teach courses in International Law and Environmental Law and will use his recently published casebook, International Environmental Law: Cases, Materials, Problems (LexisNexis, 2007 with Charney, Sands, Schoenbaum & Young).

Thomas J. O’Toole Jr. was nominated to the 2008 USGA Executive Committee. He is a partner in the law firm of Doster, Mickes, James, Ullom, Benson & Guest, LLC, St. Louis, specializing in real estate transactions, construction litigation and zoning issues.

Thomas L. Stewart, outgoing president of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, has been honored with MATA’s Outstanding Service Award for 2007. He is a shareholder in the law firm of Zevan Davidson Farris Steward in St. Louis.

Nathaniel Walsh is terminating his partnership with Kevin McGowan in McGowan/Walsh, a downtown St. Louis property development company. 

1987

John A. Lally continues to practice law in St. Louis with Rhodes & Lally in the areas of personal injury litigation, workers compensation and insurance litigation.

Mary Dorsey is an attorney with Ahlheim & Dorsey, LLC and chair of the St. Louis County Board of Equalization.

1988

Margaret Donnelly was presented with LAAW’s Special Recognition Award for her years of service as an attorney and legislator (Missouri state representative) on behalf of abused women in St. Louis.

John Nations joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis. He has been mayor of Chesterfield since 2001 and is a former partner in Nations, Hettenbach, & Diehl, L.L.C.

1989

Paul D’Agrosa was voted “Best Lawyer” by The Riverfront Times, 2007. He also serves as a legal expert on KMOV-TV in St. Louis.

1990

Ann Callis was elected Chief Judge of Madison County, Illinois, in 2006.

Jennifer Joyce was re-elected to a two-year term on the Board of Governors of the Missouri Bar.

1991

Sarah E. Campbell has relocated to Dallas and taken the position of Director of Policy and Procedure Management for Tenet Healthcare Corporation.

John Diehl joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis. He has been chair of the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners since 2005 and is a former partner in Nations, Hettenbach, & Diehl, L.L.C.

Celeste M. Harris was elected to the board of directors of Legal Aid of North Carolina. She is an attorney and partner in the law firm of Maynard & Harris, PLLC in Winston-Salem.

1992

Alan Fine has been promoted to member at Brown Smith Wallace LLC, St. Louis.

Norbert Glassl joined Moser & Marsalek, P.C.

1994

Allison Bartle is a senior attorney for AT&T Advertising & Publishing in St. Louis.

John R. Headrick has been the Inspector General for Office of Illinois Auditor General since 2004.

Matthew Nordmann is with the St. Louis Equity Fund.

1995

David Franklin has joined Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP in Cincinnati with a focus on software, electrical and medical device patents.

Deborah Herndon has joined the law office of Robert E. Richardson in Charleston, West Virginia.

Kimberly A. Jones, partner with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, was named in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly “Annual Up & Coming Lawyers” selection for 2007.

1996

Michael Albrecht is director of operations for HDS Group, LLC, a Beverly Hills-based real estate developer and homebuilder.

Amy Collignon Gunn, plaintiff’s trial attorney with Simon Passanante, was named in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly “Annual Up & Coming Lawyers” selection for 2007.

Trent Mitchell, assistant circuit attorney with the City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office, was named in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly “Annual Up & Coming Lawyers” selection for 2007.

1997

John Spielman was elected Associate Circuit Judge in Dunklin County, Missouri, for the 35th Judicial Circuit in 2006.

1998

Randy L. Gori is a partner at the Edwardsville, Illinois, law firm of Goldenberg, Heller, Antaguoli, Rowland, Short & Gori.

Gregory J. Linhares was selected in November 2007 by the Supreme Court of Missouri to serve as its new state courts administrator, the chief administrator overseeing Missouri’s state court system.

2000

Lisa Finkelstein opened her own law practice in Hillsboro, Missouri, this year. She practices family law, real estate law, traffic and DWI and employment issues. She continues to do guardian ad lidem work for Jefferson County.

John Gunn was elected to another term of the Young Lawyers’ section council of the Missouri Bar.

Bobbie Moon was named partner with Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, P.C., St. Louis.

2001

Zachary Asher Abeles received the 2007 David N. and Roselin Grosberg Young Leadership Award from the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. He is with Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC in Clayton.

Joel Green joined Moser & Marsalek, P.C.

Evita Tolu is an attorney with the law firm of Stientjes & Pilske LLC. She practices exclusively business and tax law.

Aaron Zigler is an attorney with Korein Tillery, a three time pick for the National Law Journal ’s Plaintiff’s Hot List Hall of Fame. 

2002

Tim Forneris is a Missouri State Public Defender by day and still moonlights as a groundskeeper at Busch Stadium, where he caught and returned Mark McGwire’s 62nd home run ball in 1998.

2003

Matt Blevins is the director of business development for St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois.

Ted Disabato was named in the 2007 “30 Under 30” Awards in the St. Louis Business Journal.

Abdul Hakim Shabazz hosts the morning show at WXNT-AM and provides news analysis and commentaries for WRTV-TV in Indianapolis. Abdul writes for the Indianapolis Business Journal and is editor of the Indiana Barrister, a leading blog on state and local issues. He is also of counsel at the law firm of John, Lewis And Wilkins LLP and teaches at the University of Indianapolis and Ivy Tech Community College.

2004

David C. Laplante moved to Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP in Kansas City in January 2007. He practices in the National Products Liability section.

2005

Carla Allen was named in the 2007 “30 Under 30” Awards in the St. Louis Business Journal.

Lindsay A. Chapman is an associate in labor and employment law at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, S.C. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Matthew Fry is with Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers & Glass, P.C. in St. Louis where he practices criminal law. He was a recipient of a 2007 St. Louis Business Journal “30 Under 30” Award and was recognized for his commitment to the law and community.

Nick San Diego is working for the Livingston law firm in Fairview Heights, Illinois, concentrating in environmental law.

Robert V. Willeford Jr. moved to Texas to take a new position at Raytheon Company right after law school. He has plans to move into a tax attorney position in Texas.

Timothy Wright is a procurement advisor with The Boeing Company in Mesa, Arizona.

2007

Gregory Bulgrin is an associate at Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. in St. Louis.

Carine Doyle is an associate at Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. in St. Louis.