Class of 1988
(Notes posted in the order they were received, with the newest posts on top.)
Darlene T. Marsh has been elected secretary of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and will become the organization's president in 2012. Darlene is a partner in the Nashville office of Burr & Forman. She also serves on the Executive Committee for the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry, as well as the board of directors for the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute. Posted 7-10-09
Judge Tina R. (Combs) Ainley was appointed to Division 3 of the Yavapai County Superior Court, Yavapai County, Arizona in March 2008 by then-Governor Janet Napolitano. After Tina graduated from Vanderbilt Law School, she was in private practice for one year, a Prescott City Attorney for two years and a Deputy County Attorney for 15 years before taking the bench. Judge Ainley handles both juvenile and criminal cases. She is married to Mark Ainley, and they have two daughters. Posted 6-17-09
Peter M. Goodloe has joined Sidley Austin as a counsel in the firm's FDA, Healthcare, and Public Policy and Government Affairs practices. Before affiliating with Sidley Austin, Pete served as legislative counsel and parliamentarian for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce under Chairman John Dingell (D-MI). Before working for Energy and Commerce, he served for over 21 years in the House Office of Legislative Counsel, where he helped to write landmark legislation such as comprehensive FDA reform laws in 1997 and 2007, as well as amendments to the Hatch-Waxman generic drug program in 2003; the Ryan White HIV-services law in 1990 and its major reauthorizations in 1996, 2000, and 2006; comprehensive NIH reform laws in 1993 and 2006; and the comprehensive bioterrorism preparedness and response law in 2002. He also served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Law for 14 years, where he taught legislative analysis and drafting. Posted 6-17-09
Patricia Milon is now executive vice president and chief legal counsel for Scottrade Bank. As executive vice president and chief legal counsel, she provides guidance on all legal matters affecting the Scottrade Bank, particularly with the development of new retail banking products. She will also assist the securities side of the firm in implementing an operating model that blends Scottrade’s online investment firm and banking operations. She came to Scottrace with more than 20 years of experience in banking regulation and compliance law. Prior to joining Scottrade, Milon provided financial institutions with consultation services on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and served as chief legal officer and senior vice president for regulatory affairs at America’s Community Bankers (ACB). Her previous positions also include vice president and deputy general counsel for Fannie Mae and senior counsel for financial institutions for the U.S. Treasury Department. Posted 6-18-09
Don J. Mizerk has joined Husch Blackwell Sanders Welsh & Katz in Chicago as a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation practice area. Don was previously a partner in the Chicago office of Winston & Strawn. Posted 6-17-09
David M. Rudolph has joined the Memphis law firm of Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews as a member. David concentrates his practice in labor and employment law and commercial litigation. He is a former chair of the Memphis Bar Association Labor & Employment Section. He is married to Elizabeth Gardner Rudolph, ’89, and they have four sons, Myers (15), Gardner (14), Wise (11) and Carson (10). Posted 6-17-09
Brian S. Smith worked from 1992-2007 as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice National Courts Section defending the United States in Government contracts trials and appeals, including Daewoo v. United States
case, 73 Fed. Cl. 547 (2006), aff'd 557 F.3d 1332 (Fed. Cir. 2009). In 2007, he became the Division Counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he oversees Corps legal offices in Alaska, Hawaii/Pacific, Korea, and Japan. In 2010 he will deploy for a one-year assignment in the Corps' legal office in Afghanistan, after which he will return to his position in Hawaii. Posted 5-1-09
Steve Anderson, who is a partner with Walker Tipps & Malone in Nashville, has been made a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only national legal society. Steve is one of only 30 practicing Nashville attorneys who are fellows in the ACTL. Posted 3-13-09
Ivan Reich has joined as shareholder in the Ft. Lauderdale office of GrayRobinson, one of Florida's fastest-growing law firms. Prior to joining GrayRobinson, Ivan was the shareholder in charge of the bankruptcy practice at the law firm of Becker & Poliakoff. While there, he served as counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Femwell Health Group, Inc. (Miami); American Financial Group of Aventura (Miami); Shores of Panama, Inc. (Panama City); Berwick Black Cattle Company (Peoria, Ill.); Tutor Time Learning Systems, Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale); and Conseco Finance Corporation (Chicago), which was part of the then third-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Ivan joins GrayRobinson with a background in commercial litigation, with a concentration in the areas of bankruptcy and corporate reorganizations. His background includes banking, lender liability, commercial landlord-tenant, securities, intellectual property, anti-trust, real estate, asset protection, post and pre-judgment remedies and collections, foreclosures, and state and federal appeals. Ivan is currently recording secretary of the Commercial Law League of America, the nation’s oldest and largest creditor’s rights organization. He is also a member of the league’s board of governors and has served as chair in the league’s bankruptcy section. Ivan also serves on the league’s national affairs and legislative committees, as well as the coordinating committee with the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the joint planning committee of the league and the NCBJ. An accredited speaker, Ivan has spoken many times at the league’s annual conventions, including a 2004 speech entitled “Revised Article 9 of the UCC,” and a 1998 speech entitled “Chasing the Wind: The Search for the Ever Elusive Assets of Sophisticated Debtor.” In 2007, he spoke at the DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal Symposium on the topic of fiduciary duties and the slide towards insolvency. He also published a paper in the Journal entitled “Deepening Insolvency: A Viable Cause of Action, A Rehash of Other Causes of Action or a Theory of Damages.” Ivan is a member of the Florida Bar’s business litigation, bankruptcy/UCC and judicial evaluation committees and serves as vice chair of the judicial administration and evaluation committee. For the past seven years, he has served on the board of directors of the David Posnack Hebrew Day School as vice chair, legal counsel and chair of the school’s security committee.
Posted on web 11-3-08
Casey Del Casino is now special counsel to Adams & Reese, based at the firm's Music Row office. Casey has handled sponsorships and endorsements for a sports equipment maker and negotiated film production agreements for a reality television show as well as lease agreements for sound stages and an underwater film tank for the firm "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Marcia Mallory McMurray is the immediate past president of Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women and a member of the Tennessee Bar Association's House of Delegates. She was married on February 16, 2008 to Rick Hooper.
Post on 7/9/08
Ronald E. Mills has been promoted to deputy law director for the City of Knoxville. Mills has been a senior city attorney and the primary legal advisor to the Knoxville Police Department since 1997. He succeeds Debra C. Poplin, who was selected to be the City's new law director last month. "Ron Mills has been a great asset to this city and its residents for more than a decade," Poplin said. "He possesses a wealth of knowledge about municipal law and I, like everyone else in city government, look forward to working with him in his new role."
David M. Rainey has been names the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Debt Resolve, Inc. (AMEX: DRV). David has over 19 years of experience in public company accounting and finance roles, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley issues, and mergers and acquisitions. Most recently he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Hudson Scenic Studio, where he was responsible for finance and accounting. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance at Star Gas Propane, L.P., a business unit of Star Gas Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SGU). Prior to that, he served as Treasury Generalist, and earlier, as Western Region Controller at Westvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV). Mr. Rainey holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University.
Paul Oppold has left New York City, where he had worked in compliance with both Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, to join Wachovia Capital Markets in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he serves in the compliance department.
Bill Senhauser was appointed Senior Vice President and chief compliance officer of Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM). As chief compliance officer, Bill will lead the Office of Compliance, Ethics and Investigations at Fannie Mae, reporting to the chief executive officer and to the Compliance Committee of the Board on compliance and ethics issues and on any open investigations, both internal and external. Bill comes to this role following an extensive career in fair housing and equal rights. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Senhauser was Executive Director of the Equal Justice Foundation; Senior Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; and has several times served as a special master or mediator for class actions pending before the U.S. District Court, for the Districts of California and the District of Columbia.
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