Michael Lipsitz (JD ’89)
was named
general counsel of consumer and
business banking at JPMorgan Chase.
Michael B. Quigley (JD ’89),
the
U.S. representative for Illinois’ 5th
Congressional District, has been
appointed to serve as an assistant
whip for the Democratic leadership.
He was named to the position by
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
(D-Md.).
1990s
Daniel M. Kotin (JD ’91),
a partner
at the Chicago law firm Corboy &
Demetrio, has been appointed to
the hearing board of the Illinois
Supreme Court Attorney Registration
& Disciplinary Commission.
Ginger F. Heyman Pigott
(JD ’92)
was named shareholder
at the law firm Greenberg Traurig
LLP in its Los Angeles office. She
represents national and international
pharmaceutical and medical
device product liabilities and
commercial litigation matters.
Mark M. Brennan (JD ’93)
was
recently elected to Cassiday Schade
LLP’s executive committee.
Jennifer B. Van Regenmorter
(JD ’93)
has been elected a
shareholder of Foster Swift Collins
& Smith PC in Michigan.
Mona Esam Dajani (JD ’96)
has
joined Baker & McKenzie as a partner
in the Chicago office, where she
specializes in global energy and
infrastructure projects.
Karina H. DeHayes (JD ’98)
will be
sworn in as president of the Women’s
Bar Association of Illinois in June. She
is a partner at the Chicago law firm
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein LLC.
Linda A. Kerns (JD ’98)
is cochair
of the Southeastern Pennsylvania
chapter of the Republican National
Lawyers’ Association. She recently
appeared on the program
Radio
Times
with Marty Moss-Coane on
Philadelphia’s WHYY Radio and
on Pittsburgh’s Essential Public
Radio to discuss and debate election
law issues. Her firm, the Law
Offices of Linda A. Kerns LLC, is
located in Philadelphia.
John M. Sheldon (JD ’98)
has been
elected to partnership at Foreman
Friedman PA, a full-service litigation
and business law firm in Chicago.
He concentrates his practice in
commercial litigation.
Rachel T. Nguyen (JD ’99)
was
named a 2012 Illinois Rising Star. She
is an attorney in the Chicago office of
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.
2000s
Hege Elisabeth Kjos (JD ’00)
is
a professor at the University of
Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is
married with two daughters.
1960s
Robert G. Mahony (JD ’65),
an
administrative law judge with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC), has retired from the federal
government after 46 years of public
service, including more than 14 years
at the SEC.
Roger J. Kiley Jr. (JD ’66)
has been
appointed by Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel and Governor Patrick Quinn
to serve on the Metropolitan Pier
and Exposition Authority Board
of Directors.
1970s
JoAnne Gazarek Bloom (JD ’76)
a member of Loyola’s adjunct law
faculty, has written her first book,
Bridgeport: The Neighborhood That
Invented Chicago, Transformed
America and Saved the World. No,
Really.
The book, published by
Arcadia Press, will be available
in August.
Susan Stevens Chambers (JD ’79)
has been appointed the Blue Earth
County Family Court referee. She is
the first appointed judicial referee
in Minnesota outside of the Twin
Cities area.
1980s
Alan Barinholtz (JD ’80)
received
the “Spotlight Award” from Chicago
Improv Festival Productions at its gala
and awards show benefit in March.
Donald V. Gallagher (JD ’84)
has
written his first book,
Stolen Glory,
which will be published in June. The
book is a historical account of the
controversial basketball game that
took place during the 1972 Munich
Summer Olympic Games when the
Soviet Union beat the United States
51-50 on a last-second basket at the
final buzzer.
Loyola’s law alumni are leaders in local and national firms, courtrooms, public interest organizations, classrooms, and
other venues. Here’s an update of what your classmates have been doing. Share your own news by contacting Elisabeth
Brookover at ebrooko@luc.edu, 312.915.6911 (fax), or Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Philip H. Corboy Law
Center, 25 East Pearson Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Be sure to include your full name, class year, and contact information.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
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HEARSAY
Law Career Day
Tchedly Desire (BA ’06, JD ’09, left)) and James Chandler (JD ’00) were among the Loyola law alumni who participated in a Law Career Day in
December for high-school students from Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center in Chicago.
Dinner connects scholarship donors and recipients
Noelle Croley (3L, left), inaugural recipient of the Ozmon Family Foundation Scholarship, with Laird Ozmon (JD ’79) and June Ozmon at the annual Scholarship
Dinner. The event gives student scholarship holders an opportunity to meet with the donors whose generosity is helping to fund their law studies.
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