“Award/Recognition” Class Notes
Thomas Sutton (Engr ’78 CM)
Tom Sutton (Engr ’78 L/M) is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society
Alice Taylor (Engr ’78)
Alice Brown Taylor (Engr ’78) was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States alongside 30 other graduates of Boston College Law School.
Andrew Lee (Med ’89 CM)
Andrew G. Lee (Col ’85, Med ’89 L/M) received the Sherilyn Gordon Memorial Award for Distinguished Leadership in Professionalism and the Houston Methodist Hospital Teaching Award from both from Houston Methodist Hospital in June 2019. He was also named a 2019 Health Care Hero by the Houston Business Journal.
St. Leger Joynes (Col ’63 CM)
St. Leger “Monty” Joynes (Col ’63) is the librettist of an oratorio, The Awakening of Humanity, that had its world premiere in Toulouse, France on June 2, 2019. The U.S. premiere with symphony orchestra and chorus is being planned for the 2020-21 concert season in Minneapolis with Joynes and composer Edmund Barton Bullock in attendance.
Joynes continues to publish poetry and prose from his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. His five novels in The Booker Series are considered pioneer works in the genre of visionary fiction. Joynes credits UVA Professor George Garrett as his literary mentor.
Thomas Holcomb (Col ’66 CM)
Tommy Holcomb (Col ’66 L/M) has won the American Advertising Association’s Silver Medal Award for his work in the creation and production of advertising-related music. His award-winning music has aired in markets nationwide, and he is currently the music producer for the Miss Virginia Pageant.
Casey King (Engr ’89)
Casey King (Engr ’89), a physics professor at Horry-Georgetown Technical Collegesince 1997, was nominated for the 2019 A. Wade Martin Innovator of the Year and was named 2019 Professor of the Year at HGTC. He has also organized the Addiction and Recovery Lecture Series since creating the event in 2008.
Tom Cook (Com ’81 CM)
Thomas H. Cook Jr. (Com ’81 L/M) has been elected as a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He is head of the tax practice group of Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Allison Powell (Arch ’07)
Allison Powell (Arch ’07), an associate with Quinn Evans Architects, was recognized with a 2019 Green Leader Volunteer Award from the U.S. Green Building Council Virginia. Powell was honored for her extensive volunteer efforts for the state organization, including serving as chair of the council’s Green Schools committee for the past four years. The Green Schools committee oversees the organization’s Connect the Dots program, which challenges K–12 schools across the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia regions to develop and implement the most creative, effective, no- or low-cost sustainable practices for their schools.
Justin Humphreys (Col ’01)
Justin Humphreys (Col ’01) published a book, The Dr. Phibes Companion: The Morbidly Romantic History of the Classic Vincent Price Horror Film Series, which recently won the Rondo Hatton Memorial Award for Book of the Year.
Jennifer Rodgers (Col ’99)
Jennifer Rodgers was recognized as 2018-2019 Teacher of the Year for Loudoun County, Virginia. Jennifer is a social science and global studies teacher at Dominion High School in Sterling, Virginia.
Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 CM)
Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 L/M), founder and CEO of Baltimore Mediation, was named a Trailblazer in Humanitarianism by the Center Club’s Women In Business. She was recognized for her contributions to Baltimore City’s health and well-being through her partnership between Baltimore Mediation and Safe Streets Baltimore, an evidence-based public health program to reduce gun violence and street violence.
Holly Eger (Grad ’84)
Holly Hodder Eger’s (Grad ’84) book, Split Rock: A Martha’s Vineyard Novel, won the 2019 International Book Award for Best Women’s Fiction. The book also received the Independent Publisher’s IPPY Silver Medal Award for Best Adult Fiction E-Book and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards for both Best Women’s Fiction and Best Regional Fiction, Northeast.
Palma Pustilnik (Col ’83 CM)
Palma Pustilnik (Col 83 L/M), senior staff attorney and director of sexual assault advocacy services at the Charlottesville office of Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, received the 2019 Legal Aid Award honoring excellence in legal aid society work.
Laura Griffin (Col ’00)
Laura Gardner Griffin (Col ’00) graduated as a fellow of the Institute for Court Management through the National Center for State Courts in a ceremony held at the Supreme Court of the United States. Griffin is the clerk of court for Chesterfield Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court in Chesterfield, Virginia. Her project, “Ensuring Classification and Compensation Parity in Virginia’s District Courts,” was awarded the ICM Vice President’s Award of Merit for Applied Research.
Elizabeth Larus (Grad ’89)
Elizabeth Freund Larus (Grad ’89, ’94) was awarded the 2019 Waple Professional Achievement Award at the University of Mary Washington, where she is a professor of political science and international affairs. A specialist in the government and politics of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Larus was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship in 2015 to research security issues in the Asia-Pacific.
Linsey Davis (Col ’99)
Linsey Davis (Col ’99), with Joseph Bottum and illustrator Lucy Fleming, will receive a Christopher Award for their book, The World is Awake: A Celebration of Everyday Blessings. The book is a lyrical, rhyming story for young children intended to make them feel safe and joyful.
Sarah Harris Wallman (Col ’00 CM)
Sarah Harris Wallman (Col ’00 L/M) was awarded the Juniper Prize for Short Fiction by UMass Press. Her collection “Senseless Women|” will debut in Spring 2020.
Adam Shartzer (Engr ’03 CM)
Adam Shartzer (Engr ’03 L/M), a principal at Fish & Richardson, was named a 2019 “Client Service All-Star” in BTI Consulting Group’s survey of general counsel from the world’s largest corporations. The All-Star list highlights lawyers who “deliver incomparable levels of client service excellence” and “demonstrate an unrelenting pursuit to find what best fulfills clients’ needs.” Shartzer focuses his practice on high-stakes patent litigation in district courts, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Carl Dowdey III (Col ’95)
Carl K. “Trey” Dowdey III (Col ’95), an attorney with Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, was selected to take over command of the U.S. Army Reserve’s 10th Legal Operations Detachment, which falls under the U.S. Army Reserve Legal Command out of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dowdey’s appointment will take effect on June 22, 2019, and will make him one of just 23 Legal Operations Detachment commanders nationwide. In addition to this announcement, Dowdey will also be promoted to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
Mike Lynn (Col ’72 CM)
Mike Lynn (Col ’72 L/M) of the law firm Lynn Pinker Cox and Hurst has been recognized as a distinguished alumni of SMU Dedman School of Law in private practice for 2019. He has also been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America” from 2015-2018 by Benchmark Litigation. Mr. Lynn has been named one of the “Top 500 Lawyers in the US” by Lawdragon in 2015 and is consistently ranked in Chambers and Partners as a Band One commercial trial lawyer.
Mr. Lynn obtained a $146 million jury verdict for Mesa Petroleum (an entity controlled by T. Boone Pickens), making it the third consecutive year the firm has obtained one of the largest jury verdicts in the United States. In 2014, Mr. Lynn lead a team that recovered a jury verdict of over $935 million.
Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst was named a Top 10 Litigation Boutique in the nation by Benchmark Litigation for two years and to the 2019 Best Law Firms list by Best Lawyers. The firm is also one of five litigation firms in Texas ranked Band One by Chambers and Partners. Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst continues to be recognized by leading publications as one of the top litigation firms nationwide.
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