“Job” Class Notes
Frederick Schutt (Col ’04, Law ’13 CM)
Frederick Schutt (Col ’04, Law ’13 CM) was elected as a principal at Woods Rogers, a Virginia-based law firm. Practicing our of the firm’s Richmond office, he focuses on labor and employment matters. In addition to defending employers before federal and state agencies, he conducts workplace investigations, negotiates employment-related agreements and advises on effective workplace policies.
Pietro Sanitate (Col ’12 CM)
Pietro Sanitate (Col ’12 CM) was elected as principal at Woods Rogers, a Virginia-based law firm. He advises on complex disputes and litigation across a wide range of practice areas, including commercial disputes, intellectual property, insurance defense, construction and government contracts. He practices out of the firm’s Richmond office.
Lisa Fitzpatrick (Col ’97 CM)
Lisa Langhoff Fitzpatrick (Col ’97 CM) has become a partner in the the insurance practice group at Chaffe McCall’s New Orleans office. Fitzpatrick advises insurers and businesses facing complex coverage matters.
Will Barksdale (Col ’05, Law ’08 CM)
Will Barksdale (Col ’05, Law ’08 CM) was elevated to partner at Jenner & Block. Barksdale, a lawyer in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, focuses his practice on helping clients navigate Federal Energy Regulatory Commission investigations and enforcement actions. He also represents clients pro bono in affirmative and defensive asylum cases in the United States.
Timothy Cupp (Col ’80, Law ’83 CM)
Tim Cupp (Col ’80, Law ’83 CM) has started a new law firm, Cupp Law & Mediation, where he will continue his employment law practice in Harrisonburg, the Shenandoah Valley, and Central Virginia. His focus is on the review and negotiation of employment, severance and non-compete agreements and litigation in claims involving discrimination, sexual harassment, protected leave, retaliation, whistleblowing, wage and hour disputes and defamation. He is also offering mediation services to individuals and businesses in matters relating to employment, real estate and business disputes. Cupp has practiced employment law for over 35 years.
Andrew Arculin (Col ’99)
Andrew Arculin (Col ’99) has been appointed as co-chair of the Financial Institutions Litigation and Regulatory Compliance practice group at Blank Rome law firm. He began the new role on January 1.
Dana Hartz (Com ’01 CM)
Dana Hartz (Com ’01 CM) has been named associate vice president of finance for United Educators (UE). Hartz joins UE with extensive experience in accounting and financial reporting, including insurance company filings. She most recently spent nearly 10 years working for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including as head of the Division of Corporation Finance’s Knowledge Management Office. There, she was responsible for the day-to-day operations, strategy and leadership of the office. Prior to that, she served as director of external financial reporting for E*TRADE, a senior staff accountant in the SEC’s Office of Life Sciences and Insurance, and a senior associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she audited insurance companies.
Hartz earned a B.S. in commerce, with a concentration in accounting, from UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, and an MBA from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. She is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Delaware.
Trey Cox (Law ’95)
Trey Cox (Law ’95) was elected to the executive committee at Gibson Dunn. Cox looks forward to helping shape firm strategy and supporting lawyers and clients in an increasingly complex legal landscape.
Gunes Hopson (Col ’97, Law ’01 CM)
Gunes Hopson (Col ’97, Law ’01 CM) is excited to share that she now has her own law firm, GFH Law, representing businesses, entrepreneurs and travel advisors. In addition, Hopson still owns a luxury travel agency, Luxe Travel by Gunes. She is happy to assist clients on both the legal and travel fronts.
Mindy Colden (Engr ’08 CM)
Mindy Colden (Engr ’08 CM) has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Faulconer Construction Company, a heavy civil construction firm based in Charlottesville. Colden began her tenure with Faulconer in 2006 as the firm’s first intern while studying civil engineering in the E school. She has since seen Faulconer nearly double in size and has overseen the growth of Faulconer’s North Carolina operations for the last 8 years. Colden lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, Trip Colden (Col ’05 CM), and their two daughters.
Larry Wilson (Col ’99)
Larry Wilson (Col ’99) was promoted to equity partner at his law firm, Evert Weathersby Houff (EWH) in the Buckhead district of Atlanta. Wilson joined EWH’s Atlanta office after serving on the Bellwether trial teams for multiple trials in multi-district litigation and working in Cleveland, Ohio, as a SAG-AFTRA franchised agent.
Mike Woosley (Engr ’91, Engr ’93, Engr ’97 CM)
Mike Woosley (Engr ’91, ’93, ’97 CM) was appointed as a science policy advisor for U.S. Congress, advising the Senate on issues related to nuclear policy, energy transformation and grid stability. Working on an energy and environment team, Woosley helped drive the introduction of the International Nuclear Energy Act of 2025, two other nuclear bills, and a Taiwan energy security bill working with Delaware Senator Chris Coons’ foreign policy team. Woosley also helped formulate and draft three other nuclear policy bills slated for introduction in 2026.
Larry Ebert (Engr ’85 CM)
Larry Ebert (Engr ’85 CM) recently contributed an essay “Systems Thinking Mindset in the Age of AI,” to AI and Consciousness in Organizations and Society, published by Palgrave Macmillan. He also wrote “The Promise and Perils of AI in the Arts,” included in The World Remade by Artificial Intelligence, published by McFarland. Ebert teaches courses on agentic AI and the impact of AI on critical thinking and creativity at the University of San Francisco. He continues to work as a management consultant and professional musician.
Alex Berman (Col ’11 CM)
Alex Berman (Col ’11 CM) has been elevated to partner at Blank Rome, effective January 1, 2026. Berman helps corporate policyholders navigate complex insurance disputes.
Margaret McManus (Col ’89)
Margaret “Margie” McManus (Col ’89) has been appointed the inaugural chief academic advancement officer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, effective December 1, 2025. Working in the Provost’s office, she will lead efforts to align philanthropic initiatives with UH Mānoa’s strategic academic and research priorities, develop a multi-year advancement strategy, and advise campus leadership on donor relations and long-term development goals. McManus currently serves as professor of oceanography and director of the Uehiro Center for the Advancement of Oceanography. Since joining UH Mānoa in 2003, she has been instrumental in building endowed and programmatic funds that support faculty and students, strengthen research and education, and expand the university’s global impact.
Linda Bryant (Col ’88, Darden ’21 CM)
Linda Lee Bryant (Col ’88, Darden ’21 CM) (née Linda Lee Fox) was recently elevated by the Virginia General Assembly from a judgeship in the general district court to a judgeship in the circuit court for the First Judicial Circuit of Virginia. This past June, dear friends Natalie Eppley (Com ’88 CM), Laura Myslewicz (Com ’88 CM), Lisa Lachance (Col ’88 CM) and Isabel Pauley (Col ’89 CM) helped her mark the occasion, along with her husband Scott and daughter Alexandra Connell (Col ’19, Batten ’20) by attending her judicial investiture in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Cynthia Lawson (Col ’02)
Cynthia Lawson Malhotra (Col ’02 CM) continues to grow Art & Forge, the luxury brass and bronze decorative hardware brand she co-founded with her husband, Rish Malhotra. Rooted in her enduring love of Virginia’s history and craftsmanship, she recently debuted the Williamsburg hardware collection, created in partnership with Colonial Williamsburg and inspired by the region’s timeless architectural and decorative traditions.
Susan Monaco (Com ’85)
Susan Monaco (Com ’85 CM) was elected president of the Eastern Lenders Association (ELA). The ELA is the largest non-profit consortium of Federal Housing Administration-approved lenders and industry partners who are active in the financing and servicing of HUD-insured multifamily properties. Monaco is the managing director and Federal Housing Administration chief underwriter at Dwight Capital. In addition to her professional responsibilities, she is a certified health coach, helping people get and stay well naturally.
Ilina Ewen (Col ’91)
Ilina Das Ewen (Col ’92) founded Seen & Heard, a youth-powered advocacy nonprofit organization that amplifies young people’s voices and lived experiences around health, education and joy. Inspired by the values of leadership and community she learned at UVA, Ewen leads efforts to ensure youth are seen and heard with the tools, platform and access they need in order to influence policies about their future.
Laura Griffin (Col ’00 CM)
Laura G. Griffin (Col ’00 CM) has been appointed clerk of court for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, becoming the court’s senior executive. She has served the court as the chief deputy clerk of court since 2023 and first joined the court as the chief deputy clerk of operations in October 2021. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, widely known as “the rocket docket,” handles some of the country’s most prolific cases involving national security and civil rights and has divisions in Alexandria, Norfolk, Newport News and Richmond.
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