“Job” Class Notes
Christy McMannen (Col ’02 CM)
Christy McMannen (Col ’02 L/M) recently became the first African American equity partner at Christovich and Kearney, a regional law firm in New Orleans. McMannen is a civil litigator whose areas of practice include premises liability, insurance defense, toxic torts and title insurance litigation. She previously served as in-house counsel at an oil and gas land services firm. She has lived in New Orleans since graduating from UVA, and she is married to Jim Dennard, with whom she has three children.
Gizem Petrosino (Col ’09)
Gizem Basbug Petrosino (Col ’09) joined the Houston office of national law firm Chamberlain Hrdlicka as an associate in the litigation practice. Her practice will focus primarily on general civil defense, labor and employment litigation, and intellectual property.
Zaki Robbins (Col ’06 CM)
Zaki Robbins (Col ’06 L/M) has been named a partner of the Denver law firm Moye White. Robbins focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate and finance matters with a particular emphasis on serving the advanced energy industry.
Mark Friedman (Col ’86 CM)
Mark Friedman (Col ’86 L/M) was named vice president of services and operations of Assured Allies, a venture-backed aging services firm focused on managing longevity risk for long term care insurance carriers. He also is the owner of Senior Helpers Boston and South Shore, an eldercare agency serving metropolitan Boston and the South Shore. Mark is married to Carolyn and has two kids, Lee, 23, and Dora, 18, who will be a first year this fall.
Scott Dunn (Col ’92 CM)
Scott Dunn (Col ’92 L/M) is the newest shareholder of Timmons Group, where he is the group leader for the traffic analysis practice. He provides expertise in multiple areas of transportation planning and traffic engineering, including corridor studies, traffic impact analyses and pedestrian safety improvements.
Scott Surovell (Law ’96)
Scott Surovell (Law ’96) was elected vice chairman of the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus. He continues to practice civil, criminal and commercial litigation in Northern Virginia.
Jasmine Hall Ratliff (Col ’99 CM)
Jasmine Hall Ratliff (Col ’99 L/M) has joined the leadership team of Keecha Harris and Associates, Inc. as deputy director for culture and strategy. The role includes staff management along with business and strategy development. The woman-owned national consulting firm, based in Birmingham, Alabama, leads organizational development, project management, and evaluation projects for both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
John Markowitz (Col ’05)
John Markowitz (Col ’05) accepted a job as assistant treasurer, North America for Transurban in the Washington, D.C., metro area. He and his family will be moving from Boston, where John was acting treasurer at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Andrew Brownstein (Col ’89, Law ’94 CM)
Andrew S. Brownstein (Col ’89, Law ’94 L/M) joined the Virginia-based law firm of GreeneHurlocker as partner. Brownstein previously founded Global Realty Services Group, where he served as general counsel for for a decade, while also serving as its Chief Financial Officer (2009-2016) and President of its affiliated title company (2013-2017). Brownstein previously was senior vice president of international services for LandAmerica Financial Group after serving as SVP-Corporate Development.
Richard Rogers (Col ’95 CM)
Richard B. Rogers (Col ’95 L/M) has accepted an appointment as the career law clerk to Judge M. Miller Baker of the U.S. Court of International Trade. Rogers and his wife, Agnes, live in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Peter Reddy (Engr ’84 CM)
Peter C. Reddy (Engr ’84 L/M) was selected as Atlantic executive director of the Naval Information Warfare Center by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. In this position, Reddy sets the center’s Atlantic-wide strategic goals and manages engineering and business operations for more than 4,900 federal civilian and military employees. Reddy has served as NIWC Atlantic acting executive director since July 2019 and as deputy executive director since January 2019. The former Marine Corps colonel retired after 30 years of active service in a variety of command, control, computers, communications and intelligence assignments around the world.
Michael Fordham (Law ’88)
Michael Fordham (Law ’88) was appointed as a high court judge in the United Kingdom.
Donald Schultz (Col ’86 CM)
Donald C. Schultz (Col ’86 L/M) was appointed managing partner of Crenshaw, Ware & Martin. He serves as the practice group chair for the firm’s Commercial Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Group and also practices in areas including civil litigation and commercial real estate.
Marvin Heinze (Arch ’79 CM)
Marvin Heinze (Arch ’79) was selected to serve on the Public Safety Policy Committee of the League of California Cities. Heinze was elected to the city council of Coronado, California, in 2018 following a 40-year association with the U.S. Navy.
Travis Markley (Engr ’04 CM)
Travis W. Markley (Engr ’04) opened TrialHawk Litigation Group in Reston, Virginia, with his law partner in February 2018. Markley and the law firm focus their practice on complex medical malpractice litigation on behalf of injured patients and their families. In 2019, Markley and his colleagues secured nearly $10 million in medical malpractice settlements and judgments on behalf of their clients. Markley is the son of Nancy M. Markley (Col ’79 L/M) and the brother of Brian J. Markley (Educ ’09).
Mary Grover (Col ’01 CM)
Molly Grover (Col ’01 L/M) was promoted to managing director at Accenture, a global professional services company. She is a leader in the customer insights and growth practice specializing in leveraging data to support customer experience and increase revenue growth. Grover, who is the sister of Bryson Grover (Col ’05), lives in Washington, D.C.
Brian Greer (Col ’05)
Brian Greer (Col ’05) joined the bipartisan Klein/Johnson Group as a principal after spending years with the House Armed Services Committee, in Senate leadership and the Pentagon. In his new role, he will work with existing clients and develop the defense vertical within the firm.
Craig Kirby (Col ’83 CM)
Craig Kirby (Col ’83 L/M) was selected to serve as president of the RV Industry Association. Kirby, a 25-year veteran of the association has operated as interim president since May and most recently served as senior vice president of government relations and general counsel.
Andrew Joyner (Col ’97 CM)
Andrew Joyner (Col ’97 L/M) started as assistant director of development at the Curry School of Education Foundation in December 2019.
Stephanie Clark (Col ’11 CM)
Stephanie Clark (Col ’11 L/M) bought a home in Richmond, Virginia, and has begun a position in financial operational risk. She became a certified anti-money laundering specialist in 2018.
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