“Job” Class Notes
Corbin Campbell (Col ’03)
Corbin M. Campbell (Col ’03) received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of higher education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City, New York.
Elizabeth Larsen (Col ’90 CM)
Libby Williams Larsen (Col ’90 L/M) was promoted to professor at California University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as director of the sociology and social science programs.
Katie Bo Williams (Col ’09)
Katie Bo Williams (Col ’09) has taken a position with Defense One, a subsidiary of The Atlantic, and will be covering the Pentagon. She has spent the last three years covering national security for The Hill.
William Gladden (Arch ’89 CM)
Bill Gladden (Arch ’89 L/M) has been named executive director of the French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust, which preserves, stewards and connects people to the land in northern Chester County in Pennsylvania. Gladden brings more than 30 years of public and private sector experience in land use, preservation and management to French & Pickering.
David Reed (Law ’06 CM)
David A. Reed (Law ’06 L/M) was promoted to partner with the law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. Reed concentrates his practice on patent infringement disputes, with particular emphasis on district court litigation, post-grant proceedings and related appeals. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Sara, and their two daughters.
Ed Sabanegh (Med ’85)
Ed Sabanegh (Med ’85) became president of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital System. In this role, he is responsible for the clinical care provided by over 35,000 caregivers at 11 hospitals and 19 family health centers across the health system. He is having a blast and missing his friends from the medical school class of ’85.
Sarah Rumbaugh (Darden ’15), Zach Mayo (Col ’08, Darden ’15)
Sarah Rumbaugh (Darden ’15) and Zach Mayo (Col ’08, Darden ’15) are co-founders of RelishCareers, a hiring platform for graduate level job candidates and the companies that hire them, which acquired TransparentCareer in June 2018. As students at the Darden School of Business, Rumbaugh and May formed RelishCareers in the UVA iLab in 2014.
Tracy Shackelford (Col ’89 CM)
Tracy Shackelford (Col ’89 L/M), a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual, was promoted to managing director of the company’s district office serving the Virginia Peninsula. One of 12 women in this role nationally, Shackelford is responsible for running the company’s college internship program, recruitment and leading her team of financial advisors while continuing her personal financial planning practice.
Serena Fill (Col ’97 CM)
Serena Fill (Col ’97) founded the Musicians Against Gun Violence Super PAC. The organization empowers musicians and fans to advance sensible gun reform by financially supporting candidates who will further policy to keeps schools and communities safe from gun violence. The organization joins the final Vans Warped Tour on select dates this summer, and will carry on fundraisers leading up to the midterm elections in November.
Robert Scearce (Engr ’13)
Robert Scearce (Engr ’13) was promoted to group operations manager of Monogram Foods in Martinsville, Virginia. He is responsible for all production operations.
Eugene Terk (Col ’95)
Eugene Terk (Col ’95) has joined New Orleans-based Software as a Service company Align as vice president of business development and general counsel. A graduate of Tulane University Law School and the University of Virginia, he was previously a partner with New Orleans law firms McGlinchey Stafford and the Frilot firm.
Kate Heilpern (Col ’82)
Kate Heilpern (Col ’82) has accepted the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Heilpern recently served as the Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine.
Benjamin Butler (Engr ’99 CM)
Ben Butler (Engr ’99 L/M) is the global manager of the cloud innovation center and accelerator program for Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector. He evangelizes the culture of innovation at Amazon as well as work with governments, schools, cities, startups, and other public sector entities to solve innovation challenges with cloud computing technologies.
Marlene Hall (Col ’96 CM)
Marlene Hall (Col ’96), a real estate agent licensed in Virginia and Washington, D.C., joined eXp Realty. An Air Force veteran, Hall promotes entrepreneurship and veterans’ causes and also enjoys freelance journalism. She recently interviewed “Sex in the City” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star John Corbett for the PBS National Memorial Day Concert. She is a member of the reunion committee for the class of 1996.
Brian Levy (Col ’02 CM)
Brian Levy (Col ’02 L/M) has joined the Atlanta office of Burr & Forman as a partner in the firm’s creditors’ rights and bankruptcy practice group. He brings experience in litigation and arbitration for complex business disputes across a range of industries.
Joseph Pancrazio (Engr ’90 CM)
Joseph J. Pancrazio (Engr ’88, ’90 L/M), associate provost and professor of bioengineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, has been named vice president for research at the school. Pancrazio’s research focuses on the development of novel neural interface technology, which is used to understand and influence the brain and nervous system for the purposes of improving human health.
Barbara Malone (Nurs ’77 CM)
Barbara Olcott Malone (Nurs ’77 L/M) is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing.
Penny Pennington (Com ’85)
Penny Pennington (Com ’85) has been selected as the next managing partner, effective Jan. 1, 2019, of the financial-services firm Edward Jones. She has been with the company since 2000. Pennington and her husband, Mike, live in St. Louis, Missouri, and have two adult daughters.
Jillian Dennehy (Col ’06)
Jill Ackermann Dennehy (Col ’06) was promoted to partner with the law firm Kennedys (known as Kennedys CMK in the U.S.). Dennehy is based in the firm’s Basking Ridge, New Jersey, office, focusing primarily on a broad range of insurance coverage issues. She has been lead counsel on several significant insurance coverage matters. A graduate of Villanova University School of Law, Dennehy is admitted to practice in both New Jersey and New York, and has been with the firm since 2011.
Brian Eley (Col ’93)
Brian Eley (Col ’93) has joined NBCUniversal as vice president of communications for USA, SYFY and Universal Cable Productions, serving as press lead for the networks’ and studio’s marketing, digital, ad sales, distribution, international and business development/ventures divisions. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Discovery, Inc. in senior roles at Discovery Networks International, Animal Planet and TLC. Eley is based in New York City.
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