“Job” Class Notes
Claude Reynaud (Col ’02)
Claude F. Reynaud III (Col ’02) has joined the law firm of Chaffe McCall in its developing Baton Rouge, Louisiana, office as an associate. With this addition, the firm bolsters its business and commercial litigation practices and its commitment to developing young attorneys.
Ryan Howell (Col ’02 CM)
Ryan Howell (Col ’02 L/M) has been promoted to counsel at Faegre Baker Daniels in Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Howell is a trial attorney and member of the firm’s food and agriculture litigation team, playing a leadership role in the crop nutrient/fertilizer segment. He was honored as a “Rising Star” in the food and drugs segment of Great Plains Super Lawyers in 2016 and serves as president of the UVA Club of Iowa.
Jennifer Harpole (Col ’02 CM)
Jennifer S. Harpole (Col ’02 L/M) has been promoted to shareholder in the Denver, Colorado, office of Littler Employment and Labor Law Solutions. Ms. Harpole is an attorney who counsels employers on a wide variety of employment matters, with extensive litigation experience involving state and federal wage and hour laws. She defends companies against discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims at the state and federal levels.
Andrew Haas (Col ’02 CM)
Andrew J. Haas (Col ’02 L/M) has been promoted to partner of Blank Rome in its Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, office. Mr. Haas focuses on estate, tax and closely held business planning; he works with business owners and entrepreneurs to integrate business interests into a comprehensive estate plan. He also counsels high-net-worth individuals, professional athletes and families, and works closely with clients and their professional advisers to ensure the seamless exchange of information.
Catherine Morgen (Law ’01)
Catherine Elizabeth Morgen (Law ’01) has been made partner at Morris, Manning & Martin in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Morgen is a member of the commercial real estate development and finance and hospitality groups for the firm. Her practice represents clients engaged in the acquisition, development, financing and disposition of commercial real estate, and her experience includes handling hospitality properties, large multistate transactions, office and industrial leasing, and complex restrictive covenant and easement transactions.
Juan Castañeda (Col ’01)
Juan M. Castañeda (Col ’01) has joined Fieldpoint Private, a wealth advisory and private banking boutique, as managing director/senior adviser in its New York City offices. Mr. Castañeda spent the past decade with UBS, most recently as executive director of emerging-market credit sales and head of Latin America.
Kyle Wood (Col ’00)
Kyle Wood (Col ’00) has joined Perkins Coie as senior counsel in the firm’s technology transactions and privacy practice in the Dallas, Texas, office. Mr. Wood will focus on complex transactional technology, intellectual property, data protection and cybersecurity matters. Previously, he was counsel at Andrews Kurth.
Adrien Pickard (Col ’00 CM)
Adrien C. Pickard (Col ’00 L/M) has been promoted to of counsel to Blank Rome in its Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Pickard handles a range of matters from complex commercial disputes to employment, construction, real estate, and trust and estate matters before state and federal courts and on appeal. He regularly appears before the courts of the Eastern District of Virginia and also has experience litigating before equal opportunity employment commissions and human rights boards.
Sallie Lin (Law ’00), Alyssa Petroff (Law ’09)
Sallie E. Lin (Law ’00) and Alyssa M. Petroff (Law ’09) have joined Stoel Rives as OnRamp Fellows, a re-entry program for experienced women in the legal and financial services industries who want to return to those professions after a period of time away. The fellowship offers participants career development through education, training and one-on-one coaching with career experts. Ms. Lin, who will be joining the Seattle, Washington, office, focuses her practice on real estate law and is a member of Washington Women Lawyers and the Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association. Ms. Petroff, who will be joining the Portland, Oregon, office, focuses her practice on business law and is a member of Oregon Women Lawyers.
Brian Muse (Col ’98 CM)
Brian G. Muse (Col ’98 L/M) has joined the Richmond, Virginia, office of Sands Anderson, bringing his private practice into the employment law team. Mr. Muse focuses on counseling, mediating, arbitrating and litigating matters involving employment issues such as discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour claims. He has extensive experience representing businesses in issues related to the public accommodation and access requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mr. Muse lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and serves clients throughout the Richmond and Hampton Roads areas.
Elizabeth De Santis (Nurs ’93)
Elizabeth Anne “Beth” De Santis (Nurs ’93 L/M) is chief executive officer of the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Previously, Ms. De Santis served as director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control’s Statewide Family Planning Program in 2010; she became director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in 2013.
Allison Smith (Col ’96)
Allison Cook Smith (Col ’96) was named partner at national law firm Stoel Rives in Sacramento, California. Her practice includes California Environmental Quality Act and land use litigation, conducting environmental due diligence, and permitting solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and gas-fired energy facilities. She also counsels companies on federal and state air quality and greenhouse gas regulations. Before practicing law, Ms. Smith was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in Côte d’Ivoire and taught English in Tokushima, Japan, with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. She received her law degree from Tulane University.
Gregory Mullin (Arch ’95)
Gregory M. Mullin (Arch ’95) has joined PGAL, an international architecture, engineering and planning firm, as principal of its Atlanta, Georgia, office.
Amy Ring (Col ’91)
Amy Moore Ring (Col ’91) became the director of planning and zoning for Isle of Wight County, Virginia, on January 1, 2017. With more than 20 years of planning experience, Ms. Ring has been certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners. She earned her master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Virginia Commonwealth University after completing her bachelor’s degree at the University in 1991.
Alex Kepley (Col ’89 CM)
Alex C. Kepley (Col ’89 L/M) is head golf coach at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the team won back-to-back Division I Ohio Golf State Championships in 2015 and 2016. This makes three Division I state championships since 2008 for St. Xavier, the largest Jesuit high school in the country. Mr. Kepley also is vice president at CBT Co., where he has been employed for 27 years. CBT is a leading independent industrial distributor of automation, electrical, power transmission and material handling/conveyor equipment. Mr. Kepley, who dislikes cold weather, lives in Naples, Florida, from November through June and in Cincinnati from June through October.
Andrew Stein (Col ’86)
Andrew B. Stein (Col ’86) has left a successful career in banking to pursue the spirit of philanthropy fostered during his time at the University through the Orphaned Starfish Foundation. Founded by Mr. Stein more than 15 years ago, the foundation is now helping more than 10,000 orphans—victims of abuse, trafficking and poverty in 25 countries worldwide—to escape their cycles of abuse and poverty through education, job training and job placement. Mr. Stein and his foundation were honored in the fall by a three-part feature as part of the CNN Freedom Project.
Van Chen (Col ’86, Med ’90 CM)
Van T. Chen (Col ’86, Med ’90 L/M) has been named chief medical director of the rehabilitation hospital division of Vibra Healthcare. Vibra is the fifth-largest provider of rehabilitation services in the country by net revenue. Dr. Chen will advise and work with the company’s leadership about inpatient rehabilitation facilities across the country. He will continue as medical director of Ballard Rehabilitation Hospital, one of the company’s hospitals in San Bernardino, California. Dr. Chen and his wife live in Riverside, California.
David Chambers (Col ’85 CM)
David Chambers (Col ’85 L/M) founded and is CEO of Carpamus, a management consultancy in Reston, Virginia. Carpamus leads high-value, complex sales at critical stages (capture, proposals, orals). Mr. Chambers has spent more than 25 years in sales internationally (Europe and the Middle East) and nationally, particularly to the federal government. Previous employers include Deloitte, Accenture, and BearingPoint. At the University, he studied Arabic and Persian for an independent major that helped pave the way for the Middle East Studies program. Having lived and worked in the region for nearly a decade, he continues to use those languages today. He has served as vice president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Alumni Association. Currently, he serves on the community advisory board of the Kennedy Center, the advisory board of the PostClassical Ensemble, and the alumni advisory board of the University’s media studies department.
Renee Neary (Col ’83)
Renee Hom Neary (Col ’83) is an associate with Boyd Collar Nolen & Tuggle in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Neary will serve clients in a range of family law issues including divorce, division of property, alimony, establishing child support, complex custody litigation and the negotiation of pre- and post-nuptial agreements. She is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia (family law section) and the Atlanta Bar Association, and is a founding member of the Georgia Asian Pacific Bar Association.
Carrie Gibbons (Col ’83 CM)
Carrie “Bunny” Camp Gibbons (Col ’83 L/M) has joined Long & Foster Real Estate’s Charlottesville Old Ivy sales office, where she works with homebuyers and sellers. Ms. Gibbons lives in Charlottesville with her husband, Joel W. Gibbons IV (Col ’86 L/M), and their two children.
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