“Job” Class Notes

James Kibler (Col ’85 CM) has been named president of Virginia Natural Gas. He will be responsible for the delivery of natural gas to the company’s customers in southeastern Virginia. Mr. Kibler previously worked as senior vice president of external affairs and public policy for AGL Resources, the holding company that owns Virginia Natural Gas.

Kim Fiorentino (Col ’83 CM) has been appointed general counsel of the Archdiocese of Washington, to oversee all legal affairs for the archdiocese. She was previously a shareholder and a member of the board of directors of Shulman Rogers Gandal Porty & Ecker in the Washington, D.C., area.

Deborah Awai (Col ’81, Law ’84 CM) has been appointed senior vice president of bank operations for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She will provide executive leadership to the bank’s cash operations and will oversee district facilities management and workplace services. She has also been appointed to the bank’s executive committee and will retain the responsibilities of her previous positions, group vice president of the cash services division and Los Angeles branch deputy regional executive. Before joining the bank, she worked in private practice and served as senior counsel in the legal division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.

Charles Luckey (Col ’77) has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the next chief of the U.S. Army Reserve and commanding general of U.S. Army Reserve Command. He also will be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. Once in command, Lt. Gen. Luckey will have offices in Washington, D.C. and at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He will lead a force of nearly 200,000 Army Reserve soldiers.

Lee Sherman (Col ’75, Grad ’78) has been named president and CEO of the National Human Services Assembly, an organization of nearly 80 national nonprofit organizations based in Washington, D.C. He joined the NHSA in June and works in its Washington office. Mr. Sherman was president and CEO of the Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies from 2009 to June 2016 and has more than 25 years of executive-level experience in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors. His community leadership activities include board and committee positions with The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore; the Jewish Federations of North America; the Roundtable of Faith-Based Health and Human Services Organizations; and the Council on Accreditation.

William Johnson (Col ’75, Com ’78) joined the Texas law firm Jackson Walker as a partner. He is based in the firm’s Houston office, where he works in the real estate and finance practice groups. Mr. Johnson has worked as a banking lawyer for more than 30 years and spent four years in Dubai representing multinational companies in cross-border transactions. He holds a rating of “AV Preeminent” from Martindale-Hubbell.

Frederick Greene (Col ’66, Med ’70 CM) has been elected president of the UVA Medical School Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Greene is a surgical oncologist and a medical director of the Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dennis Leyden (Col ’78 CM) has been appointed director of graduate studies for the department of economics at the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is an associate professor of economics specializing in innovation, public-sector entrepreneurship and critical thinking in economics.

Stephanie Fineman (Col ’01) has been promoted to partner at Fox Rothschild in Philadelphia, where she practices product liability, commercial and class action litigation.

Robert Landis (Arch ’83) joined the Community Affordable Housing Equity Corporation in Raleigh, North Carolina, as senior vice president in September 2015. It is a nonprofit syndicator of affordable housing, new markets and energy tax credits.

Kaushik Bhaumik (Engr ’91) has been promoted to executive vice president at Cognizant Technology Solutions, an information technology and business services firm.

William Jones (Law ’97 CM) is a partner at Moye White, a business law firm in Denver. He helps manage the firm’s trial section and has been named a Colorado Super Lawyer for civil litigation. Mr. Jones and his wife, Kimberly “Kim” Katzenbach Jones (Educ ’96 L/M), live in Colorado with their two children, Carter, 17, and Emily, 14.

Chad Owen (Col ’95 CM) was appointed records management coordinator at the Library of Virginia in May 2016. He leads the records management section, which analyzes and schedules public records for all state and local government agencies in the commonwealth. Mr. Owen was previously an associate professor at the University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections, where he served as archivist for records management and curator of the university’s extensive collections of Edgar Rice Burroughs material.

Sarah Lawson (Col ’06) has been named assistant director of the Virginia Center for the Book, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. In addition to coordinating literacy efforts across the commonwealth, she will help to coordinate the Virginia Festival of the Book, held each March in Charlottesville. Ms. Lawson previously worked with the Building Goodness Foundation and served as executive director of the Piedmont Council for the Arts, two other Charlottesville-based nonprofit organizations.