“Job” Class Notes
Kyrsta Scully (Com ’90)
Kyrsta Small Scully (COM ’90 CM) has been named controller of the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group in Yountville, California, which runs the French Laundry, Bouchon, Ad Hoc and other fine restaurants in multiple locations across the country. She supervises accounting and financial matters for all the restaurants and related companies. After a 25-year career in food and beverage at luxury hotels, she turned to the accounting side and earned her California CPA license in 2020 and her CMA in 2017.
Sean Scully (Col ’89)
Sean Scully (COL, ’89 CM) has been named Western National Editor for States Newsroom, a national nonprofit focusing on news coverage of state government. In this position, he coordinates coverage and assists editors in seven western states. Previously, he was editor and director of news content for the Napa Valley Register in California. He and his family will continue to live in the Napa Valley, where they have been for a decade.
Yvener Petit (Com ’09)
Yvener J. Petit (Com ’09) joined Live Nation as a Director of Strategic Initiatives and Operations this fall. In his role, he partners with key stakeholders across the Concerts, Ticketmaster, and Media and Sponsorship divisions to outline and implement key company strategies. In addition, Yvener has recently been elected to serve as an Executive Committee and Board Member of Communities In Schools of Los Angeles—a non-profit that focuses on providing one-on-one case management for nearly 1,000 at-risk Los Angeles Unified School District students, helping them stay in school and achieve in life.
Matthew Kelley (Col ’00)
Matthew Kelley (Col ’00 CM) has established a Hereford-Angus beef cattle operation on his farm in Madison, Virginia. The cows join his wife, three children, and career in fulfilling his lifelong goals in pursuit of happiness.
Ann McMillan (Col ’81)
Ann McMillan (Col ’81) has been named president of Caplin & Drysdale, a law firm with offices in New York and Washington, D.C providing a full range of tax, tax controversy, and related legal services to companies, organizations, and individuals throughout the United States and around the world.
Ms. McMillan is a member of the firm’s bankruptcy group and long-time member of the board of directors.
Ms. McMillan joined Caplin & Drysdale in 1991 after serving as corporate counsel for a California corporation. She works with Caplin & Drysdale’s bankruptcy group representing claimants’ committees in mass tort bankruptcies. Ms. McMillan also advises approximately 30 trust advisory committees for the trusts that are formed at the conclusion of the bankruptcies. Additionally, she counsels both for-profit and nonprofit entities on corporate governance issues and contractual matters.
Simrat Jassal (Col ’21 CM)
Simrat Jassal (COL ’21 CM) is the president and founder of Premed Peers, a nonprofit that is providing free and affordable MCAT tutoring to students across the nation. Premed Peers has reached over 2000 students across the nation and provided them with mentorship and support during the medical admissions process. The nonprofit also provides students with essay, resume, and private tutoring help. Simrat will continue the efforts for Premed Peers and is hoping to give back to the Charlottesville community. You can get involved with the program here: https://www.premedpeers.org/get-involved
Premed Peers is a national nonprofit that provides free and affordable tutoring to premedical students across the nation. We are a group of undergraduate and medical students across the country who have all struggled, yet succeeded, on the MCAT and want to give back to other fellow pre-meds. We offer a low-cost prep course called MCAT101. The courses are lecture-style that cover high (and low) yield topics on the MCAT and run for approximately 1 hour. We believe that medical educational barriers should not deter students from pursuing medicine.
A.J. Frey (Col ’08)
A.J. Frey (Col ’08 CM) has joined the Washington, DC, office of international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in the Investment Funds practice. A.J. joins Gibson from Greenspring Associates, a diversified venture capital platform with over $13B in Assets Under Management, where he served as General Counsel. His practice focuses on the formation and operation of private investment funds across a variety of fund strategies, including private equity, growth equity, venture capital and real asset funds. A.J. resides in Washington, DC with his wife, Brenna, and their two boys, Felix and Max.
Shane Rau (Res ’08)
Dr. Shane Rau (Res ’08) works for Array Behavioral Care, a nationwide telepsychiatry company, as Vice President and Associate Medical Director for the Scheduled Care and AtHome Care lines of business. In this role, he provides telepsychiatry services to adults in multiple states and supervises 60 clinicians providing similar services. He also directs quality management projects for these lines of business to establish systems of data analysis to ensure Array’s clinicians are improving lives. He is proud of Array and his position within it and attributes a good deal of his leadership ability, clinical skills and clinical knowledge to his time as a resident in Psychiatry at UVA Health System, and, in particular, the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences! He and his life, Melinda, live in Williamsburg.
Emily Barksdale (Batten ’21)
Emily Barksdale (Batten ’21) started in October as an analyst in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Planning and Budget. She is working with other Batten and UVA alumni and has relocated to Richmond.
Patrice Lewis (Col ’03)
Patrice L. Lewis (Col ’03 CM) has joined the Richmond office of law firm Gentry Locke. Lewis works with the firm’s government and regulatory affairs practice and Gentry Locke Consulting, using research and strategy to help clients achieve their legal and policy goals.
She formerly served as a senior advisor for SIR, Inc. a strategic marketing and communications firm; as an outreach representative for United States Senator Mark R. Warner; and as the legislative assistant to former Virginia Delegate Onzlee Ware.
Sam Heath (Grad ’14)
Sam Heath (Grad ’14) has been appointed manager of the Equal Justice USA Evangelical Network, a platform for faith leaders across the political spectrum who seek to transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that are rooted in the values of racial equity, redemption and healing.
Heath, an educator by profession, is an elder at Trinity Presbytery Church in Charlottesville where he has been the coordinator of major educational conferences, including Race: Unity in Diversity, which came in the wake of the so-called Unite the Right Rally in 2017. He also founded and co-chairs a Multiethnicity Ministry Team tasked with helping move Trinity to be an increasingly multi-ethnic organization in both its color and culture.
Equal Justice USA is a national organization working to transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that break cycles of trauma. Our Evangelical Network unites Evangelicals under a bold vision of justice transformation, so that violence is rare and every community is safe and healthy.
Wilson Craig (Col ’16)
Wilson Craig (Col ’16) has launched Waterbird Spirits. The company creates a variety of canned cocktails with real distilled spirits that are now sold in 22 states and will be available in an additional 18 states this year.
The Waterbird name pays homage to historic Water Street in Charlottesville, the location of the company headquarters.
A third manufacturing facility is coming online this year, in addition to the Waterbird Headquarters in Charlottesville and a production facility in Lakeland, Florida.
For more information, go to www.waterbirdspirits.com.
Laura Griffin (Col ’00)
Laura Griffin (Col ’00) has been appointed Chief Deputy Clerk of Operations for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, effective October 18, 2021. Laura previously served as the Clerk of Court (senior court administrator) for the Chesterfield and Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts. She will work at the Spottswood W. Robinson III and Robert R. Merhige, Jr., Federal Courthouse in Richmond.
Deon Brown (Engr ’99)
Deon Brown (Engr ’94 CM) recently accepted a technical engineering position as Test Architect with Paragon Space Development Corporation. He will be the lead point of contact for developing test strategies for spaceflight hardware supplying environmental control and life support functions to Lunar Gateway, the first planned space station in lunar orbit, as the United States returns to the Moon under NASA’s Artemis Program.
Sharon Want (Col ’84)
Sharon Want (Col ’84 CM) has been been promoted to Member of Caplin & Drysdale.
Want provides practical comprehensive legal advice to tax-exempt organizations. She has counseled nonprofits for 20 years, rejoining Caplin & Drysdale after serving as in-house counsel at the American Cancer Society, where she advised on legal issues involving ACS’s global health and government-funded programs and ACS’s 501(c)(4) affiliate, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. She also served as a senior advisor to the IRS Director of Exempt Organizations. She works closely with a wide range of small and large public charities, private foundations and social welfare organizations, and she regularly provides counsel on tax compliance and governance issues.
Junius Fulton (Col ’81)
The Honorable Junius P. Fulton, III (Col ’81 CM) has been appointed by the Virginia General Assembly as a judge of the newly expanded Court of Appeals of Virginia. Judge Fulton previously served as a judge of the Norfolk Circuit Court since 1996. He and his wife, Darnell Brown Fulton (Col ’81) reside in Norfolk, Va.
Michael Keens (Med ’00)
Michael Keens (Grad ’01 CM) was appointed Executive Vice President of Operations at Anju Software. He will lead the global operations for the health technology company that provides platform technology for clinical trials, medical affairs, and analytical solutions for pharmaceutical, biotech, and contract research organizations.
Adrien Pickard (Col ’00)
Adrien Pickard (Col ’00 CM) has joined Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram, a law firm based in Washington, D.C. Pickard is a highly-accomplished business litigation attorney who counsels clients involved in complex commercial disputes before state and federal courts and on appeal across the country.
Pickard was recognized by Washington Post Magazine in 2013 as a “Top Attorney in Washington, DC,” selected as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers between 2013 and 2017 and listed in Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll between 2018 and 2020.
Chris Lehman (Col ’92)
Chris Lehman (Col ’92) Is an orthopedic surgeon for the Permanente Medical Group in San Francisco. Since the summer of 2019, he has been the lead orthopedic surgeon for the Golden State Warriors of the NBA. He encourages athletes as well as ‘Hoos young and old, to work on their strength and balance prior to participation in sports to minimize their risk of injuries.
Jennifer Beckett (Arch ’94)
Jennifer Beckett (Arch ’94 CM) celebrated one year as the first Director of Protocol for the United States Space Force (USSF). Beckett has served in the Department of Defense for over 17 years, with 11 years as a federal employee. Beckett is responsible for developing protocol policy for the country’s newest military service and providing expert advice to senior leaders within the Department on matters regarding customs, courtesies, diplomatic formality, order of precedence, and etiquette. Beckett also serves as the lead event planner for all official events and activities hosted by Space Force senior leadership. Semper Supra!
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