“Other” Class Notes

George Seals (Col ’99, Educ ’00 CM) and his wife, Laura, welcomed a son, Tyler McClelland Seals, on June 14, 2014. He joins big brother George W. Seals III, 2.

Charles Hendricks (Arch ’97 CM) is sustainability director of The Gaines Group, an architectural firm based in Harrisonburg, Va. The Gaines Group received the U.S. Green Building Council’s 2014 Best of Building Award for Best Small Architectural Firm. The firm specializes in developing healthy, energy-efficient and durable design solutions.

Chris McKay (Col ’95 CM) and Sarah Ward McKay (Col ’96) welcomed a daughter, Daphne Kate, on Nov. 20, 2013. Daphne joins big brothers Brooks, 8; and Trevor, 5. The family resides in San Francisco.

Meade Grandis (Com ’01 CM) and David Grandis (Col ’95) welcomed a son, Cardwell Turner, on Sept. 7, 2014. Cardwell joins big sister Eleanor, 2. The family resides in Richmond, Va.

David Grandis (Col ’95) and Meade Prillaman Grandis (Com ’01 L/M) welcomed a son, Cardwell Turner, on Sept. 7, 2014. Cardwell joins big sister Eleanor, 2. The family resides in Richmond, Va.

Amelia Fogleman (Law ’94) was named “Lawyer of the Year” for 2015 by Best Lawyers in America for antitrust litigation in Tulsa, Okla. Ms. Fogleman is an attorney with Gable Gotwals, where she has represented a number of large publicly traded companies as well as privately held businesses. She currently serves as an adjunct settlement judge for the court-ordered dispute resolution program in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

Paula Anderson (Col ’94 CM) received the 2014 Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award, which acknowledges outstanding women and minority business owners in the mid-Atlantic region. Ms. Anderson, a licensed clinical and professional counselor, is president and CEO of PACE Consulting, which provides consulting services, direct counseling services, educational support services, temporary clinical staffing and workshops/training across the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metro area. Ms. Anderson has more than 14 years of experience providing individual, group, marriage and family therapy to children, adolescents, adults and families.

Karen Lillis (Col ’92 CM) received the 2014 Acker Award for avant garde excellence in fiction for her body of work, with special recognition of her four experimental novels and novellas published between 2000 and 2012. Her latest publications include a chapbook of poems called The Paul Simon Project and inclusion in an anthology of contemporary experimental women writers, Wreckage of Reason II. Ms. Lillis resides in Pittsburgh.

Sandra Chinn-Gilstrap (Col ’92) was appointed to the faculty of the Virginia State Bar’s Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course. Her three-year term began in October 2014. As a member of the faculty, she is recognized for her commitment to upholding the standards of honor, integrity and courtesy in the legal profession. Ms. Chinn-Gilstrap is an attorney with Woods Rogers, where she focuses her practice in the areas of domestic relations, personal injuries, guardian- and conservatorships for adults, wills and estate planning, corporate law and real estate.

Dorothy Shea (Col ’88 CM) has recently moved to Jerusalem, where she serves as deputy principal officer of the U.S. Consulate.

Tim Reardon (Col ’86) was recently named vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Defense & Intelligence Solutions, which delivers advanced systems, solutions and services to the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Defense and international customers worldwide. Since joining Lockheed Martin in 1998, Mr. Reardon has served in a variety of technical, program management and executive leadership positions, most recently as vice president of Lockheed Martin’s national security portfolio. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he served 10 years as a staff officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Greg Johnson (Com ’86) has been appointed assistant general auditor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He joined the bank in 1993 as an operations system programmer, then transferred to the audit department in 1995, where he held a variety of positions before being named assistant vice president of the bank in 2004 and vice president in 2010.

Courtney Harris (Engr ’86, Grad ’94, Grad ’99 CM) was promoted to the rank of professor in the School of Marine Sciences of the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences and the College of William and Mary. She has taught and conducted research in the department of physical sciences at VIMS since 2001.

Peter Beer (Law ’86) is one of six federal judges who successfully challenged Congress’s denial of cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) raises to the judiciary. In Beer vs. United States, the judges claimed that Congress violated the Constitution’s compensation clause and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 by failing to honor promised judicial salary increases in five separate years. In 2012, the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of the judges, finding that Congress’s withholding of the COLA raises was illegal, and ordered the Court of Federal Claims to calculate the damages and additional compensation to which all federal judges, bankruptcy judges and U.S. magistrates are entitled. Nominated by President Carter in 1979, Judge Beer is an Article III federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Michael Bentley (Educ ’85) published Connecting Children to Nature: Ideas and Activities for Parents and Educators, co-edited with Michael Mueller and Bruce Martin (Educ ’00). The book offers a compendium of fresh ideas and resources for parents and teachers to use with infants, children and teens. Mr. Bentley is an education associate at the Virginia Museum of Natural History and directs the Elementary Science Institute for Teachers at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va. Among his two dozen published books are An Educator’s Field Guide and Teaching Constructivist Science.

Deborah Hammond (Arch ’82 CM) recently published her first novel, In the Eye of the Storm. The book chronicles the adventures of a heroine in the post-Civil War era as she travels from her home in Wilmington, N.C., to London for the resolution of her father’s estate. Her mission to obtain her inheritance leads to threats on her life and the lives of others she comes to hold dear. Ms. Hammond worked for 31 years in local government prior to her retirement in March 2014. She currently resides in Falling Waters, W.Va., with her husband, Bill.