“Other” Class Notes

John Bielski (Grad ’92) was recognized as a 2013 Super Lawyer by Philadelphia Magazine. He is an attorney in the Philadelphia office of Willig, Williams & Davidson, where his practice focuses on labor and employment law.

David Osgood (Grad ’91, Grad ’96) has been promoted to associate professor of biology at Albright College in Reading, Pa., where he teaches courses in environmental issues, ecology, watershed hydrology and conservation biology. Mr. Osgood’s academic research focuses on wetland restoration, watershed hydrology and ecology, invasive plants, tropical ecology and Latin American studies.

Laura Marshall (Col ’91 CM) has joined the Richmond office of Hunton & Williams as a partner. Prior to joining the firm, she was an assistant United States attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia, where she prosecuted cases involving investment fraud, health care fraud and organized crime, and led task forces targeting identity theft and money laundering. Her practice at Hunton & Williams will focus on internal investigations, regulatory and civil enforcement, and white-collar criminal defense.

Bonnie Hoffman (Col ’91 CM) received the 2013 Heeney Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). Given annually, the award recognizes the member who best exemplifies the goals and values of the association and the legal profession. Ms. Hoffman is a deputy public defender for the 20th Judicial Circuit in Leesburg, Va., where she is certified in misdemeanor, felony, juvenile and death penalty representation by the Virginia State Bar. She serves on the NACDL’s board of directors and on the Juvenile Justice Collaborative in the Leesburg area.

John Lowery (Col ’90 CM) has been promoted to the rank of full professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Lowery is chair and graduate coordinator of the department of student affairs in higher education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 2008.

Ted Craig (Col ’89 CM) has been included in the 2013 edition of Florida Super Lawyers. He is an attorney in the commercial litigation group of Gray Robinson in Miami, where his practice focuses on defending national class action lawsuits in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels.

John Armstrong (Med ’88 CM) has been reappointed as Florida’s state surgeon general after serving in the position for one year. He took the oath of office for the second time on June 5, 2013. In his first year as state surgeon general, Dr. Armstrong launched the statewide Healthiest Weight Initiative, strengthened the state’s trauma system and reorganized the Florida Department of Health to enhance integration between the state health office and 67 county health departments.

Donna Schminkey (Col ’85, Nurs ’88 CM) has received a nursing scholarship from the March of Dimes for graduate and doctoral studies in the field of maternal-child nursing. Ms. Schminkey, a candidate for a 2018 Ph.D. from U.Va.’s School of Nursing, is specializing in multidisciplinary research on how social, emotional and psychological factors influence the biological processes of birth and child neurodevelopment. She has more than 26 years of experience in nursing and midwifery.

Deidre Connelly (Educ ’84, Educ ’86) has been designated a certified consultant by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Ms. Connelly is a sport psychology consultant and life skills coordinator in the department of intercollegiate athletics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., as well as a member of the college’s counseling center, where she provides consultation and support to athletes and coaches in mental training skills and resilience building. She teaches sport psychology courses and regularly presents on stress and energy management and life balance.

W. Scott (Com ’83 CM) was named a top attorney in Pennsylvania by the 2013 edition of Super Lawyers. He has been named to the list annually since 2007. He is the chair of the real estate and lending group for the Pittsburgh law firm of Meyer Unkovic & Scott, where his practice focuses on counseling clients on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of sophisticated real estate transactions. Mr. Scott resides in Sewickley, Pa.

Lance Olsen (Grad ’82, Grad ’85) received both a Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction and the 2013 Berlin Prize in Fiction from the American Academy in Berlin. Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, has invited him as a Mellon Visiting Scholar for the month of October 2013, during which time he will help set up an innovative creative writing program. The university will use Mr. Olsen’s anti-textbook, Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing, as a foundation for the program. Mr. Olsen, who has written numerous novels, critical studies and short story collections, is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Susan Klobuchar (Col ’96 CM) and her husband, Tim, welcomed their third child, a daughter, Cecily Catherine, on July 29, 2013. Cecily joins brother Jack, 5; and sister Lise, 2. The family resides in Plymouth, Minn., where Ms. Klobuchar is a marketing communications manager at General Mills in nearby Minneapolis.

Nancy White (Col ’81) has recently joined the Ann Arbor, Mich., office of Quinn Evans Architects as director of marketing. Her duties include overseeing a broad range of strategic planning, communications and business-development activities for the office, which designs civic, cultural, higher education and restoration projects throughout the Midwest. Ms. White, an experienced marketing and business development specialist, is also a professional photographer. In addition to publishing Majesty of Beaufort, a book about architecture in Beaufort, S.C., she has contributed photographs to a number of magazines, such as Coastal Living, Inform, Cottage Living, Old House Interiors and others.

G. Shell (Law ’81) has published his fourth book, Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, with Portfolio, the business book imprint of Penguin Group USA. According to Shell, it is up to each individual to define his or her own measure of success, and Springboard helps readers discover the most viable, individualized ways to pursue the success they seek. His other titles include Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People and, with Mario Moussa, The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. Mr. Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics and Management at the Wharton School of Business, where he teaches as a senior member of the faculty and serves as director of the Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop and the Wharton Strategic Persuasion Workshop. Taken together, his books have been published in more than 14 languages.

Alfred Paliani (Col ’79, Law ’83 CM) has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of the International Association of Defense Counsel, a professional association for defense lawyers around the world. He is general counsel of Quality King Distributors and its group of affiliated companies, headquartered in Bellport, N.Y. As general counsel, he is responsible for all legal affairs for the conglomerate, operating in numerous facilities throughout the country, including overseeing all compliance issues and litigation matters in all jurisdictions.

Mary Witt (Med ’78, Res ’80) was named the 2012 Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association at the 47th annual meeting of the U.Va. Medical School Foundation in Williamsburg, Va., in February 2013. Dr. Witt is the first woman to receive the award, which recognizes leadership and loyalty to the alumni association and foundation. She is a board-certified endocrinologist and former medical director with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia and currently holds a position with United Health Care. Dr. Witt resides in Richmond, Va., with her husband, Fritz Will IV (Com ’76 L/M), where she volunteers as a clinician at CrossOver Health Care Ministry. She has served with the Medical Alumni Association in various capacities, including as the association’s first female president in 2009, and is an appointed trustee to the Medical School Foundation.