Richard B. “Dick” Smith (Col ’71 L/M) retired from the Office of the Attorney General in Virginia. Among other duties during his 35 years in the criminal litigation section, he briefed and presented oral arguments in more than 400 cases in the Virginia and federal appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Supreme Court of the United States. He and his wife, Jane Atkinson Smith (Educ ’76), continue to reside near Richmond, Va.
Posted 01/23/2012
John S. Taylor (Arch ’71) contributed a dozen drawings to a small desk calendar, the proceeds from which will be donated to two nonprofit organizations doing work in local communities struggling to recover from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region of Japan.
Posted 12/06/2011
Kevin Kessler (Col ’71 L/M) retired from the practice of law in Northern Virginia in 2004 after 28 years of trial practice and now sells luxury waterfront property for Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Posted 09/23/2011
Jerry A. Davis (Law ’71 L/M) retired after 27 years as federal magistrate judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
Posted 08/12/2011
R. Michael Wells (Col ’71) is president-elect of the North Carolina Bar Association.
Posted 07/05/2011
Gary W. Kendall (Col ’71) has been recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers magazine as a top attorney in Virginia for 2011. He serves persons injured by job-related hazards and toxic materials. He also represents workers suffering from asbestos-related injuries.
Posted 07/05/2011
Richard J. Erickson (Grad ’71 L/M) has been elected to a six-year term on the National Board of the Military Officer Association of America.
Posted 01/27/2011
Peyton Boyd (Arch ’71 L/M) received the 2010 William C. Noland Medal of The Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects at the Visions for Architecture gala, held on Nov. 5, 2010, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Posted 01/27/2011
C. Bruce Alexander (Med ’71 L/M) is president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Dr. Alexander is professor and vice chair of the department of psychology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Posted 01/27/2011
Dean Hasseman (Law ’71 L/M) is general counsel of CITGO Petroleum Corp. He received the 2009 Houston Business Journal/Association of Corporate Counsel Outstanding Counsel with an Attorney Staff of 11-30 Award. He also received the 2009 HBJ/ACC Champion of Diversity Award. This February, he will receive the 2010 Minority Corporate Counsel Association Employer of Choice – South/Southwest Region – award from the CITGO Legal Department.
Posted 01/11/2010
Mark E. Sullivan (Law ’71) spoke in June for the Florida Bar’s “military divorce” program in Tampa. His topic was the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act. On June 4, he went to the Pentagon to brief the Undersecretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness) on legislation involving legal custody and military personnel. On June 9, he spoke to the Louisville Employee Benefits Council on re-employment rights for Reservists and military medical leave. Mr. Sullivan lives in Raleigh, N.C., where he is the principal of Law Offices of Mark E. Sullivan.
Posted 10/01/2009
Steven A. Brickman (Col ’71, Law ’74 L/M) is an attorney with the law firm of Sirote & Permutt and was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of banking law and real estate law. Mr. Brickman works in the firm’s Birmingham, Ala., office, where he represents clients in all phases of commercial real estate development, including land acquisition, financing, leasing and planning.
Posted 09/30/2009
Richard Sours (Grad ’71) and Charlotte Murphy Sours (Educ ’70) are retiring from their respective careers as educators. Ms. Sours taught 1st, 4th and 7th grades at Wyoming Seminary, Forty-Fort, Pa., and part-time at Marywood University, Scranton, Pa. Mr. Sours taught mathematics and computer science at Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., before becoming an administrator. He was the executive vice president and dean at Ferrum College, Ferrum, Va., and most recently was the president of William Penn University, Oskaloosa, Iowa. The Sours’ will reside at Smith Mountain Lake near Roanoke, Va.
Posted 09/23/2009
Frederick H. Phillips (Col ’71) founded Overlook Associates in 2007 to provide real estate development and consulting services with a focus on preservation and adaptive reuse. The company received an award from PreservationMass, a Massachusetts preservation advocacy organization, for its rehabilitation of the former Davis & Sargent Building in Lowell, Mass., into energy efficient, sustainable modern office space. The 1879 building qualified for LEED certification at the Gold Level.
Posted 07/07/2009
Louis A. Sherman (Law ’71 L/M) was sworn in as the 55th judge of the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk, Va., on Oct. 31, 2008. Judge Sherman previously served as a judge of the Norfolk General District Court for more than 13 years. Judge Sherman and his wife, Carol, have two sons, Eric M. Sherman (Col ’98, Med ’02) and Scott M. Sherman (Com ’01 L/M).
Posted 06/01/2009
M. Pierce Rucker (Col ’71 L/M) is president of the law firm of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, having been re-elected by the board of directors. Rucker practices principally in the health care group at the firm, where he represents physicians and other health care professionals and entities in administrative and legal actions. His entire legal career has been spent at Sands Anderson, where he has served a number of terms on the board of directors and in various other leadership roles.
Posted 05/12/2009
John Lumpkin (Col ’71 L/M) will become director of the Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University in June. The school is named for Bob Schieffer, CBS correspondent and moderator of “Face The Nation.” Mr. Lumpkin is a vice president and former bureau chief of the Associated Press, responsible for newspaper markets in the U.S. and Latin America and for AP revenue from newspaper companies in the hemisphere as well as the U.S. domestic bureau chief system. He has held company positions in strategic planning and has been involved in AP’s shift to multimedia news distribution. He previously worked with the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before joining AP. Mr. Lumpkin has received many professional awards and is a member of the Inter-American Press Association and a former director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. He co-wrote West Texas: A Portrait of Its People and Their Raw and Wondrous Land.
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