http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes Find out about the lives of your classmates en uvamag-web@virginia.edu Copyright 2012 2012-01-05T16:34:41+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Karen King Brazell (Col ’76, Educ ’80 L/M) is a Supreme Court of Virginia Certified Mediator and Certified Parent Educator, serving Westmoreland, Essex and Richmond County juvenile and domestic relations courts. She is also a grant writer for several agencies and nonprofits. 2011-06-02T20:18:23+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Peter E. Broadbent Jr. (Law ’76 L/M) has been recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers magazine as a top attorney in Virginia for 2011 in utilities law. Mr. Broadbent practices business, intellectual property, governmental and telecommunications law as a partner with Christian & Barton in Richmond, Va. 2011-07-05T19:37:22+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Steven W. Broadbent (Engr ’76 L/M) is the Republican candidate for chairman of the Fulton County board of commissioners in Georgia. The election will be held in November. 2010-06-28T18:54:25+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Henry C. Clifford (Col ’76) is vice president of marketing and sales for AquaBounty Technologies in San Diego. The company is developing salmon that could be the first genetically modified food animal approved for consumption by the FDA. 2011-02-24T21:22:44+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Robert F. Graboyes (Col ’76) serves on the executive board of the Healthcare Delivery Innovation Alliance and was elected president of the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C. Mr. Graboyes is the senior fellow for health and economics at the NFIB Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. He teaches health economics at Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University and the U.Va. School of Nursing. 2011-12-06T14:42:49+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Don Graeter (Law ’76) was ranked No. 6 in the nation in Bank Investment Consultant magazine’s “Top 50 Consultants” list. Mr. Graeter is director of investments for Central Bank in Louisville, Ky., working with two sons, Drew and Spencer. 2011-02-17T17:32:44+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Michael S. Hooker (Col ’76, Law ’81) is a shareholder in the commercial litigation practice group of Glenn Rasmussen Fogarty & Hooker and has been elected to The Florida Bar Board of Governors, representing the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 4. He will serve a two-year term. 2010-03-22T20:12:39+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 L/M) was re-elected to the Georgia Transmission Corporation board of directors and will serve a three-year term. She has served as an outside director on the GTC board since 1997. GTC is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by 39 Electric Membership Corporations in Georgia. Ms. Tietjen is president and chief executive officer of Technically Speaking, a trustee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia and chairs the board of advisors of the Colorado Coalition on Gender and Information Technology. She is featured in the book, Changing Our World – True Stories of Women Engineers, and co-authored the best-selling book, Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. 2009-06-30T14:53:24+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Stanley A. Twardy Jr. (Law ’76 L/M) was recognized in New England’s 2008 Super Lawyers magazine for his white-collar criminal defense practice. He is a partner in the Stamford, Conn., office of the law firm of Day Pitney, where he has also served on the executive committee for the last eight years. 2009-02-12T13:39:11+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ John Valliere (Engr ’76 L/M) is the lead program analyst in the disaster recovery office of the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Shirley Hottot, reside in Montclair, Va. 2009-05-12T14:36:20+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Linda Pressman Wenger (Col ’76) has joined Uniting Against Lung Cancer as its executive director. The foundation funds innovative research to find a cure for the nation’s leading cancer killer and works to increase awareness of the disease. 2011-02-17T17:36:45+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Darlene Sprinkle Wood (Col ’76 L/M) has joined the law firm of Eckert Seamans in Pittsburgh as an associate. Her practice focuses on products liability. She is a second-career lawyer. 2009-09-11T18:49:23+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1976 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Michael Woodford (Engr ’76) has been promoted to vice president, standards, of the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute in Arlington, Va. Mr. Woodford is a fellow of the Standards Engineering Society, serving as its certification committee chairman. He is a recipient of the American National Standards Institute’s Meritorious Service Award and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineering Exceptional Service Award. 2011-04-05T15:55:30+00:00