Class Notes - 2000s

News of Lewis & Clark graduates from 2000 through 2009.

2000

Arts & Sciences Reunion June 24−27, 2010

Steven Burke JD has joined the board of Friends of the Refuge, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge.

Robert Childs BA oversees operations at a harm reduction agency in New York City for 10,000 drug users and sex workers. He recently led a multimodal study, titled “Blood in the Bog,” of homeless people who use intravenous drugs in public areas, detailing practices and outcomes for this population. Childs is married to Paige Travis.

Gregory Levinson JD has founded his own law firm, Levinson Law, in Portland, where he continues to focus on business entity formation, contracts, trademarks, and estate planning.

Thomas McElroy JD has joined Teri Durham JD ’97 in forming McElroy & Durham, a Portland law firm focusing on family law and domestic relations.

2001

Bethany Bacci JD has been named a partner at Stoel Rives in the Portland office. She counsels clients on tax and fiduciary matters affecting pension plans.

Amy Baggio JD has received the Civil Liberties Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon for her work with individuals detained by the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Brian Cable JD has been named a partner at Dunn Carney. His primary areas of practice are corporate governance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.

Michael Hallas JD is an associate with Stahancyk, Kent, Johnson & Hook. His practice focuses on family law.

Charles Harrell JD has joined Buckley LeChevallier’s business and real estate transactional practice group. His practice focuses on land use, real estate, condominium and subdivision formulation, and general business transactional matters. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior associate at Gunn, Cain & Kinney.

Cheryl Kringle JD has been appointed to the Aero Law Group. She represents clients in sales, leasing, and the exchange of business and commercial aircraft. Most recently Kringle worked at Tousley Brain Stephens and the Washington State Attorney General’s consumer protection division.

Anne Kunkel JD has been named partner at Givens Pursley in Boise. Kunkel’s practice focuses on complex real estate and asset transactions. Kunkel is secretary of the real estate law section for the Idaho State Bar Association. She was accepted into the Leadership Boise class of 2008–10.

Jeff Lindberg JD has joined attorney Loren Joner to form a new law firm, Joner Lindberg. The firm in Battle Ground, Washington, serves business, real estate, estate planning, and litigation needs.

Anna Salim BA produced a feature film that was among 10 semifinalists (out of 2,000 original applicants) in the Netflix Find Your Voice competition. The film, by writer-director Jon Goldman, is Paul Sussman’s Eleven-Step Guide to Self-Actualization. Information about the semifinalists and the winning film is available at Find Your Voice.

Andrew Solomon JD has been promoted to of counsel at Perkins Coie. He is a member of the firm’s real estate and land use group, providing representation for real estate transactions and project development.

Alejandro Tosi LLM ’01, JD ’04 is a legal advisor to the president of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands. The president is one of nine judges on the tribunal, which was created in 1981 as one of the measures taken to resolve the hostage crisis with Iran.

2002

Derek Bangs BA returned to Oregon in March 2009 for a wine sales position in the Portland metro area. His wife is an in-home personal trainer.

Amy Campbell JD has joined Vestas American Wind Technology, counseling the company on employment and immigration issues.

Marisa James JD is a deputy in the office of the Oregon Legislative Counsel, where she specializes in drafting laws related to public health and human services.

2003

Anna Bellersen BA earned her black belt in Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen in 2008. She is working toward her MA in teaching German at the Monterey (California) Institute of International Studies.

Nick Lantz BA married Vicky Pettersen Lantz ’03 in 2005. In 2007–08 he was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Jessalynn Pinsonault BA graduated from the University of Washington in 2009 with a master’s degree in library and information science. She is now a librarian at Ledding Library in Milwaukie, working primarily in the children’s department.

Nichole Robbins JD has joined the Law Office of Erin Olson. She represents crime victims, including victims of child sexual abuse and elder abuse, in civil and criminal cases.

2004

Dillon Bracken BA formed the Lifestyle Design Group “after becoming disillusioned by the corporate ladder prison. Now I invest in real estate and own a marketing company. I am open to helping other Lewis & Clark graduates liberate themselves from their corporate chains.”

Adam Draper JD is director of land protection at the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust in Annandale, Virginia.

Diana Wiener Rosengard BA ’04, JD ’09, after graduating from Lewis & Clark Law School in May, moved to Los Angeles to become a judicial coordinator for the University of California at Riverside.

Kelly Rudd JD has become a shareholder at Baldwin, Crocker & Rudd, a Wyoming law firm emphasizing federal Indian law.

Maneesh Varma JD recently finished three years with the Peace Corps in Zambia, where he was a legal support officer for the nongovernmental organization Zambia AIDSLaw Research and Advocacy.

2005

Sharl Azar BA is a fourthyear medical student at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine.

Paul Blechmann J.D. is an associate at the Roberg J. McGaughey firm, focusing on securities fraud, broker disputes, and corporate and employment litigation.

Travis Eiva JD has joined Corson & Johnson Law Firm in Eugene as an associate.

Andrew Graham JD has become a shareholder in Cummins, Goodman, Fish, Denley & Vickers in Newberg. He practices in the litigation department, focusing on administrative law defense matters.

Jeremy Innis BA earned a master of theological studies in religion, literature, and culture from Harvard Divinity School in June 2009. He plans to work, teach, and make music in the Boston area this year.

Quiana Washington BA received her Ed.M. degree from Oregon State University in 2006. She relocated to Atlanta, where she teaches fifth grade.

2006

Jessica Bullock BA, after finishing postbaccalaureate courses in speech-language pathology at Portland State University, is now in the PSU master’s program in speechlanguage pathology. She also teaches private piano lessons part time and works as a lab assistant in the voice disorders lab at Portland State. See also Marriages.

Adam Greenman JD has opened his own law office in Portland, specializing in criminal and traffic defense, plaintiff’s personal injury, medical malpractice, and elder law.

Susie Pillsbury BA: I have a one-year-old daughter named Maya Hernandez Garcia.

Nikki Zimmerman BA is pursuing graduate work at the Monterey (California) Institute of International Studies. She was awarded a full fellowship to attend Middlebury Language School for its summer intensive language program in Russian.

2007

Nate Carter JD is a law clerk for Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Durham.

William Erickson JD is employed as a hazardous-material response team member and firefighter for the Mobile Fire Rescue Department in Alabama.

Laura Rose Gage BA is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine.

Kasia Rutledge JD joined the Multnomah County office of the Metropolitan Public Defender. Rutledge is involved with the National Lawyers Guild, and she worked as a certified law student at Metropolitan Public Defender from March through December of 2007.

2008

Nicholas Beaudoin BA is living in Taiwan and teaching children English. He is applying to Washington, D.C.– based graduate schools that offer MA programs in international relations. Beaudoin expects to be living in D.C. in the fall of 2010. E-mail him at taiwan.california@yahoo.com.

Lizzie Brodeen JD has been appointed as an honors attorney in the torts section of the trial division with the Oregon Department of Justice. Brodeen previously clerked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and spent a year in the AmeriCorps program coaching low-income high school students for college admission.

Lindsey Detweiler JD has joined the appellate division of the Office of Public Defense Services as a deputy public defender for the state of Oregon.

Joseph Furia JD has joined the K&L Gates firm, where his practice focuses on energy, environmental, and natural resources law.

Sarah Harlos JD is a new associate at Francis, Hansen & Martin in Bend. Harlos practices in the area of civil litigation and trial.

Dylan Hydes JD has joined the personal injury group at Smith, Freed & Eberhard in Portland.

Becky Cruz Lizama JD is a legislative assistant in the congressional office of Gregorio C. Sabla, nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives from the Northern Mariana Islands. Lizama works on environmental and natural resource issues.

Sarah Petersen JD has joined Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson in Portland as an associate. Her labor law practice includes representation of both public and private employers.

Jedediah Peterson JD has joined the appellate division of the Office of Public Defense Services as a deputy public defender for the State of Oregon.

2009

Emily Henke BA recently began singing with the Portland-based Al-Andalus Ensemble. The world music group, led by Tarik and Julia Banzi BA ’96, tours internationally.