Spring 2002 - The University of Texas at Austin

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Judges Association at that organization’s
recent annual meeting in Reno, Nev.
Sudderth currently presides over the
352nd District Court in Tarrant County,
where she has served since 1996.
1986
David L.Pybus, former shareholder
with Dow, Cogburn & Friedman, P.C., has
joined the Houston office of Shook,
Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., as one of their
senior commercial litigation attorneys.
1987
Charles Bybee, formerly with Davis,
Graham & Stubbs, LLP, in Denver, has
joined the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger &
Harrison, LLP, in Broomfield, Colo.
Charles McLay Craig is with Stewart
International in Austin.
John Muir has joined the recently
formed law firm of Connelly, Baker,
Wotring & Jackson, L.L.P., in Houston as
senior counsel.
Sharon Reuler, of Palmer, Allen &
McTaggart, LLP, in Dallas, presented “A
Primer on Representing Condominium
and Property Owners Associations” at the
State Bar of Texas’ 2001 Advanced Real
Estate Law Course.
Shari Oualline Shivers is now the
chairman of the Texas State Pension
Review Board, a state agency that oversees
all of the public retirement systems
in Texas.
Johnny Sutton was confirmed as U.S.
attorney for Texas’ Western District. The
western judicial district of Texas covers
68 Texas counties in West, South and
Central Texas.
1988
Jordan W. Cowman, partner resident
in the Dallas law firm of Baker & McKenzie,
has been selected by Texas Lawyer as one
of the “40 Best Lawyers Under 40.”
Michael J. Fadus has accepted a position
as compliance officer at the global
headquarters of Zurich Financial Services
reporting to the Office of the Chair-
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man. Zurich is a global leader of integrated
financial services, having offices in
more than 60 countries and employing
approximately 70,000 people.
Georgia Harper, an attorney with the
UT System Office of General Counsel, has
been selected as fellow of the National
Association of College and University
Attorneys (NACUA). This is the highest
honor that NACUA can bestow on an
active member, and it is reserved for
those attorneys who have not only made
significant contributions to the NACUA
but who, through their writings and other
activities, have also had a broader impact
on the legal educational community.
1989
Demetra Bagby Koelling moved from
San Antonio, where she served as senior
vice president / Labor and Employment to
Clear Channel Communications, Inc., and
joined the Boeing Company world headquarters
in Seattle, Wash., as director in
the Employee Relations Department. Her
husband Peter is the King County District
Courts Chief Administrative Officer. Their
three daughters, Carroll, Dani and Dallas,
love the Pacific Northwest!
Versel Rush (Versel Wall) wrote the
murder mystery A Part to Kill For, which
was performed at the Backdoor Theatre
of Wichita Falls in August and September
2001. Additionally, she will be “the voice
of the Bowie High School Jackrabbits”
this football season, doing play-by-play on
KNTX Radio for the Bowie High School
Jackrabbits varsity team. Rush is an attorney
in Wichita Falls and, after serving a
term as a community member of the Wichita
Falls Times and Record News, she now
writes a monthly column for that paper.
1990
Denise Anne Brady was recently
awarded the Travis County Women Lawyers’
Association Public Interest Attorney
of the Year Award (2000) and the Texas
Association on Mental Retardation Humanitarian
Award (2001). Brady works for
the Interagency Council on Early Childhood
Intervention as general counsel.
Deborah S. Coldwell has joined the
Dallas law office of Jenkens & Gil-
christ, L.L.P., as shareholder in the
firm’s Franchise and Distribution Practice
group.
D’Lesli M. Davis was elected partner
in the law firm of King & Ballow in
Nashville, Tenn. Davis joined King &
Ballow as an associate in 1995 and
was named a senior associate in 1997.
She practices in the firm’s Intellectual
Property, Entertainment and Litigation
sections.
John Epp, senior lecturer at the Cayman
Islands Law School, an affiliated
institution of the University of Liverpool,
has just completed work on his first book,
titled Building on the Decade of Disclosure
in Criminal Procedure, published
by Cavendish Publishing, London (www.
cavendispublishing.com).
Cindy Galvan and her husband, Alan
De la Housssaye, announce the birth of
their daughter, Allison Grace, born on
May 24, 2001. Cindy is a shareholder with
Brown Sims, P.C. in Houston.
Jerry Kyle, Jr. was recently elected
to partnership in Andrews & Kurth’s
Austin office.
John Macoretta has joined the firm
of Spector, Roseman & Kodroff in Philadelphia.
The firm represents plaintiffs in
class-action litigation involving securities,
antitrust and consumer claims.
Ed Normand has become board certified
in civil trial law by the Florida Bar and
continues his practice in personal injury
law as partner with Wooten, Honeywell
and Kest, P.A., in Orlando, Fla.
Alan M. Utay joined Alliance
Data Systems Corporation
as executive vice president
and general counsel.
Alliance Data Systems manages more
than 2.5 billion transactions and 72
million consumer accounts for North
American companies.
1991
Lynn Hamilton Butler, formerly of
Hamilton Butler, P.C., and former assistant
attorney general in the Office of
the Attorney General of Texas, has