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Prior to becoming
attorney general,
Cordray was a state
representative and
sponsored legislation for fighting
crime, preserving the environment
and helping families and children.
Cordray serves on the Advisory
Board for the Friends of the Homeless,
and is past chair of the Hilltop
YMCA Advisory Board. Cordray is
a member of MSU’s Presidents Club.
Deborah Hebert, ’74, MA ’77, an
attorney with Collins, Einhorn, Farrell
& Ulanoff, PC,
Southfield, has been
named to the 2010
Michigan Super
Lawyers. Hebert has
served as the lead
counsel in hundreds of appeals at
both state and federal levels. Hebert
is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel
of American, an invitation-only trial
and appellate honorary society. She
has been selected by her peers for
inclusion in Law and Politics Magazine’s
Super Lawyers for years 2006
to 2010. She was also named among
the top 50 Michigan women lawyers
in 2009 and 2010.
Jay Dubey, ’76, president and
CEO of Thumb National Bank &
Trust Co., Pigeon,
has been elected
chairman of the
Michigan Association
of Community
Bankers (MACB).
Previously he was the executive vice
president and senior loan officer of
the bank. Dubey also serves as chairman
of Scheurer Hospital and as a
board member of Bluewater Thumb
Youth for Christ and the Pigeon Rotary
Club. He taught Sunday school
for 30 years at the Salem United
Methodist Church.
Rochelle “Shelley” Crawford,
’06, Morning Foods process engineer
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for the Kellogg Company, Battle
Creek, Michigan, has been promoted
to WKKI Morning
Foods business unit
manager. Crawford
joined Kellogg
after graduation and
in 2010 won the
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award
from MSU’s College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources. She was
also recognized as a member of the
American Society of Agricultural and
Biological Engineers “New Faces of
ASABE” Class of 2011. Crawford is
also a member-at-large of the Institute
of Food Technologists Great Lakes
Section.
Philip Hart, MA ’70, PhD ’74,
founder and chairman of Hart Realty
Advisors was
named “Executive
of the Year” in the
Diversity Category
by Commercial
Property Executive
(CPE). Hart is also managing
partner of Santa Fe Clean Tech
Development Partners, LLC, in
Los Angeles, CA. While a graduate
student at MSU, Hart worked
for MSU’s Center for Urban
Affairs and the Lansing Urban
League.
Donald Burns, ’68, managing
director for Miller Nash LLP,
Portland, OR, was
named 2010 Professional
Services
CEO of the Year
by the Portland
Business Journal.
In 1973, Burns joined Miller
Nash as a litigator and took over as
managing partner in 2007 to lead
the firm’s 118 lawyers. Previously,
he was a special assistant attorney
general to the State of Oregon and
an adviser to the Oregon Dept. of
Justice. Burns is a member of the
American Bar Association, the
Oregon State Bar and the Multnomah
Bar Association.
Stephen Howard,
’71, was elected
chairman of the
Board of Beaumont
Hospitals in Royal
Oak, Michigan.
Howard has been a Beaumont
board member for the past 15 years
and served as system vice chair of
the board for the past four years.
Howard was the founder and president
of the Spearhead Group, an
international group of manufacturing
companies producing robotics
and automation systems for various
industries. He holds the position as
chairman of the Young Presidents’
Organization and Detroit Presidents’
Organization and is a member
of MSU’s Beaumont Tower Society.
Kimberly Eberhardt, ’02, director
of marketing at Hennessey Capital
LLC, Huntington
Woods, has been
named vice president
of marketing and
communications.
Prior to joining
Hennessey Capital in 2007, Kimberly
served as marketing manager for
the Detroit Regional Chamber and
also worked at Doner Advertising.
Kimberly is an active member of the
Public Relations Society of America
and serves on the board of directors
for the Detroit Chamber and the
American Red Cross.
Tamara Colenso Juul, ’91, a manager
with experience in manufacturing,
human resources and
accounting, has been
named executive
director of the Dickinson
Area Community
Foundation
(DACF), Iron Mountain. DACF was
founded in 1995 and oversees a permanent
charitable endowment created by
the community. Juul was very active
during her time at MSU serving on
the Union Activities Board, Zeta Tau
Alpha and as a member of the Senior
Class Council.
John Singerling, ’94, chairman of
the 2011 March of Dimes, South
Carolina, has been
named president of
Palmetto Health,
Columbia, SC.
Singerling will also
lead the design and
construction of a new hospital set to
open in 2014. He was past chair of
the American Heart Association’s
Start! Heart Walk and board member
for the Riverbanks Zoo Society.
He was named “Young Health
Care Executive of the Year” by the
American College of Health Care
and also one of 12 “Up and Comers”
in America in 2006 by Modern
Healthcare.
Colleen Haley, ’89, MLIR ’90,
president of the U.S. OEM
Business Unit of
Yazaki Corporation
of North
America, Canton,
has been honored
by Automotive
News as one of the 100 Leading
Women in the North American
Auto Industry. Previously, Haley
served as president of General
Motors Business Unit, and Ford
Business Unit and commercial
vehicle segment. Haley was
a 2008 Inforum Inner Circle
Honoree and is a member of the
MSU School of Labor and Industrial
Relations Alumni Advisory
Board. She is also a member of the
District Improvement Committee
for Chelsea schools.
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