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Two Grads Win
Outstanding Young
Alumni Awards
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Chaves-Taylor
wo tireless members of the Law
Alumni Council Executive
Committee—Carter Andersen
(JD 98) with the Tampa firm of Bush
Ross, and Misty Chaves-Taylor
(JD 95), a partner of the West Palm
Beach office of Wadsworth, King &
Huott—have been presented with
Outstanding Young Alumni Awards
at the University of Florida.
Both alumni actively support the
college through programs such as
Law Firm Giving and Call 10 and
have an extensive array of leadership,
philanthropic and professional or
community-related activities.
Andersen has extensive experience
handling complex civil litigation
matters in both state and federal
courts and in alternative dispute resolution
settings, including arbitration
and mediation, as well as bond
counsel, underwriterʼs counsel and
disclosure counsel in complex public
financings. Taylorʼs practice areas
are insurance defense and medical
malpractice defense.
“Volunteers are a key component
of a successful annual fund program,
and these two individuals exemplify
the impact volunteers can have,”
said UF Law Dean Robert Jerry.
“And beyond their fund-raising
skills, they are just great people and
great Gators.”
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wo new staff members have
joined the Office of Development
& Alumni Affairs to assist with
fund raising and alumni activities for the
Levin College of Law. They are Vince
PremDas, director of development,
and Victoria Rudd, assistant director
of development.
PremDas moves over from the UF
College of Medicine, where he was
director of Alumni Affairs. At the law
school, he will be responsible for major
gifts fund raising and working with the
LCA Board. He earned a bachelorʼs degree
from UF in exercise and sport science.
Rudd comes to UF from the development
operation at the Environmental
Law Institute in Washington D.C. She
earned her B.S. from York College of
Pennsylvania and her graduate degree
from Seton Hall University. Victoria will
be raising money to build the annual fund
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Alumni Affairs Welcomes New Staff Members
Alumni Affairs staff includes (from left), Kristina
Bullard, Jennifer Koepfinger, Andrea Shirey, Kelley
Frohlich, Vince PremDas and Victoria Rudd.
and work with the Law Alumni Council.
In other staff changes, Andrea Shirey
was promoted to director of Annual
Fund & Stewardship Programs, Jennifer
Koepfinger was promoted to program
assistant and Kristina Bullard is the new
senior secretary.
Preparing for Vienna Moot Competition
More than 150 oral competition teams from around the world, including a team of five UF
Law students, took on a breach of contract problem in the recent William Vis International
Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. The students—from left, Christian Waugh,
Jesus Suarez, Sasha Vasquez, Renee Meenach, David Lane—were judged by international
lawyers, judges and commercial arbitrators served as arbitrators. Traveling with the group was
attorney Eddie Palmer (JD 85) with Rivero, Palmer & Mestre in Miami, who has supported the
team financially for several years and serves as an adviser.
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