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ALUMNI NewsDouglas ‘Doug’ Mullen joined the AirTransport Association as a senior attorneyin May 2007.Kristine Maciolek Small and her husband,Kevin, are the proud parents ofGavin Joseph Small, born Jan. 8, 2008.Maciolek Small is currently a practicingin-house attorney for Toll Brothers, Inc.,a residential homebuilder.2000Elizabeth M. Burke has been electedpartner at the Washington, D.C., officeof Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow,Garrett & Dunner, LLP.Joseph L. Felber has been appointedin-house patent counsel at SanDiskCorporation, Kfar Saba, Israel.D. Randall Gilmer has been electedpresident of the Michigan lawyers chapterof the Federalist Society for 2008.Gilmer also has recently been appointedto the board of directors of the Dr.Charles Drew Academy, a public charterschool located in Ecorse, Mich. Gilmercontinues to work at Kupelian Ormond& Magy, P.C., in Southfield, Mich.,focusing on police liability defense.U.S. Air Force Capt. Candace L.Hunstiger was among six members ofthe 11 th Wing at Bolling Air Force Basein Washington, D.C., to receive JudgeAdvocate General Awards for outstandingservice. Hunstiger specificallyreceived the Air Force District ofWashington Outstanding JudgeAdvocate of the Year Award. The annualaward is given to an officer who demonstratesexcellence, initiative and devotionto duty. She is the deputy staff judgeadvocate. Hunstiger was deployed toDiego Garcia in 2005 and to Iraq in2007. She was promoted to major inApril 2008.Francis J. “Tripper” Ortman III wasnamed a partner in the labor andemployment department of SeyfarthShaw. He practices in the firm’s SanFrancisco office. Ortman represents andcounsels both public and private sectoremployers in all aspects of labor andemployment law. His experienceincludes the defense of major wage andhour, discrimination and unfair competitionclass actions, as well as the defenseof employers in a variety of claims arisingout of alleged violations of theCalifornia Labor Code and the FLSA.Steven B. Weinberg has been appointedvice president of legal affairs forKerio Technologies, Inc., a provider ofaward-winning Internet security andmessaging software. Weinberg bringsmore than 15 years of operations andmanagement experience in a large internationalorganization and eight years oflegal experience advising global corporateclients in M&A, transactional,employment and corporate practice.2001Heather Frederick Himes has relocatedto Orlando, Fla., and is practicing inthe real estate section of the firm ofAkerman Senterfitt. Her practice focuseson land use and zoning and greendevelopment. Himes and her husband,Mike, welcomed a second daughter tothe family, and are now the parents ofRiley and Alina.Timothy I. Kelsey was named partnerwith the Charlottesville, Va., law firm ofBoyle, Bain, Reback & Slayton effectiveJan. 2, 2008. He specializes in real estate,estate planning, corporate law, zoningand conservation easements.Capt. Richard ‘Rich’ O’Brien is currentlyserving as an Air Force JudgeAdvocate. He is employed as a litigationattorney at the labor law field supportcenter in Arlington, Va. O’Brien wasdeployed to Baghdad as a detainee operationsattorney during the first half of2007. He is married with an 18-montholdson and a second child on the way.Dana J. Thompson was hired as directorof federal relations to Maryland Gov.Martin O’Malley in April 2007.Thompson and his wife, Shera, had ason, Chace Arthur, on Jan. 5, 2008, inWashington, D.C.2002Hugo J. Alfaro was selected inNovember 2007 to the District ofColumbia Superior Court criminal justiceact panel as a provisional member ofthe United States Panel.Ryan M. F. Baron and Christy MarieLopez, 2002, are the parents of MaxtonMichael Baron, born Oct. 12, 2007. Thecouple was married in October 2007.Baron is a deputy in the county counsel’soffice in his native Orange Countywhere he practices in the areas of landuse and communications law. Lopez isan associate with the city attorney lawfirm of Aleshire & Wynder, LLP whereshe represents cities in the areas of publiclaw, labor and employment, and communicationslaw.Myles J. Edwards joined AccessInternational Advisors LLC, a NewYork City-based $4 billion hedge fund inApril 2007. He is general counsel andchief compliance officer. Edwards overseeslegal and compliance activities inthe British Virgin Islands, CaymanIslands and Guernsey. He monitors theactivities of related entities in theBahamas and London. Edwards isregarded as a noted expert and speakeron international alternative investmentregulatory schemes.Angela M. Pegram has joined the officeof the U.S. attorney for the District ofColumbia, where she works in the misdemeanorunit of the general crimes section.Pegram was the managing editor ofthe Catholic University Law Review.Following graduation, she joined the lawfirm of Jones Day as an associate. In2004, Pegram left the firm to serve as ajudicial law clerk to the Hon. Richard J.Leon, U.S. District Court for theDistrict of Columbia. Since 2005,Pegram had worked as an associate atWilmer, Cutler, Pickering Hale & Dorr,where she represented clients in criminaland civil investigations.Spring–Summer 2008 / C UALAWYER 51