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ALUMNI NewsThree CUA Alumnae Honored as Legal PowerhousesCharlene Barshefsky, 1975, Alice S. Fischer, 1992, and Roberta D. Liebenberg,1975, were named to a list of “The 50 Most Influential Women in America,”published by the National Law Journal in its May 2007 issue. The publicationdescribes the 50 lawyers included on the list as women who have “demonstratedthe power to change the legal landscape, shape public affairs” and“launch industries.”Ambassador Barshefsky, a senior partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Haleand Dorr, is best known as the architect and chief negotiator of the deal thatbrought China into the World Trade Organization, opening that country's economyto the world market. Barshefsky served as U.S. trade representative from1997 to 2001.Fisher, appointed to head the criminal division of the U.S. Department ofJustice in 2005, has been at the center of some of the most dramatic legal casesof the Bush administration. She began her career at the DOJ by overseeinginvestigations of corporate boards and terrorist cells as deputy assistant attorneygeneral from 2001 to 2003.Liebenberg is a partner with Fine Kaplan & Black in Philadelphia. She is amember of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Judiciary, which helps vetaspiring federal judges. She lectures and publishes widely on gender bias lawand served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Committee on Racial andGender Bias in the Justice System.E. Dennis Oakes has joinedCapitalSource Inc. as vice president ofinvestor relations. He will be based inNew York City and will serve as thecompany’s primary investor relationscontact. Oakes joins CapitalSource after14 years at Aetna where he held severalroles of increasing importance, includinghead of investor relations for theFortune 100 company. CapitalSource isa leading commercial lending, investmentand asset management businessfocused on the middle market.Hon. Audrey Wall Scott was appointedadministrative law judge with the SocialSecurity Administration, effectiveOctober 2001. She is based in Memphis,Tenn.1978Eileen J. O’Connor has joinedPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPas a partner in its Washington, D.C.office.1979Robin S. Conrad has been appointedexecutive vice president of the NationalChamber Litigation Center, which is theU.S. Chamber of Commerce’s publicpolicy arm. Conrad joined the center in1983 as environmental counsel and hassince held numerous positions withinthe organization. She has assisted inincreasing the center’s non-labor docket,upping its Supreme Court presence andin managing a growing staff.1980Patrick H. DeLeon addressed graduatesat spring commencement on AlliantInternational University’s San Diegocampus in May 2007.Hon. Jack A. Panella was recently electedto chair of the Judicial Conduct Boardfor the state of Pennsylvania. He is theonly attorney/judge in the state to havebeen elected both chair of the JudicialConduct Board (the investigatory andprosecutorial arm of judicial discipline inPennsylvania) and president judge of theCourt of Judicial Discipline ofPennsylvania.1981Kathleen Hochul Courtney wasappointed as the clerk for Erie County,N.Y., by Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer on April9, 2007.Kathleen H. McGuan returned toReed Smith LLP, rejoining the firm as apartner in its regulatory litigation groupin Washington, D.C.1982Sandra H. Robinsonwas installed asthe first African-American presidentof the Public JusticeFoundation on July17, 2007, at the organization’s26 th AnnualGala held at the FieldMuseum in Chicago. A malpractice attorneyin Washington, D.C., Robinson wasalso recognized with the AmericanAssociation for Justice Women’s CaucusAnnual Award for leadership and mentoringof women lawyers at its annual conventionin Chicago.Valerie J. Stanley is an adjunct professorof animal law with GeorgetownUniversity Law Center and theUniversity of Maryland School of Law.Stanley and her husband, BrookSusman, are the parents of BenjaminAnthony and Kathryn Rebecca.1983Paul M. Gamble was awarded theMeritorious Service Medal for service ascommanding officer of the NavalReserve Fleet Forces Command JAGDetachment 106, Norfolk, Va., inDecember 2006. In May of 2007,Gamble was certified as a general courtmartialjudge after completion of the50 th Military Judges Course at the ArmyJAG School in Charlottesville, Va.Fall–Winter 2007 / C UALAWYER 39