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ALUMNI NewsMaryland’s 1 st district seat in Congressin the election of 2008.Jeannine Rustad has been hired as anassociate planner for Portland-basedWinterbrook Planning. Rustad has 12years of land-use planning, zoning andadvocacy experience at the state and locallevels.1995Charles M. Clapton is the minority staffdirector of the Health Subcommittee forthe House Ways and Means Committee.David A. Fitzgerald has joined the firmSchiff Hardin LLP as a partner. Hefocuses his practice on representing electricutility clients with respect to transactional,regulatory, litigation and legislativematters. Fitzgerald resides in Seattle.Todd H. Gazda became the principal atGateway Middle School in Springfield,Mass., during the summer of 2007.Heather Levin Greiner gave birthto a son, Jackson Scott Greiner, onFeb. 10, 2007.Harold H. Kim was nominated byPresident George W. Bush to be specialassistant to the president for legislativeaffairs. The nomination was announcedon July 19, 2007. Kim previously servedas deputy chief counsel of the Committeeon the Judiciary of the United StatesSenate.Michael C. McGarrity and his wife,Faith, 1993, have relocated back toVirginia. McGarrity was serving asFBI deputy on-scene commander inAfghanistan in support of OperationEnduring Freedom. The couple hastwo children.Erin M. Vernerishas joined Faegre &Benson LLP asa staff attorney inthe firm’s litigationpractice. She isbased in thefirm’s Minneapolisheadquarters. Verneris has extensiveexperience representing clients in a widerange of pre-litigation and litigation mattersarising from commercial andemployment disputes. She concentratesher practice in the defense of mass tortand product liability cases, with a focuson the pharmaceutical industry.1996Uyen Thuy Dinh was appointed seniordirector for government affairs forGeoEye. Headquartered in Dulles, Va.,the company is a leading producer ofsatellite, aerial and geospatial information.William D. Duhnke is the minoritystaff director for the Senate Banking,Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.Kathleen M. Krygier Dunn an associatewith Knott & Knott and serves astreasurer of the Bridgeport, Conn., barassociation. She and her husband, Kevin,reside in Fairfield and are the parents ofRyan Matthew Dunn, born Jan. 4, 2006.Toni Gilbert Haddix and her husband,Chase, are delighted to announce thebirth of their second daughter, ElizabethBarnes Haddix, born July 7, 2006. Shejoins her big sister, Sarah Barnes Haddix,who is 3. Haddix is currently in-housecounsel for Sprint Nextel Corp. Thefamily resides in Cary, N.C.Lakon Holloway was appointed vicepresident and general counsel to CrownEurope, effective Sept. 1, 2007. Locatedin St. Ouen, France, Holloway has practicedin Europe since 2000. She joinedCrown Europe from Dechert London in2004 as senior legal counsel.1997Kevin J. Campion has been elected topartnership in the Washington, D.C.,office of Sidley Austin LLP. His promotionwas announced in late July.Campion, 34, is a partner in the securitiesand futures regulatory practice. Headvises an array of financial servicesfirms on a broad variety of regulatory,enforcement, compliance and transactionmatters. He also assists clients in thedefense of SEC, NASD, NYSE and stateenforcement actions and investigations,as well as securities law class actions.Robert W. Dean has joined Hinshaw &Culbertson LLP in the firm’s Appleton,Wis., office. He practices insurancedefense, general liability and medicalmalpractice. Dean’s wife, Susan, justcompleted her training as a child andadolescent psychiatrist and now practicesin DePere, Wis.Michael J. Francesconi has beenappointed vice president of public affairsand strategic communications for UPSairlines. He and his wife, Trish, are theparents of three boys and reside inLouisville, Ky.Michael M. Gallagher and wifeStephanie announce the birth of MaisieRose on Jan. 30. They live in MillerPlace, N.Y.CDR Sean P. Henseler, JAGC, USN,is the author of an op-ed, “Pushing forRule of Law Crucial for Iraq,” publishedin the Providence Journal on April 22,2007. Henseler is an instructor at theNaval War College and recently servedas chief of detention, judicial and legalpolicy on the Multi-National ForcesIraq Legal Staff.Major Eugene “Gene” Kim is currentlydeployed in support of OperationIraqi Freedom. Kim is assigned to theMulti-National Security TransitionCommand - Iraq in Baghdad, and servesas the chief of the contract and fiscal lawdivision for the Office of the Staff JudgeAdvocate. Prior to deploying to Iraq,Kim earned an LL.M. degree in militarylaw (with a specialty in contract and fiscallaw) from the Judge AdvocateGeneral’s School, U.S. Army, inCharlottesville, Va. Kim is scheduled todeploy from Iraq in June of 2008.Scott M. Perry is a member of Bruce J.Klores & Associates in Washington,D.C. Firm founder Bruce J. Klores isalso a CUA law alumnus, 1981. DuringFall–Winter 2007 / C UALAWYER 43