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esponsibility for the company’s domestic
and international mergers and acquisitions
and affords her the opportunity to work with
business leaders and legal counsel throughout
the world. most recently, she led a team of
in-house, domestic and international legal
counsel in the completion of a $319 million
acquisition of a company with locations in
the u.s. and five foreign countries. among
her past honors, she was named as one of st.
louis’ top 25 most influential businesswomen
by the st. louis Business Journal.
J. David Bender ’79 was the recipient of
the exceptional service award. Bender is a
sole practitioner with offices in ft. thomas,
Ky., and his practice includes civil litigation,
corporate, domestic, estate, probate and
criminal law. over many years, he has devoted
countless hours in service to chase, nKu, the
bar and the community, including service as
president or board member for the northern
Kentucky Bar association, children’s law
center, chase alumni association, nKu
Dean Honabach delivers welcoming remarks.
Alumni association president Steve Schuh
’78 presents immediate-past-president Tony
Frohlich ’80 with a commemorative print.
alumni association, nKu foundation, norse
athletic club, villa madonna academy and
many other organizations. he was recently
chosen to be included in a soon-to-bepublished
book, Lessons in Entrepreneurship,
by nKu’s fifth third Bank entrepreneurship
institute.
Paige Leigh Ellerman ’99 was the
recipient of the outstanding recent
graduate award. ellerman is a partner in
the bankruptcy, business restructuring
and creditor rights practice group at taft,
stettinius & hollister. Board certified in
business bankruptcy law by the american
Board of certification, she has been named a
Cincinnati Magazine “super lawyers rising
star” each year since 2005. she also devotes
a significant amount of time to the legal
profession and community, including service
as chair of the cincinnati Bar association’s
young lawyer section, board member of the
cincinnati Bar association and cincinnati
Bar foundation, past president of the chase
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alumni association, chapter treasurer of
the federal Bar association, member of the
st. elizabeth medical center foundation,
and several other charitable and nonprofit
organizations.
the luncheon sponsors were the
lawrence firm and taft, stettinius & hollister.
the table sponsors were adams, stepner,
woltermann & dusing; arnzen, wentz,
molloy, laber & storm; Busald, funk &
Zevely; cors & Bassett; the farrish law firm;
freund, freeze & arnold; frost Brown todd;
mark modlin, inc.; ralph p. ginocchio ’77;
greenebaum, doll & mcdonald; Keating,
muething & Klekamp; lerner, sampson &
rothfuss; edward J. mctigue ’78; o’hara,
ruberg, taylor, sloan & sergent; parry,
deering, futscher & sparks; reminger
co. lpa; the sanders law firm; santen
& hughes; schachter & hendy; schuh
& goldberg; sutton rankin law; turner
construction company; wood & lamping;
and Ziegler & schneider.
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