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Winter 2003 - Class Notes - Graduate



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Graduate

71Robert S. Hale M.S. (applied math) , M.S. (engineering) '79 is retired, and living in Carlsbad, Calif., near the beach. He is a docent at the Museum of Making Music, and has performed more than 1,000 hours of volunteer service.
75Stephen A. Scott J.D. has been named a partner at Realty Law in San Jose. He previously was a partner at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley.
76Roger Hartsell J.D. practices law in San Jose, and is now also licensed to practice law in Arizona. Carole Runyan Price J.D. has retired from the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Penn., and is enjoying life in Rio Rancho, N.M.
77Michael P. Downey MBA has been appointed to the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of First Consulting Group. He is a private investor and executive consultant. Currently he is chairman of the board of directors of Artisoft, Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., and director and chair of the audit committee of Emulex Corp., based in Costa Mesa, Calif.
78Mario Cordero J.D. has been appointed to the Port of Long Beach's Harbor Commission. Mario represents employers in workers compensation cases for the firm of Adelson, Testo & Brundo. He also teaches political science part-time at Long Beach City College. He and his wife, Gloria, have two children, Celine, 27, and Mario, 24.
79Ross Nadel J.D. has been named chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for Northern California. The Criminal Division is responsible for the prosecution of all federal criminal cases in the region. Ross is an expert in prosecuting computer and intellectual property crimes. Previously, he was the first chief of the U.S. Attorney's Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit.
84Joseph Smith J.D. has joined Cepheid as vice president and general counsel in Sunnyvale. He has more than 30 years of legal and business experience. Most recently, he was senior vice president, business and development, at Applied Biosystems Group of Applera Corporation.
86Judy Bruner MBA, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Palm, Inc., has joined Ciphergen's board of directors and has also assumed the role of chairman of Ciphergen's Audit Committee. She has been CFO of Palm since Sept. 1999. From 1988 to 1999, she served in a variety of financial positions at 3Com Corporation. She also serves on the board of directors of SanDisk Corporation.
87Jackson Hu MBA has been named head of UMC's design support division. UMC is a global semiconductor foundry. He co-founded IC Ensemble, a fables IC company that focuses on audio controller products, and also cofounded Verticom, a company that developed PC graphics cards.
88Nancy Geenen J.D. is the managing partner of the San Francisco and Sacramento offices of Foley & Lardner. She has extensive trial and arbitration experience in cases involving general commercial litigation, intellectual property, unfair competition and creditors rights. Susan Mayer J.D. is an adjunct professor in and senior fellow of SCU School of Law. In April she was appointed director of human resources and in-house counsel of the Diocese of Monterey.
89Tom Quan MBA has joined Applied Wave Research, Inc. as vice president of marketing. He has over 20 years of experience in technical and marketing roles in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industries. Edwin R. Stafford MBA received the Bill E. Robbins University Professor of the Year award and the Eldon Jay Gardner Teaching Award at Utah State University in Logan. He is an associate professor of marketing and has been recognized as the Business Professor of the Year three times since 1997. His research focuses on multi-sector collaboration for the diffusion of cleaner technologies. He is currently using a sabbatical to assist the Utah Energy Office in developing a road map for jumpstarting renewable energy markets in the state. He and his wife, Betty, have two daughters, Victoria, 4, and Haley, 1.
90Dan Teuthorn M.S. has been promoted to vice president of engineering for Endwave Corporation, a Sunnyvale-based maker of broadband components and subsystems for wireless communications. He has been with the company since 1994.
91Kathryn Curry J.D. and Terry Anastassiou J.D. were named partners at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn and Bentley. Kathryn specializes in complex civil litigation, bad faith insurance litigation, professional negligence and ERISA law from the firm's Redwood City office. Terry has an appellate practice and also focuses on civil rights, partnership dissolution, and insurance, employment and intellectual property law from the firm's San Francisco office. Raana Haghighat Kashani J.D. married Gabriel Gregg on March 30 at the Montecito Country Club. Raana has a private law practice in San Jose. Gabriel is an attorney with Latham & Watkins in San Francisco. The couple lives in San Francisco. Merrilee C. Hague J.D. married Andrew S. Miller on August 9. Merrilee practices civil defense litigation in San Francisco, and Andrew is a medical malpractice defense attorney in Danville. The couple lives in Walnut Creek with Andrew's three children, Natalie, 9, Joey, 7, and Troy, 5. The Rev. Debra L. Low- Skinner M.S. has been named the Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Garden City, N.Y. Previously, she had been the Priest-in-Charge of St. Martin's Episcopal Church, in New Bedford, Mass.
95Marcos Kropf J.D. has joined Palmer Kazanjian Holden in Sacramento. His practice focuses on employment rights, civil rights, labor and business issues. Erin Kvistad J.D. has joined Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel as of counsel in its business and transaction group. She works in the firm's Pleasanton office. She was previously an associate for McNichols, Randick, O'Dea & Tooliatos in Pleasanton. Dean Partlow M.A., has been appointed assistant headmaster of the Parker School, a college preparatory day school in Hawaii. Kaden Reece J.D. joined Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy in the firm's Sacramento office. She previously worked at Trainor Robinson.
96Ernest Malaspina J.D. has been elevated to shareholder at Hopkins & Carley in San Jose. Amanda Groves J.D. has been named a non-equity partner in the East Palo office of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich.
97Drew Greenberg J.D. has joined the writing staff of the hit television series "Smallville." His previous writing credits include episodes of "Queer as Folk,""Firefly," and two years on the writing staff of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
98Antonio Fimbres J.D. is an attorney with the Riverside County district attorney's office in Indio. He was recently honored for his work successfully prosecuting every case brought by the Coachella Valley Street Racing Task Force, which was created to curb street racing.
99Deborah Johnson M.A. has been appointed a director of the Kitty Petty ADD/LD Institute of Palo Alto. The institute addresses the needs of those with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders and learning difference. Johnson tutors middle school and high school students, specializing in students with learning differences. Duc Le J.D. has joined the Los Angeles office of Haight, Brown & Bonesteel. He works in the firm's toxic tort and health sciences group.
00Stephen Youtsey J.D. has joined the litigation practice group at Townsend and Townsend and Crew. Nilofer Merchant MBA and Curt Beckmann MBA were married Nov. 9, 2002, in Yosemite. Among those attending were Professor Andre Delbecq, Katie Keating '85, Kristi Anderson '85 and Lauralee Sorenson '82. Their son, Andrew Mandela Beckmann,was born on August 7. The family lives in Los Gatos. Curt is the director of ASICs at Brocade Communication, and Nilofer is the founder and principal consultant of Rubicon Consulting, a go-to market strategy firm serving high tech companies. Jill Duerig J.D. has been appointed general manager of the Scotts Valley Water District. She had practiced environmental law at Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean in Oakland before beginning her new job, and was a division engineer for 12 years with the Alameda County Water District.
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