ALUMNAE NEWS
1 | Kori Ashley, DSHA ’05, was named a judge on the Milwaukee Circuit Court by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on June 8. The 33-year-old will start on the bench on September 11. Ashley is a graduate of DePaul University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. In 2012, she joined the Wisconsin state bar. She worked in criminal defense at Alex Flynn & Associates for three years before joining Legal Action. While at Legal Action, which provides free legal services to low-income people, Ashley worked in the area of victims’ rights, and helped community members expunge their criminal records and tickets which hindered them from employment and/or housing opportunities. As a part of her work, she won a court case that requires the State’s Crime Information Bureau to remove from a person’s background report arrests that do not result in a charge or conviction. These arrests are often used by landlords and employers as reasoning to deny housing or employment. Ashley will replace retiring Judge Dennis Cimpl and face election in 2021.
2 | In collaboration with other Wisconsinites, Marianne Szymanski Hartounian, DSHA ’85, and her daughter Mia Hartounian, DSHA ’22, worked for two years to create, co-write, and pass a bill legalizing children’s lemonade stands. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed the bill into law November 25. The law allows anyone under the age of 18 to run lemonade stands on private property without a permit. 3 | Renata Schlomann, DSHA ’16, a swimmer at UW-Whitewater, made a splash at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships in mid-February. She was named the WIAC Women’s Swimmer of the Meet, and placed first in the 50-yard freestyle, the 100-yard freestyle, the 100-yard backstroke, and two relay competitions. She broke UW-Whitewater’s school record for her three individual events. 4 | Maryjo Strum Bartsch, DSHA ’74, sponsored a school in Guatemala through School of the World, a non-profit with local communities in Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama with the mission of building schools in poor communities. She attended the dedication ceremony for the school she sponsored in 2019.
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