Alumni Notes This section reflects notifications received between May 16, 2019 and December 31, 2019. BOV
denotes membership on the Law School’s Board of Visitors.
Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat ’57, the longest-serving active federal appeals court judge in U.S. history, has moved to senior status on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, where he has served since 1975. Appointed by President Gerald Ford, Judge Tjoflat served as chief judge of the 11th Circuit from 1989 to 1996. Before joining the appellate bench, he served on the state court and U.S. District Court benches in Florida. Over the course of his long judicial career, Judge Tjoflat, a founding member of the Duke Law School Board of Visitors, hired more than 100 Duke Law clerks. He was awarded Duke University’s Distinguished Alumni Award at the 2014 Founder’s Day Convocation by then President Richard Brodhead (pictured at left). BOV d
1967
Bill Constangy has authored a third legal treatise, Noncompete Law (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2019). A retired North Carolina superior court judge living in Charlotte, Bill is an active arbitrator and mediator, serving as a member of employment, commercial, judicial, and large and complex case panels for the American Arbitration Association. A certified N.C. superior court mediator, he is an associate editor of the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Reporter.
1968
Donald Messinger received the Ohio State Bar Foundation’s Ramey Award for Distinguished Community Service on Oct. 4. A partner in Thompson Hine’s corporate transactions and securities practice group
in Cleveland, Don was honored for the volunteer leadership roles he has undertaken with multiple charitable organizations in Northeast Ohio.
treaties, immigration matters, and events related to the World Court. Ron is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Blank Rome. BOV
1969
Joseph McManus has joined Carlton Fields as a shareholder in the firm’s construction practice group in Washington, D.C. He was a partner at McManus & Felsen for more than 25 years and is a past president of the American College of Construction Lawyers.
Sid Boone retired, in March 2019, as counsel at Burr & Forman in Charleston, S.C. Sid represented developers in real estate matters, where his focus included land acquisition of large tracts, annexation, rezoning, development agreements, variances, and special exceptions.
1972
Ron Frank is chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s International and Comparative Law Section, which focuses its efforts on monitoring
John Wester received the North Carolina State Bar’s John B. McMillan Distinguished Service Award in October. The award honors Bar members who have demonstrated exemplary service to the legal profession. At Robinson Bradshaw in Charlotte, where he has spent his entire career, John tries cases and argues appeals in complex civil litigation, prosecuting and defending cases in state and federal courts, including numerous class actions. BOV
1973
Pamela Gann, former dean of Duke Law and former president of Claremont McKenna College, has joined the volunteer board of directors of Cottage Health. She also serves on the board of directors of IES Abroad (a third-party provider of study abroad programs) and the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. She is vice chair of the board of directors for the nonprofit Direct Relief, and is vice chair of the Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees. James Garrison has published The Safecracker (TouchPoint Press, 2019), a legal thriller set in North Carolina that begins in 1980 during the Iran Hostage crisis. His previous novel, QL 4, published in 2017, has won awards for military and literary fiction, including for both categories in the 2019 Independent Book Awards.
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