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1954 J. Gene Balloun was honored as
1981 Hon. Julie Robinson was elected
1988 Grant Burgoyne was re-elected to
Volunteer Philanthropist of the Year by Kansas City’s Nonprofit Connect during its annual philanthropy awards luncheon. Balloun is a retired partner of Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). Robinson is a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
the Idaho Senate. He has served in the Senate since 2014 and served in the Idaho House of Representatives from 2008 to 2014.
1969 Hon. Paul Monty retired after 14
counsel and board secretary at Truman Medical Centers/University Health. Marc Elkins retired as chief compliance officer, chief privacy officer and associate general counsel after 18 years at Cerner Corporation. Casey Halsey retired from JE Dunn Construction Group as EVP and chief legal officer after 38 years.
years in the 12th Judicial District. He was a private practice lawyer for 38 years.
1973 Hon. Mary Beck Briscoe took senior status on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Briscoe received her commission in 1995 and served as chief circuit judge from 2010 to 2015. She will continue hearing cases.
1976 Capt. Dennis Mandsager is serving as a commissioner on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission.
1978 Michael Boman retired from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where he directed the Low Income Tax Clinic. Wint Winter Jr. is now a member of the Kansas Board of Regents.
1980 Tim Whelan retired from TAMKO Building Products. Whelan started with the company in 1992 as assistant general counsel and became executive vice president in 2002. Hon. Michael Powers retired as chief judge of the 8th Judicial District of Kansas. Earlier in 2021, he received an award for judicial excellence from the Kansas District Judges Association.
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1982 Bill Colby retired as general
1983 Hon. Jeffrey Elder was named chief judge of the 2nd Judicial District of Kansas. Myron Frans is senior vice president of finance and operations at the University of Minnesota. He previously served as commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget.
1984 Dan Dutcher retired after 34 years with the NCAA. He had been Division III vice president since January 1996. Celeste Kling was recognized as a 2021 Notable Woman in Law by BizWest of Northern Colorado. Kling is a partner at Wallace & Kling in Fort Collins.
1986 Holly Zane is associate director of Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area for Kansas and Missouri. Zane was previously with the State of Kansas.
1989 Sharon Stolte is team lead of Sandberg Phoenix’s Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights Team.
1990 J.T. Klaus is managing partner of Triplett Woolf Garretson, LLC. Klaus is chair of the Board of Trustees for Newman University, city attorney for the cities of Andover, Hesston and Mulvane, and general counsel for The Kansas Power Pool. Madeleine McDonough was re-elected chair of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. McDonough will begin her second, five-year term as chair in January 2022. Eric Milstead retired in July as legislative services director for the Idaho Legislature. He took on the role in 2014 after serving as a non-partisan staffer for 17 years. Lisa Robertson is the new city attorney for St. Joseph, Missouri. Robertson previously served as city attorney for Topeka and was city attorney for St. Joseph from 1994-2015.
1992 Braxton Copley is now director of utilities for the city of Topeka. Capt. Anne Bloomfield Fischer retired from the U.S. Navy in October as a captain with over 28 years of service. She was stationed in San Diego, Seattle, Naples, Italy, and Washington, D.C.
