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’75 Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Michael J. Streit, mediator and arbitrator with the Ahlers & Cooney law firm, received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on May 7.
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Mitchell is following in his father’s footsteps and is in his second year at USD School of Law. Ann Gail (Brown) Meinster was sworn in as a District Court judge in the 1st Judicial District, Golden, Colo., in November and will serve as the presiding juve-
James R. Edwards has been
nile judge for the 1st Judicial
named vice president, gen-
District.
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fall 2012
San Diego Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert J. Trentacosta was named
ing personal injury law since
vice chair of the Judicial
1978 and has a substantial
Council’s Trial Court
interest in the Law Offices of
Presiding Judges Advisory
Larry H. Parker as well as his
Committee for a one-year
own firm, Perona, Langer,
term effective February 1.
in Long Beach, Calif. His son
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Ron Beck has been practic-
Beck, Serbin and Mendoza
The law firm of Balestreri Pendleton & Potocki has changed its name to Balestreri Potocki & Holmes, a Law Corporation. Thomas Balestreri is a founding member of Balestreri Potocki & Holmes.
‘83 Robert Francavilla, a partner with the law offices of Casey
eral counsel and corporate secretary for Cubic Corp.
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Gerry, Schenk, Francavilla, Blatt and Penfield LLC, has been elected to the board of directors of HeadNorth, a Del Mar-based nonprofit dedicated to helping spinal cord injury survivors. Mike Bowler had his story ”Dump Truck” read on National Public Radio’s “Valley Writers Read.” The
