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Nicole Benjamin of Adler Pollock & Sheehan, P.C. in Rhode Island has been appointed to the Rhode Island Council of The New England Legal Foundation, the leading non-profit public interest law firm in the region dedicated to addressing policy and constitutional concerns related to free enterprise. Benjamin also has been named president-elect of the Rhode Island Bar Association. Her term runs from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.

In honor of his wife Pat, who recently passed away, John A. Tarantino of Adler Pollock & Sheehan, P.C. in Rhode Island will establish The Patrice A. Tarantino Memorial Scholarship to be administered by the Rhode Island Bar Foundation using the same criteria as the Thomas F. Black, Jr. Memorial Scholarship. The Thomas F. Black, Jr. Memorial Scholarship was established in 1989 to support and foster high legal practice standards by assisting Rhode Island residents who show promise that they will become outstanding lawyers and who need financial assistance to study law. The Patrice A. Tarantino Memorial Scholarship will start awarding a $25,000 scholarship each year for four successive years (June 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027) for a total of $100,000.

“Pat worked as a teacher to provide us with income while I attended law school,” said Tarantino. “Without her financial contributions, support, sacrifices and love I would not have been able to go to and get through law school. This scholarship will help law students who need financial assistance to one day become outstanding lawyers.”

Baird Holm attorney David P. Kennison graduated from Leadership Omaha “Class 44.” Additionally, Baird Holm Partner Kara Stockdale was admitted to the Omaha Chamber’s Leadership Omaha “Class 45.” The Leadership Omaha participants spend 10 months learning about the challenges and opportunities in the Omaha area with a focus on strengthening our community.

John Langan from Barclay Damon LLP in Syracuse, New York, was recognized at the Onondaga County Bar Association’s (OCBA) 145th Distinguished Lawyer Celebration for his leadership role at Barclay Damon and in the legal community.

Keely E. Duke of Duke Evett PLLC has been appointed to serve as one of seven members on the Idaho Judicial Council. The Council serves the following two functions: recommend to Idaho’s Governor, persons qualified for appointments to vacancies in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and District Courts throughout Idaho; and investigate complaints against any judge in the State of Idaho and members of the Industrial Commission, and in appropriate cases, recommend to the Idaho Supreme Court the removal, discipline, or retirement of a justice, judge, or magistrate judge.

Joseph M. Sullivan, a partner at Davis, Hatley, Haffeman and Tighe, P.C., Great Falls, Montana, has accepted the gavel as president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents (NCBP) for 2022-23. NCBP was founded in 1950 to provide information and training to state and local bar association leaders. Current membership includes 130 state, local and affinity bar organizations and 150 individual members from 53 states and territories.

Rene Mauricio Alva of Mexico member firm EC Rubio and a member of the USALW NETWORK Board of Directors has been appointed by ANADE Colegio, a Mexican corporate counsel association, as its ambassador to the American Bar Association.

Kristina Lawson, managing partner of Hanson Bridgett in San Francisco, has been reappointed to the Medical Board of California (Board) by Governor Gavin Newsom. Lawson was initially appointed to the Board in 2015 by Governor Jerry Brown. The mission of the Board is to protect health care consumers through the proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain allied health care professionals and through the vigorous, objective enforcement of the Medical Practice Act, and to promote access to quality medical care through the Board’s licensing and regulatory functions.

Hanson Bridgett Partner and Labor & Employment Section Co-Leader Alfonso Estrada has been named to The Daily Journal’s Top Labor & Employment attorney list. This annual list recognizes California’s top attorneys who have made significant contributions to their field of practice.

David Casarrubias of Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco has been elected to serve on the UC Hastings Alumni Association Board of Governors. He also has been selected as the chair-elect of the Hispanic National Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (HNBA-YLD). He will serve as chair-elect for the 2022-2023 term and then assume the position of chair for the 2023-2024 term.

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Jones, Skelton & Hochuli partner Justin Ackerman has been named member-at-large on the Arizona State Bar Appellate Practice Executive Council. Ackerman will act as a liaison between the Court of Appeals/Arizona Supreme Court and the State Bar.

Michael Shumway, who recently joined Jones, Skelton & Hochuli in Arizona as an associate attorney in the Transportation trial group, was named the Arizona Prosecuting Attorney’s Advisory Council Appellate Prosecutor of the Year for his work while serving as the Navajo County Attorney’s Office Appellate Section Chief.

Following a successful term as the Arizona Association of Defense Council’s Young Lawyer Division (AADC YLD) president, Jones, Skelton & Hochuli (JSH) partner Kimberly Page passes this important leadership role to JSH associate attorney Anne-Grace Reule for the upcoming year. Page will remain on the AADC YLD Board as past-president, and Reule will also be supported by JSH attorneys Stephanie Baldwin (AADC YLD secretary) and Seraphim Sparrow (AADC YLD community outreach chair).

Klinedinst CEO and President Heather L. Rosing has been appointed to lead the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability.

Colorado Bar Association’s (CBA) Environmental Law Section has selected Dietrich C. Hoefner, a partner in Lewis Roca’s Litigation Practice Group, to serve as vice chair of the 20222023 Environmental Law Section Executive Council. The CBA Environmental Law Section deals with legal and technical aspects of federal, state, and local environmental regulatory programs and related litigation. As vice chair, Hoefner and the executive council will monitor the statues, regulations and court opinions affecting environmental law and policy.

Doug Tumminello, a Lewis Roca commercial litigation lawyer, has been named a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only honorary organization in which members are highly qualified trial lawyers providing guidance and leadership on issues and legislation affecting the American judicial litigation process. Karen Kahn of Modrall Sperling has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). Membership is limited to just one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Kahn concentrates her practice in ERISA and employee benefits law.

Attorney Chad D. Brakhahn of Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC in Iowa has been selected as a Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America (CLSA).

Nick Ellis of Poyner Spruill LLP in North Carolina has been awarded the J. Robert Elster Award for Professional Excellence by the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys.

Jennifer Hillman and Heather Milanese from Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, New York, were elected members of the Estate Planning Council of Nassau County, an affiliate of the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.

Rivkin Radler LLP Partner Alan S. Rutkin was chosen to join the Federation of Defense & Corporation Counsel’s (FDCC’s) Board of Directors. He will serve a one-year term.

Rivkin Radler Managing Partner Evan H. Krinick was named to the Long Island Press Power List. The annual list and corresponding event, now in its 19th year, honors Long Island’s most influential leaders who have the most impact on the lives of those in the region.

Siobhain Minarovich of Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, New York, has joined the boards of directors for Forestdale, Inc. and Community Mainstreaming Associates, Inc. (CMA), where she is also the chair of the Personnel & Compensation Committee. Forestdale provides foster care, preventative care and other services to families in Brooklyn and Queens. CMA provides residential programs, day programs, vocational training and other services to individuals on Long Island with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, the preeminent not-for-profit children’s mental health agency on Long Island, named Michael Schnepper of Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, New York, to its board of directors.

Heather Bailey from SmithAmundsen in Illinois was named one of the winners of the Most Influential Women in Convenience Services Awards. The award recognizes the outstanding women who have made a difference in the convenience service industry and who are shaping the future of the industry.