Class Notes
1973
Steven G. Cracraft, an attorney at the firm of Bingham McHale, was inducted as a Fellow into the Litigation Counsel of America during its recent conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1976
Bruce A. Smith has joined the firm of Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald and Hahn, LLP as a partner. He divides his time practicing law in Vincennes and in Evansville. He is a board certified specialist in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification.
1980
W. Tobin McClamroch was re-elected as Bingham McHale's managing partner and as a member of the firm's management committee. He is a senior government and corporate lawyer who has served the firm as the managing partner since 2004. He is a former Parliamentarian to the Indiana House of Representatives and majority leader in the Indianapolis City-County Council.
1991
Jan Keefer was elected to the board of directors of the Indiana Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Keefer is a partner in Bingham McHale's private client services group.
1992
Janet Halline Nelson has been elected a partner in the Litigation Group of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP. She focuses her practice in toxic tort, personal injury and general business litigation.
1995
Trevor Carter, a partner at Baker & Daniels LLP, recently published an article in Aspatore Books' Inside the Minds series, which provides readers with business guidance from C-Level executives throughout the United States. Carter, who practices in patent litigation, recently published "Focus Your Patent Cases Through Jury Research" in Inside the Minds: Patent Enforcement Best Practices. He co-authored the article with Dr. Don Nichols, a jury and focus group consultant.
Keith J. Swedo was elected a director of Sommer Barnard PC. He is a registered patent attorney and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in all areas of intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
1996
Thomas A. Hardin, partner with the law firm of Shine and Hardin, LLP, was elected president of the Allen County Bar Association for the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
1997
Gretchen K. Gutman was elected a director of Sommer Barnard PC. She is a member of the firm's Government Services Practice Group and focuses her practice on local, state and federal government issues.
J. Wesley Simms, III was selected as the Executive Director of the Timmy Foundation, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen international community-based healthcare partners to provide proper and sustainable healthcare to the poor of the developing world. Simms most recently served as Director of Member Services and Communications for the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance. He serves on the boards of the Friends of Carmel Clay Public Library and Lutheran Child and Family Services. He is also a gubernatorial appointed commissioner of the Indiana Commission on Community Service and Volunteerism and a mayoral appointee to the Community Action of Greater Indianapolis board of directors.
1999
Adam F. Cox has become a partner at the firm of Baker & Daniels LLP. He practices from the firm's Fort Wayne office as a member of the intellectual property group. He joined the firm in 1999.
2000
Amy L. Wright was elected a director of Sommer Barnard PC. She is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property and Business Practice Groups. Her primary focus is on trademark, copyright and right of publicity law, as well as managing global IP portfolios.
2001
Allyson R. Breeden has become a partner at Ziemer, Stayman, Weitzel & Shoulders, LLP. She practices in the firm's Litigation Group with an emphasis in the areas of labor & employment, school law, trust and estates, real estate and bankruptcy & creditors' rights. She is a member of the Indiana State and Evansville Bar Associations and the proud mother of two daughters, Kate and Caroline.
Katherine A. Harmon, a lawyer with the firm of Cohen & Malad, LLP, has become a Certified Family Law Specialist. The certification process is sanctioned by the Indiana State Bar Association's Family and Juvenile Law Section and administered by the Family Law Administrative Board.
Kena Hollingsworth has been appointed to the board of People's Burn Foundation. She has also been named a 2007 Indianapolis Colts "Community Quarterback" for her outstanding volunteer efforts.
She received a BV(registered trade mark) Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell in recognition of her legal skills and professional ethics. Hollingsworth was accepted as a participant in the Indianapolis Bar Association Bar Leader Series V. She was appointed to the Board of the FBI Citizens’ Academy. She is a founding partner of Hollingsworth Jocham & Zivitz, LLC and a 2006 graduate of the FBI Citizens’ Academy. Hollingsworth also appeared on Fox Morning News on April 16, 2007 in their Education Matters segment to address the issues of parents engaged in the divorce process and what relevant information parents should share with their children’s schools. She spoke at the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Top 10 Litigation Practice Tips for Young Lawyers. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association and is currently serving on the Indianapolis Bar Association’s task force to create a family law resource manual for family law practitioners. Hollingsworth is also a member of the Women in Law Division of the Indianapolis Bar Association, the National Association of Women Lawyers and the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis Alumni Association. She has spoken on topics of interest in the area of family law for the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Heartland Pro Bono Council. Hollingsworth is a volunteer for the "Ask a Lawyer" Program and Indianapolis’ Dress for Success Program.
2002
Whitney L. Mosby was installed as chair of the Young Lawyer Division of the Indianapolis Bar Association and has received the Young Lawyer of the Year award from the IBA as well. She is an associate in the Indianapolis firm of Bingham McHale, LLP, concentrating her practice in bankruptcy and creditors' rights. She is an active member of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and the Commercial & Bankruptcy Law Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association. A 2005 graduate of the IBA Bar Leader Series, she is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Lukemia & Lumphoma Society.
2003
Jonathan Bryant has joined the firm of Sommer Barnard PC as an associate. He is a member of the Business Group and practices in the firm's downtown Indianapolis office. Prior to joining Sommer Barnard Bryant served as the General Counsel for the City of Indianapolis' Department of Waterworks through the Office of Corporation Counsel. Bryant is on the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the Indianapolis Bar Association. He is also Chair-Elect of the Water, Sewer Division of the Utility Law Section of the Indiana State Bar Association.
2006
Amy K. Cornell was recently hired by Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate. Cornell practices in health and life sciences from the Indianapolis 96th Street office.
David A. Root has joined Bingham McHale LLP as an associate in the firm's business advisory department. He received his LL.M. in European Law in 2007 from the University of Edinburgh Law School.
2007
Marcelo S. Copat was recently hired by Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate. He practices in intellectual property from the Indianapolis downtown office. Prior to law school, Copat was the director of intellectual property and business strategy for a multinational corporation and held various management positions in international business, technology and manufacturing.
John O. Gaidoo was recently hired by Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate. He practices in labor and employment from the downtown Indianapolis office. Before receiving his law degree he worked as a federally contracted engineer and an avionics technician.
Amy L. Gilliatt has joined Bingham McHale LLP as an associate in the firm's business advisory department.
Teresa A. Griffin was recently hired by Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate. She practices in business litigation with a concentration in family law at the downtown Indianapolis office.
Guna Kirhnere is an associate in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and a member of the firm's Litigation Department. He is admitted to practice in the state of Indiana and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. She is a member of the Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar Associations, American Bar Association, and the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.
Andrew J. Kossack is an associate in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where he is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. He is an active member of Butler University's Young Alumni board of directors and Traders Point Christian Church. He is admitted to practice law in the state of Indiana and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.
Briana L. Kovac has joined Bingham McHale LLP as an associate in the firm's business litigation department.
Heather E. Moore was recently hired by Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate. She practices in nonprofit law at the downtown Indianapolis office.
Andrew J. Namenye is an associate in the Business Department in Barnes & Thornburg LLP's Elkhart, Indiana office. He is admitted to practice in the State of Indiana as well as the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. He is also a member of the Indiana Bar Association and the Elkhart City Bar Association.
Eric T. Thieme was recently hired by Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate. He practices in health and life sciences at the 96th Street office in Indianapolis.
Brandt R. Voight has joined Bingham McHale LLP as an associate in the firm's business advisory department.
In Memoriam
Jane Kelso, '53
Jane Kelso passed away on January 12, 2007. She was the first female sports editor of her high school's newspaper in Indianapolis, and then was President of the Independent Women's Association at the University of Illinois, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1949. At a time when women were virtually unrepresented in the legal profession, she earned her J.D. from the law school (1953), graduating at the top of her class. A life devoted to education, Jane taught 2nd and 7th grades, as well as Science, at Orchard Country Day School in Indianapolis, from 1964 to 1978. During this time, she collaborated with Dr. B.F. Skinner of Harvard University to prepare teacher materials as part of his handwriting skills program for young children. After moving to Sacramento, Jane served as Dean of Students and Director of Admissions at Pacific McGeorge from 1982 until 2001. In that role, she was an academic counselor to thousands of Pacific McGeorge students. Mrs. Kelso took a leadership role in many national legal organizations. She was associate director for a research study of part-time legal education for the Association of American Law Schools and director of a federal grant project to develop computer instructional materials related to legal problems of the elderly. From 1981 to 1983, she served as a consultant to the California Committee of Bar Examiners on performance testing. In the late 1990s, she was a member of the Students Services Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education. She is survived by her husband, Charles Kelso, who was a professor at the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis from 1951 to 1978.
Rachel McGeever, ‘84
Rachel McGeever passed away on Wednesday Jan 17, 2007 in Indianapolis. She was born Dec. 27, 1940 in Pittsburgh, PA and graduated from Mount Mercy Academy, a Pittsburgh girls' high school operated by the Sisters of Mercy. McGeever joined that religious order in 1958 and received her B.A. at Carlow College. She subsequently taught at Cathedral High School in Pittsburgh, and later at Conestoga High School near Philadelphia. Leaving religious life in 1969, she continued her graduate studies in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, where she and Patrick McGeever met, and were married in 1970. They moved to Indianapolis in 1971, where they raised three children. Rachel graduated from the law school in 1984, and subsequently held positions at the Indiana General Assembly's Legislative Services Agency, the Indiana Bar Foundation, the Indiana Ethics Commission and the Family and Social Services Agency. She served as General Counsel of FSSA for seven years, and was made a Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Joe Kernan.
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