Thank you for joining us to celebrate our 2019 honorees! Enjoy these photographs from the event.
Lieutenant General Charles D. Luckey assumed duty as the Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command, in 2016. He was commissioned in the Army in 1977 after graduating from the University of Virginia and separated from active duty in 1982 to attend law school. He returned to active duty in 1985, transferred to the Army Reserve in 1991 and was recalled to active duty in 2008. As a civilian, he is a litigation partner in the firm of Blanco Tackabery & Matamoros P.A., located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Judge Ingrid L. Moll '99 was appointed to the Connecticut Appellate Court in 2018, after four years on the Superior Court bench. She was previously a member of the Hartford law firm Motley Rice LLC and had served as a law clerk for Justice David M. Borden of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She is a past president of the University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association.
Karen DeMeola '96 was named assistant dean for finance, administration and enrollment at UConn Law in 2018. After graduating from UConn Law, she worked as a civil rights lawyer and then returned to UConn Law in 2000 as director of admissions. She was named assistant dean for enrollment and students and in 2015 was elected to the Connecticut Bar Association leadership. She served a one-year term as president of the CBA in 2017-18.
Alfredo Fernández practices in international trade compliance and environmental matters at Shipman & Goodwin LLP. He previously worked as an aerospace engineer for Pratt & Whitney. He has served as president of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association, board secretary of the Compass Youth Collaborative, and member of the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.
Ellen Messali is a staff attorney in the immigration law unit of New Haven Legal Assistance. She previously worked as the staff attorney for the Survivor Services Program at the International Institute of Connecticut, as a civil clerk for Judge Wilson Trombley at Waterbury Superior Court and as a family clerk at Milford Superior Court for Judge Robert Malone.
Erick Russell practices in the Government Finance Department of Pullman & Comley LLC. He previously practiced in the firm's Litigation Department. He has served on Lambda Legal's Connecticut Leadership Team and as co-chair of its Connecticut Cares event, as a member of the Discovering Amistad Board of Directors and as a member of the Connecticut Criminal Justice Commission.
The University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association, Inc. is grateful for the generous support from the following table sponsors:
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP
Connecticut Bar Association
Locke Lord LLP
Pullman & Comley LLC
Robinson & Cole
Ruel Ruel Goings & Britt, LLC
Shipman & Goodwin LLP
United Technologies Corporation
2017 Cheryl A. Chase '78
2016 Kathleen A. Murphy ’87
2015 Andrew J. McDonald '91
2014 James T. Shearin '86
2013 Michael L. Aresco '76
2012 Evan D. Flaschen ’82
2011 James K. Robertson, Jr. ’74
2010 James Sicilian ’81
2009 Christine S. Vertefeuille ’75
2008 Kevin J. O'Connor ’92
2007 Christopher F. Droney ’79
2006 Hope C. Seeley ’89
2005 Alphonso E. Tindall, Jr. ’81
2004 John H. Durham ’75
2003 Thomas J. Groark, Jr. ’65
2002 Dona D. Young ’80
2001 William H. Trachsel ’71
2000 Joette Katz ’77
1999 Daniel F. Flynn ’62
1998 Rosemary E. Giuliano ’78
1997 Richard N. Palmer ’77
1996 Randall Pinkston ’80
1995 Members of the Judiciary
1994 Thomas D. Ritter ’77
1993 Hubert J. Santos ’69
1992 Robert R. Googins ’61
1991 Thomas H. Dooley ’64
1990 Francisco L. Borges ’78
1989 John F. Droney ’73
1988 Dale P. Faulkner ’63
1987 Richard D. Tulisano ’69
1986 James J. Kennelly ’59
1985 Hugh F. Keefe ’67
1984 William R. Davis ’55
1982 James F. English, Jr. ’56
1981 Lewis B. Rome ’57
1980 Robert N. Giaimo ’44
1979 Joseph W. Bogdanski ’40
1978 T. Emmet Clarie ’38
1977 Carmine R. Lavieri ’48
1976 Anthony V. DeMayo ’51
1975 Carl W. Nielsen ’52
1974 Alva P. Loiselle ’43
1973 Louis Shapiro ’32
1972 Douglass B. Wright ’37
1971 Thomas J. Meskill ’56
2017 Steven M. Greenspan '85
2016 Lewis S. Kurlantzick
2015 Martha Stone
2014 Barbara J. Collins '78
2013 Willajeanne F. McLean
2012 Jeremy Paul
2011 Alexandra Davis DiPentima ’79
2010 William R. Breetz
2009 Laurie S. Werling
2009 Alan E. Green ’74
2008 Rafael A. Santiago ’83
2007 Kurt A. Strasser
2006 Nell Jessup Newton
2005 Alfred V. Covello ’60
2004 James D. Bartolini ’75
2003 Donna F. Martinez ’78
2002 Barbara B. Kennelly
2001 Dr. Henry C. Lee
2000 Hugh C. Macgill
1999 John C. Brittain
1998 Robert J. Callahan
1997 David W. Collins ’58
1994 Robert C. Zampano
1993 Ellen Ash Peters
1992 Cornelius J. Scanlon
1991 Peter A. Lane ’67
1990 George Schatzki
1989 Ethel S. Sorokin ’53
1988 Thomas C. McKone ’49
1987 Howard R. Sacks
1986 Phillip I. Blumberg
1975 George F. Sherwood ’66
1974 Aaron Nassau
2017 Eric D. Coleman ’77
2016 Linda J. Kelly ’76
2015 Susan B. Handy '80
2014 Harry D. Weller '79
2013 John A. Danaher, III '80
2012 Pedro E. Segarra ’85
2009 Nora R. Dannehy
2007 Michael R. Sheldon
2006 Joan Glazer Margolis ’78
1990 Thomas P. Smith ’72
1989 Robert I. Berdon ’57
1988 Eunice S. Groark ’65
1987 Anne M. Hamilton ’73 & Rosalind S. Katz ’78
1975 William D. Graham ’49
1974 Robert C. Leuba ’60
2015 Robert M. Langer '73
2012 The Honorable Ellen Ash Peters
2010 Anthony V. DeMayo ’51
2008 William F. Gallagher ’63
2004 Ralph Gregory Elliot
1990 William B. Rush ’59
1989 Wesley W. Horton ’70
1988 William S. Zeman ’41
1987 Robert W. Fiondella ’68
1975 William R. Davis ’55
1974 George F. Muir ’39
