The Board of Directors of The University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association Inc. invites all alumni to the Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at The Aqua Turf Club, 556 Mulberry St., Plantsville, Connecticut.
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Questions? Please contact Alison Monteiro Swain, director of alumni relations, at 860-570-5390 or aswain@foundation.uconn.edu.
Judge Anne C. Dranginis retired in 2006 as an associate judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court after serving more than 21 years on the Superior and Appellate Court benches to become a principal at a Pullman & Comley LLC. She serves in leadership positions of many prestigious organizations and in 2016 was elected president of the Hartford County Bar Association.
Perry Zinn-Rowthorn has served since 2013 as deputy attorney general for the state of Connecticut. He joined the Office of the Attorney General in 1999 as an assistant attorney general and was appointed associate attorney general for litigation in 2009. He previously worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Robert N. Chatigny.
Jon Bauer directs the law school’s Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, which has won grants of asylum or related forms of relief for more than 125 refugees who have fled persecution to seek asylum in the United States since 2002. Professor Bauer, a Yale Law School graduate, has been teaching and supervising students since 1988, when he joined the UConn faculty after four years with the Legal Action Center.
Donald J. Bell is the director of black talent initiative for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He previously served as counsel to ranking members of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, senators Richard Blumenthal and Jon Tester. While working on Capitol Hill, he was a leader in advocating for greater Senate staff diversity.
Walter Menjivar is an assistant attorney general in the Health and Education Division of the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General. He has served as president of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association and on the House of Delegates for the Connecticut Bar Association. He was recently nominated a James W. Cooper fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
Meredith O’Keefe is director of the Career Planning Center at UConn School of Law. She is president of the Connecticut Association of Legal Recruitment Administrators and former secretary of the Connecticut American Council on Education Women’s Network. She practiced law for several years as a litigation associate with Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker in New York and a small litigation firm in Connecticut.
Matthew Ritter has represented the 1st Assembly District in Hartford in the state House of Representatives since 2010, and since January 2017 has served as house majority leader, the second ranking position in that chamber. He previously served for two years as the co-chair of the Public Health Committee. He practices law in the Hartford office of Shipman & Goodwin LLP.
Carlton Fields
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP
Connecticut Bar Association
Day Pitney LLP
Judge Anne C. Dranginis
Keegan Werlin LLP
McCarter & English, LLP
Pullman & Comley LLC
Ruel Ruel Goings & Britt, LLC
Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C.
Shipman & Goodwin LLP
United Technologies Corporation
Wiggin & Dana LLP
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
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
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
