Class Notes Category: Accolades
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Jennifer Axel ’02
Jennifer Axel ’02, an attorney with Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli in the firm’s Phoenix office, has been selected for inclusion in 2019 Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Stars in the category of business litigation. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.…
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Ellia Thompson ’00
Ervin Cohen & Jessup Partner Ellia Thompson, chair of the firm’s land use practice, is again an honoree in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual special supplement honoring 75 of the city’s most influential women attorneys. Thompson majored in English at UCLA, obtained her J.D. from George Washington University Law School, and is “dedicated to…
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Jenny Hofmeister ’08
Jenny Hofmeister ’08 has been announced as one of the five winners of the 2019 BioOne Ambassador Award, an accolade created to spotlight rising scholars in their field. BioOne invited qualified nominees to submit a 250-word, plain-language summary explaining the impact of their specialized work on the public at large. This year’s winners hail from…
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Flossie Wong-Staal ’68, Ph.D. ’72
Flossie Wong-Staal ’68, Ph.D. ’72, was one of ten influential women inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in September, 2019. Read the press release here. Read Dr. Wong-Stall’s Bruin Story here.
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Kathryn Oehlschlager ’99
Downey Brand Partner Kathryn Oehlschlager ’99 was recently named a 2019 Top Lawyer by Sacramento Magazine. Top Lawyers are nominated and voted on by licensed attorneys throughout the region based on their talent and expertise in one or more of over 50 legal disciplines. Attorneys who received the highest number of votes in each discipline…
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Sherry Hartel Haus ’97
Downey Brand Partner and General Counsel Sherry Hartel Haus ’97 was named a 2019 Top Lawyer by Sacramento Magazine. Top Lawyers are nominated and voted on by licensed attorneys throughout the region based on their talent and expertise in one or more of over 50 legal disciplines. Attorneys who received the highest number of votes…
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Rachel Pacheco ’08
Rachel Pacheco ’08 was awarded the Thomas NextGen For Industry Award, which recognizes the best and brightest millennials who drive the manufacturing and industrial sectors forward. She was nominated by the leadership team, who were “thrilled that her strong communication and leaderships skills, integral to the success of world’s first large scale fermentation process for…
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Kristin Rhodes ’91, M.S.N. ’99
Life member Kristin Rhodes ’91, M.S.N. ’99, was named the recipient of the 2019 Nurse Practitioner of Distinction Award during the California Association for Nurse Practitioners’ recent 42nd Annual Educational Conference. Rhodes received her bachelor’s degree in nursing.
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Linda Civitello, M.A. ’01, Ph.D. ’17
“Baking Powder Wars,” by Linda Civitello, M.A. ’01, Ph.D. ’17, was recognized as the one of “The Ten Best Books about Food of 2017” by Smithsonian.com. Civitello earned both her M.A. and her Ph.D. in history.
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Travis Bell, J.D. ’17
Travis Bell, J.D. ’17, has received the first Ambassador Award ever presented by Gideon’s Promise. The award goes to a person who supports the Gideon’s Promise mission to raise the standard of indigent defense by building a movement of public defenders. Bell, who was a student in UCLA Law’s David J. Epstein Program in Public…