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osa Kwon Easton ’94, the bestselling author of White Mulberry, has authored a new book, Red Seal, out in October. It is a sweeping and emotionally powerful historical novel about a Korean mother and son navigating war, displacement, and identity across decades and borders.
Richard Glovsky ’72
Glovsky joined Boston’s Baker Center for Children and Families as general counsel. He has represented and advised the center for more than two decades.
Frank Crowley ’73
Crowley retired after a legal career spanning 50 years, mostly in Montana. After Holy Cross and BC Law, he started his career in Boston with lawyer/writer George V. Higgins. Crowley moved to Montana in 1977 and earned a MS Degree in Environmental Studies and then served 10 years as chief legal counsel for the Montana Department of Health and Environmental Sciences. He implemented air and water quality statutes and played a pivotal role in matters under the Federal Superfund law especially regarding historic mining and smelting sites in Montana. His last 35 years were in private practice in Helena, where his practice areas were water law, environmental, conservation, administrative, legislative practice, and estate planning.
John Hanify ’74
Hanify has joined Signature Resolution following a career representing businesses through their most demanding conflicts, first as co-founder of Hanify & King, which he built into a prominent 40-lawyer Boston firm, and later as head of Jones Day’s Boston litigation practice. He is also an adjunct professor at BC Law.
Robert M. Steeg ’78
Managing partner of Steeg Law Firm in New Orleans, Steeg was included in Best Lawyers 2027 for Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Corporate Law, and Real Estate Law.
Thomas Barnico ’80
Barnico published the article “All politics is local—even the Declaration of Independence” in the Commonwealth Beacon. He is also an adjunct professor at BC Law.
Kenneth M. Bello ’81
Bello, of Barclay Damon LLP, has been selected to the 2026 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list, recognizing him as one of the top lawyers within the state. No more than 5 percent of lawyers in Massachusetts receive this honor.
Charles J. Greaves ’81
Author of a number of novels, Greaves has now written a behind-the-scenes look at one of the classic comedies of American cinema, Blazing Saddles. Entitled Reel West: Blazing Saddles, the book is due in February 2027 from the University of New Mexico Press/Simon & Schuster.
Paul J. Ayoub ’82
Ayoub was recently named to Boston Magazine’s list of the 150 Most Influential Bostonians and inducted into the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Academy of Distinguished Bostonians, one of the region’s highest civic and business honors. He is a partner and chair of Nutter, where he represents a broad range of businesses, as well as commercial real estate developers, owners, and lenders, regionally and nationally.
Michael J. Wilson ’84
Wilson has authored Wolverine Diamonds: A Life in the Year of Michigan Baseball, a book he wrote while spending a year embedded with the University of Michigan baseball program.
Mathew Rosengart ’87
Rosengart was featured in a Substack interview with David Lat regarding his career, highlighting his time as a federal prosecutor and his current work representing celebrities, including Britney Spears, and Fortune-500 companies.
Rev. William Mathis ’89
Mathis recently published an article, “Springs of Life-Giving Water,” in Black Theology: An International Journal. The article examines the relationship between faith and public life and the Black Church’s role in the pursuit of justice and communal resilience.
Luke T. Cadigan ’92
Cadigan received the Leadership in Wellbeing Excellence Award—Private Sector at the Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers’ James A. Brink Annual Dinner. The award recognizes members of the Massachusetts legal community who have shown commitment to the mental health, employee wellbeing, and a healthy workplace culture in their organizations. He has served as the Partner-in-Charge and Head of Business Litigation at Cooley LLP for 10 years.
Hon. Donald Cannava ’93
Cannava was re-elected for another six-year term as a judge in Miami-Dade County’s Domestic Violence Division. He has served in this capacity for 15 years.
Jack Read ’93
Read has a new position as executive vice president, global controller, and chief accounting officer at State Street Corporation.
Megan N. Gates ’94
Gates has been recognized in Mass Lawyers Weekly’s Top Women of Law, recognizing outstanding women in law for their achievements, leadership, and commitment. She is part of the Circle of Excellence, a group of women who have been previously honored but continue to show exceptional work in the legal field.
Robert Geckle Jr. ’96
Geckle has a new position as chief executive officer of Thales North America in Arlington, VA.
Hon. Gil Cabrera ’97
Judge Cabrera has been appointed a US magistrate judge for the Southern District of California.
Nicole “Kinney” Barrasso ’98
Barrasso has established her own law firm, Fleet Law, PC. It handles trial and appellate-level practice regarding family and divorce cases in Eastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the islands.
Louis Lehot ’00
Lehot is a corporate partner at Foley & Lardner in Silicon Valley, advising technology companies from formation and venture financing through M&A and the public markets. Chambers USA has recognized him every year since he joined Foley in 2021. He also serves on NACD Northern California’s Leadership Advisory Council and has twice taught at Stanford Directors’ College. His achievements were shaped in part by the 2019 founding of his own Silicon Valley boutique without an established platform or inherited book of business. The experience gave him an owner’s perspective that continues to influence how he advises founders, boards, and investors.
Evan Shenkman ’01
Shenkman has joined Baretz+Brunelle as a partner. He will advise law firms, legal technology companies, and corporate law departments on utilizing technological innovations and artificial intelligence. Previously, Shenkman was responsible for the first use of generative AI at an American law firm as a chief knowledge and innovation officer at Fisher Phillips.
Hon. Michael C. Martin ’02
Judge Martin was confirmed by the US Senate as a judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Deshala Dixon ’04
Dixon has been named the 2026 Assistant District Attorney of the Year by the District Attorneys’ Association of Georgia, one of the state’s highest honors for a prosecutor.
Hon. Christopher L. Morgan ’06
Judge Morgan was sworn in as a magistrate judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts in January 2026. He now sits in Springfield, MA.
Brian Dunphy ’07
Dunphy has been named the managing partner at the Boston office of the law firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. He previously co-chaired the Healthcare Enforcement Defense Group at Mintz, a law firm in Boston.
Derek Johnson ’07
Johnson was named chief executive officer of Research Collaborative in January 2026, where he works to help the pro-democracy movement understand how Americans read this moment, sharpen its narrative strategy, and confront a rising authoritarian tide. He previously spent more than a decade at the helm of Global Zero, the international movement to abolish nuclear weapons, which earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination under his leadership.
Corey Harris ’08
Harris, founder and managing partner at Veritas Law, is planning on releasing a new book, Raising Capital Without an IPO, as a guide for CFOs, founders, and fund managers navigating principal federal securities.
Raghav Kohli ’10
Kohli has been named chief legal officer at Lila Sciences. He is based in the San Francisco Bay area.
Larry L. Sandigo ’11
Sandigo has been appointed the Interim Director at the Office of Economic Opportunity within the Office of the Governor Katie Hobbs, in Arizona. He was formerly the Director of Cabinet Affairs for Hobbs.
Sana Sheikh ’12
Sheikh has joined the Gartner Boston CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) Governing Body. She is chief people officer at Granite Telecommunications.
Karen VanderMeer ’12
VanderMeer has joined Kogut & Wilson as a senior associate. She concentrates her practice in family and matrimonial law, and brings over a decade of experience advising clients in matters including domestic relations, divorce, child support, and allocation of parental responsibilities.
Natalia Talbot ’13
Talbot has joined Davis Hartman Wright LLP as a partner in their Appellate, Business, Construction, Litigation, and Real Estate Disputes practice groups. She is based in the greater Asheville, NC, area.
Timothy Ayotte ’14
Ayotte has joined Polsinelli’s Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies Practice as a shareholder in its Boston office, strengthening the firm’s corporate and transactional depth in life sciences, biotechnology, and healthcare companies.
Emily M. Jennings ’14
Jennings has been named a partner at Skadden out of their Boston office. Her practice involves a wide range of complex civil litigation matters, including with regard to securities class action defense, financial services, and insurance and reinsurance.
Matthew Sanders ’14
Primary in-house attorney for LS Power, Sanders recently celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony for their newest project that has been in development for 40 years.
David P. Vitale Jr. ’14
A shareholder at Searcy Law, Vitale has earned Board Certification in Civil Trial Law by the Florida Bar—a distinction that represents the highest level of recognition for Florida attorneys and is held by only approximately 2 percent of eligible civil trial lawyers statewide.
Darius Alam ’15
Alam has joined Womble Bond Dickinson LLP’s New York office as senior counsel. He advises public and private companies, venture capital funds, and institutional investors on debt and equity offerings, US exchange listings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on transactions involving Turkey and the Asia-Pacific region.
Johnny Simon ’15
Simon, of Simon Law, won a $50 million wrongful death settlement for the family of a disabled man who died. The settlement was won against a national medical equipment provider in an alleged failure to provide essential respiratory equipment to the man.
John M. Lewis ’16
Lewis has joined Fox Rothschild in Washington, DC, as counsel in the Aviation Practice. He will be advising on matters such as accident response, regulations, internal investigations, and compliance. He was most recently a judge advocate and handled investigations within the US Marine Corps.
Lloyd (Mullings) Ocean ’18
Ocean was accepted as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was selected by the Providence Business News as a 40 Under Forty honoree.
Caroline Holliday ’20
Holliday has a new position as a law clerk at the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She was previously a judicial law clerk at the US District Court for the District of Delaware.
Matthew P. Liber ’23
Liber recently joined Foley & Lardner LLP’s Boston office as a litigation associate in the firm’s Labor & Employment practice group. He most recently clerked in the Massachusetts Appeals Court for Chief Justice Amy Lyn Blake.
James Callahan ’24
Callahan has a new position as law clerk in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He was previously a judicial law clerk in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Adam Siegel ’25
Siegel has a new position as judicial law clerk in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He was previously a law clerk at Clear Gottlieb Steel & Hamilton LLP.
Bret Jacob ’26
Jacob started a job as a trial attorney with Massachusetts public defender agency, the Committee for Public Counsel Services. They’re based in the New Bedford office.
Michael J. Sanders ’26
Sanders has a new position as law clerk at the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. In 2025, he was a summer associate at Brown Rudnick LLP.
IN MEMORIAM
Vincent Germani ’55
Paul Cataldo ’60
Robert Sriberg ’60
Edward Dever ’61
John Kenney ’62
Alan Miller ’62
Michael Bergan ’64
Carmine Di Adamo ’66
Raymond P. Gouin ’66
Hon. Thomas E. Connolly ’69
Dana Gaebe ’69
David Gay ’70
Terence O’Malley ’70
Ronald Stevens ’72
James Sterio ’73
Leland Ware ’73
Erika Fox ’74
John Townsend ’74
Michael H. Miller ’75
Robert Levite ’76
Thomas Hannigan ’79
Barry McCloskey ’79
Ted Donnelly ’80
Joseph Riga ’89
Marjorie O’Reilly ’94