| Appel, Garry | September 12, 2008 |
| After graduating from law school I clerked for the Court of Appeals for a year and then joined Rothgerber, Appel & Powers. There I focused on bankruptcy and insolvency, building the largest practice in the Rocky Mountain region (peaking at 12 lawyers). I left RAP in 1992 to head the Denver office of a national firm. After that firm folded in 1999, I formed my own firm, Appel & Lucas, and I've been there ever since. Besides practicing law, I've had a taste of academia for the last 10 years as an adjunct professor at both CU and DU law schools. In 2000, I co-founded a software company, Digital Office Systems, that develops and markets paperless office systems for lawyers and other businesses. Related to that endeavor, I've been a frequent speaker and writer on technology issues for lawyers. In my spare time I've returned to my first love - photography - which was my intended vocation before I detoured into law school. I've been lucky enough to have about 6 fine art shows a year. You can see my work at www.GarryAppel.com | |
| Bauer, Christina Marie | September 29, 2008 |
| After practicing business & real estate law at Sherman & Howard for 5 years after graduation (& producing a daughter), I moved to northeast Colorado for family reasons. I joined a practice there but a year later went on my own & practiced solo for 20 years. It was a "focused" general practice & included several years as Morgan County Attorney. I retired from legal practice in 2001, to devote more time to my by-then 3 children, husband & farm. Lightning struck in 2003. When the dust settled 2 years later, I was divorced & an empty-nester, living in town & teaching English as a 2nd Language. I returned to Denver in the fall of 2007, & joined Mountain States Employers Council as an immigration lawyer this spring. I am also a postulant in the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado & a part-time student at Iliff Theological Seminary. Someday I need to decide what I want to be when I grow up. | |
| ErkenBrack, Stephen Kenneth | September 27, 2008 |
| Upon graduation, I served as a law clerk to Justice Luis Rovira. In 1979, I moved to Grand Junction, where I worked as a deputy district attorney, was elected D.A. three times, served as Colorado's Chief Deputy Attorney General. Before my time as DA, and after my service in the AG's office, I was a partner in small law firms, specializing in business litigation. In 1999, I was retained by Rocky Mountain Health Plans, a small Colorado-based non-profit company, to try a $20 million lawsuit, and I became fascinated by the challenge of health care. I went to work as Rocky's Vice President for Legal Affairs in 2002, and became the company's President in July, 2008. More importantly, I have been happily married to Lysa since 1979 (well, I've been happy; I can't speak for her). Lysa works part-time as as an Advanced Practice Nurse in Pediatrics. We have three adult children: Kabe, a geometry teacher in Wasington D.C.; Liz, a Ph.D candidate in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dan, a multi-lingual honors graduate from Dickinson College, who is currently a ski bum/ Starbucks barrista in Dillon. I enjoy reading history, skiing, and hiking the mountains, but have not found a good bridge game since law school. | |
| Higinbotham, Jacquelyn Joan | September 18, 2008 |
| I was staff and managing attorney for Colorado Rural Legal Services in Ft. Morgan for 25 years. Since my departure, I have been assistant director of a ministry that operates a homeless shelter and food bank, a legal assistant for the Department of Corrections at the Sterling Correctional Facility, and briefly, a deputy district attorney. I am now a legal tech manager for Weld County Child Support enforcement. I live in Brush and work in Greeley. I am married to Robert Redditt. I have two daughters that I adopted as a single parent, Altara from Peru and Rigel from El Salvador. I also have identical twin step-daughers, Alissa and D'Arci, a four-year-old grandson named Ashwin, and a two-year-old granddaughter named Jacky. I am a member of a lay religious order in the Episcopal church, the Order of the Daughters of the King. My proudest accomplishments are adopting and raising two fantastic daughters as a single mom, and keeping a legal services presence in northeastern Colorado for over twenty years. My hobbies include astronomy, reading, writing,politics, and music (I play piano and keyboards, guitar, and tin whistle). My biggest adventure was spending almost a month in a Quechua village in the Peruvian Andes while adopting my daughter. | |
| Hodgkin, Andrew | October 11, 2009 |
| Office of the Governor State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, State House, Providence, RI 02903 www.governor.ri.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Amy Kempe Monday, September 14, 2009 222-8290 Andrew Hodgkin Named as Carcieri Chief of Staff Governor Donald L. Carcieri today announced Andrew Hodgkin as his Chief of Staff, replacing Brian Stern who was recently confirmed as Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. Hodgkin served as Chief Legal Counsel for Governor Carcieri from 2003 through 2007. Hodgkin left the Carcieri Administration in 2007 to start his own law firm, with a focus on state and federal regulatory issues and private business transactions. ?I am pleased Andy has agreed to return to my Administration as Chief of Staff,? said Governor Carcieri. ?As our state is facing unprecedented challenges, it is critical to have someone who can seamlessly fill the role of Chief of Staff. With his background in business, law and politics, he will be an asset to my Administration.? Prior to serving as Chief Legal Counsel, Hodgkin was a partner in the Banking, Finance and Corporate practice groups of the Boston law firm of Brown Rudnick LLP, where he co-founded the Providence office. In addition to his bank regulatory practice, which included advising on the formation of several start-up banks, Hodgkin represented the Rhode Island State Investment Commission and also served as counsel to the Director of the Department of Business Regulation in his capacity as receiver for failed financial institutions. He has also represented technology clients and early-stage companies. Before joining Brown Rudnick, Hodgkin served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel to Old Stone Bank, of Providence, Rhode Island, and its mortgage subsidiary in Seattle, Washington. During his time at Old Stone, the bank converted from a state-chartered commercial bank to a federal savings bank, and acquired banking operations in North Carolina, Washington and California. Hodgkin is an Adjunct Professor at Bryant University. He serves as Director and Vice Chair of the Providence Plan, a city-state partnership that operates a variety of early education, workforce development and other programs and is a former Director of the Urban Revitalizations Fund of Rhode Island. Hodgkin is a 1992 graduate of Leadership Rhode Island and received the Dorothy Lohman Community Service Award in 2000 from the Rhode Island Bar Association. Hodgkin earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Colorado School of Law. He currently resides in Barrington with his wife of 30 years, Virginia. The couple has two grown children, Mark and Leanda. | |
| Hodgkin, Andrew M. | March 27, 2008 |
| Last summer I finished up a 4 1/2 year stint as Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor of Rhode Island. I am back in private practice part time and working with investors on a start-up national bank in NYC. I also teach part time and am involved with some non-profits. Both kids are through college and my wife, Gina, and I are enjoying a slightly slower pace as we approach our 30th anniversary. | |
| Larkin, Katherine (Kate) Shand | October 1, 2008 |
| Retired from full-time practice in January after 6 years in-house with AMAX, Inc.; 5 years in the DA's office in the 5th Judicial District; 4 years in the Labor Relations Dept of Mt. States Employers' Council; and 15 years with Jackson Kelly's Denver office which I opened with another lawyer in 1993. Married for 25 yrs. To Dan, a mining safety/health professional. 2 Step-sons and 2 grandchildren. Still an avid outdoors person, packing and riding 3 mules; running with 3 burros along with 3 dogs at our home in Salida, Colorado. Best to all!!! | |
| Lidstone, Herrick K | September 30, 2008 |
| For our 30th reunion. Since graduation, I have been working in private practice at four firms (one being my own), and have a family of my wife (also of 30 years) who has stuck with me through thick and thin (and there has been both). Three sons. Kevin is 28, obtained his master's degree and enlisted in the Army. After jump school and the first step in the Ranger program he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne and spent January 2007 (the tip of the surge) through March 2008 at Combat Outpost Callahan at the edge of Sadr City. His unit is now preparing for another deployment, probably to Afghanistan. John, 24, has had two of the three most dangerous jobs -- oil field worker and lumberjack. He is now back in school finishing his first degree. James, 26, has taken a more usual course, and is a personal banker and officer at Bank of the West with his own condominium. All unmarried, but with two great girlfriends. Lynne is working with newborns at Sky Ridge hospital, and will miss the party to be with Kevin in Fort Bragg, NC. As extracurricular activities in the 30 years, I am co-author of one book for ALI-ABA on corporate taxation (1991) and author of another on Securities Law (Bradford, 2006-2008). I have had 25 articles published in the Colorado Lawyer, several elsewhere, and have participated in more than 40 CLEs, on securities law, LLCs and partnerships, legal opinions, ethics, and (in November 2008) about being an expert witness. I am a member of the CBA Business Law Section Executive Council, the ABA's Working Group on Legal Opinions, and have been appointed by governors Owens and Ritter to the Colorado State Securities Board (term currently expiring 2011 at which point I am term-limited). As I hit 60 next year, I step back and wonder what our generation has wrought politically. Since the baby boomers took office with Clinton in 1992 and continuing through Bush in 2000, it does not seem that politics have been collegial or cooperative, and much of it is "me first." What happened to the San Francisco summer of love, Woodstock, the fight for equal rights, Vietnam protests, Kent State, Columbia and Cornell, Watts and Detroit, and flower-power where we baby-boomers were going to change the world for the better. While it is hard to characterize a generation, it seems like we have let ours get away. | |
| Raymond, Dorothy Gill | September 2, 2008 |
| My law practice has focused on corporate law, including intellectual property licensing and antitrust. I was with a small firm in Connecticut right after graduating; then I came back to Colorado to go in-house with a cable TV company. I did mergers and acquisitions and general corporate; I became general counsel for a subsidiary in 1988. I left that position in 1991 to become general counsel for the cable industry's R&D laboratory. I resigned last year to hang my own shingle and work part-time. I'm still married to my husband Peter; we have no children but we do have two cats. I enjoy bicycling, sewing and gardening, which is why I wanted to work part-time. I hope to see everyone at the Class of 1978 Reunion dinner, Saturday, October 4, 2008. | |
| Ridling, Curtis C. | September 25, 2008 |
| It's hard to believe that we all graduated from law school 30 years ago but I guess this is an accounting number that doesn't lie. So where did life go? I know I was a little late but I did finally marry and much later, Phyllis and I adopted a wonderful baby in Utah. Natalie now attends UCLA as a sophomore and it has been better than I could have ever imagined. We still ski in Colorado every Christmas with Joanie Nagel and whoever shows up the house we rent at Winter Park. Natalie is quite the skier and I consider myself pretty lucky to be able to hang with her as she pushes dad on black diamond runs. My career ended in 1999 when I retired from the local schools; it was good in so many ways and I really didn't want to retire but there were good reasons to go, including spending time with my daughter. Failing at retirement, I now work with the local university in their admissions program during the winter for three months and I teach adult education classes in economics, the discipline that became my love when I returned to teaching. (Obviously law school was an expensive lark, but I did make some great friends and so it was worth it.) Phyllis is also a retired teacher and she thoroughly enjoyed raising Natalie, acting as her gopher once she retired. She is dealing with cancer issues that unfortunately have become our primary focus these days. Coming to the reunion was just not in the cards under the circumstances, but you are all in my thoughts. My e-mail address is ridlingc@gmail.com | |
| Steefel, David S. | September 18, 2008 |
| I am happily married to Mary and we have three children--Emily (24), Daniel (22) and Katie (17). After 28 years at Holme Roberts & Owen, I joined the law firm of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP in August 2008 with a group of friends from Holme Roberts & Owen. Husch Blackwell Sanders is a Midwest law firm that has just opened a Denver office. My practice remains commercial litigation. | |
| Steiert, Jan N. | September 8, 2008 |
| I attended law school as Jan Holladay and married Bob Steiert ('79) in 1980. After graduation, I clerked for Judge Enoch on the Colorado Court of Appeals, then joined Holme Roberts & Owen in 1979. I was at HRO for 28 years, practicing transactional law in the natural resources, intellectual property and international transactions areas. In 2007 I became Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Electrum USA Ltd., the U.S. management company of a start-up global gold exploration company, a privately-held company based in Bermuda. Bob and I have one son, Jason, who graduated from Colorado College in May 2008 and is working for a small economics consulting firm in Denver. | |
| Walker, Deborah Davis | October 1, 2008 |
| I left Boulder for the Land of Enchantment thirty years ago. I leventually joined a small general practice, with an emphasis in family law. In 1997, I was appointed as State District Court Judge. I have been on the bench for 11 years, and I am currently serving as Presiding Judge of the Family Court Division. I often wish I had taken Domestic Relations (instead of Antitrust) from Professor Clark! I am looking forward to seeing my good friends in Boulder. | |