Law Alumni Board Welcomes New Members

The Law School’s Alumni Board announces the election of seven new members to serve four-year terms beginning in the 2009-10 academic year. The 2009-2010 Board Chair is Eric Rothaus ’01 and the Chair-Elect is Jan N. Steiert '78.

• Carolyn McIntosh ’81, Denver, CO. Ms. McIntosh is a partner at Patton Boggs where she works on environmental and natural resources litigation and compliance. Previously, Ms. McIntosh served as an assistant attorney general for the State of Colorado for Superfund and hazardous waste management and as a special assistant attorney general to the State of Montana, implementing its Superfund program. Ms. McIntosh has also served on a number of local government boards and commissions, including 12 years on the Lafayette City Council, the last four years of which she served as the mayor of Lafayette. Ms. McIntosh also works with Colorado local governments on planning, transportation and appropriations issues.
• Anthony F. Prinster ’66, Grand Junction, CO. Mr. Prinster is currently Of Counsel at Hoskin, Farina & Kampf where he practices corporate, business, real estate, and estate planning law. In 1987, after several years of practicing law, he joined City Market, the grocery store chain founded by the Prinster family in 1924 on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. He built the chain to 38 stores in western Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico. He was president from 1990 until 2001.
• Meshach Rhoades ’04, Denver, CO. Ms. Rhoades is President of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association and the recipient of the 2006 Outstanding New Hispanic Lawyer honor. She is currently acting as in-house counsel for Qwest Communications. Before joining Qwest in 2008, Meshach was a member of Holland & Hart’s Litigation and Intellectual Property Departments and clerked for U.S. Senior District Court Judge Kane.  Active in the community, Ms. Rhoades also sits on the Board of Directors for Easter Seals Colorado, is a board member of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, Co-Chair of CBA’s Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee, and a member of Alfred J. Arraj Inn of Court. She is the Regional Deputy for the National Hispanic Bar Association and was recently appointed to its Commission on Women in the Profession. 
• Michael R. Savage ’96, Washington, DC. Mr. Savage is currently a Senior Vice President at U.S. Trust, the Private Bank of Bank of America. Prior to that appointment, he was Senior Manager in Ernst & Young’s Private Client Services practice for 10 years. Before leaving Colorado, Mr. Savage practiced law in Denver at Friedlob, Sanderson, Raskin, Paulson & Tourtillot and was a Denver Assistant City Attorney. He is a member the District of Columbia Bar, Colorado Bar, and Northern Virginia Estate Planning Council.
• Lance Sears ’75, Colorado Springs, CO. Mr. Sears is the co-founder of Sears & Swanson, P.C. He is a past President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, was elected to represent Colorado as a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for six years, and was Chair of the Colorado State Judicial Performance Commission. He has lectured in over 40 states, at national forums, and all over Colorado, on subjects involving trial skills and tactics, personal injury law, commercial torts and legal ethics. He is certified as a Diplomat of Trial Advocacy by the National College of Advocacy, and is on the faculty and Board of Trustees of the National College of Advocacy. He is on the Colorado Bar Ethics Committee and is a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers. Named 2007 Superlawyer under the category of plaintiffs personal injury practice.