Vanderbilt University Law School

Class of 1988

(Notes posted in the order they were received, with the newest posts on top.)

Marcia Mallory McMurray is the immediate past president of Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women and a member of the Tennessee Bar Association's House of Delegates. She was married on February 16, 2008 to Rick Hooper.
posted 7/9/08

Ronald E. Mills has been promoted to deputy law director for the City of Knoxville. Mills has been a senior city attorney and the primary legal advisor to the Knoxville Police Department since 1997. He succeeds Debra C. Poplin, who was selected to be the City's new law director last month. "Ron Mills has been a great asset to this city and its residents for more than a decade," Poplin said. "He possesses a wealth of knowledge about municipal law and I, like everyone else in city government, look forward to working with him in his new role."

Carla Lovell has been named partner at Sherrard & Roe, where she was previous senior counsel in estate planning. Carla joined Sherrard 13 years ago. She serves on several committees of the Nashville Bar Association and was recently named a fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation.

David M. Rainey has been names the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Debt Resolve, Inc. (AMEX: DRV). David has over 19 years of experience in public company accounting and finance roles, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley issues, and mergers and acquisitions. Most recently he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Hudson Scenic Studio, where he was responsible for finance and accounting. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance at Star Gas Propane, L.P., a business unit of Star Gas Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SGU). Prior to that, he served as Treasury Generalist, and earlier, as Western Region Controller at Westvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV). Mr. Rainey holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University.

Kelly B. Mathis has been elected as President of the Jacksonville Bar Association for 2006-2007. Over 1,800 lawyers are members of the Jacksonville Bar Association, one of the oldest voluntary bar associations in the state of Florida. Kelly has practiced business litigation, insurance law, and personal injury law in Jacksonville since 1988. In 2003 he formed Kelly B. Mathis, P.A. The firm currently has four attorneys.

Christopher Walker, from the Dayton office of the law firm of Van Kley & Walker, was recently appointed to chair the Environmental Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association. Christopher advises and represents businesses, governmental and civic organizations, fams and individuals on environmental law issues. Walker formerly served as an Ohio assistant attorney general in the Environmental Enforcement Section.

Randall H. Morrow was recognized as a leader in the area of Banking and Finance in Chambers USA 2006. Morrow is also a Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. His commercial lending practice focuses on all aspects of the representation of lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured transactions, structured financing transactions and multistate transactions. Morrow is an attorney with Maynard Cooper & Gale in Birmingham, Alabama.

Brent Ballow has moved his national management labor law practice to the Nashville office of Miller & Martin. Ballow and partner Mark Floyd, who also moved to Miller & Martin, will continue to publish their five free labor-related e-newsletters, which reach more 6,500 subscribers. As partners, Ballow and Floyd have negotiated more than 150 labor contracts and handled more than 120 representation or decertification union elections.

Richard D. Crotteau, Jr., has joined the real estate group of Smith, Gambrell & Russell in Atlanta, which is headed by Mac Young, '68.

Darby Dickerson, dean and vice president of Stetson University College of Law, was named "Business Woman of the Year" in the nonprofit/social services category by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Under Darby's leadership, Stetson has earned a No. 1 ranking in trial advocacy and a No. 3 ranking in legal writing by U.S. News and World Report in its recent ratings of the nation's best graduate schools.

Paul Oppold has left New York City, where he had worked in compliance with both Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, to join Wachovia Capital Markets in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he serves in the compliance department.

Bill Senhauser was appointed Senior Vice President and chief compliance officer of Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM). As chief compliance officer, Bill will lead the Office of Compliance, Ethics and Investigations at Fannie Mae, reporting to the chief executive officer and to the Compliance Committee of the Board on compliance and ethics issues and on any open investigations, both internal and external. Bill comes to this role following an extensive career in fair housing and equal rights. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Senhauser was Executive Director of the Equal Justice Foundation; Senior Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; and has several times served as a special master or mediator for class actions pending before the U.S. District Court, for the Districts of California and the District of Columbia.

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