Class Notes

Liz (Connolly) Zimmerly, EN01, relocated with her family to the Chicago area and now works with ComEd managing new-construction energy-efficiency programs. Previously, she worked eight years with the nation’s greenest utility, Seattle City Light.

Kacey Cordes, LA01, vice president at U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation, was named chair of Urban Land Institute (ULI) St. Louis District Council. She was also named to chair the national ULI Public-Private Partnership Council. Cordes’ goals are to tap thoughtful leadership, prioritizing partnerships and social justice to drive equitable development throughout St. Louis.

Karen Budell, LA01, joined SurveyMonkey as vice president of brand marketing. She works at the survey software company’s San Mateo, Calif., headquarters and lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband, Joel. Previously, she worked four years at Google.

John Hollman, GR00, is a professor of physical therapy and director of the program in physical therapy at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minn. He also was appointed assistant dean of student and faculty affairs in the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences in 2020.

Katsuyuki Yamashita, GB99, was appointed dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration and Economics at Otemon Gakuin University, a private university at Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, in April 2020.

Chad West, BU99, was honored with the Public Servant of the Year Award by the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce, Dallas, in addition to the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation Award of Excellence in honor of his philanthropic and community contributions. West has conducted school- supply drives and is a co-founder of the Dash for the Beads 5K/10K race, which supports health, wellness and nutrition programming at local schools.

Adam Stoltz, LA99, returned to HOK as director of global consulting, based in the firm’s New York studio. Stoltz, who for 15 years has addressed the issues involving people, organizational performance and the built environment, was the regional consulting leader for HOK’s New York studio from 2013-15.

Stephen D. Feldman, BU99, whose expertise is in complex litigation, antitrust and appeals, recently joined Robinson Bradshaw as a shareholder, based in the firm’s Raleigh, N.C., offices. He is vice chair of both the North Carolina Bar Association Appellate Practice Section and the North Carolina Business Court Rules Committee.

Adam Schwartz, GR99, who has taught high school in Baltimore for 22 years, is an award-winning author. His collection of stories, The Rest of the World, won the Washington Writers Publishing House 2020 prize for fiction, and other works have won prizes sponsored by Poets & Writers, Philadelphia Stories and Baltimore City Paper. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, and his nonfiction in the Sewanee Review, Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News and other publications.

Joseph Straus, PMBA98, is president of Imagine Bio, Ltd, in Beit Shemesh, Israel. The company advises global health-care leaders and emerging startups on strategy, partnerships and investments by leveraging Israel’s health-tech ecosystem.