Class Notes

Brenda B. Asare, GB89, was named to Crain’s list of 2019 Notable Minorities in Accounting, Consulting & Law. She is president and CEO of The Alford Group, a national consulting firm that partners with nonprofits and corporations to help them advance their missions and do more good in the world. Asare has helped clients raise more than $2 billion to fund their efforts. 

Sterling Miller, LW88, recently penned his fourth book, his second book for the American Bar Association: Ten (More) Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel (ABA Publishing, 2019). He is also the author of The Evolution of Professional Football (Mill City Press, 2015) and a slow-cooker cookbook. Miller is an attorney living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Dana (Trotter) Buckley, LA88, retired as a captain from Monarch Fire Protection District in Chesterfield, Mo., in March 2020. She and her husband, Gary, returned to her native Oregon and live in a home on the coast designed by her father. Buckley continues to contribute to her community as a teaching assistant for the local school district.

Jacquelyn (Johnson) Minter, EN87, was appointed director of Fort Bend County (Texas) Health & Human Services. As director, she provides leadership, management and support for the county’s HHS departments, divisions and health and well-being programs and initiatives. Minter, who holds MD, MPH and MBA degrees, started work with the county as a preventive medicine physician in the tuberculosis program in 2017. 

Gary Ford, BU87, whose career in the financial industry spans more than 30 years, advises Principal Financial Group’s St. Louis clients on financial investments and life and health insurance. Ford’s focus over the course of his career has been as an equity analyst following financial institutions.

Alexander (“Alex”) S. Douglas II, LA86, a partner with ShuffieldLowman, was selected as a 2020 Florida Super Lawyer and as a 2020 Legal Elite attorney by Florida Trend magazine. Douglas practices in the area of fiduciary litigation.

Heather E. Gantzer, MD85, was named chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, the national organization of internists. The board is the main policy-making body of the college. Gantzer has an internal medicine primary care clinic practice and also practices hospital medicine as a nocturnist at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minn.

Adam Weintraub, LA84, returned to the California Department of Health Care Services as assistant deputy director of communications after a temporary assignment as deputy director for public affairs at the California Department of Social Services. He is currently helping to streamline communications about the COVID-19 response to providers and the nearly 13 million beneficiaries of California’s Medicaid program.

Andrea Sant, GM84, was featured in “Collaborative Convergence: Influenza Innovators,” the Sabin Vaccine Institute’s latest video highlighting efforts to accelerate the development of a universal influenza vaccine. In the video, Sant speaks about her research and the value of novel collaborations across the science and technology landscapes to drive innovation.

Kevin Johnson, BU84, received the 2019 Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner Award from the Society for American Baseball Research for researching and compiling playing statistics for baseball’s Negro Leagues, which had not previously existed. Johnson is the co-founder of Seamheads.com.