Class Notes

Judge Gardner III, EN07, was promoted to assistant to the president and CEO of Atlanta Gas Light and Chattanooga Gas. Previously, he was director of corporate safety at Nicor Gas. Gardner, his wife, Dominique, and their two young daughters, Isabella (6) and Lindsey (1), have relocated from Chicago to Atlanta.

Anne Wynter, LA06, created her first picture book, Everybody in the Red Brick Building, and it has received an Ezra Jack Keats Honor award for writing. The book also received honors and recognition from the Junior Library Guild, the Writers’ League of Texas, The Boston Globe, and the Texas Institute of Letters, among others.

Robyn d’Avignon, LA06, assistant professor of history at New York University, wrote A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, August 2022). The book tells the history of West Africa’s centuries-old indigenous gold mining industries and its shared practices, prohibitions and cosmological engagements.

Karen Mayfield-Jones, LW05, litigation council for PRA Group, Inc., raised over $40,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and was awarded the nonprofit’s Community Involvement Award. She also was the runner-up for Illinois Woman of the Year. Mayfield-Jones first became involved with LLS over 15 years ago when she ran a marathon to fundraise for the organization. She has since completed multiple marathons, half marathons and century bike rides to raise money in addition to serving the organization as a running coach and fundraising mentor.

Jeff Maurer, BU04, was a Libertarian can-didate for Indiana secretary of state in the Nov. 8, 2022, general election. He says he ran “to give Hoosiers a verifiable, printed receipt for their vote, so they can see for themselves that their votes were counted as cast.”

Ross Linzer, LA04, joined King & Spalding LLP’s new Miami office as a partner in the firm’s trial and global disputes practice group. Linzer represents clients in commercial litigation, the defense of class actions and other transactional matters. He and his wife, Lindsey, live in Davie, Fla., with their sons, Noah and Zach.

Jennifer Belmont Jennings, LA03, GR05, LW09, co-authored a book with 22 other women lawyers, Women in Law: Discovering the True Meaning of Success (Ramses House Publishing, March 2022). The book offers life and career advice from 23 accomplished women lawyers who hail from Big Law, small law and everything in between.

Walter Hutchens, LW99, GR99, was appointed by the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law as director and faculty member of the student program in Qingdao, China. Students who graduate from the program earn a BA in law from the University of Arizona and an LLB from the university’s partner institution, Ocean University of China. Previously, Hutchens held an endowed chair and chaired the Global Business Department at the University of Redlands in Southern California.

Dennis Fish, LA99, joined the U.S. Mint in June as the chief equity officer. For the previous eight years, he was the associate director for program operations at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Civil Rights Center. He lives in Arlington, Va.

Rhonda Broussard, LA97, wrote One Good Question: How Countries Prepare Youth to Lead (TBR Books, July 2022). The book addresses a variety of topical questions: Who should really go to college? What voice should parents have in their children’s education? How is the economy limiting education access worldwide? Broussard is the founder and CEO of Beloved Community, a national nonprofit committed to sustainable economic equity in schools, the workforce and housing.