Class Notes

Alexander “Alex” S. Douglas II, LA86, a partner at ShuffieldLowman, was selected to the 2022 list of legal elite attorneys by Florida Trend magazine and as a 2022 Florida Super Lawyer. He practices in the area of fiduciary and commercial litigation.

Ann Davis Shields, LA85, LW93, joined the mediator panel of United States Arbitration & Mediation, the leading provider of mediation and arbitration services. A professor of practice, Shields is also the director of the pretrial practice and settlement program at Washington University School of Law.

Cary J. Mogerman, LW85, was installed this year as president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the country’s top professional organization for matrimonial and family law attorneys. Mogerman is a shareholder in the St. Louis firm of Carmody MacDonald P.C.

Jeanette Meyer, LA83, for the 17th consecutive year, earned the RE/MAX Alliance Quality Service Certified Platinum award for her track record of 100% client service satisfaction.

Nathan Byers, EN82, now semiretired and working three days a week in engineering consulting, writes that he is still as busy as ever. He and his wife, Page, are empty nesters experiencing the paradox of loving their quiet house while missing their daughters.

R. Mark McCareins, LW81, was appointed by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law as the liaison to the ABA Section of Antitrust Law for the 2022-23 bar year. He also was tapped for a leadership position in the ABA Section of Business Law while serving as general counsel and corporate secretary of the Metals Service Center Institute (www.msci.org). McCareins also maintains an appointment as a clinical professor in the strategy department of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Jim Holliman, MD79, in May was elected president of the Penn State College of Medicine Emeritus Faculty Organization.

Tamar Abrams, LA78, is leaving Washington, D.C., after 43 years and moving to Rhode Island so she can awaken to the sounds and smells of the ocean rather than the cacophony of the nation’s capital. Though semiretired, she still writes magazine articles and works a few days each week for a USAID project. Abrams’ daughter, Hannah, and son-in-law are moving to England by year-end, so her plans include trips to London.

Walter Zoller, LA77, retired as a general and cosmetic dentist and is now a forensic dentist in east central Florida.

Stephanie Barbé Hammer, GR77, shares proudly that her second novel, Pretend Plumber (Inlandia, May 2022), received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly Book Life, BlueInk and Jewish Book Council. The comic adventure features a queer-curious, precocious Los Angelina who grows so fed up with her wealthy Jewish parents that she decides to run away and become a plumber. A retired University of California professor, Hammer teaches creative writing at Hugo House Seattle and Inlandia Institute in Riverside, Calif.