Promotions
• Kim Edwards has been inducted as the chairman of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Phoenicians Committee. She is the first woman to serve as chairman in the committee’s 63-year history.
Edwards, founder and CEO of Scottsdale-based advertising firm Kim Conway and Associates, became the youngest-ever member of the Phoenicians Committee when she joined the group in 1999. Since then, Edwards has served in a variety of positions including board member, chair of various day trips, annual event co-chair and press coordinator.
The Phoenicians are active and retired business people dedicated to community enhancement through the exchange of business information and knowledge. Committee members regularly travel to cities within and beyond Arizona to meet entrepreneurs, community and business leaders.
n Timothy J. Berg has been chosen as president-elect of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. The organization is dedicated to advancing “…the principles and tenets of appellate practice…” He began his term on Aug. 1.
Berg, a managing partner at law firm Fennemore Craig, practices in the area of civil appeals and public utilities regulation. He has participated in more than 200 appeals before numerous courts, including the Supreme Court of Arizona.
Berg has been listed in various directories, including 2007 Best Lawyers in America®, Business Litigation and Public Utility Law, and Chambers USA Leading Lawyers for Business.
New Hires
The following four attorneys have joined Fennemore Craig’s Phoenix office.
n Joseph Parker joined the firm as director in the Business and Finance Practice Group. He is experienced in corporate and tax law, accounting and finance, having represented clients in business transactions, mergers, asset sales, stock sales and joint ventures. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accountancy and his juris doctorate from ASU. Prior to joining Fennemore Craig, he worked as a corporate and tax attorney at Gallagher & Kennedy’s Phoenix office.
• Leonardo Loo will also serve as director in the Business and Finance Practice group. He has represented clients in mergers and acquisitions, private offerings, financings and general securities law matters. Loo is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining Fennemore Craig, he was a shareholder at Gallagher & Kennedy in Phoenix.
n David Haga will serve as counsel in the Estate Planning Practice Group. His experience is in taxation, trusts and estates, wills and other areas of law. He holds a law degree with emphasis on taxation from New York University and worked for Gallagher & Kennedy prior to joining Fennemore Craig.
• Patrick Klein joined as an associate in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Klein has experience as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division in Washington, D.C.
The Phoenix School of Law will add the following faculty members and adjuncts to its 2007-2008 academic year roster.
• David Cole, a retired Maricopa County Superior Court judge, will be an assistant professor of law. He will teach evidence and criminal law.
n Michael O’Connor will join as associate professor. He will teach two sections of evidence. Previously, he was associate professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis.
• Douglas McFarland, a professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., will be a visiting professor. He will teach civil procedure and torts. His experience spans more than 30 years of teaching.
• Nicholas Rine will teach international law as visiting professor from the University of Michigan. He will also work with the school’s clinical program.
n Jalae Ulicki will be teaching remedies and real estate transactions as an assistant professor. Prior to joining Phoenix School of Law, Ulicki served as director of the Michigan State University rental housing clinic.
• Sharmila Roy will teach criminal law and elder law as associate professor. She was previously with the Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office.
• Robert Myers, a retired Maricopa County Superior Court judge, will join the school as adjunct professor. He will teach pre-trial practice.
• Jonathan Schwartz, also a retired judge for the Maricopa County Superior Court, will be an adjunct professor, teaching administrative law.
• Damon Boyd, a partner at Snell and Wilmer, will also be an adjunct professor. He will teach intellectual property.
Boards
Magellan Health Services of Arizona, Inc. announced the selection of the following six Maricopa County community members to the Governance Board for the new Maricopa County Regional Behavioral Health Authority.
• Valerie VanAuker is a working mother of two special-needs children who contributes her time to the Family Involvement Center.
• Ted Williams is CEO of Arizona Behavioral Health Corp., an organization that provides housing assistance for homeless individuals, seriously mentally ill individuals and their families, those with HIV/AIDS, and victims of domestic violence.
• Trish Ann Bleth is executive director for SELFF, Inc. Recovery Center, an organization focused on consumers of mental health services helping each other in their recovery.
• Luz Sarmina is president and CEO of Valle del Sol, one of Arizona’s largest non-profit, community-based organizations offering counseling, substance abuse treatment, support services, and leadership development programs with an emphasis on building the next generation of Latino leaders.
• Sue Davis is an educator, parent and advocate for individuals and their family members dealing with serious mental illness. She has served as executive director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in Arizona and several committee appointments by the Arizona Department of Health Services.
• Nick Margiotta is an 11-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department. He serves as the department’s liaison to the regional behavioral health care system, and coordinator of the region’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training Program.
Retirement
• Pete C. Garcia, a longtime community activist and leader, has announced his retirement as president and CEO of Chicanos Por La Causa, a position he has held for the past 23 years.
He joined the group in 1972 as an economic development specialist and was eventually promoted to economic development director. From 1975 until 1980 he held the positions of research/planner and vice president of community support. He was appointed president/CEO in 1984. 
Members acknowledge that under his tenure the group has grown into one of the nation’s largest community development corporations, developing social service programs and economic development ventures that have greatly impacted Arizona.
Garcia will formally step down at the end of this year, when he will continue his work in the community through his new non-profit organization, The Victoria Foundation.
Awards
The Morrison Institute for Public Policy is a program for objective public policy research at Arizona State University. The institute partnered with The Arizona Republic and Tucson Citizen to select the recipients of the Young Steward of Public Policy Scholarship Program, which is for high school students who will attend ASU in 2007-2008.
The scholarship program, which aims to engage young leaders in Arizona, was established by Elaine and Richard Morrison of Gilbert in celebration of the Morrison Institute’s 20 years of public policy research.
• Charles David Alan Jannetto, from Desert Ridge High School in Mesa, received first place for his essay, “
Safe Schools Legislation.” Jannetto will receive a $1,500 scholarship to attend ASU.
• Allison Pilar Wiley, from Globe High School in Globe, received the second place prize for her essay, “Lack of Honors Programs Could Prove Detrimental for Students’ Futures.” Wiley will receive a $1,000 scholarship to attend ASU.
• Dawson Thomas Rauch, from Fountain Hills High School in Fountain Hills, received an honorable mention for his essay, “Illegal Immigration: A Public Issue.”