Lawrence Green ’74 was elected chair of the Board of the American Jewish Society for Service, a national service organization that sponsors summer community service camps for Jewish teens. Founded in 1950, AJSS has served more than 140 impoverished communities in 46 states, as well as in Canada and Israel. Green served as a camper and counselor for AJSS for three summers and has served on the AJSS Board since 1977. He is a partner with Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston, where he serves as co-chair of the Business Litigation Department. At Wesleyan, he was a College of Social Studies major; he received his JD from New York University.
June M. Jeffries ’75, an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia’s specialized cases unit, was profiled in the Aug. 6, 2006, Washington Post as “The Avenger,” by Neely Tucker: “With Child Slayings, There May Never Be a Why. But Prosecutor June Jeffries Makes Sure There’s a Who.” A government major at Wesleyan, she received her J.D. degree from Georgetown and joined the U.S. Attorney’s office. In the mid-1980s, she began her current focus. In the article, Superior Court Judge Michael L. Rankin calls Jeffries “the ultimate prosecutor.” While acknowledging to Tucker that most wouldn’t choose her career, her answer is firm: “Well, the fact is, somebody has to.”
John Hickenlooper ’74, entrepreneur and owner of the successful Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver, Colo., was elected mayor of that city on June 3, 2003. With a strong history of public service in the community, he has put the city’s budget crisis, police department reforms, and educational improvements high on his agenda, as well as social concerns, such as homelessness. His chief of staff is Michael Bennet ’87 and his special assistant of economic development is Peter Chapman ’87. Hickenlooper also holds an M.S. in geology from Wesleyan.
TIM HOLLISTER ’78 has been selected as a Local Government Law Fellow by the International Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA). Hollister, a partner at Shipman & Goodwin, LLP, in Hartford, is the first Connecticut attorney to receive this distinction from the IMLA, an organization of lawyers representing 14,000 cities, towns, counties and special districts in the U.S. and Canada.
The Rev. Robert Tsugio Hoshibata ’73 was elected a bishop in the United Methodist Church by delegates to the Western Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church meeting in San José, Calif. He will take office Sept. 1 as one of the 50 bishops who lead the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Hoshibata has been superintendent of the Seattle District since 1998 and has served as a minister at churches in Washington, Oregon, and Connecticut. Hoshibata earned a doctor of ministry degree from Claremont School of Theology in California. His daughter, Lauren, is a member of the Class of ’05.
Esslie Hughes ’79 was appointed director of the New York office of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The PCAOB is a private-sector nonprofit corporation created to oversee the auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair, and independent audit reports. She previously worked for more than 20 years in commercial banking with The Bank of New York, European American Bank, and Bankers Trust. Hughes received her MBA from the University of Chicago.
David Z. Izakowitz ’76 joined the Charlottesville office of McGuireWoods LLP as a partner in the labor and employment department, focusing on immigration and naturalization law. As an immigration lawyer with 13 years of experience, Izakowitz’s practice concentrates on providing services for businesses, as well as assisting clients with audits and inspections by the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor. Izakowitz earned his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, N.J., graduating first in his class. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and was included in the December 2002 edition of Virginia Business magazine as one of the “Legal Elite” in Virginia for immigration law. His selection was based on the polling of more than 6,000 lawyers.
Yoriko Kishimoto ’77, the first Asian to be elected to the Palo Alto City Council, was one of only eight Asian Pacific American elected officials nationwide selected to participate in the Asian Pacific Institute for Congressional Studies, a nonpartisan program in Washington, D.C. She has a long record of community involvement and grassroots organizing, as well as business experience in the technology field. She earned her M.B.A. from Stanford and is the founder and president of an international consulting business and author of The Third Century: America’s Resurgence in the Asian Era. Kishimoto lives in Palo Alto with her husband and two daughters.
Mark R. Kravitz ’72, nominated by President Bush to become a U.S. District Court Judge in Hartford, Conn., was confirmed to the bench in June 2003. He is a partner and appellate lawyer at the law firm of Wiggin & Dana in New Haven. Kravitz, who was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, earned his J.D. from Georgetown University and clerked for William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, from 1978 to 1979. He is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Connecticut and was a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School in the spring of 2000.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) announced that it has named John Lippincott ’71, MAT ’72 (and father of Sarah ’07), as president of CASE. He had been serving as CASE’s interim president since January 1. Prior to assuming the interim role, Lippincott was CASE’s vice president for communications and marketing beginning in 1999. Previously, Lippincott served for nearly 12 years as associate vice chancellor for advancement at the University System of Maryland. A College of Letters major, he began his career teaching humanities courses at community colleges in Connecticut, New York, and Oregon.
