UC Law '89 + 30

Contributed by Margaret Bertram Hayes

I am an assistant prosecutor for Darke County, where I handle civil and juvenile cases.  I also have my private practice which is concentrated in real estate and probate estates.  My husband Chris and I have four children: Emily, Allyson, Emily, and Lilly.

 

Contributed by Kim Saylor Hollin

I have been the attorney for the Williams County, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and Child Support Enforcement Agency since November 1993.

My daughter, Jaclyn, graduated from high school in 2013 with a 4.0 while playing three sports and playing piccolo in the high school marching band. She graduated with honors from the University of Toledo in 2018 as a bio-engineer, played piccolo in the UT marching band, and is working at Zimmer Biomet as a bio-engineer in Warsaw, Indiana.

My son, Logan, is a 6 foot 6 inch nursing student, was also in sports in high school and was a percussionist in the high school marching band.

My husband and I got married on the Fourth of July between my first year of law school and my second year of law school and they said it wouldn’t last.

Contributed by Joline West

After graduation, I returned home to Tennessee to work “in house” for the construction products company that my father owned. In 2001, I “retired” and began work as a “consultant” to my former employer for another 5 years – which worked out perfectly with my new stay-at-home mother schedule. (Another way of saying I was the organizer and chauffeur for my sons’ activities . . .baseball, basketball, football, golf, karate, etc. but I wouldn’t trade those years away; they were priceless, and I am glad we made those memories together.)  When our youngest started school, I began substitute teaching. In 2012, I started part-time work at a local church, and have been doing that type of work since then.  I am currently working at a very small, inner-city church just north of Nashville – my husband calls it my part-time, part-time job, which I enjoy!

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Contributed by Bill Werner

Kathy and I are busy celebrating our recently-emptied nest.  All four boys are out of the house, gainfully and legally employed, and paying their own rent.  Two live in California, one in Reno, and one still in Vegas.  Other than that, nothing much has changed from five years ago (including the outcome of the Ohio State – Michigan game!).  I’m still teaching labor relations and risk management at UNLV, Kathy is still a quality control analyst for United Healthcare.    We both work online in the summer, so we can spend about ten weeks each year at our cabin in southern Utah fishing, hiking, and raking the forest.

Contributed by Betsy Heintz Wood

I worked in the General Counsel’s office at a company called Luxottica Retail (the parent of LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Ray Ban, and Oakley) in Cincinnati for about 25 years. After watching big shifts in company culture that resulted in the downsizing of many of my friends and my two bosses, I took a headhunter call one day and soon accepted a position with Simon Property Group in Indianapolis in the summer of 2015. Simon is the largest shopping center developer in the country, and the largest REIT on planet Earth.

In one fell swoop, I left my city of 30+ years, the only job I’d had since law school, switched from being a tenant to a landlord, uprooted my high school age kids, and my dear husband quit a job he loved. Just call me the master of destruction!

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Contributed by Lorene Schaefer Hooi

Greetings from Lake Lanier, Georgia!  Hard to believe it’s been 30 years since we all started law school.

First the professional update:  My law practice is focused primarily on mediation and conducting impartial investigations into allegations of harassment, discrimination and retaliation.   I also provide advice and counsel to executives who are negotiating exit and severance packages.* Read More

Our class “top cop” Darrell and his wife Debbie have four children, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.  He’s retired from the City of Milford Police Department and the Clermont County prosecutor’s office, but still serves as the Chief Medicolegal Death Investigator for Clermont County, a magistrate for the City of Milford and the Village of Williamsburg, the City Prosecutor for the Village of New Richmond, and the Jackson Township Fiscal Officer.  He also is a former Assistant Professor of Forensics at UCC.