| 1985Jon Weiner is the manager of communications and media relations for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He previously led media relations at the California Institute of Technology and served as executive director of public relations for the University of Southern California’s Health Sciences Campus. He also worked for 10 years in broadcast news at CBS News. |
| 1987Anne McMillin is editor of the University of Nevada School of Medicine’s magazine, Synapse, which recently received a Silver Spike Award from the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. She also received individual recognition from the Nevada Press Association in its 2010 Better Magazine Contest for her work at Synapse. |
| 1989Christine Sublett was recently named vice president for security and information technology at StayWell Health Management, which focuses on keeping employees healthy and reducing healthcare costs. |
| 1990Julia Couzens, M.F.A., exhibited her artwork at her solo show, All Taped Up, at San Francisco’s InSite from November to December, and in a group show, Hauntology, at the Berkeley Art Museum in December. In January, she participated in a video project called Portraits to help UC Davis celebrate the opening of a new Nelson Gallery in the former University Club. • John Leckie is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and completing a postdoctoral fellowship in child psychology at Stanford University. After completing the fellowship, he and his wife, Sigrid, and children Aidan and Athena will likely be stationed in Germany, providing therapy services to children and families in the Air Force community. |
| 1991Joe Jaramillo was elevated to partner at his law firm, Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian, in Oakland in January. His practice focuses on wage and hour and employment discrimination class actions, and his firm represents plaintiffs in complex litigation in those areas as well as civil rights, disability access, environmental law and attorneys’ fees disputes. • Brian Pacheco, a fourth-generation dairy producer, was elected as the 2010–11 president of the Fresno County Farm Bureau. He runs his family’s dairy farm in Kerman, and serves as a trustee of the Kerman Unified School District, chairman of the board for California Dairies and a board member for Community Regional Medical Center. |
| 1992Virna DePaul, J.D. ’95, has written a paranormal romantic suspense novel, Chosen by Blood, scheduled to be released in May by Berkley/Penguin Books. She was an appellate prosecutor in Sacramento before quitting her job to write. She has lived in Davis with her family all but one year since graduating from law school. • Andrew DeWitt wrote Give Your Best (Createspace 2010), a biography of Willem Charles, a missionary who has built schools, a church and a medical clinic in his village in Haiti. DeWitt is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who has volunteered on numerous medical missionary trips to Haiti, Columbia, Nicaragua and Africa. He lives in Dubuque, Iowa, with his wife and three children. • Mark Mizrahi was named to Super Lawyers 2011 listing in the intellectual property and intellectual property litigation categories. He is a senior attorney based in Brooks Kushman’s Los Angeles office. He practices intellectual property law, emphasizing patent, trademark and copyright litigation. • Julie Weng-Gutierrez, supervising deputy attorney general, argued on behalf of the California community colleges in the state Supreme Court case Martinez v. Regents of the University of California upholding in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. |
| 1994Emmett Rahl completed the Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile Trail Run in Huntsville, Texas, in 29 hours, 42 minutes and 1 second in February. Since starting running at age 25, he has completed more than 500 races, including 24 marathons, 22 50-kilometer, 10 50-mile and two 100-kilomoter races. In 2004, he had an article published in Marathon & Beyond magazine about his first ultramarathon, the Way Too Cool 50K, which starts and finishes in the El Dorado County town of Cool. • Doug Wright swam the English Channel last August to raise money for UC Davis Health System research on Alzheimer’s disease. He dedicated his swim to his mother, who taught him how to swim and who has Alzheimer’s. Wright, a teacher and water polo coach at Davis High School, swam over 30 miles in less than 12 hours. Fewer than 900 people have successfully swum across the channel. |
| 1995John “Tico” McNutt, Ph.D., program director and principal investigator for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust, received the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s Emil M. Mrak International Award in February for his distinguished career outside the U.S. McNutt of Maun, Botswana, began the trust as a doctoral candidate in 1990 with a focus on the endangered African wild dog. One of the trust’s projects combines wildlife research and biochemistry to identify the chemicals that tell a wild dog if land is occupied. McNutt has participated in numerous wildlife films, including BBC’s Planet Earth series. |
| 1996An artificial human ovary created by Stephan Krotz was featured in Time magazine in December as one of the top 10 medical discoveries in 2010. The artificial ovary could help cancer patients have children if the individuals are able to save eggs before treatment. |
| 1997Phil Covell, M.B.A., is a business analyst for Forest Trends in Latin America and Africa. The nonprofit group helps conserve forests around the world by developing ecological services and industries in surrounding communities. Covell and Forest Trends helped develop a REDD project (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) that gives states in Mexico and Brazil carbon credits for protecting their rainforests. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and governors from states in Mexico and Brazil signed the agreement at the Governors’ Global Climate Summit Meeting at UC Davis in November. • Amy (Lefkowitz) Matternand Jeremy Mattern ’98 welcomed daughter Jordan Emily in September. The family lives in Brea. Amy is a director at the Volunteer and Service Center at Fullerton State University, and Jeremy is a teacher and cross-country coach at Brea-Olinda High School. He led his boys’ team to a section title for the first time in the school’s history. His brother, Noel Mattern ’96, a cross-country coach at Granada High School, led his girls’ team to a section title as well. |
| 1999Brian Micek, a consultant for the California Senate Majority Caucus, received the Aggie Service Award from the Cal Aggie Alumni Association in February for dedicating time and leadership to the association and UC Davis. A life member of the alumni association, Micek volunteers with the Sacramento Alumni Network and the alumni association’s nominating committee, scholarship program and student recruitment programs. He regularly attends Sacramento alumni events at which he networks with students and shares his career and campus experiences. |
| 2002Katherine Dennis will begin her doctoral studies at Texas A & M University in August after two years teaching science classes at the Smithsonian Institute. She previously received her master’s degree at the University of Maryland. • Rick Mitchell is a producer and an on-air cast member of TMZ on TV. He is also a stand-up comedian and comedy writer based in Los Angeles. For clips of his work, visit www.effinfunny.com/rick-mitchell |
