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Pedro Jaime Torres-Díaz, BU91, was featured in the 11th edition of the Best Lawyers in Puerto Rico. Torres-Díaz is the office managing principal in the Miami office of Jackson Lewis P.C., and a principal in the San Juan, Puerto Rico, office.

Margaret Beckley, UC91, SW98, earned a doctor of education degree in educational practice in August 2023 from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Pauline Merrill, MD91, GR91, joined The Looking Glass Eye Center in Brevard, N.C. Merrill is a nationally recognized ophthalmologist specializing in treating diseases of the retina.

Robert Barnett, GA91, founder and president of CBH Architects, is moving his firm to Summit, N.J., following 12 years in South Orange, N.J. After gut-renovating two homes in West and South Orange, N.J., Barnett founded CBH as a general contractor and became a licensed architect. He splits his time between South Orange and Brasília, Brazil.

Eric Heist, EN91, GB92, a colonel in the U.S. Army, retired after 30 years of service. He led and cared for soldiers, civilians and families in units from platoon to brigade, and served as a staff officer in various Army and NATO headquarters. His career included deployments to Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. […]

Gretchen Cowman, EN91, is a captain in the U.S. Public Health Service and manages the laboratory renovation and construction program at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, she deployed to the Navajo Nation to expand access to safe water and sanitation and to San Antonio, Texas, to support the influx of […]

Catherine Buley, LA91, medical director of SEARHC (Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium) Primary Care Clinics, recently became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the nation’s leading professional society for health-care leaders. The highest standard of professional development, fellow status requires candidates to meet academic and experiential criteria, and to demonstrate community involvement, […]

Doug Sesnowitz, LA91, a partner at Ulmer & Berne LLP, was elected to the firm’s management committee. Sesnowitz represents companies in a range of industries in complex corporate, commercial and financing matters.

Risé Sanders-Weir, LA91, was an executive producer on “We Are Witnesses: Chicago,” which was nominated for an Emmy in the News & Documentary-Outstanding New Approaches category. As part of The Marshall Project, the short-video series presented intimate portraits of Chicagoans touched by the criminal justice system. Website: www.themarshallproject.org/we-are-witnesses/chicago

Mischa Buford Epps, LA91, was named the executive director of The Missouri Bar by its Board of Governors. Previously, Epps was a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP in Kansas City, Mo., where she practiced for more than 20 years.