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Jon Salomon, LA97, joined the Louisville, Ky., office of Dentons as a partner in the litigation practice. He previously worked for a commercial litigation firm where he provided counsel on corporate and governmental law matters.

Sara (Beatty) Ratner, LA97, president of Nomi Health’s government program business across the country, oversees efforts to take action on health-care spending data, run payments more directly and expand access to care to communities most in need.

James Gilchrist, EN97, the Ruth H. and Sam Madrid Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University, was named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering.

Rhonda Broussard, LA97, wrote One Good Question: How Countries Prepare Youth to Lead (TBR Books, July 2022). The book addresses a variety of topical questions: Who should really go to college? What voice should parents have in their children’s education? How is the economy limiting education access worldwide? Broussard is the founder and CEO of […]

Deborah Patterson, HA97, was elected to the Oregon State Senate (District 10) in 2020 and named chair of the Senate Health Committee. Patterson writes that she is grateful to WashU for the opportunities she has had in health care over the years and is looking forward to this new challenge.

Mark Pankoff, GA97, SI98, was promoted to executive vice president of the financial firm Wellington Shields & Co. In his free time, Pankoff and his wife, Rebecca, keep busy with their quartet of 5-year-old to 10-year-old children. In 2020 Pankoff coached his son’s squirt hockey team to a championship, lowered his golf handicap and mastered […]

Ron Eisenstein, LA97, co-founded The Solas Group, which was recognized by Tableau Software as the leader in fundraising analytics. Solas presented with its client, University of California, Berkeley, which raised a school record of $1B+ last year, at Tableau’s Higher Education Summit in December 2020.

Peter Vogel, LA97, is a co-founder and the CEO of Leafwire, an online platform connecting investors to cannabis companies looking to raise funding. The company, which has gained a reputation as the LinkedIn of the cannabis industry, has grown quickly to become the largest professional network in cannabis, with 30,000 members representing more than 10,000 […]

Joshua Mandell, AR97, is a vice president at FGM Architects. As principal he specializes in municipal and law enforcement facility assessment. He is currently leading the design of a new regional PSAP/911 facility with Emergency Operations Center and 311 Citizens’ Service Bureau for the city of St. Louis.

Leona Ketterl, GA97, and her husband moved from Los Angeles to Sacramento, where she is a senior architect with Rainforth Grau Architects, an exclusive designer of schools. Ketterl also is actively involved in the American Institute of Architects statewide committee on the environment. The couple shares their solar-powered home with their two cats, Shaggy and […]