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term on the Florida Bar Committee
on Professionalism. She is
immediate past president of the
board of the Florida State University
College of Law Alumni Association.
Van Wyk has a bachelor’s with
honors from the FSU College of Law
and a master’s in urban and regional
planning from FSU. She is board
certi ed by the Florida Bar in city,
county, and local government law.
’89
Rhett Workman
was promoted
to managing director of London
Heathrow airport for American
Airlines. He was previously based
in Philadelphia with the airline as
managing director of government
and airport affairs. He graduated
summa cum laude
and Phi Beta
Kappa from BSC and earned
a master’s and JD from Duke
University. “Attending college at
BSC opened up the world to me,
and for that I am forever grateful,”
he said.
’90
David Benck
, vice president and
general counsel for Hibbett Sporting
Goods Inc., has been appointed to
the International Tribunal Arbitral
du Sport/Court of Arbitration
for Sport. The body is seated in
Lausanne, Switzerland, and is
recognized as the global supreme
court of sport with nal jurisdiction
over all global sport disputes,
including high-pro le disputes
involving the Olympic Games and
the Fédération International de
Football (FIFA). Benck also has
recently been appointed to the
board of directors of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta from the
Birmingham district for an initial
term through 2018. The Atlanta
Fed’s geographical territory includes
Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami,
Nashville, and Birmingham.
’91
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC appointed
Brant Phillips
to serve as chair of
the Nashville-based rm’s 90-lawyer
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Practice Group. He graduated with
honors from Washington and Lee
University School of Law, where
he was a senior editor of the law
review, and earned a master’s degree
from Duke University.
Andrew Roberts
is vice president
and senior commercial lender with
the Southern Bank Co. in Gadsden.
Roberts holds a real estate broker’s
license with Kessler Land Agency.
He and his wife, Kathy, have four
children, including triplet sons.
’92
Alicia Fritz Bennett
joined the
law rm of Hill Hill Carter Franco
Cole & Black PC as a shareholder
in 2016. Bennett has represented
boards of education, their members,
and employees for more than
19 years. She formerly served as
vice president of the Alabama
State Bar, president of the Shelby
County Bar Association, and bar
commissioner. She currently serves
as a disciplinary hearing of cer for
the bar. She received her JD from
the Cumberland School of Law.
Amorak
Huey
of
East Grand
Rapids,
Mich., was
awarded a
National
Endowment for the Arts creative
writing fellowship in poetry for
2017. Huey is an assistant professor
of writing at Grand Valley State
University in Allendale, Mich.,
following 15 years as a reporter and
editor. He holds an MFA in creative
writing from Western Michigan
University. He is the author of three
poetry collections and is married to
Dr. Ellen Schendel ’93
.
Calhoun/Cleburne County District
Attorney Brian McVeigh
was elected
as president of the Alabama District
Attorney’s Association for 2017-18.
McVeigh is the rst person to hold
the position after being named
District Attorney of the Year in 2015;
he won Assistant District Attorney of
the Year in 2011. A graduate of the
Cumberland School of Law, McVeigh
has served as DA since 2011.
Col. David Tabor
has been
promoted to the rank of brigadier
general in the U.S. Air Force. He
currently resides in Tampa, Fla.
’93
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority elected
Lynn Compton Chapman
of
Birmingham to its National
Council for the 2016-18 term at
its international convention in
Phoenix last year. The nine-person
National Council is elected every
biennium to lead the organization,
This is Chapman’s third term on the
council, where she currently serves
as vice president collegiate.
’95
Anna-Katherine
Graves
Bowman
is a
senior attorney
with Bradley
Arant Boult
Cummings in
Birmingham.
’96
Montgomery resident
Scott Speagle
was named managing partner of
his rm, Webster, Henry, Bradwell,
Cohan, Speagle & DeShazo PC,
which has of ces throughout
Alabama. Speagle practices
commercial and business litigation
throughout the southeast in
federal and state courts and in the
American Arbitration Association.
Artist
Herb Williams IV
is
exhibiting his crayon-based works at
the Taubman Museum in Roanoke,
Va., this September, and at BSC’s
Durbin Gallery in November.
He resides in Nashville and is
represented by the Rymer Gallery.
’97
George Fibbe
is deputy general
counsel for litigation, regulation,
and enforcement with the U.S.
Department of Energy. He resides in
Houston.
Dr. Anna Froula
received two
grant awards from the National
Endowment of the Humanities
through the Standing Together
Initiative: Dialogues on the
Experience of War. Froula traveled
to the American island of Saipan
this summer with two colleagues to
engage veterans of contemporary
wars, surviving civilian participants
of World War II, and families of
veterans. This fall and next, she will
direct a bridge program for incoming
student veterans to talk through
their experiences of wars. Froula
“The Great Emoji” by Herb Williams