Class Notes

Rodney Underhill, JD '88, announced he will retire in 2020 after serving more than six years as Multnomah County District Attorney.

Charles Kanzig, BA '83 (English), a counselor at Sisters High School in Sisters, retired after nearly 35 years in education.

Todd Hamilton, BS '93 (psychology), was named superintendent of the Springfield School District.

Jeff Smith, BS'92 (finance), a captain with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, completed training at the FBI National Academy in Virginia.

Eugene Gloria, MFA '92 (creative writing), published his fourth collection of poems, Sightseer in the Killing City, and was appointed the John Rabb Emison Professor of Creative and Performing Art at DePauw University in Indiana, through 2024.

Jan Hood, BA '84 (marketing), joined Southern California's Extensia Financial as a business development officer.

J. Brian Davis, BS '95 (biology), JD '99, was hired to lead the international tax team in the Washington, DC, office of law firm Baker Hostetler.

Matt Binkerd, BS '95 (sociology), was hired as athletics director for Warsaw Community High School in Indiana.

MICHELLE LIGHT, BA ’95 (Clark Honors College, history), was appointed associate university librarian for special collections and director of the Beinecke Library of the Yale University Library.

Matthew Krause, MS '96 (independent study: industrial relations), was appointed senior vice president of human resources with Maze Therapeutics of San Francisco.

The Alaska-based Rasmuson Foundation awarded John Ingman, BS '00 (music), an Individual Artist project award to advance his work with Irish bagpipes.

This April I was promoted to Full Professor at State College of Florida, where I am also serve as the Biotechnology program manager for the Schools 2 year AS degree in Biotech. April was busy as I was also elected President of the United Faculty of Florida union chapter at SCF.

Nicole Granquist has joined Stoel Rives LLP. She joins Stoel's Environmental practice and is based in the firm's Sacramento, Calif. office. Former chair of Downey Brand’s Natural Resources Department, Nicole Granquist has been a fixture in California’s legal and environmental regulatory communities for more than a quarter-century. Her work centers on water quality regulatory compliance, enforcement defense, and litigation. Granquist provides counsel and defense on complex regulatory matters requiring a thorough understanding of the federal Clean Water Act and the California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. She is frequently called upon by small and national private and public entities to serve as defense counsel in third-party citizen suits brought in federal court involving various municipal wastewater, industrial and manufacturing process water, and construction, municipal, and industrial stormwater discharge matters. Granquist also negotiates National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs), and water reclamation requirements with the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and Regional Water Boards for water-related and reclamation projects. She has played a key role in influencing statewide policies regarding the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), Basin Planning, and the SWRCB’s compliance schedule policy. Granquist received her J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law, where she earned a specialized certificate in environmental law.

Derek Stoops, BA '98 (Spanish), was chosen to run Clovis Entertainment, a production company that focuses on one-hour drama series under Asylum Entertainment Group.

Gregg Walker, BS '99 (political science), was hired as senior managing director and head of business development for Divco West, a San Francisco-based real estate company.

Melanie Marconi, BS '02 (journalism: public relations), founded Vida, a coworking space in Portland designed by women to offer access to onsite, drop-in child care.

The painting, A Thousand Indecisions, by Leslie Ann Butler, BA '69 (speech), was chosen for a three-year exhibition at the US Embassy in Brunei.

Matt Kauffman, BS '92 (biology), received the 2018 Conservationist of the Year Award from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for his research on elk migration.

After a long stint with Nike, John Schweitzer, BS '90 (economics), was named chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Hurley, a surfing apparel company in Costa Mesa, California.

Paula Lee Hobson, BA '86 (English), was named vice president for college advancement at Hartwick College in New Hampshire.