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WILLIAM MOOMAU, Greenbelt MD, has been a prosecutor since 1989, when he was elected prosecuting attorney, the only prosecutor for a rural county in West Virginia. He fol- lowed that as Assistant State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County in an office of close to a hundred prosecutors. He has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney since 2008. Bill is in a select club of prosecutors who have handled multiple moon- shining cases, which were always sensitive because you never knew if customers would be on the jury. Bill is an obsessive small-mouth bass fisherman and life-long Orioles fan. RANDY MURRELL, Tallahassee FL, has been the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Florida for near- ly twenty-three years. Before the federal gig, he was a state public defender, trying nineteen first-degree murder cases. ANDREW I. NATHANSON, Vancouver BC, is one of four trial lawyers in his immediate family and, as a former ad- junct law professor, now proudly boasts that he uses the So- cratic Method every night at bedtime with his eight and ten year old sons. DAVID NAUTS, Livoria MI, ran Division 1 cross country at the University of Detroit. If Dave hadn’t become a lawyer, he would have been a journalist. He was Editor-in-Chief of the UD student newspaper, the Varsity News. His predeces- sor as Editor was Ronald Fournier, who went on to become Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press. KATHLEEN NEARY, Lincoln NE, paid for college, as did her three older brothers, with prize winnings earned from showing their sheep at 4H and FFA shows. SARAH NEWELL, Omaha NE, worked for several sena- tors in the Nebraska Legislature prior to law school, in- cluding the one who represented the district her father served when she was born. Sarah ended up in law school by accident – she had planned to be a clinical forensic psychologist until she was assigned the role of the defense attorney in her Psychology & Law class’s mock trial. After her first “not guilty” she was hooked. She still holds the re- cord for most jury trials in a year at the Lancaster County Public Defender’s Office. DRU NIELSEN, Denver CO, spent ten years as a public defender before turning to private practice. She proudly lists on her website that she lectures on the topic of “Sex, Booze & the Law,” presumably because of her extensive expertise in at least some of those topics. KATY C. O’DONNELL, Baltimore MD, joined the Mary- land Office of the Public Defender in 1985, handling a felony trial caseload. In 1999 she became the Division Chief of the Capital Defense Division. Today, she serves as the Chief of Major Crimes and Complex Litigation. MEL ORCHARD, Jackson WY, played tight end and re- turned punts for Washington State University; his friends tease him that the length of time between meeting someone and talking about football is approximately fifteen seconds, or about ten seconds longer than any of his punt returns. RANDALL PATEE, Minneapolis MN, is admitted to prac- tice in both Minnesota and Florida, but practices exclu- sively in Minnesota because he has never encountered an alligator there. DOUGLAS RESS, Philadelphia PA, attended his first concert at age eight in 1964 to see The Beatles. Doug plays ice hockey three times a week unless on trial and has played many times with and against hockey legends such as Guy Lafleur. DAN RICHARDS, Austin TX, helped lead a ten-day Boy Scout expedition through the jungles of Costa Rica, and only lost one scout, luckily only for a few hours. Dan has played soccer on an over fifty men’s soccer team since the early 90’s. He meticulously restored a 1949 Mercury sedan. He successfully enjoined the state of Texas from cutting millions in funding from programs for disabled children. DANIELLE ROBITAILLE, Toronto ON, is the mother of thirteen year old boy-girl twins, which she describes as “wonderful and exhaust- ing.” \[They are only thirteen and have just entered teen-age, so we suspect the wonder and exhaustion are not over.\] Danielle’s husband Mark Sanagan is a historian of the modern middle east and a writer. SUMMER 2023 JOURNAL 70