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Ann Halphen is an avid gardener who has participated in several all-women mini triathlons known as Rocketchix. It helps that Ann actually enjoys swimming, biking and running. Ann was raised in a small town in the heart of Cajun Country in Southwest Louisiana – New Iberia – also the home of Tabasco. She loves to read and always has several books going at one time.
Chris Ieyoub has taken time off from his practice to fundraise for Autism Services of Southwest Louisiana, to assemble and supervise hurricane relief crews for Rita, Laura and Delta, and caddy for his son at St. Andrews on his 18th birthday.
MARYLAND
Curt Booth and his wife, his high school sweetheart, have run nine marathons together in the past five years. Curt grew up in Upstate New York and still has an interest in the farm where he grew up, where his father and he raise registered polled Hereford beef cattle. But Curt prefers buffalo to cattle, at least the Buffalo Bills.
MASSACHUSETTS
Joshua Levy has spent his entire legal career after a clerkship in two places in Boston, a law firm and the US Attorney’s Office. First four years at the firm, seven years as an Assistant, then seventeen more years at the firm, then back to serve as First Assistant. If we had to guess the future . . . But while his career has been limited to Boston, his travels are not. Largely as the result of eighteen months on the Dukakis for President Campaign, Josh has visited all fifty states.
Michael Mone, Jr., is a second generation Fellow; his father was Past President Mike Mone and his uncle Peter Mone is a Fellow. Michael taught English for six months in Prague, The Czech Republic, subsisting on a diet of dumplings, gravy, and beer. If you travel to Prague and hear a native speaking English with a thick Boston accent, you can be sure they were one of his students. Michael considers the ten years he spent representing detainees in Guantánamo to be the best thing he will ever do as a lawyer.
MINNESOTA
Theresa Bevilacqua is the first woman in her family to graduate from college and earn a professional degree. Her under- graduate degree is in music, and she is a classically trained vocalist who has performed at Carnegie Hall. Theresa has worked at one firm her entire career, where she has been able to maintain a full trial practice, make partner, and change the parental leave policy so she could nurture her family (four kids) at the same time. Theresa plans and organizes her own and her extended family’s adventure vacations to National Parks – sixteen to twenty people ages six to eighty – having toured nearly thirty Parks and National Monuments in the United States and Canada.
Frederick J. Goetz concentrates on criminal defense and plaintiff ’s civil rights litigation. He has been involved in cases of national importance including his representation of six Muslim clerics arrested at an airport after praying. Fred has been for- tunate to travel with his wife and children and together experience the bloom of the cherry blossoms in Kyoto and watching the sun rise through the sun gate above Machu Picchu.
MISSOURI
Patrick Stueve was captain of his college football team. A retired running back, he cred- its his experience in football with teaching him how to organize teams around individual strengths. After a career in defense work, Patrick started his own firm in 2001 focused on commercial litigation defense work, work that includes a $217 million dollar jury verdict for a class of Kansas corn farmers that then resulted in a $1.51 billion settlement on be-
half of all U.S. corn farmers. Patrick was one of the creators of a pro bono legal service program for veterans called Military Matters, which was awarded a $50,000 grant in 2018 from the Foundation of the College. After raising their three children, Patrick and his wife, Janna, have for more than a decade served as foster parents for newborn infants.
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