Student accomplishments

Jason Pearsall

recently completed the sale of an e-commerce company, www.performancepersonalcomputers.com, which he founded and started three years ago.

Kathleen Howard

has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of a new DPS-authorized charter school, New Paradigm Glazer Academy Glazer. Board members of charter schools are public officials who swear a constitutional oath of office and are appointed by DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts. Charter school board members set policy, maintain the academy\'s vision and/or mission promote educational excellence through advocacy, visionary leadership, and high-quality services as well as ensure that the academy complies with its charter and all applicable laws. They also manage school resources, ensure effective organizational planning, support and review the performance of the school leader and education service provider, and maintain accountability. Click here for more.

Dan Ringo

has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of a new DPS-authorized charter school, GEE Edmonson Academy. Board members of charter schools are public officials who swear a constitutional oath of office and are appointed by DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts. Click here for more.

Robert Rogosich

was nominated by the Wayne Law tax faculty, including Professors Beale, McIntyre and Schenk, to be honored at the Michigan Bar Tax Section Annual Meeting lunch at the Inn at St. Johns in Plymouth on May 12, 2011. Each year the Tax Section of the State Bar gives awards for \"Excellence in the Study of Taxation.\" The recipients are determined by the school, and each school can designate two students that it believes are worthy.

Thomas Fabbri

was nominated by the Wayne Law tax faculty, including Professors Beale, McIntyre and Schenk, to be honored at the Michigan Bar Tax Section Annual Meeting lunch at the Inn at St. Johns in Plymouth on May 12, 2011. Each year the Tax Section of the State Bar gives awards for \"Excellence in the Study of Taxation.\" The recipients are determined by the school, and each school can designate two students that it believes are worthy.

Dan Ringo

was featured in a recent Legal News article.

Erika Riggs

was selected as a Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Foundation Scholar for 2011. She will be honored at an awards reception on March 30.

Samantha Orvis

was selected to be a Dickinson Wright Women\'s Network Scholar for 2011. The scholarships come from the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Foundation. Awardees will be honored at an awards reception on March 30. Also, Orvis was featured in the ABA\'s Student Lawyer magazine in February 2011, Vol. 39, No. 6, in an article titled \"Competing for Experience,\" under the subtitle \"Make Your Own Luck,\" where she offered advice on how to get clinic experience when you\'re not selected to participate in your school\'s clinic(s). She talked about the many opportunities available for Wayne Law students to get involved in the Detroit community and gave an account of her positive experience working with Lakeshore Legal Aid\'s Counsel and Advocacy Law Line, a legal aid hotline.

Dan Ringo

has been appointed to the Detroit Historic District Commission by Mayor David Bing. His term begins immediately and expires in 2013.

Aisa Villarosa

was highlighted in a recent Detroit Free Press article.

Dan Ringo

was selected to serve on a national search committee for a new Detroit Public Schools Superintendent. He was selected along with 24 other notable community, business and labor leaders.

Dan Ringo

who serves as a committee member on the Joint Labor Business Task Force along with notable and respected leaders in government, labor and business, contributed to a recent compilation titled \"The Positive Story of Michigan\'s Workforce.\"

Rewaq Najor

a second year law student at Wayne State University Law School, spoke at the Chaldean American Bar Association (CABA) quarterly meeting about her experience with the mentoring program that the association offers to students. http://www.chaldean.org/CommunityPages/ChaldeanChurches/MarAddaiMIUSA/tabid/118/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/106/Fuddruckers-Play-Host-as-Chaldean-Attorneys-Gather-for-the-2007-CABA-Quarterly-Meeting.aspx

Emily Thomas

was featured in the Oakland County Bar Association\'s magazine Laches. She is featured in a photo with OCBA President and Wayne Law alumna Jennifer Grieco at the Leadership Orientation.

Paul J. Isso

was recently appointed by the Student Bar Association Board of Governors to serve on the American Bar Association Membership Committee for Wayne Law. In addition, he currently serves as an article editor board member on the Journal of Law in Society Board, and a governor-at-large and associate justice on the Student Bar Association Board of Governors.

Jyarland Daniels Jones

was featured in Legal News story on summer externships. Article at http://bit.ly/9fBipo.

Aisa Villarosa and Samantha Orvis

recently returned from a four-day trip to the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco. As official delegates at the conference, they participated in the Law Student Division Assembly, voting on amendments and reforms to the ABA Law Student Division policies. One of the new policies that they voted for -- which ultimately passed -- was a renewal of individual law student and attorney commitment to engaging our nation\'s youth in civic learning. More than a hundred law schools were present at the meeting.

Dan Ringo

was appointed by Detroit Mayor Dave Bing as a member of the Advisory Task Force for the Detroit Strategic Framework Plan Project. The Advisory Task Force will advise the Mayor and the project team during the Strategic Framework Planning Project. The Task Force, made up of respected and recognized city leaders, will meet 12 times from now until July 2011.

Samantha Orvis

has been appointed Wayne Law\'s ABA Representative for 2010-2011. As an official delegate to the ABA Law Student Division Assembly, she will serve as an advocate on behalf of the ABA Law Student Division members at Wayne Law and serve as the school\'s point person to the ABA Law Student Division. She will also promote the ABA at Wayne Law and communicate the benefits and value of ABA membership to Law School students.

Kimberly M. Adams

was selected as a Just The Beginning Foundation (JTBF) Summer Judicial Externship Fellow. She will be externing with The Hon. Walter H. Rice, U.S. District Court-Southern District of Ohio (Dayton, Ohio) for eight weeks from June 1 through July 20, 2010. The JTBF is a multiracial, non-profit organization dedicated to developing and nurturing interest in the law among young persons of various ethnic backgrounds underrepresented in the legal profession and supporting their continued advancement. The specific objective of the Judicial Externship Program is to match selected law students with federal and state judges and to sharpen their skills in legal research, writing and analytical techniques.

Dan Ringo

provided expertise in an article in the Michigan Citizen titled \"Incinerator debate continues: Tension between environment and employment.\" Article here.

Dan Ringo

was recently elected to the National Lawyers Guild Board of Directors for the Detroit/Michigan Chapter.

Steve Williams

was recognized as an outstanding tax law student at Wayne Law by the tax faculty. He will be honored at the Annual Tax Conference sponsored by the Tax Section of the State Bar of Michigan. The Tax Conference is scheduled to take place on May 20, 2010.

Bethany Van Ansorge

was recognized as an outstanding tax law student at Wayne Law by the tax faculty. She will be honored at the Annual Tax Conference sponsored by the Tax Section of the State Bar of Michigan. The Tax Conference is scheduled to take place on May 20, 2010.

Eric M. Jamison

co-authored an article that was published in Michigan Lawyers Weekly. Article here.