WASHINGTON, March 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a
prestigious association of highly-credentialed trust and estate
lawyers, has elected Susan T. House
as President for the 2017- 2018 year. ACTEC inaugurated its
new officers during its Annual Meeting earlier this month in
Scottsdale, Arizona.
Ms. House, a partner with Hahn & Hahn LLP in Pasadena, California, is the head of the
firm's trust and estates practice group and has been certified by
The State Bar of California Board
of Legal Specialization as a Certified Estate Planning, Trust &
Probate Law Specialist. She handles primarily complex estate
planning and trust and estates administration, and she is often
called upon to mediate litigated matters and to advise other
lawyers on ethical issues that arise in the trust and estates
context. She is nationally recognized as a speaker and
panelist in trust and estates programs.
Elected to ACTEC membership in 1987, Ms. House has been a member
of the Board of Regents, California State Chair, Chair of the
Membership, Program and Long Range Planning Committees, and an
ACTEC Delegate to the Joint Editorial Board for the Uniform Trust
and Estate Acts. She has also been a member of the Elder Law
and Professional Responsibility Committees, the Academic Fellows
Committee, the Financial Management and Audit Committees, the
Sponsorship Committee and the ACTEC Foundation.
Ms. House served on the Executive Committee of the Trusts and
Estates Section of the California State Bar for 11 years, during
which time she was Editor of the California Trusts and Estates
Quarterly published by the Section and was Chair of the Section
in 1998-1999. She has been named a Southern California Super
Lawyer since 2004, and in 2009, she received the prestigious
Arthur K. Marshall Award given by
the Trusts & Estates Section of the Los Angeles County Bar
Association. She earned her J.D. from University of California at Los Angeles School of
Law, Los Angeles, California, and
her B.A. from Wellesley College,
Wellesley, Massachusetts.
At the Scottsdale meeting, the
Board of Regents elected the following 2017-2018 officers, each of
whom will serve on the Executive Committee and on the Board of
Regents:
- President-Elect: Charles D. Fox
IV (Charlottesville,
VA)
- Vice-President: John A. Terrill
II (West Conshohocken,
PA)
- Treasurer: Stephen R. Akers
(Dallas, TX)
- Secretary: Ann B. Burns
(Minneapolis, MN)
Immediate Past President, Cynda C.
Ottaway, of Oklahoma City,
OK, will also serve on the Executive Committee and as a
Regent during the 2017-2018 year.
At the ACTEC Fall Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Annual
Meeting in Scottsdale, the Board
of Regents elected the following nominees to be Fellows of the
College:
AR:
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Sarah Cotton
Patterson (Little Rock)
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AZ:
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Prescott B. Pohl
(Phoenix)
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CA:
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David W. Baer
(Orinda)
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Philip J. Hayes (San
Francisco)
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Ellen McKissock (San
Jose)
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Justin T. Miller
(San Francisco)
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CO:
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Clara Brown Shaffer
(Grand Junction)
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Herbert E. Tucker
(Denver)
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CT:
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Christopher S. Drew
(Avon)
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Darren M. Wallace
(Stamford)
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Karen E. Yates (New
Haven)
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DE:
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Charles J. Durante
(Wilmington)
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FL:
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Keith B. Braun (Palm
Beach Gardens)
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M. Travis Hayes
(Naples)
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GA:
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Kimberly E. Civins
(Atlanta)
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Mary B. Galardi
(Brookhaven)
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HI:
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Rosemarie Sam
(Honolulu)
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Jared Kawashima
(Honolulu)
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IA:
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Matthew Gardner
(Urbandale)
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Kyle S. Irvin (Sioux
City)
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ID:
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Darin DeAngeli
(Boise)
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Dennis Voorhees (Twin
Falls)
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IL:
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Svetlana V. Bekman
(Chicago)
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David A. Berek
(Chicago)
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Bobbi J.
Bierhals (Chicago)
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David C.
Blickenstaff (Chicago)
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James H.
Cundiff (Chicago)
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Barbara Grayson
(Chicago)
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Benjamin N. Feder
(Northbrook)
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Kirk A. Hoopingarner
(Chicago)
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Pamela Lucina
(Chicago)
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Karin C.
Prangley (Chicago)
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Christine R.W.
Quigley (Chicago)
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Anita M. Sarafa
(Chicago)
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Stacy E. Singer
(Chicago)
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J. Andrew P. Stone
(Chicago)
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Ryan A. Walsh
(Chicago)
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Neil H. Weinberg
(Chicago)
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IN:
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Richard O. Kissel II
(Indianapolis)
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Cindy A. Wolfer
(Fort Wayne)
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LA:
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Robert L. Perez (New
Orleans)
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MA:
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Kelly Aylward
(Boston)
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M. Bradford
Bedingfield (Boston)
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Joseph D. Kropp
(Wellesley)
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David L. Silvian
(Boston)
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Christopher J. Ward
(Orleans)
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Amiel Z.
Weinstock (Boston)
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MD:
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David C. Dembert
(Baltimore)
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MI:
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Robert B. Labe
(Birmingham)
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Jennifer L. Remondino
(Holland)
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Geoffrey R. Vernon
(Saint Clair Shores)
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MN:
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Michael P. Sampson
(Minneapolis)
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Karen Sandler
Steinert (Minneapolis)
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NC:
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Heidi E. Royal
(Charlotte)
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NE:
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Christina L. Ball
(Lincoln)
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NH:
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Catherine Richmond
(Hanover)
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NJ:
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Philip C. Corbo
(Roseland)
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NY:
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Mitchell A. Drossman
(New York)
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Sharon L. Klein (New
York)
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Paul S. Lee (New
York)
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Hannah W. Mensch (New
York)
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Zena M. Tamler (New
York)
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OH:
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Christina D'Eramo
Evans (Cleveland)
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Victor J. Ferguson
(Columbus)
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Edwin P. Morrow
III (Dayton)
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Frances Mitchell
Schaul (Cleveland)
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OR:
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Hilary A. Newcomb
(Portland)
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PA:
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Jeffrey Thomas Getty
(Pittsburgh)
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Aubrey H. Glover
(Bridgeville)
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Adam T.
Gusdorff (West Conshohocken)
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Eric R. Strauss
(Allentown)
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TX:
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Amy P. Jetel
(Austin)
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WA:
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Katie S. Groblewski
(Seattle)
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Rochelle L. Haller
(Seattle)
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WI:
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Philip J. Miller
(Milwaukee)
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Melissa Kampmann
(Wausau)
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Academic
Fellows:
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CA:
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Professor David O.
Horton, University of California, Davis, School of Law
(Davis)
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Professor E. Gary Spitko, Santa Clara University
School of Law (Santa Clara)
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DC:
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Professor Naomi Cahn,
George Washington University School of Law (Washington)
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ND:
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Professor Bradley
Myers, University of North Dakota, (Grand Forks)
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TX:
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Professor Joshua
Tate, SMU Dedman School of Law (Dallas)
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International
Fellow:
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Portugal:
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Miguel Teixeira De
Abreu (Lisbon)
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Established in 1949, The American College of Trust and Estate
Counsel (ACTEC) is a nonprofit association of 2,500 trust and
estate lawyers peer-elected to membership based on substantial
contributions to the field of trusts and estates law. ACTEC
offers technical comments about the law and its effective
administration, but does not take positions on matters of policy or
political objectives.
CONTACT:
Leah Weatherspoon
202-688-0271
lweatherspoon@actec.org
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