Angela Tillotson, who has worked for the Department of Corrections for several years, was named Director of the Volunteers in Parole for the Sacramento region. She was introduced to the Sacramento Legal Community at a reception, attended by long time V.I.P. supporter and former board member, Judge Gary Ransom and Angel Sevilla, who was also recognized for his two years of work as director. Currently there are over 50 attorneys from Sacramento that are matched with parolees in a mentoring relationship. Statewide there are hundreds of such matches and V.I.P. boasts the recidivism rate for the mentees is only a fraction of that of paroles who do not avail themselves of the program. Ms. Tilloston takes over thriving program with hopes of creating even more matches.

Bruce Janigian, former head of the international business and government relations sections at Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Sproul and former chair of the SCBA International Law Section, recently opened his own practice with the same areas of emphasis: The Law Offices of Bruce Janigian. The global firm is affiliated with business and government lawyers in Washington D.C., and around the world. In addition to his practice, Janigian recently was honored with the outstanding faculty award of Golden Gate University, where he teaches international business management for the MBA program. A former Fulbright Professor of Law, he also continues to lead the USA delegation in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Trainor Robertson is pleased announce that Colby A. Campbell has been elected a shareholder with the firm. Campbell joined the Tax, Business and Estate Planning Section of Trainor Robertson in 1993 after moving from the Bay Area. Since that time, she built a successful practice in complex estate planning, business planning and entity formation. Her clients include high net-worth individuals, real estate developers and business owners. Colby received her bachelor's degree from the University of California Berkeley. She earned her law degree from Santa Clara University and after law school earned her master's in taxation from Golden Gate University. In addition to her busy law practice, Colby currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Children's Home.

Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Rudy, LLP is pleased to welcome John B. Reece and Alison P. Sandman to its Sacramento Office. Reece will serve as an associate in the firm's litigation section. Reece comes to Hanson Bridgett from Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedmann & Girard. Reece received his juris doctor and master's degree in business administration from Santa Clara University and a bachelor's degree in economics from the UC Davis.

Sandman was formerly with the Law Offices of Longyear, O'Dea and Lavra, LLP, where she handled employment, civil rights and tort defense matters for public entities and private individuals and corporations. Sandman received her juris doctor degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1995. She also has a master's degree in sports and fitness from the University of Rochester.

Concurrent with Reece's and Sanderman's apperance in the Sacramento office is the advancement of Sue Ann Van Dermyden to the senior counsel position. That position has been established by the firm to recognize those associates who have demonstrated a high level of skill and performance and have a range of skills likely to be of continuing importance and value to the firm's clients. Van Dermyden works within the firm's labor and employment section where she specializes in workplace investigations involving allegations of employee misconduct for both private and government clients. In addition, she is responsible for creating and presenting advanced seminars on conduction, effective internal investigations. She earned her law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1993 and received her undergraduate degree at California State University, Chico.

Drew M. Johnson practices with the firm of Nageley, Meredith & Miller. He received his juris doctor degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in 1967. Johnson was admitted to the California State Bar, 1967, Utah State Bar, 1988 and the Eastern, Northern, Central and Utah U.S. District Courts; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He currently is a member of State Bar of California, Sacramento County Bar Association, Legal Advisory Committee of the Associated General Contractors of California.

Ilene Goldstein Block has joined Livingston & Mattesich after five years in practice as Block & Associates. Ms. Block advises owners and executives on their business, financial, real estate and estate planning matters. Her clients include EA Consulting, FirstLine, Scribner Plastics, OctoClean Franchising Systems, Restoration Resources, and Pacific Coast Breaker. Block has been practicing law since 1984, the year she graduated from the UC Davis' King Hall School of Law. Her background includes six years as corporate counsel for Sacramento Savings Bank, The Restaurant Enterprises Group, and the Price Waterhouse Tax Department. She is a founding director of the Women's Financial Resource Network and a driving force behind renewed efforts by the Sacramento Aquarium Committee to put a fresh water aquarium on the Sacramento riverfront.

Maureen A. Sullivan has joined McDonough, Holland & Allen. Sullivan is a member of the firm's health section, where her practice includes health care operational, regulatory and litigation matters. Before coming to McDonough, Holland & Allen, Sullivan was Acting Chief for the California Department of Health Services/Licensing & Certification in Sacramento, California. At the Department of Health Services, Sullivan supervised all issues relating to health policy, legislation and regulations affecting licensing and certification. She drafted and disseminated regulations addressing licensure of facilities and provider categories under Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations. In 1994, Sullivan was a member of the joint team for the White House, which included members of the Health Care Reform Task Force and Office of Presidential Communications which charged developing the Health Care Reform Information Center that provided information about the White House's health care reform initiative. Sullivan received her J.D. in 1991 from Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, California, and a B.A. in 1975 from Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island.

Kristina M. Hall has also joined McDonough, Holland & Allen, where she is a member of the firm's employment practice group. She handles primarily litigation matters. Prior to joining the firm, Hall exclusively represented management in all aspects of labor and employment law. Hall received her J.D., in 1998, from Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Provo, and a B.A., Magna Cum Laude, in 1995, also from Brigham Young University.

The Sacramento-based law firm of Weintraub Genshela Chediak Sproul announces that Curtis C. Sproul has been elected as chair of the California State University, Sacramento Community Advisory Board. His term continues through the 2003-2004 academic year. Mr. Sproul's ongoing involvement with the university has included participation on search committees, as a member and chair of Capital Public Radio Board and as a member of the University Foundation Board. The Community Advisory Board is an entity comprised of professionals that maintain a dialogue going between community leaders and the university.