Michael V. Coleman has joined the law firm of Holt Ney Zatcoff & Wasserman LLP as partner.

Congratulations to Jose A. Lopez on his election to partnership by Schopf & Weiss in Chicago.

Leroy Wilson, Jr. received the New York State Bar Association’s Haywood Burns Memorial Award. The award recognizes lawyers who seek to expand civil rights for all people.

Congratulations to Glen Shu on being elected to partnership at Baker & Hostetler in Cleveland.

Natalia Delgado of Goldberg Kohn Bell Black Rosenbloom & Moritz has been appointed to the Board of the Illinois Finance Authority.

Akiko Mikumo has been named one of the “Dealmakers of the Year” by The American Lawyer magazine.

Congratulations to Joe Martin on his election as President-Elect of the National Native American Bar Association.

Teresa Cropper is the new Diversity Coordinator for Piper Rudnick and will be based in the firm’s Chicago office.

Congratulations to John Crump, the Executive Director of the National Bar Association on being named the “Man of the Year” by the National Federation of Black Women Business Owners.

Roberto A. Rivera-Soto has been nominated to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Mirut P. Dalal has become a partner with McAndrews Held & Malloy in Chicago. Congratulations!

Elena Baca has been named Chair of the home office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker.

Nelson A. Diaz returns as a partner to Blank Rome in Philadelphia after completing two years as City Solicitor.

Johnine P. Barnes has been elected to partnership in the D.C. office of Baker & Hostetler. Congratulations!

Juan E. Mendez will assume the presidency of the International Center for Transitional Justice.

G.A. Finch has been re-elected co-managing partner at Querrey & Harrow in Chicago.

Joy V. Cunningham will become the Chicago Bar Association’s first African American woman president during the 2004-05 bar year.

Ernest W. Torain, Jr., a partner with Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman has been elected to the La Rabida Children’s Hospital Board of Trustees.

Theodore M. Shaw is the new President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

R. Delacy Peters, Jr. has joined Arnstein & Lehr as a partner in corporate litigation and entertainment law.

Oscar De La Rosa has left Vinson & Elkins in Houston to open his own law firm.

Malini M. Byanna has joined Brigitte Schmidt Bell in Chicago. Her practice will focus on family law, mediation and collaborative law.

Alice Young, a partner at Kaye Scholer LLP in New York is the recipient of the 2004 Justice in Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Congratulations to Marco A. Gonzalez on becoming a new partner at Duane Morris in Philadelphia.

Theodore D. Chuang, former Assistant United States Attorney, Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit has become of counsel to Wilmer Cutler & Pickering in it’s Washington, D.C. office/

John C. Hou is a new partner at Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto. Congratulations!

Kamala Harris was elected District Attorney in San Francisco.

Congratulations to Mark Rodriguez. Mark is a new partner in the Houston office of Vinson & Elkins.

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