Movers and Shakers • December 2023
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CENTRAL
JUDY KOSTURA is now a partner in Sorrels Law in Austin.
GULF
TRAVIS TORRENCE, of Shell USA in Houston, was reappointed to the Texas Access to Justice Foundation Board of Directors by the Supreme Court of Texas.
CLEVE GLENN, previously with Frost Brown Todd, is now a partner in BakerHostetler in Houston.
DANIEL MCENTEE is now a partner in Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Houston.
JAMES D. PRAPPAS, of Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Houston, was named president-elect of the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association.
CICELY BENOIT is now an attorney with Stephens Reed & Armstrong in Houston.
FOSTER BAIRD is now an attorney with Santoyo Wehmeyer in Houston.
NORTH
RICK TUBB is now a partner in Farrow- Gillsepie Heath Wilmoth in Dallas.
DEBORAH HANKINSON, former Supreme Court of Texas justice, was reappointed by the Supreme Court of Texas as chair of the Texas Access to Justice Foundation for a three-year term.
ELLIOTT S. MASON is now a managing member of Mason Law Firm in Frisco.
KENDALL BRYANT, JIM FLOYD, and MICHAEL
GALLO are now of counsel to and MEGAN MCKENNA is now an associate of Padfield & Stout in Fort Worth.
CARLOS CORTEZ and MEGHANA WADHWANI, both of Cortez Law Firm in Dallas, and THOMAS A. HERALD, of Thomas A. Herald, P.C. in Irving, received the 2023 John Howie Award from the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association.
K. RANDOLPH PEAK is now partner in and DAVID K. ROSE is now counsel to Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath in Dallas.
JIM WIEHL is now a partner in BakerHostetler in Dallas.
KAYLA BRIGHT and VICTORIA TRACY are now associates of Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Dallas.
JENAE D. WARD, of Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Dallas, received the Outstanding In-House Attorney Award from the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program; KAYLEY BACIGALUPO, LAUREN BROIDY, EMMA CONDE, JASMINE HARRIS, SARAH YUE, and HUNTER ZEPEDA are now associates of the firm.
FRANCIS LEAF and DEVIN REYES are now associates of Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Dallas.