Movers and Shakers • February 2024
CENTRAL
MATT VANDENBERG is now counsel to King & Spalding in Austin. ALFONSO GARCIA CHAN, previously with McKool Smith, is now a partner in King & Spalding in Austin.
JENNIFER TOWLE is now a member in Dickinson Wright in Austin.
GULF
ERICH J. ALMONTE and MARK SCHLACKMAN are now partners in and CHAD STEWART is now counsel to King & Spalding in Houston.
W. CURT WEBB, of Beck Redden in Houston, is retiring from the practice of law after 36 years.
MARY LONDON FULLER is now a partner in Frost Brown Todd in Houston.
MIATTA C. ECHETEBU, SAMUEL P. GILLASPIE, CHARLES HUTCHISON, NICK E. MCTARNAGHAN, REAGAN HANNA NOSER, ZACHARY D. SARVER, and CATHERINE WELCH are now associates of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Houston. JEFFREY DAVIS, of the firm’s Houston office, was elected as a national board representative of the Houston Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
ANDREA ROTH and JESSICA RODRIGUEZ-WAHLQUIST are now partners in Sorrels Law in Houston.
MASON MALONE, ERIN FORMBY, and NATHANIEL BASS are now associates of Reynolds Frizzell in Houston.
JOHN A. SMITH III, previously deputy civil chief with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas in Corpus Christi, has retired from the practice of law after 38 years.
ANDY CHEN, QUAN Q. LU, and EDUARDO MARQUEZ CERTUCHA are now counsel to Sidley Austin in Houston.
EMMA PEREZ MCKELLAR and AMY PARETTE are now associates of Baker Donelson in Houston.
FRANKLIN ACHONYE is now a staff attorney with Stephens Reed & Armstrong in Houston.
LOUIS CASTRO, WILLIAM COWAN, BENNETT R. HUDDLESTON, MARIAH J. KARIGAN, TRISTAN MONTAQUE, and IMRAN SIDDIQI are now associates of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry in Houston.
NORTH
W. ANDREW BOONE and ASHLEY ZARATE are now associates of Spencer Fane in Dallas. JESSICA LEE is now an associate in the firm’s Plano office.
PEYTON M. DEAN is now an associate of Brown Pruitt Wambsganss Dean Forman & Moore in Fort Worth.
AARON GOTTLIEB is now a partner in Johnson Friedman Law Group in Addison.
ANDY COX is now senior litigation counsel to Baker Moran in Plano.
AIMEE L. STONE is now senior trust officer and senior vice president of Bank of America in Fort Worth.
JONATHAN D. GUYNN, ENRIQUE A. LEMUS, and JOSEPH C. VAN ASTEN are now partners in Jones Day in Dallas.
SEAN DAMM, COURTNEY J. GILBERG, JEREMY B. PETTIT, and DAVID A. SILVA are now partners in and JOCELYNE E. KELLY is now counsel to Sidley Austin in Dallas.
PAUL I. PATTON and MICHAEL P. PEÑA are now associates of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Dallas.
SOUTH
BARBIE SCHARF-ZELDES was appointed judge for the newly established Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County in San Antonio.
MICHAEL DENUCCIO is now a partner in Farmer, House, Osuna & Olvera in San Antonio.
ANDRES BERDUGO and ZACHARY MILLIKEN are now associates of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry in San Antonio.
WEST
MADISON ROSE, JACK SHEPHERD, and ELIZABETH COURTNEY are now shareholders in Lynch, Chappell & Alsup in Midland.
OUT OF STATE
SUSAN LINDBERG is now vice president of and general counsel to T.D. Williamson in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
