Movers and Shakers • February 2025

CENTRAL

CHRIS JAEGER, a professor at Baylor Law School, was named a co-winner of the Association of American Law Schools Scholarly Paper Competition

STEWART N. MESHER is now a partner in Spencer Fane in Austin.

PATRICK PRICE and LUKE RONIGER are now partners in King & Spalding in Austin.

FRANCES BLAKE is now general counsel to and vice president of regulatory affairs of the Texas Association of Builders in Austin.

SHANNON EDMONDS is now executive director of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association in Austin.

GULF


MILES O. INDEST is now a partner in McGuireWoods in Houston.

JENNIFER LEGRAND HOWARD is now general counsel to National Energy Services Reunited in Houston.

BENNY AGOSTO JR., of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner in Houston, received the Ohtli Award from the Institute of Mexicans Living Abroad, part of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

MICHAEL A. MCCAULEY is now a judge of the 28th District Court of Nueces County in Corpus Christi.

STEPHANIE N. MORRISON is now a partner in Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Houston.

ANTON STEWART is now a senior associate of and VICTORIA NAREZO is now an associate of Spencer Fane in Houston.

NICHOLAS BRUNO, PARTH S. GEJJI, and JOSHUA S. SMITH are now partners in Beck Redden in Houston.

KARI D. LUTRINGER, CATALINA BOOTH, and MEGGAN CROW are now directors of Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Houston.

BEN D. SMOLIJ is now a partner in Winston & Strawn in Houston.

BLAIR B. BELSKY, MAHALIA S. DOUGHTY, and CHRIS FOLMSBEE are now partners in Sidley Austin in Houston.

MOLLIE BRACEWELL and JUSTIN S. ROWINSKY are now partners in Yetter Coleman in Houston.

JEN CAFFERTY PATTON is now chief operating officer of Foley & Lardner in Houston.

CARLA COTROPIA, previously with Mills Shirley, established Cotropia Mediations.

NORTH

CHELSIE A. KIDD and BRIAN T. ROBERTSON are now partners in McGuireWoods in Dallas.

MACKENZIE ARNOLD, TAYLOR MONTGOMERY, GREG NIEMAN, KATE ROSENOW, and SVEN STRICKER are now associates of Bell Nunnally & Martin. in Dallas.

BRENDAN C. CONLEY is now a partner in Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Dallas.

KALEB WALKER is now a partner in King & Spalding in Dallas.

KYLE WOODARD is now a director of Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Dallas.

BEN CHRISMAN, AHTOOSA AMINI DALE, and JAMES WATERS are now partners in Winston & Strawn in Dallas.

CHELSEA A. PRIEST is now a partner in Sidley Austin in Dallas.

CHRISTOPHER ELAM and JESSICA DUNNE are now partners in Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth in Dallas.

J.B. FISHMAN and HUNTER QUINN are now associates of Spencer Fane in Dallas.

OUT OF STATE

JORDAN S. HATCHER co-founded and is now the chief legal officer of the Grid at Tussen de Bogen 6, Amsterdam 1013JB, Netherlands.