Movers and Shakers • December 2024
CENTRAL
KIM GUSTAFSON BUENO and CHRISTOPHER M. COWAN are now partners in and MICHAEL GALDO is now counsel to King & Spalding in Austin.
MIESHA AUBREY is now senior vice president of client services of the Texas Advocacy Project.
SUE AYERS is now a partner in Hutcheson Bowers in Austin.
JAMES R. RAY III is now managing shareholder in Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr in Austin.
SUSAN GARCIA is now general counsel to and chief compliance officer of CS Disco in Austin.
CHRISTINE HENRY ANDRESEN, of CHA Law Group in Austin, was named an adoption fellow by the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.
CATHERINE GARZA is now a partner in Jackson Walker in Austin.
GULF
MICHELLE HOOGENDAM CASH established Cash ADR in
Bellaire.
TARA L. BLAKE and AMY M. PEPKE are partners in King & Spalding in Houston.
BRITTANY KING and DEBORAH E. RANSOM are now associates of Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Houston.
CAMERON ASBY is now a shareholder in Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr in Houston.
RICHARD MURAD and CAMILLE MORRIS TANKERSLEY are now partners in Hensley & Krueger in Houston.
TODD CARPENTER, of Kinetik in Houston, is retiring after 48 years in law practice.
KEVIN POWERS is now a partner in Spencer Fane in Houston.
PORTER LAW FIRM, based in Houston, is re-locating its office to 2603 Augusta Dr., Houston 77057.
DAKOTA JOHNSON and SHALON ALLEN are now attorneys with Sorrels Law in Houston.
STEVE GREEN is now of counsel to Crain Caton & James in Houston.
DEREK J. ANCHONDO is now special counsel to Kean
Miller in Houston.
NORTH
MARTHA H. HOFMEISTER, of Shackelford, McKinley & Norton in Dallas, received the Earl W. Kintner Award for Distinguished Service from the Federal Bar Association.
MICHAEL WOZNIAK is now an associate of Lyons & Simmons in Dallas.
GABRIELLA ORENGO LYONS is now a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright in Dallas.
LOUIS J. JENULL is now a partner in Winston & Strawn in Dallas.
JAMES C. WYLY is now a member in Wily~Rommel in Texarkana.
SCOTT H. PALMER P.C., was renamed Palmer Perlstein, and REBEKAH PERLSTEIN is now managing partner of the firm in Dallas.
CAYLIN C. CRAIG and BROOKE PRYOR are now associates of Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth in Dallas.
JARED WILKINSON is now a partner in Bailey Brauer in Dallas.
RODNEY MOORE, CONRAD STEELE, SAMUEL PECA, and SCOTT DELANEY are now partners in Jones Day in Dallas.
SCOTT DAVIS and DAVID TIMMINS are now partners in Spencer Fane in Dallas.
MEREDITH CLAUNCH, MICHAEL DESMOND, and JONATHAN KROPP are now associates of Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Dallas.
WILLIAM J. “BILL” LARIMER is now an associate of Harrison Steck in Fort Worth.
SOUTH
EDWARD GUZMAN is now senior vice president and chief legal ethics officer to and KAREN HANSEN is vice president of environmental law and regulatory compliance to San Antonio Water System in San Antonio.
SOFIA LUNA is now an associate of Drought, Drought & Bobbitt in Boerne.
SOÑA RAMIREZ is now a member in and ADAM BOLAND is of counsel to Steptoe & Johnson in San Antonio.
RONALD E. MENDOZA, of Davis, Cedillo & Mendoza in San Antonio, was inducted as a fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers.
WEST
CINDY M. VASQUEZ is now a shareholder in Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson & Galatzan in El Paso.
FERNANDO BUSTOS, of the Bustos Law Firm in Lubbock, was appointed to the Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals by the Supreme Court of Texas.
OUT OF STATE
MARK D. MYERS is now of counsel to Steptoe & Johnson in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
STAN DALE is now of counsel to the Livingston Law Firm in Raleigh, North Carolina.
JEFFREY KING is now senior real estate counsel to Harris Teeter in Matthews, North Carolina.
