Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell Hamline Alumni

Class Notes

Class of 2002

Jill A. Liska ’02

Posted: July 7, 2020
Jill Liska ’02, J.D., Appointed as General Counsel, Director of Legal Services and Senior Vice President of Sargent & Lundy CHICAGO – Sargent & Lundy appointed Jill Liska as general counsel, director of legal services and senior vice president. Liska earned her Juris Doctor degree from Mitchell Hamline School of Law in 2002. Liska leads …

Jill A. Liska ’02

John Kavanagh ’02 (WMCL)

Posted: August 1, 2017
John Kavanagh has been promoted to managing director for public and regulatory affairs for Minnesota Public Radio. Kavanagh will oversee MPR’s government relations and regulatory compliance efforts. He will serve as the liaison for MPR’s networked stations, both on the state and local level as well as nationally in Washington, D.C. and oversee regulatory compliance …

John Kavanagh ’02 (WMCL)

Shereen M. Askalani Clemens ’02

Posted: June 1, 2016
Governor Mark Dayton announced the appointments of Shereen M. Askalani Clemens as District Court Judge in Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District. Ms. Askalani Clemens will be chambered at Minneapolis in Hennepin County.  Ms. Askalani Clemens is an Assistant Ramsey County Attorney, where she works in the Prosecution Division primarily handling criminal sexual conduct, felony domestic assault, and …

Shereen M. Askalani Clemens ’02

Patrick Finn ’02

Posted: May 2, 2016
Patrick Finn III has been named the managing principal of the Twin Cities office of Fish & Richardson, where he leads a team of 37 attorneys. He also will maintain his practice, which emphasizes patent preparation and prosecution, strategic portfolio management, patentability and freedom-to-operate searching and analysis, inter partes review proceedings, opinions, due diligence investigations, …

Patrick Finn ’02

Brian R. Geis ’02

Posted: January 31, 2016
joined the firm of as Estebo, Frank, Munshower and Geis, in Redwood Falls, MN. He previously owned his own general practice firm in Prior Lake, MN. Geis handles a variety of legal areas from arbitration to estate planning as well as business, consumer and criminal law. Brian and his wife, Debra, have one son, Eli, …

Brian R. Geis ’02

Jayne J. Beehler ’02

Posted: December 9, 2015
has authored Book 2 – Drop the Puck, Shoot for the Cup– in a series of books about hockey for children that also includes lessons on sportsmanship and fair play. Beehler, of Hayward, Wisc.,  is a college professor, lawyer, author, wife, mother, advocate for children with disabilities, and lifelong fan of student athletics.

Jayne J. Beehler ’02