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Welcome Aboard!
We welcome these new members to our board of trustees. We look forward to their leadership!
ADREANNE
STUCKEY
is an Environ-
mental, Health
and Safety (EHS)
attorney at GE
Aerospace team.
She advises on
p e r m i t t i n g ,
compliance, and EHS policies and proce-
dures. Previously she served as EH&S
counsel for Duke Energy. Before Duke
Energy, Adreanne worked in Thompson
Hine’s Cincinnati office as an environ-
mental associate. She began her career
at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office in
Columbus where she focused on devel-
oping case strategy and litigated Ohio
EPA's cases. Outside of work, she loves
spending quality time with her family,
especially baby girls Aiyla Jai (3) and Janai
Aja (1) and husband, Jason. She loves all
word games, including the New York
Times games, Wordle, and Connections.
KELLIE ANN
KULKA
is a Senior Asso-
ciate at Bricker
Graydon. Kellie’s
practice focuses
on commercial
litigation, class
and collective
action defense, and medical malprac-
tice defense appeals. At Bricker Graydon,
Kellie has been instrumental in defending
financial institutions in class action claims
related to accounting and fee assessments.
She also represents major hospital systems
and insured physicians in post-trial liti-
gation and appeals in Ohio state courts.
Kellie also has experience in First Amend-
ment and public records litigation, trade
secret litigation, and appellate criminal
defense. Her role involved devising initial
litigation strategies, preparing written
work products, conducting depositions,
and managing discovery processes.
LAURA
RYAN
is a partner in
Thompson Hine’s
Employee Bene-
fits & Executive
Compensat ion
practice group.
She focuses her
practice on the design, maintenance and
termination of tax-qualified retirement
plans and trusts; employee benefit issues
in the context of corporate mergers and
acquisitions; welfare plan and flexible
benefit plan administration and docu-
mentation; various aspects of executive
compensation including establishment
and maintenance of non-qualified deferred
compensation plans; IRS and Depart-
ment of Labor plan audits; governmental
reporting obligations; compliance with
ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transac-
tion rules; and corrective actions under
regulatory relief programs.
GRACE
ROYALTY
serves as Career
Law Clerk to the
Hon. Michael
Barrett, U.S.
District Court
for the Southern
District of Ohio.
She is a former president of the Ohio
Women’s Bar Association (OWBA). She
currently serves as co-chair of the CBA’s
Professionalism Committee and Secre-
tary of the local chapter of the Federal
Bar Association. Grace also teaches
Legal Ethics as an adjunct professor at
the U.C. College of Law. She has also
been a presenter during the CBA’s New
Lawyer training. Grace has been a mentor
through the OWBA’s Mentor Program
and the Ohio Supreme Court’s Lawyer to
Lawyer Mentoring Program.
JESSE
HOCKEN-
BURY
is a member of the
Ba kerHostet ler
team ser ving
as cour t-ap-
pointed counsel
to the Securities
Investor Protection Act (SIPA) Trustee
for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff
Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS), an
unprecedented recovery effort involving
hundreds of actions. Jesse’s experience
includes assisting with trial preparation
and document management, as well as
obtaining records and other evidence for
contested hearings and trials and drafting
motions and correspondence.
ZACHARY
SCHAENGOLD
is a partner at
Robbins, Kelly,
Patterson & Tucker
and a member
of the firm’s liti-
gation practice
g roup. Z ach
represents clients in administrative hear-
ings, trial courts, and appellate courts.
He represents individuals, class members,
and public entities. For the last several
years, he represented several states in
their opioid litigation, as well as the state
of Ohio in its PFOA/PFAS litigation.
Zach was named an Ohio Super
Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2020, 2021,
and 2023 based on peer recogni-
tion and professional achievement
as an outstanding young lawyer.
Zach calls Cincinnati home and resides in
Hyde Park with his wife and two children.
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