Sightings | Class Notes p.3

After passing the North Carolina Bar in 2000, Jeff Fisher MEM’00 went to work for The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas, where he headed up their Delta program. In March of 2002, Jeff returned to North Carolina to marry Angela, and to accept the position of executive director for the Tar River Land Conservancy in Louisburg. He has a three-year old stepson, Cole, and a newborn son, Forrest.

The Pamlico-Tar River Foundation announced that Heather Jacobs MEM’00 has been appointed the first Riverkeeper for the Pamlico-Tar River basin. The Riverkeeper program will strive to form a citizen water quality monitoring team; develop coalitions with local governments, businesses, and nongovernmental agencies; and implement environmental education program for children. Jacobs recently spent two years in El Salvador as an agro-forestry and environmental education Peace Corps volunteer.

Tyson Kade MEM’00 sends word that he was married on Aug. 2, in Portland, Maine, to Joan Koleda, and they are moving to Seattle, Wash. Kade left his job at the National Marine Fisheries Service to start law school at the University of Washington this fall.

After a stint as executive director of the Little Tennessee Watershed Association, Michele Norwood T’96, F’01 has returned to the Triangle area in North Carolina to work on her doctorate in ecology at UNC-Chapel Hill where she is a Royster Fellow.

Enrique Rebolledo MEM’03 was appointed programme associate at the Global Environmental Facility for the United Nations Development Programme, in charge of the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean, regarding climate change and persistent organic pollutants in 32 countries.

James F. Van Orden MEM’03 has been busy writing this year. He expects to publish a chapter for a book entitled 100 Americans Making Constitutional History. A longer version of this chapter was accepted for publication at the Journal of Supreme Court History—to be published summer of next year. He also wrote nine entries for the Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties, including one on land use; and two entries for a forthcoming reference book, Major Acts of Congress. One is on the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act and another on the National Emissions Standards Act—the precursor to Title II of the Clean Air Act.

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