Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg hired Lori Hill as director of customs audits and compliance, the firm said. Hill previously worked as import compliance manager in the international trade compliance department of Tyco International Management Company.
Linda Menghetti Dempsey, ex-Emergency Committee for American Trade, has joined the National Association of Manufacturers as vice president for international economic affairs.
Meredith Broadbent was sworn in as a Commissioner of the International Trade Commission Sept. 11. She will fill the Commission term expiring on June 16, 2017.
President Obama said he plans to nominate Scott Kieff as a member of the U.S. International Trade Commission, and Joshua Wright a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. Kieff is a professor at The George Washington University Law School and a Ray and Louis Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation and serves on the Property Rights Task Force. Wright is a professor at George Mason University School of Law and was a Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition from January 2007 to July 2008.
Jorge Luis Quijano, an engineer who has been in charge of the Expansion Program, began his seven-year term as the Panama Canal Administrator Sept. 4. Quijano replaces Alberto Alemán Zubieta, who served as Administrator for 16 years. Manuel Benítez also began his term as Deputy Administrator.
Circuit Judge Richard Lynn of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit announced his retirement from regular active service on CAFC on Nov. 1, and will assume senior status. Linn was on the CAFC for more than 12 years.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies names Scott Miller, ex-Procter & Gamble, its new William M. Scholl Chair in International Business, succeeding Meredith Broadbent, named to the International Trade Commission.
Damon Pike of the Pike Law Firm, Teresa Polino of Thompson Coburn, and Cyndee Todgham Cherniak of LexSage Professional Corporation were named co-chairs in the American Bar Associations Customs Committee for the 2012-2013 year.