Past Boards

Board of Regents 2019-2020

President
Michael Aylward

President-Elect
Sheri Pastor

Secretary-Treasurer
Wayne Taylor

Immediate Past President
Mary McCutcheon

Board Members
Meghan Magruder(Executive Committee)
Deborah Varner (Executive Committee)
Robert Allen
Stacy Broman
Andrew Downs
Laura Foggan
Troy Froderman
Michael Huddleston
Helen Michael
Christopher Mosley
Stephen Pate
Martin Pentz

Board of Regents 2018-2019

President
Mary McCutcheon

President-Elect
Michael Aylward

Secretary-Treasurer
Sheri Pastor

Immediate Past President
Bruce Celebrezze

Board Members
Wayne Taylor (Executive Committee)
Meghan Magruder (Executive Committee)
Stacy Broman
Andrew Downs
Laura Foggan
Troy Froderman
Michael Huddleston
Helen Michael
Christopher Mosley
Stephen Pate
Martin Pentz
Deborah Varner

Board of Regents 2016-2017

President
Mary Craig Calkins

President-Elect
Bruce Celebrezze

Secretary/Treasurer
Mary McCutcheon

Executive Committee
Richard (Flip) Phillips

Immediate Past President
Edward (Ned) Currie Jr.

Board Members
Michael Aylward (Executive Committee)
Jill Berkeley
Stacy Broman
Rick Bryan
Troy Froderman
Michael Huddleston
Mark Lawless
Michael Marick
Sheri Pastor
Robert Thavis
Deborah Varner

Board of Regents 2017-2018

President
Bruce Celebrezze

President-Elect
Mary McCutcheon

Secretary-Treasurer
Michael Aylward

Immediate Past President
Mary Craig Calkins

Board Members
Richard Bryan (Executive Committee)
Sheri Pastor (Executive Committee)
Stacy Broman
Laura Foggan
Troy Froderman
Michael Huddleston
Mark Lawless
Meghan Magruder
Stephen Pate
Wayne Taylor
Deborah Varner

Board of Regents 2016-2017

President
Mary Craig Calkins

President-Elect
Bruce Celebrezze

Secretary/Treasurer
Mary McCutcheon

Executive Committee
Richard (Flip) Phillips

Immediate Past President
Edward (Ned) Currie Jr.

Board Members
Michael Aylward (Executive Committee)
Jill Berkeley
Stacy Broman
Rick Bryan
Troy Froderman
Michael Huddleston
Mark Lawless
Michael Marick
Sheri Pastor
Robert Thavis
Deborah Varner

Board of Regents 2015-2016

President
Edward (Ned) Currie Jr.

President-Elect
Mary Craig Calkins

Secretary/Treasurer
Bruce Celebrezze

Executive Committee
Mary McCutcheon
Gale White

Immediate Past President
Lorelie Masters

Board Members
Michael Aylward
Jill Berkeley
Michael Bidart
Stacy Broman
Rick Bryan
Dan Kohane
Mark Lawless
Michael Marick
Sheri Pastor
Richard (Flip) Phillips

Board of Regents 2014-2015

President
Lorelie Masters

President-Elect
Edward (Ned) Currie Jr.

Secretary/Treasurer
Mary Craig Calkins

Executive Committee
Bruce Celebrezze
Mary McCutcheon

Immediate Past President
Thomas Segalla

Board Members
Michael Aylward
Jill Berkeley
Michael Bidart
Robert Chesler
Lewis Collins Jr.
Dan Kohane
Jean Lawler
Michael Marick
Kirk Pasich
Richard (Flip) Phillips
Gale White

Board of Regents 2012-2014 (Founding Board)

President
Thomas F. Segalla

President-Elect
Lorelie S. Masters

Secretary/Treasurer
Edward (Ned) Currie Jr.

Immediate Past President
Thomas Segalla

Board Members
Michael Aylward
Michael Bidart
Bruce Celebrezze
Robert Chesler
Lewis Collins Jr.
Fred Cunningham
Joshua Gold
Dan Kohane
Jean Lawler
Mary McCutcheon
Kirk Pasich
Richard (Flip) Phillips
Gale White

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Article of the Month

Use and Abuse of Claims Experts in Bad Faith Litigation

ACCC Fellow and Board Officer Mike Huddleston’s recent article, featured in ABA TIPS “The Brief” Winter 2021

Member News

Ned Currie Receive Multiple Honors

The Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association presented Ned Currie of Currie Johnson & Myers, P.A. with the 2021 Defense Lawyer of the Year award; in 2016 the MDLA bestowed him with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Best Lawyers in America selected Ned as Mississippi’s 2021 “Lawyer of the Year” for Insurance Law. He received the same Best Lawyers distinction in 2012

U.S. District Court Grants Motion for Summary Judgement and Dismisses Target's Claim

On February 8, 2021, Meagher + Geer attorney Chuck Spevacek and his team made news heard around the insurance world when they obtained on behalf of two Chubb entities – ACE American Insurance Company and ACE Property & Casualty Insurance Company – an order from United States District Court for the District of Minnesota granting their motion for summary judgment and dismissing the claim of Target Corporation for insurance coverage for losses arising out of its 2013 data breach. Click here for more info.

Robinson+Cole Elects Rhonda J. Tobin Managing Partner

Robinson+Cole’s partnership has elected Rhonda J. Tobin as its next Managing Partner, effective March 1. Tobin will be the first woman to lead the 175-year old AmLaw 200 firm, and will succeed Stephen E. Goldman, who has led the firm since the beginning of 2016. Click here for more.

ACCC Fellows Recognized as Agents of Change in Insurance Law
In the “Insurance Law Trailblazer” inaugural list published by The National Law Journal, Fellows John Buchanan III, Linda Kornfeld, John H. Mathias Jr., Sherilyn Pastor and Rhonda Tobin were included in the list.