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ENOCH POON, 1994 Distinguished Alumnus Enoch Poon is an entrepreneur who was born in China and grew up in Hong Kong. He is the founder and president of Innovative International LLC of Tampa. His company specializes in consumer product design and manufacturing. He is also the founder and manager of Amstin LLC, a company that specializes in commercial real estate investment and development. He was honored as the Business Person of the Year in 2007 during the International Business Summit in Tampa. Prior to starting a career in international business, Enoch was an associate attorney with Ogden, Newell & Welch in Louisville and a systems engineer with Humana. Poon received his B.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from Greenville College, and his J.D. from Brandeis School of Law. He also holds an Executive Certificate in Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management from M.I.T. and is also a licensed U.S. Customs broker and a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designee. JOSHUA D. FARLEY, 2006 Recent Alumnus At the age of 29, Josh Farley became one of the youngest attorneys ever to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States on their own petition for certiorari and win; securing an 8-1 victory for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Kentucky v. King, 131 S.Ct. 1849 (2011). He has filed nearly 250 briefs with the Kentucky Supreme Court and the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and has filed various pleadings, memoranda, and briefs in state circuit courts, federal district courts, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He currently has a second petition for certiorari pending at the Supreme Court of the United States. Farley currently is practicing criminal defense, personal injury, medical malpractice, and appellate law with Michael Hawkins & Associates in Frankfort. Prior to joining Michael Hawkins & Associates he was employed for five years as an assistant Attorney General for the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General. Farley received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from Brandeis School of Law. Martin L.C. Feldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Milligan is an honors graduate of Emory Law School, where he was articles editor of the Emory Law Journal. He also worked on antitrust investigations at the U.S. Department of Justice and death penalty matters at the Carter Center. BARBARA THOMPSON Outstanding Staff Member Barbara Thompson is the director of Student Records at Brandeis School of Law. She started working at the law school in 1971 as a faculty secretary and records clerk. Thompson has a passion for giving back to the community through volunteer work. She has dedicated many years of volunteer service to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana, Rockford Lane Youth Sports in Louisville, Canine Companion for Independence (where she helped raise and train service dogs), Spouse Abuse Center and Center for Women & Families, the YMCA, Noe Middle School Sports Club Program, The Family Place, Ormsby Heights Baptist Church, Farnsley Neighborhood Place, Oak Lea Neighborhood Association, and presently with Exit 0 feeding the homeless. KEVIN MCNALLY, 1976 Gail Robinson Award The first recipient of the Gail Robinson Award is Kevin McNally, an attorney in private practice in Frankfort. He specializes in capital litigation, particularly at the trial level, having been involved in many death penalty trials in Kentucky and other states. He represented an Arizona client who had spent 14 years on death row before winning an acquittal in June of 1995. In 1997, another client was found not guilty in a cross-racial carjacking/murder, one of the few acquittals in a potential federal death penalty case. McNally formerly headed the capital trial unit for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy. McNally serves as a Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel (FDPRC), a position he has held since 1992. He became the director of the Project in 2006. He received his J.D. from Brandeis School of Law in 1976, magna cum laude. LUKE MILLIGAN Excellence in Teaching Visit www.kybar.org 29 Luke Milligan is an associate professor of Law at Brandeis School of Law. He joined the faculty in 2008. Professor Milligan teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Law & Religion, and Jurisprudence. His scholarship centers on how judges make rules regulating the criminal justice system. He is a member of University of Louisville's Faculty Senate and Kentucky's Public Advocacy Commission. Prior to joining the faculty at Brandeis, Milligan was a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., a law clerk to Judge Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and a law clerk to Judge B&B; • 05.13