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COLUMNS NKU CHASE CHASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESENTS ALUMNI AWARDS The Chase Alumni Association presented its annual alumni awards at the association's Chase Alumni Luncheon on Oct. 9, 2013. The Chase Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Timothy E. Eble '81. His law practice in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., focuses on mass torts, product liability, and complex and class action litigation. Eble formerly served with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, worked as an associate with a defense firm in Covington, and in 1986, moved to South Carolina to practice law with Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson and Poole. He founded his own firm in 2000. 20 During his career, Eble tried cases to verdict for hundreds of personal injury clients in the state and federal courts of 10 jurisdictions. His trial experience resulted in numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts for the clients he represented. He also settled cases for thousands of clients through class action litigation cases filed in several states. His class action practice included claims arising from pesticide exposure, deceptive financial practices, bankruptcy fraud, and defective products. He also participated as counsel in tobacco litigation that ultimately resulted in a national settlement. Eble has served as a contributing author to the Consumer Class Actions treatise published by the National Consumer Law Center for more than a decade, and serves as a member of the center's partners council. He was a contributing author to the third and fourth editions of Newberg on Class Actions. Eble has published approximately 60 book chapters and articles in the field of federal practice and class action litigation. He has served as an expert on class action issues and the award of attorney's fees as lead counsel, class counsel, administrative class counsel, and counsel for interveners B&B; • 11.13 and objectors, and has represented judges in mandamus proceedings arising from class action rulings. His most recent publication is Instant Evidence, second edition, published by the National Consumer Law Center. The Chase Professional Achievement Award was presented to Ann G. Schoen '94. Schoen is a member of Frost Brown Todd LLC, where she is chairperson of the intellectual property law practice group. She is a registered patent attorney, and she practices in the areas of patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation, patent prosecution, intellectual property licensing, and intellectual property portfolio management (both domestic and international). Schoen graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1984. She was a member of the 10th class of women to graduate from the university. Before enrolling at Chase, she worked as an engineer for General Electric in its carboloy, plastics, and aviation divisions. Schoen attended the Chase evening program while working full-time at GE. After graduation in 1994, she worked in GE's Corporate Research Center as a patent attorney. She returned home to Cincinnati in 1995 to join Frost & Jacobs as a patent attorney. Her first patent litigation matter was working for fellow Chase graduate David Schmit '75 on the landmark patent infringement case of Hilton Davis Chemical Co. v. Warner Jenkinson, Inc., before the Supreme Court of the United States. She teaches patent law as an adjunct professor at Chase. Schoen is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council and the Transactional Law Center Board of Advisors. She is also a member of the board of directors for Cincinnati Opera. She was recognized in Chambers USA for patent law in 2011-13, and in Best Lawyers in America for patent litigation in 2013 and 2014. The Chase Exceptional Service Award was presented to Gabrielle A. Summe '00. Summe made history in 2010 when she was elected Kenton County Clerk. She is not only the first woman to serve in this position, but also the first attorney to serve as a county clerk in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As Kenton County Clerk, Summe has made it a priority to preserve the county's history by digitizing its records. She is a member of the Legislative Committee for the Kentucky County Clerks Association and was appointed to the Secretary of State's Task Force on Elections. While attending Chase, Summe worked for the Kenton County Child Support Office. Upon graduation in 2000, she remained with the office as an assistant Kenton County attorney, and also worked with her brother, Pete Summe, as a part-time associate in the areas of bankruptcy, real estate, and probate. Summe served as CLE co-chair for the Kentucky Bar Association's Annual Convention in 2009 and is the convention chair for the 2014 KBA Annual Convention to be held in Covington. She is a past member of the KBA's CLE Commission, and has previously served as the chair of the Women Lawyers Section of the Northern Kentucky Bar Association (NKBA), and as a member of the Board of Directors for the NKBA. She is also a past recipient of the Judge Judy West Scholarship, which is awarded to a female Chase student in her last year of study, and has chaired the annual event which raises money for the scholarship.