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Jennifer Collins has accepted an offer to become the president of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Jennifer Collins has accepted an offer to become the president of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Monica Hwang, an LNG expert, has practiced for the last 14-plus years in King & Spalding's Houston office.
Corporate lawyer Valeska Pederson Hintz is heading home to Texas and joining Perkins Coie's ECVC practice after spending the first chapter of her legal career in Palo Alto.
Trevor Pinkerton heads to a firm he has great familiarity with from his time at Emory University in Atlanta.
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