moments

JUNE 3, 2018

Jeff and Dawn Menning
of Costa Mesa, Calif.,
are proud to announce
the birth of their
son, Hudson Ellis
Menning. Delighted
grandparents are Ron
Menning
and Linda Sherr of
Farmington Hills, and
Marla Menning of Chicago.

Beizer-Ross

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lice Brody and Ron Ross of
Bloomfield Hills are pleased to
announce the engagement of
their son James Ross to Nina Beizer,
daughter of Wendy and Mordechai
Beizer of Scarsdale, N. Y.
James graduated from Washington
University in Saint Louis and received
his medical degree from New York
Medical College. He is a third-year
obstetrics and gynecology resident with
the University of Pittsburgh Medical

here’s to

Ruth Newman
of Birmingham
received the
Hidden Treasure
award from the
West Bloomfield
Community 2018
Michigan Week
Newman
Community
Awards
Breakfast in May.
She is a member of Hadassah
Greater Detroit and an avid knit-
ter, who initiated the knitting
project. In addition to chemo
caps, 1,600 hats and scarves
have been knitted by Ruth’s 40
volunteers, comprised of both
Hadassah and members of the
community. Hats and scarves
are delivered to homeless fami-
lies and needy children.

Joan Chernoff
Epstein of
Birmingham,
received the
city’s 2018
Diversity
Champions
award from the
Epstein
Race Relations
and Diversity
Task Force
at the 19th Annual Diversity
Champion Honor Roll breakfast
in May. She was recognized for
her contributions to Hadassah
Greater Detroit. Epstein is a
diversity champion for women’s
rights and Israel. While attend-
ing an AIPAC convention, Joan
met Rev. DeeDee Coleman and
has also been connected to Rev.
Ken Flowers and has participat-
ed in their joint MLK programs.

Bohen

Fink

Krauss

Jeffrey D. Band, M.D., infectious
disease specialist at Beaumont
Hospital, Royal Oak, has been
selected to receive the Michigan
Medicine Alumni Society
Distinguished Service Award. The
award is given to a University of
Michigan graduate for outstanding
contributions to the medical com-
munity.

Mark Bohen, senior vice president
and chief marketing and com-
munications officer at Beaumont

Health, received the Michigan
Society of Healthcare Planning
and Marketing Leadership Award.
Bohen, the first recipient of this
award, was honored for demon-
strating leadership and innovation
in health care marketing.

Gretchko

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SMART (Sex Offenders Sentencing,
Monitoring, Apprehending,
Registering and Tracking) Office and
DOJ’s Foreign Claims Settlement
Commission; Lakeshore Legal Aid;
and Wayne County Friend of the
Court.

Nathan J. Fink of Fink + Associates
Law was elected president of the
American Constitution Society’s
Michigan Chapter. He is a litigation
associate. Fink has been honored
as a Rising Star in Michigan Super
Lawyers magazine on an annual
basis since 2013 and was recognized
as one of DBusiness magazine’s Top

Lawyers in both 2017 and 2018. In
2017, he was one of 30 Michigan
attorneys selected by Michigan
Lawyers Weekly as an Up and
Coming Lawyer. Fink is a co-chair
of the Eastern District of Michigan
Federal Bar Association Rules
Committee.

Holli Targan, partner and electronic
payments expert at Jaffe Raitt Heuer
& Weiss P.C., was recently elected to
the Jaffe Board of Directors for a two-
year term. The board is the managing
body of the law firm that oversees
and guides the firm’s direction and
future. Targan is chairperson of Jaffe’s
Electronic Payments Group. She spe-
cializes in payments system law, coun-
seling banks and merchants, acquir-
ing cryptocurrency, fintech, electronic

fund transfer, payment facilitator and
money transmitter businesses on
contractual and compliance matters.
She also handles payment company
mergers and acquisitions. Targan is
the recipient of the 2018 Midwest
Acquirers Association Industry
Achievement Award and has been rec-
ognized as a Most Influential Woman
in Payments, Best Lawyer in America,
Michigan Super Lawyer and DBusiness
magazines.

Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC
announced that Lisa Gretchko was
recently named to a two-year term
as vice president publications of
the American Bankruptcy Institute
with headquarters in Alexandria, Va.
Since 2014, she has been an executive
editor of the ABI Journal, the orga-
nization’s monthly publication of
scholarly articles on a wide range of
bankruptcy-related topics. Gretchko

is a shareholder in Howard & Howard
Attorneys PLLC and works in the
firm’s Royal Oak office, where she
focuses her practice on bankruptcy
and creditors’ rights. She has been
designated a Michigan Super Lawyer
every year since 2006, and named in
the Best Lawyers in America every year
since 2012. In 2011, Michigan Lawyers
Weekly recognized her as a “Woman in
the Law” honoree.

Orchards Children’s
Services, founded by the
National Council of Jewish
Women, has named Adam
S. Forman chairman of
its board of directors.
He joined the board in

Daniel Krauss, M.D., radiation
oncologist at Beaumont, Royal
Oak, earned the Judith Stitt Best
Abstract Award for his research
on brachytherapy to treat prostate
cancer.

Forman

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Emily Hollenberg of Southfield
recently joined Transitions Legal in
Birmingham as associate attorney.
A member of the Bar in Michigan
and Washington, D.C., Hollenberg
has worked for the international law
firm Dechert in London, England;
the U.S. Department of Justice’s

Hollenberg

Targan

Band

Center at Magee Women’s Hospital.
Nina graduated from Yale University
and received her medical degree from
New York Medical College. She is a
third-year psychiatry resident with the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
at the Western Psychiatric Institute and
Clinic.
A September wedding is planned in
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2008 and recently served as vice chair-
man. Forman is a member of the Epstein
Becker Green law firm, where his specialty
is employment and labor law. Forman was
named in the Best Lawyers in America; he
will serve a two-year term.