MAY 13 • 2021 | 35
HERE’S TO!
Jim Newman,
owner and
managing
partner of
Newman
Consulting
Group LLC (NCG) in
Farmington Hills, was
honored as a Fellow of the
international ASHRAE
organization, which
recognizes members who
have attained distinction
and made substantial
contributions in HVAC&R
and the built environment
such as education,
research, engineering
design and consultation,
publications, presentations
and mentoring.
Pam Cooper is
vice president
of the Escalent
Energy division,
based in
Livonia, and
serves as the company’s
Qualtrics partnership
manager. She is a valued
adviser to clients in the
solar energy, electric
vehicle and energy
efficiency industries and
oversees key business
development activities, for
electric, gas and water
utilities in the U.S.
The firm of
Howard &
Howard
announced that
attorney Lisa S.
Gretchko has
been appointed to serve
as a judge for the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court, Eastern
District of Michigan in
Detroit. She joined Howard
& Howard in 2003.
Dr. Helen
Edelberg joined
the Office of
New Drugs
(OND)/Center
for Drug
Evaluation and Research
(CDER) at the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
as deputy director for
safety. This is a new
position, focused on
helping the FDA to further
develop its post-market
safety efforts. Edelberg, is
a past member of Temple
Beth El in Bloomfield
Township, where her
parents, Adrian and
Mynetta Christie, still
belong.
The Barbara
Ann Karmanos
Cancer Institute
announced the
winners of its
2021 Heroes of
Cancer Awards. The Geri
Lester Courage Award
honors an individual, living
or deceased, whose battle
with cancer has been an
inspiration to family,
friends and community.
This year’s honoree is the
late Jeffrey D. Forman,
M.D., FACR. He spent his
life and career helping
people with cancer,
working for 35 years as a
radiation oncologist and
holding multiple
professional appointments
during his 14-year career
at Karmanos. He loved his
role as a physician and
treated every patient with
kindness, respect,
understanding and humor.
After becoming a cancer
patient and undergoing a
bone marrow transplant,
he had a whole new
outlook on cancer. He
became a part of the
Karmanos Cancer
Institute’s fundraising team
to help inform community
members about the
important lifesaving work
being done at Karmanos.
His passion for helping
patients, informing the
community and raising
funds to further cancer
research was inspiring.
The Third
Judicial Circuit
Court (Wayne
County)
announced the
Michigan
Supreme Court has
appointed the Hon. David
A. Groner to the Third
Circuit Court’s Business
Court. He will serve as a
Business Court judge for a
term expiring April 1, 2025.
He served in the Criminal
Division for 14 years; for
the past four years, he has
served in the Civil Division,
where he has handled
specialty dockets such as
structured settlements in
addition to the traditional
docket. Judge Groner was
the University of Michigan
Mentor of the Year 2007
and received the State of
Israel Bonds Eleanor
Roosevelt Humanitarian
Award in 2006.
Honigman LLP
announced
Richard
Zuckerman has
rejoined its
White-Collar
Defense and Investigations
Practice Group as a
partner in the firm’s Detroit
office. He most recently
served as head of the Tax
Division at the U.S.
Department of Justice.
Zuckerman has
represented executives in
national and international
civil and criminal antitrust
matters involving a variety
of industries, from
computer software and
pharmaceutical to financial
services, among others.
Frankel Jewish
Academy
alumnus (class
of 2015) Ami
Zuroff was
nominated as an
excellent soldier by the
president of Israel.
President Reuven Rivlin
hosted the annual
Independence Day
ceremony at his official
residence on Yom
HaAtzmaut to award the
army’s annual citations for
distinguished service to
120 Israel Defense Forces
soldiers.
Sara Gorman
Rajan has
joined the legal
team as
associate
attorney and
mediator at Transitions
Legal, a family law firm
with specialties in
collaborative divorce, gray
divorce, and mediation in
Bloomfield Township. With
17 years of experience as
a family law attorney with
an expertise in litigation,
Rajan has worked at firms
throughout Metro Detroit,
served as a judicial law
clerk to the Hon. Helene J.
White at the Michigan
Court of Appeals and in
law school, interned with
the Wayne County
Prosecutor’s Office under
Nancy J. Diehl.