Profiles in Success
Ronald F. Shuff, L’77
Senior Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel
Flowserve Corporation
2009-10 Alumnus in Residence
2009 Alumnus in Residence Ronald F. Shuff, L’77, Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel, Flowserve Corporation |
Ronald F. Shuff is Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Flowserve Corporation. Based in Irving, Texas, Flowserve is a NYSE traded company and a multi billion dollar global manufacturer of valves and pumps for such industries as oil, power, and water. Flowserve operates in 56 countries, employs more than 14,000 people and generates sales of nearly $4 billion.
As Flowserve’s chief legal officer, Mr. Shuff manages corporate legal matters; health, safety and environmental compliance; export/import compliance, contracts and corporate development departments. He has negotiated, advised and helped obtain Board approval of global acquisitions and joint ventures in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Australia, Middle East, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Brazil and China. He has more than 25 years of experience in working with corporate boards on such issues as CEO terminations and recruitments, major acquisitions, governmental investigations, shareholder class action litigation, accounting restatements, corporate governance and major financings.
Mr. Shuff has been with Flowserve since its creation in 1997, from a merger with DURCO International Inc. and BW/IP Inc. He previously had served as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel with DURCO International. In that capacity, he managed the legal affairs, health safety and environmental compliance and corporate development matters, as well as corporate human resources, product training and risk management functions.
Upon his graduation from Capital University Law School in 1977, where he also was a member of the Order of the Curia, Mr. Shuff was an attorney with the Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Company, a public utility which is now a part of American Electric Power. He then served as Secretary and General Counsel of AccuRay Corporation, a Columbus, Ohio, manufacturer of computer-based process control equipment (now a unit of ABB). In 1988, he joined The Duriron Company, Inc. (the prior name of DURCO International Inc.).
Mr. Shuff is a graduate of Kenyon College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history (cum laude). He was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and received his Master of Science degree in management in 1988.
Mr. Shuff will be serving as Capital University Law School’s 2009-10 Alumnus in Residence Sept. 24-25, 2009. The Alumni in Residence program, which began last academic year, brings alumni to the Law School for several days to connect with law students, faculty and alumni in the classroom, in small group settings, and in discussions. The program provides an opportunity to showcase our outstanding alumni to the community and for students to learn from their varied and extensive experiences.
J. Thomas Siwo, 2L
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J. Thomas Siwo, a 2011 J.D. candidate, is the first recipient of Bricker & Eckler’s newly created Charles H. Walker Minority Scholarship award.
The scholarship was established to provide first-year minority law students with valuable employment experience early in their legal career. The award, which includes a generous scholarship and a paid summer associate position, is based on leadership skills, academic achievement, service to the community and an overall commitment to excellence. First-year law students from Capital and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law are eligible to apply.
The scholarship is named in honor of Bricker & Eckler’s partner, Charles H. Walker, the first African American attorney to be hired by a major Columbus law firm and the first African American to be elected to a major firm’s partnership.
“I was deeply honored to be selected as the first recipient of this scholarship,” said Siwo. “Mr. Walker has a very distinguished legal career that has helped open the door for more minorities in the profession.”
Siwo said he was very grateful to have the opportunity to work this past summer for the firm and to apply what he learned in legal research and writing to a diverse work load that included education, litigation, and health care cases. There were also many opportunities for community service involvement and firm networking events. He said he was ably assisted by his mentor, Natalie Furniss, L’02, who helped manage his varied legal assignments and provided important advice and council.
Born in Xenia, Ohio, to Kenyan natives, Siwo was an information technology manager for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base before coming to Capital Law in 2008. He holds a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) from Wilberforce University and a M.B.A. from Xavier University. Siwo is a former Civil Service Commissioner for the City of Xenia and a former board member for the Greene County Council on Aging. He was also active with the City of Xenia recreation department and served as a youth basketball referee. At Capital Law, he is serving as the Student Bar Association Treasurer this year and as a Fellow for the Academic Success Protocol.
