Molly Cooper
mcooper@hallassoc.net
Molly Cooper directs Hall & Associates’ Chattanooga, Tennessee, office and specializes in research. A graduate of the University of Tennessee – Chattanooga, while in college Cooper became one of the youngest people ever to co-sponsor an NSF Phase I research grant. Prior to joining Hall & Associates, Cooper worked as a research assistant and grant writer and pre-school educator at the Tennessee Aquarium.
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Jamie Crooks
jcrooks@hallassoc.net
Jamie Crooks first joined Hall & Associates in 2006, providing in depth research in transportation safety and security, as well as issues pertaining to healthcare, finance, and homeland security. Crooks rejoined the team in 2008, and now supports public and private sector transportation, homeland security, energy, and health care clients. He also serves as Research Assistant to the Aviation Safety and Security Digest.
Prior to rejoining Hall & Associates, Crooks worked for Lehman Brothers investment bank. A member of the transportation group of the public finance division, he specialized in modeling existing and proposed debt issuances for airport clients to maximize leverage of single revenue streams. He served as support in the financing and refunding of several U.S. airports, including a $720 million bond issue for San Jose International Airport’s capital campaign, the largest deal of its kind ever issued in California.
Crooks graduated cum laude from Harvard University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in economics with a focus in government. While at Harvard, he was the senior editor of the Harvard College Economist, an economic journal focusing on current issues in finance, trade, development, and fiscal and monetary policy. ____________________________________________________________________
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Ken Johnson
kjohnson@hallassoc.net
Ken Johnson was born in Bralorne, British Columbia, and has Canadian and British citizenship. He was educated in Vancouver and received a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of British Columbia. He later qualified as a Certified General Accountant and gained experience in the private sector in accounting and property management.
He qualified as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force and gained advanced flying experience in the Air Force and as a civilian pilot. This included arctic surveillance, transport, search and rescue, and fighter duties. In 1967 he joined the Department of Transport as a civil aviation inspector and was involved in the flight calibration of navigational aids, together with the development and licensing of airports. In 1972 he became the planning manager for the Department's Central Region in Winnipeg.
Following an assignment as an economist/policy adviser with the multimodal Arctic Transportation Agency, he began a series of progressively senior management appointments. In 1975 he became Regional Manager, Airports, Pacific Region, responsible for the operation and development of 25 airports, including Vancouver International. He next worked as Pacific Regional Administrator responsible for all aspects of civil aviation in the region with a staff of 2,000. In 1978, he became Director of Airport Policy, Planning & Programming at headquarters in Ottawa.
In 1982 he became the Director of the Department of Transport's Aviation Safety Bureau. He was prominent in the planning and development of an independent aviation safety board. In 1984, he was appointed Executive Director of the new, independent Canadian Aviation Safety Board. He led that organization as its senior public servant and contributed to the conceptual planning for a multimodal safety board to encompass the air, marine, rail and pipeline modes of transport. In 1990 he was appointed Executive Director of the newly established Transportation Safety Board of Canada. He was the chief operating officer in that organization as it conducted approximately 200 investigations per year and developed its national and international capabilities in aviation, marine, railway and pipeline safety investigation until his retirement from public service in 2001.
He has an airline transport pilot’s license and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He is Chairman of the Board of the 450-bed Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre in Ottawa. In addition he is a Council member of the Centre for Aerospace Safety/Security Education at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a member of the Board of Advisers for the Southern California Safety Institute, and president of the National Air Museum Society.
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Brianne Murphy
brianne@hallassoc.net
Brianne Murphy joined Hall & Associates LLC in March, 2007. In addition to researching and developing public policy and strategy for clients on a broad range of issues including transportation, energy, insurance, homeland security, and health policy matters; Murphy provides litigation support.
Prior to joining Hall & Associates, Murphy clerked at the firm of Queller, Fisher, Dienst, Serrins, Washor & Kool, LLP in New York, NY, where she worked primarily in civil rights and employment litigation. She gained Federal agency experience working for the National Transportation Safety Board
A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Murphy was awarded the Dean’s Merit Scholarship, and was recently recognized for her work with BrothersXX20 and the New York Civil Rights Coalition with the Brooklyn Law School Public Service Award. While attending law school she served as Research Assistant for Prof. Aaron Twerski, a leading scholar on products liability. She was acknowledged in “Uncertainty and Informed Choice Unmasking Daubert” Margaret A. Berger & Aaron Twerski. 104 Mich. L. Rev. 257 for her research contributions in developing a plaintiff’s cause of action for informed consent.
Ms. Murphy earned her B.A. in Political Science from the George Washington University in 2002. At George Washington, she received the Presidential Achievement Award, and was a Fellow of the Society of International Social Sciences.
Ms. Murphy passed the February 2007 New York State Bar Exam and is eligible for admission in New York and Washington, D.C.
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