William T. Hutton ’61, a partner at  Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in San Francisco, has been named Tax Lawyer of the Year in the Bay Area by Best Lawyers. A nationally recognized expert in tax and nonprofit law, Hutton also teaches Internal Revenue Service, Justice Department and Treasury attorneys.

Scott Blackmun ’79, a soccer and tennis player at Dartmouth, is returning to the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) as CEO. He joined the USOC as general counsel in 1998 and served as acting CEO from 2000 to 2001, before becoming an attorney in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Jose Fernandez ’77, a former Dartmouth trustee and international and commercial lawyer at Latham & Watkins LLP in New York City, was sworn in as assistant secretary of state for economic, energy and business affairs. In this senior position in the U.S. Department of State Fernandez will help set economic policy relating to issues such as food security, trade and investment, terrorist financing, energy and strengthening ties with emerging economies.

Gretchen Teichgraeber ’75, Tu’79, has been named CEO of Leadership Directories, the New York City-based publisher of specialized directories such as Congressional Yellow Book. She is the former president and CEO of Scientific American Inc., publisher of the science magazine of the same name.

Stergios Lazos ’84, the chair of classical and modern languages at St. Edward High School in Cleveland, Ohio, has earned the 2009 American Philological Association Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Pre-collegiate Level.

Beth Robinson ’86 has been named 2009 Vermonter of the Year by the Burlington Free Press. A same-sex marriage advocate and attorney based in Middlebury, Vermont, Robinson was instrumental in helping Vermont become the first state in the country to create marriage equality via the popularly elected legislature, rather than the courts.

Peter Vitousek, Adv’75, has won the 2010 Japan Prize, the international science award administered by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. A professor of biology at Stanford, Vitousek was honored for his analysis of nitrogen and other substances’ cycles as they relate to environmental issues.

Samuel Bell III ’61, a founder of the University of South Florida College of Public Health and chair of its advisory board, was awarded an honorary doctorate in public health during the school’s 25th anniversary celebration. As a member of the Florida House of Representatives, Bell in 1984 pushed through legislation that created the school.

Robert Lake, Adv’08, has been named head of school for Head-Royce, a college preparatory day school of 800 students from kindergarten through 12th grade in Oakland, California.

Matthew Cheney ’02, DMS’10, was selected the 2008-09 Rolf C. Syvertsen Fellow by the Dartmouth Medical School faculty for his academic achievement, leadership qualities and community involvement.

Mahlon “Sandy” Apgar ’62 of Baltimore, a former assistant secretary of the Army for installations and environment and now a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, has been appointed a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow by the Council of Independent Colleges. Fellows visit campuses across the country for weeklong residencies.

David Title ’79 has been named 2010 Connecticut Superintendent of the Year by the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents. He has been the head of the Bloomfield public schools for the past eight years.

Lee Cerveny ’87, a social scientist based at the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland, Oregon, has earned a 2009 U.S. Forest Service Early Career Scientist Award for her research examining the social and cultural impacts of tourism in southeast Alaska.