Nation - ABA nominates 9 members to board of governors, names some key posts

The American Bar Association this week nominated nine lawyers from across the nation to serve on its Board of Governors, in a line up of new officers headed by William T. (Bill) Robinson III from Florence, Ky., who is slated to become president-elect. Robinson is member-in-charge at the northern Kentucky law offices for Frost Brown Todd, a multistate law firm. Six of the Board of Governors nominees were selected to represent regional districts, while two others would represent substantive legal practice areas and one would be a woman member-at-large. They were chosen during the ABA 2010 Midyear Meeting in Orlando, Fla. If elected by the association's House of Delegates at the August 2010 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Robinson will serve as president-elect until August 2011, and become president in August 2012, succeeding Stephen N. Zack, a Miami lawyer. Nominees to the 44-member ABA Board of Governors, which oversees association administration and policy-implementation, also will be presented for election by the House of Delegates in August. If elected, they will serve three-year terms, starting immediately after the conclusion of the 2010 Annual Meeting. The nominees, and the constituencies they are nominated to represent, are: * Cheryl I. Niro, Chicago, District 7, Illinois and Ohio; * Edith G. Osman, Miami, District 8, Florida and Texas; * James S. Hill, Bismarck, N.D., District 10, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming; * James F. Carr, Littleton, Colo, District 11, Colorado, Arizona and Oklahoma; * Carlos A. Rodriguez Vidal, San Juan, P.R., District 13, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Montana and Oregon; * James Dimos, Indianapolis, District 18, Indiana, Maryland and Washington; * Mary Ell Coster Williams, Bethesda, Md., ABA Section of Public Contract Law; * Peter A. Winograd, Albuquerque, N.M., ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar; and * Michelle A. Behnke, Madison, Wis., Woman Member-at-Large. The ABA also announced nominations for key posts Linda A. Klein of Atlanta has been nominated to be chair of the ABA House of Delegates; Lucian Pera of Memphis, Tenn. to be treasurer; and Judge Cara Lee Neville of Minneapolis to be secretary. The ABA House of Delegates will hold elections in August at the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. If elected, Klein will assume her post for a two-year term at the conclusion of the meeting through the 2012 Annual Meeting. The chair of the ABA House is the second-highest office in the association. Pera and Neville would be elected to serve as treasurer and secretary, respectively, for three-year terms beginning at the conclusion of the 2011 Annual Meeting until the close of the ABA Annual Meeting in August 2014. Pera and Neville join William T. (Bill) Robinson, of Florence, Ky., who was nominated to be president for a one-year term beginning in August 2011. Nine lawyers from around the country were nominated to be members of the ABA Board of Governors. They will serve three-year terms ending in 2013. In the next year, the board will consist of 40 members, and revert to 38 members when the treasurer and secretary assume their posts. Klein is a shareholder in the Atlanta offices of Baker Donelson. She is a former president of the State Bar of Georgia and former chair of the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section. Klein has been active in state, local and national legal and bar organizations throughout her career, holding positions in the ABA House of Delegates and chairing numerous entities in the association. She has also been active in the American Bar Foundation and was this year's recipient of its Fellows Outstanding State Chair Award, presented last week in Orlando. Pera is a litigation partner in the litigation practice group of Adams & Reese in Memphis. He has a long record of service to the profession having served on the ABA Board of Governors, in the ABA House of Delegates and as a member of the Ethics 2000 Special Committee. He is long active in the field of professional ethics. Pera has represented numerous media clients and has taken on numerous First Amendment and media law issues. Neville has served as a judge in the Hennepin County District Court since 1986. She has been active in the ABA and has served as a member of the Board of Governors and House of Delegates. She has served as chair of the Criminal Justice Section and has been involved in the Judicial Division. She has been active in the leadership of numerous ABA and other legal organizations throughout her career. Published: Fri, Feb 12, 2010

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