The American Bar Association has 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 held earlier this month 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
The chair of the ABA House is the second-highest office in the association.
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