ABA president-elect nominee champions a mindset of 'continuous improvement'

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ABA president-elect nominee champions a mindset of 'continuous improvement'

WILLIAM R. BAY

William R. Bay

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Chair, House of Delegates

Partner with Thompson Coburn in St. Louis. Served on the Board of Governors from 2014 to 2017. Member of the Finance Committee from 2014 to 2016, serving as its 2015-2016 chair. Member of the House since 2002, serving on multiple committees, including the Technology and Communications Committee (2012-2014); Resolution and Impact Review Committee (2007-2008, 2010-2012); and the House Select Committee as reporter (2008-2010). Past chair of the Section of Litigation (2012-2013) and the Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services (2009-2012). Member of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession from 2012 to 2014. Appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court in 2015 to serve as co-chair of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness and co-chair of the Joint Task Force on the Future of the Profession. Received JD in 1978 from the University of Michigan Law School.

LYNN FONTAINE NEWSOME

Lynn Fontaine Newsome

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District 3

Partner with Newsome O’Donnell in Florham Park, New Jersey. Member of the ABA House of Delegates since 2006. Has served on the Standing Committee on Membership since 2015. Past member of the Advisory Committee to the Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs. Fellow of the American Bar Foundation since 2007. President of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation. Past president of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Received JD in 1981 from Seton Hall University School of Law.

CHARLES “BUZZ” ENGLISH JR.

Charles

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District 5

Partner with English Lucas Priest & Owsley in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Member of the ABA House of Delegates. Has served on the ABA’s Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services, Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary and Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fundraising Committee. President of the American Counsel Association. Past president of the Kentucky Bar Association (2009-2010). Received JD in 1983 from the University of Kentucky College of Law.

SUSAN M. HOLDEN

Susan M. Holden

District 9

Partner with SiebenCarey in Minneapolis. House member since 2007. Has served on the Subcommittee on Investments (2017-2018); Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence (2016-2018); Standing Committee on Governmental Affairs (2011-2015); Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services (2008-2011); ABA Day Planning Committee (2010-2012); and the TIPS Task Force on Plaintiff Lawyer Involvement (2006-2008). Sustaining life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Received JD in 1988 from the William Mitchell College of Law.

ANDREW J. DEMETRIOU

Andrew J. Demetriou

District 14

Partner with Lamb & Kawakami in Los Angeles. Served as chair of the Health Law Section from 2007 to 2008 and is a vice-chair of the EMI Scholarship Committee. Chair of the Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee from 2013 to 2017. Past chair of the Presidential Showcase Programs Committee for the Section Officers Conference. Served on the Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel (2014-2017). Life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Received JD in 1979 from the University of California at Berkeley Law School.

MARK H. ALCOTT

Mark H. Alcott

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District 15

Of counsel with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. Serves as the ABA representative to the United Nations and to the U.N. Economics and Social Council. Member of the Steering Committee of the Nominating Committee and is New York’s state representative to the ABA House of Delegates. Life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. President of the New York State Bar Association from 2006 to 2007. Received JD in 1965 from Harvard Law School.

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Correction

Print and initial online versions of "A View Toward the Future," May, should have stated that Judy Perry Martinez chaired the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary from 2011 to 2012.

The Journal regrets the error.

This article was published in the May 2018 issue of the ABA Journal with the title "A View Toward the Future: ABA president-elect nominee champions a mindset of ‘continuous improvement".