ABA president-elect nominee champions a mindset of 'continuous improvement'
DAVID W. CLARK
David W. Clark
District 16
Of counsel with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Jackson, Mississippi. State delegate for Mississippi to the House of Delegates from 2009 to 2017. Chair of the Standing Committee on Gun Violence from 1998 to 2001 and from 2013 to 2017, and now serves on its advisory committee. Served as the 5th Circuit representative on the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary from 2008 to 2011. Member of the Section of Litigation since 1987 and served as member of the section’s council from 2009 to 2012. Life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Received JD in 1974 from the University of Michigan Law School.
REW R. GOODENOW
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District 17
Shareholder with Parsons Behle & Latimer in Reno, Nevada. Member of the ABA House of Delegates, and serves on the Rules and Calendar Committee and the Nominating Committee. Member of the Standing Committee on Membership. Served on the ABA Journal Board of Editors for nine years, acting as chair from 2010 to 2013. Served on the council of the Business Law Section and the section’s subcommittee. Chair of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation and of the foundation’s Fellows Research Advisory Committee. Past president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents (2014-2015) and the State Bar of Nevada (2006-2007). Received JD in 1988 from University of Iowa College of Law.
H. RUSSELL FRISBY JR.
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Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Partner at Stinson Leonard Street in Washington, D.C. Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Governmental Affairs. Served in the House (2012-2018), on its Nominating Committee (2013-2016) and its Advisory Committee on Issues of Concern to the Legal Profession (2016-2018). Past chair of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (2008-2009). Past member of the ABA Presidential Advisory Committee on Diversity in the Profession and past secretary of the ABA Conference of Minority Partners. Received JD in 1975 from Yale Law School.
STEPHEN J. WERMIEL
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Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Professor of practice in constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law. Member of the Standing Committee on the Gavel Awards. Past chair of the Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice (2012-2013), currently serves as chair for the section’s Publications Committee and co-chair of its First Amendment Rights Committee. Member of the editorial board for Human Rights magazine since 2000, serving as chair from 2007 to 2012. Past member of the standing committees on Strategic Communications (2000-2003) and Public Education (2013-2016). Co-author of Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion (2010) and The Progeny: Justice William J. Brennan’s Fight to Preserve the Legacy of New York Times v. Sullivan (2014). Received JD in 1984 from American University.
HOWARD T. WALL
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Health Law Section
Executive vice president and chief administrative officer, general counsel and secretary for RegionalCare Hospital Partners in Brentwood, Tennessee. Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Medical Professional Liability and a member of the Council for the Fund for Justice and Education. Past chair of the Health Law Section from 1999 to 2000, and vice-chair of the section’s Sponsorship Committee and the ABA Relations Committee of the Policy Division. Serves as the section’s liaison to the AIDS Coordinating Committee. Member of the section’s council from 1995 to 2008. Member of the House of Delegates from 2002 to 2008. Patron fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Received JD in 1983 from Washington & Lee University.
JUDGE FRANK J. BAILEY
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Judicial Member-at-Large
Judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts, where he served as chief judge from 2010 to 2015. Also sits on the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit. Past chair of the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges of the ABA Judicial Division. Serves on the division’s Standing Committee on Diversity in the American Judiciary. Received JD in 1980 from Suffolk University Law School.
MICHELE WONG KRAUSE
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Minority Member-at-Large
Attorney in Dallas. Member of the ABA House of Delegates. Member of the Commission on Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts. Commissioner for the ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities from 2014 to 2017. Past president of the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association and the Dallas Asian American Bar Association. Received JD in 1985 from Southern Methodist University.
SHEENA R. HAMILTON
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Young Lawyer Member-at-Large
Associate at Dowd Bennett in St. Louis. Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law. Former communications director for the Young Lawyers Division (2015-2017) and managing editor of TYL magazine (2013-2014). Received JD in 2010 from St. Louis University School of Law.
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".
