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ELEC TION COVER AGE

D.C. BAR ELECTS NEW LEADERSHIP
T

he D.C. Bar concluded its 2020 general and Communities elections on
June 1, electing a new set of leaders who will be honored during the
Bar's virtual 2020 Celebration of Leadership on July 30.

Chad T. Sarchio, an associate chief counsel at the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), has been elected president-elect of the D.C. Bar for
the 2020-2021 term. Sarchio assumed office on June 10 and will serve as
president-elect for one year before becoming president; he will continue in
office a third year as immediate past president. With Sarchio's installation,
incumbent President-Elect Geoffrey M. Klineberg has become the Bar's
49th president. Klineberg is a partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel &
Frederick, P.L.L.C.
Sarchio has served as associate chief counsel at the DEA's international and
intelligence law division since 2006. He's also a professorial lecturer of law in
trial advocacy and pretrial practice at The George Washington University
Law School.
Also elected to one-year terms were, as secretary, Diane A. Seltzer Torre
of The Seltzer Law Firm and, as treasurer, Shaun M. Snyder of the National
Association of State Treasurers.
Elected to the Bar's Board of Governors for three-year terms were Catherine
(Katie) D. Bertram of the Bertram Law Group PLLC; Natalie M. Koss of
Potomac Legal Group PLLC; Mollie (Megan) Lacchini of Legal Services
Corporation; Ramya Ravindran of Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC; and Courtney
L. Weiner of the Law Office of Courtney Weiner PLLC.
Elected for two-year terms on the ABA House of Delegates were Lorelie
S. Masters of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Laura A. Possessky of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Lucy L. Thomson of Livingston
PLLC.
Of 81,966 D.C. Bar members who were eligible to vote, 7,185 members cast
ballots for an 8.77 percent overall turnout.

2020 GENERAL ELECTION TALLY SHEET
OFFICE	CANDIDATE	VOTES
	

PRESIDENT-ELECT	
Chad T. Sarchio	
3,841	Elected
	
Charles C. Lemley	
2,699	
	
	
SECRETARY	
Diane A. Seltzer Torre	 4,679	Elected
	
Steven R. Miller	
1,441	
	
	
	
TREASURER	
Shaun M. Snyder	
3,689	Elected
	
Justin Dillon	
2,311	
		
	
BOARD OF GOVERNORS	 Courtney L. Weiner	
3,918	Elected
	
Mollie (Megan) Lacchini	 3,090	Elected
	
Catherine (Katie) D. Bertram	3,064	 Elected
	
Natalie M. Koss	
2,961	Elected
	
Ramya Ravindran	
2,822	Elected
	
Lionel André	
2,770	
	
James E. Rocap III	
2,730	
	
Érica Franzetti	
2,558	
	
Chong S. Park	
2,448	
Richard V. Rodriguez	
1,815	
	
	
	
	
ABA HOUSE OF	
Laura A. Possessky	
4,232	Elected
DELEGATES 	
Lorelie S. Masters	
3,835	Elected
	
Lucy L. Thomson	
3,576	Elected
	
John (Jack) C. Keeney Jr.	
3,319	
	
Erich Reimer	
1,422	

		

THE D.C. BAR COMMUNITIES also elected their new set of leaders:
Antitrust and
Consumer Law
Naomi Claxton
David Kully
Erin McNamee

District of Columbia
Affairs
Ann C. Wilcox
Daniel Mayer
Marti Doneghy

Arts, Entertainment,
Media and Sports
Jennifer Nelson
Cynthia Gierhart
Max Mishkin

Environment, Energy and
Natural Resources
Jennifer Li
Elizabeth Schuster

Corporation, Finance
and Securities Law
Gerald Hodgkins
Stephen Cohen

Estates, Trusts and
Probate Law
Priya Royal
Oren Goldberg
Tara Rao

Family Law
Keely Magyar
Elizabeth Selmo
Government Contracts
Zachary Prince
Matthew Madalo
Health Law
Allison Cohen
Timothy Farrell
Mia Olsen
L'Kel Little

Intellectual Property Law
Brian Malkin
Bradley Hartman
Bryan Nese

Law Practice Management
Pratibha Agarwal
Ellen Fishbein
Lea Ashley Shannon Taylor

International Law
Molly White
Pauline Schwartz

Litigation
Robert Kelly
Mark Rooney
Anthony Coppola

Labor and
Employment Law
Colleen Coveney
Roseann Romano
Jose Galvan

Public Interest and Courts
Andrea Ferster
Shirley Horng
Nicholas Cobbs
Sheila Berman

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Real Estate, Housing
and Land Use
Erica Litovitz
Shanice McClelland
Nathan Bresee
Taxation
Amber MacKenzie
Loren Ponds
Denen Boyce

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