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ELECTION COVERAGE
D.C. Bar Installs New Leaders
O
n June 4 the D.C. Bar concluded its general and Communities elections,
announcing Sadina Montani, a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP,
as president-elect for the 2024-2025 term beginning July 1. Montani
will serve in that post for one year before becoming president and will
continue in office a third year as immediate past president. With Montani's
installation, Shaun M. Snyder, CEO of the National Association of State
Treasurers, became the Bar's 53rd president.
" I am honored to have been elected by the D.C. Bar membership to serve
as president-elect. It has been a pleasure getting to know [president-elect
candidate] Hardeep Grover and the other talented candidates for Bar leadership
positions throughout the election process, " Montani said. " I am
confident the future of the Bar is bright, and I'm committed to making a
positive impact on our legal community. I am particularly eager to support
and lift up our voluntary bar associations and D.C. Bar Communities. "
Montani, an employment lawyer, has served the D.C. Bar in many capacities.
In prior years she has served on the Bar's Nominations, Leadership
Development, and Screening Committees, in addition to long-standing
service with the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center's Nonprofit & Small Business
Legal Assistance Programs. She was also president of the Women's Bar
Association of the District of Columbia from 2020 to 2021, a time that put
her leadership skills to the test with keeping members engaged professionally
and personally during the pandemic.
At Crowell & Moring, Montani counsels employers on compliance issues,
discrimination claims, and internal investigations. As part of the firm's innovation
technology committee, she has been involved in discussions about
the impact of artificial intelligence technology on the legal profession.
D.C. Bar members also elected Joshua L. Mogil, a federal government
attorney, to a one-year term as treasurer-elect. Mark A. Salzberg of Squire
Patton Boggs became treasurer upon Mogil's installation.
Elected to the Bar's Board of Governors for three-year terms were Shirley
Diaz of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Belinda Edwards Taylor,
a nonprofit staff attorney; Kathryn " Kate " Rakoczy of the U.S. Attorney's
Office for the District of Columbia; Leila S. Bham, a federal government
attorney; and Diane A. Seltzer of The Seltzer Law Firm.
Elected to the American Bar Association House of Delegates for two-year
terms were Laura A. Possessky of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
ABA HOUSE OF
DELEGATES
OFFICE
PRESIDENT-ELECT
TREASURER-ELECT
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
CANDIDATE
Sadina Montani
Hardeep Grover
Joshua L. Mogil
Phillip L. Husband
Shirley Diaz
Belinda Edwards Taylor
Kathryn " Kate " Rakoczy
Leila S. Bham
Diane A. Seltzer
Anthony J. Coppolino
Caroline E. F. Frauman
Brian K. Flowers
Kevin D. Minsky
Denis C. Mitchell
Alberto J. Rivera
Adriaen M. Morse Jr.
Laura A. Possessky
Lorelie S. Masters
Lucy L. Thomson
Madina Lokova
Kathleen B. Havener
VOTES
4,624
2,506
4,589
2,338
3,290
3,264
3,242
3,045
3,029
3,023
2,527
2,495
2,323
2,122
1,801
898
4,461
4,056
3,208
3,139
2,546
Elected
Elected
Elected
Elected
Elected
Elected
Elected
Elected
Elected
Elected
Lorelie S. Masters of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, and Lucy L. Thomson of
Livingston PLLC.
Of the 88,261 D.C. Bar members who were eligible to vote, 7,563 cast their
ballots, for an 8.6 percent turnout.
The Bar honored its new leaders at its annual Celebration of Leadership on
June 20 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown Hotel.
THE D.C. BAR COMMUNITIES also elected new steering committee members to open seats:
Administrative Law
and Agency Practice
Krystal Wilson
Daniel Wolff
Erich Reimer
Antitrust and Consumer Law
Don Resnikoff
Brian Scarpelli
Arts, Entertainment,
Media and Sports Law
Kimberly Sullivan
Kassandra Ramsey
Corporation, Finance
and Securities Law
Wenchi Hu
Criminal Law
and Individual Rights
Robin M. Earnest
Kimberly Phillips
Meghan Skelton
District of Columbia Affairs
Angela Parsons
Lisa Leibow
Matthew Cohen
Environment, Energy
and Natural Resources
Erin Grisby
Abhi-Shék Jain
Estates, Trusts
and Probate Law
Judith del Cuadro-Zimmerman
Maureen Conly
Family Law
Emily Cunniff
Government Contracts
Robyn Burrows
Leslie Edelstein
Kevin Barnett
Thomas Coulter
Health Law
Chelsea Daniels
Robert Howard
Lindsay Burrows
Intellectual Property Law
Akiyah Francis
International Law
James Newland
Labor and Employment Law
Erika White
Law Practice Management
Paulina Proper
Litigation
Alicia Clausen
Kevin Clark
Kathleen Havener
Public Interest and Courts
Don Resnikoff
Brittany Sims Nwankwoala
Real Estate, Housing
and Land Use
John Muir
Taxation
Priya Royal
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