CBA Record November-December 2023

law school at Loyola. In the CBA, Boho has served as a volunteer general counsel, board member, and officer.

Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers fellowships. He sits in the ABA’s House of Delegates and serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is an American Board of Trial Advocates member, has served as President of The Society of Trial Lawyers, and was the immediate Past President of the Chi cago Inn of Court. At the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, he is a member of the Board of Managers. He is on the fac ulty at Loyola University School of Law, where he teaches civil procedure.

this role. She is an independent board member and former CEO of the Indian Health Service. She currently serves on the board of PTC Therapeutics, Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company, and HAI Group, a leading member-owned insurance company for the affordable housing industry. She is also Vice Chair of the VENG Group, a national consult ing firm. She served on the senior team of the Civil Division at the United States Department of Justice and as General Counsel at the Illinois Department of Insurance. Earlier in her career, she served in the White House as Associate Counsel to the President and Associate Director of Policy Planning. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of Chicago, the Interna tional Women’s Forum, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. She is a former member of the CBA’s Board of Managers. ity, which he joined in 1996 to advance the human and civil rights of people with dis abilities in Illinois. At Equip for Equality, he oversaw many individual and systemic disability discrimination cases, including successful federal ADA suits against the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Chicago Police Department, and the Chicago Transit Authority. He is currently counsel in six class actions, including lead counsel in Ligas v. Eagleson, a class action on behalf of people with developmental disabilities who are seeking community services. A 1988 graduate of the Univer sity of Illinois College of Law, he served as Chair of the CBA’s Legal Aid and Mental Health and Disability Law Committees and Co-Chair of the CBA/CBF’s Pro Bono Week. Barry Taylor Barry Taylor was most recently the Vice President for Civil Rights and Systemic Litigation at Equip for Equal

Patricia Brown Holmes Patricia Brown Holmes is a Managing Part ner at Riley Safer Holmes & Can cila LLP. She is

the first Black woman to manage and have her name on the door of a national law firm that is not women- or minor ity-owned. Before serving as an associ ate judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County, she was an assistant U.S. Attor ney and an Assistant State’s Attorney. She is a Past President (1997-1998) of the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc., and a Past Presi dent (2015-2016) of the CBA. Recently, she was honored with the Chambers USA 2023 Diversity & Inclusion Outstand ing Contribution Award, the American Constitution Society Abner J. Mikva Award, the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Philanthropic Award, the ABA Diversity Leadership Award, and was named to the CCBA Hall of Fame. She co-chairs the National Football League Diversity Advisory Council.

Professor Ann Lousin Professor Ann Lousin was born and reared in Chi cago. After receiv ing a B.A. from

Grinnell College in 1964, she studied in Heidelberg, Germany for a year and then returned to study at the University of Chicago Law School. Shortly after receiv ing her J.D. in 1968, she was a research assistant at the Sixth Illinois Constitu tional Convention. She was a staff assis tant to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives for the next four years, including being Parliamentarian of the House from 1973 to 1975. Upon join ing the faculty of the John Marshall Law School (now UIC Law Chicago) in 1975, she began teaching both com mercial law and constitutional law. She currently teaches sales transactions, con tracts, and Illinois constitutional law. She is especially active in the CBA, which she has served for 50 years, including three terms as Chair of the Constitutional Law Committee.

Daniel M. Kotin Daniel M. Kotin is a founding share holder and trial lawyer in the firm of Tomasik Kotin Kasserman. He

handles personal injury and wrongful death cases in transportation, product liability, medical malpractice, and con struction. In 2017, he completed his term as President of the CBA, became involved in the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and was elected to its Executive Council. He has also been selected for the American College of

Mary Smith Mary Smith is Presi dent of the Ameri can Bar Association and is the first Native American woman in

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