CBA Record

PRESIDENT’S PAGE BY PATRICIA BROWN HOLMES A Year in Review

EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Amy Cook Amy Cook Consulting CBA RECORD Features Editor Justin Heather The Quinlan Law Firm, LLC Summary Judgments Editor Pamela S. Menaker Clifford Law Of À ces YLS Journal Editors-in-Chief Jonathan B. Amarilio Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Geoff Burkhart American Bar Association Carolyn D. Amadon Shannon R. Burke American Bar Association Anne Ellis Proactive Worldwide, Inc. Clifford Gately Heyl Royster Angela Harkless The Harkless Law Firm Jasmine Villaflor Hernandez Cook County State’s Attorney’s Of À ce Michele M. Jochner Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP Stacey R. Laskin Illinois Attorney General’s Of À ce John Levin Bonnie McGrath Law Of À ce of Bonnie McGrath Clare McMahon Law Of À ce of Clare McMahon Peter V. Mierzwa Law Bulletin Publishing Company Kathleen Dillon Narko Northwestern University School of Law

End Distracted Driving Program, World City Bar Leaders Conference in Barcelona, Herman Kogan Media Awards luncheon, WYCCTelevision Programming, WTTW Public Announcements, LawDay Celebra- tion, Lawyers Lend-A-Hand, Membership Appreciation Week, and a host of other activities too numerous to mention. I would like to give a great big “shout out” to: –The wonderful CBA staff (BethMcMeen, Tamra Drees, Linda Heacox, David Beam, Tim Hogan, Angie Cruz , Brenda Ott, Loretta Wells, Therese Kurth, Karen Stanton, Sharon Nolan, Sharon Stepan, Jennifer Byrne), and especially Executive Director Terry Murphy, for making it all look easy when it really is a LOT of work. –Special thanks to CBF President Allegra Nethery, and the CBF’s great staff, under the leadership of Bob Glaves and Dina Merrell. –The best Executive Committee and Board of Managers ever! Dan Cotter, Dan Kotin, Judge Mulroy, Jesse Ruiz, Steve Elrod; Matt Passen, Chasity Boyce, Karina Ayala-Bermejo, Tom Boleky, James FortCamp, Natacha McClain, Meredith Ritchie, David Scriven-Young, Judge Amy St. Eve, John T. Theis, Ashly Boesche, Justice Maureen E. Con- nors, Mary Curry, Matt Jenkins, Eileen O’Connor, Nigel F. Telman, Frank Tuz- zolino, and Allison Wood; –All of the folks at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP as well as Schiff Hardin LLP for being patient, kind and supportive while I juggled being president of a 22,000 member association while trying to be a good partner and colleague;

I wanted to take my last column to express my sincere appreciation for the many kind wishes, thoughts, offers of assistance, help with conferences and seminars, attendance at meetings, kind gestures and support, among all the others things you have all done to make my year as President of the Chicago Bar Association a wonderful experience. I have tried to be as inclusive as possible in every aspect of the association. Each of you has participated and sup- ported those efforts. So I want to thank everyone who has been involved in making this a fun-tastic bar year! And believe it or not, the year has been chock full of mag- nificent and impactful activities, including meetings of more than 93 committees, (and 3 new committees–Mindfulness, Creative Arts and Trial Practice), as well as International CLE in Switzerland, CBA Leadership Development Program, Town Hall Meeting on Educational Inequality, Women Lawyers in the Courtroom, Van- guard and Dickerson Award Luncheons, Ruth Bader Ginsburg luncheon, Justice John Paul Stevens Award Luncheon, YLS

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