CBA Record May-June 2024

delivering several headline-making CLE programs, hosting numerous events with community partners such as the Illinois Secretary of State and Chicago Public Library, and celebrating at the gala to cap a great year of fun and reflection. • Partnered with other bar associations to resurrect the former all bar leadership committee to redevelop and strengthen the rela tionship between the larger bars and our partner affinity bars. • Hosted a high-profile press conference featuring the Arab American Bar Association, Decalogue Society, Governor JB Pritzker, and Attorney General Kwame Raoul to discuss crimes and actions based on hate, antisemitism, and Islamo phobia in October 2023. • Led a delegation of members and guests to Mexico for the CLE Abroad Program , where we were treated to excellent programming, exclusive tours of the Mexico Supreme Court and National History Museum at Chapultepec Castle, phe nomenal meals, and wonderful networking with American and Mexican attorneys, including a former Justice of the Mexico Supreme Court. I most certainly would not have had a successful bar year without the strong support of so many people, including: • My husband Johnny Song and daughters, Grace and Addy. They had to put up with more craziness from me this past year than usual.

• My Clark Hill colleagues and friends, especially my assistant Sarin Pimlikitsak and editor extraordinaire Megan McKeon.

• The CBA board, executive committee, and staff leadership. In particular, I want to highlight the roles of two people: Immedi ate Past President Tim Tomasik, whose friendship, guidance, and mentorship made my job much easier than it could have been, and Executive Director Beth McMeen, who has owned her leadership role and provided an invaluable, steady hand. The CBA is in amazing hands next year. We have a fantastic board full of returning and new members that seems more diverse and inclusive than ever. We also have an incredibly talented and com mitted executive committee. Our next president, John Sciaccotta, is ready to lead us into and through another successful year. I look forward to supporting and cheering him on during his bar year! I hope all of you will join me at the CBA’s Annual Meeting on June 27 both to congratulate our outgoing and incoming leadership and to conclude our 150th Anniversary Celebration. I look forward to remaining on the board as Immediate Past President and continuing to serve the many communities to which I belong. Importantly, I also look forward to continuing my focus as a full-time attorney, like so many of our members. While I will no longer be CBA President, I remain at your ser vice. Please feel free to call on me if I can help in any way.

THANK YOU TO THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION COMMITTEE:

CO-CHAIRS: Terry Murphy, CBA Executive Director Emeritus Judge Nichole C. Patton, Circuit Court of Cook County Aurora Austriaco, Valentine Austriaco & Bueschel, P.C . Laurel Bellows, The Bellows Law Group PC Daniel Berkowitz, Cruser Mitchell Tracy Brammeier, Clifford Law Offices Margaret Mendenhall Casey,

Martin Gould, Stinar Gould Grieco & Hensley E. Lynn Grayson, Nijman Franzetti LLP Judge Robert Harris, Circuit Court of Cook County David Hilliard, Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson Ray J. Koenig III, Clark Hill PLC Daniel Kotin, Tomasik Kotin Kasserman LL C Terri Mascherin, Jenner & Block Maureen Mullen, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP John Sciaccotta, Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa Larry Suffredin, Law Offices of Lawrence J. Suffredin, Jr . Timothy Tomasik, Tomasik Kotin Kasserman LLC Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., Circuit Court of Cook County Judge Kenya Jenkins-Wright, Circuit Court of Cook County

City of Chicago Department of Law Jeannine Cordero, American Express Daniel Cotter, Dickinson Wright PLLC Alexis Crawford Douglas, K&L Gates LLP Steven Elrod, Elrod Friedman LLP

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