WASHINGTON BAR ASSOCIATION
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT FOR 2010
The Washington Bar Association Nominations Committee, composed of WBA past Presidents Felicia L. Chambers, Robert L. Bell and Kim M. Keenan, reports to the Body the following slate of candidates to stand for election for Bar Year 2010 to 2011 :
- President: Iris McCollum Green
- 1st Vice President: Charles G. Byrd, Jr.
- 2nd Vice President: William R. Martin
- Treasurer: Richard M. Wilson
- Secretary: Natalie S. Walker
The Committee nominates the following for board terms to expire in 2014:
- Board Member: William C. Robinson
- Board Member: Jay A. Stewart
- Board Member: Steve Vieux
Elections will be held at the Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at the National Council for Negro Women, 633 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004 at 6:30 p.m.
The following are the terms of Board Members who are not standing for election:
- Board Member: Robie A. Beatty
(term expires 2012)
- Board Member: Johnnie D. Bond, Jr.
(term expires 2012)
- Board Member: Joseph H. Hairston
(term expires 2011)
Respectfully submitted,
Felicia L. Chambers
Past President
Chair, WBA Nominations Committee
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| YLD Member Spotlight:
Allison R. Brown
By Jason A. Grant
In May of this year, Allison R. Brown, who serves as the Professional Development Chairperson for the Young Lawyers Division of the Washington Bar Association, was inducted into her high school hall of fame in her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. This honor is one of many accomplishments that Allison has achieved in her young and impressive legal career, and as seen by all that she has done, it is well-deserved recognition.
Allison is a 1998 graduate of Howard University, where she graduated summa cum laude, and in 2002, she graduated from Harvard Law School, where she was an articles editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and a student attorney for the Criminal Justice Institute. After graduating from law school, Allison returned to her hometown of Indianapolis and served two judicial clerkship terms. The first was for Justice Theodore R. Boehm of the Indiana Supreme Court. Her second clerkship was for the then-Chief Judge David F. Hamilton of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, who was recently confirmed to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Her experiences as a judicial clerk influenced her decision to start Judicial Clerk, LLC, which assists law students and lawyers through the clerkship application process and educates minority law students about the value of clerkships.
Additionally, Allison works as an attorney for the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Civil Rights Division. This past March, Allison, along with other dedicated individuals in the DOJ Civil Rights Division, were successful in achieving a settlement agreement with the Monroe City School District of Louisiana to ensure that the district complies with Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
In addition to all of her career responsibilities, Allison also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Mentors of Minorities in Education’s Total Learning Cis-Tem (MOMIEs TLC), as a legal adviser for the National Council on Educating Black Children, and she and her husband are proud parents of two young children. As a young lawyer, Allison continues to do work that the founders of the Washington Bar Association dedicated themselves to do: advancement of jurisprudence and making this nation a more just society through the legal system. Allison R. Brown is indeed an example of the “social engineer” that Charles Hamilton Houston implored us to become.
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