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BAR COMMUNITY
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
JUNE MEETING REVIEW
Below are highlights from the June 8, 2010,
meeting of the State Bar Board of Governors.
To see the complete minutes, go to
www.myazbar.org/AZBarInfo/BOG/
BoGMinutes.cfm.
3 President’s Report—President
Ray Hanna welcomed the newly
elected members of the Board of
Governors, as well as Meredith
Peabody, the newest public member. He then presented a gift
from the Board of Governors to
Gregory Dean Hague for his
achievement of the highest score
on the February 2010 Arizona
bar examination.
3 Receipt and Certification of
Election Tellers Report—The
Board voted unanimously to
receive and certify the Election
Tellers Report.
The newly elected Board
members are: District 1 (Apache,
Coconino, Mohave and Navajo
Counties) – Whitney
Cunningham (incumbent);
District 2 (Yavapai County) –
Christopher W. Jensen; District 3
(Gila, Graham and Greenlee
Counties) – Bryan B. Chambers;
District 4 (Cochise County) –
Jana E. Flagler; District 5 (Pima
and Santa Cruz Counties) – Dee-Dee Samet (incumbent), Amelia
Craig Cramer (incumbent) and
Michael J. Crawford (
incumbent); District 7 (La Paz and
Yuma Counties) – Jim D. Smith
(incumbent); District 8 (Pinal
County) – Richard T. Platt,
(incumbent). Maricela Meza will
automatically serve as a voting
member of the Board during her
year as president of the Young
Lawyers Division.
3 Election of 2010-2011
Officers—The board congratulated Alan P. Bayham Jr. on
becoming president and Joseph
A. Kanefield on becoming president-elect of the State Bar of
Arizona. For the 2010-2011 year,
the board elected Amelia Craig
Cramer as first vice president,
Whitney Cunningham as second
vice president, and Richard T.
Platt as secretary/treasurer.
3 Appointment of ABA House of
Delegate—The board reappoint-
ed Jimmie D. Smith to serve as a
State Bar Delegate in the ABA
House of Delegates.
