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minority & diversity clerkship Minority & Diversity Clerkship Program The Minority & Diversity Clerkship Program would like to extend a thank you to all of the hosting firms. We have 18 firms and five judges hosting clerks this year, a program record! We would also like to thank Renee Smith (Burr & Forman, LLP) for all of her help coordinating the interviews and the Atlanta Bar Foundation and Lawyer Referral & Information Service for helping to support placing clerks with judges. The Atlanta Bar Association would like to thank Charles T. Lester Jr. (Sutherland), W. Seaborn Jones (Owen Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney, LLP) and G. Wayne Hillis (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP), Program CoChairs, for their hard efforts to make this program grow. Hosting firms and Judges are: Alston & Bird LLP Burr & Forman, LLP Carlton Fields, PA The Honorable Brenda H. Cole, State Court of Fulton County The Honorable Sara L. Doyle, Court of Appeals of Georgia The Honorable Susan E. Edlein, State Court of Fulton County Fellows LaBriola, LLP Fisher & Phillips Ford & Harrison, LLP Goodman McGuffey Lindsey & Johnson, LLP Holland & Knight, LLP Chief Justice Carole W. Hunstein, Supreme Court of Georgia Hunton & Williams LLP Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney, LLP Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP The Honorable Patsy Y. Porter, State Court of Fulton County Stites & Harbison, PLLC Strickland Brockington & Lewis, LLP Thompson Hine LLP Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC 12 THE ATLANTA LAWYER April 2012 The Official News Publication of the Atlanta Bar Association