The Atlanta Lawyer April 2017 | Page 2
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Atlanta Bar Association
President Immediate Past
President Joan C. Grafstein
JAMS James D. Blitch IV
Blitch Law PC Harold E. Franklin, Jr.
King & Spalding LLP Jonathan E. Hawkins
Krevolin & Horst LLC Vice President/
President-Elect ACYL President C. Joseph Hoffman
Kitchens Kelley
Gaynes, PC Rita A. Sheffey
Emory University
School of Law
Legal Counsel
M. Gino Brogdon, Jr.
Brogdon Champion, LLC Lisa K. Liang
Hon. Judge Susan E.
Edlein, State Court
of Fulton County Caren Cloud
Truancy Intervention
Project Georgia Stephen T. LaBriola
Fellows LaBriola, LLP Atlanta Bar Foundation
President
Margaret H. Vath
Georgia State University
College of Law
Secretary
Nicole G. Iannarone
Georgia State University
College of Law
Treasurer
Ryan K. Walsh
Jones Day
Matthew Simmons
Shepherd Law, LLC
Members at Large
A. Craig Cleland
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash,
Smoak & Stewart P.C.
W. Michael D’Antignac
Deitch & Rogers, LLC
Rachel E. Spears
Pro Bono Partnership
of Atlanta
ABA Delegate
Marc A. Rawls
Sutherland LLP
Christopher P. Lightner
Alston & Bird LLP Michael B. Terry
Bondurant, Mixson &
Elmore, LLP
Gregory T. Presmanes
Bovis Kyle & Burch LLC Gate City Bar
Association President
Cheryl F. Turner