The Atlanta Lawyer December 2017/January 2018 | Page 2

Chairs
Hon. Diane E. Bessen
Lisa K. Liang
Advisors
Margaret H. Vath
James D. Blitch IV
Student Liaisons
Honey L. Shaw
Editorial Board
Enjoliqué Aytch
Trevor Brice
Ben Byrd
Richard Caplan
Janet Fashinasi
Megan Hodgkiss
Michael Jablonski
Hamida Jackson-Little
Rachel L. Platt
Erik J. Provitt
Jacquelyn H. Saylor
Shawn Shepard
Dawn Smith
Ian E. Smith
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Atlanta Bar Association
President
Margaret H. Vath
Georgia State University
College of Law
Vice President/
President-Elect
Nicole G. Iannarone
Georgia State University
College of Law
Secretary
ACYL President
C. Joseph Hoffman
Kitchens Kelley
Gaynes, P.C.
Members at Large
M. Gino Brogdon, Jr.
Brogdon Champion, LLC
Caren Cloud
Truancy Intervention
Project Georgia
Ryan K. Walsh
Jones Day Joan C. Grafstein
JAMS
Treasurer Robert Lewis, Jr.
U.S. Deparment of Labor
A. Craig Cleland
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash,
Smoak & Stewart P.C.
Immediate Past
President
James D. Blitch IV
Blitch Law PC
Lisa K. Liang
Hon. Susan E. Edlein,
State Court of
Fulton County ABA Delegate
Christopher P. Lightner
Alston & Bird LLP Legal Counsel
J. Mathew Maguire
Parks, Chesin &
Walbert, PC
Melissa Redmon
Fulton County District
Attorney's Office
Shawn Shepard
Smith & Carson, Inc.
Jonathan E. Hawkins
Krevolin & Horst LLC Ashley Wilson
Shingler Lewis LLC
Stephen T. LaBriola
Fellows LaBriola LLP Jessica J. Wood
Bodker, Ramsey, Andrews,
Winograd & Wildstein, PC
Rita A. Sheffey
Emory University
School of Law
Marc A. Rawls
Sutherland LLP
Atlanta Bar
Foundation President
Michael B. Terry
Bondurant, Mixson &
Elmore, LLP
Gate City Bar
Association President
Shawntel Hebert