boards of directors
Immediate Past Chair
Melanie Velez
Southern Center for Human Rights
Sole Practitioner/Small
Firm Section
Members at Large
Ashten Bailey
GreenLaw
Chair
Robert S. Huestis
Robert S. Huestis, P.C.
Kimberly Charles
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Louis R. Cohan
Cohan Law Group, LLC
Hon. Susan E. Edlein
State Court of Fulton County
James Knoepp
Southern Poverty Law Center
Stephen T. LaBriola
Fellows LaBriola
Wade H. Watson III
The Watson Firm LLC
Chair
Cory B. Thompson
Kutak Rock LLP
Secretary/Treasurer
Brian D. Harvel
Alston & Bird LLP
Secretary
Rachel Platt
The Platt Law Firm
Treasurer
Joseph Gottlieb
Cohen Goldstein Port & Gottlieb, LLP
Members at Large
Christopher S. Badeaux
The Badeaux Law Firm, LLC
J. Wickliffe Cauthorn
Cauthorn Nohr & Owen
Secretary
Katharine Dyott
Dorough & Dorough, LLC
Immediate Past Chair
C. Murray Saylor, Jr.
The Saylor Law Firm LLP
Members at Large
Anson H. Asbury
Asbury Law Firm
Brian D. Bodker
Bodker, Ramsey, Andrews,
Winograd & Wildstein, P.C.
**The Hon. T. Jackson Bedford, Jr.
Fulton County Superior Court
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Kevin M. Rys
DR Horton
Chair
Julian A. Fortuna
Taylor English Duma LLP
Vice Chair
W. Scott Wright
Sutherland
Immediate Past Chair
Beth E. Rogers
Rogers Law Offices
Real Estate Section
Tax Law Section
David F. Golden
Troutman Sanders LLP
Vivian D. Hoard
Taylor English Duma LLP
Sheldon M. Kay
Michael R. Dunham
Cohan Law Group, LLC
Treasurer
Charles Van Horn
Berman Fink Van Horn PC
Immediate Past Chair
Jonathan L. Neville
Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP
Members at Large
Christopher Collier
Williams Teusink, LLC
Jeffrey H. Kess
Gomel, Davis & Watson, LLP
Matthew Campbell Jordan
The Law Office of Benjamin Y. Gerber
Brian Levy
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP
Mari L. Myer
The Myer Law Firm
Richard C. Litwin
The Litwin Law Firm, P.C.
William F. Smith III
Schenk Smith, LLC
Mark W. Thomas
Mark Thomas & Associates, PC
James L. Yeargan Jr.
Yeargan & Yarbrough, LLC
Joseph Farrell
Quirk & Quirk
Michael E. Leavey
Dorough & Dourough, LLC
**Robert G. Wellon
Attorney and Counselor At Law
**Life Members
32 THE ATLANTA LAWYER
June/July 2015
The Official News Publication of the Atlanta Bar Association