2022-2023 Atlanta Bar Association Board of Directors & Sections
ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION President * Christopher Lightner Alston & Bird LLP
Vice President / President-Elect * Amy Cheng Nelson Mullins
Secretary * Emily Ward Smith Gambrell & Russell
Treasurer * Lillian Caudle Mercedes-Benz USA
Immediate Past President * Christina Baugh Barnes & Thornburg LLP
ACYL President * Kevin Langley Morris Manning & Martin LLP
Members-at-Large Lauren Brenner Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
E . Tyron Brown Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP
Kimberly Charles Atlanta Legal Aid
Brooke French Kaye Lembeck Hitt & French
Betsy Griswold *± Intercontinental Hotel Group
John Hadden Penn Law LLC
Sheena Khawaja ± Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
Kenneth Mitchell ± Johnson & Freeman
Kevin Patrick *± Kevin Patrick Law LLC
Jerico Phillips Graphic Packaging International LLC
JoAnna Smith Georgia Family Law Project LLC
Rachel Spears ± Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta
Ex-Officio Board Members ABA Delegate Michael Terry Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP
Atlanta Bar Foundation President Louis Cohan Cohan Law Group LLC
Gate City Bar Association President Jatrean Sanders Jatrean Sanders Enterprises , Inc .
* Denotes Executive Committee ± Denotes Presidential Appointee
ATLANTA BAR FOUNDATION President Louis Cohan Cohan Law Group LLC
Vice President Alan Poole Troutman Pepper
Secretary Megan Hodgkiss Hodgkiss Consulting LLC
Treasurer T . Timothy Wang Delta Airlines , Inc .
Immediate Past President Robert Wellon Wellon Family Law
Members-at-Large Class I ( Terms Expire 2023 ) Paula Frederick State Bar of Georgia
Hannibal Heredia Hedgepeth Heredia LLC
Wade Malone Nelson Mullins
Ling-Ling Nie Georgia Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Price Alston & Bird LLP
William Ragland Jr . Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
Margaret Vath Georgia State University , College of Law
Ryan Walsh Jones Day
Wade Watson III Watson Bonander LLC
Class II ( Terms Expire 2024 ) Rebecca Hoelting Hoelting & McCormack LLC
David Hopkins III J . David Hopkins LLC
Brenton Hund WarnerMedia
Betsy Griswold Intercontinental Hotel Group
Tracye Miller
Joel Neuman American Arbitration Association
Samantha Skolnick Alston & Bird LLP
Ex-Officio Members Hon . T . Jackson Bedford Jr . Senior Judge , Superior Courts of Georgia
Terrence Lee Croft Croft ADR
Franklin Strickland Strickland Brockington Lewis LLP
Jack Spalding Schroder Jr . Alston & Bird LLP
William Schroder Jr . Schroder Partners LLC
Allan Tanenbaum Equicorp Partners LLC
24 June / July 2022