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Nominations Committee Announces 2022 Candidates for Bar Office

March 11, 2022

The D.C. Bar Committee on Nominations has announced the following candidates for the 2022 D.C. Bar elections:

President-Elect (1 seat open)

  • Charles R. Lowery Jr.
    New American Funding
     
  • Alexander L. Reid
    Baker & Hostetler LLP

Secretary (1 seat open)

  • Shayan Davoudi
    Shayan Law Office
     
  • Joseph V. Moreno
    SAP National Security Services, Inc.

Treasurer (1 seat open)

  • Austin C. Cromack
    Lawyers Democracy Fund
     
  • Shaun M. Snyder
    National Association of State Treasurers

Board of Governors (5 seats open)

  • Rebecca F. Cady
    Children’s National Hospital
     
  • Karen A. Newton Cole
    Neighborhood Legal Services Program
     
  • Paul K. Dueffert
    Dueffert Gilbertsen PLLC
     
  • Christopher A. Glaser
    Jackson & Campbell, P.C.
     
  • Allen P. Grunes
    Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
     
  • John R. Ingrassia
    Proskauer Rose LLP
     
  • Andrea Mangones
    Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
     
  • Steven R. Miller
    U.S. Department of Energy
     
  • Edwin J. Nazario
    Reed Smith LLP
     
  • Gregory S. Nixon
    Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
     
  • Roger Lu Phillips
    Syria Justice and Accountability Centre

ABA Delegates (3 seats open)

  • Alejandro J. Guadarrama
    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
     
  • Lorelie S. Masters
    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
     
  • John M. McNichols
    Williams & Connolly LLP
     
  • Laura A. Possessky
    Corporation for Public Broadcasting
     
  • Karen M. Roos
    HireRoos
     
  • Lucy L. Thomson
    Livingston PLLC

Active D.C. Bar members who wish to run for office other than President-Elect may secure a spot on the ballot by filing a petition bearing the signatures of at least 417 Active members of the D.C. Bar.

Such petition must be submitted no later than FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2022.

Please contact Crystal White in the Bar’s Executive Office at 202-737-4700, ext. 2607, or by email at [email protected] if you have any questions.

The 2022 D.C. Bar general and Communities elections will run from April 28 to June 1. Voting is exclusively online. Eligible voters will receive an email link to the general election ballot, as well as to the ballots for their D.C. Bar Communities, from Direct Vote (via Survey & Ballot Systems), an independent vendor administering the 2022 D.C. Bar elections.

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