Nominations Committee Announces 2024 Candidates for Bar Office

March 18, 2024

The D.C. Bar Committee on Nominations has announced the following candidates for the 2024 D.C. Bar elections:

President-Elect (1 seat open)

• Hardeep Grover
  CapEx Legal
   
• Sadina Montani
  Crowell & Moring LLP

Treasurer-Elect (1 seat open)

• Phillip L. Husband
  DC Health
   
• Joshua L. Mogil
  Federal Government

Board of Governors (5 seats open)

• Leila S. Bham
  Federal Government
   
• Anthony J. Coppolino
  Federal Government (retired)
   
• Shirley Diaz
  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP  
   
• Belinda Edwards Taylor
  Nonprofit Staff Attorney
   
•  Brian K. Flowers
  D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority
   
• Caroline E. F. Frauman
  U.S. House of Representatives
   
• Kevin D. Minsky
  DocuSign, Inc.
   
• Denis C. Mitchell
  Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
   
•  Adriaen M. Morse Jr.
  SECIL Law LLP
   
• Kathryn L. Rakoczy
  U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
   
• Alberto J. Rivera
  Krooth & Altman LLP
   
• Diane A. Seltzer
  The Seltzer Law Firm

ABA Delegates (3 seats open)

• Kathleen B. Havener
  The Cullen Law Firm, PLLC  
   
• Madina Lokova
  White & Case LLP
   
• Lorelie S. Masters
  Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
   
• Laura A. Possessky
  Corporation for Public Broadcasting
   
• Lucy L. Thomson
  Livingston PLLC

Other D.C. Bar members who wish to run for office may secure a spot on the ballot for any position other than president-elect by filing a petition bearing the signatures of at least 435 active members of the D.C. Bar (the figure represents at least one-half of one percent of the Bar’s active membership as of the first business day of 2024).

The petition can also be obtained by contacting Crystal White in the Bar’s Executive Office at 202-737-4700, ext. 2607, or by email at [email protected]. Petitions must be filed no later than April 1.

The 2024 D.C. Bar general and Communities elections will run from April 29 to June 4. 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 2024 D.C. Bar elections.