For Immediate Release
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CONTACT: Christi Powers
State Bar of Wisconsin
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Candidates Tapped for 2002 State Bar Elections
MADISON, January 3, 2002 - The State Bar of
Wisconsin's Nominating Committee recently announced the candidates for
the office of president-elect and secretary. The candidates will be
elected by the membership in April. The winners will be sworn in at the
State Bar's Annual Convention in May and will take office July 1.
The candidates for president-elect are Atty. John
Bermingham of Oshkosh and Atty. George Burnett
of Green Bay. The nominees for secretary are Atty. Percy
Julian of Madison and Atty. Pamela Pepper of
Milwaukee. The president-elect will serve a one-year term before
becoming president, while the secretary will serve for two years.
The State Bar of Wisconsin is the mandatory professional association,
created by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, for attorneys who hold a law
license in Wisconsin. With more than 20,000 members, the State Bar aids
the courts in improving the administration of justice, provides
continuing legal education for its members, carries out initiatives to
educate the public about the legal system, and serves the community. The
elected officers work with the State Bar Board of Governors to manage
and direct the association's affairs.
John Bermingham is a shareholder in the Oshkosh firm
of Reff, Baivier, Bermingham & Lim, S.C., and practices extensively
in Family Law. Bermingham received his bachelor's degree from Bradley
University and his law degree from Marquette University. A former
president of the Winnebago County Bar Association, Bermingham has long
volunteered in State Bar activities and was the 1991 recipient of the
State Bar's Pro Bono award. Bermingham has served on the Board of
Directors of Legal Services of Northeast Wisconsin Inc., the Oshkosh
Chamber of Commerce and the Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc. He
currently serves as a director of the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation,
the Oshkosh Public Library and the Citizens First Credit Union.
George Burnett is a partner in the Green Bay firm of
Liebmann, Conway, Olejniczak & Jerry S.C. and practices general
litigation. He received his bachelor's degree from Marquette University
in 1978 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in
1981. Upon graduation, he served as a law clerk to Hon. Harlington Wood
in the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Burnett is a member and
immediate past chair of the Board of Directors for the State Bar's
Litigation Section. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors
for the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers. He has served the Green Bay
community as a member of the United Way Allocation Steering Committee,
the Board of Directors for Cerebral Palsy of Green Bay, president of
Home School for Notre Dame School, and as a member of the Parish Council
for St. Mary's Church in De Pere.
Percy Julian is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator
and shareholder in the Madison firm of Julian & Associates S.C. He
is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin Law
School. For 35 years, the majority of his practice has been centered in
the area of civil rights, employment and education matters. He is a
nationally recognized civil rights lawyer who has litigated cases in
Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oklahoma,
Tennessee and Wisconsin. He has served as a consultant to the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Julian is a former chair of
the State Personnel Board, which functioned as Wisconsin's Civil Service
Commission. He was a member of the Governor's Employment Relations Study
Committee that revised and rewrote the state's civil service law. He
also served on the Governor's Study Committee on Judicial Organization,
which revised and proposed legislation that reorganized the court system
of Wisconsin. He is the immediate past chair of the State Bar's
Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section and is currently a member
of the State Bar's ADR Section Board.
Pamela Pepper is a sole practitioner in a criminal
defense practice of Pamela Pepper Attorney at Law, S.C. in Milwaukee.
Pepper received her bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in
1986 and graduated from Cornell Law School in 1989. After law school,
she served as a law clerk to Hon. Frank M. Johnson, Jr. on the Eleventh
Circuit Court of Appeals. Pepper is currently a candidate for a
Certificate in Dispute Resolution at Marquette University's Graduate
School. For seven consecutive years, she held the position of Assistant
U.S. Attorney - first, in the Northern District of Illinois and later
for Wisconsin's Eastern District. She is currently a member of the
Association for Women Lawyers, Milwaukee Bar Association, Seventh
Circuit Bar Association, the State Bar's Multidisciplinary Practice
Commission and both the National and Wisconsin Associations of Criminal
Defense Lawyers. Pepper is also an adjunct professor at Marquette Law
School. She is active in the community, serving on the Board of
Directors for Horizon Inc. (a halfway house for women with substance
abuse problems) and the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Wisconsin
Inc.
For more information, please visit www.wisbar.org.
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