State Bar Bylaws

Notice of State Bar Bylaw Amendment

Note: The Board of Governors amended its election-related bylaws at its Sept. 19 meeting. A petition for review of any change in the bylaws will be entertained by the court if signed by 25 or more active State Bar members and filed with the clerk of the court within 60 days after publication of notice of change. Hearings upon such a petition will be pursuant to notice in such manner as the court directs.

I, Kathleen Grant, the duly elected secretary of the State Bar of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that resolutions were adopted at the Sept. 19, 1997, Board of Governors' meeting to amend the State Bar bylaws as follows:

Nomination and election dates for officers, governors

Articles II and III of the State Bar Bylaws are amended to read as follows:

Article II Officers

Section 1. Nominations. The President-Elect, the Secretary and the Treasurer of the State Bar shall be elected from a list of candidates nominated in the manner herein prescribed. A committee of five members to nominate candidates for said offices to be voted on at the next annual election shall be appointed by the President of the Association with the approval of the Board of Governors on or before the last day of September in each year at the first regularly scheduled Board meeting following the annual convention. Such report shall name two or more candidates nominated by the committee for the Office of President-Elect, two or more candidates nominated for the Office of Secretary and two or more candidates nominated for the Office of Treasurer. Before making its report, the committee shall solicit from the membership the names of members interested in seeking nomination to any office scheduled for election. The committee shall make its report no later than December 15 in each year the first business day in November. Other persons may be nominated for any of said offices by petition signed in the case of each candidate by not less than one hundred active members of the Association, and filed in the Office of the Executive Director on or before the first business day of February December of the year of preceding the election, provided that before the filing of such petition a statement shall be endorsed thereon by the nominee to the effect that the member consents to nomination for the office designated in the petition.

Article III Board of Governors

Section 3. Nomination Petitions. Nominations for the Office of Governor shall be by petition signed in respect of each nominee by not less than ten persons entitled to vote for such candidate. Blank forms for that purpose shall be supplied by the Executive Director of the Association on request. Nomination petitions for candidates to be voted on at the annual election in any year shall be filed in the office of the Executive Director not later than the first business day of March January of such year, provided that before the filing of such petition a statement shall be endorsed thereon by the nominee to the effect that the nominee consents to nomination for the office designated in the petition. No nominating petition for governor shall be filed on behalf of any member practicing in the same county in which another member is a governor whose term does not expire at the next annual meeting.

Section 4. Voting List. On the last third Friday of March January in each year the voting list shall close for the election in that year. Every active member of the Association in good standing on that date shall be entitled to vote in the State Bar District in which the member's principal office for the practice of law is located for officers of the State Bar and for the governor or governors for such district to be elected that year.

Section 5. Mailing Ballots. On or before the second first Friday of April February in each year the Executive Director shall prepare and mail required two ballots to each active member of the State Bar entitled to vote at the annual election. One form of ballot sent to persons entitled to vote in each State Bar District shall contain the names of the nominees for the several offices of the State Bar to be filled at the annual election, and a separate form of ballot shall contain the names of the nominees for the Office of Governor from such district. If any such person entitled to vote in such election fails to receive his or her ballots, or if it appears that any such ballot has been lost or destroyed, a new ballot shall be furnished to the person by the Executive Director. The fourth third Friday of April February in each year shall be the last day for voting in such election and no ballots received after that date shall be counted.

Kathleen Grant
Secretary
State Bar of Wisconsin
Oct. 6, 1997