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CBA RECORD
PRESIDENT’S
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BY PATRICIA BROWN HOLMES
Membership & Inclusion:
A Call to Action
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JULY/AUGUST 2015
I
t is an honor for me to serve as the 139
th
president of The Chicago Bar Associa-
tion and I am especially honored to be
the second African American woman to
lead the Association. Our Association is
among the leading metropolitan bar asso-
ciations in the country and our services
to the court, the bar and the public are
outstanding.
A strong and vital bar association is
essential to our city and state’s legal com-
munity. Bar associations are guardians
of the law providing essential services to
our state and federal courts, to the legal
profession, and to the greater Chicago
community. To be sure, these are difficult
and challenging times for the legal profes-
sion, law firms and law schools, and it
is especially important now to keep and
get more lawyers actively involved in bar
association work. Without a strong and
vital bar association, the legal profession
will inevitably falter because no law firm,
large or small, and/or law school, will be
able to provide the wide array of services
that bar associations provide to underpin
the administration of justice in our state. In
addition, Illinois’ fiscal problems are likely
to have a significant impact on legal service
programs throughout our city and state.
My number one leadership goal for the
CBA this year is the “Call to Member-
ship and Inclusion” campaign and I am
calling on all of our members to help.
Notre Dame’s legendary football coach,
Lou Holz, said that “…leadership is all
about getting people involved and if we
get enough people involved we can solve
almost any problem.” I have a five-point
plan that I am asking each member to
pledge to support this year. In order to
be successful, I need your leadership and
commitment to assist me in achieving the
following plan:
• I am asking every member to recruit five
newmembers to the Association during
the coming bar year. Each of us comes
in contact with lawyers every day and
it is easy enough for us to ask them if
they are a CBAmember. The leadership,
business development and networking
opportunities for members are almost
endless, and the friends that you will
make through your bar association
involvement will last a lifetime. Becom-
ing a member is easy and convenient
by visiting the CBA’s website at www.
chicagobar.org. Please remember to be
inclusive in your recruiting efforts.
• I am asking each committee member to
reach out to five recently dropped CBA
members and to encourage (convince)
them to rejoin the Association and to
join one of our 92 standing committees
and/or one of the Young Lawyer’s Sec-
tion’s 22 committees. Our membership