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Eileen M. Letts , Zuber Lawlor Del Duca LLP, will receive the ABA’s Prestigious Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Chicago… Patricia Brown Holmes , a founding partner of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancilla and a past CBA President, was named managing partner of the now 73-member firm with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Hon. Thomas Hogan (ret.) and Hon. Sheila Murphy (ret.), co-chairs of the Association’s Inter- faith Committee, presented Restorative Justice Training certificates to more than 100 students who successfully completed nine weeks of Restorative Justice Training at St. Sabina, Leo, O’Keefe and Visitation Schools. Thomas A. Demetrio , Corboy & Demetrio, has been nominated for the ABA’s prestigious Pickering Award… Jane Wessel has joined Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s London office… John C. Sciaccotta , Aronberg Goldgehn, received Fenwick High School’s Accipter/Lawyer of the Year Award…Judge Carole Kamin Bellows received the Illinois Judges Foun- dation/Illinois Bar Foundation’s Legal Luminary Award… Michael L.Weissman , of counsel at Levin & Ginsburg, Ltd., received IICLE’s Addis E. Hull Award… Wesley G. Nissen was added as a part- ner at Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP… James A. Morsch , Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP, spoke at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Consumer Law Review Symposium on Class Actions… Jean P. Yoon is a new associate at Ginsberg Jacobs LLC… Genevieve Dominguez has become a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP… Kerry M. Lavelle , Lavelle Law Ltd., spoke at the ABA’s Solo, Small Firm and GP Division’s spring meeting… Sheila Nielsen was a featured speaker at the First Municipal Advisory Committee’s April meeting… Miguel C. Keberlein was named Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services… Circuit Court Judge John C. Griffin was appointed to the Illinois Appellate Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice John Simon’s retirement. Holland & Knight LLP received the 2018 Volunteer Impact Award from Christopher House… Jeremy

President Gerald Ford. Justice Stevens was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1975 and retired from the High Court in 2010. Justice Stevens is the third longest serving justice of the Supreme Court and is the author of several books including: Six Amendments: How and Why We should Change the Constitution and Five Chiefs , which is a compendium of memories of each Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that he served with fromChief Justice Fred Vinson to Chief Justice John Roberts. The Justice John Paul Stevens Award Luncheon is held during September. An announce- ment with the details for this year’s lun- cheon will be emailed to the members in August. For more information, contact Tamra Drees at tdrees@chicagobar.org. CBA to Host the 2018 Meeting of the World City Bar Leaders The Chicago Bar Association has been a member of the prestigious World City Bar Leaders since 2000 and hosted one of the group’s early international conferences in Chicago in 2006. We are proud to be host- ing theWorld City Bar Leaders Conference again on September 26-29, 2018, at the CBA Building. Members of theWorld City Bar Leaders include the presidents of the world’s leading bar associations: London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, Warsaw, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia. The world’s leading city bar associations share many common concerns and problems, such as judicial independence, the delivery of legal services, international dispute reso- lution, access to justice, the globalization of the practice of law, public education about the law/justice system, the impact of technology on the law, etc. We are plan- ning several member events during the September WCBL conference, which will give members an opportunity to meet the visiting bar presidents and leaders attend- ing the Chicago conference. Look for more information about the WCBL conference on the CBA’s website, weekly e-bulletin and the CBA Record . Congratulations Tina Chen , Buckley Sandler LLP, and

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Clay was appointed managing partner of Mayer Brown’s Chicago office… Timothy S. Tomasik , Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society of Barristers… Jerald B. Holisky and John C . Sciaccotta , CBA RECORD 33