Keynote Speaker De Maurice Smith, NFL Players Association Executive Director and prominent Washington lawyer (r) accepting the Outstanding Achievement Award from President James G. Flood, as De Maurice’s parents look on with pride 

Annamaria Steward Inducted 125th BADC President
Gregory S. Smith Elected BADC President-Elect
BADC Officers/Board, YLS Officers/Board, BADC Foundation Trustees elected

At its Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon on June 22nd at the historic Mayflower Hotel, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia inducted its 125th President: Annamaria Steward, Associate Dean of Students at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law.  Annamaria is the fourth woman to serve as BADC President, the third African American to serve as BADC President, and the first African American woman to be BADC President.  She is a Past Chair of the BADC Young Lawyers Section, a former law clerk of former Chief Judge Annice M. Wagner of the DC Court of Appeals, a former attorney with Jack H. Olender & Associates, a graduate of the GWU National School of Law and of Dartmouth College.

Chief Judge Eric T. Washington of the DC Court of Appeals performed the inductions.  BADC President James G. Flood presided until the installation of Officers and Directors.

Gregory S. Smith was also installed as President-Elect of the BADC.  Greg is a sole practitioner who has previously served in the White House Counsel’s Office, at the law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sub-Committee on Terrorism, and as President of the Atlanta Bar Association.

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President James G. Flood (r) with Quality of Life Committee member Cory Amron present the Quality of Life Award to the law firm of Hessel, Aluise and Neun, PC 

President James G. Flood (L) and Securities Law Committee Chair Ford C. Ladd (r) presenting Professor John C. Coffee, Jr. with Outstanding Achievement Award for his service to the bar and the US Congress on financial regulatory reform

 
Annamaria Steward (L), as her first act as President, presenting award to Immediate Past-President James G. Flood in appreciation of his exemplary service as BADC President