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BADC's Annual Meeting & Luncheon was featured in Washington Informer's August 2010 issue.  Please click this link to view the issue (note: we are listed on page 2)

 
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

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.

Please click here to read the entire press release

Please click here to view all of our photos from this event in a Kodak photo gallery.  Note: the album will open in a new window

credit: Don Tanguilig, photographer

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

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 

Rave Reviews for YLS Scotch & Cigar Tasting

The BADC Young Lawyers Section (YLS) was featured on the blog cigarreader.com for their July cigar and bourbon tasting event.  Click here to read the article and see the photos.

BADC’s Secretary, Rawle Andrews, Jr, new state director for AARP-MD, addresses health care rally with Lt Gov Anthony Brown and other Maryland officials. Click here to see more photos.

Photo credit: Maryland Governor's Press Office

Recap of the 138th Annual Banquet
Saturday, December 5, 2009
 

click here to see a few samples of our Annual Banquet photos

SPONSORS

PATRONS
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK LLP
BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP
CROWELL & MORING LLP
HOWREY LLP
JACKSON & CAMPBELL PC 
KATTEN MUCHIN & ROSENMAN LLP
KOONZ MCKENNEY JOHNSON DEPAOLIS
LIGHTFOOT LLP
O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP
UNIVERSITY OF DC DAVID A. CLARKE
SCHOOL OF LAW
VINSON & ELKINS LLP
WHITE & CASE LLP
WILMERHALE LLP

ADVOCATES
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
ARNOLD & PORTER LLP
ERNST & YOUNG
INVOTEX
PATTON BOGGS LLP
VENABLE LLP

SUPPORTERS
RAWLE ANDREWS JR.
WILLIAM P. ATKINS
BANNER & WITCOFF LTD
BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP
Hon. DIANE M. BRENNEMAN
PAULETTE E. CHAPMAN
WILLIAM E. DAVIS
ELLEN M. JAKOVIC
CHAD & CHRISTINA SARCHIO
GREGORY S. SMITH
KEITH W. WATTERS & ASSOCIATES

 The 138th Annual Meeting & Luncheon
June 10, 2009, The Mayflower Hotel

Immediate Past-President Albrecht, US Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., President Flood, and President-Elect Steward

Rawle Andrews, Michelle Albrecht, Ralph Albrecht, US Attorney General Eric Holder, James Flood, Nancy Flood, Annamaria Steward

Immediate Past-President Albrecht, US Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., President Flood

Rawle Andrews, Ralph Albrecht, Michelle Albrecht, Janine Nesbit, and Annamaria Steward

 Special Congratulations to our 50 Year BADC Members:

 Hon. Patrick J. Attridge; Milo G. Coerper; Harvey B. Cohen; Sydney Dickstein; James L. Fowler

and Special Thanks to All of our Sponsors:

Benefactor
Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Venable LLP

Patron  

 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Crowell & Moring LLP
Howrey LLP
Jack H. Olender
Reed Smith LLP
Schertler & Oronato LLP
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

Advocate
Rawle Andrews Jr.
William P. Atkins
Banner & Witcoff Ltd.
Rob C. Bertin
Hon. Diane M. Brenneman
Ronald S. Flagg
Ellen M. Jakovic
Victor E. Long
Robert L. Weinberg
Ben Wilson 

Most Tables
Vinson & Elkins LLP

 The 137th Annual Banquet at the Embassy of Italy

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Congratulations to our honorees:

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