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For Immediate Release
June 21, 2010    
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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.

Other BADC Officers/Directors, YLS Officers/Board and Foundation Trustees inducted:

BADC Treasurer-Elect   
David E. Hawkins

BADC Secretary
Christopher A. Zampogna

BADC Directors
Rawle Andrews, Jr.
Andrew L. Hurst
Mark Kappelhoff
Pamela B. Stuart
Dominic G. Vorv

BADC Young Lawyers Section (YLS)
Chair-Elect
Yousri Omar

YLS Secretary
Andrew C. Bernasconi

YLS Treasurer-Elect
Neil Dennis

YLS Board
Caileen N. “Kat” Gamache
Matt Gatewood
Anjuma K. Goswami
Lindsay Harrison

BADC Foundation Trustees  
Rainey Brandt
William E. Davis
Hon. Herbert B. Dixon
Christopher G. Hoge
Nicholas S. McConnell
Dwight D. Murray

The BADC was founded in 1871, the third oldest bar association in the nation following the Boston City and the City of New York bar associations.