ABA Model Diversity Survey
The ABA House of Delegates passed Resolution 113 that urges all providers of legal services, particularly law firms, to expand and create opportunities at all levels of responsibility for diverse attorneys.
Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession
The mission of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession (The Commission) is to serve as a catalyst promoting diversity and inclusion within the legal profession and the ABA by facilitating the entry, participation and retention of diverse lawyers. The Commission achieves this by furthering the development of substantive programs and services in which diverse lawyers, law firms and law students will actively participate.
2020 ABA Spirit of Excellence Awards Nominations Now Open
Nominate a peer who has striven through adversity and achieved excellence as a law professional of color for the 2020 Spirit of Excellence Awards.
Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy (Date June 23, 2019)
The CBLA marks the first substantive program resulting from a collaboration of the six sponsoring bar associations and lays the foundation for further collaborative efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.
The Innovator
A newsletter of the ABA’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession.
Past Issues
Books
Publications | Book
Diversity in Action: A Manual for Diversity Professionals in Law
Publications | Book
Moving Diversity Forward: How to Go from Well-Meaning to Well-Doing
Leadership
Chair
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Helen B. Kim
Los Angeles, CA
Staff Director
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Keevin Woods
Chicago, IL
Keevin.Woods@americanbar.org
BOARD OF GOVERNORS LIAISON
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Paula E. Boggs
Sammamish, WA
Commissioners
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Gretchen C. Bellamy
Chapel Hill, NC
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Agnes Bundy Scanlan
Cambridge, MA
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Marvin S.C. Dang
Honolulu, HI
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Jo Ann Engelhardt
Palm Beach, FL
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Pamela C. Enslen
Kalamazoo, MI
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Robert Furnier
Cincinnati, OH
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Juanita Harris
Dallas, TX
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Colleen E. Lamarre
San Francisco, CA
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Kimberly Norwood
Saint Louis, MO
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Pedro J. Torres-Diaz
Miami, FL
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Karol Corbin Walker
Newark, NJ
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Florence M. Johnson
Special Advisor