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Meet Our Council Members

2023-2024

Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council 

Leadership

Wendy Shiba, Chair
Lauren Rikleen, Vice-Chair

Diversity Advisory Council Staff

Selina S. Thomas, Managing Director
Norma Campos, Associate Director
Katrina “Kat” Donaldson, Marketing Specialist
Curtissa Hopper, Office Administrator

ABA Entities

Affordable Housing & Community Development Law (Forum)
Randall Shorr
Karol Robinson

Air & Space Law (Forum)
Amna Arshad

Antitrust Law (Section)
Jaime "Jim" Taronji, Jr.

Bar Services (Division)
Greg Conyers

Business Law (Section)
Sylvia Chin

Civil Rights and Social Justice (Section)
Juan R. Thomas

Criminal Justice (Section)
Sarah Redfield

Disability Rights (Commission)
Robert “Bob” Dinerstein, Chair
Amy Allbright, Director

Dispute Resolution (Section)
TBD

Diversity In The Educational Pipeline (Council)
Patricia Lee, Chair
Jason Ravin, Diversity Director

Energy, Environment & Resources (Section)
Marisa Blackshire

Franchising (Forum)
Ron Coleman

Government And Public Sector Lawyers (Division) 
Sylloris Lampkin

Gun Violence (Standing Committee) 
TBD

Health Law (Section)
William Hopkin

Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities (Commission)
Louis Lopez, Chair
Skip Harsch, Director

Homeless and Poverty (Commission)
TBD

Immigration (Commission)
TBD

Infrastructure and Regulated Industries (Section)
Kevin W. Jones

Intellectual Property Law (Section)
Azuka C. Dike

International Law (Section)
Margaret "Peggy" Taylor

Judicial (Division)
Hon. Diana Song Quiroga

Labor and Employment Law (Section)
Eric L. Barnum

Law Practice (Division)
Natalie Kelly

Law Student (Division)
Peyton Rheaume 

Legal Opp. Scholarship Fund
TBD

Litigation (Section)
Chauntis Jenkins-Floyd

Public Education (Division)
Darcee S. Siegel
Frank Valadez

Public Contract Law (Section)
Dionis Gauvin

Professional Responsibility (Center)
TBD

Racial And Ethnic Diversity in The Profession (Commission)
Colleen E. Lamarre, Chair
Keevin Woods, Director

Racial And Ethnic Justice (Coalition)
Twanda Turner-Hawkins, Chair
Jason Ravin, Diversity Director

Real Property, Trust & Estate Law (Section)
Kellye Clarke

Section Officers Conference
Nicole D. Galli 

Senior Lawyers (Division)
Darcee Siegel

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Commission)
Hon. Benes Aldana, Chair
Skip Harsch, Director

Solo, Small Firm & General Practice (Division)
Kelly Adams

Taxation Law (Section)
Alice Abreu

Tort Trial and Insurance Practice (Section)
TBD

Women In the Profession (Commission)
Hon. Maureen Mulligan, Chair
Melissa Wood, Director

Young Lawyers (Division)
Kevin Drummond
Sara Khan

Affinity Bar Associations

American Immigration Lawyers Association
Olivia Lee

Federal Bar Association
Katherine Earle Yanes

Hispanic National Bar Association
Honorable Peter M. Reyes, Jr

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Jin Y. Hwang

National Association of Women Judges
TBD

National Association of Women Lawyers
TBD

National Bar Association
Charles Tucker

National LGBTQ+ Bar Association
D’Arcy Kemnitz

National Native American Bar Association
Sunshine Nicholson

Diversity and Inclusion Center

Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice
Twanda Turner-Hawkins, Chair
Selina Thomas, Director

Commission on Disability Rights
Robert Dinerstein, Chair
Amy Allbright, Director

Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities
Louis Lopez, Chair
Skip Harsch, Director

Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession
Colleen E. Lamarre, Chair
Keevin Woods, Director

Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Honorable Benes Aldana, Chair
Skip Harsch, Director

Commission on Women in the Profession
Karol Korbin Walker, Chair
Melissa Wood, Director

Council for Diversity in the Educational Pipeline
Patricia Lee, Chair
Selina Thomas, Director