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Milwaukee lawyers vying for top bar leadership spot

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//December 29, 2017//

Milwaukee lawyers vying for top bar leadership spot

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//December 29, 2017//

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Two Milwaukee attorneys are running for State Bar president.

Jill Kastner of Legal Action of Wisconsin and Randall Nash of Nash Law recently accepted nominations to run for the seat, the bar recently announced.

Kastner, who earned her law degree for the University of California’s Los Angeles School of Law in 2000, worked for large law firms in Milwaukee and California for eight years before accepting a position at Legal Action of Wisconsin.

Nash is a civil litigator who earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1979. He was previously a shareholder at Milwaukee-based O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman DeJong & Laing.

Whoever is elected will serve for one year as president-elect before becoming president.

The nominations for the position were made by the State Bar Nomination Committee, whose members were appointed by State Bar President Paul Swanson.

The committee also chose candidates for secretary, a position that has a two year-term: Makda Fessahaye, of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in Madison, and Starlyn Tourtillot of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin’s Legal Services Department, Keshena.

The candidates for Judicial Council representative are Margo Kirchner of Wisconsin Justice Initiative, Milwaukee, and John Orton of Curran, Hollenbeck & Orton, Mauston. Whoever is elected will serve a three-year term on the council, which is a 21-member independent body that advises the Legislature and Wisconsin Supreme Court on the state’s rules of procedure.

Bar members can also run for an officer position by filing a petition signed by 100 active members. Petitions are due Feb. 1.

Ballots for the election will be sent out by April 13 and are due April 27. Those elected will take office July 1.

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