2012 Annual Report - State Bar of Georgia

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Shiriki Cavitt Thomas V. Duck III V. Sharon Edenfield Irma Espino Elizabeth Louise Fite Holly Hance Colin K. Kelly Quentin B. Lynch Whitney Diane Mauk Edward T. McAfee Jonathan B. Pannell Benjamin M. Perkins Janet C. Scott Tyronia M. Smith Darrell Lee Sutton Carl Robert Varnedoe Sarah Elizabeth White Meredith Leigh Wilson Tamera M. Woodard Rachel Lee Zichella = Executive Committee Members YLD Representatives James Taylor Anderson III M. Khurram Baig Jared Michael Brandman Lauren Mock Brock Tyler Jennings Browning Stephanie Diane Burton Ivy N. Cadle Leslie Lyon Cadle Kelly Elizabeth Campanella Jennifer Ann Campbell James W. Clifton Matthew Blackwell Crowder Monica R. Dean Joshua Craig Dickinson Matthew James Duncan Adam Ferrell Christopher Bryan Freeman J. Hamilton Garner Andrew L. Gorman Canon Brown Hill Robert Clayton Hughes III John Phillip Jett Evan L. Kaine M. Anne Kaufold‐Wiggins Sarah Finney Kjellin Rachel Ross Krause Juanita Passyn Kuhner Yari D. Lawson Reneé Y. Little John R. B. Long Larry K. Moore Matthew M. Myers DeAngelo Norris Dustin Harris Ogden T. Orlando Pearson Benjamin M. Perkins John Anderson Ramay Jr. Randall H. Richardson Blake Cameron Sharpton Joseph Cornelius Sullivan Rhonda L. Taylor Sarah Elizabeth White Tori K. White 11
Message from the Chair It is my privilege to pen this message as your 2010‐2011 Chair of the Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition. Since 1988, the Georgia High School Mock Trial Program has been one of the strongest programs sponsored by the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia, and this year has been no exception. Our season began with the annual Law Academy, a fourday program for which students traveled to Athens, Georgia to participate. At the conclusion of the program, the student bar examination was administered to the Law Academy participants. Seventeen students passed the exam with scores that gained them admission to the Georgia Student Bar Association; five of the students were admitted with honors. Ashley Moore Palmer is an attorney in the Clayton County Public Defender’s Office in Jonesboro. She has volunteered with the GHSMTC in many different capacities since 2006. This season, 105 teams participated in sixteen regional competitions statewide. The teams were comprised of almost 1,500 students who hailed from public and private schools and home school programs. The 16 teams that prevailed at regionals were joined at the State competition by two wildcard teams. At the end of four highly competitive and well fought rounds, Henry W. Grady High School was named State Champion. Henry W. Grady represented Georgia well at the National High School Competition held in Phoenix, Arizona over Mother’s Day weekend, bringing home a 4 th place title. Congratulations are due not only to Grady, but also to Norris Johnson from Baldwin High School in Milledgeville, who earned the title of State Champion in the Craig Harding Memorial Court Artist Contest, and Middle Georgia Christian Homeschool Association in Macon, who won the 2011 Professionalism Award, sponsored by the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. At the conclusion of last year, I learned that I would be elevated from 1 st Vice Chair to Chair of the Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition, despite my having only served in the former position for approximately six months. After two years as Regional Coordinator of HSMT Region 3 (Atlanta), and a year as 2 nd Vice Chair (which was punctuated by my becoming a new mom), I had barely settled into the position of 1 st Vice Chair before I was unexpectedly catapulted to Chair, and quite candidly, I hoped that I was up to the task. Thankfully, I was, and that was due in no small part to all those who make this program such a success. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those individuals who give of their time to make this program so successful: the students, teacher coaches, attorney coaches, parents, regional coordinators, evaluators, presiding judges, and members of the High School Mock Trial Committee. The work that you do gives students from all walks of life an opportunity to positively experience the legal system, and in the process, the students gain invaluable academic and presentation skills that will serve them well, whether they pursue a career in the legal profession or a dream of a different nature. To the Young Lawyers Division, under the leadership of 2010‐2011 President Michael Geoffroy, the State Bar of Georgia, the Counsel of State Court Judges, and all others who have generously supported us throughout this season by giving of your time and financial resources – we say thank you! High School Mock Trial, like all other non‐profit programs, relies on the generosity of donors. Especially in these difficult economic times, please know how sincerely we appreciate your gifts, as they are vital to the life of this program. 12
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