Chair's Message

I’m both excited and honored to follow in the footsteps of last year’s Chair, Jill Schwartz.  Jill did an outstanding job of advancing our Section in the past year.  Jill led the way with an outstanding CLE agenda as well as by organizing the Section long range planning retreat.  During my year as Chair, I intend to concentrate on the many action items that came out of the long range planning retreat.  Some of the more important action items that the Section will concentrate on in the coming year are improving communication with government agencies and the Judiciary, continuing to improve upon already excellent CLE programming, strengthening our Executive Council, working with the Certification Committee to reignite our members’ interest in achieving board certification and continuing to improve member recruitment/involvement/communication. 

Our Section Liaison, Angela Froelich, recently sent out a Committee Preference Form to all Section members.  I strongly encourage you to fill out the preference form and forward it to Angela and/or me at your earliest convenience.  The more of you that choose to get involved, the more we can accomplish this year through your dedication and hard work.  I will look forward to hearing from you and serving as your Section Chair for 2011-2012.

Gregory A. Hearing