Celebrating a Successful 2021 The Birmingham Bar Association, the Birmingham Bar Foundation, Volunteer Lawyers Birmingham and the Legal Aid Society of Birmingham closed out 2021 with our traditional jointly held Annual Membership Meeting. Here are a few of the highlights from the meeting: ► The Birmingham Bar Association honored Judge Houston L. Brown with the Lifetime Achievement Award and J. Mason Davis Jr. with the L. Burton Barnes III Public Service Award. ► The Legal Aid Society’s Susan B. Livingston Award was bestowed upon Former Presiding Judge J. Scott Vowell. ► John Durward, the Bar Association’s Election Official, revealed the winners of the Executive Committee election.
► We honored the memories of those Birmingham Bar Association members who passed in 2021. ► We celebrated the attorneys who have been Birmingham Bar Association members for 50 years. ► Taze Shepard, Alabama State Bar President, delivered remarks about the initiatives that he has implemented. ► We heard a recap of 2021 from Outgoing
President H. Lanier Brown II and a preview of 2022 from Incoming President Allison O. Skinner. ► The presidents of the Birmingham Bar Association, the Birmingham Bar Foundation and Volunteer Lawyers Birmingham each passed the gavel to their incoming presidents. Please make plans to join us Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, to celebrate what we promise to be a great 2022!
John Lentine, Lanier Brown, Allison Skinner and Andrew Salser.
Fathers and sons: Julian Davis, Mason Davis, Judge Houston Brown and Lanier Brown.
Lanier Brown with Deborah Byrd Walker, who delivered the invocation at the Annual Membership Meeting.
Presidents of the Birmingham Bar Association.
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