Marking a Successful Year

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.

Lanier Brown with Deborah Byrd Walker, who delivered the invocation at the Annual Membership Meeting. Fathers and sons: Julian Davis, Mason Davis, Judge Houston Brown and Lanier Brown.

Presidents of the Birmingham Bar Association.

2021 President Lanier Brown with his family.

Sharon Stuart and Leslie Rubio.

Alabama State Bar President Taze Shepard greets attendees and shares an update about State Bar initiatives. 2021 President Lanier Brown and 2022 President-Elect Marcus Maples.

2022 BBA President Allison Skinner and 2022 BBF President Andrew Salser.

Holiday Party Preparations

Thank you to the Birmingham Bar Association Entertainment Committee for a great Holiday Party!

We couldn’t host the Holiday Party in 2020, so it was a fun return to tradition to be able to hold it in 2021. The Entertainment Committee worked hard to prepare all of your favorite foods and we hope everyone had a wonderful time.

Judge Javan Patton, Nick Callahan and Beth McElroy. Maggie, Sonny and Candis rolling grape leaves for the party.

Above: Walter McArdle, Owen Roberts, Maggie Boohaker and Pam Roberts. Right: Candis McGowan and Sonny Resha. Members of the Entertainment Committee preparing for the party.

Beth McElroy and Walter McArdle.