Witherspoon
Carolyn Witherspoon, Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus, P.C., will receive the Distinguished Life Fellow Award at the American Bar Foundation’s 67th Annual Fellows Award Reception & Banquet on February 4, 2023. She will be the third recipient of this award since its inception in 2017.
The Board of Directors of Hilburn & Harper, Ltd., Attorneys at Law, announced that Sara Cate Moery has been elected into partnership.
Wright Lindsey Jennings announced Quinten J. Whiteside as its new chief operating officer (COO). An attorney with the firm since 2015, Whiteside succeeds Adrienne Baker who recently relocated to WLJ’s Northwest Arkansas office.
Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC is pleased to announce that Sarah Keith-Bolden and Scott M. Lar have become managing members of the law firm and Meredith M. Causey and Philip A. Elmore have been named members.
Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC announced that Aaron C. Cochran has joined the law firm as an associate.
Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus, P.C. announces Ross E. Simpson has joined the firm as an Associate Attorney.
Rose Law Firm announced the creation of Rose Group Advisors, a new business strategy and corporate development firm, in partnership with Little Rock attorney Chad Causey and former Arkansas State Representative Joe Jett
Ballots will be distributed on or before February 15 for Board of Trustee positions representing District B. District B voters will receive a ballot to elect 11 Trustees (10 seats due to expiring terms and one vacant seat). Also on the ballot are the proposed amendments to the Association’s Constitution as approved by the Board of Trustees at the Special Meeting of the Board held January 25, 2023.
The proposed amendments can be found at https:// www.arkbar.com/for-attorneys/governance-nav/ elections
Electronic ballots will be delivered from AssociationVoting.com. Be sure to add announcement@associationvoting.com to your address book to prevent the email from going to your junk mail or being blocked by your spam filter.
Kristin Pawlik elected the new ArkBar President-Elect Designee
The Arkansas Bar Association (ArkBar) is pleased to announce Kristin L. Pawlik as the new President-Elect Designee. Pawlik, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was elected without opposition at the close of nominations on January 31, 2023. Kristin is a partner at Miller, Butler, Schneider, Pawlik & Rozzell, PLLC in Northwest Arkansas. She litigates family law, criminal defense, and employment matters, primarily in Northwest Arkansas. A native of Bentonville, she obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Arkansas and her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Pursuant to our Constitution, Petitions for Board of Trustees, Secretary, and President were due to be filed by January 31st. Secretary Glen Hoggard certified the following Petitions:
Board of Trustees
A1/2 Lindsey Vechik
A1/2 William Prettyman
A2,3/2 Sarah Jewell
A2,3/2 Chris Hussein
A4/1 Kelsey Bardwell
B/10 Richard Bright
B/10 Randall Bynum
B/10 Tom Carpenter
B/10 Bob Edwards
B/10 John Andrew Ellis
B/10 Bobby Forrest
B/10 Michael Goswami
B/10 Jim Jackson
B/10 Jamie Jones
B/10 Victoria Leigh
B/10 Molly McNulty
B/10 Meredith Moore
B/10 Andrew Norwood
B10 John Ogles
B10 Aaron Squyres
C5/1 Bill Arnold
C6/1 Ryan Wilson
C7/2 Kandice Bell
C7/2 Robt Bridewell
C8/1 Amy Freedman
2024-25 President Kristin Pawlik
ArkBar honored Kristin with a Golden Gavel award last year for her work as co-chair of the 2022 Annual Meeting and a Golden Gavel Award in 2017 for her work as chair of the Legislation Committee. She has been elected to serve ArkBar District A as a Trustee, and previously served on ArkBar’s Board of Governors and the House of Delegates. In 2017, she was chosen to represent the Arkansas Bar Association on the Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation Board where she continues to work for access to legal services for low-income Arkansans. Kristin is certified to represent the best interests of children as a domestic relations Attorney Ad litem and regularly accepts felony criminal conflict appointments from the Public Defender Commission. She was appointed by both Governor Mike Beebe and Governor Asa Hutchinson to serve as Chair of the Arkansas Commission on Child Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence. She is a past President of the Benton County Bar Association, as well as a member of the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association and the Arkansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Kristin is immediate past chair of the University of Arkansas Law Alumni Society and an alumna of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Kristin and her husband, Aaron Holmes, are the parents of three boys, and they attend St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fayetteville.
Kristin joins the Association’s leadership track composed of President Joe Kolb, President-Elect Margaret Dobson and Immediate Past President Bob Estes. She will assume the office of President-Elect at the June 2023 Annual Meeting.
An association health plan designed for Arkansas law firms
Introducing the Members Health Plan (MHP), an association-based, multiple employer, self-funded health benefits trust designed specifically for law firms.
Through the MHP, firms just like yours are combined together, pooling their risk as one large group—thus reducing costs and expanding access to a wider variety of health plan benefits.
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