austinbar.org APRIL 2020 | VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3
STATEMENT FROM THE AUSTIN BAR ON COVID-19 The Austin Bar Association is here to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will be sharing news that relates to our legal community as soon as we receive it. News will be shared online at austinbar.org, in Bar Code, by email, and on social media. Please follow us on Facebook and on Twitter (@theaustinbar) for updates.
At press time, the Austin Bar office is closed. Staff is working remotely. The Austin Bar, like the State Bar of Texas, is cancelling, postponing, or going online with all live events through at least May 10, in line with the latest guidelines from the CDC. Events scheduled after that will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Austin Bar Board and Officer Candidates Announced MAY 1 ONLINE VOTING ENDS 5:00 p.m. CST ELECTRONIC BALLOTS EMAILED FROM BALLOTBOX ONLINE:
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he Austin Bar Association’s nominating committee has announced its slate of officer and board candidates for the 2020-21 bar year. OFFICERS There are no contested races for officers. The new officers making up the executive committee for 2020-21 will be President Kennon Wooten, President-Elect David Courreges, Secretary Amanda Arriaga, and Treasurer Hon. Chari L. Kelly. Their terms begin on July 1, 2020.
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President Kennon Wooten has been on the Austin Bar’s board since 2013 and has served as the Austin Bar’s treasurer, secretary, and president-elect. She was president of the Austin Young Lawyers Association in 2013 and editor-in-chief of Austin Lawyer between 2013 and 2019. In addition to local-bar involvement, Wooten assists the State Bar of Texas with CLE events and serves on the State Bar’s Court Rules Committee, the Supreme Court Advisory Committee, and the editorial board for The Advocate. She is a member of
Arriaga
the American Law Institute and a partner at Scott Douglass & McConnico, where she focuses on civil litigation and appeals. President-Elect David Courreges is a sixth-generation Austinite who believes in being a steward of the Austin community. He currently serves as secretary of the Austin Bar, having previously served as treasurer and as a two-term director. He has co-chaired the Austin Bar’s Legislative Committee, Law– Related Education Committee, and the Wildfire Legal Response team, and is the co-founder of the Austin Bar/AYLA Leadership Academy. He served as president of AYLA from 2014 -15 and as vice president of the Texas Young Lawyers Association from 2010-11, and has represented the Austin Bar as a member of the Travis County Civil and Family Courthouse Bond Advisory Com-
Kelly
mittee and the City of Austin’s Downtown Community Court Advisory Board. He is the Director of Legal and Compliance, and Senior Corporate Counsel at University Federal Credit Union. Secretary Amanda Arriaga has served as treasurer of the Austin Bar since June of 2019 and served as chair of the Austin Bar’s Gala Committee for the past two years. She was president of AYLA in 2014 and has been active on the Austin Bar board since 2015. Treasurer Hon. Chari L. Kelly is a U.S. Army veteran and a justice on the Texas Third District Court of Appeals. She is a former AYLA president and graduate of the Austin Bar/AYLA Leadership Academy. Before her election as a director to the Austin Bar board in 2018, she served as the chair for AYLA’s Runway continued on page 9
