Announcing New Officers and Members of the Board Welcome to the Board of Directors for Bar Year 2021-22
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ith no uncontested races, the Austin Bar Association announces its new officers and board of directors for the upcoming bar year. Current Austin Bar President Kennon Wooten will become past-president when President David Courreges takes office on July 1, 2021. Courreges has been a member of the Austin Bar Association’s Board of Directors since 2015, serving in the capacity as treasurer, secretary, and two terms as a director. He has co-chaired the Austin Bar’s Legislative Committee, LawRelated 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, 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 Committee and the City of Austin’s Downtown Community Court Advisory Board. He is the Director of Legal and Compliance, BSA Officer, and Senior Corporate Counsel at University Federal Credit Union. Rounding out the executive committee are President-Elect Amanda Arriaga, Secretary Justice Chari Kelly, and Treasurer
David Courreges
Amanda Arriaga
Justice Chari Kelly
Mary Ellen King
Nadia Bettac
Rob Frazer
Leslie Hill
Maitreya Tomlinson
Mary Ellen King. Arriaga has served as secretary and treasurer of the Austin Bar, as well as chair of the Austin Bar Gala Committee for the past three years. She was president of AYLA in 2014 and has been active on the Austin Bar board since 2015. Justice 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
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Runway for Justice from 2015-17. She is board-certified in criminal law by TBLS and the National Board of Trial Advocacy and also serves on the Litigation Council for the State Bar of Texas. King practices civil litigation in the Austin office of Richie & Gueringer. She has served on the board of directors for both the Austin Bar and AYLA. She was the 2019-20 Austin Bar Outstanding Director and the 2012 AYLA Outstanding Young Lawyer. She received AYLA’s President’s Award of Merit in 2013, and was a member of the Austin Bar/
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AYLA Leadership Academy. She also served as Judicial Reception Committee Chair from 2010-14 and Austin Bar Foundation Gala co-chair in 2020 and 2021. She was a member of the Solo and Small Firm Section where she has served as chair, vice-chair, and programming committee chair. Nadia Bettac, Rob Frazer, Leslie Hill, and Maitreya Tomlinson will serve two-year terms on the Austin Bar board of directors, with terms expiring in 2023. Bettac is an insurance defense litigator for Farmers Insurance. She was an award-winning direc-
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