2024 Board & Officers Installation Dinner and Legal Education Scholarship Fundraiser

Julie Cervetto

On February 1st, 140 guests, elected officials, and Judges from the Marin County Superior Court celebrated the induction of our 2024 officers and directors at the Spinnaker Restaurant in Sausalito.

It was a rainy, cold evening, the kind of evening that makes you just want to hunker down with a good book and sit by the fire, in comfiness of your home. Nevertheless,140 guests braved the stormy weather to attend the 2024 Installation Dinner and Legal Scholarship Fundraiser. Guests enjoyed “Thirty-Seven Wines” donated by Brayton Purcell LLP and munched on yummy hors d’oeuvres and a beautiful meal of steak and halibut.

The brief program began with Interim Executive Director Theresa Hurley, who kicked off the brief program by inviting Assemblymember Damon Connolly to present a California Assembly resolution to outgoing President Ahtossa Fullerton. She then asked that the incoming 2024 MCBA President Scott Buell come take the stage to award the Presidents Plaque to 2023 MCBA President Ahtossa Fullerton

Ann Munene and Chris Locke continued the evening with a presentation and an introduction of the 2024 Legal Education Scholarship recipients: Alejandra Chumbes, Natalie Dybeck, Maxwell Friend, Alexandria Kozak, and Nicholas Saloma.

Following the presentation, Judge Roy Chernus (ret.) returned to the stage to begin the Fund-ANeed for the 2024 Legal Education Scholarship. Judge Chernus’s inviting personality encouraged guests to donate to this important need Guests pledged a generous total of over $30,000 to support the MCBA scholarship fund and next year’s scholars. Thank you to our donors for stepping up to the call for financial support for these amazing law students. This would never have transpired without your generosity.

Congratulations to MCBA’s 2024 Officers and Directors

Officers

President: Scott Buell, Buell Law and Mediation

President-Elect: Kristine Fowler Cirby, Law Office of Kristine Fowler Cirby

Treasurer: Thomas M. McInerney, Ogletree Deakins

Secretary: Neusha N. Ghaedi, DeMartini, Walker & Ghaedi LLP

Past President: Ahtossa P. Fullerton, Wasacz Hilley & Fullerton LLP

Five-Year Past President: Lawrence Strick, Strick Injury Law & Mediation

2024 Directors

Emily Harrington, Maier Law Group LLP

Jeffrey G. Knowles, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP

Mary A. Stearns, Alternate Defenders, Inc.

Alexander S. Vahdat, Berman Tabacco LLP

David L. Winnett, Liuzzi Murphy Solomon

Churton Hale & Winnett LLP

2025 Directors

Robyn B. Christo, Epstein Holtzapple Christo LLP

Morgan H. Daly, Morgan Daly Law Office

Shanti Eagle, Farella Braun + Martel

Lucie C. Hollingsworth, Legal Aid of Marin

Elisha J. Yang, Hanson Bridgett LLP

2026 Directors

Ingrid L. Carbone, Carbone Family Law

Christine O’Hanlon, Marin County Public Defender’s Office

Roni Pomerantz, CA Department of Justice

Maxwell Pritt, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

Marrianne S. Taleghani, Nixon Peabody LLP

Congratulations to MCBA’s 2024 Scholarship Recipients

Alejandra Chumbes, 3L University of San Francisco School of Law

Natalie Dybeck, 2L UC Law San Francisco

Alexandria Kozak, 2L Golden Gate University

Maxwell Friend, Berkeley Law

Nicholas Saloma, UC Law San Francisco

Counsel Sponsors

DeMartini Walker & Ghaedi LLP

Epstein Holtzapple Christo LLP

Hanson Bridgett LLP

Marin County Public Defender

Barrister Sponsors

Boris Schiller Flexner LLP

Buell Law and Mediation

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Advocate Sponsors

Cirby Family Law

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP

Maier Law Group

McNeil Silveria Rice & Wiley

Nixon Peabody LLP

Resolution Remedies LLC

Wine Sponsor

Thirty-Seven Wines

Donated by Brayton Purcell LLP