President’s Page

After two years of overhearing and overusing the word “unprecedented,” let me say that my wonderful, exhausting, at times thrilling year as your Bar President was...unprecedented. It seems like I was just writing my first President’s Page and here I am writing my last one. It has been an amazing year and I am so honored to have served as your TCBA President. I have learned so much about the TCBA and through this process have learned a lot about myself!

Highlights of my Bar year as President include hiring a new Executive Director, the renewal of in-person events, an incredibly successful Law Day Luncheon (which had two years’ worth of award winners); and of course, the return of Bench Bar!

I am happy to report that internally, your Bar is in good shape. All contracts with outside vendors and insurance companies are either being reviewed or have been reviewed with the result being the cancellation of several contracts and the re-negotiation of others. We performed a line-byline examination and review of the Budget and our Board just approved the suggested (and very detailed) Budget for 2022–23. The Bar’s free online library of CLE continues to grow and offers some world-class Continuing Education for our members.

Of course, there is always more work to do but I am thrilled to pass the torch to such capable officers that will be following me – Karen Denney, Lu Pham, Scott Lindsey, and Marvina Robinson. You all have been so supportive, encouraging, and helpful to me and I could not have asked for a better team to work with! You have all become very wonderful friends to me and I look forward to those relationships continuing after our service on the Board.

I will steal a closing from Pastor Ronny Marriott at my church – he ends every sermon with a challenge. So, I have a challenge for you - as a TCBA member, join a committee or attend a function, invite a lawyer to join us. Whether it is taking a case pro bono, working at the Veterans Clinic, or attending a CLE, the more you put into the Bar, the more you get out of it. g

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Tarrant County Bar Association

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2021–2022 Officers

Directors Term Ends 2022

Term Ends 2023

2021–2022 Appointed Directors

Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association

President......................................Kimberly Naylor President-Elect................................Karen Denney Vice President...........................................Lu Pham Secretary-Treasurer..........................Scott Lindsey

Director............................................John Lively, Jr. Director................................................Dana Manry Director...............................................Lynn Winter

Director..........................................John Brookman Director..................................................Cheryl Leb Director.....................................Marvina Robinson

Appointed Director..........................Mary Barkley Appointed Director................J. Michael McBride

Fall 2021 President.....................Brian Singleterry Fall 2022 President.....................Aulstin Gardiner

Immediate Past President.................Gary Medlin Executive Director.............................Kayla Dailey Ex-Officio Members State Bar of Texas Director........................................Kimberly Naylor Director.......................................Jason C.N. Smith Bar Bulletin Graphics/Production...................Elizabeth Banda

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Contents

Features

6Court Staff Appreciation & Seminar Series

18 Message from Rebecca K. Eaton, 2022 Tarrant County Bar Foundation Chair

19 Law Day Awards Luncheon 2022

Departments

1 President’s Page 3 YLA Snapshot 4 Membership Report 5 100 Club 7 LegalLine 8 A Word From Our Sections 10 Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans 12 Judicial Profile - Judge Kate Stone 14 Tarrant County Volunteer Attorney Services 15 CLE Corner 16 Snippets 25 In Memoriam