Five elected to bar board
Five attorneys, including San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, were
elected to three-year terms on the State Bar’s Board of Governors.
Richard Frankel of San Ramon ran unopposed in District 3 and was deemed elected.
John Dutton of Auburn won the District 1 seat, John Peterson of Fresno will
represent District 5, Howard Miller of Los Angeles won in District 7 and Dumanis
won in District 9. The new members of the board, the governing and policymaking
body of the more than 206,000-member organization, will be sworn in at the
bar’s annual meeting Oct. 7 in Monterey.
Only 12,416 — 16.5 percent — of the bar’s 74,938 attorneys
eligible to vote in the election cast ballots.
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Dutton |
Dutton, 76, has been a municipal court judge in San Jose, a deputy district
attorney, a law professor at McGeorge School of Law and a lawyer in private
practice in San Francisco, San Jose and Auburn, where he currently practices.
His work includes corporate and business matters, partnership dissolutions,
condemnation, bankruptcy, personal injury and probate, as well as business
litigation, appellate work and criminal matters.
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Frankel |
Frankel, 59, immediate past president of the Contra Costa County Bar Association,
is a business and employment attorney. A businessman before earning his law
degree in 1982, Frankel has served as judge pro tem in Contra Costa County
and was on the county bar association’s board of directors from 1994-2003.
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Peterson |
Peterson, 65, is of counsel with Jory, Peterson, Watkins, Ross & Woolman
in Fresno, a firm he co-founded. He has been president of the Fresno County
Bar Association, Fresno County Legal Services and the Association of Business
Trial Lawyers’ San Joaquin Valley chapter.
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Miller |
Howard Miller, 69, is a partner and has a civil practice with Girardi & Keese
in Los Angeles. He clerked for Roger Traynor, former chief justice of the California
Supreme Court, taught for many years at the University of Southern California
law school and was a regular participant on “The Advocates,” a
national PBS television show. He also was president of the Los Angeles Unified
School District board.
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Dumanis |
Dumanis, 54, is a former superior court judge who won the district attorney’s
primary race in 2002 over one of her competitors in this year’s board
of governors race, City Attorney Mike Aguirre. She has been on the boards of
the San Diego County Bar Association and the Lawyers Club of San Diego.
Members of the California Young Lawyers Association (CYLA) elected Pamela
Kong of Oakland, Zachary Rothenberg of Santa Monica and Joanne Doughty of San
Diego to the CYLA board. Anu Chopra of Yuba City and Brett Jolley of Stockton
ran unopposed and were deemed elected. The CYLA board of directors will elect
one of its members to the State Bar board in August.
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