Nominating petitions for five seats on the State Bar
Board of Governors and five seats on the California Young Lawyers Association (CYLA) Board
of Directors will be available May 19.
Open seats for both boards are in District 1 (Butte, Colusa, Del
Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta,
Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba counties), District 3 (Alameda, Contra
Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties), District 5 (Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera,
Mari-posa, Merced, Mono, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus and
Tulare counties), Dist-rict 7 (Los Angeles) and District 9 (Imperial and San Diego
counties).
Any active attorney whose place of business is in one of the
represented counties is eligible to run for a three-year term.
Nominating petitions must be submitted by June 16 and ballots will be
mailed July 7. New board members will take their seats at the bars annual meeting in
September.
Petitions for the board of governors are available from Billie
Sivanov, 415/538-2274. CYLA petitions are available from Sharon Ngim, 415/538-2267. |