12/18/08 Richmond Chapter - Reception at Chasen's Gallery
1/7/09 VSB and VWAA interviews for candidates for Virginia Court of Appeals
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VWAANews
The Virginia State Bar Council passed a resolution recognizing member Darrell T. Mason and her committee for the report on Malpractice Insurance.
A VWAA member panel formed by the Northern Virginia Chapter completed its review of applicants for the opening on the Fairfax Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
The mission of the VWAA is to assist women attorneys in
developing their professional practice and in achieving their
potential, to bring about changes in the law and to affect public
policy for the benefit of the women of the Commonwealth of
Virginia.
The VWAA was formed in 1981 to advance the interests of
women attorneys in Virginia, to encourage their mutual
improvement and social interaction, and to promote the
interests of women under law. The VWAA remains the only
statewide bar association dedicated to the needs of women
attorneys in Virginia as professionals and as women.
JUDICIAL EVALUATIONS - COURT OF APPEALS
A VWAA panel is forming to evaluate candidates for the opening on the Virginia Court of Appeals resulting from the announced retirement of Judge Jean Harrison Clements on December 31, 2008. Candidate interviews will be held on January 7, 2009 at the Virginia State Bar office, 707 East Main Street, 15th Floor, Richmond, Virginia. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Sheila Costin, VWAA Judiciary Chair, at 703-847-4480 for more information. Applicant submissions are requested by December 29, 2008. Candidates are also encouraged to review the VWAA Guidelines for judicial evaluations and the ABA guidelines.
Marie C. Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing theLeadership Gap: Add Women, Change Everything (Penguin 2008).
In 1998, while President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy –one where women lead alongside men in politics, media and business. She left the Ms. Foundation in 2004 after two decades, to devote her full energy to the Project.
Over the past ten years, under Wilson’s direction, The White House Project has lead ground- breaking research and program initiatives that work to fill the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women. In 2004, the organization launched its signature Vote, Run, Lead training program, which engages women in the political process as voters, as activists, and as candidates for political office. In just four years, this program has inspired, informed and equipped thousands of women to take the lead in public life by demystifying the political process for the female half of the population—a constituency that is rarely tapped for positions of political power.
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