MANDATE: To assist the Texas Young Lawyers Association in the organization and administration of the National Trial Competition, including the recruitment of accredited law schools to participate; the recruitment of Fellows to participate as judges at the variouso regional competitions; participation as jurors at the national and regional finals of the Competition; and to promote the credibility of the Competition as the premier event and to promote the Competition as a quality educational experience for law students interested in trial advocacy.
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Susan Daunhauer Phillips
Chair
Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett PLC
Louisville, KY
Karen S. Townsend
Vice Chair
Joseph R. Alexander, Jr.
Member
The Alexander Firm
Houston, TX
Gloria A. Bedwell
Member
U.S. Attorney's Office
Mobile, AL
Monte P. Clithero
Member
Taylor, Stafford, Clithero & Harris, LLP
Springfield, MO
Joseph C. Crawford
Member
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
Philadelphia, PA
James D. Curphey
Member
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Columbus, OH
Sally J. Ferguson
Member
Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, P.A.
Minneapolis, MN
William H. Ford
Member
Ford Murray PLLC
San Antonio, TX
Gerald J. Gleeson II
Member
Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
Troy, MI
C. Scott Greene
Member
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Atlanta, GA
Melinda Haag
Member
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
San Francisco, CA
Celeste S. Higgins
Member
Higgins Law Firm
Coral Gables, FL
Marvin W. (Marty) Jones
Member
Sprouse Shrader Smith PLLC
Amarillo, TX
Amy Sue Lemley
Member
Foulston Siefkin LLP
Wichita, KS
James A. Mangione
Member
Superior Court of California, San Diego
Walter E. McGowan
Member
Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson
Tuskegee, AL
Ronald H. McLean
Member
Serkland Law Firm
Fargo, ND
Laura A. Menninger
Member
Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, P.C.
Denver, CO
Donald R. Morin
Member
Lynn H. Murray
Member
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Chicago, IL
Stephen M. Nichols
Member
Polsinelli LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Orlando R. Richmond, Sr.
Member
Butler Snow LLP
Ridgeland, MS
Richard M. Strassberg
Member
Goodwin Procter LLP
New York, NY
Laura E. Udall
Member
Cooper & Udall
Tucson, AZ
Michael J. Walsh
Member
Walsh Woodard LLC
West Hartford, CT
Richard H. Willis
Member
Bowman and Brooke LLP
Columbia, SC
Richard M. Zielinski
Member
Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
Boston, MA
Jack Zouhary
Member
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
Toledo, OH
R. Gary Winters
Immediate Past Chair
McCaslin, Imbus & McCaslin, L.P.A.
Cincinnati, OH
John A. Day
Regent
Law Offices of John Day, P.C.
Brentwood, TN