Report on the Midyear Meeting of the Aba House of Delegates February 4-5, 2002, in Philadelphia

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2002, April, Pg. 25. Report on the Midyear Meeting Of the ABA House of Delegates February 4-5, 2002, in Philadelphia

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ABA Delegates' Report
Report on the Midyear Meeting Of the ABA House of Delegates February 4-5, 2002, in Philadelphia
by Fred Rodgers

Frederic Rodgers served as a CBA House delegate and then became the Judicial Division delegate to the House for a three-year term. He was just elected to the ABA Board of Governors for a three-year term, starting in August 2001 Readers may contact him at (303) 582-5323 frederic.rodgers@judicial.state.co.us. Other ABA delegates in Colorado are as follows: Robert R. Keatinge, (303) 295-8595 rkeatinge@hollandhart.com; James Carr, (303) 866-5283, jim.carr@ state.co.us; Judith H. Holmes, (303) 575-5855, jholmes@littler. com; Prof. Mark Jay Loewenstein, (303) 492-7102, mark. loewenstein@colorado.edu; Karen Mathis,Chair, ABA House, (303) 571-4500, hflkjm@aol.com; Kathleen Odle, State Chair, (303) 297-2900, kodle@sah.com; Carolynne C. White, (303) 831-6411, cwhite@cml.org; Paul J. Willumstad, (719) 543-3422, willctst@usa.net; David L. Wood, (970) 482-2727, schrieferc@aol.com; Timothy Walker, (303) 730-0067; and Brian D. Zall, (303) 297-2900, bzall@sah.com.

The American Bar Association ("ABA") House of Delegates ("House") held its semi-annual meeting to set ABA policy in Philadelphia on February 4 and 5, 2002. One of the highlights of the sessions was a moving address to the House made by one of its own members, U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson of Washington, D.C. Olson's first speech was about the death of his wife, lawyer and television legal commentator Barbara Olson, who was aboard Flight 77 from Washington's Dulles Airport on September 11. The plane was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, killing more than 200 people, including Olson. Among other things, he praised her bravery, noting that when she was not under direct scrutiny by the hijackers, she had secretly placed several telephone calls to him from her cellphone after the plane had been commandeered. Through these conversations, she learned of the World Trade Center crashes that had happened only moments before they spoke, and she provided her husband with intelligence about the hijackers aboard her plane.

Olson had...