From the President
| Publication year | 2013 |
| Pages | 0004 |
by Robin Frazer Clark
Realizing the Dream of Equality for All
It is hard to believe that this is my final article for the 2012-13 Bar year. How did it go by so quickly? It has been a busy and rewarding year, which we will reflect upon and celebrate later this month during the Annual Meeting on Hilton Head Island. I hope you will join us there, so that I can personally thank you for the honor of serving as your president and all you have done to make this year a success. Being your president has been the single greatest honor of my legal career.
We will review at the Annual Meeting, and the Georgia Bar Journal will include, a comprehensive look back at the past year in its August edition. This month, I would like to comment on one of the year's more recent highlights.
"When the leadership of an organization is truly representative of the membership, the members more readily support the organization and are much more committed to it."
Prior to May 1 of each year, our Committee on Professionalism reaches out to the bar associations across the state to encourage active participation in Law Day by hosting an event which engages the public on the rule of law and the importance of a strong judicial branch of government. In all corners of Georgia, our local and specialty bars rise to the occasion with well-planned, successful observances that typically feature recognition of local citizens who have helped promote a better understanding of and encouraged greater respect for the law.
The national Law Day theme for 2013, "Realizing the Dream: Equality for All," acknowledges this year's being the 150th anniversary of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln and the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
A special celebration of Law Day took place April 22 as the State Bar partnered with a number of local and specialty bar associations and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights to host a day-long public educational event at the Bar Center. Hundreds of school children were in attendance.
Spearheading the event on behalf of the State Bar were Treasurer Patrise Perkins-Hooker and Executive Committee member Rita Sheffey. Working closely with leaders from the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Patrise and Rita did a stellar job of helping line up...
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