From the Yld President
| Citation | Vol. 28 No. 1 Pg. 0010 |
| Pages | 0010 |
| Publication year | 2022 |
RONALD EDWARD “RON” DANIELS
YLD President
State Bar of Georgia
ron@danielstaylorlaw.com
A Season of Change
Growing up in Rhine, Georgia, I couldn’t have imagined ever being the president of an organization like the Young Lawyers Division. Everyone in Rhine knows everybody else. It’s easy to do when the entire town’s population is between 250 and 400 people at any given time. As you can imagine, it’s not possible to know every one of the more than 10,000 members of the YLD. But like the people of my hometown, we all have at least one thing in common: we are all members of the YLD (or as I like to say #weareallYLD).
I am honored to serve as the YLD’s 76th president and shall be a good steward of the trust which has been placed with me. The next Bar year promises to be a fun one filled with confronting the challenges facing our organization, our profession and young lawyers everywhere. As we begin this journey together, I am acutely aware we are in a season of change.
Just two months ago Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs swore in the YLD’s new slate of officers. Chief Justice Boggs was just Presiding Justice Boggs when he administered the oath. On July 1, the terms of office for our new officers, directors, district representatives and committee chairs began. You will recognize some faces—and some you won’t. Some of our new committee chairs haven’t had much involvement in the YLD before agreeing to serve as a chair and some haven’t had any involvement. The new chairs and directors were selected to ensure we have a diverse mix of backgrounds, practices, geographic location and YLD experience.
As an organization, we must be prepared to change. The YLD has done this before. When it was created in 1947, the purpose of the Younger Lawyers Section was furthering the goals of the State Bar, increasing interest and participation of young lawyers, and fostering the principles of duty and service to the public. We have changed often over the years by restructuring committees, “sunsetting” programs and committees that were no longer viable, and by switching up our programming. Now we will change once again to adapt to the modern world.
My YLD involvement began the year after I was admitted to the Bar—2012 and 2013 respectively—at the urging of my longtime friend Ryan English who was then applying to be in the Leadership Academy. A year later, I was applying for Leadership Academy ... and the rest is history. The fact of the matter is a young...
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