You're Supposed to Do Your Part: Sally Akins Legacy of Leadership
| Citation | Vol. 28 No. 1 Pg. 0040 |
| Pages | 0040 |
| Publication year | 2022 |
You're Supposed to Do Your Part Sally Akins Legacy of Leadership
I think the State Bar of Georgia is a very unique bar association in that the folks generally like each other and are very collegial. I don't mean just the leadership, but I mean the lawyers in general.
BY LINTON JOHNSON
For Sarah B. Sally Akins, the decision to serve the legal profession as a leader of the State Bar of Georgia resulted in part from values that were instilled in her at an early age.
My parents and grandparents were always big on you're supposed to do your part, volunteer-wise, Akins said in an interview after her installation as the 60th president of the State Bar. Everything you do does not earn you money. Theres a certain part of life where you need to be volunteering your time, your energy and your talents if you have that, to better your community, your profession, whatever it is. Thats been the background that I came from. Elected by her fellow Savannah Bar members to represent them on the Board of Governors, then winning a seat on the Executive Committee and subsequent elections as secretary, treasurer and president-elect, Akins said she has received non-monetary rewards from her service as a Bar leader.
Dale, Sally and Boudreaux Akins I'm the type of person who likes knowing people, and I like meeting people that but for being involved in the State Bar of Georgia I would never cross paths with, she said. So that was one impetus, not only to fulfill what I felt like was my professional service responsibility, but also to meet different people around the state and to have those people enrich my life from the experience of knowing them and learning from them. I think the State Bar of Georgia is a very unique bar association in that the folks generally like each other and are very collegial. I don't mean just the leadership, but I mean the lawyers in general. Akins, a senior neutral with Miles Mediation & Arbitration and of counsel with Ellis Painter in Savannah, is the daughter of two north Floridians, but she spent very little of her childhood in the Sunshine State. Her father was a computer engineer with Exxon whose job computerizing oil refineries necessitated the family moving to Holland when little Sally Brown was six months old. There were subsequent moves to England and Venezuela before she was out of...
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