Vol. 30, No. 5, #4. Executive Director's Report.

• Author: Author: Sleeter C. Dover

Wyoming Bar Journal

2007.

Vol. 30, No. 5, #4.

Executive Director's Report

Wyoming Bar Journal Vol. 30, No. 5, #4 Issue: October, 2007

Executive Director's Report Author: Sleeter C. Dover Everything old is new again, pardner!

Well, here we are again. Poised on the precipice of a brand new state bar year, and all of our old (familiar) favorites, more or less, are back again. Riding off into the sunset (a la John Wayne) is Past President Joe Bluemel. Secure in the notion that he pacified what at times surely must have seemed to him to be an unruly and lawless crowd of cowpokes and cowpokettes! Nonetheless he kept his nose to the grindstone, his eye on the prize, and after the smoke had cleared, he had more than met his obligations and exceeded our highest expectations. Our thanks and appreciation to Joe cannot be overstated. As I am sure he planned, and as is the best that any incoming Board President can hope for, the Wyoming State Bar he leaves is better off than the one he found.

Speaking of hope, new boss wrangler Board President Gay Woodhouse is really stirring up the dust as she begins her term ridin' high in the saddle. It appears that no critter on the prairie, or in the Wyoming State Bar, is going to be safe from her positive energy and steely-eyed aim. This straight-shooter has already set her sights on ridin' herd pretty closely on the two-year strategic plan and goals outlined this past year, and there appears to be nothing to dissuade her from rounding up and deputizing as many bar members as she deems necessary to bring the whole herd to market. You are forewarned that a wanted poster with your name and picture on it may have already been posted.

Back to ride shotgun this year is President-Elect Rick Lavery. A hardened cowboy from the badlands out west, Lavery is the quintessential "sidekick" if ever there was one. Always on the lookout for double-dealing, back-shooting, Rules of Professional Responsibility-evading reprobates, this tall and silent type carries a double-barreled commitment to a law and order bar association, so you better keep a sharp look-out and watch your back!

Now comes the new "greenhorn" of the posse. William "Billy" Hiser of Laramie City...