austinbar.org APRIL 2023 | VOLUME 32, NUMBER 3
2023-24 Austin Bar Board Candidates Announced Electronic Ballots to Be Distributed on April 14; Voting Will End on May 5
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he Austin Bar’s nominating committee announces the following candidates for the board of directors for the 2023-24 bar year. All races for officer positions are uncontested and there are eight candidates vying for four director positions. Director positions are for a two-year term. The new board will take office on July 1, 2023, alongside incoming president Justice Chari Kelly. Officer Candidates President-Elect: Mary-Ellen King Secretary: Maitreya Tomlinson Treasurer: Judge Maya Guerra Gamble Director Candidates (four positions available) Randy Cubriel Rob Frazer Matt Garcia Mary Henderson Rachael Jones Cheryn Netz Shelby O’Brien Ciara Parks Any qualified member not receiving the nomination of the committee may be included on the ballot by submitting a written petition signed by 75 members by
ABOVE (from left): Austin Bar officer candidates Judge Guerra Gamble, King, and Tomlinson.
Friday, April 7. Electronic ballots will go out on Friday, April 14, and voting will conclude at the annual Bench Bar Conference on May 5. Mary-Ellen King King is an attorney practicing general civil litigation with Thompson Coe LLP. She currently serves as secretary of the Austin Bar board. She has served as treasurer and as a director of the Austin Bar, as well as the AYLA board of directors. King was named the 2019-20 Austin Bar Outstanding Director and the 2012 AYLA Outstanding Young Lawyer; re-
ceived AYLA’s President’s Award of Merit in 2013; and is a graduate of the Austin Bar/AYLA Leadership Academy. She also served as Judicial Reception Committee chair from 2010 to 2014 and Austin Bar Foundation Gala co-chair from 2020 to 2023. She has been a member of the Solo and Small Firm section, where she served as chair, vice-chair, and programming committee chair. She currently serves as president of the Austin Chapter of CLM, on the Women Symphony League board of directors, as Outreach on Austin Pilgrimage Council, on the TRLA board of directors, is the 2022-23 president-elect of the Rotary Club of Westlake, and is an active member of the Westlake Chamber of Commerce. Maitreya Tomlinson Tomlinson is a board-certified civil appellate attorney and managing member of The Tomlinson Firm, PLLC. He currently serves
as treasurer of the Austin Bar and has previously served on the board as a director. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble Judge Guerra Gamble was elected to the 459th District Court bench in 2018. Her varied career prior to taking the bench included a solo practice representing children and parents in child protective services cases; representing whistleblowers at O’Connell & Soifer; prosecuting child pornography and child exploitation cases for the Texas Attorney General; suing companies committing fraud against the United States for the Department of Justice; and clerking for Judge Richard Cudahy on the 7th Circuit. She currently serves as a director on the Austin Bar board. As chair of the Equity Committee, she oversaw the inaugural Equity Summit presented by the Austin Bar. continued on page 26