austinbar.org APRIL 2024 | VOLUME 33, NUMBER 3
2024-25 Austin Bar Board Candidates Announced
Electronic Ballots to Be Distributed Friday, April 26; Voting Will Close Friday, May 17
Maitreya Tomlinson
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he Austin Bar’s Nominating Committee has released its slate of nominees for the 2024-25 board of directors. The following candidates are running uncontested for officer positions: PRESIDENT-ELECT: Maitreya Tomlinson Tomlinson is a board-certified civil appellate attorney and managing member of the Tomlinson Firm, PLLC. He currently serves as secretary of the Austin Bar Association. He has previously served as treasurer and on the board of directors.
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble
Rob Frazer
Mary-Ellen King
SECRETARY: Judge Maya Guerra Gamble Judge Guerra Gamble was elected to the 459th District Court bench in 2018. She has recently been honored to be named a Courageous Judge by the National Conference of Judges. She currently serves as the Austin Bar treasurer and co-chairs the Mentorship Committee. A previous chair of the Equity (now DEI) Committee, Judge Guerra Gamble oversaw the inaugural Equity Summit presented by the Austin Bar. Judge Guerra Gamble is a native Austinite, graduate of Austin High School, Yale College, and Yale Law School. She is married with two children. She is a devoted Scouter and is planning to canoe the Boundary Waters in Canada for 10 days this
summer. 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.
PRESIDENT: Mary-Ellen King King is an attorney practicing civil litigation nationwide with Thompson Coe LLP. She currently serves as president-elect of the Austin Bar Association. She has previously served as secretary, treasurer, and on the board of directors, as well as on the Austin Young Lawyers Association board of directors. King was awarded the President’s Award of Merit for 2022-2023, named Outstanding Director by the Austin Bar for 201920, and Outstanding Young Lawyer by AYLA in 2012. She also received AYLA’s President’s Award of Merit in 2013 and is a graduate of the Austin Bar/AYLA Leadership Academy. She served as chair of the Judicial Reception Committee from 2010 to 2014 and as co-chair of the Austin Bar Foundation Gala Committee from 2020 to 2024. The 2024 Gala raised more than $234,000—the most of any Austin Bar Foundation Gala. King is a current Austin Bar Foundation Fellow and previous leader and member of the Solo/
TREASURER: Rob Frazer A partner at Goranson Bain Ausley, Frazer is board-certified in family law and proud father of three. Frazer has been named among the Best Lawyers in America from 2019 to 2023 and was recognized as Outstanding Director by the Austin Bar Association for the 2021-22 bar year. Mary-Ellen King, the 2023-24 president-elect, will assume the office of president on July 1, 2024.
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