Chicago personal injury attorney Gina M. Arquilla of Arquilla & Fink was elected a Cook County under-age-35 delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates during the ISBA Assembly meeting on Dec. 10 in Chicago.

A member of the Assembly and the Young Lawyers Division Council, Arquilla was the winner in balloting for three candidates. The others were Michael G. Bergmann of the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation and Lindsay K. Hansen of the Chicago mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

A 2002 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Arquilla has served on the Assembly since 2004 and on the YLD Council for three years. She was a YLD delegate to the ABA midyear and annual meetings this year.

Arquilla chaired the YLD's inaugural ben-efit golf outing last summer, helping to raise $34,000 for the Children's Assistance Fund that is administered by the Illinois Bar Foundation. She will chair the event again in 2006.

• • •

Only one candidate – Gary K. Davidson of Brumund, Jacobs, Hammel & Davidson, Joliet – filed for the under-age-35 ABA delegate position outside of Cook County and was declared elected.

A member of the ISBA Committee on Bar Services and Activities, he also serves on the YLD Council.

ISBA President Bob Downs announced three appointments to the Illinois Lawyers Political Action Committee (LAWPAC) during the Assembly meeting Dec. 10.

John L. Nisivaco of the Nisivaco Law Offices, Chicago, who has served one three-year term as a Democrat trustee, was reappointed to a second term.

Brent D. Holmes of Heller, Holmes & Associates, Mattoon, and John H. Brechin of Addison were newly appointed as Republican trustees. They succeed Paula H. Holderman of Chicago and vice chair J. William Roberts of Springfield, who had served the maximum of two terms each.

The Assembly ratified the appointments, which were effective immediately. The trustees will elect officers at a meeting in February.