E. Lynn Grayson of Jenner & Block, Chicago, vice chair of the ISBA Committee on Women and the Law, has been appointed chair of the new 24-member ISBA Task Force on Diversity.

President Joseph G. Bisceglia established the task force “to give special emphasis this year to the important goals of diversity in our profession and in the association.”

Members of the task force include ISBA past presidents Thomas A. Clancy and Cheryl I. Niro and Assembly members Patrice Ball-Reed, Leslie A. Hairston, Racquel G. Martinez and Zeophus J. Williams of Chicago, and Sonni Choi Williams of Peoria.

Also Andrew P. Fox, chair of the Committee on Minority and Women Participation; Claire A. Manning, past chair of the Committee on Women and the Law, and Alice M. Noble-Allgire, past chair of the Committee on Minority and Women Participation.

Others are David W. Austin, Karina Ayala-Bermejo, Larry Baldwin, Cynthia Greenleaf, Venu Gupta, Patrick J. Kronenwetter, Charles Kuner, James D. Montgomery, Leonard Murray, Jane DiRenzo Pigott, Tracy L. Prosser, Gewndolyn Y. Rowan and Francine S. Sollunas.