Among the 26 ISBA members elected to Cook County seats on the Assembly last month are six lawyers who have served as presidents of regional and ethnic bar associations.

The highest vote total (1,164) among the 50 candidates was garnered by Stephen M. Komie, a former member of the Board of Governors.

Others who received high vote totals are Stephen I. Lane (982), who also served on the board; Cheryl D. Cesario (972), Alexander P. White (971), Scott D. Lane (892), Lori G. Levin (827), and Thomas J. Ahern (798).

The past and present local bar presidents elected to the Assembly are Ahern (Northwest Suburban Bar), Dawn Bode (Advocates Society), Celia G. Gamrath (Justinian Society), Levin (Women’s Bar), Angela E. Peters (Northwest Suburban Bar), and Jeanne M. Reynolds (North Suburban Bar and Women’s Bar).

Also elected are David L. Buffen, Peter D. Corti, Sandra Crawford, Gina M. DiBella, Bridget Duignan, Al Durkin, Michael T. Gill, Belle Lind Gordon, Annemarie E. Kill, Samuel H. Levine, Timothy E. Moran, Brian Murphy, John W. Powers, Steven J. Rizzi and Frank A. Sommario.

Vacancies are created

An Assembly vacancy was created by the simultaneous election of Frank Sommario to both an under-37 seat on the Board of Governors and the Assembly.

To fill Sommario’s three-year term, the Board of Governors appointed Arlette G. Porter on May 16.

The elections of Assembly members Umberto S. Davi of Cook County and April G. Troemper of the 7th Circuit to the board resulted in two-year vacancies.

The board appointed Raquel G. Martinez to the Davi seat, and Carl E. Kasten of Carlinville to the Troemper seat.

The election of John G. Locallo as ISBA third vice president results in a vacancy on the Board of Governors that will be filled during its July 11 meeting in Chicago.

Law students elected

In a contested election for the Northern Illinois University College of Law seat on the ISBA Assembly, Kenya N. McCarter defeated Michael T. Mannion, 23 to 14.

Elected to law student seats without opposition are Anthony A. Bruno, The John Marshall Law School; Ashley R. Niebur, Southern Illinois University School of Law, and Cade M. Cummins, Valparaiso University School of Law.

The Board of Governors on May 16 approved the appointments of two law students whose applications had been received after the deadline.

They are Matt Kopp of the Washington University Law School and Miranda Soucie of the University of Illinois College of Law.

No candidate filed to represent any other affiliated law school.

All in the family

The election of Umberto S. Davi to the ISBA Board of Governors, where Dion U. Davi also serves, appears to create the first instance of a father and son being board members at the same time.

A similarity exists on the ISBA Assembly, where John W. Damisch and Mark W. Damisch are father-son members.

Other familial combinations are not uncommon. Brothers Stephen I. Lane, a former board member, and Scott D. Lane have just been elected to new three-year terms.

Married couples on the Assembly are Eugene F. Friedman and Gail T. Friedman, and Celia G. Gamrath and Robert L. Gamrath III.