Bergmann gets ABA office

ISBA Assembly member Michael G. Bergmann, Pro Bono Initiative director for the Public Interest Law Institute since 2006, will become secretary-treasurer of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division during the annual meeting in Chicago in August.

He is expected to succeed to the office of chair-elect of the ABA Young Lawyers in the following year, and then to its chair in 2011-12.

Also chair of the ISBA Child Law Section Council and vice chair of the Committee on Delivery of Legal Services, Bergmann is vice chair of the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section.

Former guardian ad litem program director for the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation, he is a graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.