Three exemplars earn board acclaim

The ISBA Board of Governors has tapped three bar leaders for presentation of Board of Governors Awards on Friday, June 26, during the 133rd Annual Meeting at the Abbey Resort.

The nominations of Chicago attorneys Karen McNulty Enright, Robert H. Hanaford and Michele M. Jochner were approved at the May 22 board meeting. Enright and Hanaford serve on the ISBA Assembly, and Jochner is a former board member.

Karen Enright, of Winters, Enright, Salzetta & O’Brien, is a past president of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. She was nominated by ISBA President Jack C. Carey for her significant contributions to the organized bar.

Enright has “accepted primary responsibility for important initiatives” of the Committee on Legislation, Carey noted, and has been a member of the Committee on Amicus since its inception. She served on the Tort Law Section Council from 1998 to 2006.

Robert Hanaford, a member of the Committee on Continuing Legal Education, has devoted countless hours to coordinating seminars of the Civil Practice and Procedure Section for at least six years, said board member Russell W. Hartigan, who made the nomination.

Hanaford also has helped develop the biennial ISBA Allerton House Conference on civil practice, and he is the Insurance Law Section Council newsletter co-editor.

Michele Jochner, law clerk to Illinois Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Freeman, has an extensive record of service to the legal profession, said Judge Naomi H. Schuster, who nominated her.

Jochner serves on the Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council and the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Council, and is associate newsletter editor for the Bench and Bar Section Council.

She chaired the recent All Bar Unity Dinner, is head of the Chicago alumni chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, and serves on the board of the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network.

LTF directors OK’d

The Board of Governors, at its May 22 meeting in St. Louis, approved the recommendations of the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois for appointment of two board members.

Because the term limit of Thomas A. Clancy of Chicago, a past president of the LTF and ISBA, has been reached, he will be replaced by ISBA past president Herbert H. Franks of Marengo.

LTF board member Joseph B. McDonnell of Swansea, a Laureate of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers, has been appointed to a second three-year term.