ABA Leadership

Suzanne E. Gilbert
Orlando, Florida

Suzanne is a litigation partner with Holland & Knight.  She is concluding a three-year term on the ABA Board of Governors where she served as a member of the Program and Planning and Long Range Planning Committees.  She was the Board’s liaison to the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, the Young Lawyers Division and the Commission on Youth at Risk.  She is also active in the Business Law and Litigation Sections.

Christel E. Marquardt
Topeka, Kansas 

Missouri Western University; Washburn University, Topeka, KS; admitted to Bar:  1974.  Kansas Court of Appeals; ABA; ABF; Kansas Bar Association (past president) and Foundation; NCBP; Washburn University School of Law (Board President); Kansas Sentencing Commission.  Washburn University Board of Regents, Topeka Symphony Board, Rotary, ABWA, Brown Foundation (former board member).  ABA:  Delegate-at-Large; AJEI; Chair, Coordinating Council of the Justice Center; JD, Senior Lawyers; Government Lawyers; (former ABA Board, State Delegate); TTIPS; GP.

Judy Perry Martinez
New Orleans, Louisiana

Assistant General Counsel – Litigation, Northrop Grumman Corporation.  ABA:  Member, Board of Governors; Member, Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary; Chair, ABA/YLD; Member, Commission on Women in the Profession; Chair, Commission on Domestic Violence; Member, Council, Center on Racial and Ethnic Diversity; Member, Task Force – Attorney Client Privilege; YLD Division Delegate, HOD; Delegate-at-Large, HOD; Chair, HOD Tellers’ Committee; Member, Rules and Calendar Committee; Council, Section of Litigation.  LSBA: Chair:  Professionalism, Post Conviction, and Minority Involvement Committees.

Pamela J. Roberts
Columbia, South Carolina

University of California-Berkeley, Southwestern University School of Law, Hastings College of Law.  Admitted California (1981), Georgia (1987), South Carolina (1990).  ABA:  House of Delegates (1992-1995, 1997-present); Commission on Women, Chair (2005-present), Member (2000-2002); Board of Governors (2002-2005); Nominating Committee (2000-2002); Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity (1970-2000); FJE Council (1996-2002); Litigation Section Council, Committee or Task Force (1992-present); Young Lawyers Division, Chair (1991-1992); South Carolina Board of Governors (2001-2004); South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, President (1992-2001).

Estelle H. Rogers
Washington, DC.

University of Chicago; University of Maryland Law School; admitted 1974.  House of Delegates, At-Large (1999-present); Individual Rights and Responsibilities Delegate (1996-1999); Assembly Delegate (1990-1991).  Standing Committee on Election Law (2007-present).  Special Committee on Bioethics (2001-2007, Chair 2004-2007).  Special Committee on Death Penalty Representation (2000-2001).  Standing Committee on Governmental Affairs (1997-2000).  Commission on Women (1994-1997).  House Committee on Technology and Communications (2002-2006).  Select Committee (1998-2000).  ABA CEELI Advocacy Legal Specialist, Moscow, Russia (2003-2004).

Ellen F. Rosenblum
Portland, Oregon

Scripps College; University of Oregon, B.S., J.D.; admitted to Bar: 1975. Oregon State Bar;  Multnomah and Marion County Bar Associations; Oregon Appellate Judges Association; Inns of Court;  ABA: Secretary (2002-2005); Board of Governors (1995-1998; 2001-2005); House of Delegates (1988-present);  World Justice Commission; Chair, Special Committee on Bioethics and Law; Council, Section of State and Local Government; Member: Litigation, TTIPS and JD;  Chair, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (2006-2007). 

CANDIDATE FOR THE 2008 DELEGATE-AT-LARGE VACANCY ELECTION

(1-Year Term Schneider)

C. Elisia Frazier
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Georgia State University BBA, Howard University JD, admitted to Bar: 1988.  Vice-President, Associate General Counsel, Kaplan Higher Education.  Delegate, IRR; Chair, Resolution Review Impact Committee (2006-2008); Vice-Chair, Rules and Calendar (2000-2002); Vice-Chair, Select Committee; (2002-2004); Chair, Multicultural Women Attorneys Network (2006-2008); ABA Board of Governors (1996-1999); Nominating Committee (2006-2008).

CANDIDATE FOR THE 2008 DELEGATE-AT-LARGE VACANCY ELECTION

(1-Year Term Carlson)

Leslie B. Miller
Tucson, Arizona

Judge, Pima County Superior Court.  ABA:  HOD; Nominating, Select and Drafting Committees; Judicial Division, Chair; National Conference of State Trial Judges, Chair; YLD, District Representative.  State Bar of Arizona:  Board of Governors; YLD, President.  Pima County Bar,  President.  ALI-ABA, Board of Directors; Morris Udall Inn of Court, President; Arizona Association of Drug Court Professionals, President; Arizona Judges Association, President.  Community Activities:  YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Tucson International Mariachi Conference, Susan G. Komen, YWCA.