Introducing Your Newest Law Student Leaders

There will be a strong Texas flavor to the Law Student Division's national leadership team in 1999/2000, which was elected by the division's Board of Governors at a meeting in November in Memphis, Tennessee.

Kyle Mitchell, a law student at The Florida State University, will be division chair; R. Matthew Graham of Texas Wesleyan University will be vice-chair; and Heather Dawson of South Texas College of Law affiliated with Texas A&M University will be the next secretary-treasurer.

The trio will take office in August 1999 at the Law Student Division's Annual Meeting in Atlanta along with Vice-Chair/SBA David Jordan, a student at the University of Oklahoma who was elected at the Annual Meeting last August.

Mitchell is Texas-born and will graduate from a joint degree program at Florida State with a law degree and master's degrees in planning and public administration. He has been active in the Law Student Division, holding four offices-including Fifth Circuit Governor-before winning election as chair. He also serves as division liaison to the ABA's Section/Division Committee on Professionalism and Ethics.

Mitchell defeated three other candidates: Gerald Karikari of St. John's University, Terry Nealy from the University of Florida, and Donna Suchy of Oklahoma City University.

As vice-chair, Graham will primarily be responsible for membership. Graham was lieutenant governor of resolutions and bylaws in the division's Thirteenth Circuit, and has served as an ABA/LSD school representative. He was born and raised in Dallas, and worked in marketing and sales for a couple of years before going to law school.

Graham was elected from a field of six candidates that included Darius Casey of William Mitchell College of Law, Melane Conyers Ausbrooks of Howard University, Claudia Jones of Villanova University, Angela Karras of Indiana University, and Jordan Steinberg of Whittier Law School.

Dawson grew up in Virginia and attended college there before heading west to Houston for law school. She was elected over Elizabeth Ringel, a student at Washburn University.

Lee Farbman