These three law students—Kenya Smith, Virginia Trost and Victoria Wu—will sit in the American Bar Association's House of Delegates (the policy-making body of the ABA) this school year as representatives of the Law Student Division. The delegates also sit on the Law Student Division's Board of Governors.

The new delegates were selected at the division's Annual Meeting held in Toronto in early August. Division delegates are elected by the Law Student Division's Assembly, made up of the student bar association presidents and the ABA/LSD school representatives from all ABA-accredited law schools.

Kenya Smith is a third-year student at the University of Wisconsin Law School. A native of New Orleans, Smith attended college at Southern University before heading north for law school. He has worked his way up within the Law Student Division: As a first-year student, he served as lieutenant governor for diversity in the division's Seventh Circuit; as a second-year student, he served as executive lieutenant governor. He has worked for U.S. Sen. John Breaux, and this summer worked at the civil rights organization Federation of Southern Cooperatives helping farm- ers in rural areas of the Southeast. Service to the profession is important to him.

"Making sure that the so-called big bar [the greater ABA] is aware of the needs and concerns of the students is foremost on my agenda," he says. "If we can create more of a dialogue, we will certainly have a successful year."

Virginia Trost is a third-year student at Regent University School of Law in Virginia. She, too, has some ABA/LSD experience—she is the immediate past Fourth Circuit governor. As governor, she served on the Board of Governors' public-interest and membership-and-programs committees. She has worked as a chemical engineer and laboratory chemist, worked last summer in a law office, and participated in the Miss America pageant while in college.

Trost says that serving as governor "taught me the nuts and bolts of the ABA within the Law Student Division." As division delegate, she intends to be a voice for law students. "We need to promote professionalism in the law in general and keep students on the right track so that we don't lose focus of what our profession is—a service profession," she says.

Victoria Wu has been the national student director for the ABA/LSD Negotiations Competition for the past two years. She attends Capital University Law School in Ohio, where she was vice president of the SBA and co-chair of the honor code committee. Before law school, Wu attended medical school.

Running for delegate was a personal journey for Wu. "I felt like doing it was almost passing a milestone in presenting myself, being able to communicate with people effectively, and getting my opinions across," she says. She would like to make the Law Student Division more accessible to students whose schools may not have a strong ABA school representative. "Disseminating information through the ABA reps is our primary tool, but sometimes we have weaker circuits," she says. "We need to try to develop a program so students who don't have a strong circuit can still participate."

One of the new division delegates will be assigned to coordinate the division's liaisons to other ABA entities, one will represent law students on the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and the third will chair the Resolutions Committee of the division's Board of Governors.

Lee Farbman