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| A session at the Dallas Independent School District highlighted the success of e-Mentoring, Esq., a program of the Dallas Bar Association, the Dallas Young Lawyers Division and selected DISD students. Since its beginning in 2004, the program has provided more than 650 at-risk students with mentors. Although the drop out rate for the DISD approaches 50 percent of students entering ninth grade, none of the students in the e-mentoring program has dropped out. Pictured are (from left): Kirstin Dietel, Dallas Young Lawyers Division; Hollard Sullivan, DYLD; Mary Goodrich, DYLD; Van VanBebber, Dallas Bar Association; Karen Mathis, ABA president; Beverly Godbey, president, Dallas Bar Association; Marcela Garza, DISD; Loraine Lee, DISD; Sherri Cleaver, DISD; and Clyde Pikes, W. W. Samuell High School. | |
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| President of the State Bar of Texas Martha S. Dickie and ABA President | The women who serve as presidents of the Texas, American and Dallas Bar Associations gather at the Belo Mansion. Pictured are Martha S. Dickie, president of the Texas State Bar, ABA President Karen Mathis and Beverly Godbey, president of the Dallas Bar Association. |
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| Joining Karen Mathis during her recent trip to Texas were her cousins Diane Hokin (left) and Joan Gray, both of Wichita Falls. | President of the Tarrant County Bar Foundation, Justice Terrie Livingston tells ABA President Karen Mathis about successful fundraising efforts for renovations to the bar association’s building. |
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| Gathering at the Belo Mansion are (from left, first row) Beverly Godbey, president of the Dallas Bar Association; ABA President Karen Mathis and Kim J. Askew, Chair of the ABA Section of Litigation and member of the ABA House of Delegates and the Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary; (from left, back row) Caren Lock Hanson, president of the Dallas Asian American Bar Association; Maricela Siewczynski, president of the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association; Judge Karen Gren Johnson, of the 95th District Court and a member of the DBA Board of Directors; and Vicki D. Blanton, President of the J. L. Turner Legal Association. | Vicki Blanton, president of the J. L. Turner Legal Association, and ABA President Karen Mathis exchange greetings. |
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| Trisha Graham, executive director of the Tarrant County Bar Association, has steered the organization for nearly 15 years, managing moves and renovations as well as great growth. The Tarrant County Bar represents 2,500 of the county’s 3,500 lawyers. | Mark Daniel, president of the Tarrant County Bar Association, welcomes ABA President Karen Mathis to Fort Worth. |
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| First woman president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers, welcomes ABA President Karen Mathis to the Belo Mansion, home of the Dallas Bar Association. | |
