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Chief Justice Kelly Updates Representative Assembly

Pictured, left to right: Elizabeth Moehle Johnson, Representative Assembly vice chair; Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Marilyn Kelly; Katherine Kakish, Representative Assembly chair; and Victoria Radke, Representative Assembly clerk. (State Bar of Michigan photo)

Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Marilyn Kelly praised the State Bar Representative Assembly for its continued involvement in the Court’s administrative process at an RA meeting in Lansing on April 18. In her special address to the 150-member body, she covered recent developments at the Court such as its new open administrative conferences. The Chief Justice asked for continuing input from bar members and also spoke of the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead in getting funding for access to justice projects and programs like therapeutic court. Read Chief Justice Kelly's Update

History

In 1971, the State Bar Board of Commissioners requested the Supreme Court create a "representative assembly". The purpose of the creation was to improve the proportion of members who actively participate in bar policymaking due to the large increase in bar membership. Read more about the origin of the Representative Assembly.

Chair: Katherine Kakish
Vice Chair: Elizabeth Moehle Johnson
Clerk: Victoria A. Radke

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Schedule of Meetings

• April 18, 2009 at the Lansing Community College West Campus, Lansing
• September 17, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn, Dearborn
  

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• Representative Assembly Committees and Chairs PDF
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