Nominee to Head ABA Picked After Record 88 Ballots
SEATTLE — A Baltimore attorney was selected for nomination as the head of the American Bar Assn., the world’s largest legal organization, after a record 88 ballots that broke a three-way deadlock.
The nomination of J. Michael McWilliams will be placed before the association’s 480-member House of Delegates for approval at the ABA’s annual meeting in Atlanta in August. The house has never turned down the recommendation of the nominating committee.
McWilliams late Tuesday received the minimum 31 votes needed for approval by the association’s 61-member nominating committee on the 88th ballot.
He was selected over Allen E. Brennecke of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Roberta Cooper Ramo of Albuquerque, N.M., the first woman candidate for president-elect in the association’s 112-year history.
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