2024 HBA Annual Dinner

Welcome 2024-2025 HBA President David Harrell, and thank you to 2023-2024 HBA President Diana Gomez for a successful Bar year! 

 

Revisit the Night's Highlights

Annual Dinner Program Slideshow

2023-2024 Year in Review Slideshow

2024 HBA Annual Dinner Program

 

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Welcome to the 2024-2025 Bar Year

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Welcome our 2024-2025 HBA Board Members

2024-2025 
Officers

President
David Harrell
Locke Lord LLP

President-Elect
Daniella Landers
Womble Bond Dickinson
  (US) LLP

1st Vice President
Jeff Oldham
Bracewell LLP

2nd Vice President
Collin Cox
Gibson, Dunn &
  Crutcher LLP

Treasurer
Greg Ulmer
BakerHostetler LLP

Secretary
Kaylan Dunn
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Immediate Past President
Diana Gomez
Chamberlain Hrdlicka

2023-2025
Directors

Carter Dugan
Norton Rose Fulbright  
  US LLP

Greg Moore
Blank Rome LLP

Colin Pogge
Daly & Black, P.C.

2024-2025
Directors

Todd Frankfort
O'Neil Wysocki P.C.

2024-2026
Directors

Robert Painter
Painter Law Firm
  PLLC

Keri Brown
Baker Botts L.L.P.  

Samantha Torres
Okin Adams
  Bartlett Curry LLP

Seepan V. Parseghian 
Beck Redden LLP

Ex Officio

Ex Officio- SBOT Liaison
Chris Popov
Vinson & Elkins LLP

Ex Officio- ABA Delegate
Melanie Bragg
Bragg Law PC

Ex Officio- ABA Delegate
Travis J. Sales 
O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Ex Officio- HYLA President
Mariame Aana 
Lone Star Legal Aid

Ex Officio- HBAA President
Jill Arntz
Arntz Law Firm

Ex-Officio - HBA Executive Director
Vinh Ho
Houston Bar Association

Awards

The Justice Eugene A. Cook Professionalism Award

Hon. Keith P. Ellison
Christopher L. Tritico

The Justice Ruby Kless Sondock Award

Hon. Carolyn Dineen King

HBA President's Award for Outstanding Service

2024 Award Winners

Bench Bar Conference Committee:
Hon. Dena Palermo  
Hon. Michael Gomez 
Hon. Hazel B. Jones
Joe W. Bailey
Collin Cox 
Kelly Sandill

County Law Library Committee:
Hon. Frances Bourliot
Hon. Julie Countiss
Leslie Tan
Andre Davison
Mariann Sears

Gender Fairness Committee and Champions of the Lactation Pods Initiative:
Hon. Cheryl Elliott Thornton  
Akilah Craig
Carter Dugan
Stephanie Noble
Commissioner Lesley Briones
Hon. Latosha Lewis Payne
Hon. Michael Gomez
Hon. R.K. Sandill

Membership Committee:
Bailey Bridges
Anthony Franklyn
Raj Mahadass
Samantha Torres

The Houston Lawyer Editorial Board:
Liz Malpass

Outstanding Service to the HBA:
Hon. Kyle Carter
Hon. Rabeea Collier
Rocio Mendoza

Energy Law Section:
Melissa Munson

Family Law Section:
Tasha Wilson

Labor & Employment Law Section:
Nehal Anand

Litigation Section:
Louie Layrisson

Exemplary Service to the Legal Profession and the Community

Benny Agosto, Jr.
Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner

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2024 Emeritus Members

These attorneys have reached their 50th year of law practice and are now emeritus members of the HBA.

Hon. Nancy Atlas
Darrell Barger
Dean Barker
Bruce Baughman
Riecke Baumann
Roger Beck
Michael Bell
Robert Bennett
Theodore Borrego
James Bradley
Gary Bush
Richard Callaway
Carol Carrier
Thomas Cook
Tom Cunningham
Ernestine Dansby
Algenita Scott Davis
Monte Donaldson
David Dulock
David Dunlap

Stacy Eastland
Robert Eutsler
Michael Feehan
Kenneth Fenelon
Tommy Fibich
Albert Finch
Stewart W. Gagnon
Dennis Gardner
Albert Giddens
Robert Givens
John Glover
Steven Glover
J. Weldon Granger
Bill Green
Michael Hays
William Henri
Riley Hetherington
Larry Knapp
John Lastrapes
Stuart Levin

Martin Levy
Leonard Ligon
Stephen Mason
Edward Mattingly
William Maynard
Ralph McBride
Stephen McCarthy
Garland McInnis
Robert Morse
Stephen Mueller
Eugene Nettles
Hon. Rory Olsen
Randall Pais
Daniel Pappas
Charles Parker
David Peden
Bette Pesikoff
Hon. Thomas Phillips
Jesse Pierce
Michael Powell

Barry Racusin
Clifton Ransom
Ronald Restrepo
Richard Rose
Barbara Runge
Vince Ryan
Carlos Ryerson
George Sauer
Gerard Swonke
Marshall Taheri
Thomas Taylor
Edward Thigpen
Robert Thomas
Stephen Tipps
Ben Tobor
Timothy Unger
Charles Walker
Mark Wise
William York

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