© 2015 The Texas Lawbook.
By Mark Curriden
(May 3) – Nearly 18,000 lawyers in the State Bar of Texas voted to elect family lawyer Tom Vick of Weatherford as the next president-elect of the State Bar of Texas.
Meanwhile, the Texas Young Lawyers Association elected Baili Rhodes of College Station to serve as its president from June 2017 to June 2018.
The state bar association’s 98,000 members had a month-long voting period to select their future leader. When the election ended May 2, nearly 55 percent of the 17,935 lawyers who voted pulled the proverbial lever for Vick.
Michael C. Smith, a partner in the Marshall office of Siebman, Burg, Phillips & Smith, received 44 percent of the vote.
Vick, a partner at the Vick Carney law firm, will be sworn in as president-elect during the State Bar’s Annual Meeting on June 16, 2016, in Fort Worth and will serve as president of the State Bar of Texas from June 2017 to June 2018.
Early reports that Dallas lawyer Charlie Hodges had been elected president through “write-in votes” later proved untrue.
Texas Bar members also elected these lawyers to the Texas Board of Directors:
Sarah Clower Keathley, Corsicana, District 2;
Christy Amuny, Beaumont, District 3;
Laura Gibson, Houston, District 4, Place 1;
Bradley C. Weber, Dallas, District 6, Place 1;
Greg Sampson, Dallas, District 6, Place 5;
Curtis Pritchard, Cleburne, District 7, Place 1;
Lisa S. Richardson, Round Rock, District 8;
Christopher Jake Oddo, Austin, District 9, Place 2;
Fidel Rodriguez, San Antonio, District 10;
Jeff Chandler, San Angelo, District 15.
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