(BOWLING GREEN, KY) The Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Association held a well-attended annual January membership meeting, naming new officers and directors, welcoming new attorneys to town and recognizing gifts made to several local support organizations.
At the Jan. 16 meeting held at 440 Main Restaurant, President Lindsay Hinton (pictured right) took over the helm of the bar from Aaron Smith (at left), who was presented a plaque for his leadership in 2013. Other 2014 bar officers are Vice President Dov Moore, Secretary Ryan Reed and Treasurer Deborah Wilkins.
Members of a board of directors comprised of eight attorneys serve rotating two-year terms. Directors returning for one more year are Richard Hartsock, Sarah Payne Jarboe, Carrie Link, Scott Laufenberg and Ashley Payne. Newly-named directors are Lauren Marley, Darren Mexic, Rebecca Simpson, Maria Stewart and Brent Stinnett.
In 2013, the bar made four gifts of $1000 and one gift of $2000 to area organizations. Receiving the latter gift was Kentucky Legal Aid, represented at the meeting by Executive Director Scott Crocker and other attorneys from KLA. The remaining gift recipients were Barren River Area Child Advocacy Center (Dawn Long, Executive Director), Barren River Area Safe Space, familiar to most as BRASS (Pam Hurt, Assistant Director), Family Enrichment Center (Lynn Hulsey, Director of Programs) and Court Appointed Special Advocates of South Central Kentucky, also known as CASA (Robert Chinn, VOCA Advocate Coordinator).
Newly-admitted lawyers residing in the city or county are afforded a year of free membership to the Bowling Green-Warren County Bar. They are:
--Heather Coleman, associated with English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley;
--Blake Downey, Law Office of Flora Templeton Stuart;
--Steven Kimbler, Law Clerk for Circuit Judge Catherine Holderfield;
--Ian Loos, Law Clerk for Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John Minton;
--John Nicholas, Law Clerk for the late Circuit Judge Margaret Ryan Huddleston’s bench;
--Michael Steidl, Gary Logsdon & Associates;
--Tim Stevenson, Gary Logsdon & Associates; and
--Amanda Tarsa, Law clerk for Circuit Judges John Grise and Steve Wilson.
Attorneys new to Bowling Green via relocation to the community were also recognized:
--Micah Guilfoil, Law and Mediation Offices of Micah Guilfoil;
--David Koon, Hughes & Coleman; and
--Tim Hendrix, Hughes & Coleman.
At the outset of the meeting, a moment of silence for the late Margaret Huddleston and members of the bar who died in 2013 was held.
Story and photo by Dick Downey