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Law Practice

Sep. 7, 2001

Dedication Defines State Bar Head

LOS ANGELES - When the State Bar was in the depths of its funding crisis in 1998-99, one of the functions that suffered most was appointments. The bar Board of Governors has the responsibility to appoint members to dozens of internal committees, councils and boards and to several outside agencies, such as the state Judicial Council and the American Bar Association House of Delegates.

PROFILE
Karen S. Nobumoto
Incoming President
State Bar of California
Career highlights: Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, 1989-present; president, John M. Langston Bar Association, 1997; member, State Bar Board of Governors, 1998-present.
Law school: Southwestern University School of Law, 1989.
Age: 49

By Don J. DeBenedictis

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