Brenna Clani, a second-year student at the School of Law, has been elected to the American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division's Board of Governors. Clani will represent law schools in the division's Fifteenth Circuit, which includes all ABA-approved law schools in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
Clani, of Gallup, N.M., will also serve as chair of the division's programming committee. A graduate of Stanford University, Clani is vice president of UNM's Native American Law Student Association and tutors first-year students. Her goals for the Fifteenth Circuit in the coming year include improving communication among distant law schools, increasing membership and taking action on the diversity plan.
The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional association in the world with more than 400,000 members. The student division is the second largest in the ABA, with more than 50,000 members from ABA-approved law schools.
More information about the ABA Law Student Division, including leadership opportunities for students, can be found at: www.abanet.org/lsd.
Contact: Laurie Mellas-Ramierez, (505) 277-5915
Posted by scarr at May 17, 2004 10:31 AM