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State bar will have its third woman president next year, but who?

By Jason Siegel

Three female members of the California Bar Association board of governors are running to become president of the state bar, the California Bar Journal reported.

Next year's president will be the third woman* to hold the post and be a resident in Southern California.

The candidates are:

• Holly J. Fujie (Los Angeles)
• Danni R. Murphy of Santa Ana
• Maria Carmen Ramirez (Ventura)

Fujie is a shareholder at Buchalter Nemer, focusing on general and complex litigation with an emphasis on insurance and surety-related litigation. She's on the board of governors of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and the Board of Directors of Bet Tzedek, the Federal Bar Association and the Boalt Hall Alumni Association. She's on the advisory board of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles. She's advised the White House and California's U.S. Senators on federal judicial appointments since 1992.

Murphy is an assistant public defender in Orange County and supervises branch offices in Laguna Niguel and Newport Beach, according to the state bar journal. She was the president of the   Orange County Bar Association in 2001.

Ramirez has been a legal aid attorney since 1975, working in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. She is the community planning director for a Ventura advocacy agency   that works on economic and environmental justice, according to the bar journal. She was the president of the Ventura County Bar Association in 1998.

*The first female president was Margaret Marrow in 1993 and the second was Karen Nobumoto in 2001, according to the state bar journal.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).