CHICAGO — J. Foster Clark was set to become president of the National Association of Bond Lawyers last night and William A. Holby was to be elected as president-elect to succeed him next fall. Clark, a partner with Balch & Bingham LLP in Birmingham, Ala., succeeds Carol L. Lew, a shareholder at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth in Newport Beach, Calif. who will remain on the board as immediate-past president. Holby is a partner at King & Spalding LLP in Atlanta. At their annual business meeting here, NABL members also were to elect Kathleen Crum McKinney, a shareholder with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd PA in Greenville, S.C., as treasurer, and John M. McNally, a partner with Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP in Washington, as secretary. The meeting was held in conjunction with NABL’s Bond Attorneys’ Workshop.McKinney succeeds Holby as treasurer and McNally succeeds McKinney as secretary. The NABL members also were scheduled to elect four new lawyers to their board: Kristin H.R. Franceschi, a partner at DLA Piper US LLP in Baltimore, Brenda S. Horn, a partner at Ice Miller LLP in Indianapolis Charles P. Shimer, a partner at Troutman Sanders LLP in Richmond, and Michael L. Spain, a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in San Antonio. The four lawyers who were to leave the board were: Walter J. St. Onge 3d, a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP in Boston, Meghan B. Burke, a member of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC in Boston, John O. Swendseid, a member at Swendseid & Stern, an affiliate of Sherman & Howard LLC in Reno, and Scott R. Lilienthal, a partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP in Washington.
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