The OCBA Masters Division is pleased to announce Mark Minyard, Minyard Morris LLP, will serve as the 2019 Chair. His one-year term will begin Jan. 1, 2019.

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced that the commission today confirmed the appointment of Joshua P. Groban to the Supreme Court of California.

The 2018 OCBA YLD Chair-Elect Kristin Garcia Gomez, Honda N.A. Inc./American Honda Motor, will assume the role of OCBA YLD Chair in January 2019.

OCBA Past President Jennifer Keller, a founding partner at Keller/Anderle LLP, has been named to the 2019 Benchmark Litigation "Top 20 Trial Lawyers in California," a list of the top courtroom advocates in the nation's largest state.

The Orange County Women Lawyers Association installed its 2019 officers and directors for 2019 this month at the OCWLA Holiday Celebration & Installation Dinner on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

The OCBA congratulates and welcomes the new officers and directors of the Thurgood Marshall Bar Association, an affiliate bar of the OCBA.

DEADLINE: 5:00 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 20, 2018

OCBA member Mary-Christine "M.C." Sungaila, a partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP and member of Haynes and Boone’s Appellate Practice, has been elevated to chair of the Board of Overseers for the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ).

Memorial Services for retired Judge Betty Lou Lamoreaux will be held Wednesday, December 12 at McCormick & Son Mortuaries in Laguna Hills. Judge Lamoreaux was instrumental in the building of the courthouse in Orange, California, which bears her name Betty Lou Lamoreaux Juvenile Justice Center.

The Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) is proud to announce officers and incoming board members for 2019.