Celebrating Women Leaders (3/26/25)

Join The Chicago Bar Association in honoring women leaders in the law during Women’s History Month 2025. The program will begin with a CLE panel presentation entitled “Celebrating Women Leaders,” which will feature past women presidents of the CBA. They will share strategies for success in leadership, as well as how they were able to overcome barriers to become leaders in a male-dominated industry. 

Celebrating Women Leaders Panelists

Anita Alvarez, Chief Legal Counsel, Maryville Academy, 2009-2010 CBA President 
Aurora Austriaco, Valentine, Austriaco and Bueschel, 2012-2013 CBA President
Laurel Bellows, The Bellows Law Group, 1991-1992 CBA President
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joy V. Cunningham, 2004-2005 CBA President
E. Lynn Grayson, Nijman Franzetti, 2021-2022 CBA President
Patricia Brown Holmes, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, 2015-2016 CBA President
Terri L. Mascherin, Jenner & Block LLP, 2010-2011 CBA President

Moderator: Judge Nichole Patton, Circuit Court of Cook County

Thank you Alliance for Women Sponsors:

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Celebrating Women Leaders Recorded (3/26/25)
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Celebrating Women Leaders (On Demand 0.75 IL Diversity/Inclusion PR-MCLE Credit)
Up to 0.75 CLE credits available  |  Certificate available
Up to 0.75 CLE credits available  |  Certificate available
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