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Carolyn Lamm
PRESIDENT-ELECT, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
2008 - 2009
Carolyn Lamm, an international trade and litigation lawyer from Washington, D.C., has been inducted as the president-elect of the American Bar Association. She will serve in this capacity until the association's Annual Meeting in August 2009, when she begins her term as ABA president.
Lamm, a partner with White and Case, is past president of the District of Columbia Bar and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Women in America by the National Law Journal in 2007.
Building membership in all segments of the association, including young lawyers, and lawyers from both small and large firms will be one of Lamm's primary focuses during her presidential term. Lamm also looks forward to working to increase diversity within the legal profession.
Lamm was a member of the ABA House of Delegates from 1982 to 2005, and of the ABA Board of Governors from 2002 to 2005. She is former chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division, and served on the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary, and on numerous committees with the ABA Sections of Litigation, International Law and Business Law.
Lamm is also a council member of the American Law Institute, and a board member of the American Turkish Chamber of Commerce, the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and the American Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce.
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Lamm received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her law degree from the University of Miami School of Law.
Lamm lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Peter Halle, who also is a lawyer. The couple has two sons.
