Note: A petition for review of any change in the bylaws will be entertained by the court if signed by 25 or more active State Bar members and filed with the clerk of the court within 60 days after publication of notice of change. Hearings upon such a petition will be pursuant to notice in such manner as the court directs.

I, George C. Brown, the Executive Director of the State Bar of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that the following bylaw amendment resolutions were duly voted on by the Board of Governors on May 8-9, 2007, and were approved by a 42-1 vote.

Certificate of Bylaw Amendment

Article II Officers

Section 1. Nominations. The President Elect, the Secretary and the Treasurer of the State Bar shall be elected from a list of candidates nominated in the manners herein prescribed.

(a). The President of the Association with approval of the Board of Governors shall appoint A a committee of five members to nominate candidates for said offices to be voted on at the next annual election. shall be appointed by the President of the Association with the approval of the Board of Governors The nomination committee shall be approved at the first regularly scheduled Board meeting following the annual convention. Such report The committee shall issue a report naming name one two or more candidates nominated by the committee nominees for the Office of President Elect, two or more candidates nominated nominees for the Office of Secretary and two or more candidates nominated nominees for the Office of Treasurer. Before making its report, the committee shall solicit from the membership the names of members interested in seeking nomination to any office scheduled for election. The committee shall make its report no later than December 15 in each year.

(b). Other persons may be nominated for any of said offices by petition . signed in the case of each Each nominee must provide a petition signed candidate by not less than one hundred active members of the Association . , and The petition must be filed in the Office of the Executive Director on or before the first business day of February of the year of the election . , provided that before the filing of such petition Before such a petition may be filed, the nominee must consent in a written statement shall be endorsed thereon by the nominee to the effect that the member consents to nomination for the office designated in the petition.

Section 2. Voting and Canvass of Ballots. The provisions of Sections 4 to 8 inclusive of Article III of these By Laws relating to the election of members of the Board of Governors shall be applicable also to the election of officers.

Section 3. Election of Chairperson of the Board of Governors. The Board shall elect a A Chairperson of the Board of Governors shall be elected by the Board from its members at its last regular meeting each fiscal year. The President shall appoint a nominating committee from the governors at the second to last regular Board meeting of the fiscal year. The committee shall to nominate one or more candidates for this office at the second to last regular Board meeting of the fiscal year . Those eligible for nomination and election to this office shall be are : all who are then members of the current Board members , including members whose second terms expire that June, except for the President and President Elect. While serving in that office as Chairperson of the Board , the Chairperson of the Board shall be a governor at large and no longer a district governor.

Section 4. Commencement of Term of Office. The terms of all out going officers of the Association and the Chairperson of the Board of Governors shall end, and the term of their successor shall commence, on the first day of July.

Section 5 Regional Diversity of Officers. In order to encourage participation by lawyers throughout the State in the leadership of the State Bar, any year's nominees for the office of President Elect shall be from only one of four areas within the State of Wisconsin. The area designated for a given year shall be on the rotation specified herein. The four geographic areas are (a) District 2 - the Milwaukee area, (b) District 9 - the Madison area, (c) District 6 - the Waukesha area, and (d) all other State Bar Districts - designated as the Out-State area. A nominee's area is determined by where he or she primarily practices law. The area from which a candidate(s) shall be eligible to run in the election for President Elect shall rotate each year in the following order: District 2, District 9, and then Out-State Districts, with District 6 being added following the Out-State area in every third rotation, with such addition of District 6 being made for the April 2009 election. If no candidates are available for nomination from the designated area in a given year, candidates from the area for the succeeding year shall be solicited and the rotation moved up to reflect the area from which the candidates are nominated. This rotation throughout the State shall apply to candidates chosen by the nominating committee and those petitioning for nomination. The State Bar shall maintain a schedule of this rotation and the District eligible for each annual election for president of the State Bar.

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