State Bar Bylaws
Notice of State Bar Bylaw Amendment
Note: The Board of Governors amended its election-related
bylaws at its Sept. 19 meeting. 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, Kathleen Grant, the duly elected secretary of the State Bar of
Wisconsin, do hereby certify that resolutions were adopted at the Sept.
19, 1997, Board of Governors' meeting to amend the State Bar bylaws as
follows:
Nomination and election dates for officers, governors
Articles II and III of the State Bar Bylaws are amended to read as
follows:
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 manner herein prescribed. 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 on or
before the last day of September in each year at the first
regularly scheduled Board meeting following the annual convention.
Such report shall name two or more candidates nominated by the committee
for the Office of President-Elect, two or more candidates nominated for
the Office of Secretary and two or more candidates nominated 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 the
first business day in November. Other persons may be nominated for
any of said offices by petition signed in the case of each candidate by
not less than one hundred active members of the Association, and filed
in the Office of the Executive Director on or before the first
business day of February December of the year
of preceding the election, provided that before the filing
of such petition a statement shall be endorsed thereon by the nominee to
the effect that the member consents to nomination for the office
designated in the petition.
Article III Board of Governors
Section 3. Nomination Petitions. Nominations for the
Office of Governor shall be by petition signed in respect of each
nominee by not less than ten persons entitled to vote for such
candidate. Blank forms for that purpose shall be supplied by the
Executive Director of the Association on request. Nomination petitions
for candidates to be voted on at the annual election in any year shall
be filed in the office of the Executive Director not later than the
first business day of March January of such year,
provided that before the filing of such petition a statement shall be
endorsed thereon by the nominee to the effect that the nominee consents
to nomination for the office designated in the petition. No nominating
petition for governor shall be filed on behalf of any member practicing
in the same county in which another member is a governor whose term does
not expire at the next annual meeting.
Section 4. Voting List. On the last
third Friday of March January in each year the
voting list shall close for the election in that year. Every active
member of the Association in good standing on that date shall be
entitled to vote in the State Bar District in which the member's
principal office for the practice of law is located for officers of the
State Bar and for the governor or governors for such district to be
elected that year.
Section 5. Mailing Ballots. On or before the
second first Friday of April February in
each year the Executive Director shall prepare and mail required
two ballots to each active member of the State Bar entitled to
vote at the annual election. One form of ballot sent to persons entitled
to vote in each State Bar District shall contain the names of the
nominees for the several offices of the State Bar to be filled at the
annual election, and a separate form of ballot shall contain the names
of the nominees for the Office of Governor from such district. If any
such person entitled to vote in such election fails to receive his or
her ballots, or if it appears that any such ballot has been lost or
destroyed, a new ballot shall be furnished to the person by the
Executive Director. The fourth third Friday of
April February in each year shall be the last day for
voting in such election and no ballots received after that date shall be
counted.
Kathleen Grant
Secretary
State Bar of Wisconsin
Oct. 6, 1997
Wisconsin
Lawyer
