Douglas Greene
President
Cicely Nedd-Thomas
President-Elect
Sean Colston
1st Vice-President
Faye Watson
2nd Vice-President
Phelesa Guy
Secretary
Lateph Adeniji
Treasurer
Bobbie Edmonds
Parliamentarian
Board of Directors
Marla Lee
Jackie Robinson
Sonyia Byrd
Hon. Wayne Salvant
Gwinda Burns
Karmen D. Johnson
Past Presidents
Marla Lee 1997-98
Brian Newby 1996-97
Bobbie Edmonds 1995-96
Stan Hatcher 1994-95
Terry Boone 1993-94
Cheryl Williams 1992-93
Winfred Colbert 1990-92
Nelda Harris 1989-90
Glenn Lewis 1988-89
President's
chat
* I do not know if everyone is aware that we are down to ONE minority elected official out of the 53 county elected officials we have in Tarrant County (See star-telegram 11/4/98). We all must reach out to other groups to determine how we are going to handle this increasingly disturbing trend. With reapportionment on the horizon and other crucial elections looming, the next year or two will be extremely important to us as TCBBA members and our constituents/clients. We must institute plans now to stop this alarming trend of dwindling minority representation of our elected officials. The time is now to build bridges to broaden our base of support. Remember the old expression, " if we are not at the table to help divide up the pie, we end with nothing but scraps."
In an attempt to focus in on the above trend and to discuss possible ways to stop this from happening in the future, we will host a judicial forum on our cable television show. As you should know from last month's newsletter, we have been asked to guest host a television show on TCI Cablevision, channel 13, entitled "Another Perspective". Our second taping is scheduled for December 2, 1998. Given the disturbing trend towards minority Judges losing in County wide Judicial elections, our second show will hopefully involve a forum of all minority Judges to discuss this trend, what they believe may be the cause of the trend, and what we as a community and a bar association, can do to reverse this disturbing trend. Our panel participants are tentatively scheduled to be Judge MaryEllen Hicks, Judge Clifford Davis, Judge Wayne Salvant, Judge Pete Perez and former Judge, Louis Sturns. I am the host.
*Plans have been finalized
for the reception for Judge Sam Lindsay, the first ever African-American
Federal Judge to be appointed in the Northern District of Texas. The reception
is scheduled to be held at the City club, on November 19, 1998, from 5:00pm-7:00pm.
This is a joint project sponsored by TCBBA and TCBA. Please contact Louis
Sturns @817-561-9996 for further updates and directions.
* Our annual Christmas play
for local Ft. Worth elementary students is scheduled for Friday, December
11, 1998 from 9:30am-1:00pm in the old Tarrant County Court Building. Please
remember that we as lawyers have an obligation to assist the next generation
to stand on our shoulders and be the lawyers of the future. Your participation
is needed and it is a very rewarding experience for all involved. For more
info. Contact Bobbie Edmonds
@817-332-6501
* For all of you not on the
Internet, I have invited Flashnet communications to give us a brief presentation
at our next bar meeting. They have agreed to possibly give us a discount
rate on internet access depending on the number of person's who wish to
sign up using their service. Please make every effort to attend this meeting.
* We have a Web site!
In case some of you did not receive our previous newsletter's, our newsletters
will be posted on our web page as released (hopefully monthly). Our web
page can be accessed over the internet at http://home.swbell.net/qdcg.
. Also our directory of members can be accessed from our Web site and we
have included several web links to other relevant sites. Call Douglas Greene
@ 978-2753 or Qdcg@swbell.net if you
have your own web site address to link with ours.
