Leadership

CBA Presidents

William C. Goudy 1874-1875
Benjamin F. Ayer 1875-1876
Ezra B. McCagg 1876-1877
John N. Jewett 1877-1878
Wirt Dexter 1878-1879
William H. King 1879-1880
Israel N. Stiles 1880-1881
Edward G. Mason 1881-1882
R. Biddle Roberts 1882-1883
S. Corning Judd 1883-1884
Farlin Q. Ball 1884-1885
James B. Bradwell 1885-1886
Frederic Ullmann 1886-1887
James L. High 1887-1888
Huntington W. Jackson 1888-1889
Francis Lackner 1889-1890
Frederick A. Smith 1890-1891
John H. Hainline 1891-1892
George W. Cass 1892-1893
David B. Lyman  1893-1895 (2 terms)
Thomas Dent 1894-1895
Elbert H. Gary 1895-1896
Howard Henderson 1896-1897
George A. Follansbee 1896-1898
Henry S. Towle 1898-1899
Stephen S. Gregory 1899-1900
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John S. Miller 1900-1901
Edwin M. Ashcraft 1901-1902
John J. Herrick 1902-1903
Frank Asbury Johnson 1903-1904
Edgar A. Bancroft 1904-1905
Horace Kent Tenney 1905-1906
Frank J. Loesch 1906-1907
Thomas M. Hoyne 1908-1909
Joseph H. Defrees 1909-1911 (2 terms)
Edgar B. Tolman 1911-1912
John T. Richards 1912-1913
Silas H. Strawn 1913-1914
Mitchell D. Follansbee 1914-1915
Charles S. Cutting 1915-1917 (2 terms) 
Joseph W. Moses 1917-1918
Amos C. Miller 1918-1919
James M. Sheean 1919-1920
John R. Montgomery 1920-1921
William T. Alden1921-1922
Roger Sherman 1922-1923
William H. Sexton 1923-1924
John M. Cameron 1924-1925
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Russell Whitman 1925-1926
William C. Boyden 1926-1927
Carl R. Latham 1927-1928
Sidney S. Gorham 1928-1929
Francis X. Busch 1929-1930
William P. Sidley 1930-1931
Charles P. Megan  1931-1933 (2 terms) 
John D. Black 1933-1934
Henry A. Gardner 1934-1935
Herbert M. Lautmann 1935-1936
Charles M. Thomson 1936-1937
Hayes McKinney 1937-1938
Henry P. Chandler 1938-1939
Tappan Gregory 1939-1940
William H. King, Jr. 1940-1941
Lloyd D. Heth 1941-1942
Harry N. Gottlieb 1942-1943
Floyd E. Thompson 1943-1944
Stephen E. Hurley 1944-1945
J. F. Dammann 1945-1946
Joseph E. Fitch / James F. Oates, Jr. 1946-1947
Erwin W. Roemer 1947-1948
James P. Carey, Jr. 1948-1949
Harold A. Smith 1949-1950
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George E. Woods 1950-1951
Cushman B. Bissell 1951-1952
Andrew J. Dallstream 1952-1953
John J. Yowell 1953-1954
Richard Bentley 1954-1955
Augustine J. Bowe 1955-1956
Werner W. Schroeder 1956-1957
E. Douglas Schwantes 1957-1958
Jerome S. Weiss 1958-1959
Willis D. Nance 1959-1960
William H. Alexander 1960-1961
R. Newton Rooks 1961-1962
Walter H. Moses 1962-1963
Norman H. Nachman 1963-1964
Gordon R. Close 1964-1965
Thomas J. Boodell, Sr. 1965-1966
William A. McSwain 1966-1967
Justin A. Stanley 1967-1968
Hon. John J. Sullivan 1968-1969
Frank Greenberg 1969-1970
James A. Velde 1970-1971
Milton H. Gray 1971-1972
Philip H. Corboy 1972-1973
James W. Kissel 1973-1974
James P. Connelly 1974-1975
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John Cadwalader Menk 1975-1976
Kenneth C. Prince 1976-1977
Esther R. Rothstein 1977-1978
N.A. (Jim) Giambalvo 1978-1979
Richard William Austin 1979-1980
George M. Burditt 1980-1981
Kevin M. Forde 1981-1982
David C. Hilliard 1982-1983
Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr. 1983-1984
John D. Hayes 1984-1985
Richard J. Phelan 1985-1986
Joseph L. Stone 1986-1987
John J. Jiganti 1987-1988
Roy E. Hofer 1988-1989
Chester L. Blair 1989-1990
Gordon B. Nash, Jr. 1990-1991
Laurel G. Bellows 1991-1992
Thomas A. Demetrio 1992-1993
John B. Simon 1993-1994
Richard J. Prendergast 1994-1995
Rene A. Torrado 1995-1996
Donald Hubert 1996-1997
Patricia C. Bobb 1997-1998
Leonard Jay Schrager 1998-1999
Kerry R. Peck 1999-2000
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William J. Linklater 2000-2001
Terrence M. Burns 2001-2002
Jennifer T. Nijman 2002-2003
Michael K. Demetrio 2003-2004
Hon. Joy V. Cunningham 2004-2005
Hon. Michael B . Hyman 2005-2006
Kevin P. Durkin 2006-2007
Victor P. Henderson 2007-2008
Hon. E. Kenneth Wright, Jr. 2008-2009
Anita M. Alvarez 2009-2010
Terri L. Mascherin 2010-2011
Robert A. Clifford 2011-2012
Aurora Abella-Austriaco 2012-2013
J. Timothy Eaton 2013-2014
Daniel A. Cotter 2014-2015
Patricia Brown Holmes 2015-2016
Daniel M. Kotin 2016-2017
Hon. Thomas M. Mulroy 2017-2018
Steven M. Elrod 2018-2019
Jesse H. Ruiz 2019-2020
Hon. Maryam Ahmad 2020-2021
E. Lynn Grayson 2021-2022
Timothy Tomasik 2022-2023

Leadership

Executive Directors

Clarence Denning 1923-1952
Richard Cain 1952-1964
Jacques G. Fuller 1965-1973
John F. McBride 1974-1985
Terrence M. Murphy 1985-2020
Elizabeth (Beth) McMeen 2020-Present


Address

321 S Plymouth Ct
Chicago, IL 60604, US

About us

Founded in 1874, the Chicago Bar Association is celebrating 150 years of maintaining the honor and dignity of the legal profession, cultivating relationships between members, and promoting the administration of justice and the public good. One of the oldest and most active metropolitan bar associations in the United States, the Chicago Bar Association has more than 17,000 members, including attorneys from every practice area and the judiciary, as well as law students. Through CLE offerings, mentorship, and pro-bono projects, the Association provides resources and opportunities for attorneys of all ages, equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the modern practice of law.