ATLANTA: Baker Donelson leader named president of American Bar Association

ATLANTA - Linda Klein, senior managing shareholder at Baker Donelson, became president of the American Bar Association today at the conclusion of the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. She will serve a one-year term ending in August 2017.

Klein, who is based in Atlanta, earned her J.D. at Washington & Lee Law School in Virginia and her B.A. at Union College in New York. In 1997, Klein became the first woman to serve as president of the State Bar of Georgia.

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