Four attorneys — Jules B. Olsman, Maureen McGinnis, Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Michael J. Riordan, and Lawrence P. Nolan — won contested seats in this year’s State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners elections.
All will serve three-year terms expiring at the close of the 2015 Annual Meeting.
The SBM Board of Commissioners provides oversight to the various operations of the State Bar, such as finance, public policy, and member services.
Olsman won in District I, representing Oakland County.
He is president of Olsman, Mueller, Wallace, & MacKenzie PC in Berkley. He has served as an appointed member of the SBM Board of Commissioners, and also served on the Representative Assembly and Grievance and Civil Procedure committees.
Olsman has served as past president of the Michigan Association for Justice, past chair of the SBM Negligence Law Section, a past member of the American Association for Justice Board of Governors, and a founding member of the AAJ Nursing Home Litigation Group.
McGinnis won in District I, representing Oakland County. She practices with the Law Offices of Donald E. McGinnis Jr. PC in Troy focusing on family and criminal law.
She chaired the SBM Young Lawyers Section in 2010-2011 and served as a YLS council member for seven years. She began her current term as SBM
commissioner in 2009, as chair-elect of the Young Lawyers Section.
McGinnis is a member of the Oakland County Bar Association where she served as chair of the New Lawyers Committee and was elected to its Board of Directors in 2010. She has also been active in the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division most recently serving as an appointee to its Women in the Profession Committee.
Riordan won in District H, representing Lenawee, Monroe and Wayne counties. He was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to the Michigan Court of Appeals in March of 2012.
He has served on the SBM Board of Commissioners since 2006, as a member of its Executive Committee since 2009, and previously served on the Representative Assembly. Before his appointment to the bench, Riordan was an assistant U.S. attorney, served as an attorney with the Securities & Exchange Commission, and worked in private practice. Riordan has been on the SBM’s Judicial Qualifications, U.S. Courts, and Custodial Interrogation Task Force committees.
He is president of the Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, and a member of the Federal Court’s Civility Committee.
Nolan won in District E, representing Barry, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Livingston, Montcalm and Shiawasee counties. He is president of Nolan, Thomsen, & Villas PC and has been involved in State Bar work for 35 years.
During his last three years on the SBM Board of Commissioners, he has served on its Executive, Finance, and Audit committees and the Presidential Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group.
He served as chair of the Young Lawyers Section in 1984, and has served on the SBM Judicial Qualifications, Pre-Paid Legal Services, and Pro Bono committees.
He currently serves as treasurer of the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society.
Two attorneys won unopposed races to the State Bar Board of Commissioners.
Thomas C. Rombach, of New Baltimore, won in District D, representing Macomb and St. Clair counties.
Rombach is the current Secretary of the SBM Board of Commissioners, and operates the Law Offices of Thomas C. Rombach in New Baltimore. Lori A. Buiteweg of Ann Arbor won in District G representing Washtenaw and Jackson counties. Buiteweg serves as treasurer of the SBM Board of Commissioners and works at Nichols, Sacks, Slank, Sendelbach, & Buiteweg PC in Ann Arbor.
Both will serve three-year terms expiring at the close of the 2015 Annual Meeting.
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