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- Posted May 22, 2025
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‘JCBA Law Day’

(l-r) Attorney and JCBA President Buzz Leach, SMBT; and guest speaker Richard Primus, Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
The Jackson County Bar Association held Law Day on April 30, at Cascades Manor. The event, with the topic “The Rule of Law and its Limits,” was sponsored by Southern Michigan Bank & Trust (SMBT).
From the Jackson County Prosecutor’s office: (Clockwise from the left) Assistant Prosecutors Meaghen McKeon, Stormie McGee, Nathan Hull, John Fleming, Virginia Miller, Prosecutor Kelsey Guernsey, Audrey Sayles-Reed and Heidi Lindenmuth.
JCBA officers (l-r) 2nd Vice President Cory Carr, Abbott, Thomson, Mauldin, Parker & Beer; Treasurer, Ryan Phillips; 1st Vice President Chad McDonald, Abbott, Thomson, Mauldin, Parker & Beer; and President/Secretary Buzz Leach, SMBT.
(l-r) Kevin Rogers, managing attorney at the Jackson Public Defender Office; and JCBA President/Secretary Buzz Leach, SMBT.
(l-r) Attorneys Brad Brelinski, Curtis, Curtis & Brelinski; and JCBA Treasurer Ryan Phillips.
(l-r) Attorney Diane Bower with her husband Russell Hoffman, and Bree Thurlby, attorney referee, Jackson County Friend of the Court.
From Legal Services of South Central Michigan Jackson office: (l-r) Managing attorney Michael Derby, with attorneys Joanne Laux and Jeremy Norwood.
(l-r) American Title of Jackson President Michael Falahee; attorney Eric White, White, Hotchkiss & Falahee; and 12th District Judge Robert Gaecke.
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