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Scott S. Brinkmeyer to Lead State Bar of Michigan
9/12/03 Grand Rapids attorney Scott S. Brinkmeyer will become the new leader of the 35,000-member State Bar of Michigan on Friday, September 12, 2003. Maura Corrigan, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, will swear him into office as the 69th president of the State Bar of Michigan during the organization's Annual Meeting at the Lansing Center. Brinkmeyer, who will serve as president for the 2003-2004 Bar year, will focus on implementing the State Bar strategic plan, placing particular emphasis on continually improving services to State Bar members and strengthening relationships with State Bar sections. Brinkmeyer succeeds immediate past president Reginald M. Turner of Detroit. Brinkmeyer has been a member of Grand Rapids-based Mika, Meyers, Beckett and Jones, PLC, since 1975 and focuses his practice in the areas of litigation, dispute resolution and facilitation. He is a graduate of St. Louis University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the Law Journal. Before joining Mika, Meyers, Beckett and Jones, PLC, he also worked as a judicial law clerk for the Missouri Court of Appeals. Prior to becoming State Bar president, Brinkmeyer served as president-elect, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. He was also an elected member of the State Bar Board of Commissioners (serving on several committees) and past chairperson and a member of the State Bar Representative Assembly. In addition, Brinkmeyer has served as a member of the State Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, and Litigation Sections. He is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation and the American Bar Association Foundation, a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International, and a member of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, and the Grand Rapids and American Bar Associations. He is also listed in Marquis Who's Who in American Law, 13th edition. Brinkmeyer and his wife, Carol, have three grown children.
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