Kimberly M. Cahill, a partner in Schoenherr & Cahill, P.C. and president of Schoenherr Developments, Inc., has served as a State Bar Commissioner since 1997. She is currently the 2002-2003 State Bar Treasurer. She served as chair of the State Bar's Representative Assembly (1999-2000) after serving as the vice-chair and clerk. She has been a member of the Executive, Fiscal, Legislation, and Rules Committees of the Board of Commissioners. She is a former chair of the State Bar's Domestic Violence Committee and currently serves on the Awards Committee and the Judicial Qualifications Committee. She has served as Commissioner liaison to numerous sections and committees. Cahill has also served as president, president-elect, secretary, treasurer and director of the Macomb County Bar Association and president of both the Macomb region of the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan (WLAM) and the state WLAM.

Charles R. Toy, a shareholder of Farhat & Story P.C, has served as a Commissioner since 2000. An active member of the State Bar for more than 17 years, he served as a member of the Representative Assembly (1992-1998) and a member of the Assembly Review Committee (1996-1998). He currently serves on the Professional Standards Commissioner Committee and is the Commissioner Liaison to the Character and Fitness Committee and the Environmental Law Section. Toy has been a member of the Environmental Law Section Council since 1987, and held all officer positions through Chairperson (2001). He also has served on the State Bar Long Range Planning Committee Goal Group (1996-1998) and the Standing Committee on Oil and Gas Law (1986-1992). He is active in the Eaton and Ingham County Bar Associations, and served as an Ingham County Bar Association Board member (1999-2002). Toy is also a contract Administrative Law Judge for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.

Allyn D. Kantor, a principal in the Ann Arbor office of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C, has been actively involved in State Bar activities for the past 25 years. Kantor has served as a member of the Representative Assembly, Chair of the Special Issues Committee of the Representative Assembly, and as a member of the State Bar Character and Fitness Committee. He is a past president of the Washtenaw County Bar Association. He was appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court to serve on the Michigan Dispute Resolution Task Force that drafted the ADR court rules. Kantor is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Ann Arbor Symphony and the Advisory Board of Home Care and Hospice of Michigan.

W. Anthony Jenkins, a partner and member of the Board of Governors of Dickinson Wright PLLC, is a two-term incumbent member of the Board of Commissioners and has served on several committees, commissions, and task forces. He is a past president of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, a member of the State Bar Fellows Society, and is Michigan's state delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. Jenkins has served on several civic and charitable boards, including the City of Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission, the City of Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, and the Advisory Board to the Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Julie I. Fershtman, Of Counsel to Zausmer, Kaufman, August, & Caldwell P.C., has served two 3-year terms on the Board of Commissioners, including four years on its Executive Committee. Fershtman is the immediate past Chair of the Representative Assembly and is a past Chair of the State Bar Young Lawyers section. She is the director of the Oakland County Bar Association (OCBA), past chair of the OCBA Professionalism Committee, and a former Inns of Court officer. She has served as an ABA/Young Lawyers Division national assembly delegate for several years. Fershtman is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation and Oakland County Bar Foundation. She has written two law-related books and 140 published articles, lectured in 22 states, and served as an ICLE speaker.

Michael S. Hohauser, founder of the Hohauser Law Firm, P.C., has served on the Board of Commissioners since 2000. He also served for several terms on the Representative Assembly. In addition, Hohauser has been chairperson of the Hearings Committee, and has served as secretary and chairperson of the Civil Procedure Committee. He has also served on the Underrepresented Groups in the Law Committee and as a Hearings Panelist for the Discipline Board. Hohauser is a member of several bar associations, and has served as president of the Oakland County Bar Association, preceded by 20 years of various OCBA activities. He is a fellow of the State Bar and Oakland Bar Foundations.

The State Bar's Board of Commissioners acts as the primary managing body for the Bar. It sets State Bar policy between meetings of the Representative Assembly. Twenty members are elected from districts apportioned based on lawyer population. Other members include three Representative Assembly officers, five members appointed by the Supreme Court, and three officers of the Young Lawyers Section.