The State Bar of Michigan has hired Candace Crowley to the new position of Assistant Executive Director, Access to Justice Fundraising and Victoria Kremski has been hired as Assistant Counsel to the Regulation Division. As Assistant Executive Director, Crowley will report directly to State Bar Executive Director D. Larkin Chenault. She will be responsible for working with Chenault, a leadership steering committee, and The Alford Group, a consulting firm that specializes in fundraising campaigns of this type. Together, they will more closely define Access to Justice development goals, assure that a broad range of fundraising activities are established, and pursue a leadership gifts campaign. Crowley will also work closely with the Michigan State Bar Foundation staff and legal services providers to coordinate statewide Access to Justice fundraising activities. Before joining the State Bar, Crowley worked as Executive Director of Lakeshore Legal Aid where she served as a member of the Access To Justice Task Force and Chair of the Michigan Integration and Merger Committee. She was also part of the state planning process that developed the 1995 Michigan Plan and the Michigan State Planning Report to the Legal Services Corporation in late 1998. Crowley has previously worked as a manager and staff attorney at Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services and also worked at Michigan Legal Services and the Free Legal Aid Clinic. Crowley received both her undergraduate degree in English and her J.D. from Wayne State University. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, Women Lawyers Association, Macomb and St. Clair County Bar Associations and the Michigan Poverty Law Program Advisory Board.
		As Assistant Counsel, Kremski will report to State Bar Regulation Counsel Thomas K. Byerley. She will be responsible for investigating and litigating unauthorized practice of law complaints and administering the operation of the Client Protection Fund, a voluntary public service of the Bar that reimburses clients whose lawyers have misappropriated funds entrusted to them. She will also handle subrogation litigation for the Fund. Before joining the State Bar, Kremski practiced with Shanahan Hoy & Kremski, P.C. in Owosso where she engaged primarily in personal injury and family law. Kremski graduated with honors in 1982 from Fort Lewis College in Durango,Colorado with a degree in political Science. She received her J.D. from the University of Denver Law school in 1993 and was admitted to the bar that same year. Kremski is a member and former president (1997-98) of the Shiawasee County Bar Association.