A Message from our District 6 State Bar Representative

A Letter from our District 6 Representative Carmen Ramirez

Dear Colleagues,

It's really hard to believe that three years have gone by since I filed my nominating petition to be on the ballot for the election to the the State Bar of California Board of Governors as the representative from District 6, in April of 2005.At that time, James Heiting from Riverside was our representative. He and Jim Herman, former representative from Santa Barbara County, went to bat for me to make sure that the organized bar in the Inland counties, Riverside and San Bernardino, honored the agreement between the five counties of District 6. Those counties are San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino. And so they did, despite the candidacy of a Riverside County Attorney.

This year it's the turn of San Bernardino County and the candidate supported by that Bar is Bryan C. Hartnell. In order for [y]our County and all of the other counties of our district to have a chance at representation, it is essential that our agreement be honored. The only way ultimately is for [y]our bar members to support the agreement and vote this year for the Candidate from San Bernardino.

Bryan Hartnell has long been active in local San Bernardino Bar activities and comes highly recommended to us. I therefore sincerely request that our County bar members support his candidacy and vote for Bryan Hartnell when you receive your ballot from the State Bar of California. Ballots will be mailed on April 30 and you will have until June 30th to vote.

In closing, it's been a great honor, a lot of work and many miles traveled to have represented the attorneys in this district for the past two and a half years at the State Bar level. I'm not done yet, however, and will remain your representative until the annual meeting which begins on September 25 in Monterey. Please get in touch with me about any of your concerns.

Carmen Ramirez
District 6 Representative, State Bar Board of Governors

Carmen Ramirez