Nominations Committee Announces 2025 Candidates for Bar Office

February 21, 2025

The D.C. Bar Committee on Nominations has announced the following candidates for the 2025 D.C. Bar elections:

President-Elect (1 seat open)

• Bradley J. Bondi
  Paul Hastings, LLP
   
• Diane A. Seltzer
  The Seltzer Law Firm

Treasurer-Elect (1 seat open)

• Alicia M. Long
  U.S. Department of Justice
   
• Amanda C. Molina
  Microsoft Corporation

Board of Governors (5 seats open)

• Josephine M. Bahn
  Cozen O’Connor
   
• Michelle F. Bercovici
  Alden Law Group, PLLC
   
• Rebecca F. Cady
  Children’s National Health System
   
• Tony Y. Chan
  Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
   
• Karen Newton Cole
  Neighborhood Legal Services Program
   
•  Kandis C. Gibson
  Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
   
•  Louis Lopez
  AARP Foundation
   
• Andrea Mangones
  Public Interest Attorney
   
•  Mary Ann McGrail
  Library of Congress, Copyright Royalty Board
   
• Steven R. Miller
  U.S. Department of Energy
   
• Bennett Rushkoff
  District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings
   
• Stephen A. Saltzburg
  George Washington University Law School
   
•  Shavon J. Smith
  SJS Law Firm, PLLC

ABA Delegates (2 seats open)

• Alexander J. Geraldo
  Robinson & Geraldo, PC
   
• Ali Rahnama
  Zaal and Griffin PLLC
  *Candidate withdrawn, March 16, 2025.
   
•  D. Jean Veta
  Covington & Burling LLP
   
• Donald Quinn
  Quinn Patton

ABA Delegates Under 36 (1 seat open)

• Michelle T. Domingue II
  U.S. Department of Justice
   
• Christian B. Nestor
  Gordon & Partners

Other D.C. Bar members who wish to run for office may secure a spot on the ballot for any position other than president-elect by filing a petition bearing the signatures of at least 441 active members of the D.C. Bar (the figure representing at least one-half of one percent of the Bar’s active membership as of the first business day of 2025).

The petition can also be obtained by contacting Crystal White in the Bar’s Executive Office at 202-737-4700, ext. 2607, or by email at [email protected]. Petitions must be filed no later than 5 p.m. on March 7.

The 2025 D.C. Bar general and Communities elections will run from April 15 to June 4. Voting is exclusively online. Eligible voters (all active D.C. Bar members in good standing as of February 28) will receive an email link to the general election ballot, as well as to the ballots for their D.C. Bar Communities, from Direct Vote (via Survey & Ballot Systems), an independent vendor administering the 2025 D.C. Bar elections.