José C. Feliciano Elected to ABA House of Delegates for Second Consecutive Term
CLEVELAND, OH – August 30, 2007 – José C. Feliciano, a partner in Baker Hostetler's Cleveland office, was recently elected to a three-year term as a Delegate-at-Large to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association (ABA). Control and administration of the ABA is vested in the House of Delegates, the policy-making body of the association.
Feliciano was one of only six Delegates-at-Large to be elected from a national slate of nominees. This is the second term as a Delegate-at-Large to which Feliciano has been elected and in both the previous and most recent election, Feliciano secured the largest number of votes of any of the nominees.
As the policy-making body of the ABA—the national representative of the legal profession in the United States—the House of Delegates makes recommendations to Congress on principal issues facing the justice system, including tax reform, rule of law issues, and immigration reform and administration of U.S. immigration laws. Additionally, the House is responsible for promulgation of the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility, on which state bar associations base their Rules of Professional Conduct.
In addition to his new role, Mr. Feliciano is also a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary. The three-year appointment, which commenced in August 2006, is made by the President of the ABA and is based upon reputation for professional competence, integrity and devotion to public service.
Mr. Feliciano, who is also a member of the ABA's Latin America Law Initiative Advisory Council, previously served on the Board of Governors and House of Delegates of the ABA, and was formerly Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the ABA representative to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. In 2005, he received the "Spirit of Excellence" award given by the ABA's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession for his efforts to promote a more racially and ethnically diverse legal profession.
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