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06/09/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/09/2025 10:25

Diane Seltzer Wins as D.C. Bar President-Elect

Diane Seltzer Wins as D.C. Bar President-Elect

June 09, 2025

Diane A. Seltzer, principal of the Seltzer Law Firm, has been elected president-elect of the D.C. Bar for the 2025-2026 term. Seltzer will serve in that position for one year starting July 1, 2025, when Sadina Montani, current president-elect, begins her term as the Bar's 54th president.

Seltzer, who specializes in employment law, has served the D.C. Bar in many capacities, including as Board of Governors secretary from 2020 to 2021 and chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee for three terms. She also served on the Strategic Planning Committee for 2020-2025 as well as on the Screening, Communities, and Nominations Committees. In 2021 Seltzer was voted onto the Board of Governors, where she currently serves on its Executive Committee. Previously, she served on the board's Budget Committee and Compensation Subcommittee.

Seltzer said she was overjoyed upon learning of the election results. "I trusted that our members would elect a president-elect who they know will be fierce for them and hear them with respect to the issues that matter [to them]," said Seltzer, who will begin her term as president on July 1, 2026. Seltzer said her election means that "we have a Bar full of lawyers who care about making sure their leadership reflects their values, which are maintaining the rule of law, being able to practice law without fear of retaliation, and having a leader who is experienced and has the qualifications to be in that position."

Seltzer earned her law degree in 1991 from American University Washington College of Law. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Frederick C. Wright III, Judge John P. Corderman, and Judge Daniel Moylan of the Circuit Court for Washington County, Maryland.

In 1997 she launched her private practice, the Seltzer Law Firm. Seven years later, she joined two other attorneys in providing employment discrimination law training each year to federal judicial law clerks in Maryland. In 2016 the judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland presented Seltzer with its Exceptional Service Award.

An adjunct professor of law at American University from 2003 to 2023, Seltzer developed and taught the course "Human Resources Compliance" for the school's Master of Legal Studies program.

D.C. Bar members also elected Amanda C. Molina, corporate counsel at Microsoft Corporation, to a one-year term as treasurer-elect. Joshua L. Mogil, a senior associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and current treasurer-elect, will begin his term as treasurer on July 1.

Elected to the Bar's Board of Governors for three-year terms are Karen Newton Cole of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program; Louis Lopez of AARP Foundation; Andrea Mangones, a public interest attorney; Bennett Rushkoff of the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings; and Stephen A. Saltzburg of George Washington University Law School. Rebecca F. Cady of Lockton will fill the vacancy on the board created by Seltzer's election as president-elect.

Elected to the American Bar Association House of Delegates for two-year terms are Alexander J. Geraldo of Robinson & Geraldo, PC and D. Jean Veta of Covington & Burling LLP. Michelle T. Domingue II of the U.S. Department of Justice is elected as the Under 36 Delegate.

Of the 89,304 D.C. Bar members eligible to vote in this year's elections, 38,636 cast their ballots, for a 43 percent turnout. Below is a complete breakdown of the election results.

OFFICE

CANDIDATE

VOTES

President-Elect

Diane A. Seltzer

34,982

Elected

Bradley J. Bondi

3,490

Treasurer-Elect

Amanda C. Molina

26,380

Elected

Alicia M. Long

8,854

Board of Governors

Karen Newton Cole

23,228

Elected

Stephen A. Saltzburg

22,449

Elected

Andrea Mangones

19,989

Elected

Louis Lopez

18,117

Elected

Bennett Rushkoff

15,391

Elected

Rebecca F. Cady

9,404

*

Mary Ann McGrail

9,265

Kandis C. Gibson

8,886

Tony Y. Chan

6,118

Shavon J. Smith

5,944

Josephine M. Bahn

5,769

Steven R. Miller

4,849

Michelle F. Bercovici

3,120

ABA House of Delegates

D. Jean Veta

24,305

Elected

Alexander J. Geraldo

18,547

Elected

Donald Quinn

10,085

ABA Delegate Under 36

Michelle T. Domingue II

16,799

Elected

Christian B. Nestor

12,542

* To fill vacancy on the board created by Diane Seltzer's election as president-elect.

The D.C. Bar Communities also elected new steering committee members to open seats:

COMMUNITY

CANDIDATE

VOTES

Administrative Law and Agency Practice

Stacey Bosshardt

657

Elected

Keith David Parsons

58

Aryeh Fishman

46

Antitrust and Consumer Law

Austin Ownbey

288

Elected

Faiza Kaukab

282

Elected

Rami Rashmawi

101

Arts, Entertainment, Media and Sports Law

Lauren Russell

168

Elected

Amanda Burch

139

Noah Brozinsky

39

Corporation, Finance and Securities Law

William Nelson

236

Elected

Olivia Choe

221

Elected

Lisa Park

157

Lahdan Rahmati

140

Gary Carleton

105

Tim Cummings

100

Stephan Schlegelmilch

92

Adam Ross

56

Gabriel Vadasz

9

Criminal Law and Individual Rights

Christine Danielson

220

Elected

Sean Marlaire

209

Elected

District of Columbia Affairs

Austin Ownbey

209

Elected

Craig Leen

117

Philip Skillman

19

Early Career Lawyers

Dakeisha Hargrove

265

Elected

Gaelle Bastien

239

Elected

Maggie Horstman

185

Elected

Zain Walker

138

Elected

Lauren Kim

135

Elected

Roland Carvalho

116

John Bell

113

Eric Tarosky

107

Daniel Csigirinszkij

82

Frank Maley

71

Clirae Bourke

29

Anthony J. Scerbo

22

Environment, Energy and Natural Resources

Lisa Anne Hamilton

321

Elected

Peter Selimos

200

Elected

Joseph Hicks

109

Charlie Zdebski

61

Estates, Trusts and Probate Law

Krista Robertson

177

Elected

E. Regine Williams

88

Gaelle Bastien

38

Lizamarie Mohammed

37

John Bell

35

Family Law

Melissa McClure

161

Elected

Erin Kopelman

95

Intellectual Property Law

Barnabas Fekete

382

Elected

Priya Nair

122

International Law

Mary Ann McGrail

363

Elected

Michael Stroud

166

Elected

John Anwesen

123

Frank Maley

110

Matthew Drossos

42

Labor and Employment Law

Tiffany Joseph Goodson

407

Elected

Edith Thomas

94

Marlon Primes

12

Law Practice Management

Allyson Kitchel

256

Elected

Lauren Kim

42

Litigation

Toni Jackson

913

Elected

Castell Abner III

96

Public Interest and Courts

Farhad Fatakia

262

Elected

Les Jacobowitz

238

Elected

John McCarthy

43

Real Estate, Housing and Land Use

Dionne Joemah

140

Elected

Richard Lucas

81

Rebecca Monzi

75

Gaelle Bastien

47

Taxation

Lisandra Ortiz

302

Elected

Edward Brooks

61

Lauren Kim

51

Robb Longman

25

John Bentil

5

All newly elected officers, board members, and delegates will be recognized at the D.C. Bar's Celebration of Leadership on June 26 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown Hotel.

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