State Bar & Bar Associations
Feb. 8, 2022
State bar GC Vanessa Holton announces retirement
Holton stepped into the role of general counsel in 2015, two years before Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law SB 36, which instructed the State Bar to shed its voluntary trade association activities and focus on disciplinary and regulatory matters.
Announcing her retirement Monday, State Bar General Counsel Vanessa Holton expressed frustration that "some stakeholders are unnecessarily stuck in the old view of the State Bar."
"This leads, for example, to the Legislature not authorizing the necessary resources via attorney fee assessments for the Bar to carry out its core public protection purpose, principally in the attorney discipline system," Holton said. "That is frustrating at the ...
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