The National Conference of Bar Presidents (NCBP) installed Kay H. Hodge, of Boston, Massachusetts, as its president and elected five new members of the executive council, as well as the secretary for the 2007-2008 organizational year. Lonnie Williams, then immediate past president of NCBP and chair of the nominating committee, announced the slate at the end of the organization’s annual meeting in San Francisco.

Ms. Hodge is a past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates since 1990, served on the ABA’s Board of Governors from 1996 until 1999 and is currently chair of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. She is a partner in the law firm of Stoneman, Chandler & Miller LLP. Her practice focuses on management, labor and equal employment issues.

James P. Nolan, of Annapolis, Maryland was elected secretary of the NCBP. He will succeed to the offices of treasurer and president-elect and ultimately will serve as NCBP president in 2010. A member of the ABA House of Delegates, Mr. Nolan is also a past president of the Anne Arundel Bar Association, Anne Arundel Bar Foundation and the Maryland State Bar Association. He is the managing director of Council, Baradel, Kosmerl & Nolan, P.A.

Elected to three-year terms on the NCBP Executive Council were J. Michael Conroy, of Rockville, Maryland, past president of Montgomery County Bar Association and the Maryland State Bar Association; Eleanor Dahar, of Manchester, New Hampshire, president of the New Hampshire Bar Association; Rew R. Goodenow, of Reno, Nevada,  immediate past president of the State Bar of Nevada; Thomas W. Lyons, of Providence, Rhode Island, past president of Rhode Island Bar Association; Andrew Susko, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.