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February 27, 2009
Northern Kentucky Attorney Seeks American Bar Association Presidency
Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III

Kentucky attorney Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III of Florence, Ky., recently filed as a candidate for the presidency of the American Bar Association (ABA), which provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.

Robinson serves as member-in-charge of the Northern Kentucky offices of Frost Brown Todd LLC, a regional law firm with offices in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia and Indiana. He recently completed his term as ABA Treasurer and has served the association for more than 20 years in various leadership roles including seven years on its Board of Governors.

If elected in February, 2010, Robinson would serve as president-elect of the association August 2010-2011 before his one-year term as president began in August 2011. With more than 400,000 members, the ABA is the largest voluntary professional association in the world with headquarters in Chicago and a branch office in Washington, D.C.

Robinson has also served as president of the Kentucky Bar Association (KBA), chairman of its House of Delegates and president of the Kentucky Bar Foundation. He is a past chairman of the Greater Cincinnati –Northern Kentucky International Airport and a past chairman of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

Robinson has received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions including the Judge Learned Hand Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, the Lincoln Award from Northern Kentucky University, the Themis Award from the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Outstanding Lawyer Award from the KBA and in 2006, the Oak Award as Outstanding Alumnus of Kentucky from the Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education. He is a graduate of Thomas More College and the College of Law at the University of Kentucky where in 2004, he was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame.

Past ABA presidents from Kentucky have included John W. Stevenson of Covington, 1884, and L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr., of Louisville, 1989-90. Other officers from Kentucky have included Robinson, as ABA Treasurer, 2005-2008, and ABA Secretary Herbert P. Sledd of Lexington, 1975-1979.

For more information about the American Bar Association, visit www.abanet.org; for more information about the Kentucky Bar Association, visit www.kybar.org.