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Karen J. Mathis


Biltmore Who's Who would like to welcome ABA President Karen J. Mathis.

Karen J. Mathis, is a partner in the Denver office of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP and president of the American Bar Association. She began her one-year term in August of 2006.

She is a business, commercial and estate planning lawyer with more than 30 years' experience. Mathis earned her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1975 and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Denver in 1972, Cum Laude. She has also received honorary degrees from Siena College, the University of Denver, Michigan State University College of Law and Southwestern Law School, and an honorary Order of the Coif from the University of Colorado. She has been honored as an outstanding lawyer by the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations, the University of Colorado and the University of Albany School of Law .

She is an active member of the ABA for almost 30 years, Mathis served as the association's second highest elected officer, chair of its House of Delegates, from August 2000 until August 2002. She is the third woman to serve as an ABA president, and the first president from Colorado. She has served as a member of the House of Delegates since 1982. Mathis is also a member of the ABA Board of Governors, and has served on its Executive Committee, Operations Committee and Program and Planning Committee.

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Karen J. Mathis
posted by Biltmore Who's Who on Thursday, May 17, 2007