FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 29, 2006 

Contact  Judith Berrett
Director of Member and Community Relations
206-727-8212; judithb@wsba.org

Mount Vernon Attorney Eron M. Berg Elected WSBA Treasurer

Seattle, Washington, September 29, 2006 — The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) Board of Governors announced that Eron M. Berg, governor for the 2nd Congressional District, was elected WSBA treasurer. The election took place during the Board of Governors meeting held September 14-15 in Seattle.

Berg received his law degree from the University of Washington School of Law. In 2000 he opened the Law Office of Eron M. Berg, PLLC, in Mount Vernon, where he continues to practice, with an emphasis on civil law. He serves as city attorney for the City of Sedro-Woolley. A member of the WSBA since 1999, Berg is also a member of the Skagit County Bar Association, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, all Washington state courts, and the Washington State Court of Appeals.

Berg has an impressive record of community service. He has served as La Conner's planning commissioner and as a member of the La Conner Town Council, and in 1999 he was elected to a four-year term as mayor of La Conner. From 2001 to 2003 he served as chairman of both the Skagit Council of Governments and the Skagit Regional Transportation Policy Organization, and for several years he was a board member of the Skagit Emergency Management Council, the Skagit County Law and Justice Council, and the Skagit County Economic Development Public Facilities Program.

Currently he is president of Youthnet, a nonprofit corporation that serves Skagit, Island, Whatcom, and Snohomish counties by providing youth and family services, including an alternative high school, foster placements, a teen shelter, and other social-service programs.

About the Washington State Bar Association
The WSBA is part of the judicial branch, exercising a governmental function authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state's 29,800 lawyers. The WSBA both regulates
lawyers under the authority of the Court and serves its members as a professional association — all without public funding. As a regulatory agency, the WSBA administers the bar admission process, including the bar exam; provides record-keeping and licensing functions; and administers the lawyer-discipline system. As a professional association, the WSBA provides continuing legal education for attorneys, in addition to numerous other educational and member-service activities.
 
The governance of the WSBA is vested in its 14-person Board of Governors. There are three governors from the seventh congressional district; one from each of the other eight districts; and three at-large members, one of whom represents the Young Lawyers Division. The 2006-2007 president is Ellen Conedera Dial, of Seattle. The 2006-2007 president-elect is Stanley A. Bastian, of Wenatchee, and the immediate past-president is S. Brooke Taylor, of Port Angeles. The Board meets regularly (every six weeks) at various locations around the state, and its meetings are open to the public. Much of the work of the Bar is carried out through 23 standing committees; 26 sections; and a Young Lawyers Division, with its many committees.

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