ABA Delegates Committee

The American Bar Association (ABA) Delegates Committee is comprised of the National LGBT Bar Association’s delegates and liaisons to various entities within the ABA, including the:

  • ABA House of Delegates
  • Commission on Women in the Profession
  • AIDS Coordinating Committee
  • Young Lawyers Division
  • Council of the Young Lawyers Division
  • Law Student Division

Chair

John T. Hendricks is a civil litigator with his own full service business-oriented firm, the Law Offices of John T. Hendricks, in San Francisco, California.  John’s practice focuses on advising, counseling and defending management in employment litigation, including Fortune 500 companies, health care and public entity clients, in state and federal courts throughout California. He also regularly handles commercial and construction litigation, and provides general legal counseling for businesses. The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) conferred John the NITA Advocate designation in 2007.  John actively supports various community and professional organizations, including the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP), the American Inns of Court, the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF) and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. He contributed to the groundbreaking Report of the BASF Equality Subcommittee on LGBT Issues published in 2007. John also has served in various director and leadership capacities in several of these organizations and was president of the National LGBT Bar Foundation in 2009-2010.  John earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he received the John L. Brennan Award for trial advocacy.

Members

Mark Johnson Roberts, Commission on Women in the Profession

Richard A. Wilson,  AIDS Coordinating Committee

Kenny Cantrell, Young Lawyers Division

Casey Payton, Law Student Division Chair

Ashley McGovern, Law Student Competitions Chair