Paula HoldermanPaula Hudson Holderman has been elected 3rd Vice President of ISBA. Holderman, Chief Attorney Development Officer at Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago, will serve a year in each of the three vice presidential posts before taking office as president in 2013. She will be sworn in as 3rd vice president at the ISBA Annual Meeting in June. At that time, Mark Hassakis of Mt. Vernon will be sworn in as president, John Locallo of Chicago will become president-elect, and John Thies of Urbana will be 2nd vice president.
Holderman has been an active member of the ISBA for more than 25 years since then-president Richard Thies appointed her to the Criminal Justice Section Council in 1984 while she was serving as an Assistant State's Attorney in Champaign County trying murder and other felony cases. She also served as zoning counsel to the Champaign County Board. She is proud to have been the first woman to serve as president of the Champaign County Bar Association. Later, she was elected to the ISBA Assembly from the 6th Judicial Circuit.
After relocating to the Chicago area in 1989, she had a suburban solo practice focusing on real estate and school zoning matters for four years before she began teaching at the John Marshall Law School. She taught trial advocacy and supervised the school's clinical programs until 1999. At that time, Holderman was hired by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to professionalize the hiring and training processes for its 900 attorneys. In 2002, she joined Winston & Strawn LLP as its director of professional development and was recently named global Chief Attorney Development Officer for the firm.
Paula is married to James Holderman, Chief Judge of the Federal District of Illinois, and they have four grown children and one granddaughter.
