Jonathan Cole, Life Fellow, became Chair of the American Bar Association House of Delegates at the conclusion of the 2024 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. The Chair is the second highest office in the ABA and comes with a two-year term.
The ABA House of Delegates has approximately 590 delegates in the House, including representatives of state and local bar associations, substantive legal sections and divisions of the ABA, and affiliated organizations and conferences of the Judicial Division, as well as former ABA officers, members of the Board of Governors, at-large delegates and state delegates.
He is currently a shareholder for Baker Donelson out of their Nashville, Tennessee office. Cole has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates since 2009 and serves as one of the Tennessee state delegates. Outside of the ABA, he has served as president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents (2016-2017) and the Nashville Bar Association (2010).
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