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Drahcir Smith Elected 2018-2019 BWLA Board Member

We are proud to announce that RSHC Partner Drahcir Marie Smith has been elected a 2018-2019 Board Member at Large for the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA).  The installation ceremony for the incoming Officers and Board of Directors will take place on June 4.

Founded in 1987 by a group of 20 young African-American women lawyers including RSHC Managing Partner, Patricia Brown Holmes, the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (“BWLA”) is one of the fastest growing bar associations in Illinois. BWLA is representative of African-American female attorneys, judges, law professors and law students in the Chicago metropolitan area and across the Midwest. BWLA develops programs and workshops to advance and assist African-American female lawyers in public and private practice, the judiciary and academia.