I am pleased to announce that Sister Carrie Smith will chair the 2022 Nominations Committee. To assist her with this important process, Sister Kaylin Pelletier-Koenig will serve as co-chair. Additional details and deadlines about the complete nominations and election process will be announced and posted to the P.A.D. website in the coming months.
CarrieSmith was initiated into Phi Alpha Delta’s Hugo Black Chapter atASU Sandra Day O’ConnorCollege of Lawin 2000. She served as Chapter Vice Justice and Justice, and attended her first convention in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2002. After her graduation, Sister Smith served as District V Justice from 2003 through 2006. During her tenure as District V Justice, Carrie helped launch what is now thefraternity’sLawMock Trial program;starting at thedistrictlevelthenexpanding to thefraternityas a whole. At the 2006 Convention, she was elected to the International Executive Board as an At-Large Memberfor the biennium. Since that time, she has served thefraternity in variousrolesincluding her appointment as the District V representative to the the Nominations Committee in 2020. Carrie is a member of the Arizona Statewide AlumniChapterand an Associate Member of the Alaska Statewide Alumni Chapter.
Carrie is an Assistant Attorney General in the Licensing Enforcement Section, State Government Division of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. She currently acts as the Legal Advisor to the Arizona Medical Board and Arizona Regulatory Board of Physician Assistants. Previously, she worked in private practice.
Kaylin M. Pelletier-Koenig is a Rhode Island-based attorney and a former Madison Chapter Justice and District XX Assistant District Justice. Kaylin graduated from Roger Williams University School of Law in December of 2017 where she had served the previous three semesters as Chapter Justice. She then passed and was sworn into the Rhode Island and Massachusetts bars, and was shortly thereafter appointed as District XX Assistant District Justice. In addition to her roles as Chapter Justice and Assistant District Justice, she has also served on the Rules & Resolutions Committee in 2016 and 2018 and Nominations Committee in 2020 as Clerk.
The fraternity congratulates Carrie and Kaylin, and wishes them the best as they embark on the work of the Nominations Committee.
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