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Enderton-Speed Named State Bar Executive Director
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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LAURA ENDERTON-SPEED incoming State Bar executive director |
The State Bar Board of Trustees has announced that Laura Enderton-Speed will become the organization’s executive director, with an anticipated starting date of Nov. 3.
She is currently director of the Leadership Support Services Office at the Judicial Council. Her employment there began in 2013.
The board’s outgoing chair, Kern County Deputy District Attorney Brandon Stallings, and its incoming chair, José Cisneros, a non-lawyer who is treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, said in a joint statement:
“Laura’s exceptional leadership and extensive experience in policy development and legislative advocacy, as well as her law school professor credentials, will serve us well. She has demonstrated a steadfast belief in our public protection mission.”
Enderton-Speed commented:
“Throughout my career in public service, I have worked to strengthen trust in government and advance fairness, accountability, and transparency. I look forward to bringing that experience to the State Bar in service of its vital mission to protect the public and ensure meaningful access to justice for all Californians.”
She has a degree from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific.
The post has been open since Leah Wilson resigned as executive director effective July 7 in light of uproar over a botched State Bar exam marked by technical problems and multiple-choice questions formulated through use of artificial intelligence.
The board on Thursday, by unanimous vote, reappointed George Cardona as chief trial counsel.
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