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Washington State Bar Foundation board approves law‑student trustee Audrey Tran
Summary
The Washington State Bar Foundation Board of Governors approved Audrey Tran as the board's law‑student trustee by voice vote after a brief discussion about selection process and term length; the board also noted two open public‑member trustee slots and recessed until the next morning.
The Washington State Bar Foundation Board of Governors voted to approve Audrey Tran as the foundation’s law‑student trustee during the board’s final agenda item.
Brian Anderson, president of the Washington State Bar Foundation, told governors that the board is responsible for appointing members of the foundation board and presented an updated trustees roster that included a request to approve Tran. "In your materials, you will find an updated board of trustees roster, including a request to approve Audrey Tran as our new law student trustee," Anderson said.
Board members asked procedural questions about the position. Anderson said the foundation reaches out to law schools for applicants and that candidates are often chosen because they know current trustees. "We just reach out to the various law schools seeking applicants for the position," Anderson said. When asked what year Tran is in, Anderson said, "I think she's a 2L. I think she's finishing up her second year right now," and noted that the student term runs until graduation, making the appointment roughly one year to a year‑and‑a‑half in length.
Governor Petrosk moved to approve "the law student Miss Tran," and a board member seconded the motion. The chair later summarized the motion in the record as coming from Ki Petraic with Mary Rafbone seconding; the board approved the appointment by voice vote with no opposition noted.
Governor Bloom raised a separate matter before recess, saying there are public‑member trustee vacancies; board members confirmed there are two vacancies and that one has been more actively recruited than the other. The board recessed until 9:00 a.m. the next morning and scheduled a reception.
Action at a glance: the board approved Audrey Tran as law‑student trustee by voice vote; no formal roll‑call tally was recorded in the transcript. The transcript records a brief inconsistency in how the motion was named in the minutes (Petrosk spoke the motion; the chair summarized the mover as Ki Petraic and the seconder as Mary Rafbone).
