Elected Vice President Of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
Michael H. Reed, a partner in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP, was elected vice president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA). Mr. Reed will become president of the association in 2004, making him the first African-American president in the history of the 28,000-member, 107-year-old organization.
He is a bankruptcy and reorganization lawyer, fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and has long been an active member of the PBA. He is a past chair of the House of Delegates and Minority Bar Committee and is credited with organizing the first PBA Minority Attorney Conference in 1988.
Mr. Reed has served on the Pennsylvania Judicial Inquiry and Review Board and as a member of a hearing committee of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
In 2000, he was appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to chair the Merit Selection Committee to fill the bankruptcy judgeship vacancy in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reed is a graduate of Temple University and Yale Law School. He joined Pepper Hamilton, which currently has 400 lawyers in 11 offices, upon his graduation from law school in 1972.