2017 Delegate-at-Large Election
Candidates
MARK D. AGRAST
Washington, District of Columbia
Executive Director, American Society of International Law; former Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, U.S. Justice Department. ABA House of Delegates; Board of Governors (Executive
Committee). Chair: Individual Rights Section, ABA Enterprise Fund, Disability Rights Commission, Immigration
Commission, World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, Commission on Renaissance of Idealism in the
Profession; Special Adviser: SOGI Commission; Member: International Law Section Council, Futures
Commission, Center on Diversity, FJE Council. American Bar Foundation (Life Fellow); American Law.
David F. Bienvenu
New Orleans, Louisiana
David F. Bienvenu is a litigation partner at Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn in
New Orleans and has been a member of the House since 1997, including nine years as Louisiana State Delegate
and on the Nominating Committee. He has served on the Board of Governors as well as numerous committees of
the ABA. He is a past president of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Louisiana Bar Foundation.
PAMELA A. BRESNAHAN
Annapolis, Maryland
ABA: Board of Governors; Liaison to Tax Section; Chair, Improving the Profession
Committee; House of Delegates; Nominating Committee; Delegate-at-Large; Rules & Calendar; Select Committee;
Chair, Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability; Commission on Women in the Profession; Standing
Committee on Federal Judiciary; FJE Board; President, ABA/YLD Fellows; American Counsel Association:
President; Fellow; ABF; Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. University of Maryland, BA, JD. Admitted: DC,
IL NY, CA, MD.
MIN CHO
Orlando, Florida
University of Florida; Florida State University Law School; admitted to Bar: 2004. Past Chair
of Leadership Orlando. Trustee for Orlando Science Center. Member of the ABA Board of Governors and House
of Delegates; Chair of the Resolutions Committee for the HOD Minority Caucus; ABA Planning Committee; ABF
and Florida Bar Foundation Fellow; Former YLD Diversity Director.
MYRA L. MCKENZIE-HARRIS
Bentonville, Arkansas
Myra McKenzie-Harris is a Senior Associate Counsel at Walmart in Bentonville, AR. She is
a past ABA YLD officer and current YLD representative to the House of Delegates where she serves on the
Credentials and Admissions Committee. Myra is an ABA LEL In-House Counsel Committee Co-Chair and ABA
Silver Gavel Awards Committee member; a past ABA Standing Committee on Membership and Center for Racial
and Ethnic Diversity member; and a past LEL Development Fund Fellow.
KARI PETRASEK
Mukilteo, Washington
Ms. Petrasek has been an active member of the ABA for nearly 20 years and has served
as a Washington State Bar Association Delegate to the House for six years. As a former YLD leader, she
held key leadership positions in the YLD. Currently, she is a Director of the Solo Small Firm General Practice
Division and serves on its Council and many committees. She welcomes the opportunity to continue to lead
in the HOD.
PAULINE A. SCHNEIDER
Washington, District of Columbia
Pauline A. Schneider, a 1999 recipient of the Margaret Brent Award, has been active in the ABA
more than 30 years. She has served in the House representing the District of Columbia Bar, the Section of Legal
Education and as an At-Large Delegate. While on the Board of Governors, she served on the Finance, Executive
Compensation and Audit Committees. She served on the Standing Committees on Election Law (chair) and on the
Federal Judiciary.
THOMAS W. SNOOK
Coral Gables, Florida
United States Coast Guard Academy; Syracuse University, J.D., cum laude; Editor-in-chief,
Syracuse Journal of International Law; New York University, L.L.M., International Law; Vietnam combat veteran,
Coast Guard JAG officer, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Political Advisor, U.S. Mission to United
Nations, Chief Trial Judge; Attorney, Hayden & Milliken; United States Administrative Law Judge, SSA; MediatorArbitrator, Snook Dispute Resolution; ABA: NCALJ, Judicial Division, Past Chair; House of Delegates, 6 years
(NCALJ Delegate); Sustaining Life Fellow.