Stone Mountain Circuit Gains Additional Seat On Board Of Governors; Tara Lee Adyanthaya To Fill New Slot

When I first took a look at the 384-page Agenda Book for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the State Bar of Georgia that came in the mail this week, I noticed something unexpected on page one. There with myself (Post 1), Gwen Keyes Fleming (Post 5) and Claudia Saari (Post 6) on the list of new Board of Governors members for the Stone Mountain Circuit is the name of Tara Lee Adyanthaya (Post 10). Post 10? I thought the Stone Mountain Circuit only had nine posts. Searching for more information on Tara Adyanthaya, I found she is midway through a term as Member at Large, Post 2. Yet, on the page one list of new members for that post is the name of Christine A. Koeher of Lawrenceville. I wondered what was up and only had to wade another 160 pages into the Agenda Book to find an answer. There, on page 161, in the minutes of the Executive Committee meeting of May 13, 2010, under the heading New Business, is the following: "President Cavan provided a report on the Board of Governors composition. Based on an increase of the number of active members residing in these circuits, the Atlanta Circuit has gained 3 new posts and the Stone Mountain Circuit has gained one new post. Once the appointments are made to these posts, the Board of Governors will reach its 150-member cap. The creation of the Paulding Circuit does not go against the cap." So, not exactly breaking news, but who knew? Not me. Did you know? That sent me back to page one to take another look at the new board members list for the Atlanta Circuit, with which I am less familiar. Sure enough, there are three new posts--38, 39, and 40--on the list. In any event, the bottom line is the Stone Mountain Circuit has four new members being sworn in to the Board of Governors this year, all of whom are women. When we are sworn in, the majority of the board members from our circuit will be female. Here is a bio of our circuit's newly added BOG member, Tara Adyanthaya, from the Emory University website: Tara Adyanthaya is an Associate General Counsel focusing on healthcare matters. Prior to joining Emory's Office of General Counsel, Tara was a healthcare attorney with King & Spalding, LLP and Morris Manning & Martin, LLP. She started her career as a Staff Attorney with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Tara serves on the Board of Governors for the Georgia Bar and is the Secretary for the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation's Board of Directors. She is a past President and member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association, former Member of the Board of Directors for the Litigation Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, former Chair of the Multi-Bar Leadership Council, and former member of the Investigation Panel of the Georgia Bar. Tara graduated with honors from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University where she was on the Mercer Law Review and the Moot Court Board. She holds a Masters Degree in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and received her B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology from Boston College. Named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Healthcare Attorneys nationally by Nightingale's in 2007, Tara is a member of the Georgia Bar, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys.