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It is truly humbling to serve such a great group as your 35^th President.  I follow in the footsteps of a very talented group of women who have succeeded me in this position.  I have always been proud to know these women and am now very honored to be among them – best of all I’m so pleased to be able to call them my colleagues and friends. 

That really says it all for who we are at the MRWBA.  I have always been so taken by the fact that we are all colleagues and friends, who support each other in our careers and our lifestyles, our families and our friendships.  That’s why this year I have chosen my theme of “Looking to Tomorrow”, because even though ‘we’ve come a long way, baby’, we’ve got a long way to go.  We need to carry that support not only throughout our profession and our everyday lives as wives, mothers, board members and good community stewards, but also into our political process to continue to advance women’s initiatives and causes.  I lost a very good friend of mine in this past year to cancer; a woman much younger than me but one who lived so much more than I did in her legal career, her family commitments and her never-ending fight to advance women’s needs and rights in health care.  She fought triumphantly to the end never losing faith in the cause; but also never losing sight of her family and enjoying each and every day of life.  I am constantly inspired by her bravery but also by her joy of life.  All of us who knew her were blessed to call her our friend, and that circle spread far and wide.  Together we need to look to tomorrow to pave the way for our friends and daughters. 

Yours truly,  

Leslie A.T. Haley

MRWBA President 2007-08