New Bar President Hails from Margaret Thatchers Home

Clair Harrington will become the first British-born President of the Richmond Women's Bar Association on Wednesday, May 5th, 2004 at Richmond's Capital Club.

Richmond, VA (PRWEB) May 1, 2004--As a little girl Clair Harringtons favorite toys were books, mystery novels specifically. Harrington grew up on the east coast of England in Lincolnshire, the same county as Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of England. I loved how the heroines in my books were strong, smart, and solved all of the mysteries." The desire to help people solve their life mysteries" has stayed with Harrington to this day.

Highlights:

1.    First British-born President of the Womens Bar Association

2.    Born Lincolnshire, England 1965 [The same village as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

3.    Won the American Jurist Prudence Award at St. Johns University School of Law where she graduate in 1992.

4.    Ms. Harrington is being inducted as President of the Metropolitan Richmond Womens Bar Association in a ceremony on May 5th, 2004 at 12:30 at the Capital Club. www.mrwba.org

5.    Handpicked to clerk at the Supreme Court of Virginia for Hon. Richard H. Poff.

6.    At 16 clerked for solicitors office in England.

7.    Association focuses on improving domestic relations in the Richmond area, assisting the Flagler Home for homeless children and their mothers, and endorsing qualified candidates for Virginia court appointment.

Bob Harrington, Clairs husband, is an attorney as in-house counsel for Selective Insurance Company in Richmond, Virginia. She has two children Emma, 11 and Matthew, 10 who are both in gifted and talented programs in school. When asked at an early age what they want to be when they grow up both children answered, a lawyer". For more information: www.mgm-law.com