{"id":4,"date":"2019-10-29T02:57:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/\/capitol-hill-chapter\/about-the-chapter\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T19:42:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T19:42:47","slug":"about-the-chapter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/capitol-hill-chapter\/about-the-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Committees of the Council<\/span><\/b><b><br>\n<\/b><b><br>\n<b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nominations and Elections Committee<\/span><\/b><b> <\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Nominations and Elections Committee is responsible for identifying and selecting outstanding members of the Capitol Hill Chapter to serve in positions of responsibility of the Chapter, as officers or council members. The Chapter President and the Immediate Past President carry out the functions of this Committee.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Membership Committee<\/span><\/b><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Membership Committee shall faithfully implement the Chapter Membership Plan, strive constantly to increase Chapter and Federal Bar membership, and coordinate applications for membership with the Federal Bar Association headquarters and the Circuit Vice President.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Professional Development Committee<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Professional Development Committee organizes continuing legal education programs on topics of interest to Chapter members, including professional ethics.\u00a0The President is authorized to appoint a Chair for this Committee.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Programs Committee<\/span><\/b><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Program Committee helps to organize monthly luncheons and other programs of interest to Chapter members.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Communications Committee<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Communications Committee publishes and distributes a quarterly e-newsletter to Chapter members, works with FBA National Staff to maintain the Chapter\u2019s website, and ensures that upcoming events and other relevant information is shared with Chapter members on a timely basis.\u00a0 The President is authorized to appoint a Chair for this Committee.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Social Committee\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Social Committee organizes periodic social events, including multi-chapter events, for the benefit of Chapter members and their guests.\u00a0 The President is authorized to appoint a Chair for this Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committees of the Council Nominations and Elections Committee The Nominations and Elections Committee is responsible for identifying and selecting outstanding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/108"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedbar.org\/capitol-hill-chapter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}