The largest voluntary professional association’s leader explains why she’s making combating human trafficking the priority of her administration.
Jewish Women International JewishWoman Magazine. By Sue Tomchin
Laurel Bellows, who took office August 7 in Chicago as president of the American Bar Association (ABA), the largest voluntary professional association in the world, is making the fight against human trafficking a priority of her administration. While the ABA is actively combating human trafficking, Bellows has stepped it up a notch by creating the Task Force on Human Trafficking to implement additional projects and initiatives against what has become a multibillion-dollar organized crime in the United States.
Before being chosen ABA president-elect in 2011, Bellows was chair of the association’s policymaking House of Delegates, the second-highest elected office in the ABA. She chaired the Commission on Women in the Profession and was a member of the ABA Board of Governors. Bellows was also the second female president of the 22,000-member Chicago Bar Association, where she founded the Women’s Alliance.
An expert in employment law, she practices with her husband, Joel, in Chicago and is a principal of the Bellows Law Group, P.C.
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