"While the City Bar was formed in the 1870s in part because of growing public outrage over corruption in government and the courts, rarely are its presidents faced with the prospect of leading the roughly 20,000-member organization through a time of crisis. That responsibility recently fell on the shoulders of Sheila Boston, a Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer partner who in May 2020 became the first woman of color to serve as president of the 150-year-old City Bar."
"Through her two-year term, Boston held the bar association group together through the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Members affectionately referred to her as the Pandemic President and she took to calling the association the Bar of Hope. Earlier this month, the City Bar feted Boston the same way that it has honored all of its past presidents: by commissioning a portrait of her to hang on the walls of the organization's historic Midtown Manhattan headquarters."
Sheila Boston served as president of the New York City Bar Association beginning in May 2020 and became the first woman of color to hold the position. The City Bar represents roughly 20,000 members and traces its origins to the 1870s amid public outrage over government and court corruption. Boston's two-year term guided the organization through the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, earning her the nickname Pandemic President and inspiring her to call the association the Bar of Hope. The City Bar commissioned and unveiled a portrait of Boston at its historic Midtown Manhattan headquarters, with Chief Judge Rowan Wilson addressing attendees and notable figures in attendance.
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