Rob Crain, partner in Crain Lewis Brogdon, is serving as the 108th president of the Dallas Bar Association. Other DBA officers for 2017 are Michael K. Hurst, partner in Lynn Pinker Cox Hurst, president-elect; Laura Benitez Geisler, principal of the Geisler Law Firm, first vice president; Robert Tobey, shareholder in Johnston Tobey Baruch, second vice president; Rocio Cristina Garcia, associate with Hunton & Williams, secretary-treasurer; and Jerry Alexander, shareholder in Passman & Jones, immediate past president.

George W. Connelly Jr., shareholder in the Houston office of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry, has been elected to the board of the Better Business Bureau of Greater Houston and South Texas.

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