Barbara Berger Opotowsky, the executive director of the New York City Bar, is stepping down in May after a 15-year tenure. “While the decision to leave the City Bar, an organization I look at as a family, has not been an easy one, I am excited and energized by the thought of starting a new chapter in life,” she said in a statement.

Carey Dunne, the bar group’s president and a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, said he has formed a search committee, which includes himself and former past leaders of the bar group.