Dallas Bar Association members E. Leon Carter and John Jansonius were elected State Bar directors for District 6.
Carter is a principal at Carter Scholer Arnett Hamada & Mockler, where he practices in the firm’s litigation section. He serves on the Dallas Bar’s Board of Directors as co-chair of the Judiciary Committee and is a Life Fellow of the Dallas Bar Foundation. He has served on the Board of Directors for Vickery Meadows Learning Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Martin Luther King Center.
A graduate of Texas Southern University Law School, Carter has received numerous honors and distinctions including the DBA’s 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Award, was selected as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Texas and Top 100 Lawyers in Dallas-Fort Worth by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers 2010-2013, and selected by the Dallas Business Journal as one of the Top 15 Business Defense Lawyers in the DFW Metroplex.
