Atlanta Bar Association president Jim Blitch passed the gavel to Maggie Vath on Tuesday at the group's annual meeting and awards luncheon at the Piedmont Driving Club.

But first he recognized another bar president, Linda Klein, who was attending the meeting from “the other ABA,” as Blitch called it. He expressed the Atlanta Bar's appreciation to Klein for her lobbying on Capitol Hill to restore Legal Aid funding.

Vath, a senior lecturer of law at Georgia State University College of Law and now the 110th Atlanta Bar president, emphasized service in her remarks.