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Walker Appointed to ABA House of Delegates Nominating Committee

Walker Appointed to ABA House of Delegates Nominating Committee Karol Corbin Walker

At the American Bar Association's virtual annual meeting on Aug. 4, Karol Corbin Walker, a partner at Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP in Hackensack, became the first person of color and first woman to serve as a state delegate representing New Jersey on the Nominating Committee in the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. In that position, she chairs the New Jersey state delegation and has a three-year term that is renewable for up to three terms, for a total of nine years. Walker became the first African American president of the New Jersey State Bar Association in 2003. In 2012, she was the first African American female president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and in 2015 she became the first African American president of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey. In her law practice at Kaufman Dolowich, Walker handles business, commercial, employment, toxic tort and products liability litigation for Fortune 500 corporations as well as other publicly and privately held corporations, financial institutions, entertainers and insurance companies.