In a run-off election, Thomas Prol was elected second vice president of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Ballots were cast by 3,584 association members and Prol won by only 139 votes. The election was contentious, with officers and former officers taking active positions in the campaign both for and against Prol, an officer and long-time trustee of the Association and trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation.
The fact that Prol took a legal position and worked in New York, and was believed to live there, constituted the stated basis for concern. It led the Nominating Committee to pass him by in the State Bar's otherwise normal line of succession to the presidency. It led further to an amendment of the association's bylaws. There was also concern expressed by some members that Prol's acknowledged gay lifestyle had impact on the nomination process.
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