Virginia Bar Association installs new officers

Published January 28, 2015 by Robert Powell, III

The Virginia Bar Association has  installed Harry M. “Pete” Johnson III as its 127th president.

Johnson is a partner in the Richmond office of Hunton & Williams LLP.

Three other officers of Virginia’s first and largest statewide voluntary organization of lawyers and judges also have begun
one-year terms:.

• James Patrick Guy II of Richmond as president-elect,
• David S. Mercer of Alexandria as chair of the Board of Governors, and
• John L. Walker III of Richmond as immediate past president.

Johnson focuses his practice on environmental litigation. A VBA member since 1989, he served as chair of the organization’s Young Lawyers Division in 1998 and as chair of the board of governors in 2013.

Johnson serves as co-chair of the VBA Pro Bono Committee and was instrumental in organizing the Chief Justice’s Pro Bono Summits in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Law.