He and his wife Camille have two daughters and expect a third in October. They grow grapes on a small vineyard and produce about 30-40 cases a year. A UCSB graduate, Brandt still tries to surf once a month. The State Bar is at a crossroads, and the coming year offers an opportunity to make substantive changes and respond to critics, says James Herman. The great challenge of rebuilding the State Bar is to bring the membership back into the fold.
Multidicsiplinary practice is inevitable.
Herman is married to Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Denise de Bellefeuille. Patrick R. Dixon has spent nearly 25 years in the Los Angeles district attorney's office, with more than 10 years as assistant head of its major crimes division. He also has a long list of bar activities on his resume, ranging from a stint on the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation to chairing the committee of bar examiners. In his race to represent one of the two offices in the bar's Los Angeles district, he won the endorsement of the influential Breakfast Club, which for more than 30 years has backed successful candidates for the board of governors. In light of the bar's financial problems during the past two years, Dixon believes the organization needs to return to fundamentals.