Vice President/President Elect:
Benjamin Almoite:
Ben currents holds the position of librarian at the Virginia Supreme Court. He previously worked at Keller & Heckman as a reference librarian; at the Catholic University of America as an acquisitions assistant; and at the San Diego County Public Law Library as a branch assistant.
He received his BA from the University of California, San Diego, and his MS in Library Science from the Catholic University of America.
Ben has served on and chaired multiple VALL committees including the Colloborative Communications Committee, Membership Placement, and is currently serving as VALL Secretary.
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Treasurer:
Linda Tesar
Linda is the head of technical services at the College of William & Mary, Wolf Law Library.
She previously worked at Vanderbilt University, Alyne Queener Massey Law Library, where she was technical services/systems librarian for over 21 years.
Linda received her BA from Austin Peay State University; her MA & MLS from Vanderbilt University.
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Director:
Catherine Lemann
Cathy is the circuit librarian at the US Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.
Before coming to Virginia, she was state law librarian for the Alaska Court System. And previous to that she was associate director of the Law Library of Louisiana.
She received her BA from Carleton College, her JD from Tulane University Law School and her MLIS from Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Cathy was secretary of the American Association of Law Libraries from 2002 - 2005, and was president of AALL from 2009 - 2010.
