Article IX, Section 908 of the Bylaws establishes the position of the Unit County Governor. The Unit County Governor serves on the Board of Governors for a term of three years. The Unit County Governor must be a member of a Local Bar Association that has adopted the Unit Plan of Membership in the Association. Unit County Governors may not succeed themselves at the next two succeeding elections for Unit County Governor.
Beginning in 2004, the Unit County Governor will be appointed by the president of the Local Bar Association that is a Unit County with 1,500 or more members, having the greater number of Active Members. No Unit County having 1,500 or more members shall be eligible to appoint another Unit County Governor until all of such counties have had an appointment to that office.
Unit Counties having less than 1,500 members will select the Unit County Governor for the term that begins at the conclusion of the 2007 Annual Meeting and the Unit County Governor to be selected every six years thereafter.
This Unit County Governor shall be elected from nominees submitted by each Zone containing at least one Unit County having less than 1500 Members, by a majority vote cast by the president of those Unit Counties with each county being entitled to cast one vote and one additional vote for every one hundred Members of its Local Bar Association, as determined by the Secretary on December 1 of the year prior to the election. The Zone nominee shall be selected by the plurality of a vote of the presidents of each Unit County having less than 1500 Members within the Zone. The Secretary of the Association shall conduct the selection of nominees process and the Unit County Governor election which process shall begin no less than six months and shall be completed no less than four months prior to the Annual Meeting and the election shall be completed no less than two months prior thereto.
Unit County Governors
- 2022-2025 - Matthew M. Haar (Dauphin)
- 2019-2022 – Melinda C. Ghilardi (Lackawanna)
- 2016-2019 - Cheryl L. Young (Montgomery)
- 2013-2016 - James J. Ross (Beaver)
- 2010-2013 - Jessie L. Smith (Dauphin)
- 2007-2010 - Forest N. Myers (Franklin)
- 2004-2007 - Hon. Mason Avrigian, Sr. (Montgomery)