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For Immediate Release
June 26, 2017

 
Contact:  Laura Hoch
(202) 637-7661 / laura@lgbtbar.org

 
Timothy Hailes Elected Sheriff of City of London
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Timothy Hailes, Managing Director & Associate General Counsel at JP Morgan and patron of InterLaw Diversity Forum, has been elected Sheriff of the City of London in a ceremony held in Guildhall today.  Sheriff-Elect Hailes is the first openly gay man to hold the office.

Sheriff-Elect Hailes will serve as Sheriff for one year commencing from 28 September. He is the City of London Alderman for the Ward of Bassishaw and a magistrate on the Central London bench. In addition to being a Patron of the InterLaw Diversity Forum, Sheriff-Elect Hailes is a long-standing supporter of the LGBT equality charity, Stonewall, as well as the Albert Kennedy Trust, which supports homeless and at risk LGBT youth.

“We are very proud to see our Patron, Alderman Hailes, rise to the level of Sheriff-Elect in the City of London”, said Daniel Winterfeldt, Founder & Chair of the InterLaw Diversity Forum and Partner, Global Capital Markets & Senior Diversity & Inclusion Advisor . “Sheriff-Elect has been a leader not only in the City of London but also in the LGBT community and instrumental to the founding and success of the InterLaw Diversity Forum.”

“The National LGBT Bar was proud to award Sheriff-Elect Hailes with our Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award in 2012 in a ceremony in London held along with the InterLaw Diversity Forum”, said Executive Director D’Arcy Kemnitz, Esq., “Our Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award gives LGBT legal professionals and their straight allies the opportunity to honour distinguished colleagues who have worked hard to increase LGBT diversity awareness in the corporate office and in the community.  We are delighted to see Sheriff-Elect Hailes continue to be a role model for the legal sector and the LGBT community.”

Upon his acceptance speech at Guildhall, Hailes said: “In an age increasingly defined in messages of less than 140 characters, the old distinctions between Left and Right have been replaced by that between the ‘Haves and Have Nots’, and the young and the old, with those with and without higher education. I have gained some perspective about how the two different worlds – those inside and outside of the Square Mile – interconnect and overlap and perhaps, an understanding of how, and why, we can work for the betterment of them all. As well as reinforcing old friendships, we need to foster new relationships for the new digital age and establish new connections. We must also demonstrate that integrity and trust are the bedrock of our civic government and community.”

Every year, the City of London Corporation elects two Sheriffs. One - or sometimes, both of them - will be an Aldermanic Sheriff, who may later seek to serve as Lord Mayor of the City of London. The Sheriffs support the Lord Mayor in his or her civic duties and serve as ambassadors for the UK-based financial and professional services industry, at home and abroad, by promoting the UK as a place in which to do business.  They also support Her Majesty’s Judges at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) in promoting the importance of the English rule of law to businessmen, diplomats, charities, the City Livery, leading arts figures, and school children. The Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey), where the Sheriffs work and reside, is recognised as the most famous criminal court in the world and is owned and managed by the City of London Corporation.


The National LGBT Bar Association is a national association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliated lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal organizations. The association promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBT community in all its diversity.
 

The InterLaw Diversity Forum currently has more than 3,000 members from over 70 law firms and 45 corporates and financial institutions. In addition to its monthly LGBT and BAME meetings, the InterLaw Diversity Forum engages in charitable work, manages its Apollo Project with the Financial Times, conducts research into the legal profession, and runs its Purple Reign project.  The Purple Reign project was launched in 2014 at Mansion House, hosted by the Lord Major of London, Dame Fiona Woolf DBE. It was the first ever LGBT event held at Mansion House, and the first LGBT event ever hosted by a Lord Mayor. For additional information please contact Daniel Winterfeldt at dwinterfeldt@reedsmith.com or admin@interlawdiversityforum.org.

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