International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Hulett Askew

Hulett H. (Bucky) Askew became the Consultant on Legal Education of the American Bar Association on September 1, 2006. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Office of Bar Admissions of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1990 to 2006. He also concurrently served as executive Director of Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism from 1990 to 1996. From 1983 to 1990, he was the Director of the Civil Division of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he worked for the Legal Services Corporation in Washington, D.C., from 1976 to 1983. Askew is a former member of the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and served for six years on the Section’s Accreditation Committee. He also has been a member of the Association’s standing committees on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, Professionalism and Professional Discipline. Askew received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964 and his J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1967; he was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1967.