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Show Cahoon reelected to board Utah in 1983, the foundation has distributed more than $500,000. Cahoon believes the foundation is an especially effective tool in improving im-proving relations between the public pub-lic and the bar. "I've always felt we as members of the legal profession have a responsibility to provide public service ser-vice to people of the state of Utah,' Cahoon said. "If every member of the Utah State Bar would participate par-ticipate in the IOLTA program, we would be able to increase our charitable chari-table assistance threefold." Currently, about half of the state bar members belong to the IOLTA program. As a tax and estate planning specialist, Cahoon is an alumnus of the University of Utah Law School. He earned his L.L.M. (in taxation) from New York University in 1966, and was admitted to the Utah bar in 1965. He has served as law clerk to the chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court and as a city councilman coun-cilman in Centerville. In addition to his duties with the Utah Bar Foundation, Cahoon is currently a member of the Snow College Development and Community Com-munity Relations Committee; the American Bar Association; and the Taxation, Probate and Estate Planning Plan-ning section of the Utah State Bar. r Centerville resident, Richard C. i Cahoon, has been re-elected to the I board of trustees of the Utah Bar Foundation, a charitable non-profit f organization established by the t Utah Bar Association. Cahoon is a I partner in the Salt Lake law firm of Marsden, Orton and Cahoon. i As a trustee, Cahoon has also ! been elected president of the foun-l foun-l dation. This marks his fourth con- secutive re-election to the founda-l founda-l lion's seven-member board of trustees, and continues a 10-year history of his presidency. Cahoon's fnew term of office began in July t and will continue for three years. I The foundation, through its Inter- est on Lawyer's Trust Account pro-l pro-l gram (IOLTA), uses its funds to L assist in providing legal services to r the disadvantaged, to improve the f administration of justice, and to I promote legal education and "awareness of the law in the com-munity. com-munity. 1 During the past decade, the foun-1 foun-1 dation has grown to become an organization with a total income of approximately $250,000 a year, j Much of that is disbursed to pro- mote or support worthwhile,' law-J law-J related public purposes. Since the MOLT A program was adopted in |
