Rule 702. Board of Admissions to the Bar

Rule 702. Board of Admissions to the Bar

(a) The Board of Admissions to the Bar shall oversee the administration of all aspects of bar

admissions in this State including the character and fitness process. The Board shall consist of

seven members of the bar, appointed by the Supreme Court to serve staggered terms of three years.

Each member shall serve until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified. No member

may be appointed to more than three full consecutive terms. In addition, the Supreme Court shall

appoint a dean of a law school located in Illinois as a nonvoting, ex officio member of the Board.

The law school dean ex officio member shall serve a single term of three years.

(b) A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum. A president and vice-president shall be

designated by the Supreme Court and may serve only one three-year term. A secretary and

treasurer shall be annually elected by the members of the board. One member may hold the office

of both secretary and treasurer.

(c) The Board shall appoint, with the approval of the Supreme Court, a Director of

Administration to serve as the Board’s principal executive officer. The Director of Administration,

with the Board’s approval, may hire sufficient staff as necessary to assist the Board in fulfilling its

responsibilities.

(d) The Board shall audit annually the accounts of its treasurer and shall report to the Court at

each November term a detailed statement of its finances, together with such recommendations as

shall seem advisable. All fees paid to the Board in excess of its expenses shall be applied as the

Court may from time to time direct.

Amended June 12, 1992, effective July 1, 1992; amended December 30, 1993, effective January 1,

1994; amended Dec. 5, 2012, eff. Jan. 1, 2013; amended March 23, 2015, eff. July 1, 2015; amended

Nov. 18, 2016, eff. immediately; amended Sept. 14, 2018, eff. immediately.