Cincinnati, OH – Paige Leigh Ellerman, attorney of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, has been appointed secretary of the Young Lawyers Section for the Cincinnati Bar Association.

Ellerman, an associate in the Litigation Department and of the Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Rights Practice Group, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky, graduating cum laude and obtained her law degree from Salmon P. Chase College of Law, graduating with magna cum laude honors. Ms. Ellerman served as editor in chief of the Northern Kentucky Law Review during law school, and was a member of the Moot Court Board, and the Order of the Curia and is a graduate of the 2005 Leadership Northern Kentucky Program sponsored by the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

Ellerman, a resident of Newport, Kentucky, serves as president-elect of the Salmon P. Chase College of Law Alumni Association Board of Governors and is the immediate past president of The Yearlings, Inc. Ms. Ellerman is a member of the St. Elizabeth Medical Center Foundation and was selected by Cincinnati Magazine as a 2005 Super Lawyers Rising Star and was also selected as a 2006 Ohio Rising Star by Law & Politics and Cincinnati Magazine.

Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Northern Kentucky. The firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.