RumbergerKirk Partner Rebecca Beers Steps Into Leadership of the Birmingham Bar Association
RumbergerKirk Partner Rebecca Beers Steps Into Leadership of the Birmingham Bar Association
Beers will focus her year’s programming on celebrating and supporting the Birmingham legal community, highlighting Birmingham lawyers’ leadership, service, and inspiration within their field and beyond.
BIRMINGHAM, AL, December 16, 2025 —In a ceremony on Friday, December 12, Birmingham-based Partner Rebecca Beers became the President of the Birmingham Bar Association after many years of service in the organization. Newly elected members to the bar leadership team were also announced and include President-Elect Leslie Rubio of Rubio Law Firm, Secretary/Treasurer Virginia Miller of Anderson Miller, and new Executive Committee members Denzel Okinedo, Ben Goldman, Darius Crayton, and Brandy Robertson.
Rebecca has held leadership roles with the Birmingham Bar Association for 12 years, previously serving as the Secretary-Treasurer, a member of the Executive Committee, and various leadership positions in the bar’s Young Lawyers Section, including president. Rebecca has also served in leadership roles and on a number of committees, including as Chair of the Court Liaison Committee and as a member of the Grievance, Nominating, and Membership committees. Known for her commitment to professional excellence, mentorship, and service to the legal community, Rebecca brings a strong vision to the Birmingham Bar Association’s mission and to supporting its members. She points to her work as a law clerk for a federal judge in Birmingham as an early influence that inspired her to get involved in the bar.
“I’m honored and humbled to lead the bar in 2026, and I look forward to working alongside the other attorneys in leadership in the year ahead. The theme for the year will be ‘We Lead, We Serve, We Inspire,’ as a way to highlight the key role attorneys and the legal industry have played in our city’s history while also equipping members with the skills and education they need to influence the future,” Rebecca said.
In this new role, she will oversee key initiatives aimed at highlighting Birmingham’s history of legal leaders, serving members, maintaining strong bonds between the local bench and bar, expanding community outreach, promoting ethical practice, and strengthening professional development for members.
For example, ahead of the Jefferson County judicial elections in 2026, the bar will host a candidate forum to allow members the opportunity to learn each candidate’s platform and thereafter facilitate and issue results of a Bar Poll on judicial candidate qualifications to educate the Jefferson County public on the judicial candidates for office. The bar will also place in each Birmingham City High School a lawyer and/or judge alumni of that school to serve as a source of inspiration and information for high school students about career opportunities in the legal field. The bar will also continue to support and facilitate its signature mock trial program, “Students Today Lawyers Tomorrow,” which provides mock trial opportunities to Birmingham City School students, inspiring the future of the profession.
Rebecca said the opportunity to reach the students is one of the things she is most looking forward to in 2026.
“Rebecca has consistently demonstrated a deep commitment to service, mentorship, and professional excellence. Her leadership of the Birmingham Bar Association reflects both her dedication to the profession and her investment in the Birmingham community,” said RumbergerKirk Managing Partner Frank Sheppard.
“The Birmingham bar is filled with amazing people who have done significant things for our community, state, and country. Leading this historic group is humbling to me and an incredible opportunity. So many outstanding lawyers and people have gone before me, and it is an honor and a challenge to maintain the standard of excellence they have set,” Rebecca said.
She has previously been recognized by the Birmingham Business Journal on its Best of the Bar list in 2024, as one of its Top 40 Under 40 in 2020, and as a 2015 Rising Star Lawyer. She was a member of the 2023 class of Leadership Birmingham and also participated in the Alabama Leadership Initiative and the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum. She has been recognized by Mid-South Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in securities litigation and as a Top Attorney and Top Women Lawyer by B-Metro magazine.
Rebecca focuses her law practice on commercial litigation, with a special emphasis on serving and counseling clients in the securities and pest control industries. She earned her undergraduate degree from Birmingham-Southern College and her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law.
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