Board of Continuing Legal Education

(a) Appointment. — The Wyoming Supreme Court shall appoint, upon the advice of the president of the Wyoming State Bar, a Board of Continuing Legal Education, consisting of nine members, six of whom shall be members of the Wyoming State Bar with at least five years experience in the active practice of law and three of whom shall be non-attorneys. (b) Terms. — Each member of the Board shall serve a three-year term. Terms shall be on a calendar-year basis and shall be staggered so that three members are appointed each year. Attorneys must succeed attorneys and non-attorneys must succeed non-attorneys on the Board. If a member does not complete a term, the Court shall appoint another person to complete that term. No member shall serve for more than two consecutive terms. (c) Governance. — Each year the Board shall designate one of the lawyer members to serve as Chair and a second as Vice Chair to act in the absence or unavailability of the Chair. The executive director of the Wyoming State Bar, or designee, shall serve as the executive secretary of the Board. (d) Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. (e) The Board shall act only upon concurrence of a majority of a quorum. (f) The Board has general supervisory authority over the administration of these rules. (g) All communications to or with the Board or any member thereof relating to matters governed by these rules, and all communications with either the Board or any member thereof relating to waiver of any part of these rules, whether by an attorney or by any person or agent acting for or on behalf of an attorney, shall be transmitted through the office of the Wyoming State Bar unless otherwise directed in writing by the chair of the Board. (h) All proceedings of the Board relating to applications for waivers or extensions under Rule 7 shall be confidential. (i) Members of the Board shall be entitled to reimbursement for reasonable 3