Friday, March 29, 2024

Pateros Chamber welcomes guest speakers Majors, Noma

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PATEROS – Despite an agenda of topics worthy of attention, including the new Pateros sign still under construction and the city’s first major event of the spring, the April 1 Easter Egg Hunt, the Paterps Chamber of Commerce lacked the necessary voting quorum of members at its regular monthly meeting, Feb. 1, so the floor was turned over to the morning’s guest speakers.
Chris Majors, Business Development Coordinator for Three Rivers Hospital, addressed the group on the topic: How to use Facebook to build your business.
Majors designed and maintains the website for the Three Rivers Hospital Foundation and shared his expertise with the Chamber that is looking for more ways to spread its message of community activism and recruit more members from the business community.
Arian Noma, the newest member of the legal team at Thomason Law and Justice introduced himself to Chamber members and spoke about his new position at the Thomason Pateros office.
According to his profile on the website www.thomasonjustice.com, Noma is a litigator who represents his clients in immigration, criminal, family law, and business disputes, and by his record, a good one who has not lost a jury trial since May 2017.
Noma is a University of Washington graduate who was a general and special education teacher in the Washington, D.C. area before earning his Juris Doctor from the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. By his second year of law school, Arian was working as a Rule 9 attorney in the D.C. Superior Court specializing in child custody, guardianship, and social security.
Following graduation, Noma clerked for the Honorable Judge Sheryl M. Long and practiced family law for a year prior to joining the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office.
Noma joined the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office in 2007 where he prosecuted a range of felonies and misdemeanors from armed robbery to trespass during his four-year tenure.
Noma left public service to form the Noma Firm and focused on immigration, criminal and litigation issues. He assisted small business in contract, liability, real estate, and personal injury matters.
With roots in rural Mississippi, Noma is a descendant of the American melting pot with a heritage linked to Native American, slave, and immigrant traditions. He chose to settle in the Okanogan Valley out of his love for this small community and its diverse citizenry.
Noma met the love of his life, Kenita, while she was a criminal investigator for the Criminal Justice Act Panel, and convinced her to move from Maryland to Pateros, where they now raise their family.
 

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