Clifford E. Haines, president of the Philadelphia law firm of Haines & Associates, is the president-elect of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

A former Zone One Governor representing Philadelphia lawyers on the PBA Board of Governors, Haines currently serves in the PBA House of Delegates and as a Pennsylvania delegate in the American Bar Association House of Delegates. A former chair of the PABAR-PAC, Haines is the co-chair of the PBA Long Range Planning/Strategic Goals Committee and the PBA Planning Committee. He is a director of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Haines is a former chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a former chair and current member of the board of directors of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts.

Haines is a Senate-approved board member of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and serves on the board of directors of the Philadelphia Opera Company.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Muskingum College and a juris doctorate from the Ohio State University School of Law.

Haines and his wife, Julia, reside in Philadelphia with their two children.