Darin Scheer Elected Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners

MADISON, WISCONSIN, September 5, 2024 — Darin Scheer has been elected Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). NCBE develops the licensing tests used by most states for admission to the bar.

Scheer is employed as Senior Counsel at Crowley Fleck PLLP, a regional law firm with offices throughout Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota, where he works on large-scale natural resources transactional and litigation matters. He has served on the Wyoming Board of Law Examiners since 2014, serving as Chair from 2017 to 2018. He has served on NCBE’s Board of Trustees since 2017, during which time he has led or been a member of several NCBE committees, including the Multistate Essay Examination/Multistate Performance Test Committee, the Special Committee on the Uniform Bar Examination, and the Multistate Bar Exam Committee.   

Scheer also served multiple terms as the Wyoming State Bar Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates and he is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In his local community of Farson, Wyoming, he is a past member of the School Advisory Board and he has served as a volunteer firefighter since 2007. 

Scheer received his BS from the University of Wyoming with honors, and his JD from the University of Washington School of Law with honors. Following law school, he was a law clerk for Justice Richard Sanders of the Washington Supreme Court. 

“I am deeply honored to serve as NCBE Chair and am excited about the year ahead,” said Scheer. “I look forward to working closely with NCBE’s dedicated leadership and staff and the tremendous group of volunteers who comprise NCBE’s numerous committees. It is a dynamic time in the legal profession. I couldn’t be prouder to be involved in NCBE’s mission of promoting fairness, integrity, and best practices in bar admissions. This includes the continued development of the NextGen bar examination, which is on schedule for first administration in July of 2026.”

About the National Conference of Bar Examiners

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1931. NCBE promotes fairness, integrity, and best practices in bar admissions for the benefit and protection of the public, in pursuit of its vision of a competent, ethical, and diverse legal profession. Best known for developing bar exam content used by 54 US jurisdictions, NCBE serves admission authorities, courts, the legal education community, and candidates by providing high-quality assessment products, services, and research; character investigations; and informational and educational resources and programs. In 2026, NCBE will launch the next generation of the bar examination, ensuring that the exam continues to test the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for competent entry-level legal practice in a changing profession. For more information, visit the NCBE website at https://www.ncbex.org.