Dianne Sweeney, a partner in Pillsbury’s litigation practice in Silicon Valley, has been announced as the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s president-elect for 2013. Sweeney will automatically assume the office of president in 2014.

Sweeney first joined the Santa Clara County Bar in 1996, where she has practiced law since. Her practice focuses on complex business, tax and intellectual property litigation.

She is a graduate of the Santa Clara School of Law and has served on multiple bar association committees, and is a member of the bar’s board of trustees.