California's state bar association announced Friday that its embattled leaders are facing increasing pressure to stand out in February's new bar exam, and he will resign in July.

Leah T. Wilson, the agency's executive director, told the board that she will not seek other terms in positions she holds and closes since 2017. She also apologized for her role in the chaos of bar exams in February.

"Accountability is the cornerstone principle for any leader," Wilson said in a statement.

"At the end of the day, I am responsible for everything that happens within the organization. Despite our best intentions, the applicant's experience with the February bar exam is simply unacceptable, and I fully recognize the frustration and stress that this experience has created. While there is no words to relieve these emotions, I do apologize sincerely."

Wilson's last day will be July 7.

Many testers in February urged Wilson to resign after the exam, critics said it was a hasty launch to save money and eventually plagued by technical failures and irregularities. Further controversy erupted last week when it became clear that national bars had multiple choices for the use of artificial intelligence.

The news of Wilson's departure comes on the day the tester plans to get his test scores in February.

But the result appears to have been postponed after the state bar association filed a rating adjustment to the exam with the California Supreme Court, and the petition also answered the court’s questions about how and why AI is used to ask multi-choice questions.

The State Bar Association filed a petition to the Supreme Court on Tuesday - testers are still in trouble, unsure when they will learn whether they pass or fail.

Since the collapse, state Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Tom Umbberg and many legal experts have called on the state bar association to abandon new issues and resume traditional testing formats in July — at least until the new issues and methods are fully tested.

On April 25, the dean of more than a dozen law schools received by the American Bar Association of California wrote to Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Patricia Guerrero, expressing “serious concerns about the fairness and effectiveness of the exam.” The President urged the court to release all 200 multi-choice questions from the February exam and return to the multi-stage bar exam using the NCBE for the multi-choice section of the next exam.

However, Wilson said Friday that California should eventually push its own bar exam.

“As the fourth largest economy in the world, California is right to conduct its own bar exams and, ultimately, the exams reflect the principles of innovation, excellence, equity and accessibility as Californians,” she said in a statement. “We won’t get there by turning backwards.”

Wilson first served as executive director in 2017, but briefly quit working for a consulting firm before returning in 2021. She has an additional review of her income – she earns an annual salary of $362,067 in 2023, plus a bonus of $59,968, a moment of struggling in state bars.

"Staying revenue and increasing staff costs," said California auditors in a recent state auditor. Report“In the past four of the past five years, it has brought its general fund a deficit.”

Still, Wilson said she was proud of her time at the state law firm, citing her efforts to make the organization a “excellent place of work”, which led to “strong employee engagement, positive union relations and historically low turnover.”

“For nearly a decade, I have had the honor of leading the state bar through a period of change,” Wilson said in a statement.

“I am proud to enhance and provide real solutions for the crisis of our state, truly committing to improving equity and inclusion in the industry and financially stabilizing the state attorneys,” Wilson added.

Brandon Stallings, the chairman of the board of directors of the State Bar Association, praised Wilson's leadership and noted that she played a key role in advancing many of the organization's key initiatives.

"The board recognizes the significant contribution Leah Wilson has made during his tenure, especially in a concerted effort to recognize and address racial disparities in the discipline system," Stallings said. "We understand and respect her decisions and we appreciate her service."