27th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner!
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Please join us next year for the 28th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner
April 25, 2017
The 27th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner
April 28, 2016
JW Marriott
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
6:00 pm – Opening Reception
7:15 pm – Dinner, Awards Program & Dessert Reception
Servant of Justice Award Honorees

Children’s Defense Fund
Presented by the Honorable Patricia M. Wald
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Retired)

Presented by Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Covington & Burling LLP
Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence Honoree
Brendan Carroll
Alston & Bird LLP
Presented by Arlene Fine Klepper
2016 Servant of Justice Awards Dinner Sponsors
Support Legal Aid’s 2016 Servant of Justice Awards Dinner – see sponsorship opportunities here. Legal Aid expresses its deepest appreciation to the generous law firm and corporate sponsors of its 27th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner.
Champion of Justice



Leader of Justice



Defender of Justice
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Arent Fox LLP
Gilbert LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Guardian of Justice
Arnold & Porter LLP
Dentons US LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz LLP
Advocate of Justice
Bailey & Glasser LLP
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Blank Rome LLP
BuckleySandler LLP
Cooley LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Jones Day
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Northrop Grumman Corporation
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
The Steptoe Foundation
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Venable LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wiley Rein LLP
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Steward of Justice
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Citi Private Bank
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Cushman & Wakefield
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Ernst & Young, LLP
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Katz Marshall & Banks, LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Martin and Arlene Klepper
Kutak Rock LLP
Miller & Chevalier Chartered
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC
Williams & Connolly LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
Dinner Co-Chairs
Michael E. Nannes
Blank Rome LLP
Jonice Gray Tucker
BuckleySandler LLP
Dinner Host Committee
Daniel G. Jarcho
Alston & Bird LLP
President, Board of Trustees
Sheila Cheston
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Kenneth Klein
Mayer Brown LLP
Vice President, Board of Trustees
Michael E. Nannes
Blank Rome LLP
Eric Angel
Legal Aid
Executive Director
Jonice Gray Tucker
BuckleySandler LLP
Dinner Steering Committee
Stephen D. Brody
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Graeme W. Bush
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Richard Byrne
ExxonMobil Pipeline Company
John T. Byrnes
Cooley LLP
Michael Calhoon
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Sheila Cheston
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Annemargaret Connolly
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Alan Dial
King & Spalding LLP
Nora Garrote
Venable LLP
Daniel G. Jarcho
Alston & Bird LLP
Jennifer Levy
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Alex Young K. Oh
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Deanne M. Ottaviano
Arent Fox LLP
Kimberly Parker
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Kurt Richter
Cushman & Wakefield
Peter D. Shields
Wiley Rein LLP
Peter S. Spivack
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Ronald J. Tenpas
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Peter Thomas
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Alon Vogel
ADG Strategy LLC
Catherine Ziobro
The Carlyle Group