Servant of Justice Honorees

2018

Thomas C. Papson
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

Abid Riaz Qureshi
Latham & Watkins LLP

2017

Vanita Gupta
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

2016

Marian Wright Edelman
Children’s Defense Fund

Thomas S. Williamson, Jr.
Covington & Burling LLP

2015

Wade Henderson
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Philip W. Horton
Arnold & Porter LLP

2014

Barbara McDowell, posthumously
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

Donald P. Salzman
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2013

John Payton, Posthumously
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

Paul M. Smith
Jenner & Block LLP

2012

Susan M. Hoffman
Crowell & Moring LLP

James vanR. Springer
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

2011

Brooksley E. Born
Arnold & Porter LLP

Thomas E. Perez
Civil Rights Division of the
United States Department of Justice

2010

Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

Florence Wagman Roisman
Indiana School of Law – Indianapolis

2009

Anthony Herman
Covington & Burling LLP

Dean Kurt L. Schmoke
Howard University School of Law

2008

Richard L. Roe
Georgetown University Law Center

Seth P. Waxman
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP

2007

E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
Hogan & Hartson

Sidney White Rhyne

2006

Theodore A. Howard
Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP

David A Reiser
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

2005

Katherine S. Broderick
University of the District of Columbia
David A. Clarke School of Law

Andrew H. Marks
Crowell & Moring LLP

2004

Lois G. Williams

R. Sargent Shriver

E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr.

Edgar S. Cahn

Jean Camper Cahn, posthumously