Deadline is today for nominations for this years Stevens Awards

Today, August 11, is the deadline for nominations to be submitted to the Chicago Bar Association for this year's Justice John Paul Stevens Award. Established in 2000, the award is presented annually to Illinois lawyers and judges whose careers, in the CBA's view, "best emulate Justice Stevens’ integrity, legacy of service to the bench and the bar, and commitment to public and community service." This year's award presentation will be made in the Fall.

Nominations with supporting materials or information should be sent to the Justice John Paul Stevens Award Committee c/o Beth McMeen, the CBA Executive Director at bmcmeen@chicagobar.org.

Here is a list of past Justice Stevens Award honorees:

• 2022 - Hon. Arnette R. Hubbard, Hon. Thomas R. Mulroy (Ret.), Steven F. Pflaum, Lowell Sachnoff, and Sandra S. Yamate;
• 2021 - Karina Ayala-Bermejo, Anne L. Fredd, Chief Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, Larry Suffredin, and Hon. James E. Snyder;
• 2020 - Marisel Hernandez, Jennifer Nijman, Terrence Murphy, Zaldwaynaka (Z) Scott and Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr.;
• 2019 - Hon. Sharon Johnson Coleman, Hon. Lori E. Lightfoot, Hon. William D. Maddux (ret.), Hon. Sheila M. Murphy (ret.), Joseph A. Power, Jr. and Mark L. Rotert;
• 2018 - Laurel G. Bellows, Carol A. Brook, Kevin P. Durkin, John N. Gallo, Terri L. Mascherin, Hon. P. Scott Neville, Jr., Hon. Jesse G. Reyes, Hon. Mary K. Rochford, and Tina Tchen;
• 2017 - Hon. Ruben Castillo, Robert A. Clifford, Hon. Nathaniel R. Howse, Jr., Hon. Joan Humphrey Lefkow, Richard J. Prendergast, Larry R. Rogers, Sr., Ronald S. Safer, Hon. Mary Jane Theis, and Dan K. Webb;
• 2016 - George B. Collins, Brian L. Crowe, Thomas A. Demetrio, Thomas Anthony Durkin, J. Timothy Eaton, Josie M. Gough, Joan M. Hall, Eileen M. Letts, and Joseph L. Stone;
• 2015 - Peter J. Birnbaum, James R. Figliulo, Edward I. Grossman, Hon. Shelvin Louise Marie Hall, Paula H. Holderman, Mary Meg McCarthy, Daniel E. Reidy and William A. Von Hoene, Jr.;
• 2014 - Kimball R. Anderson, Hon. Joy V. Cunningham, Kevin M. Forde, Hon. Michael B. Hyman, Hon. Thomas L. Kilbride, Jean Powers Kamp, Gordon B. Nash Jr., and Kerry R. Peck;
• 2013 - William F. Conlon, Hon. William H. Hooks, Hon. Warren D. Wolfson, and Hon. Diane P. Wood;
• 2012 - Anita Alvarez, Jeffrey D. Colman, Honorable Joan B. Gottschall, Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr., Hon. James F. Holderman and Willie J. Miller, Jr.;
• 2011 - Ellen E. Douglass, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, and David C. Hilliard;
• 2010 - Hon. Wayne R. Andersen and Hon. Sophia H. Hall;
• 2009 - Hon. Marvin E. Aspen, Lawrence E. Kennon, Terence F. MacCarthy and Howard J. Trienens;
• 2008 - Hon. Thomas R. Fitzgerald, John B. Simon and Hon. Ann C. Williams;
• 2007 - Leon M. Despres, James D. Montgomery, Sheldon H. Roodman and Sister Catherine M. Ryan;
• 2006 - Hon. Anne M. Burke, Donald Hubert, Hon. Charles P. Kocoras and Thomas H. Morsch;
• 2005 - George M. Burditt, Hon. Timothy C. Evans, Hon. Abner J. Mikva and Hon. Ilana Diamond Rovner;
• 2004 - Martha A. Mills, George W. Overton and Hon. Seymour F. Simon;
• 2003 - Hon. Joel M. Flaum, Hon. Earl E. Strayhorn and Hon. James R. Thompson;
• 2002 - George J. Cotsirilos, Hon. Mary Ann G. McMorrow and Newton N. Minow;
• 2001 - Hon. Richard J. Fitzgerald, Dolores K. Hanna, Robert A. Helman, Hon. Prentice H. Marshall, Earl L. Neal and Alexander Polikoff;
• 2000 - Jean Allard, Hon. William J. Bauer, Philip H. Corboy, Milton H. Gray, Hon. George N. Leighton, Dawn Clark Netsch, Jerold S. Solovy and Thomas P. Sullivan.