PROGRAM WELCOME HONORABLE ARNETTE R. HUBBARD INVOCATION CHAPLAIN BENNETT GLORY WÉ MCDONALD PRESIDENTIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ALFREDA ROBINSON, 77TH PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION ENTERTAINMENT HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS WÉ MCDONALD AWARDS PRESENTATION EQUAL JUSTICE AWARD VINCE MONROE TOWNSEND, JR. LEGENDS AWARD CLYDE E. BAILEY CORPORATE LEADERSHIP AWARD JOSEPH H. HAIRSTON AWARD SANKOFA AWARD NBA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RONALD HARMON BROWN AWARD OF INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTION CORA T. WALKER CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP AWARD C. FRANCIS STRADFORD AWARD PRESIDENT'S EPILOGUE ALFREDA ROBINSON, 77TH PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION REMARKS AND PRAYER REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON, SR. INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS & THE 78TH PRESIDENT HON. PEGGY A. QUINCE INTRODUCTION OF THE 78TH PRESIDENT PAST PRESIDENT KIM KEENAN REMARKS BY THE 78TH PRESIDENT PRESIDENT C.K. HOFFLER BENEDICTION SONJA BROWN
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2020 ANNUAL AWARDS GALA WINNERS!
EQUAL JUSTICE AWARD A. SCOTT BOLDEN A. Scott Bolden is the current managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office and former At-Large Member on the Executive Committee of the firm. As a prominent trial and white collar defense lawyer to whom companies and individuals turn for representation in their most significant concerns, Scott has handled some of the most high-profile matters in and outside the nation’s capital and is very comfortable handling matters on the national stage. He is particularly adept at assisting clients in navigating crises that present significant legal, business and reputational risks. As part of his multifaceted litigation practice, Scott has defended clients in local and federal courts in connection with civil RICO claims; fraud, including health care fraud, and breach of contract; False Claims Act violations; education matters; government contract claims and disputes; tort claims; and other commercial and regulatory litigation issues. With respect to his white collar criminal defense practice, Scott has defended individuals and corporate clients in state and federal trials and grand jury proceedings in connection with money laundering, federal and state tax fraud, bank fraud, financial structuring, and other white collar criminal issues; conducted internal investigations for major public and private corporations; conducted SEC investigations and prosecutions, as well as corporate compliance with the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; and defended witnesses in depositions before House and Senate investigation committees. For his work in defending his clients, Scott was recognized by his alma mater, Howard University, with the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award in the Field of Law. Scott has also been inducted into the Washington Bar Association Hall of Fame, been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in law and business by Savoy magazine and the American Business Journals, and Rainmaker of Year by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association - all in 2018. He is also a former recipient of the Washington Business Journal's Top Lawyer in the White Collar Crime category, while The Washington Post, following a significant court victory, declared Scott, Washington's newest "super lawyer" and the "go to lawyer" for individuals and corporations with issues against and before the federal and local governments.
VINCENT MONROE TOWNSEND, JR. LEGENDS AWARD BENJAMIN F. WILSON Benjamin F. Wilson is the Chairman of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., a topranked law firm focused on environmental and natural resource law and litigation. He represents major corporations, developers, and municipalities in complex litigation matters involving Clean Water Act enforcement, wetlands development, Superfund and environmental justice matters. He served as the Court-Appointed Monitor for the Duke Energy coal ash spill remediation project and serves as Deputy Monitor for Emissions & Environmental in the Volkswagen AG emissions proceedings. A tireless advocate for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, in 2020, Mr. Wilson was inducted into the Washington Bar Association’s Hall of Fame, awarded the Cora T. Walker Award from the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section, and featured in the National Law Journal’s cover story 'The Vanguard and the Vision.' In 2019, he received the National Bar Association’s Presidential Award, and in 2018 NAWL’s Lead by Example Award and the UNCF’s MASKED Award. He founded and leads the African American General Counsel and Managing Partner Networks and Diverse Partners Network. Mr. Wilson graduated from Dartmouth College and from Harvard Law School. He has served as Chairman of the Environmental Law Institute since 2016. Mr. Wilson serves on the Board of Directors of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and of PG&E Corporation. He previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College and the Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Wilson is also an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Law at the Howard University School of Law.
CLYDE E. BAILEY CORPORATE LEADERSHIP AWARD PAST PRESIDENT KIM KEENAN Kim Keenan is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia School of Law and a former member of the University of Virginia Law Alumni Council. After law school, she served as law clerk to the Honorable John Garrett Penn in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She is currently the principal of the Keenan Firm in Washington, D.C. where her practice has focused on complex medical malpractice litigation, litigation consulting, and public speaking. Prior to that, she served in the litigation practices of two nationally recognized law firms for more than eighteen years. She was recently honored as a Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer and one of the Top 50 Women in Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers by Law & Politics Magazine and a Top Lawyer by Washingtonian Magazine. In May 2007, the Women’s Bar Association named her “Woman Lawyer of the Year” for her contributions to the profession. Ms. Keenan uses teaching as an opportunity to mentor young professionals. As an adjunct faculty member at GW, she co-teaches pre-trial advocacy and trial advocacy. In 2007, she was selected to teach on the faculty of the National Trial College for the University of Virginia School of Law. For the past ten years, she has been the civil procedure lecturer for the Charles Hamilton Houston Law Preparatory Course at Georgetown University Law Center. She is a nationally recognized lecturer on various legal topics and has spoken to numerous organizations including the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now known as the American Association for Justice), the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Maryland State Bar Conference of Bar Presidents. Ms. Keenan was regularly featured on the first season of Fox’s “Power of Attorney” television show. She has been a commentator for Fox News and has appeared on Fox’s legal program “Dayside.” In July 2003, she served as a guest host on CNN’s Sunday Morning Legal Show “Attorney-At-Law.” She has also appeared on C-SPAN, Court TV, Fox News and numerous radio programs.
JOSEPH H. HAIRSTON AWARD JIM JONES
CONGRATULATIONS JIM JONES!
SANKOFA AWARDS PAST PRESIDENT PATRICIA M. ROSIER CONGRATULATIONS PAST PRESIDENT PATRICIA M. ROSIER!
SANKOFA AWARDS TAA R. GRAYS Taa R. Grays is Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Information Governance – MetLife Legal Affairs. As the lead of Information Governance, Taa is responsible for the strategic management of MetLife’s global Information Lifecycle Management Program. She leads a team that develops, implements and manages the Information Governance strategic plan. The team, partnership with the Lines of Business and Corporate Functions, embed and drive the Program throughout MetLife. She provides strategic leadership for all aspects of the ILM program, including strategic direction, management of corporate ILM policies, processes, procedures, standards, and tools, and deployment of ILM principles throughout the global enterprise. She collaborates with IT, Legal Affairs, Risk Management, Audit, Global Technology and Operations, and all the Lines of Businesses and various other stakeholders to deliver ILM requirements and compliance strategies for ILM to minimize potential risks. Prior to this role, Taa served as the Chief of Staff to the General Counsel since 2010. She worked closely with the General Counsel and his leadership team to identify, develop, communicate and execute Legal Affairs’ initiatives. She collaborated and coordinated with the Legal Affairs leadership on project planning, management and accountability to ensure the timely completion of Enterprise and Legal Affairs deliverables and to champion various departmental initiatives. She also managed a staff of 140 associates that provides operational support to the Department, including but not limited to: project management, technology portfolio management and training support, communications, records management, finance management and analytical support, knowledge management, office services, and administrative and paralegal support. She also chaired the Legal Affairs’ Diversity Committee and the Technology Governance Committee, and was an Executive Member of The Academy, Legal Affairs’ training committee. Taa started with MetLife in 2003 in the Litigation Section. As a litigator, her practice consisted of handling various federal and state lawsuits and regulatory complaints stemming from MetLife’s US Business and Investment activities. She also coordinated and oversaw MetLife’s e-discovery responses to regulatory, pre-litigation and litigation matters as the eDiscovery Counsel and led a cross-functional team that managed MetLife’s discovery obligations. Prior to MetLife, Taa was an Assistant District Attorney with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office in its Rackets Bureau for five and half years. She investigated and prosecuted felony and misdemeanor crimes committed by public officials and organized crime groups from the filing of the initial complaint to indictment and trial. Taa has been recognized as one of 100 Leading Women Lawyers in NY by Crain’s New York Business in 2017, a Visionary Leader in Litigation by Inside Counsel in 2016, among the Most Influential Black Lawyer in 2015, and R3 – 100: Ready to Rise to become a general counsel in 2013 and 2015. Taa is very active in the legal community. The New York City Bar Association recognized her as a Diversity Champion in 2015. The Metropolitan Black Bar Association recognized her dedication and leadership to the bar in 2010 by honoring her with its inaugural Bar Leaders of the Year Award. The New York State Bar Association also recognized Taa for her commitment to diversity in 2003 by honoring her with its Diversity Trailblazer Award. She received her A.B. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
NBA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD THE HONORABLE ARNETTE R. HUBBARD As lawyer, public official, and now civil court judge, Judge Arnette Hubbard has repeatedly demonstrated her commitment to the American way of life and her sensitivity to the people who serve and protect it. She is aware of the weighty responsibilities which accompany citizenship in a democracy. Judge Hubbard fostered the creation of the “Illinois Commission on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education,” a statewide body established by an Act of the Illinois General Assembly and served as its vice-chair. The Commission’s inaugural event re-enacting and commemorating the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown was live cast to all Illinois public schools as well as via PBS stations and the internet. Internationally, Arnette Hubbard was as an official monitor of the historic elections in South Africa in 1994 in which Mr. Nelson Mandela won the presidency. In 1995 she was appointed to President Bill Clinton’s U.S. Presidential Observer Delegation for the Parliamentary and Local Elections in Haiti wherein former President Jean Bertram Aristide regained the presidency. She has participated in legal symposiums in Europe and other parts of the globe. Arnette Hubbard was a member of Chicago’s first Cable Commission. Subsequently, Hubbard was appointed to three consecutive three-year terms as Commissioner/Secretary of the Chicago Board of Elections. Hubbard left the election board in 1997 to accept appointment by Illinois Supreme Court Justice to fill a judicial vacancy. Hubbard was elected judge in a countywide contested election in 1998. She has served continuously to date and presides over civil jury trials in the Law division of the Circuit Court in Chicago. Judge Hubbard’s positions in volunteer and professional organizations include National Bar Association, president; Cook County Bar Association, president; Association of Election Commission Officials of Illinois, president/three terms; Southern Illinois University Alumni Association, president; American Law Institute, elected member; the Illinois Supreme Court Committee for evaluating applicants to the state bar, three terms. Hubbard’s years of service on boards and committees of numerous civic and professional groups reflect her conviction that volunteering is both an obligation and a privilege; that volunteer service improves the quality of life for a community, for a country. Voter education and participation has been a lifelong passion for Hubbard. As Co-Chair of Lawyers for Washington she was a part of the massive effort which resulted in the elections of Harold Washington as Mayor of Chicago. At the Board of Elections, Hubbard was central to citywide programs to educate and register high school and college students to vote. She developed “Desert FAX” to enable serviceperson engaged in military actions overseas to vote by FAX. She re-formatted and annotated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and served on the statewide Task Force created to help implement it. Arnette Hubbard received her Juris Doctor degree from The John Marshall Law School which honored her with its Distinguished Alumnus Citation. Her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Mathematics was earned from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale which bestowed on her it’s Distinguished Alumni Award and installed her as a member of the Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
RONALD HARMAN BROWN INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTION AWARD LEROY WILSON, JR. Leroy Wilson, Jr., is the remaining sole shareholder in the New York law firm of Wilson Jacobson, P.C., concentrating in Trusts and Estates Litigation, Estate Planning and Civil Litigation. Previously, he was in-house Counsel at IBM and Union Carbide Corp. He has extensive corporate and commercial law practice experience. He was the personal attorney to Godfrey L. Binaisa, the President of Uganda. In 1999, he was appointed as Acting Surrogate in Westchester County where he presided over a complicated contested accounting proceeding. Except for pending cases, he has closed his offices in White Plains, NY and has relocated to Botswana to offer legal, business and capacity-building consultancy services to businesspeople, African attorneys, and their clients in several African countries. His Botswana-based consulting company is authorized to operate under the name LWJR Legal & Business Consulting. Currently pending is his petition for admission to practice law in Botswana. In November 2013, he attended the Energy Africa Conference at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado which discussed how to supply the energy needs of Africa using the synergy between abundant undeveloped natural gas and renewable energy sources, such as wind, hydropower and solar energy needed for cooking, lighting, heating and communications. Mr. Wilson is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta (’62, class of 1961), where he earned a BS in Chemistry, and double departmental honors in chemistry and in mathematics. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He studied at the University of Vienna as a Merrill Scholar and received his MS in chemistry and his JD from the University of California at Berkeley. Governor Mario Cuomo appointed him as a public member of the New York State Banking Board, where he authored a regulation that prohibited New York State chartered banks from investing in real estate (including mining) in South Africa during Apartheid. That new regulation also led to Governor Cuomo’s establishing a committee to determine the feasibility of disinvesting the State’s money in corporations that did business in South Africa. Mr. Wilson also drafted legislation to outlaw the sale of the Krugerrand in New York during the Apartheid period, but it became superfluous when President Regan banned the importation of the Krugerrand into the United States.
CORA T. WALKER AWARD AMAZON The Cora T. Walker Corporate Partner Award is named for NBA Member Cora T. Walker who pioneered the creation of Fortune 500 Partnerships with the NBA. The Award was created by Past President Kim Keenan to honor Walker's efforts to provide support for the work and vision of the National Bar Association.
C. FRANCIS STRADFORD AWARD PAST PRESIDENT VANITA BANKS Vanita Banks is an accomplished senior executive privacy and cybersecurity attorney and counselor to the financial services, insurance and biopharmaceutical industry sectors, providing strategic advice and counsel on data protection and cybersecurity matters, including EU-GDPR and CCPA. In her role as Global Privacy Counsel, she has extensive experience counselling business operations regarding disruptive technologies including drones, autonomous cars, mobile devices, big data, blockchain, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and predictive analysis. She also specializes in complex insurance, employment and class action law and litigation, technology and commercial transactions. Vanita teaches Cybersecurity and Privacy law, and a college Introduction to Law course. A trusted adviser to C-Suite executives, Vanita has extensive experience developing and implementing global risk-based data protection and cybersecurity programs, including corporate policy for electronic communications and commerce. Vanita led the Information Technology Team that established Allstate Insurance Company’s multimillion-dollar ecommerce business. She received the highest employee award, the Allstate Chairman’s Award for her team leadership and superior performance. She led Allstate’s Corporate Lab initiatives at the University of Chicago Law School. She is a member of the American Law Institute and Adviser to the ALI Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance approved by ALI membership in May 2018. Vanita rallied the insurance industry’s participation in the Restatement project. Vanita is a relentless and early advocate of diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and the corporate workplace. She founded the Allstate Law Department Diversity Committee, which is the model for Employee Resource Groups across the company and country today. She established the Minority Outside Counsel initiative resulting in an increase in minority owned law firms and minority partners in majority firms obtaining outside counsel work at Allstate. She spearheaded Allstate’s Street Law Program, partnering with over 20 high schools across the nation, while personally mentoring hundreds of students. The Summer Internship program that she launched is now in its 17th year. She forged partnerships with organizations, including the National Bar Association, resulting in leadership opportunities for Allstate attorneys, and the recruitment of in-house and outside counsel. Under her leadership, Allstate has been a sponsor of the NBA for 24 consecutive years. Vanita’s efforts resulted in the Allstate Law Department being recognized with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association Diversity Award, and former General Counsel Michael McCabe signing the Diversity in the Workplace Statement of Principle in 2000. Vanita is Past President of the National Bar Association. Vanita currently serves as Chair of the NBA Covid-19 Task Force and Co-Chair of the NBA Police Misconduct and Justice Task Force. She served as the 65th President of the National Bar Association (NBA), the oldest and largest national association of predominately African American lawyers and judges. Vanita served as the Chief Executive Officer and spokesperson for the NBA which is the voice of over 65,000 lawyers, judges, law professors and law students. She is the second female attorney from corporate America to be elected as NBA President, and was the 9th female since the organization was founded in 1925. Shortly after taking office, she led a meeting with White House Counsel advocating for African American judicial nominees and for justice for the Jena 6. On the corporate diversity front, Vanita advocated for increased access to corporate business by diverse attorneys and firms, and the NBA issued its first diversity Scorecard to the largest 27 law firms in Illinois. In 2008, she led a delegation of lawyers, judges and physicians to Cuba on a humanitarian mission to promote civil society. In 2016, she chaired the NBA’s International Affiliates Meeting in Cuba where members met with U.S. Embassy officials, Cuban bar and judicial members to address issues of mutual concern. Vanita is an internationally renowned diversity and inclusion expert and frequent speaker in the United States, Canada, Cuba, the Caribbean, and Africa on corporate diversity and her practice specialties. She has been featured in national publications including Jet, Ebony Magazine, ABA Journal, Corporate Counsel Magazine, Purdue Alumnus, NBA Journal, DRI Magazine, and Diversity Inc., and her appearances include Steve Harvey, Michael Baisden, Legally Speaking, WVON, Houston ABC local affiliate, and Black Online TV broadcasts. Vanita earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; Juris Doctor from Valparaiso University Law School in Valparaiso, Indiana; and L.L.M. in Taxation from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Vanita is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute, (FLMI). In May, 2011, she delivered the Valparaiso University College of Law class commencement address, and in June, 2009, she delivered the Southern Illinois University Law School class commencement address. Vanita is a Purdue University Old Master. She is a member of the American Bar Association, and former member of the Advisory Committee to the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security. She served on the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and ABA Standing Committee on Bar Services and Activities. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and The Links, Incorporated. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Black Women’s Agenda, and served on the Board of the Josephson Ethics Institute and Secretary to The Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO). Her pro-bono work includes participation in the Cabrini Green Legal Aid expungement and clemency programs, and Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner granted her client’s clemency petition in 2017. She has received many awards and honors, including the Women Making History Award from the National Council of Negro Women, Chicago-Midwest Chapter, the CLEO Legacy Diversity Award, Forbes Magazine: Notable Purdue Alumni, Notable Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., the prestigious NBA Gertrude E. Rush Award for pioneering leadership, Ronald Harmon Brown Award of International Distinction, NBA Wiley A. Branton Award, Who’s Who in Chicago, and Ebony Magazine’s “Power 150” Most Influential Organization Leaders.
HISTORY Twelve African–American pioneers with a mutual interest in and dedication to justice and civil rights for all, helped structure the struggle of the AfricanAmerican race in America. George H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown, Gertrude E. Rush, James B. Morris, Charles P. Howard, Sr., Wendell E. Green, C. Francis Stradford, Jesse N. Baker, William H. Haynes, George C. Adams, Charles H. Calloway and L. Amasa Knox conceived the National Bar Association (NBA) on August 1, 1925. At that time, there were fewer than 1,000 African-American lawyers in the nation and fewer than 120 belonged to the Association. The purpose is “to advance the science of jurisprudence, uphold the honor of the legal profession, promote social intercourse among members of the bar, and protect the civil and political rights of all citizens of the several states of the United States.” By 1945, there were nearly 250 members representing 25% of the AfricanAmerican members of the bar. Over the past decade, the National Bar Association has grown enormously in size and influence. Today, our organization is the oldest and largest national organization of attorneys and judges of color in the world, representing the interests of more than 64,000 lawyers, judges, legal scholars and law students internationally. Today, the National Bar Association Board of Governors formulates the Association’s policies. The NBA is organized around 24 substantive law sections, 10 divisions, 12 regions and 80 affiliate chapters throughout the United States and around the world.
HALL OF FAME HONOREE 2020 NBA Life Member Donald A. Thigpen, Jr. earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Howard University School of Law during which time he served as president of both his graduating class and the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity. Upon graduating, Mr. Thigpen immediately joined the Washington Bar Association and worked as a judicial law clerk to Judge Luke C. Moore in the Superior Court of the District of Columnia, after which he was hired as the first African-American legal editor on the staff of the Family Law Reporter at the Bureau of National Affairs. Retired as an attorney in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, formerly the Office of the Corporation Counsel, where he served for 25 years, Mr. Thigpen left as Senior Counsel in the Commercial Division where he primarily handled government real estate matters for District agencies after serving as the Director for Attorney Hiring. Proior to that he served as chief land use and economic development counsel for the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development and general counsel to the D.C. Redevelopment Land Agency Board, where, among numerous works, he acted as chief counsel for development of the Verizon Center. Mr. Thigpen worked with the many District community development corporations, non-profits and for-profit organizations to provide new and expanding housing, educational, training and employment opportunities for the District's low and moderate income, and elderly population. In other capacities as an attorney for the District of Columbia, Mr. Thigpen served as the District's sole counsel for creation of a new District of Columbia mental health system, including a new Mental Health Division of his office, as chief of the Papering and Attorney Training Unit while a juvenile prosecutor, a civil litigation trial attorney; a legislation and opinions counsel and as a government contracts attorney. Mr. Thigpen received a Mayoral Commendation and Meritorious Service Award during his tenure. Always willing to lead by example and provide endless time to act as a role model and mentor to younger African-Americans, Mr. Thigpen has served his community as the President of the Washington Bar Association (WBA). As an WBA leader, he initiated the created of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) as will as the Judicial Council Division (JCD) of the Washington Bar Association, which brought together the African-American young lawyers and judges in the District of Columbia as organized entities of the Washington Bar Association. The Washingtone Bar Association has honored Mr. Thigpen with its Presidential Service Award, three Outstanding Service Awards, its Outstanding Achievement Award and induction into the Washington Bar Association Hall of Fame. Mr. Thigpen provided the NBA with no less devotion where he served the NBA as General Counsel, Assistant Treasurer, Regional Director, Affiliate Board Representative, Vice Chair - 2000 Convention Committee, Board of Directors - 1995 Convention Committee. He co-founded and served as Vice President of the Waring-Mitchell Law Society of Howard County, MD facilitating NBA affiliate status. Mr. Thigpen has been honored with the NBA Presidential Outstanding Service Award and Wiley A. Branton Issues Symposium Award for Leadership. Post graduation Mr. Thigpen served as National President of the Howard University Law Alumni Association, the President of its Greater Washington Area Chapter. The alumni association has recognized his dedication and service by awarding him its Lifetime Appreciation Award, Presidential Award for Outstanding Service and its Outstanding Alumnus Award.
Nicholas David Bedford Dino A. Bovell, Jr. Honorable Arien Cannon Kertisha L. Dixon Jason G. Downs Kevin G. Edwards II Sierra Elizabeth Trenika L. Fields Veronica W. Glaze Josiah Graham Maryam Hatcher Roger L. Johnson Reginald E. Jones Carla Jordan-Detamore Jaelyn Edwards Judelson Adaryll Lee Antonio Lee Stacy Elizabeth Lee Taisha Lewis Brandi J. Lowery
Jocelyn Mitnaul Honorable Augusta A. Massey Ryan E. Middleton Alicia M. McNeal Angel M. Murphy Zachee Pouga Tinhaga Tim Reed Albert Sanders, Jr. Sheldon A. Smith Tiffany J. Smith Sean Spence Charlyn Stanberry Knia Tanner Joshuah R. Turner Erick Tyrone Rosezetta Upshaw Marcus Eldrey Williams Suntrease Williams-Maynard Chloe’ R. Woods Micah C. Zeno
SUBPART AWARDS REGION OF THE YEAR REGION XI AFFILIATES OF THE YEAR THE GREATER WASHINGTON AREA CHAPTER, WOMEN LAWYERS DIVISION, NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION (GWAC) JUSTICE BAR ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA, INC. OUTSTANDING AFFILIATE OF THE YEAR WASHINGTON BAR ASSOCIATION DIVISIONS OF THE YEAR JUDICIAL COUNCIL WOMEN LAWYERS DIVISION OUTSTANDING DIVISION OF THE YEAR SMALL FIRMS AND SOLO PRACTITIONERS' DIVISION SECTIONS OF THE YEAR ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CIVIL TRIAL ADVOCACY OUTSTANDING SECTION OF THE YEAR COMMERCIAL LAW SECTION
PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS BAR YEAR 2019-2020 Wiley Adams Deleso Alford Nick Austin Chanell Autrey Antionette Barksdale Johnine P. Barnes William W. Bennett Mario L. Barnes Jonnie P. Barnes Sheila S. Boston Akua Coppock Khyla D. Craine NBA Past President Benjamin Crump Carla Jordan-Detamore Robert G. Drummer Andrea Hence Evans Karen E. Evans Henry E. Floyd, Jr. Maryam Hatcher CK Hofffler Sonya D. Hoskins Norma B. Hutcheson Gloria Johnson NBA Past President Kevin D. Judd Kimberly Kendrick Barbara A. Lawson Tamara F. Lawson Jennifer Lee Singleton McAllister Michael Michel Honorable Judge Denise Langford Morris Honorable Judge Leonard Murray Yamona Pierce Marlon A. Primes Marwan Porter Valencia Rainey Kevin D. Reese Joseph V. Schaeffer Frank Seales NBA Past President Demetrius Shelton NBA Past President Evett Simmons Amanda Stewart Loretta Tillery Carl Turpin Bernice L. Walker Natalie Walker Yuri N. Walker Ashley Wicks Onika K. Williams Kwamina Williford
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Welcome to the 95th Annual Convention of the National Bar Association. I join you in celebrating the tremendous history of this great organization. While the convention may be virtual, our presence as an organization is heroic and powerful. This year’s annual convention comes at a tumultuous time in America’s history. Our nation and our civil liberties are plagued and threatened by COVID-19, police brutally/excessive use of force, and unprecedented election suppression across the nation. As we face these troubling and uncertain times, I do not take for granted the demands ahead and the need to intensify our bond with our regions and affiliates, our affinity groups, our coalition partners and our lawyers globally. In fact, this is our time to shine, to be servant leaders and to be purveyors of justice. Without a doubt, this country needs the National Bar Association and its magnificent members NOW, more than ever. We are ready, willing, and able to respond to the call for our leadership. Indeed, the National Bar Association is a powerful force and our strength emanates from our powerful and rich history. Our presence is indelible and our mark on the world is undeniable. Thank you for your support and your trust in electing me to serve as the President-Elect of this legendary organization. My decision to run for president-elect and your decision to vote for me, converged due to our collective belief that the National Bar Association is positioned to be one of the leading social justice organizations in the world and we must take our rightful place in building a more just America. As members of the National Bar Association, we kneel for justice and stand up to fight. It is my honor to stand with you this upcoming year as we tackle new challenges at this critical time in our history. Again, thank you for your confidence in my leadership. I wish to give a special salute to President Alfreda Robinson and her team for leading this past year with strength, grace, and courage. "A luta continua, Vitória é certa.” The struggle continues, victory is certain. Tricia “CK” Hoffler