Call for Nominations 8th Annual Alumni Public Service Awards
Nominations Deadline: Friday, November 16, 2012
Awards Ceremony: Friday, February 22, 2013
It is that time of year! As Assistant Dean for Public Service, I am proud to invite your participation in one of my favorite Cornell Law School traditions, our annual Exemplary Public Service Awards & Celebration. This festive event celebrates the contributions of alumni who exemplify the Cornell ideal of "well-trained, large-minded, morally-based lawyers in the best sense".
How are awardees selected? The Law School's faculty/student Public Service Committee considers nominations submitted by alumni like you! Click here to nominate a classmate or colleague who you feel deserves special recognition for outstanding public service through work with a public interest organization, government agency, or law firm pro bono project.
Posthumous nominations are welcome, as are nominations for "rising stars" (graduates in the early phases of their careers). Please feel free to re-submit nominations from previous years; many awardees were nominated several times before being selected! The Committee cannot consider nominations for sitting judges.
The nomination deadline is Friday, November 16, 2012. Awardees will be announced in early January.
Mark your calendars to join us the evening of Friday, February 22, 2013 at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for the awards ceremony. We will also honor graduates from the class of 2012 who have been selected to receive public interest graduation prizes: the Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights, the Stanley E. Gould Prize for Public-Interest Law, and the Seymour Herzog Memorial Prize. We hope to see you there.
Karen Comstock
Assistant Dean for Public Service
Previous Awardees:
2012
Elizabeth Barker '89
Contra Costa Public Defender, Martinez, CA
Andrew Cowan '08 (Rising Star Award)
Committee for Public Counsel Services, Public Defender Division, Dedham, MA
Gabriela Solis de Ibarrola LL.M. '02
Bufete Juridico Gratuito Social, A.C., Mexico City
Matthew Faiella '05 (Rising Star Award)
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, New York, NY
Neil Getnick '78
Getnick & Getnick, LLP, New York, NY
Len Kennedy '77
U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, DC
Peggy Lee '96
Southeastern Ohio Legal Services, Athens, OH
Michael Levine '80
Local Initiatives Support Organization, New York, NY
Robin Lunge '95
State of Vermont Director of Health Care Reform, Burlington, VT
Jason Patlis '92
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Washington, DC
2011
Shane Cooper '03,
Lt. Commander, U.S. Navy
Lawrence F. Gardella '75,
Legal Services of Alabama, Montgomery, AL
Mary Griffin '88,
Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, Boston, MA
Matthew D. Glasser '77,
World Bank, Washington, DC
Nancy Koppe '92,
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Charlotte Lanvers '07 (Rising Star Award),
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc., Berkeley, CA
June Lorenzo '84,
Pueblo of Laguna, Laguna, NM
Marie Pierre Py '05 (Rising Star Award),
Public Defender Service of D.C., Washington, DC
2010
Barber Conable AB '42 LL.B.(Posthumous),
President, World Bank, Washington, DC
David E. Fritchey '72,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, PA
Nicola Goren '92,
Corporation for National and Community Service, Washington, DC
Allison Jordan '05 (Rising Star Award),
Legal Aid Society of New York, New York, NY
James Murphy '76,
Legal Services of Central New York, Cortland, NY
Jessica Polansky '05 (Rising Star Award),
Childrens' Rights, New York, NY
Jay Waks BS '68 JD '71,
Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY
2009
Daniel Boglioli '00 (Rising Star Award),
Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY
Carl J. Boykin '88,
NYS Attorney General's Office, Albany, NY
Arthur Eisenberg '68,
New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY
Bryan D. Hetherington '75,
Empire Justice Center, Rochester, NY
Douglas Meiklejohn '71,
New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Santa Fe, NM
Martha L. Raimon '85,
Center for the Study of Social Policy, New York, NY
2008
Jamie Andree '79,
Indiana Legal Services, Bloomington, IN
Joe Iarocci '84,
CARE, Atlanta, GA
Shannon Minter '93,
National Center for Lesbian Rights, Washington, DC
Rosemary Pye '74,
National Labor Relations Board, Boston, MA
John Tobin '74,
New Hampshire Legal Assistance, Manchester, NH
Lisa Wolford '02 (Rising Star Award),
New Hampshire Public Defender, Concord, NH
Saman Zia Zarifi '93,
Human Rights Watch, Washington, DC
2007
David S. Buckel '87,
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, NY
Gitanjali Gutierrez '01,
Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY
Douglas Lasdon '81,
Urban Justice Center, New York, NY
Albert H. Meyerhoff '72,
Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins, LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Myers '71,
The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn, NY
Patricia Warth '96,
Prisoners' Legal Services, Buffalo, NY
2006
Helaine Knickerbocker '51,
Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York, NY
Paul W. Lee '76,
Goodwin Procter, Boston, MA
Angelica Matos '99,
Junta for Progressive Action, New Haven, CT
Elizabeth Padilla '02 (Posthumous),
Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers' Project, Brooklyn, NY
Martha Roberts '84,
Legal Assistance of Western New York, Geneva, NY
Michael Wright '94,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX