Women’s Justice Awards

Purpose
Nominations
Event Information
Photos
Award Categories
Award Recipients

Purpose

The Women’s Justice Awards recognize women across the state of Missouri who have demonstrated leadership, integrity, service, sacrifice and accomplishment in improving the quality of justice and furthering the highest ideals of the legal profession. The awards reach out to women in various segments of our community, including the bar, the bench, public office, civil service, business, academia, non-profits and the state-at-large.

Nominations
Self-nominations are permitted. Nominations will remain active for 1-2 years.

Nominations should include:

I. Completed nomination form.

a. Click here to nominate online.

b. Click here to download and print a hard copy of the nomination form.

c. Contact Bonnie McCabe at bonnie.mccabe@molawyersmedia.com or 314-558-3202, and she will email you a nomination form.

II. A letter of nomination from the nominator to the selection committee explaining how the nominee fulfills the award category for which she’s being nominated.

III. Honorees are expected to attend the awards ceremony and related activities leading up to it. A nominee’s unavailability may prelude her eligibility for an award.

Nominations may also include:

1. Additional letters of support.
2. A copy of the nominee’s resume or curriculum vitae.
3. Articles published about the nominee.

Submit completed nominations to:

Women’s Justice Awards
c/o Missouri Lawyers Weekly
319 N. Fourth St., 5th Floor
St. Louis, Mol, 63102

Bonnie.McCabe@molawyersmedia.com or 314.558.3202

2010 Women’s Justice Awards honorees will be notified by February 1, 2010, and celebrated at an elegant reception and presentation on April 22, 2010.

2010 Event Information

Date: Thursday, April 22
Location: Four Seasons Hotel
999 N. Second St.
St. Louis, MO 63102Photos
Click here to view photos from 2008
Click here to view photos from 2007

Award Categories

Rising Star Awards
Awarded to women lawyers 40 or under or within the first 10 years of practice who have already made a difference in the justice system or the profession and who appear on a path toward even greater accomplishment.

Legal Scholar Awards
Awarded to women faculty members or administrators at area law schools who fulfill the above ideals through their own work with the justice system, through their research or scholarship, or through teaching and inspiring others.

Citizenship Awards
Generally, though not necessarily, awarded to women non-lawyers who fulfill the above ideals in improving the quality of justice in the community at large.

Enterprise Awards
Awarded to women in a business setting, be they entrepreneurs, executives, corporate counsel or other business professionals, who fulfill the above ideals in contributing to the improvement of the justice system.

Trial Practitioner Awards
Awarded to women trial practitioners who fulfill the above ideals in improving the quality of justice or contributing to the betterment of the profession.

Business Practitioner Awards
Awarded to women business practitioners who fulfill the above ideals in improving the quality of justice or contributing to the betterment of the profession.

Public Official Awards
Awarded to women judges and other public officials whose public service fulfills the above ideals in improving the quality of justice.

Public Service Practitioner Awards
Awarded to women government and non-profit lawyers who improve the quality of justice or contribute to the betterment of the profession.

Woman of the Year
The biggest award of the evening, recognizing that woman whose fulfillment of the above ideals truly stands out in making an extraordinary difference in improving the quality of justice or exemplifying the highest ideals of the legal profession. Awarded in lieu of any of the above awards to a woman selected from among the nominees for those other awards.

Award Recipients

Woman of the Year
2009 Judge Carol Jackson
2008 Jean C. Hamilton
2007 Sen. Claire McCaskill
2006 Shulamith Simon
2005 Mary Anne Sedey
2004 Linda Martinez
2003 Susan Rowe
2002 Sandra Johnson
2001 Sally Barker
2000 Margaret Bush Wilson
1999 Frankie Freeman

Public Official Award*
2009 Judge Nannette Baker
2009 Judge Catherine D. Perry
2009 Judge Carolyn Whittington
2008 Catherine L. Hanaway
2008 Hon. Mary R. Russell

Public Service Practitioner**
Nicole Colbert-Botchway
Janis Good
Marie Kenyon

Trial Practitioner**
Alisse Camazine
Kathi Chestnut
Deirdre Gallagher

Business Practioner

Jane E. Dueker
Rebecca A.D. Nelson
Therese Trelz

Enterprise Award*
2009 Elizabeth Anderson
2009 Sarah A. Siegel
2008 Linda S. Legg, Esq.

Lawyer’s Lawyer Award*
2008 Ruth A. Binger
2008 Debbie S. Champion
2008 Mary Coffey

Citizenship Award
2009 Susan L. Amato
2009 Jo Ann Karll
2009 LInda Riekes
2008 Lynn Loebner Rothbarth
2008 Cheryl D. S. Walker
2008 Patricia B. Wolff, M.D.
2007 Kayla Vaughan
2006 Gayle Williams
2005 Millie Cohn
2004 Betty Van Uum
2003 Ann Carter Stith
2002 Judge Brenda Stith Loftin
2001 Bekki Cook
2000 Vivian Eveloff
1999 Joan Newman

Legal Scholar Award*
2009 Carol Needham
2009 Kimberly J. Norwood
2008 Mary Beck
2008 Maxine Lipeles

Rising Star Award*
2009 Amy Collignon Gunn
2009 Connie McFarland-Butler
2009 Amie Needham
2008 Heather J. Hays
2008 Joan M. Lockwood

Leader of Tomorrow Award*
2009 Anne Marie Harkins
2009 Melissa Lin
2009 Manasi Venkatesh
2008 Kaitlin Ann Bridges
2008 Latieke M. Lyles
2008 Yeena Yoon

Justice Award
2007 Carrie L. Hermeling
2006 Rep. Margaret Donnelly
2005 Beverly Beimdiek
2004 Kathleen Schoene
2003 Karen Tokarz
2002 Nancy Mogab
2001 Diane Yu
2000 Ann Lever
1999 Gretchen Myers

*New award category as of 2008
**New award category as of 2009

Committee Members