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Alison K. Adelman | Marc D. Adelman | N. Denise Asher, Esq.| Barger & Battiest Law, APC. | Myra Chack Fleischer, Fleischer & Ravreby | Amy Gonzalez | Stacey A. Kartchner, Law Office of Stacey A. Kartchner PC | Gregory Knoll | The Law & Mediation Office of Julie O. Wolff | Brenda Lopez, CFLS | Johanna S. Schiavoni | Stackhouse, APC | Tamera M. Weisser, Jones Day
Sharon Blanchet
ABC Family Law & Mediation Center
Outstanding Attorney Award
Recognizes an exemplary attorney who over the course of a career has demonstrated significant legal expertise and professionalism and who has made an outstanding contribution to the legal profession, the justice system, and/or the public.
Hon. Gale Kaneshiro (ret.)
San Diego Superior Court
Outstanding Jurist Award
Recognizes an exemplary jurist who over the course of a career has provided outstanding service to the bench, the legal profession, and/or the community.
Commissioner Pennie McLaughlin
San Diego Superior Court
Community Service Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions to the needs of the community (e.g., charitable, cultural, humanitarian, or educational), other than directly through the SDCBA by an attorney, law firm, or agency.
Rob Shields
Wilson, Turner & Kosmo LLP
Community Service Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions to the needs of the community (e.g., charitable, cultural, humanitarian, or educational), other than directly through the SDCBA by an attorney, law firm, or agency.
Bhashini Weerasinghe
Law Office of Bhashini Weerasinghe
Service to Diversity Award
Recognizes outstanding service by a member of the legal profession over a substantial period of time in promoting and encouraging diversity within the legal profession or the legal community.
Rosalina Spencer Leon
Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc.
Service By a Public Attorney Award
Recognizes an individual who demonstrates a combination of excellence in the practice of law in the public sector with significant service to the community, to mentoring, to the legal profession, to the SDCBA or to legal education.
Valerie Garcia Hong
Garcia Hong Law APC
Service to the Legal Community Award
Recognizes outstanding long-term or significant contributions to furthering the goals of the legal profession and promoting ethics, integrity, and professionalism in the practice of law by legal education, civics education, mentoring, or service to the SDCBA.
Catherine Asuncion
Klinedinst
Outstanding Service By a New Lawyer Award
Recognizes outstanding service by a new lawyer in the first six full years of practice who has demonstrated a significant commitment to serving the legal profession via legal education, mentoring, or community service.
Jewish Family Service of
San Diego
Distinguished Citizen or Organization Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions by a lay person or group not composed primarily of lawyers or judges whose contributions over a period of time have had significant favorable impacts on some facet of the legal system, legal community, or civics education.
Poster and Video Winner Gallery
Law Week 2020 — "Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100."
This year’s theme discusses the women’s suffrage movement and how it forever changed America, expanding representative democracy and inspiring other popular movements for constitutional change and reform. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending a century of protest.
In 1848, the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with the Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Following the convention, the demand for the vote became a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott, along with Susan B. Anthony and other activists, raised public awareness and lobbied the government to grant voting rights to women. After a lengthy battle, these groups finally emerged victorious with the passage of the 19th Amendment. Posters and videos should reflect the importance of the 19th amendment and its impact on the rights of United States citizens.