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Champion of Justice Award

Not more than five Champion of Justice Awards will be given to practicing lawyers and judges each year by the State Bar of Michigan. Criteria to be considered in making the award are:

  • State Bar of Michigan membership for at least 10 years;
  • Integrity and adherence to the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession;
  • Superior professional competence; and
  • An extraordinary professional accomplishment that benefits the nation, the state, or the local community in which the lawyer or judge lives.

Application Form: Print the PDF or apply online

Previous Winners
1987
 Carole Chiamp
Charlene Snow
1988
 G. Mennen Williams (posthumously)
1989
 Hon. Fred J. Borchard
Anne Davidow
Frank Kelley
1990
 Doug Hillman
Hon. Harold Hood
Thomas McNamara (posthumously)
1991
 Jason Honigman
Emelia Schaub
Hon. Damon J. Keith
Richard Van Dusen
Prof. Harold Norris
1992
 Stuart Dunnings
Ernest Goodman
William Gossett
Hon. James Lincoln
Hon. Otis Smith
1993
 Hon. William Peterson
Hon. Stuart Hoffius
Hon. Benjamin Gibson
Hon. Marcy Coleman
Leon Cohan
1994
 Hon. Julian Abele Cook
Hon. Cornelia Kennedy
Hon. Edward Sosnick
Dean James Robb
1995
 Ben Marcus
Prof. Edward Littlejohn
1996
 Hon. Claudia House Morcom
Richard B. Baxter
Theodore Sachs
George W. Crockett, Jr.
James T. Corden
1997
 Raymond T. MacNeil
Stuart D. Hubbell
J. Bruce Donaldson
Myzell Sowell
Donald L. Reisig
Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley
1998
 Hon. Patricia J. Boyle
Hon. David F. Breck
Rev. Milton R. Henry
Nancy A. Wonch
Hon. Kenneth N. Sanborn
Charles C. Lockwood
1999
 Hon. Victoria A. Roberts
Linda D. Bernard
Albert R. Dilley
Saul Green
Deborah A. LaBelle
2000
 Harold D. Pope
Justin C. Ravitz
2001
 Godfrey J. Dillard
Martin M. Doctoroff
Elizabeth Gleicher;
Daniel M. Morley
2002
 Henry Baskin
Hon. Robert Holmes Bell
Ann M. Cooper;
James R. Neuhard
Theodore J. St. Antoine
2003
 Stephen R. Drew
Robert E. Gilbert
William M. Saxton
2004
 Hon. Terrance K. Boyle
Sandra L. Bailiff Girard
Michael V. Morgan
Richard C. Kupferschmidt
Richard S. Victor
2005
 Janet E. Findlater
Jean Ledwith King
Hon. William Schma
Hon. Craig S. Strong
Eugene G. Wanger
2006
 Jon T. Ferrier
Elliott S. Hall
Daniel Malone
Hon. Fred M. Mester
Gail Pamukov
2007
 Sue Ellen Eisenberg
Hon. Amy Krause
Hon. Denise Langford Morris
Jeffrey G. Nutt
2008
 David A. Hoort
Michael Lavoie
Mary DuFour Morrow
Joan Vestrand
Lorraine H. Weber