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Southern Arizona Chapter of AWLA

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AWARD RECIPIENT

The Alice Truman Leadership Award is given each year to that member of the Southern Arizona Chapter of AWLA who best demonstrates outstanding leadership in her career and community.

CRITERIA:

The recipient shall be a person who both has been a role model for women lawyers and demonstrated support and encouragement for the advancement of women in the legal profession. The recipient shall not be a current member of the Steering Committee. This award is presented each year at the Holiday Luncheon for the Southern Arizona Chapter of the AWLA.

PAST RECIPIENTS

2025 - Margaret Maxwell

2024 - Kathleen McCarthy

2023 - Innovation for Justice (i4J)

2020-2022 - Step Up to Justice (nominated in 2020, Covid)

2019 - Honoring four outstanding woman judges from our Southern Arizona Tribal Courts.

From the Tohono O'odham Tribal Court we are honoring Judge Mashone Antone and Judge Violet Lui-Frank.

From the Pascua Yaqui Tribal Court we are honoring Judge Cornelia Cruz and Judge Margaret Flores

2018 - Honorable Nanette Warner, (ret.), Arizona Superior Court

2017 - Honoring Professor Suzanne Rabe

2016 - Virginia C. Kelly, retiring judge Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two

2015 - Pascua Yaqui Tribe

2014 - Honorable Terry Chandler

2013 - Honoringthree women lawyers leading three crucial components

of the Pima County criminal justice system

Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia

Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall

Pima County Public Defender Lori Lefferts

2012 - Honoring the Women Presiding Judges Serving Southern Arizona

The Honorable Roslyn O. Silver

Chief Judge, United States District Court of Arizona

The Honorable Rebecca White Berch

Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court

The Honorable Sarah R. "Sally" Simmons

Pima County Superior Court Presiding Judge

The Honorable Karen S. Adam (In Absentia)

Pima County Juvenile Court Presiding Judge

2011 - Celebrate the retirement of Professor Barbara A. Atwood

2010 - Welcome University of Arizona Rogers College of Law Dean Lawrence Ponoroff to the Southern Arizona legal community.

2009 - The founders of the Southern Arizona Chapter will be honored at this year’s reception.

2008 - The Women Lawyers-Woman Leaders Arch will be unveiled and honorees recognized, and The Margaret Houghton and Mary Anne Richey Student Scholarship Recipients will be announced.