Past Award Winners

The Clarence Darrow Award

  • Sarah Kennedy 2022

  • Kasey Baldwin 2021

  • Not Awarded 2020

  • Clay Curtis, 2019

  • Misty Fields 2018

  • Joi Miskel 2017

  • David Smith, 2016

  • Tony Coleman 2015

  • Richard & Sharisse O’Carroll 2014

  • Winston H. Connor, II 2013

  • Jarrod Stevenson, 2012

  • Jackie Ford, 2011

  • Mark Kane, 2010

  • Cindy Viol, 2009

  • Richard Anderson, 2008

  • Paul “Tony” Lacy, 2006

  • Jack Dempsey Pointer, 2005

  • W. Creekmore Wallace II, 2004

  • Kevin D. Adams, 2003

  • Tamara Spradlin, 2002

  • Tim Wilson, 2001

  • R. Scott Adams, 2000

  • James H. Kemp, Jr., 1999

  • Albert J. Hoch, Jr., 1998

  • David T. McKenzie, 1997

  • Robert A. Ravitz, 1996

  • John W. Coyle, III, 1995

  • John Barry Albert, 1994

  • Barry Albert, 1993

  • Ronald Worthen, 1992

  • Gary Peterson, 1991

  • C. Merle Gile, 1990

  • David Autry, 1989

  • Irven R. Box, 1988

  • Mandy Welch, 1987

  • Brian T. Hermanson, 1986

  • Duane A. Woodliff, 1985

  • D.C. Thomas, 1984

  • Patrick A. Williams, 1983

  • Bill Heskett, 1982

The Lord Thomas Erskine Award

  • Tom Salisbury 2022

  • Eugenia Baumann 2021

  • Not Awarded 2020

  • Stuart Southerland, 2019

  • Not Awarded 2018

  • Albert Hoch Jr. 2017

  • Stephen G. Fabian , Jr. 2016

  • Terry J. Hull 2015

  • J.W. Coyle, III 2014

  • Not Awarded 2013

  • Pete Silva, Jr., 2012

  • Robert Manchester III, 2011

  • Cindy Foley, 2010

  • Chris Euberg, 2009

  • Cheryl Ramsey, 2008

  • Jack Dempsey Pointer, 2006

  • Paul Brunton, 2005

  • Garvin Isaacs, 2004

  • Jack Gordon, Jr., 2003

  • Jim Rowan, 2002

  • Not awarded, 2001

  • Mack K. Martin, 2000

  • Barry Albert, 1999

  • Not awarded, 1998

  • Patrick Williams, 1997

  • Not awarded, 1996

  • D.C. Thomas, 1995

  • Thomas Dee Frasier, 1994

  • Don Ed Payne, 1993

  • Honorable Ed Parks, 1992

  • Not awarded, 1991

  • Not awarded, 1990

  • Not awarded, 1989

  • W. Creekmore Wallace III, 1988

  • Stephen Jones, 1987

  • T. Hurley Jordan, Jr. 1986

  • Not awarded, 1985

  • Harold J. Singer, 1984

  • Not awarded, 1983

  • Not awarded, 1982

The Thurgood Marshall Appellate Award

  • Chad Johnson 2022

  • Emma Victoria Rolls 2021

  • Not Awarded 2020

  • Ricki Waltersheid, 2019

  • Sonja Porter, 2018

  • Brian Morton, 2018

  • Wyndi Hobbs, 2017

  • Lisbeth McCarty 2016

  • Thomas Purcell 2015

  • John M. Dunn, 2013

  • Not Awarded 2012

  • William H. Luker, 2011

  • Stuart Southerland, 2010

  • Kimberly D. Heinze, 2009

  • Barry Derryberry, 2008

  • Paula Alfred, 2007

  • Katrina Conrad-Legler, 2007

  • Andrea Digilio-Miller, 2006

  • Gloyd McCoy, 2006

  • Gail Gunning, 2005

  • Mark Hendricksen, 2004

  • Jack Fisher, 2003

  • Evans Chambers, 2002

  • Michael R. Wilds, 2002

  • Mark Hendricksen, 2001

  • Randy Bauman, 2001

  • Carolyn Merritt, 2000

  • Vicki Werneke, 2000

The Richard F. McDivitt Founder's Award

  • D.C. Thomas, 2003

  • Richard F. McDivitt, 1995

Jack Dempsey Pointer Champion for Criminal Justice Award

  • Brandon D. Pointer, 2017

  • William Campbell, 2018

  • Albert Hoch, Jr, 2021

  • Madison Melon 2022