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Distinguished Service Award Recipients

DSA Award Statue

The Law School’s Distinguished Service Awards, created in 1966, recognize outstanding achievement in professional or personal endeavor. Recipients are honored for significant achievement in their chosen career; supporting the Law School’s students, alumni, faculty, and staff; and for reflecting the values that embody the Law School’s tradition, history, and mission.

First announced at an all-alumni dinner and dance event on February 5, 1966, the Law School’s Distinguished Service Awards are awarded each year, along with the Freedom Award, at the Annual Freedom & Distinguished Service Awards Ceremony.

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2022

  • Greta Powell (Hafeman) (JD 2012)
  • Hon. James Shadid (JD 1983)
  • Hon. Mariyana Spyropoulos (JD 1996)
  • Professor Mark Wojcik (JD 1986)

2019

  • Sandra Crawford (JD 1989)
  • Kenneth J. Nemec Jr. (JD 1982)
  • Dr. Janette C. Wilson (JD 1980)

2018

  • Hon. Jillian Marie Cerone-Marisie (JD 1990)
  • Teresa Do (JD 2008)
  • Kerryann Haase Minton (JD 1996)
  • Larry R. Rogers Sr.

2017

  • Dean John E. Corkery
  • Hon. Charles P. Kocoras
  • Professor Ann M. Lousin

2016

  • Bruce Farrel Dorn (JD 1975)
  • Sherri J. Dzik (JD 1999)
  • Michael Leonard Gesas (JD 1984)

The 2016 Freedom & Distinguished Service Awards Ceremony also recognized Hon. Jessica Arong O’Brien (JD 1998/LLM 1998/LLM 2003) and Hon. Jesse Gregory Reyes (JD 1982) with Diversity Awards and Miss Marilyn Criss with an Honorary Lifetime Service Award.

2015

  • Hon. Dinah Lennon Archambeault (JD 1988)
  • Hon. George Louis Canellis Jr. (JD 1996)
  • Michael Paul Cogan (JD 1981)
  • Hon. Thomas William Murphy (JD 1979)
  • Professor Mary Therese Nagel (JD 1988)

2014

  • Ellyce C. Anapolsky (JD 2004)
  • Hon. Peggy Chiampas (JD 1989)
  • Leonard S. DeFranco (JD 1978/LLM 1984)
  • Hon. Raymond L. Jagielski (JD 1981)
  • Brian Joseph Stephenson (JD 1987)

2013

  • Colonel Eugene Edward Baime (JD 1991)
  • Brian E. Clauss (JD 1990)
  • Frank John Del Barto (JD 2007/LLM 2007)
  • Donald T. Rubin (JD 1980)
  • Hon. Alexander P. White (LLM 1976)

2012

  • Kevin M. Hull (JD 2000)
  • Barry Kozak (JD 2000/LLM 2000)
  • Ricardo Meza (JD 1990)
  • Nicholas C. Zagotta (JD 1994)

2011

  • Hon. John Thomas Doody Jr. (JD 1974)
  • Hon. Lynn Marie Egan (JD 1985)
  • Norman J. Lasko (JD 1967)
  • Anthony Cletus Raccuglia (JD 1959)
  • Ferdinand P. Serpe (JD 1984)

2010

  • Royal Francis Berg (JD 1984)
  • Mary Ann Hynes (JD 1971/LLM 1975)
  • Hon. Nicholas T. Pomaro (JD 1964)
  • Sarane C. Siewerth (JD 1981)
  • Hon. Salvatore J. Tornatore (JD 1974)

2009

  • Marshall Jay Auerbach (JD 1955)
  • Rev. Merilyn Denise Brown (JD 1990)
  • Professor Joseph Robert Butler (JD 1995)
  • Scott Michael Guetzow (JD 1999)
  • Hon. Russell W. Hartigan (JD 1975)

2008

  • Hon. Dennis J. Burke (JD 1975)
  • Anita M. DeCarlo (JD 1998)
  • Professor Susann McElvaney MacLachlan (JD 1994)
  • Joseph R. Marconi (JD 1976)
  • Bruce Robert Meckler (JD 1981)
  • Hon. Stanley Joel Sacks (JD 1967)

2007

  • Daniel Anthony Cotter (JD 1995)
  • Rep. James Brian Durkin (JD 1988)
  • Hon. Jessica Arong O’Brien (JD 1998/LLM 1998/LLM 2003)
  • Letitia Spunar Sheats (JD 1971)

2006

  • Hon. Joseph E. Birkett (JD 1981)
  • Hon. Shannon M. Cobe (JD 1980)
  • Hon. Anna Demacopoulos (JD 1985)
  • Katherine Angela O’Dell (JD 2000)

2005

  • Cory Jay Aronovitz (JD 1993)
  • Hon. Celia G. Gamrath (JD 1994)
  • Hon. Regina A. Scannicchio (JD 1988)
  • Hon. Jane L. Stuart (JD 1985)

2004

  • William Bates Jr. (JD 1989)
  • Hon. Cheryl D. Cesario (JD 1981)
  • Franco Anthony Coladipietro (JD 1993)
  • Michael V. Favia (JD 1982)
  • Robert Glaves (JD 1991)
  • Jill P. O’Brien (JD 1989)
  • Dean Leonard Jay Schrager

2003

  • Thomas P. Cernek (JD 1952)
  • Mia Patricia Jiganti (JD 1994)
  • Hon. Glenn T. Johnson (JD 1949/LLM 1950)
  • Carlton Richard Marcyan (JD 1980)
  • Antonio M. Romanucci (JD 1985)
  • Professor Michael P. Seng

2002

  • Richard M. Colombik (JD 1980)
  • Philip J. Crihfield (JD 1971)
  • Hon. Joy V. Cunningham (JD 1982)
  • Hon. Cheryl Johnson (JD 1983)
  • Hon. Themis N. Karnezis (JD 1970)
  • Dorothy Li

2001

  • Hon. Frederic S. Carr Jr. (JD 1987)
  • Mary S. McDonald-Pascale (JD 1988)
  • Hon. Michael J. Murphy (JD 1971)
  • Professor Michael J. Polelle (LLM 1969/LLM 2000)
  • Lewis William Powell III (JD 1989)
  • Rudolf G. Schade Jr. (JD 1968)

2000

  • Louis Hilfman (JD 1969)
  • Amy Kloempken Mugherini (JD 2001)
  • Hon. Denise M. O’Malley (JD 1981)
  • Floyd D. Perkins (JD 1977/LLM 1983)
  • Professor Ralph Ruebner
  • Hon. Michael W. Stuttley (JD 1978)
  • Professor Mark E. Wojcik (JD 1986)

1999

  • Hon. Gerald Charles Bender (JD 1968)
  • Professor Susan L. Brody
  • Robert Y. Iwasaki (JD 1952)
  • Hon. Daniel Michael Locallo (JD 1977)
  • Robyn Faith Nadick (JD 1998)
  • Peggy Margaret Raddatz (JD 1987)

1998

  • Hon. Patrice Munzel Ball-Reed (JD 1984)
  • Hon. Stephen James Culliton (JD 1970)
  • Hon. David A. Erickson (JD 1976)
  • Angela Imbierowicz (JD 1985)
  • Joseph F. Vosicky Jr. (JD 1981)
  • Hon. Daniel J. White (JD 1951)

1997

  • William M. Daley (JD 1975)
  • Umberto S. Davi (JD 1982)
  • Ralph A. Gabric (JD 1953)
  • Paula Hudson Holderman (JD 1979)

1996

  • Laurence A. Combs (JD 1935)
  • Hon. Jennifer Duncan-Brice (JD 1976)
  • Lester Holman (JD 1923)
  • Donald G. Weiland (JD 1980)
  • Hon. Morton Zwick (JD 1964)

1995

  • George C. Howard Jr. (JD 1961)
  • Enrico Joseph Mirabelli (JD 1981)
  • Aurie A. Pennick (JD 1986)
  • Hon. Lonnie Marcus Randolph (JD 1978)

1994

  • Professor Claude E. Carr
  • Professor Ronald Z. Domsky
  • Florence C. Ford
  • Professor John Ingram (JD 1965)
  • Jane D. Johnston
  • Hon. George N. Leighton
  • Professor Robert J. Nye
  • Professor John H. Scheid Sr.
  • Professor Ronald C. Smith
  • Diane Stary

1993

  • Donald David Baron (JD 1971)
  • Dixie Lee Peterson (JD 1975)
  • Hon. Thomas R. Rakowski (JD 1970)

1992

  • Hon. Thomas William Ewing (JD 1968)
  • Joseph F. Locallo Jr. (JD 1976/LLM 1987)
  • Hon. Carl McCormick (JD 1963)
  • Joyce E. Tucker (JD 1978)

1991

  • Hon. Fred L. Foreman (JD 1974)
  • Hon. Charles E. Freeman (JD 1962)
  • Anna R. Langford (JD 1956)

1990

  • Chester Laughton Ellison Blair (JD 1959)
  • Hon. Anthony M. Peccarelli (JD 1959)
  • Hon. Jesse Gregory Reyes (JD 1982)
  • Geraldine C. Simmons (JD 1981)
  • Hon. Kent Forest Slater (JD 1975)

1989

  • Philip F. Maher (JD 1970)
  • Hon. Blanche Marie Manning (JD 1967)
  • Jordan H. Peters (JD 1972)

1988

  • Hon. James T. Balog (JD 1970)
  • Joseph Michael Gagliardo (JD 1977)
  • Hon. Thomas E. Hoffman (JD 1971)
  • John T. O’Connell (JD 1975)
  • James R. Schirott (JD 1971)
  • Hon. Susan Pierson Sonderby (JD 1973)

1987

  • Ellen C. Craig (JD 1977)
  • Winn C. Davidson (JD 1967)
  • Hon. Thomas R. Fitzgerald (JD 1968)
  • Susan Christine Haddad (JD 1977)
  • Michael Joseph Hennessy (JD 1964)
  • Warren Lupel (JD 1968)

1986

  • Hon. Everette A. Braden (JD 1961)
  • Stella Adams Cuthbert (JD 1955)
  • Ralph Muentzer (JD 1966)
  • Hon. Charles Norgle (JD 1969)
  • Hon. George E. Sangmeister (JD 1960)

1985

  • Louis F. Aiello (JD 1953)
  • Hon. Marie Bellamy Johnson (JD 1947)
  • Rep. Lee Albert Daniels (JD 1967)
  • Howard G. Kaplan (JD 1967)
  • Robert J. Repel (JD 1977/LLM 1983)

1984

  • Leonard F. Amari (JD 1968)
  • Kerry Reynold Cordis (JD 1970)
  • Daniel A. Marsh Jr. (JD 1971)
  • Ruth L. Nelson (JD 1956)

1983

  • Dr. Leonard Charles Arnold (JD 1965)
  • Hon. James R. Dooley (JD 1950)
  • Claireen Molzan Herting (JD 1960)

1982

  • Joseph M. Jacobs (JD 1931)
  • Albert I. Rubenstein (JD 1951)
  • Hon. Lucia Theodosia Thomas (JD 1942/LLM 1943)
  • S. Paul Zumbakis (JD 1969)

1981

  • Richard W. Hall (JD 1951)
  • Hon. Arnette R. Hubbard (JD 1969)
  • Jay S. Judge (JD 1970)

1980

  • Richard J. Brzeczek (JD 1972)
  • Lawrence John Ferolie (JD 1950)
  • Michael E. Lavelle (JD 1969)

1979

  • Paul F. Brumund (JD 1941)
  • George F. Dvorak (JD 1953)
  • Hon. Timothy C. Evans (JD 1969)
  • Hon. Sheldon Calvin Garber (JD 1964)
  • Lowell J. Myers (JD 1956)
  • Albert P. Speese Jr. (JD 1951/LLM 1966)

1978

  • Hon. Francis Joseph Maher (JD 1943)
  • George R. Pate (JD 1942)
  • Professor Arthur J. Sabin (JD 1959)
  • Dean Helen M. Thatcher (JD 1948)

1977

  • Adolph A. Brown (JD 1936)
  • Gates White Clancy (JD 1934)
  • Terry F. Grove (JD 1966)
  • Hon. Eddie C. Johnson (JD 1951)
  • Robert C. Kelso (JD 1942)
  • Max J. Lipkin (JD 1942)
  • Nathan Thomas Notkin (JD 1938/LLM 1942)
  • Hon. Joseph Schneider (JD 1956)

1976

  • John Tobias Dixon Sr. (JD 1950)
  • Allen Martin Garfield (JD 1952)
  • Vincent P. Manno (JD 1943)
  • Alice Heerey McNicholas (JD 1944)
  • Charles Popejoy (JD 1939)

1975

  • Jay M. Bay (JD 1953)
  • Walter C. Hamann (JD 1944)
  • Benjamin J. Kanter (JD 1937)
  • Gilbert Kart (JD 1951)
  • Dean Noble Wishard Lee (JD 1923)
  • John Richard Mackay (JD 1949)
  • Hon. Albert Sylvester Porter (JD 1962)
  • Hon. Leroy L. Rechenmacher (JD 1941)
  • Libby G. Schaeffer (JD 1928/LLM 1939)
  • Herbert P. Veldenz (JD 1954)

1974

  • Martin E. Carlson (JD 1928/LLM 1935)
  • Cedric N. Forbes (JD 1939)
  • Brachter H. Huschen (JD 1940)
  • Merrill Hutchinson (JD 1914)
  • Hon. Evelyn F. Johnson (JD 1949/LLM 1950)
  • James Harold Lundquist (JD 1955)
  • Hon. Samuel C. Maragos (JD 1948)
  • Hon. Alan E. Morrill (JD 1951)
  • Howard C. Sorensen (JD 1957)

1973

  • L. Sanford Blustin (JD 1936)
  • Lee M. Burkey Sr. (JD 1943)
  • Kernal Freeman (JD 1924)
  • Bernice Z. Leaner (JD 1951)
  • Mary C. Perisin (JD 1942)
  • Philip Teinowitz (JD 1951)
  • Michael J. Thuma (JD 1926)
  • Hon. Julian P. Wilamoski (JD 1938)

1972

  • Alfred E. Gallo (JD 1949)
  • Marion A. Hoy (JD 1939/LLM 1940)
  • James W. Kissel (JD 1942)
  • Dean Howard Markey (LLM 1950)
  • Henriette Mertz (JD 1933/LLM 1942)
  • H. Burton Schatz (JD 1929)
  • Hon. Willie M. Whiting (JD 1950)

1971

  • Adamantios J. Androutsopoulos (JD 1960/LLM 1962)
  • Favil David Berns (JD 1952)
  • Sylvia Mary Cervenka (JD 1944)
  • Michel Andre Coccia Jr.
  • Lawrence J. Dahlgren (JD 1926)
  • Hon. Henry Xerxes Dietch (JD 1937)
  • Richard George French (JD 1950/LLM 1951)
  • Garrison Grawoig (JD 1909)
  • Hon. James L. Harris (JD 1950)
  • John R. Jeffers (JD 1941)
  • Earl R. Lidstrom (JD 1954)
  • Leo Melamed (JD 1955)
  • Harry J. Myerson (JD 1908)
  • Hon. Don B. Pioletti (JD 1938)
  • Albert S. Rakas (JD 1960)
  • Edward C. Vandenburgh III (JD 1947)
  • Vernon E. Victorine (JD 1929)
  • Ernestine B. Washington (JD 1946)

1970

  • Donald W. Banner (LLM 1958)
  • Thomas J. Barton (JD 1938/LLM 1948)
  • Louis L. Biro (JD 1948)
  • Coula Psaras Butler (JD 1936)
  • Edwin P. Fifielski (JD 1940/LLM 1950)
  • Grace C. Keane (JD 1936)
  • Hon. Irving Landesman (JD 1940)
  • Paul Davis Newey (JD 1940)
  • John E. Walker (JD 1940)
  • Edward W. Wilson (JD 1925)

1969

  • Louis Nathan Blumenthal (JD 1915)
  • Joseph H. Braun (JD 1918)
  • Robert L. Brody (JD 1935)
  • Walter L. Cohrs (JD 1916)
  • Thomas J. Finnegan (JD 1915)
  • Louie Marks (JD 1927)
  • John Cadwalader Menk (JD 1939)
  • Lambert M. Ochsenschlager (JD 1937)
  • George L. Quilici (LLM 1937)
  • Edith S. Sampson (JD 1925)
  • Walter E. Schirmer (JD 1935)
  • Raymond Watkins (JD 1940/LLM 1950)

1968

  • Edward Frederick Blettner (JD 1935)
  • Bertram William Coltman (JD 1923)
  • Ove B. Dendtler (JD 1924)
  • Henry William Dieringer (JD 1936)
  • Ernest A. Eklund (JD 1912)
  • Martin C. Hausman (JD 1937)
  • Claude W.B. Holman (JD 1933)
  • Dwight Ingram
  • Kenneth Frank Koutsky (JD 1951)
  • Alvin W. Long (JD 1949)
  • Donald N. Mann (JD 1948)
  • Martin J. McGuire (JD 1950)
  • Louis A. Sabella (JD 1932)
  • Morton Schaeffer (JD 1928)
  • Norman S. Schmitz (JD 1952)
  • Irene A. Zeisler (JD 1910)

1967

  • Philip Baim (JD 1929)
  • Samuel Berke (JD 1924)
  • Max N. Block (JD 1905)
  • Jeanne Brown Gordon (JD 1936/LLM 1938)
  • Ernest Buehler (JD 1910)
  • Homer Casner Dawson (JD 1909)
  • Jack Edward Dwork (JD 1932)
  • Hon. Saul Arthur Epton (JD 1932)
  • Hon. John Joseph Kelly Sr. (JD 1915)
  • Franklin M. Kreml (JD 1932)
  • Lawrence C. Mills (JD 1926)
  • Henry Seymour Moser (JD 1920)
  • Maurino R. Richton (JD 1942)
  • William E. Rodriguez (JD 1912)
  • Charles K. Schwartz (JD 1913)
  • Cyril Arthur Soans (JD 1915)
  • Kenneth R. Wendt (JD 1945)
  • John Joseph White (JD 1955)

1966

  • Charles Aaron (JD 1911)
  • Junius Landrum Allison (JD 1949)
  • Grenville Beardsley (JD 1923)
  • Cushman B. Bissell (JD 1928)
  • Gordon R. Close (JD 1932)
  • Hon. James D. Crosson (JD 1940/LLM 1947)
  • C. Edward Dahlin (JD 1914)
  • Joseph B. Fleming (JD 1905)
  • Irving Goldstein (JD 1919)
  • Pearl M. Hart (JD 1914)
  • Allen D. Holloway (JD 1934)
  • Walter J. Jeffery (JD 1934)
  • William E. King (JD 1915)
  • Max M. Korshak (JD 1908/LLM 1909)
  • Morris K. Levinson (JD 1909/LLM 1910)
  • Homer J. Livingston (JD 1924)
  • Park C. Livingston (JD 1938)
  • John Joseph Lupe (JD 1909)
  • Clair Mathew Roddewig (JD 1947)
  • Edward Phillip Saltiel (JD 1918)
  • Leonard S. Schmitz (JD1936/LLM 1937)
  • Hon. Ulysses S. Schwartz (JD 1910)
  • Walter C. Senne (JD 1916)
  • John G. Sevcik (JD 1950/LLM 1954)
  • Clinton Ikuzo Shiraishi (JD 1953)
  • Hon. Allan L. Stouder (JD 1949)
  • George H. Vongehr (JD 1932)
  • Richard E. Westbrooks (JD 1911)