2023

Nancy Drane
D.C. Access to Justice Commission

2022

Karen Newton Cole
Neighborhood Legal Services Program

2021

Susie Hoffman
Crowell & Moring

2020

Paul M. Smith
Campaign Legal Center

2019

Nicole Austin-Hillery
Human Rights Watch

2018

Shelley Broderick
University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law

2017

Patty Mullahy Fugere
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

2016

Kathryn Doan
CAIR Coalition

2015

Roderic V. O. Boggs
Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs

2014

Avis Buchanan
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia

2013

Judith Sandalow
Children’s Law Center

2012

James Sandman
Legal Services Corporation

2011 

Walter Smith
DC Appleseed

2010

Maureen Thornton Syracuse
DC Bar Pro Bono Program

2009

Louise Howells
University of District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law

2008

Katia Garrett
DC Bar Foundation

2007

Daniel Bruner
Whitman-Walker

2006

Jonathan Smith
Legal Aid Society

2005

Nkechi Taifa
Open Society Foundations

2004

Jan Allen May
AARP

2003

Paula D. Scott
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia

2002

Virginia E. Sloan
The Constitution Project

2001

Linda Perle
Center for Law and Social Policy