60TH ANNUAL Awards Banquet FEBRUARY 6, 2016 San Diego Natural History Museum | San Diego, CA Presenting Sponsor: THE FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION 60TH ANNUAL Awards Banquet HONORABLE CARA LEE T. NEVILLE (RET.) Chair, Presiding Keynote Speaker DR. LINDA HIRSHMAN Lawyer, Cultural Historian and Author of SISTERS IN LAW: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World 2016 FELLOWS AWARDS RECIPIENTS Outstanding Service Award Honoree LLEWELYN G. PRITCHARD, ESQ. Outstanding Scholar Award Honoree PROFESSOR KIMBERLÉ W. CRENSHAW Outstanding State Chair Award Honorees MINNESOTA STATE CO-CHAIRS: BARBARA J. GISLASON, ESQ. HONORABLE JOHN R. TUNHEIM Life Fellow Achievement Award SELMA MOIDEL SMITH, ESQ. Welcome! It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 60th Annual Fellows Awards Banquet! Tonight we are honored to present the Outstanding Service Award to Llewelyn G. Pritchard of Seattle, Washington and the Outstanding Scholar Award to Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw of UCLA and Columbia Law Schools. Barbara J. Gislason and Honorable John R. Tunheim, Minnesota State Co-Chairs, will receive the Outstanding State Chair Award. Tomorrow evening, at the Life Fellows Champagne Reception, we will present a new Award—the Life Fellow Achievement Award—and its inaugural recipient will be Selma Moidel Smith of Los Angeles. We offer congratulations and our gratitude to each of our extraordinary honorees for the contributions they have made. Additionally, I would like to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Linda Hirshman, lawyer and author of SISTERS IN LAW: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. The American Bar Foundation is deeply honored by the select and distinguished group of judges, lawyers and scholars who comprise The Fellows of The American Bar Foundation and who are represented here tonight. We offer very special thanks to the Presenting Sponsor of tonight’s Fellows Awards Banquet, KPMG. I would also like to thank the San Diego Lawyers Club and Justice Joan Irion for arranging donation of this evening’s table centerpieces to the YWCA of San Diego County’s domestic violence shelter. Given the challenges facing our profession, our nation, and our global society, your role as a Fellow has never been more important. Through significant support of The American Bar Foundation’s groundbreaking research, you foster important work ranging from insights into how real juries work to societal costs of incarceration; from the changing nature of legal careers to money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It is only with your support that the ABF is able to undertake this kind of empirical, independent research that truly advances justice and the rule of law by providing society an informed understanding of the law. You honor the Foundation by your generosity. Please enjoy and celebrate our fellowship tonight, and accept our deep gratitude for all that you do. With warmest regards, HON. CARA LEE T. NEVILLE Chair of The Fellows 60th Annual Awards Banquet · 3 Welcome! The SEATTLE SYMPHONY congratulates This annual gathering is my favorite event of the bar year. It’s always an occasion of Llewelyn G. Pritchard, Esq. fellowship, laughter, and celebration of extraordinary achievements by extraordinary people. Tonight’s award winners take their deserving place alongside the storied group we Chair, Lifetime Directors, Seattle Symphony have honored over the past six decades. I look forward to hearing about—and from—each of this year’s cohort of honorees and to joining all of you in saluting their work. It’s wonderful to be in your company tonight. ABF Fellows are special people, exceptional people. That claim may sound boastful, coming as it does from a confirmed Fellow. But it’s true. Fellows are distinctive. Among the proudest distinctions, shared by Fellows young and old, is our fealty to an old-school value that has lost vitality in many precincts of the profession. I have in mind the noble ideal captured in the preamble of the ABA’s Model Code of Professional Conduct, which calls on every lawyer to embrace the role of “public citizen.” In that role, the Code tells us, lawyers should recognize their place in a “learned profession” whose members “cultivate knowledge of the law beyond its use for clients and employ that knowledge in reform of the law....” Others may dismiss this sentiment as quaint and archaic, but Fellows honor it as noble. We embrace it. And by selflessly supporting the ABF’s trailblazing research, Fellows indeed cultivate knowledge about law and serve as agents for legal reform. That gives real meaning to the lawyers’ role as public citizen. So, yes, Fellows are special. I think of it as Fellows exceptionalism, and I congratulate every one of you for it. It is my great honor, on behalf of the ABF Board of Directors, to welcome you, my fellow Fellows, public citizens one and all, to this our 60th Annual Awards Banquet. Enjoy the evening! DAVE COLLINS President, American Bar Foundation as the ABF 2016 Fellows Award Recipient for OUTSTANDING SERVICE 4 · The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation UMLS ABF Banquet 1_2Horiz Press.pdf 9 1/7/16 2:30 PM Welcome! On behalf of the research faculty and administrative staff of the American Bar Foundation (ABF), it is my distinct honor to welcome you to the 60th annual Fellows Award Banquet. As you know, the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation represent the leading members of our legal profession, and as a group they provide vital assistance to the ABF. Indeed, much of the innovative empirical and interdisciplinary research conducted by the ABF would not be possible without the generous support of the ABF Fellows. We are also grateful to KPMG for their sponsorship of this evening’s event, and to the volunteer leadership of the Fellows for all their hard work and guidance: Hon. Cara Lee Neville (Ret.), Mike Byowitz, Rew Goodenow, and Kathleen Hopkins. Thanks to all. Tonight, we have the privilege of celebrating the many achievements of this year’s award winners. Llewelyn G. Pritchard is a long-time partner in the Seattle-based firm of Helsell Fetterman. He has tirelessly devoted his pro bono efforts to working with the ABA in securing access to justice for immigrants, refugees, and other members of our society. Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, who teaches both at Columbia and UCLA law schools, is a pioneer in the field of law and critical race theory. As a leading public intellectual, she has been at the forefront of cutting-edge scholarship on Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. The Fellows State Co-Chairs of Minnesota, Barbara J. Gislason and the Honorable John R. Tunheim, exemplify the core values and ideals of the ABF Fellows. Barbara Gislason has been a longtime advocate for animal rights both in the ABA and throughout her career. She is founding chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Animal Law Section, and the MSBA’s Art & Entertainment Law Section, as well as an active member of the ABA’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section. The Honorable John R. Tunheim is Chief U.S. District Judge for the District of Minnesota. Before his appointment to the bench, he was Minnesota Chief Deputy Attorney General, and previously the state’s Solicitor General. As a long-time ABA member, Judge Tunheim has actively served the ABA in various capacities, including the Rule of Law Initiative (ROLI), the Judicial Division, and the Criminal Justice Section. Together, Judge Tunheim and Barbara Gislason have inspired and invigorated the Minnesota ABF Fellows to be among the most active in the country. This year we are also honoring Selma Moidel Smith with our inaugural Life Fellow Achievement Award. A lawyer and music composer, she has been throughout her career and life a leader in advancing the careers of women lawyers. Among her many accomplishments, she has held prominent positions in the International Federation of Women Lawyers, the National Association of Women Lawyers, and she has served twice as president of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. Please join me in congratulating and celebrating this year’s award winners! AJAY MEHROTRA Director, American Bar Foundation 6 · The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Thank You TO ALL OF OUR LIFE LEADERSHIP FELLOWS! A Life Leadership Fellow is a Life Fellow who has contributed an aggregate of $25,000 or more to the American Bar Foundation. Jacqueline Allee, Coral Gables, Florida Kenneth J. Burns, Jr., Lake Bluff, IL* Michael H. Byowitz, New York, New York Mortimer M. Caplin, Washington, D.C. David A. Collins, Beverly Hills, Michigan John J. Creedon, Larchmont, New York Ellen J. Flannery, Washington, D.C. Robert O. Hetlage, St. Louis, Missouri * David S. Houghton, Omaha, Nebraska W. Loeber Landau, New York, New York * Robert MacCrate, New York, New York M. Peter Moser, Baltimore, Maryland * William H. Neukom, Seattle, Washington Wm. T. Robinson III, Florence, Kentucky David K.Y. Tang, Seattle, Washington William F. Womble, Winston Salem, North Carolina Joseph A. Woods, Jr., Oakland, California* *deceased 60th Annual Awards Banquet · 9 2016 Outstanding Service Award Awarded to a Fellow who has adhered for more than thirty years to the highest principles The Attorneys and Staff of Helsell Fetterman and traditions of the legal profession and to the service of the public are Proud to Congratulate LLEWELYN G. PRITCHARD A native New Yorker, Llew Pritchard is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and partner at the Seattle law firm of Helsell Fetterman LLP. Llewelyn G. Pritchard Pritchard arrived in Seattle more than 50 years ago with a freshly minted law degree from Duke.