Leadership Award

(No Longer Presented)

The Leadership Award was presented to individuals in the community whose personal contributions helped advance women lawyers and promote diversity in the legal profession.

2021

Laura Schumacher
Vice Chairman, External Affairs

and Chief Legal Officer,

AbbVie

2020

Hon. Patricia Brown Holmes

Associate Judge,

Circuit Court of Cook County

2018

Marlene Gordon

General Counsel,

Bacardi North America Corporation

2017

Madeleine M. McDonough
Chair and Partner,

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

2017

Terrence M. Murphy
Executive Director,

Chicago Bar Association

2016

Marie Oh Huber
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, eBay, Inc.

2015

Laurel G. Bellows
Principal,

The Bellows Law Group, P.C.
Former ABA President

2014

Hon. Gladys Kessler
United States District Court

for the District of Columbia

(Image courtesy of the DC Bar)

2013

Hon. Rosemary Barkett
United States Court of Appeals
for the Eleventh Circuit

(Image courtesy of Brandeis University)

2012

Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson
United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit

(Image courtesy of the 9th Circuit Court)

2011

Hon. Peggy A. Quince
Supreme Court of Florida
(Image courtesy of the Florida Supreme Court)

2010

Chief Justice Carolyn Wright
Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas
(Image courtesy of Texas Lawyer)

2009

Roxanne Douglas
Chief Counsel,

McKesson Corporation

2009

John C. Childs
Chief Counsel,

Georgia-Pacific LLC

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