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
