NAWL : Leadership Award

Leadership Award Recipients

Presented annually at NAWL's Mid-Year Meeting to individuals in the community whose personal contributions have helped advance women lawyers and promote diversity in the legal profession.

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2021

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Laura Schumacher
Vice Chairman, External Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, AbbVie

2020

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

2014

Honorable Gladys Kessler
United States District Court for the District of Columbia

2013

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Honorable Rosemary Barkett
United States Court of Appeals
for the Eleventh Circuit

2012

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

2011

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Honorable Peggy A. Quince
Florida Supreme Court

2010

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Chief Justice Carolyn Wright
Fifth Court of Appeals

2009

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Roxanne Douglas
Chief Counsel, McKesson Corporation

2009

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John C. Childs
Chief Counsel, Georgia-Pacific LLC

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Veta T. Richardson

President & CEO, Association of Corporate Counsel