M. Ashley Dickerson Diversity Award Recipients

2022

  D'Arcy Kemnitz
Executive Director, LGBTQ+ Bar Association

2021

  Nicole Duckett
General Counsel and Vice President, LA Clippers

2020

  Sherrilyn Ifill
President and Director-Counsel
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

2019

 

Grace E. Speights
Global Leader, Labor and Employment Practice,
Morgan Lewis

2018

 

Sandra Phillips Rogers
Group Vice President, Chief Legal Officer,
General Counsel and 
Corporate Secretary
Toyota Motor North America

2017

 

Hon. Wilhelmina M. Wright
Judge for the U.S. District Court for
the District of Minnesota

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2016

Sheri Lynn Johnson
Associate Dean for Public Engagement 
and the James and Mark Flanagan
Professor of Law
Cornell Law School

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2015

 

JoAnne A. Epps
Dean
Temple Law School

2014

Kim M. Keenan
General Counsel,
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

2013

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Veta T. Richardson
President & CEO,
Association of Corporate Counsel

2012

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Leslie M. Turner
Senior VP & General Counsel,
The Hershey Company

2011

Michele Coleman Mayes
Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
Allstate Insurance Company

2010

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Debra Lee
Chairman and CEO,
BET Networks

2009

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Holly Fujie
President,
California Bar Association

2008

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Suzanne B. Goldberg
Professor,
Columbia Law School

2008

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Hon. Deborah A. Batts
U.S. District Judge,
Southern District of New York

2007

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Laurie N. Robinson
Assistant General Counsel
CBS Broadcasting