1. OUTSTANDING LAWYER: Given for distinguished and meritorious service to the legal profession and public in a profession-related activity.

   Prior recipients: Christopher Bayley, William D. Marler; Perkins Coie Guantánamo Bay Defense Team; Daniel Gandara; Thomas Hillier II; Prosecution and Defense Teams in the Ridgeway Case; Jeff Robinson; Howard Pruzan; Dave Boerner, Lish Whitson, Mary Wechsler, Patrick McIntyre, Bill Kinzel, Fred Betts, Anthony Savage, Constance Proctor, Rebecca Roe, Margaret McKeown, Fred Tausend, Seattle Japanese-American Citizens League, William Helsell, Charles Z. Smith, Ronald Gould & Robin Anderson, Charles Goldmark, Frederick Paul, Murray Guterson, and Kenneth MacDonald.

2. FRIEND OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION: Awarded for distinguished and meritorious service to the legal profession and justice system.

   Prior recipients: Dean Kellye Testy, Seattle University; M. Janice Michels, Washington State Bar Association; KCBA Family Law Section; Barbara C. Clark, Legal Foundation of Washington; Ada Shen-Jaffe, Columbia Legal Services; Northwest Women’s Law Center; CASA Volunteers; Dean Roland Hjorth and the University of Washington School of Law, Bob Boruchowitz, Chief Norm Stamper, Ron Sims, Ruth Walsh, Lucy Berliner, Sandra Madrid, and Kathleen Taylor.

3. HELEN M. GEISNESS OUTSTANDING LAWYER OR NON-LAWYER: Given for exemplary distinguished service on behalf of the King County Bar Association.

Prior recipients: Charles Burdell, Jr.; Alice Paine; Fred Noland; Karen Sutherland; Steve DeForest; Law Firm of Larson, Hart & Shepherd; Dan Gottlieb, Scott Smith, Colleen Kinerk, WLPM, Matt Sayre, Mary Alice Theiler, Caroline Davis, Peter Greenfield, Gary Maehara, Stew Cogan, Fred Butterworth, Judicial Screening Committees I & II, Helen Pulsifer, Jack Hepfer, Wayne Blair, Lowell Halverson, William Dwyer, John Rupp, and Helen Geisness.

4. OUTSTANDING JUDGE: Awarded to an active or retired judge of any municipal court in King County, King County District Court, King County Superior Court, Division I of the Court of Appeals, Washington State Supreme Court, U.S. District Court (Western District), Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Bankruptcy Court, for distinguished service to the legal profession, the judiciary, and the public in a profession-related activity.

Prior recipients: Judge LeRoy McCullough, Judge Charles J. Delaurenti, II; Judge Gerry Alexander; Judge William L. Downing; Judge Robert Lasnik; Judge Richard A. Jones; Judge Wesley Saint Clair, Judge Robert Alsdorf, Judge Sharon Armstrong, Judge Helen Halpert, Judge Bobbe Bridge, Judge Ann Schindler, Justice C.Z. Smith, Judge Patricia Aitken, Justice Barbara Durham, Judge Anne Ellington, J. Carmen Otero, J. Robert F. Utter, J. Charles V. Johnson, J. Betty Fletcher, J. Gary Utigard, J. Walter McGovern, J. Solie Ringold, J. Gerard Shellan, J. Frank Howard, J. Donald Voorhees, J. Charles Stafford, and J. Charles Horowitz.

5. WILLIAM L. DWYER OUTSTANDING JURIST: An award recognizing a lifetime of achievement as a judge in a court with jurisdiction including King County. This award is given in special circumstances, and is not necessarily an annual award.

Prior recipients: 2009 – Judge Ronald Gould, US Court of Appeals - Ninth Circuit, 2008 – Judge H. Joseph Coleman; 2007 – Judge Betty Fletcher; 2006- Judge Robert W. Winsor, Washington State Court of Appeals; 2005 – Justice Robert Utter; 2004 – Judge John C. Coughenour, U.S. District Court; 2003 – Judge Carolyn R. Dimmick, U.S. District Court; 2001 –Judge Eugene A. Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1999 – Justice James Dolliver; Washington State Supreme Court; 1998– and William L. Dwyer, U.S. District Court.

Charitable Arm of the Bar