The King County Bar Association invites nominations for its annual awards. Nominations must be received by February 9, 2005. Submissions should be made in writing to Alice Paine, Executive Director, King County Bar Association, 1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Seattle, WA 98101.

The awards and prior recipients are as follows:

• OUTSTANDING LAWYER for distinguished and meritorious service to the legal profession and public in a profession-related activity. Prior recipients: 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.
• FRIEND OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION for distinguished and meritorious service to the legal profession and justice system. Prior recipients: 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.
• HELEN M. GEISNESS OUTSTANDING LAWYER OR NON-LAWYER for exemplary distinguished service on behalf of the King County Bar Association. Prior recipients: 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.
• OUTSTANDING JUDGE: active or retired, of the Seattle Municipal Court, King County District Court, King County Superior Court, Division I of the Court of Appeals, 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: Richard A. Jones; Wesley Saint Clair; Robert Alsdorf; Sharon Armstrong; Helen Halpert; Bobbe Bridge; Ann Schindler; C.Z. Smith; Patricia Aitken; Barbara Durham; Anne Ellington; Carmen Otero; Robert F. Utter; Charles V. Johnson; Betty Fletcher; Gary Utigard; Walter McGovern; Solie Ringold; Gerard Shellan; Frank Howard; Donald Voorhees; Charles Stafford; and Charles Horowitz.
• 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: 2004 Ð Judge John C. Coughenour, U.S. District Court; 2003 Ð 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.