2009 EPIC Inspiration Awards Information
Mark your calendars for February 10, 2009 and plan to join the Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) as we celebrate the efforts of individuals making a difference in our legal community and raise money to assist the next generation of leaders as they prepare to enter the profession.
The EPIC Inspiration Awards Ceremony and Reception serves as EPIC's largest fundraising event of the year, to provide stipends to students who take otherwise-unfunded public sector summer jobs. This year's event will be held on February 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in Tull Auditorium at Emory University School of Law.
The 2009 Awards will recognize the following individuals:
* Lifetime Commitment to Public Service Award:
Charles T. Lester, Jr. - Retired Partner, Sutherland
(to be presented by The Honorable Clarence Cooper)
* Outstanding Leadership in the Public Interest Award:
Gerry Weber - Former Legal Director, ACLU of Georgia; Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights
(to be presented by Stephen B. Bright, President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights)
* Unsung Devotion to Those Most in Need Award:
Marian Burge - Retired Deputy Director, Atlanta Legal Aid Society
(to be presented by Kathleen Dumitrescu, Former Managing Attorney, Atlanta Legal Aid Society's Cobb County Office)
For more information about the event and making a tax-free donation to the Emory Public Interest Committee, please contact this year's co-chairs, Alyssa Parsons and Sarah Martino, or Sue McAvoy, Emory's Public Interest Advisor.
For your convenience, a donation form can be located at www.law.emory.edu/fileadmin/news/PDF/New_EPIC_Donation_Form.pdf.
2008 Inspiration Awards Recipients
Lifetime Award: Bucky Askew, Consultant on Legal Education to the
American Bar Association and former Director of Bar Admissions, Supreme
Court of Georgia from 1990 to 2006, as well as a most valued member of
the EPIC Advisory Board from 1997 to 2007 (to be presented by Justice
Leah Ward Sears)
Leadership Award: John Chandler, partner at Sutherland Asbill &
Brennan, for his work with the Guantanamo detainees (to be presented by
Charles Swift, the Navy lawyer responsible for litigating the U. S.
Supreme Court case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and Visiting Associate
Professor/Acting Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic
at Emory Law School starting this fall)
Unsung Award: Aimee Maxwell, Executive Director of the Georgia
Innocence Project (to be presented by Calvin Johnson, Georgia's first
DNA exoneree and President-Elect of the Georgia Innocence Project's
Board of Directors)
Thank you to the 2008 Donors!
Deans circle sponsor
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Summer Grant Sponsors
Frank & Joan Alexander Association of Corporate Counsel -
Georgia Chapter Janet Hayes Davis Foundation Legal Association
for Women Students McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP
Kimberly L. Myers, Rogers & Hardin LLP Jones Day
Gold level
Alston & Bird LLP Joel Arogeti Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP Columbus Equipment Company Holland & Knight LLP Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Elizabeth Ann Betty Morgan Prof. Michael J. Perry & Sarah OLeary Michael & Paula Sarrey Debbie Segal & Randy Cadenhead Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP Troutman Sanders, LLP
Silver Level
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Thomas C. & Carolyn F. Arthur Dorothy Toth Beasley, in Memory of Judge Stephen Toth Mr. & Mrs. A. Paul Cadenhead Alexander D. Forger David Alan Glazer Steven & Shari Labovitz The Honorable Mary Margaret Oliver David & Nan Partlett Polly J. Price Powell Goldstein, LLP Mary F. Radford Anne Rector M.T. & Jennie Simmons Randolph & Margaret Thrower
Bronze Level
Melody P. Bray Susan & John Carter Scott & Karen Greer Marcus Holladay & Mary Giliberti Jenkins & Roberts, LLC Bernard Kanner John W. Martin, Jr. Luke M. Milligan John Phillip Mittelbach Mary Ann B. Oakley Lawrence Andrew Reicher Robert A. & Lillian R. G. Schapiro Randy & Elizabeth Schoen Simpson Mediation Services Ralph & Judy Simpson Roy & Bonnie Sobelson Prof. Johan Van der Vyver
FRIENDS
Kent B. Alexander Brian & Jessica Boone Sarah Pentz Bottini Catherine Grace Brandt Lynne Tucker Chandler Mark H. Cohen Charles B. Cory & Leslie A. Cory Barry A. Currier Peter & Marian Edelman Brooke A. Emery Laurie-Ann Fallon Beryl Bergquist Farris David & Susan French Prof. Nat Gozansky & Libby Johnson Arahn & Melissa Hawkins Rebecca Hoelting Short Phyllis J. Holman Richard Huffman W. Stell Huie Michelle Janet Kelson William H. Kitchens Judge Phyllis Kravitch Joy Lackey Frank & Mary Macchiarola Sue McAvoy Michael Thomas Nations Judith Anne OBrien Enoch & Jean Overby Mark C. & Diane W. Perlberg Suzannah B. Pogue & Sandy A. Jones Jill G. Polster Janette B. Pratt R. Michael & Deborah Robinson Corby Drone & Leah Rotenberg Truancy Intervention Project Randee J. Waldman Terry & Pat Walsh Robert G. Wellon, Esq. & Anne Wellon
SUPPORTERS
Michael B. Abramson Robert B. Ahdieh & Krista A. Forsgren Daniel & Rebecca Ashburn Hon. T. Jackson Bedford Jr. Marc E. Biondi Carolyn Bregman John G. Brooks Andrew W. Broy Linus Y. Chen William Cobb & M. Ayres Gardner Beth Damon Jennifer Duck Dr. Martha Grace Duncan Erin K. Healy Tammi & Brant Hellwig Sharon Gibson Judge Seth D. Kirschenbaum David M. Leonard Kay Levine & Jonathan Bookspun Kerry E. McGrath Alan & Jane McNabb Shalanda & Dave Miller Susan & Randall Miller Lauren E. Norton Elizabeth A. Obenshain & C. Brad Marsh Penn Payne, LLC Elaine Poon James H. Pritchett Melinda Renshaw & Suneel R. Tummala Gregory & Kaye Riggs Marc Sagal & Courtney Cutter Susan L. Shaver Margaret Daniel Smith The Steel Law Firm, P.C. Judge Irwin & Mary Stolz Gary & Evelyn Trachten Ellen E. Trapp James A. Tucker Roxanne Tulloss Daniel Stephen Walsh Stefanie Warren Jere & Laura White Clare G. Whitfield Nicole D. & J. Zachary Zimmerman Sharon Jessica Zinns
In-Kind Donation
Special thanks to Paul Webb and Miracle Graphics for donating the
printing for this years Inspiration Awards invitations.