2020
Gloria Allred
Juanita Brooks, Fish & Richardson
Kenneth Doran, Gibson Dunn
Robert Grey, Leadership Council for Legal Diversity
Robert Mueller, Wilmer
Ted Wells, Paul Weiss
2019
Steven Brill
Elizabeth Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser
William Lee, Wilmer
Shira Scheindlin, Stroock
Mary Jo White, Debevoise
Stephen Zack, Boies Schiller
Brad Malt, Ropes & Gray
2018
Cesar Alvarez, Greenberg Traurig
A.B. Culvahouse, O’Melveny & Myers
Jamie Gorelick, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Eric Holder, Covington & Burling
Mary Ann Hynes, Dentons
Richard Riley, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
DLFL: Warren Gorrell, Hogan Lovells
2017
H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell
Donald Flexner, Boies Schiller Flexner
Dan Webb, Winston & Strawn
Bettina Plevan, Proskauer Rose
Roderick Palmore, Dentons
Patricia Ireland, Phillips, Richard & Rind
DLFL: Regina Pisa, Goodwin Procter
2016
Sheila Birnbaum, Quinn Emanuel
Evan Davis, Cleary Gottlieb
Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown
Ted Olson, Gibson Dunn
Stephen Susman, Susman Godfrey
Anton Valukas, Jenner
DLFL: Francis Milone, Morgan Lewis
2015
Robert Pitofsky, Arnold & Porter
Esther Larden, Pro Bono Institute
Marna Tucker, Feldesman Tucker
Drew Days, MoFo
Robert Helman, Mayer Brown
Velma Martinez, Munger Tolles
Michael Cardozo, Proskauer
William Fenwick, Fenwick & West
DLFL: Herbert Wachtell & Marty Lipton, Wachtell Lipton
DLFL: Bob Dell, Latham
2014
Vernon Jordan, Akin Gump
Michael Cooper, Sullivan & Cromwell
Rhoda Karpatkin, Consumers Union
Robert Mundheim, Shearman
Martha Barnett, Holland & Knight
Tom Sager, DuPont
Charles Queenan, K&L Gates
Donald Dunner, Finnegan Henderson
DLFL: Bill Lee and William Perlstein, Wilmer
2013
Abe Krash, Arnold & Porter
Charles James, Chevron
Walter Dellinger, O'Melveny
Barton Winokur, Dechert
Stuart Eizenstat, Covington
Joan Hall, Jenner
Floyd Abrams, Cahill
Ron Olson, Munger Tolles
2012
James Brosnahan, MoFo
Thelton Henderson, federal district judge in California
Robert Kapp, Hogan Lovells
Margaret Marshall, Massachusetts Supreme Court
Michele Coleman Mayes, NY Public Library
George Mitchell, DLA
Richard Wiley, Wiley Rein
LFDL: Robert Sheehan, Skadden
2011
Richard Beattie, Simpson Thacher
Wayne Budd, Goodwin Procter
Gordon Erspamer, MoFo
Cathy Lamboley, Shell Oil
Stanley Levy, Manatt
Walter Mondale, Dorsey
Lloyd Sachnoff, Reed Smith
LFDF: Michael Boone, Hayes and Boone
2010
Joseph Bell, Hogan Lovells
Jack Greenberg, Columbia Law School
Robert Juceam, Fried Frank
Judith Kaye, Skadden
James Thompson, Winston & Strawn
Errol Stone, Sonnenschein
Robert Joffe, Cravath
LFDL: Ben Johnson, Alson & Bird
2009
George Hettrick, Hunton & Williams
Dennis Archer, Dickinson Wright
Joan Bernstein, Bryan Cave
Benjamin Civiletti, Venable
Harry Reasoner, Vinson & Elkins
William Webster, Milbank
Alfred Youngwood, Paul Weiss
2008
Howard Baker, Baker Donelson
John Doar, Rieck Kaley & Mack
Robert Fiske, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Jim McKay, Covington & Burling
Stacey Mobley, DuPont
Harry McPherson and Berl Bernhard, DLA Piper
Barbara Paul Robinson, Debevoise & Plimpton
2007
James Baker, Baker Botts
Thomas Gottschalk, Kirkland & Ellis
Shirley Hufstedler, Morrison & Foerster
Nathaniel Jones, Blank Rome
Ira Millstein, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
E. Barrett Prettyman, Hogan & Hartson
Jerold Solovy and Thomas Sullivan, Jenner & Block
2006
David Andrews, Bingham McCutchen
Warren Christopher, O'Melveny & Myers
Joanne Garvey, Heller Ehrman
Conrad Harper, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Robert Pennoyer, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
Alexander Polikoff, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
Dick Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham
William Zabel, Schulte Roth & Zabel
2005
Brooksley E. Born, Arnold & Porter
John J. Curtin Jr., Bingham McCutchen
James Ellis and William H. Gates, Preston Gates & Ellis
John J. Gibbons, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione
Ben W. Heinemann, Jr., General Electric
Elaine Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
R. Sargent Shriver, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
2004
William Coleman, Jr., O'Melveny & Myers
John Pickering and Lloyd Cutler, Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Joseph Flom, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Alexander Forger, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Newton Minow and Howard Trienens, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Robert Raven, Morrison & Foerster
John Rosenberg, Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Robert Strauss, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Patricia Wald, former chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit