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Law Day is the oldest alumni tradition at the law school.

February 28, 2020

Law Day Awards

At this ceremony, we honor some of the most outstanding individuals who have distinguished this law school – and the legal profession – by their careers and their many accomplishments.

The Citation of Merit is the highest alumni award bestowed by the School of Law. With this award, we recognize the accomplishments and service that the recipients have performed for the legal profession, their communities and the law school.
The Distinguished Recent Graduate Award is presented to an outstanding alumnus who has graduated within the past 10 years.
The law school annually recognizes an individual who is not a graduate of the school but who has distinguished him or herself within the legal profession, including legal education, with the Distinguished Non-alumnus Award.
The Judge L.F. Cottey Award is given to a 2L student who has excelled in written and oral advocacy.
Judge Cottey served the people of Missouri in the profession of law from his graduation from the School of Law in 1931 to 1979, when he retired after serving 17 years as a circuit judge of the First Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri. Judge Cottey was a contributor to state bar educational publications and was a panelist at legal seminars. He regularly held moot court for the students of the School of Law. He was a speaker at district bar meetings across the northern half of Missouri and in 1980 delivered the commencement address at the School of Law hooding ceremony. Judge Cottey was a dedicated professional with broad knowledge and skills in all areas of the law. He was recognized particularly by his peers as possessing a flair for written and oral advocacy. The judge felt that this acquired talent was enhanced by a comprehensive working knowledge of fine writing and history. The family and friends of Judge Cottey established an endowment to fund this award in his honor.
The Husch Blackwell Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award was established in 1980 by alumni and friends in the Kansas City firm bearing its name and is presented each year to the full-time faculty member who, during the preceding 12 months, established a record of distinguished achievement in teaching. The recipient of this award is selected by the dean upon advice and recommendation of the Missouri Law Review editorial board.
The Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Excellence in Research Award was established in 1993 by alumni and friends in the Kansas City firm bearing its name and is presented each year to the full-time faculty member who demonstrates excellence in research based on a published article from the preceding year. The recipient of the award is selected by the dean upon the advice and recommendation of a committee consisting of School of Law faculty and members of the firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP.
The Loyd E. Roberts Memorial Prize in the Administration of Justice was established in 1979 by the family and friends of Loyd E. Roberts to honor the MU law professor or student who has made the most significant contribution to improving the administration of justice, either within Missouri, nationally or internationally, during the preceding year.
The University of Missouri Chapter of the Order of the Coif has been in existence since 1906. Of the 204 law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, only 86 have been granted chapters of the Order of the Coif. We are quite proud of this distinction. The law school is allowed each year to induct a graduate as an honorary member. The Coif inductee is a person who has distinguished themselves within the profession, within the community, and on behalf of their alma mater.
The law school is also proud to have a chapter of the Order of Barristers. This, too, is a select national organization, and it honors outstanding law student and alumni advocates. At MU, it is our students themselves who – through the Board of Advocates – run our advocacy competitions, and they do a splendid job of this across many local, regional, and national competitions. We recognize one graduate each year who serves as an honorary inductee into the Order of Barristers. This individual exemplifies the art and skill of advocacy for students every day in their own practice.

Award Recipients

Citation of Merit
Benjamin C. Thomas, ’73

Ben Thomas enjoys sharing his more than 40 years of experience with clients and the junior lawyers at Thomas Rubin & Kelley in Phoenix, Arizona. He concentrates his practice on general liability defense, automobile liability defense, products liability defense, premises liability, and transportation defense. He is an active member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel.

Ben received his B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Missouri. After serving as a law clerk for the Arizona Court of Appeals, he began as an associate with the O’Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Killingsworth & Beshears Law Firm. In 1980, Ben left to start his own firm, which has been providing quality legal work for nearly 40 years.
Ben enjoys working with the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic, something he has done for the last six years. In his free time, he supports Missouri Tiger Athletics, plays golf, and spends time with his grandchildren.

Citation of Merit
Shawn Askinosie, ’89

In 2006, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean to bar chocolate factory and never looked back.

His company, Askinosie Chocolate, was recently named by Forbes “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America.” So far the company has provided over a million school lunches to malnourished children in Tanzania and the Philippines, without any donations. Founded at the forefront of the American craft chocolate revolution and regarded by many as a vanguard in the industry. Shawn was named by O, The Oprah Magazine “One of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World.”
Shawn has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Missouri State University. Shawn’s book, co-written with his daughter Lawren, published by Penguin Random House titled “Meaningful Work: The Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul” is an Amazon #1 bestseller.

He is a Family Brother at Assumption Abbey, a Trappist monastery near Ava, Mo., and the co-founder of Lost & Found, a grief center now in its 20th year serving children and families in Southwest Missouri.

Distinguished Recent Graduate
Arsenio Mims, ’89

Arsenio L. Mims is an associate attorney at Dowd Bennett LLP where he concentrates on medical malpractice defense, products liability defense, corporate internal investigations, and representing clients in both the defense and prosecution of matters involving fraud and the False Claims Act.

Arsenio also defends clients in multi-district litigation proceedings across the United States, and assists in all aspects of litigation proceedings, including case strategy, discovery, motion practice, settlement negotiations, trial, and appeal.
Arsenio has published numerous articles and serves as the secretary for the Federal Civil Practice Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association. In addition, Arsenio is an active member of the American Bar Association, wherein he currently serves as a Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division Tort, Trial, and Insurance Practice Committee.

Prior to joining Dowd Bennett, Arsenio clerked for the Honorable Michael M. Mihm of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. While a student at Mizzou Law, he was on the dean’s list, graduated Order of Barristers, and became the first ever African-American Editor-In-Chief of any law journal at the University of Missouri School of Law. While an undergraduate student at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Arsenio was a member and team captain of WIU’s NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Team. As a senior, Arsenio became one of 27 basketball players nationally to be named as a National Strength and Conditioning Association All-American.

Distinguished Non-Alumnus
Professor Angela K. Drake

Professor Angela Drake, the director and supervising attorney of the Veterans Clinic, practiced law in the private sector for over 25 years specializing in complex and class action litigation and insurance coverage and defense. She was a shareholder in the firm of Niewald, Waldeck and Brown in Kansas City, where she practiced for 18 years. She then became a member of Lowther Johnson, LLC, located in Springfield, Mo. In the course of her practice, Professor Drake represented individual and corporate clients in jury trials, bench trials and appellate proceedings in both federal and state court.
In her role with the Veterans Clinic, Professor Drake works with students to help serve veterans and their families seek disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs and hosts an annual symposium on Veterans Day. She also teaches Insurance Law, Pretrial Litigation and Trial Practice.

Professor Drake received her bachelor’s degree from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., in 1982 and her JD from the University of Minnesota in 1985.

Judge L.F. Cottey Advocacy Award
2L Jack Gilkey

Jack Gilkey, a second-year law student, is from Lamar, Missouri. He graduated from Mizzou with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. He has volunteered extensively in his time at the law school. In addition to juggling classes and volunteer opportunities, he also serves as a Law School Ambassador, teaching assistant for Legal Research and Writing, Note and Comment Editor for the Missouri Law Review, and member of the National Moot Court team.
Gilkey shared these thoughts on receiving the Judge L.F. Cottey Advocacy Award: For me, this award serves as a reminder that advocacy is the highest calling, and greatest responsibility, of being a lawyer. In fact, advocacy was what drew me to the legal profession. While I thoroughly enjoyed my chemical engineering education, it did not take me long to learn that even the most technical of disciplines face issues and challenges within the legal landscape. My passion lies in helping individuals navigate the legal system’s rules and nuances.
To paraphrase Blackstone, a right is nothing without a remedy. I think of advocacy as the role attorneys play in establishing those rights and obtaining their remedies. Judge Cottey always emphasized that the skills lawyers employ when advocating for their clients are just as important as the skills in analyzing the legal issue. He never wavered from these principles, and he lived life as an extraordinary advocate. I only hope I can, someday, live up to the example set by the man behind the award.

Husch Blackwell Distinguished Faculty Award
Professor Sam Halabi

Sam F. Halabi is the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law as well as a Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. He is the director of the Mizzou Law Center for Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship. He was the 2017-18 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, Ontario.

Professor Halabi is the author of Intellectual Property and the New International Economic Order (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and he has edited (with Lawrence O. Gostin and Jeffrey S. Crowley) Global Management of Infectious Disease after Ebola (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles and book chapters in legal and medical publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Lancet, the Baylor Law Review, and the Tulane Law Review. He blogs regularly at the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice and Comment. Halabi advises or has advised domestic and international organizations including the World Health Organization, the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Global Virome Project.

Professor Halabi joined the MU faculty from The University of Tulsa College of Law where he served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and also earned the College’s nomination for the university’s outstanding teacher award. Before joining the legal academy, he practiced law at the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins after which he clerked for the Honorable Nanette K. Laughrey of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Professor Halabi’s honors include a British Marshall scholarship (Oxford), a Rotary International Ambassadorial scholarship (the American University of Beirut), and a Fellowship at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. In 1999, he earned first prize in the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity’s Essay in Ethics competition.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Excellence in Research Award
Professor Brook Gotberg

Brook Gotberg joined the faculty in 2016. She teaches Bankruptcy, Contracts, Secured Transactions, Securities Regulation and other commercial law subjects. Professor Gotberg’s scholarship focuses primarily on debtor and creditor relations, both in and out of bankruptcy. She has published numerous articles on chapter 11 reorganizations and the treatment of preferential transfers in the bankruptcy code. She has also written on the association between medical debt and bankruptcy filings and the dischargability of student loans in bankruptcy. In addition to her publications, Professor Gotberg has presented on a variety of bankruptcy-related topics to both academic and practice-oriented audiences. Professor Gotberg was recently selected by the American Bankruptcy Institute to be a member of their “Top 40 Under 40” class for 2019.

Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Gotberg was an academic fellow for the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. She also practiced commercial law with Sullivan & Cromwell in Los Angeles, California. She has litigated a variety of cases, from large antitrust suits to minor contract disputes, and has represented both debtors and creditors in bankruptcy court. She is a former clerk to Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Thomas B. Donovan in the Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Professor Gotberg graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in political science, and received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Excellence in Research Award
Professor Frank O. Bowman

Frank Bowman is the Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. He also holds an appointment as Dean’s Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center. In 1979, Professor Bowman entered the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Honor Graduate Program and spent three years as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division in Washington, D.C. From 1983 until 1986, he was a deputy district attorney for Denver, Colo. He also spent three years in private practice in Colorado.

In 1989, Professor Bowman joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, where he was Deputy Chief of the Southern Criminal Division and specialized in complex white-collar crimes. In 1995-1996, he was Special Counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C. From 1998 to 2001, he served as academic advisor to the Criminal Law Committee of the United States Judicial Conference.

Professor Bowman has published widely on federal sentencing and criminal law generally, authoring dozens of journal articles and co-authoring the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Handbook (Thomson Reuters), the best-selling treatise on federal sentencing. He has testified numerous times on sentencing before the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. He has also written extensively on Civil War era legal history, prosecution ethics, and impeachment. His latest book is High Crimes & Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump (Cambridge University Press 2019).

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Excellence in Research Award
Professor Erika Lietzan

Erika Lietzan researches, writes, and teaches primarily in the areas of food and drug regulation, intellectual property, and administrative law. Some of her recent scholarship has focused on the nature and purpose of the new drug approval system, federal regulation of fecal microbiota transplantation, federal regulation of products derived from cannabis, the political economy of the Hatch-Waxman (generic drug) statute, and incentives to study already approved drugs for new uses. She is an award-winning teacher, and she has been an elected member of the American Law Institute since 2006.

Professor Lietzan brings to her scholarship and teaching 18 years of private practice experience, eight of them as a partner in the food and drug group at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. In practice, she handled a wide range of complex legal problems and broader legislative and regulatory policy questions affecting FDA-regulated companies. This work included lifecycle management and strategy issues, regulatory strategy and advocacy, white collar defense, congressional investigations, briefing in products liability cases, and international regulatory policy work. She was involved in every major amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) between 1997 and 2014 and was deeply immersed for more than a decade in the development of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2010. She has been consistently identified by her peers in private practice as a “Best Lawyer in America” in the categories of FDA law and Biotechnology Law.

Professor Lietzan has held one leadership position or another at the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) since 2004, including a stint on its board of directors from 2008 to 2012. She also held leadership positions in the American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law for 14 years.

Professor Lietzan received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina, where she graduated with honors in history. She holds a master’s degree in history from UCLA and a law degree with high honors from Duke Law School.

Loyd E. Roberts Memorial Prize in the Administration of Justice
Professor Rigel Oliveri

Rigel Oliveri is the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law and a nationally recognized expert on fair housing law.

Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Oliveri served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section. She litigated and tried a number of significant cases involving housing discrimination and sexual harassment in housing. In 2003 she was awarded a Special Commendation from the Attorney General for outstanding service.

Today, Professor Oliveri’s scholarship focuses on housing discrimination, residential segregation, zoning and property rights, and sexual harassment. Her published work has appeared in a number of prestigious journals, books, and other media outlets. Her work has been cited by several courts, including the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book: Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Practice, and the co-editor of another forthcoming book on Affordable Housing Development.

Professor Oliveri is a devoted teacher. Her courses include Constitutional Law, Fair Housing, Employment Discrimination, and Civil Procedure. She also currently serves as a commissioner for the Columbia Housing Authority and on the board of Mid-Missouri Legal Services.

Professor Oliveri was recently recognized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for her work for housing justice on behalf of low-income women. She has also received the Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly Women’s Justice Award, and the Carey Mae Carrol Award for Advancement of Women, given by MU’s Women’s Law Association.

Order of the Coif Honorary Initiate
Erin Webber, ’96

Erin A. Webber is a shareholder with Littler in Denver, Colorado. She represents management in various employment matters, with an emphasis on employment discrimination on the basis of sex, age, race and disability; retaliation disputes; workplace harassment; leaves of absence, and disability accommodations.

She defends clients in employment-related disputes before federal and state courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Missouri Human Rights Commission, the Kansas Human Rights Commission and the Colorado Civil Rights Division. She assists with employee and managerial training and provides employment counseling on a daily basis. Her clients include, among others, retailers, school districts and restaurants.

Erin has served as a member of Littler Mendelson’s Board of Directors and the Associates Candidate Committee. She opened Littler’s Kansas City, Missouri office in 2006 and served as its office managing shareholder until 2010. Prior to joining Littler, she practiced employment discrimination defense and commercial litigation at two other firms.

Order of Barristers Honorary Initiate
Thomas Albus, ’97

Tom Albus is a native St. Louisan who came to the law school after completing his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

At law school, Tom was involved in numerous activities including the Board of Advocates, the Journal of Dispute Resolution and the Student Bar Association. He worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant to law school faculty.

After law school, Tom clerked for Judge Lawrence J. Crahan, ’77, of the Missouri Court of Appeals from 1997-1998, and Judge John C. Holstein, ’70, of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1998-1999. Tom practiced in the litigation department of Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis for three years before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri where he worked from 2002 to 2019. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tom handled investigations, trials and appeals in a variety of areas ultimately serving as the office’s senior litigation counsel and focusing on white collar crime, tax, and public corruption matters.

After being appointed Missouri Attorney General in January 2019, Eric Schmitt selected Tom to serve as First Assistant Attorney General with supervisory responsibility of all Assistant Attorneys General.

Tom married his law school classmate Alicia Carpenter in 2000. They make their home in Glendale, Missouri. They have four children and are active members of Mary, Queen of Peace Church and School Alicia is an accomplished elder law practitioner in St. Louis County.

Order of the Coif Missouri Chapter Inductees

Student Initiates 2018
Andrew J. Clarke
Zachary A. Hadler
Conner B. Harris
Brianna S. Hills
Ariel M. Kiefer
Courtney R. Lock
Eric W. McDonnell
Anthony J. Meyer
Abigail E. Williams

Student Initiates 2019
Emily A. Crane
Bryon J. Haskins
Morgan E. Knott
Callie D. Loganbill
Rachel R. Mitchell
Taylor A. Payne
Bailey M. Schamel
Gavin K. Thomas
Lauren G. Vincent

Previous Law Day Award Recipients

Citation of Merit
*Distinguished Alumni Award (Prior to 1977 some Citation of Merit Awards were listed as Distinguished Alumni Awards on some programs. Since 1977 the award has been called Citation of Merit Award.)
1953 William Kemp*
1954 Judge Lyon Anderson*
1955 Judge Roy Harper*
1956 Osbert Watkins*
1957 Judge Waldo Edwards*
1957 George Moore
1958 Judge Lue C. Lozier*
1958 Gov. Forest Donnell
1959 Judge Paul Van Osdol*
1959 Judge Laurance Hyde
1960 Judge S. P. Dalton*
1960 Judge Cullen Coil
1961 Delos Johns
1962 Richmond C. Coburn*
1962 J. W. McAfee
1963 Judge Roy Harper
1964 Boyd Ewing*
1964 Rush Limbaugh
1965 Samuel H. Liberman*
1965 Ilus Davis
1966 Paul G. Koontz*
1966 Irvin Fane
1967 Edgar Shook*
1967 James A. Potter
1968 Clarence O. Woolsey*
1968 John H. Hendren Jr.
1969 Judge Robert G. Brady*
1969 Flavius B. Freeman
1970 Russell Casteel*
1970 Judge James A. Finch Jr.
1971 Sen. Albert M. Spradling*
1971 A. D. Sappington
1972 Roy P. Swanson*
1972 Henry P. Andrae
1973 Judge Frank L. Cottey*
1973 Robert L. Howard
1974 Robert L. Hawkins Jr.*
1974 Ike Skelton Jr.
1975 D. Jeff Lance*
1975 Judge Floyd R. Gibson
1976 C. Wallace Walter
1976 Paul Van Osdol Jr.
1977 Lynn M. Ewing Jr.*
1977 Judge Marshall Craig
1978 Judge J. P. Morgan
1978 Judge Ninian M. Edwards
1979 Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
1979 Judge Fred E. Schoenlaub
1980 Judge Warren D. Welliver
1980 Mortimer A. Rosecan
1981 Edward R. Jayne
1981 Donald Chisholm
1982 Judge Robert T. Donnelly
1982 Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh
1983 Jerome W. Siegfried
1983 Donald L. Wolff
1984 John Fox Arnold
1984 Bob F. Griffin
1985 Charles E. Dapron
1985 Fred L. Hall Jr.
1986 Judge William H. Billings
1986 W. Edgar Mayfield
1987 Robert M. Clayton II
1987 Colonel Paul J. Rice
1988 Maurice B. Graham
1988 John David Collins
1989 John K. Hulston
1989 Robert B. Paden
1990 Robert C. Smith
1990 John P. Lichtenegger
1991 David K. Hardy
1991 Kenneth H. Suelthaus
1992 James D. Ellis
1992 Webb R. Gilmore
1993 Judge Ann K. Covington
1993 W. Dudley McCarter
1994 Governor Mel Carnahan
1994 Judge John R. Gibson
1995 Jeremiah W. “Jay” Nixon
1995 Keith A. Birkes
1996 Judge Patricia A. Breckenridge
1996 Judge Elmo B. Hunter
1997 Theodore C. Beckett
1997 Judge Mary Rhodes Russell
1998 Steve Gaw
1998 Larry McMullen
1999 Judge Nanette K.Laughrey
1999 Senator Harold L. Caskey
2000 George E. Ashley
2000 Claire C. McCaskill
2001 Judge Lawrence G. Crahan
2001 Nancy L. Shelledy
2002 Kenneth D. Dean
2002 C. Patrick McLarney
2003 Sam F. Hamra
2003 Randa Rawlins
2004 Michael A. Middleton
2004 Steven C. Parrish
2005 William M. Corrigan Jr.
2005 Suzanne R. Gladney
2005 Governor Ted R. Kulongoski
2006 Stephen F. Hanlon
2006 Alfred C. Sikes II
2007 Judge Harold L. “Hal” Lowenstein
2007 Judge Ellen S. Roper
2008 Roger C. Geary
2008 Janet M. Thompson
2009 Ronald A. Norwood
2009 Harold A. “Skip” Walther
2010 Professor Kimberly Jade Norwood
2010 Ronald E. Smull
2010 Craig A. Van Matre
2011 Don M. Downing
2011 Edith D. Wright
2012 Justice Douglas S. Lang
2012 Judge M. Elizabeth “Beth” Phillips
2014 William S. Ohlemeyer
2014 Judge E. Richard Webber
2015 Christopher T. Cox
2015 Cathy J. Dean
2016 Dale C. Doerhoff
2016 Justice Elizabeth Lang Miers
2017 Rodney E. Loomer
2017 Rhonda C. Thomas
2018 Anita R. Estell
2018 David L. Steelman

Distinguished Recent Graduate Award
1989 Daniel J. Godar
1990 Daniel L. Scott
1991 Jean Paul Bradshaw II
1992 Richard N. Bien
1993 William M. Corrigan Jr.
1994 Stephen L. Hill Jr.
1995 Teresa J. Stewart
1996 W. Edward Reeves
1997 Gayle Grissum Stratmann
1998 Joseph E. Maxwell
1999 Annie Billings
2000 Valencia J. Broadus
2001 David M. Israelite
2002 Heidi C. Doerhoff
2003 Jack L. Oliver
2004 Tyrone J. Flowers
2005 Terry M. Jarrett
2006 Dutro E. “Bruce” Campbell
2007 Morry S. Cole
2008 Michael A. Williams
2009 Bryan T. Pratt
2010 Jason C. Grill
2011 Omar D. Davis
2012 Matthew L. Dameron
2014 Cortney E. Mendenhall
2015 Jennifer K. Bukowsky
2015 R. Adam Vickery
2016 John C. Ayres
2017 Darryl M. Chatman
2018 Elijah J.L. Haahr

Entrepreneurship Award
2015 Michael K. Hamra
2017 Chad A. Troutwine
2018 Herbert E. Hardwick

Distinguished Non-Alumnus Award
1953 Charles Mayer
1954 Frank Ashemeyer
1955 Ethen Shepley
1956 Judge Rubey Hulen
1957 Lon Hocker
1958 Gov. James T. Blair Jr.
1959 Gov. Phil M. Donnelly
1960 Thomas F. McDonald
1962 Gen. Charles L. Decker
1964 Judge Clem F. Storkman
1965 Judge Orville Richardson
1966 Judge James M. Douglas
1967 Judge Paul Barrett
1968 Judge Paul A. Buzard
1969 William H. Pittman
1970 Robert F. Neill Jr.
1971 Judge M. C. Mathes
1972 Loyd E. Roberts
1973 William M. Stapleton
1974 Judge John M. Cave
1975 Wade Baker
1976 John Hall Dalton
1977 Willard L. Eckhardt
1978 Menefee D. Blackwell
1979 Judge John E. Bardgett
1980 Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton
1981 Joe E. Covington
1982 Daniel L. Brenner
1983 William F. Fratcher
1984 William “Bert” Bates
1985 Mary McCleary Posner
1986 Judge Andrew J. Higgins
1987 James E. Hullverson
1988 Dale A. Whitman
1989 Elwood L. Thomas
1990 Judge Charles Blackmar
1991 Grant S. Nelson
1992 Judge Edward Robertson Jr.
1993 Linda S. Legg
1994 Judge Duane Benton
1995 Justice Harry A. Blackmun
1996 Judge William Ray Price Jr.
1997 Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.
1998 Florene B. Fratcher
1999 Judge Theodore McMillian
2000 Hugh E. Stephenson Jr.
2001 Congressman Kenny C. Hulshof
2002 Judge Ronnie L. White
2003 E. Thomas Sullivan
2004 Timothy J. Heinsz
2005 Judge Richard B. Teitelman
2006 Judge Laura Denvir Stith
2007 Judge Michael A. Wolff
2008 Judge Wayne D. Brazil
2009 Lori J. Levine
2010 James R. Devine
2011 James R. Layton
2012 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
2014 Stephen J. Owens
2015 Judge Zel M. Fischer
2016 Kenneth B. McClain
2017 Joan Krauskopf
2018 Peter N. Davis

Judge L.F. Cottey Advocacy Award
1992 James Berger
1993 Mark Kroeker
1994 Todd Amrein
1995 Karl DeMarce
1996 Heather Reinsch
1997 Scott Nutter
1998 Ginger K. Gooch
1999 Michele L. Hornish
2000 Michael F. Jones
2001 Jamie J. Lee
2002 Nicole Hininger
2003 Kerry F. Schonwald
2004 Jon W. Jordan
2005 Joshua C. Devine
2006 Jennifer K. Turner
2007 Sarah J. Garber
2008 Carrie B. Williamson
2009 Allison Elaine Singh
2010 Daniel W. Graves
2011 C. Curtis Shank
2012 Brian J. Stair
2014 Kirsten F. Dunham
2015 Kayla A. Meine
2016 Ellen Henrion
2017 Abigail Williams
2018 Sarah Rowan

Husch Blackwell Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
1981 Henry T. Lowe
1982 William H. Henning
1983 William B. Fisch
1984 Alfred S. Neely IV
1985 Peter J. Wiedenbeck
1986 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
1987 Timothy J. Heinsz
1988 Peter J. Wiedenbeck
1989 Nanette K. Laughrey
1990 James E. Westbrook
1991 Michelle A. Arnopol
1992 William H. Henning
1993 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
1994 Douglas E. Abrams
1995 Carl H. Esbeck
1996 Jerome M. Organ
1997 William H. Henning
1998 Robert J. Pushaw Jr.
1999 Chris Guthrie
2000 David M. English
2001 Robert H. Jerry, II
2002 Rodney J. Uphoff
2003 Melody A. Richardson Daily
2004 Jennifer K. Robbennolt
2005 R. Wilson Freyermuth
2006 Dale A. Whitman
2007 Thomas A. Lambert
2008 Christina E. Wells
2009 Rodney J. Uphoff
2010 Carl H. Esbeck
2011 Paul J. Litton
2012 Frank O. Bowman III
2014 Michelle Arnopol Cecil
2015 Ben Trachtenberg
2016 Erin Morrow Hawley
2017 Rafael Gely
2018 Erika Lietzan

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Excellence in Research Award
1993 Philip G. Peters Jr.
1994 R. Wilson Freyermuth
1995 Philip G. Peters Jr.
1996 Robert J. Pushaw Jr.
1997 Philip G. Peters Jr.
1998 Chris Guthrie
1999 Carl H. Esbeck
2000 Robert J. Pushaw Jr.
2000 Grant S. Nelson
2001 Jean R. Sternlight
2002 Jennifer K. Robbennolt
2003 Stephen D. Easton
2004 Michelle Arnopol Cecil
2004 Jennifer K. Robbennolt
2005 Christina E. Wells
2006 Frank O. Bowman III
2006 Amy B. Monahan
2007 Thomas A. Lambert
2008 Philip G. Peters Jr.
2009 Paul J. Litton
2009 Christina E. Wells
2010 Frank O. Bowman III
2011 Thomas A. Lambert
2011 R. Wilson Freyermuth
2012 Carl H. Esbeck
2014 Paul J. Litton
2014 S.I. Strong
2015 Martha J. Dragich
2016 Carli N. Conklin
2017 S.I. Strong
2018 Thomas W. Lambert
2018 Amy J. Schmitz

Loyd E. Roberts Memorial Prize in the Administration of Justice
1981 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
1982 William F. Fratcher
1983 William A. Knox
1984 James R. Devine
1985 James E. Westbrook
1986 Kenneth D. Dean
1987 Nanette K. Laughrey
1988 Richard B. Tyler
1989 Leonard Riskin
1990 Kenneth D. Dean
1991 James E. Westbrook
1992 Carl H. Esbeck
1993 Jerome M. Organ
1994 William H. Henning
1995 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
1996 Douglas E. Abrams
1997 Leonard L. Riskin
1998 William B. Fisch
1999 Mary M. Beck
2000 Robert M. Lawless
2001 Timothy J. Heinsz
2002 David M. English
2003 Patricia Brumfield Fry
2004 R. Wilson Freyermuth
2005 Dale A. Whitman
2006 David A. Fischer
2007 Kandice K. Johnson
2008 Robert G. Bailey
2009 Richard C. Reuben
2010 Melody Richardson Daily
2011 Greg Scott
2012 Mary M. Beck
2014 Carl H. Esbeck
2015 Philip G. Peters Jr.
2016 Michelle Arnopol Cecil
2017 Wilson Freyermuth
2018 David M. English

Order of Coif Honorary Initiates
1916 J. Lionberger Davis
1917 W. W. Graves
1928 Henry Upson Sims
1929 William T. Ragland
1930 Fred L. Williams
1931 Kimbrough Stone
1932 Guy A. Thompson
1933 Earl F. Nelson
1934 Frank E. Atwood
1935 Edward J. White
1936 Cyrus Crane
1937 Boyle G. Clark
1938 Laurance M. Hyde
1939 C. H. Skinker
1940 Kenneth Teasdale
1941 Allen McReynolds
1942 Robert B. Caldwell
1943 Hugo L. Black
1946 Albert M. Clark
1947 Ransom A. Brewer
1948 Rush H. Limbaugh
1949 John Caskie Collet
1950 W. Wallace Fry
1951 Frank C. Mann
1952 Richmond C. Coburn
1953 Phil M. Donnelly
1954 Albert L. Reeves
1955 Frank Hollingsworth
1956 William E. Kemp
1957 Thomas C. Hennings
1958 Roy W. Harper
1959 Allen L. Oliver
1960 C. A. Leedy Jr.
1961 David R. Hardy
1962 John M. Dalton
1963 Henry J. Westhues
1964 Arthur Mag
1965 Henry I. Eager
1966 Warren E. Hearnes
1967 Norwin D. Houser
1968 D. Jeff Lance
1969 Warren D. Welliver
1970 Lawrence Holman
1971 Ilus W. Davis
1972 Lowell L. Knipmeyer
1973 Thomas F. Eagleton
1974 James H. Meredith
1975 Robert T. Donnelly
1976 Cullen Coil
1977 John Hall Dalton
1978 Robert A. Dempster
1979 Floyd R. Gibson
1980 C. Wallace Walter
1981 John C. Danforth
1982 J. P. Morgan
1983 Donald H. Chisholm
1984 John K. Hulston
1985 Charles L. Bacon
1986 Bob F. Griffin
1987 Scott O. Wright
1988 William T. Session
1989 Fred L. Hall
1990 Ann K. Covington
1991 Karen M. See
1992 Darwin A. Hindman Jr.
1993 John C. Holstein
1994 Herbert Wolkowitz
1995 Frank W. Koger
1996 E. Richard Webber
1997 Ike Skelton
1998 Richard L. Wieler
1999 Anne W. Elsberry
2000 Bill Thompson
2001 Gustav J. Lehr
2002 M. Sean McGinnis
2003 Nancy E. Kenner
2004 Deborah Daniels
2005 Anita R. Estell
2006 Cathy J. Dean
2007 H. Morley Swingle
2008 Rachel L. Bringer
2009 Joyce M. Poehlman Otten
2010 Jack L. Campbell
2011 Mary E. Nelson
2012 David L. Forbes
2014 Michael E. Melton
2016 Jacqueline K. Hamra Mesa
2017 MaryMichael Sterchi
2018 Melodie A. Powelli

Order of Barristers Honorary Initiates
1979 Jack O. Edwards
1980 Judge Robert T. Donnelly
1981 Richmond Coburn
1982 Thomas E. Deacy Jr.
1983 Thomas Strong
1984 Nicholas M. Monaco
1985 Raymond C. Lewis Jr.
1986 Judge Ronald L. Somerville
1987 Larry L. McMullen
1988 John M. Kilroy
1989 John R. Phillips
1990 Mortimer A. Rosecan
1991 David L. Knight
1992 Rebecca McDowell Cook
1993 C. Patrick McLarney
1994 Gretchen Godar Myers
1995 Thomas R. Oswald Jr.
1996 Dale C. Doerhoff
1997 John (Jack) R. Musgrave
1998 Thomas L. Patten
1999 Robert L. Langdon
2000 Walter D. McQuie
2001 Gary A. Tatlow
2002 William S. Ohlemeyer
2003 Robert E. Northrip
2004 Mark T. Kempton
2005 Rodney E. Loomer
2006 John W. Cowden
2007 Joyce M. Capshaw
2008 James C. Morrow
2009 Walter H. Bley Jr.
2010 Susan Ford Robertson
2011 W. Hampton Ford Jr.
2012 Jan Robey Alonzo
2014 Jodie Capshaw Asel
2015 Michelle R. Mangrum
2016 Harvey L. Kaplan
2017 Morry S. Cole
2018 Robert T. Adams

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