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JUDGE BLACK AWARD

The Black Award was created and first awarded during the Section’s second year. Ms. Berry and Ms. Black told Mr. Spain how much this award as meant to their family.

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Elizabeth Black Berry (daughter of the late Judge Norman W. Black); Berte Black (widow of Judge Black), Hon. Steve Kirkland (awardee), and Charles Spain (Section co-founder, past Chair). 

 

2011
Associate Judge Charles Spain

2010
Judge Jerry L. Buchmeyer (posthumously)

We gave our section's highest award (the Judge Norman W. Black award) posthumously to United States District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer for his significant contributions to LGBT legal issues and, in particular, his ruling in Baker v. Wade at our annual meeting in Fort Worth.  His daughter and section member Pamela Buchmeyer accepted the award on behalf of her father and family.  If you were present, you heard her regaling us with heartwarming stories about her father and his devotion to civil rights including his admonishment of the then-State Bar Board after it denied our section's recognition in 1997.

We share with you a wonderful article written by section member Cece Cox about Judge Buchmeyer after his passing last fall: http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_11917.php

2009
Judge Steven E. Kirkland

2008
Ken Upton

2007
John Nechman

2006
Jerry W. Simoneaux, Jr.

2005
Hon. John P. Loza

2004
Justice John Sharp Anderson
Chief Justice Paul C. Murphy III

2003
Roger S. Donley
Matthew P. Eastus
Mitchell Katine
Claire Swift Kugler
Rebecca Robertson
Stephen G. Tipps
Scott F. Wendorf

2002
Phyllis R. Frye

2001
Hon. Debra Danburg
Hon. Senfronia Thompson

2000
Chief Justice Jimmy Carroll
Judge Paul R. Davis, Jr.