New Advocate of the Year Award: Access to Justice Award

PURPOSE

The New Advocate of the Year Award recognizes those who use their legal skills in an active, creative way that produces outstanding benefits for individual clients and the communities in which they live. Eligible nominees are attorneys and paralegals who work with a provider (LSC or non-LSC funded) of civil legal aid to low-income people, who have been employed by their program less than five years. 

HOW TO NOMINATE SOMEONE

The 2025 nomination cycle has closed.

Past Award Winners

2024                Tomi Robb

2023                Elizabeth Leiserson & Julie Yriart

2022                Madison Balducci & Caitlin Hakim

2021                Wesley Dozier & Alexandra Rogers

2020                Danielle Woods

2019                Lucy Boateng & Benjamin Danford

2018                Vanessa Bullock

2017                Christina Magrans-Tillery

2016                Zac Oswald

2015                Robert Downs

2014                Charles E. McDaniel II

2013                Charity Miles Williams & Emily O’Donnell

2012                Adrienne Kittos

2011                Shayla Purifoy

2010                Katie Evans & Chris Coleman

2009                Craig Barnes & Spring Miller

2008                No Award Given

2007                Dawn Gerhardt

2006                McKenna Cox & Sharmila Murphy

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