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The Justice Potter Stewart Award, named to honor the memory and public service of the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was established in 1997 by the Council for Court Excellence.

The Award recognizes individuals and organizations whose work on behalf of the administration of justice has made a significant contribution to the law, the legal system, the courts, or the administrative process in our nation's capital.

Justice Potter Stewart served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Justice Stewart was educated at Yale University, and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1941. Prior to his service on the high court, Justice Stewart served on the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, as a litigator in private law practice, and for two terms he served as an elected member of the Cincinnati, Ohio City Council.

Please click here to read more about Justice Potter Stewart.

The Council for Court Excellence is indebted to Andy Stewart, the late Justice's widow, and a longstanding and spirited member of the Council's Board, for permission to create the Justice Potter Stewart Award.

2011 Honorees

Peter Edelman, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and leader of the DC Access to Justice Commission; Mary Ann Luby, passionate advocate for justice; and Donald Santarelli, Esq., of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP.

Past Award Recipients

2010 - Pauline Schneider of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, and Rainey Ransom Brandt, Special Counsel to the Chief Judge of the DC Superior Court.

2009 - Earl Silbert, DLA Piper (US) Partner, and Commander Lillian Overton, DC Metropolitan Police Department.

2008 - John Payton, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and Maureen Thornton Syracuse, DC Bar Pro Bono Program.

2007 - Roderick Boggs, Executive Director of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and GEICO.

2006 - Steven Pollak, of Goodwin Procter, and Legal Aid Society of DC and its Executive Director Jonathan Smith.

2005 - Daniel Rezneck, former president of the DC Bar and former partner at Arnold & Porter, and the Visitors' Services Center and its Executive Director Ann Keep.

2004 - Lloyd Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering LLP, and Women Empowered Against Violence "WEAVE", Executive Director Lydia Watts.

2003 - Willie Cook, retired Executive Director of DC's Neighborhood Legal Services Program, and Alan Morrison, Co-founder and Director of Public Citizen Litigation Group.

2002 - Herbert J. "Jack" Miller, Baker Botts, and Samuel F. Harahan, founding Executive Director of the Council for Court Excellence.

2001 - Judith L. Lichtman, President of National Partnership for Women and Families, Archdiocesan Legal Network of Catholic Charities, and posthumously to Charles F. C. Ruff.

2000 - E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., of Hogan and Hartson, and DC Superior Court's Drug Court Program.

1999 - John H. Pickering, of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and Operation Crackdown.

1998 - Jacob A. Stein, of Stein, Mitchell and Mezines, and Dr. Cheryl Bailey, of the District of Columbia Courts.

1997 - Charles A. Horsky, and Charles McC. Mathias, the two Presidents Emeriti of the Council for Court Excellence.

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