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Award 
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.
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.
2008 - John Payton, Legal Defense Fund, and Maureen Thornton
Syracuse, DC Bar Pro Bono Program. May 8, 2008 - US Chamber of
Commerce.
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2007
- Roderick Boggs, Executive
Director of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and
Urban Affairs, and GEICO.
May 3, 2007 - US Chamber of Commerce.
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2006
- Steve Pollak, from Goodwin Procter, Legal Aid Society
of DC and its Executive Director Jonathan Smith.
May 4, 2006 - US Chamber of Commerece.
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2005
- Dan Rezneck, former president of the DC Bar and former partner
at Arnold & Porter, and the Visitors' Services Center
and its Executive Director Ann Keep. May 5, 2005 - National Museum of
Women in the Arts.
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2004
- Lloyd Cutler, from the law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering
LLP, and Women Empowered Against Violence "WEAVE",
Executive Director Lydia Watts.
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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.
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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, Archdiocesan Legal Network.
2000 - E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., Hogan and Hartson, and DC Superior Court's Drug Court Program.
1999 - John H. 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.
