Alumni Recognition Awards
The UW Law School Alumni Association invites all UWLS alumni to nominate fellow alumni who practice domestically and abroad
for the extraordinary contributions they make. The Recent Graduate Award, Service Recognition Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Alumni Public Service Award are presented annually at the Alumni Recognition Banquet.
The Recent Graduate Award
The Recent Graduate Award was created in 2008 to recognize alumni who have graduated from UW School of Law within the last ten years and "have made an outstanding contribution to such fields as the practice of law, the judiciary, public service, government, business, or commerce."
Past Recipients of the Recent Graduate Award include:
The Service Recognition Award
The Service Recognition Award was created in 1973 by the Alumni Association Board of Trustees as a means of recognizing alumni for contributing actively toward the welfare of the Law School and its students for some length of time or in some significant manner.
Past Recipients of the Service Recognition Award include:
- Jonathan Bridge '76
- Dave Broom '63
- Robert D. Duggan '61
- Mary Ann Ekman '75
- Anne Ellington '74
- Kimberly Ellwanger '85
- Jerome Farris '58
- Dan Finney '88
- Jose Gaitan '76
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- Bruce Garrison '78
- Gregory Gorder '85
- Joseph Gordon '35
- Camden M. Hall '65
- John C. Huston '52
- Hon. Richard A. Jones '75
- Polly McNeill '87
- Michael Mines '54
- G. Richard Morry '70
- Shan Mullin '58
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- Walter Pitts '52
- Robert Redman '57
- Marjorie Rombauer ‘60
- Daniel Sullivan '55
- Richard J. Thompson '68
- Julie Weston '69
- Lish Whitson '72
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The Distinguished Alumni Award
The Distinguished Alumni Award is presented each year to alumni who demonstrate a record of civic, professional, and community service.
Past Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award include:
- Gerry Alexander '63
- James A. Andersen '51
- Grant Armstrong '29
- Stanley H. Barer '63
- Frederick V. Betts '33
- Elizabeth Bracelin '69
- Robert Brachtenbach '54
- Bobbe Bridge '76
- Jonathan Bridge '76
- Jeffrey Brotman '67
- Robert Bryan '58
- Cleary S. Cone '51
- Richard Cosway
- Vern Countryman '42
- Harry M. Cross '40
- Gordon C. Culp '42
- John Davis '40
- Norman D. Dicks '68
- Carolyn Dimmick '53
- William Downing ‘78
- William L. Dwyer '52
- James R. Ellis '49
- John W. Ellis '53
- Betty B. Fletcher '56
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- Thomas S. Foley '57
- Marian G. Gallagher '37
- Michael D. Garvey '64
- William H. Gates, Sr. '50
- John Gavin '35
- D. Wayne Gittinger '57
- Murray Guterson '52
- William A. Helsell '50
- Mathew W. Hill '17
- Charles Horowitz '27
- John Huneke '35
- Charles V. Johnson '57
- Bradley T. Jones '41
- Mary Ellen Krug '43
- Sam L. Levinson '25
- Scott Lukins '54
- Warren G. Magnuson '29
- Norm Maleng '66
- Muriel Mawer '35
- Jerry McNaul '68
- Shan Mullin '58
- William Fremming Nielsen '63
- John R. Price
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- Constance Proctor '78
- Toni C. Rembe '60
- Luvern V. Rieke '49
- Judith M. Runstad '74
- John N. Rupp '37
- Kenneth L. Schubert '64
- Alfred J. Schweppe
- Warren L. Shattuck '34
- Harold S. Shefelman
- Charles Z. Smith '55
- Virginia Smith '46
- Stanley C. Soderland '39
- Philip A. Trautman '54
- Irwin Treiger '57,
- Robert F. Utter '54
- DeWitt Williams '32
- Eugene A. Wright '37
- Griffith Way '49
- Jerry McNaul '68
- Chang Rok Woo '83
- Jerry Zhu ‘82
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The Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Alumni Public Service Award
Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Alumni Public Service Award, which is not necessarily given every year, was created 1997 to honor those alumni who have shown evidence of stature or significant advancement in the area of Public Service over a period of years since graduation from the UW School of Law and have demonstrated a continuity of interest in some form toward the University of Washington School of Law.
Past Recipients of the Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Alumni Public Service Award include:
- Gerry Alexander ‘64
- Thomas S. Foley '57
- Norm Dicks '68
- Robert Utter '54
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- Betty Fletcher '56
- Jerome Farris '58
- Ronald E. Cox '72
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- Norm Maleng '66
- Todd Larson '88
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The Lifetime Service Recognition Award
The Lifetime Service Recognition Award is given at this discretion of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees as a means of recognizing individuals who have contributed actively toward the welfare of the Law School and its students for some length of time or in some significant manner.