CONTACT: Teresa Weidemann-Smith
State Bar of Wisconsin
(800) 444-9404, ext. 6025
twsmith@wisbar.org
DeWitt Receives Distinguished Law Foundation
Award
Local attorney is presented with the Inaugural Truman Q. McNulty
Award
MADISON, November 22, 2004 – The Fellows of
the Wisconsin Law Foundation recently presented Jack Richard DeWitt with
the Inaugural Truman Q. McNulty Service Award. The Truman Q. McNulty
Service Award is presented from time to time to selected State Bar of
Wisconsin attorneys who best typify the ideals which inspired the
creation of the Fellows of the Wisconsin Law Foundation. DeWitt was
honored with the award for a lifetime of distinguished service to the
legal profession, the State Bar of Wisconsin, and for his leadership in
educating the public in the rule of law.
DeWitt, a 1994 co-founder of DeWitt Ross & Stevens law firm in
Madison, earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law
School in 1942. He was elected president of the State Bar (1975-76) and
served as chair of the State Bar of Wisconsin Board of Governors. He is
a former recipient of the Charles L. Goldberg Award of the Wisconsin Law
Foundation and the UW Law School Alumni Association Distinguished
Service Award.
Attorney Truman McNulty served as a former State Bar president
(1978-79) and was instrumental in the creation of the Wisconsin Law
Foundation. The Fellows assist the Wisconsin Law Foundation in carrying
out its objective of making gifts to charitable or educational programs
to promote public understanding of the law, improvement of the
administration of justice or other law related public service. Law
Related Education programs include the High School Mock Trial program,
Community Adolescent programs, Community Justice Task Forces and legal
education publishing.
For more information on the Fellows or the Wisconsin Law Foundation,
contact John Daugherty, Wisconsin Law Foundation Development Director at
(608) 250-6038.
The State Bar of Wisconsin is the mandatory professional association,
created by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, for attorneys who hold a law
license in Wisconsin. With more than 21,000 members, the State Bar aids
the courts in improving the administration of justice, provides
continuing legal education for its members, and carries out initiatives
to educate the public about the legal system.
For more information about the State Bar of Wisconsin, visit www.wisbar.org.
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