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  • May 18, 2016

    Nominations Due July 1 for Charles L. Goldberg Distinguished Service Award

    Annually the Wisconsin Law Foundation awards the prestigious Charles L. Goldberg Distinguished Service Award to a State Bar member for a lifetime of service in the public interest.

    May 18, 2016 – It is a chance to recognize someone for their lifetime of service to community and profession.

    Nominations are due July 1 for the Wisconsin Law Foundation Charles L. Goldberg Distinguished Service Award.

    Nominees are considered based not only upon their accomplishments in the law and service to the legal profession, but also on their service to their local community during their career. Nominations are welcome for any member of the State Bar, and may be submitted by anyone seeking to honor a State Bar member.

    The award will be presented at the 2016 Fellows of the Wisconsin Law Foundation Annual Recognition Dinner in Milwaukee on Oct. 18, 2016.

    To Nominate a Lawyer or Judge

    Nominations are due July 1. Each nomination should include:

    1) a letter of nomination outlining the reasons the lawyer is being nominated;

    2) the nominee’s qualifications in a resume or similar format; and

    3) a maximum of five letters of recommendation from individuals knowledgeable about the nominee’s qualifications.

    For more information, contact Beth Drake, the Foundation program assistant, at (608) 250-6171.

    Who was Charles L. Goldberg?

    Goldberg served as president of the State Bar of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Bar Association. Goldberg won Marquette University's Distinguished Law Alumnus Award in 1972.

    Goldberg was named chairman of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, where membership is considered a professional honor and evidence of distinction as a lawyer, judge or law teacher. He was also a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates and the American Bar Association's standing committee on Constitution and Bylaws.

    Charles L. Goldberg was a native of Milwaukee and received his law degree from Marquette University Law School in 1928.

    Leaders of the judiciary and the State Bar praised him as an outstanding lawyer and pioneer in initiating free legal services for the poor.

    Past recipients of the Charles L. Goldberg Distinguished Service Award are:

    1982 – Ralph M. Hoyt, Milwaukee
    1983 – Robert B. L. Murphy, Madison
    1985 – Victor A. Miller, St. Nazianz and Dean Robert F. Boden, Milwaukee
    1986 – James D. Ghiardi, Milwaukee
    1987 – Gordon Sinykin, Madison
    1988 – Steven E. Keane, Milwaukee
    1989 – John A. Kluwin, Kewaskum
    1990 – George K. Steil Sr., Janesville
    1991 – Rodney O. Kittelsen, Monroe
    1992 – Jack R. DeWitt, Madison
    1993 – Margadette Demet, Milwaukee
    1994 – Hon. Patrick T. Sheedy, Milwaukee
    1995 – Francis J. Wilcox, Eau Claire
    1996 – Justice Nathan S. Heffernan, Madison and Frank J. Remington, Madison
    1997 – Philip S. Habermann, Madison
    1998 – Ben L. Chernov, Milwaukee
    1999 – Gerald M. O'Brien, Stevens Point
    2000 – Truman Q. McNulty, Milwaukee
    2001 – Frank M. Gimbel, Milwaukee
    2002 – Howard B. Eisenberg, Milwaukee
    2003 – Donald L. Heaney, Madison
    2004 – Richard L. Cates, Madison and G. Lane Ware, Wausau
    2005 & 2006 the award was not presented.
    2007 – Dan Hildebrand & Edward M. McCann, Milwaukee
    2008 – Jeffrey B. Bartell, Madison
    2009 – Charles Hanson, La Crosse
    2010 – David G. Walsh, Madison
    2011 – Donald L. Bach, Madison
    2012 - James D. Friedman, Milwaukee
    2013 - John Doar, New York
    2014 - Stephen Hurley, Madison
    2015 - Barbara B. Crabb, Madison


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