CBA Record Feb-March 2018

mation or to make reservations, contact Tamra Drees at 312/554-2057 or tdrees@ chicagobar.org. Herman Kogan Media Awards The 29 th Annual Herman Kogan Media Awards luncheon will be held on Thurs- day, May 10, at Petterino’s Restaurant, 150 North Dearborn, Chicago. This year’s luncheon speaker will be Roe Conn, host of the Roe Conn Show on Chicago’s WGN Radio and contributor to ABC7’s Windy City Live. Roe is a regular con- tributor to ABC Radio News and has produced Emmy–winning commentaries for WBBM-TV. For the last decade, Roe has been recognized annually in Talker’ s Magazine’s “100 Most Influential Talk Show Hosts in America.” The Association’s Kogan Awards honor Chicago journalists for outstand- ing reporting in the following categories: print, broadcast and online. The awards are named after legendary and revered Chicago journalist Herman Kogan, whose career spanned 50 years. Kogan was the author of numerous books including: Lords of the Levee, Give the Lady What She Wants , Big Bill of Chicago , The Great Fire: Chicago 1871 , and The Chicago Bar Association’s First Century 1874 - 1974 . Tickets for the luncheon are $60 per person or $600 for a table of ten. For more information or to make reservations for this year’s Kogan Media Awards Luncheon, contact Karen Highley at 312/554-2013 or khighley@ chicagobar.org. This year’s Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball will be held on Friday, April 20, in the Grand Ballroom at the Standard Club. The reception and buffet dinner begin at 6:00 p.m. This year’s ball will feature two new conductors, Marek Rachelski , who works with the CBA’s Symphony Orchestra and Stephen Blackwelder , who is the conductor for the Association’s Chorus. The evening will also include dance lessons, a dance contest, and a silent auction featuring vintage wine donated by Robert Clifford , Cubs tickets, and much more. The silent auction generates much 17th Annual Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball

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CBA President Thomas R. Mulroy and Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans were on hand to congratulate the 2018 Chicago Bar Association Dickerson Awards recipients Lori E. Lightfoot of Mayer Brown LLP (at podium) and Larry R. Rogers, Jr. of Power Rogers & Smith (second from left). The Dickerson Awards, held on February 28, honored Lightfoot and Rogers for their commitment to achieve justice and equality across the legal profession. The awards were established in honor of the late Earl B. Dickerson, one of the first African American members of the CBA, whose career was marked by his courage and dedication to making the law the key to justice for all of society. Photo by Bill Richert.

T he 2018 Vanguard Awards Lun- cheon will be held on Tuesday, April 24, in the Grand Ballroom at the Standard Club. The Vanguard Awards celebrate the diversity of our legal community and honor members of the legal profession and organizations that have and are making a difference. At the April 24 luncheon, 15 Chicago-area bar associations will present the Vanguard Award to the following honorees: Advo- cates Society, the Office of Accessibility and Education Outreach; Arab American Bar Association of Illinois, Judge Samuel Betar III ; Asian American Bar Associa- tion, Raja Gaddipati (posthumous); Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc.; Dorothy Capers ; Cook County Bar Association, Illinois Appel- late Court Justice Shelvin Louise Marie Hall ; Chicago Bar Association, Maryam

Ahmad ; Chinese American Bar Asso- ciation, Gary Zhao ; Decalogue Society, Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer ; Filipino American Lawyers Association , Dennis Mondero; Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, Alex Menchaca ; Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago, Repre- sentative Kelly Cassidy ; Puerto Rican Bar Association, Pedro Soler ; South Asian Bar Association of Chicago, Judge Neera Walsh ; Serbian Bar Association, Veda Dmitrovich ; and the Women’s Bar Asso- ciation, 7 th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Diane P. Wood . A reception for the honorees begins at 11:30 a.m. Brief video acceptance remarks from each of the honorees will be shown at the luncheon, followed by the award presentation. Tickets for the Vanguard Award Luncheon are $70 per person or $700 for a table of ten. For more infor-

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