Distinguished Service Award: Past Recipients

Award Recipients from 1993-2024

NOTE: Awards were not presented in 2020 or 2021

2024

  • Justice William Bedsworth
  • Ms. Melissa Fowler-Bradley
  • Judge Terry Friedman (Ret.)

2023 (News Release)

  • Justice Lee Smalley Edmon
  • Justice Marsha G. Slough (Ret.)
  • Judge Mark A. Juhas (Aranda Access to Justice Award)

2022 (News Release)

  • Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte (Ret.)
  • Judge Joyce Hinrichs
  • Ms. Sherri R. Carter
  • Ms. Nancy Eberhardt
  • Ms. Diane Cummins
  • Judge Brenda Tillmon (Aranda Access to Justice Award) 

    2019 (News Release)

    • Judge Hillary Chittick
    • Justice Dennis Perluss
    • Judge Carol Brosnahan (Aranda Access to Justice Award) 

    2018 (News Release)

    • Judge Donna Quigley Groman
    • Richard Feldstein
    • Steve Binder

    2017

    • Bet Tzedek
    • Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson
    • Judge Mark A. Juhas
    • Snorri Ogata
    • Judge Erica R. Yew

    2016

    • Alan Carlson
    • Judge Maria D. Hernandez
    • Judge Julia Craig Kelety (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Robert Oyung
    • Judge Colleen Toy White (Aranda Access to Justice Award)

    2015

    • Judge Manuel J. Covarrubias
    • Judge Garry Ichikawa (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Judge Edwin Power
    • Justice Maria P. Rivera
    • David Yamasaki

    2014

    • Commissioner Sue Alexander  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Justice Tricia Ann Bigelow
    • Justice Carol A. Corrigan
    • Judge Michael Nash
    • Ralph Shapiro
    • Justice Mark B. Simons
    • Mr. Curt Soderlund
    • Bench-Bar Coalition, Open Courts Coalition, and State Bar of California

    2013

    • Judge Becky L. Dugan
    • Judge Laurie Earl
    • Justice Laurence D. Kay (Ret.)
    • Judge James R. Lambden  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)   
    • Judge David M. Rothman (Ret.)
    • Leon E. Panetta
    • Kim Turner

    2012

    • Mary Lavery Flynn
    • Justice Richard D. Huffman
    • Judge Wendy S. Lindley
    • Judge Stephen V. Manley
    • Captain Matthew Manoukian (posthumously)
    • Jody Patel
    • Judge Juan Ulloa  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)

    2011 (News Release)

    • Joseph W. Cotchett
    • State Senator Noreen Evans
    • Justice Brad R. Hill
    • Justice Richard D. Huffman
    • Michael Planet
    • Justice Maria Rivera  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Justice Ronald B. Robie
    • William C. Vickrey (Aranda Access to Justice Award)

    2010

    • Curtis L. Child
    • Assembly Member Mike Feuer
    • Judge Arthur G. Scotland
    • Senator Darrell S. Steinberg
    • Justice Laurie Zelon (Aranda Access to Justice Award)

    2009

    • Judge Gordon Baranco  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Justice Ming W. Chin
    • James P. Fox
    • Stephen Nash
    • Gary Windom

    2008

    • Kenneth W. Babcock
    • Judge J. Richard Couzens
    • Judge Francisco F. Firmat  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Sharol Strickland
    • Judge David S. Wesley

    2007

    • Justice Paul Boland (posthumously)
    • Justice Norman L. Epstein
    • Justice Kathleen O'Leary  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Ken Torre
    • Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

    2006

    • Judge Richard D. Aldrich
    • Senator Joe Dunn
    • John M. Hancock
    • Tressa Sloan Kentner
    • Judge Donna M. Petre  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Patricia M. Yerian

    2004-2005

    • Judge Aviva K. Bobb  (Aranda Access to Justice Award) 
    • Judge Frederick Paul Horn
    • Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian
    • Judge Earl Johnson, Jr (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Jody Patel
    • Karen M. Thorson
    • Alba Witkin

    2003

    • Justice Carol A. Corrigan
    • Governor George Deukmejian (Ret.)
    • Judge Leonard P. Edwards
    • Christine M. Hansen
    • James Herman
    • Kenneth M. Kawaichi (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Jeanne Millsaps
    • Justice James D. Ward

    2002

    • Judge James Allen Bascue
    • Tamara Lynn Beard
    • Jay Folberg
    • Judge Lois Haight
    • Judge Donna J. Hitchens (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Ray LeBov

    2001

    • Judge Charles W. Campbell, Jr.  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • William A. Fenwick
    • Justice Daniel J. Kremer
    • Michael M. Roddy

    2000

    • Andrew Guilford
    • Stephen V. Love
    • Justice Judith D. McConnell
    • Judge Veronica S. McBeth (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Christine Patton

    1999

    • Judge James A. Ardaiz
    • Judge Elwood Lui (Ret.)
    • Frederick "Fritz" Ohlrich
    • Justice Kathleen E. O'Leary
    • Justice Judith D. McConnell  (Aranda Access to Justice Award)
    • Kiri S. Torre

    1998

    • Judge John A. Flaherty (Ret.)
    • J. Clark Kelso
    • Susan Null
    • William C. Vickrey

    1997

    • Judge Steven E. Jahr
    • Alan Slater
    • Governor Pete Wilson

    1996

    • Assembly Member Phillip Isenberg
    • Judge Robert M. Mallano
    • Ronald G. Overholt

    1995

    • Sheila Calabro
    • Larry L. Sipes
    • Judge Roger K. Warren

    1994

    • Margaret Morrow
    • Diane Nunn
    • Alan Post
    • Arthur Sims
    • Judge Roy L. Wonder

    1993

    • Richard Chernick
    • Justice Walter Croskey
    • Edward M. Kritzman
    • Judge Patrick J. Morris