Posted by The annual St. Crispin’s Day event (22 years and counting!) is in the history books. We handed out Crispin Stars to 40 people. You’ll see the commemorative pin below.
Our friend Stephen Johnson describes the award this way: “A Crispin Star reflects and honors the advocacy promoted by Jake Waldrop. Specifically, an advocacy that not only seeks the best legal result, but also attempts to reverse or stall the downward trajectory our clients find themselves in. A Crispin Star could easily be a Crispin Life Preserver because that was the vision of indigent representation espoused by Jake in both words and actions―to lift up our clients from the waves they were drowning under.” Over the next year, please email nominations (including yourself!) to Stephen. Here is the list of this year’s winners:
- Randi Bain
- Joanne Jean-Baptiste
- Joe Blum
- Darold Bradley
- Ross Brockway
- Wes Bryant
- Liz Chadwick
- Jordan Dayan
- Hilary Dixon
- Millie Dunn
- Angie Felton
- Alejandro Fernandez
- Colin Garrett
- Michael Gelb
- Melanie Goodwill
- Casey Hall
- Suzanne Hashimi
- Tom Hawker
- VJ Henville
- Jessica Hicks
- Nicole Kaplan
- Claire Keifer
- Laila Kelley
- Mark Jeffrey
- Stephen Johnson
- Vidhi Joshi
- Melissa McGrane
- Michelle McIntyre
- Cynthia Park
- Amberly Price
- Hector Mariana
- Romonica Sanford
- Celia Sang
- Rebecca Shepard
- Jayson Shannon
- Natasha Silas
- Keenen Twymon
- Caitlyn Wade
- Estrell Young III
- Sean Young
We also inducted five people into the Acquittal Club. They made the Bill of Rights shine bright during this dark year. Congratulations to these trial champions:
- Kristen Novay
- Don Samuel
- Molly Parmer
- Emily Strongwater
- Jay Strongwater
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