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
