Given each year to a graduate who has distinguished himself or herself in his/her profession, legal or otherwise.
This award is primarily designed to recognize a particularly noteworthy accomplishment in a given year, but may also be given to one who has achieved and sustained an extraordinary level of excellence in a particular area of the law or their chosen field.
Previous Recipients
| 2008 | Thomas J. FitzGerald '80 |
| 2009 | Joseph M. Hood '73 |
| Lewis G. Paisley '76 | |
| Elizabeth L. Thompson '82 | |
| Maj. Gen. (Ret.) D. Allen Youngman '78 | |
| 2010 | Susan S. Clary '81 |
| 2011 | James C. Woolery '94 |
| 2012 | Jane Hanner Allen '91 |
| Rebecca Hanner White '81 | |
| 2013 | Laura Day DelCotto '86 |
| Sheryl Snyder '71 | |
| 2014 | Kenneth R. Taylor '79 |
| 2015 | Roger L. Nicholson '86 |
| Robert F. Houlihan, Jr. '74 | |
| 2016 | Shelley D. Chatfield '93 |
| 2017 | Eric P. Blackhurst '86 |
| 2018 | Lou Anna Red Corn '84 |
| 2019 | Patrick Madden '89 |
| 2020 | Jennifer Moore '98 |
| 2021 | Herb Stapleton '00 |
| 2022 | Shannon Bishop Arvin '02 |
| 2023 | Kimberly H. Baird '96 |
| 2024 | Margaret Pisacano '89 |