Pro Bono Award
Past Recipients
2023
Chairman of the Board’s Torchbearer Award – Mississippi Bar, Litigation Section
Beacon of Justice – Hinds County Chancery Court, 5th Chancery District
Curtis E. Coker – Harry Yoste, Esq.
Pro Bono Award – Carolyn McAlister, Esq.; Malissa Wilson, Esq.; and Ms. Yumekia Jones
2022
Chairman of the Board’s Torchbearer Award – Trustmark Bank
Beacon of Justice – Honorable Joseph Kilgore, 6th District Chancery Court and Honorable Debra Giles, 9th District Chancery Court
Curtis E. Coker – Mississippi Access to Justice Commission and Mississippi College School of Law
Pro Bono Award- BJ Morrow, Esq.; Charity Bruce, Esq.; Heather Hall, Esq.; Mandie Robinson, Esq.; Perry Taylor, Esq.
2020
Erica Haymer, Esq.
University of Mississippi School of Law's Pro Bono Initiative
Louwlynn Williams, Esq.
2019
Lee County Bar Association
Ellen Patton Robb, Esq.
Shakita Lanette Taylor, Esq.
2018
Meredith Brasfield, Esq.
Harrison County Bar Association
Amanda Proctor, Esq.
2017
Katina Seymour Demoran, Esq.
Magnolia Bar Association
Seth Shannon, Esq.
Washington County Bar Association
2016
Susan Culpepper, Culpepper Law Firm of Oxford, MS
Leonard Curtis, Owner/Attorney at Law at Curtis Law Firm, PLLC of Clinton, MS
Jennie Eichelberger, The Eichelberger Law Firm, PLLC of Jackson, MS
Bradley Rath, Bradley W. Rath, PLLC of Biloxi, MS
2015
Brandi Ajpacaja, Esq.,Law Offices of Brandi L Ajpacaja, PLLC
Josie Mayfield Hudson, Esq., Law Office of Josie Mayfield Hudson, PLLC
Jennifer L. Morgan, Esq., Holland Law PC
Ralph Price, Esq., Attorney at Law
2014
Walter H. Boone
Brandi Denton Gatewood
Alan L. Moore
McDuff & Byrd
Mississippi College School of Law’s Family and Children's Law Center
University of Mississippi School of Law’s VITA Tax Clinic.
2013
Mary “Mimi” Arthur, Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy, LLP
Zachary B. Busey, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Steve Headrick, Attorney at Law
Michael D. Wilson, Law Office of Michael Wilson PLLC
Merkel & Cocke, P.A., Matthews, Cutrer & Lindsay, P.A
2011
John Anderson, Private Practitioner
Professor Deborah H. Bell, University of Mississippi School of Law
Gayla Carpenter-Sanders, Wells Marble & Hurst, PLLC
Mark A. Chinn, Chinn and Associates, PLLC
Courtney Cockrell, Morgan & Morgan
La’Verne Edney, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Powell “Gee” Ogletree, Jr., Adams and Reese, LLP
Kenya Rachal, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Denita Smith, Private Practitioner
Vangela Wade, The Wade Law Firm, PLLC
Robert Williamson, Baria-Williamson, PLLC
Chancellor Marie Wilson, 9th Chancery District of Mississippi
Tchanavia Bryant
Frank Leli
Mallory Miller
Kate Morgan
2010
Adams and Reese LLP
Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, PLLC
Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC
Robinson, Biggs, Ingram, Solop & Farris, PLLC
Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A.
George Fair, Watkins & Eager, PLLC
Patricia Herlihy, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, P.A.
Bradley C. Moody, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Eleanor Faye Peterson, The Peterson Group LLC
Ermea J. Russell, Russell Law Firm, PLLC
Leigh Vernon, Watkins & Eager, PLLC
T. Murry Whalen, Private Practitioner
Debra Giles, Private Practitioner
Zandrea Yvette King, Private Practitioner
Dellwyn Smith, Private Practitioner
Damon Ramon Stevenson, Stevenson Legal Group, PLLC
Damian Crooks, Cody Gibson