Past Earl B. Dickerson Award Recipients:

Hon. Harold Washington (1990)
Mayor, City of Chicago

Hon. Charles E. Freeman (1991)
Chief Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Hon. Thurgood Marshall (1992)
Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Hon. George N. Leighton (1993)
Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Hon. Earl E. Strayhorn (1994)
Presiding Judge, First Municipal District, 
Circuit Court of Cook County

Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious (1995)
Partner, Holleb & Coff

James D. Montgomery (1996)
James D. Montgomery & Associates, Ltd.

Hon. Ann C. Williams (1997)
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Hon. William Cousins, Jr. (1998)
Justice, Illinois Appellate Court

Earl L. Neal (2000)
Earl L. Neal & Associates

Hon. Damon J. Keith (2001)
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Hon. Timothy C. Evans (2002)
Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County

Hon. John H. Stroger, Jr. (2003)
President, Cook County Board of Commissioners

Hon. Blanche M. Manning (2004)
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Hon. Glenn T. Johnson (2005)
Ret. Illinois Appellate Court Justice

Hon. R. Eugene Pincham (2006)
Ret. Illinois Appellate Court Justice

Donald Hubert (2007)
The Hubert Law Group

Rita A. Fry (2008)
Retired Cook County Public Defender

Eileen M. Letts (2008)
Greene and Letts

Chester L. Blair (2009)
Blair & Cole

Larry R. Rogers, Sr. (2010)
Power, Rogers & Smith, P.C.

Hon. Cynthia Y. Cobbs (2011)
Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts

Hon. Patricia Brown Holmes, ret. (2013)
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Hon. Joy  V. Cunningham (2014)
Illinois Appellate Court, First District

Hon. Shelvin Louise Marie Hall  (2015)
Illinois Appellate Court, First District

Hon. Marilyn F. Johnson  (2016)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Hon. LeRoy K. Martin, Jr.  (2016)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Josie M. Gough (2017)
Loyola University School of Law

Graham C. Grady (2017)
Taft Stettinius & Hollister

Robert F. Harris (2017)
Cook County Public Guardian

Lori E. Lightfoot (2018)
Mayer Brown LLP

Larry R. Rogers, Jr. (2018)
Power Rogers & Smith

Maurice Grant (2019) 
Grant Law LLC

Hon. Sophia H. Hall (2019)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Langdon D. Neal (2019)
Neal & Leroy

Nina Fain (2020)
JSS Family Trusts

G.A. Finch (2020)
Hoogendoorn & Talbot LLP

Hon. Cheyrl D. Ingram (2020)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Hon. Diane M. Shelley (2020)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Hon. Anthony L. Young (ret.) (2020)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Judge David H. Coar (ret.) (2021)
JAMS

Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman (2021)
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Patrick Dankwa John (2021)
The Law Office Of Patrick Dankwa John, PC

Greta Weathersby (2021)
WEC Energy Group, Inc.

Judge Andrea M. Buford (2022) 
Child Protection Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County 

Kwame Raoul (2022) 
Illinois Attorney General   

Hon. Patrice M. Ball-Reed (2023)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Hon. Clarence L. Burch (2023)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Kenya A. Jenkins-Wright (2023)
General Counsel, Illinois Guardianship & Advocacy Commission

Hon. Preston Jones, Jr. (2023)
Circuit Court of Cook County

Erica Kirkwood (2023)
Vice President and General Counsel, GMA Construction Group

Derrick M. Thompson, Jr. (2023)
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP