The Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights
The American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law is pleased to announce that nominations for the sixth annual Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights are now being accepted. Each year, an award is presented to an individual or an organization that has performed exemplary service in furthering the rights, dignity, and access to justice for people with disabilities.
The 2005 award went to the Honorable Judge Rhonda J. Brown, a disability rights advocate and Review Judge, employed by the by the Washington State Employment Security Department. The other past award recipients include: Anil Lewis (a blind advocate and assistant program counselor), Disability Rights Advocates, Mr. Robert Perske (disability rights advocate), Professor Stan Herr (professor, lawyer, and advocate), Marylou Breslin and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and Professor Jim Ellis (professor, lawyer, and advocate).
Join us in recognizing outstanding public service to some of the 54 million Americans with disabilities. Paul G. Hearne was a distinguished advocate for those Americans, so please help us to make the award recipient a truly distinguished individual or organization. Enclosed is a nomination form with a statement of the selection criteria.
Send your nomination form and attachments to:
Jamie Hochman Herz
American Bar Association
Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
321 N. Clark St. Mail Stop 19.1
Chicago, IL 60201
herzj@staff.abanet.org
312-988-5682
—All forms must be postmarked by March 1, 2006—
Download the nomination form at this link -- [MS Word]
2006-04-04 00:00:00
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