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Past Award of Merit HonoreesThe Award of Merit recognizes outstanding service and contributions to the DBA and legal profession, or rendered in the interest of the improvement of the administration of justice. Criteria: lawyer, judge or law professor who is a regular member of the DBA and whose distinguished career exemplifies the purpose of the Award of Merit. 1957—Floyd F. Walpole 1958—Ira Quiat 1959—David Rosner 1960—Royal Rubright 1961—Norma L. Comstock 1962—Charles W. Works 1963—David Brofman 1964—Robert W. Steele 1965—Noah Alter 1966—Peter H. Holme 1967—M.B. Holt Jr. 1968—Lawrence M. Wood 1969—William P. Cantwell 1970—Charles A. Baer 1971—John E. Gorsuch 1972—Harry S. Silverstein 1973—Louis G. Isaacson 1974—Richard P. Brown 1975—Edwin A. Williams 1976—Henry J. Walsmith 1977—Sidney H. Grossman 1978—Anthony F. Zarlengo 1979—George C. Keeley 1980—Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. 1981—Phillip G. Dufford 1982—Mandel Berenbaum 1983—Kenneth E. Barnhill, Jr. 1984—Philip Hornbein, Jr. 1985—William K. Ris 1986—Omer L. Griffin 1987—H. Harold Calkins 1988—O. Otto Moore 1989—Robert Booms & Shannon Robinson 1990—Howard I. Rosenberg 1991—Daniel S. Hoffman 1992—Jon Asher 1993—Willis Carpenter 1994—Garth Grissom 1995—Thomas deMarino 1996—Hal Feder (posthumously) 1997—Dale Harris 1998—Judge Al Harrell 1999—Judge Leonard Plank 2000—Steve Choquette 2001—Judge Robert Kapelke 2002—Edwin S. Kahn 2003—Ben Aisenberg 2004—Brooke Wunnicke 2005—John Castellano 2006—Tony van Westrum 2007—John T. Baker 2008—Stanton D. Rosenbaum 2009—William P. DeMoulin (posthumously) 2010—Mark Fogg 2011—David C. Little 2012—Elsa Martinez Tenreiro |