Past Award Recipients
The Citation Award
Created in 1961, the Citation Award recognizes Boalt graduates who have made exceptional contributions to the bar, the bench, legal scholarship, the state, the nation, and the world.
The Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
The Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award honors the lifelong contributions and accomplishments of an exemplary Boalt Faculty Member.
The Young Alumni Award
The Young Alumni Award is given to an alumnus/ae who has graduated in the past 15 years and has made significant contributions to his or her community through professional, charitable or other public service activities, extraordinary service to the law school and other achievements.
2012 Centennnial Gala held in lieu of Awards Dinner - Awards not given
2011 Jess S. Jackson (1930 – 2011) '55, Citation Award
E. Patricia Herron ‘64, Citation Award
Mitchell Zuklie ‘96, Young Alumni Award
Kathleen Vanden Heuvel ’86, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
2010 Irving Tragen '45, Citation Award
Nan Joesten '97, Young Alumni Award
Edward Halbach, Jr., Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
2009 Stuart Gordon '65, Citation Award
Richard Buxbaum ’53, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
Laura Parsky ’95, Young Alumni Award
2008 Dale Minami '71, Citation Award
Mallun Yen '95, Young Alumnus Award
Melvin Eisenberg, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
2007 Werner Wolfen '53, Citation Award
Kathi Pugh '90, Young Alumnus Award
Sandy Kadish, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
2006 Michael E. Tigar ' 66, Citation Award
Jon S. Tigar '89, Young Alumnus Award
I. Michael Heyman, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
2005 David R. Andrews '71, Citation Award
Jesse H. Choper, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
2004 Robert C. Berring '74, Citation Award
2003 Elizabeth Cabraser '78, Citation Award
Henry Ramsey Jr. '63, Citation Award
Herma Hill Kay, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
2002 Kathryn Mickle Werdegar '62, Citation Award
Mark Lemley '91, Young Alumnus Award
2001 Larry Sonsini '66
2000 Thelton Henderson '62
1999 David Frohnmayer '67
1998 Joanne Garvey '61
Paula E. Boggs '84, Young Alumnus Award
1997 Babette Barton '54
1996 Jerome Falk, Jr. '65
Jeffrey L. Bleich '89, Young Alumnus Award
1995 Forrest Plant '49
1994 Cruz Reynoso '58
1993 Richard Clarke '55
Jami Floyd '89, Young Alumnus Award
1992 Raoul Magana '35
James O'Brien '35
1991 Allen Broussard '53
1990 Hans Linde '50
1989 Harry Pregerson '50
J. Clifford Wallace '55
1988 Neil Goldschmidt '67
1987 Louis Heilbron '31
Sam Kagel '48
1986 Richard Lamm '61
Peter Wilson '62
1985 Vernon Goodin '40
Mildred Lillie '38
1984 Robert Bridges '33
William Edlund '53
1983 D. Lowell Jensen '52
Robert Raven '52
1982 Wakefield Taylor '37
Edwin Meese, III '58
1981 Martin Gang '27
William Orrick, Jr. '41
1980 George Johnson '29
Marcus Mattson '30
1979 G. William Miller '52
1978 Frank Newman '41
1977 William Godward '37
1976 Richard Jennings '39
Stefan Riesenfeld '37
Arthur Sherry '32
1975 John Doar '49
1974 John Goldberg '17
1973 Matthew Tobriner '32
1972 Adrian Kragen '34
1971 Bernard Witkin '28
1970 Phillip Ehrlich '13
1969 Alfonso Zirpoli '28
1968 Edward Barrett, Jr. '41
1967 Stanley Barnes '25
1966 Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong '15
W. Warren Ferrier, Jr. '14
1965 Dean Rusk '40
Herman Selvin '27
1964 Walter Gordon '22
Herman Phleger '14
1963 Raymond Peters '27
Homer Crotty '22
1962 Warren Olney, III '27
Jesse Steinhart '03
1961 Earl Warren '14
Roger Traynor '27
