Annual Awards Dinner

Dean Claudio Grossman, 2012 HNBF Lifetime Leadership Awardee and Mayda Prego, HNBF President

 

Each year the HNBF acknowledges the outstanding achievements and contributions of Latinos in the legal profession at our Awards Dinner & Celebration in July. The HNBF selects honorees in four categories, Judicial Leadership, Academic Leadership, and Lifetime Leadership. When selecting candidates to be honored, we seek leaders whose contributions exemplify the values of the HNBF including the advancement of knowledge, diversity, equality, empowerment, and access. The purpose of the awards are to distinguish leaders and corporations that advance our mission to help Latino students achieve their potential through access to higher education and increase diversity in the legal profession in their own unique way.

 

Purchase tickets and register for the 2013 Annual Awards Dinner Here

 

Past Honorees Include:

2012

Claudio Grossman, Dean and Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law (AUWCL)

HNBF Lifetime Leadership 

Clarissa Cerda, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, LifeLock

HNBF Latina Leadership Award

McKenna Long & Aldridge, Washington, DC

Corporate Visionary Leadership Award

2011

Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina (pictured above with HNBF Board Member Brigida Benitez)

HNBF Lifetime Leadership 



Aida Waserstein

HNBF Judicial Leadership



R. Alexander Acosta

HNBF Academic Leadership 



General Motors

Corporate Visionary Leadership Award

 

2010

Cruz Reynoso

HNBF Lifetime Leadership Award



Natalie M. Gomez-Velez

HNBF Academic Leadership Award



Judge Vanessa Ruiz

HNBF Judicial Leadership Award



Walmart

Corporate Visionary Leadership Award

 

2009

Manuel Medrano, an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning journalist and former award-winning Federal Prosecutor

Marlon Q. Paz, Senior Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and President of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia

David Arroyo, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Scripps Networks, and Chairman of LatinoJustice PRLDEF.

 

2008

The Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)

Professor Miguel A. Mendez (Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School)

 

2007

Norma V. Cantu (Professor of Law and Education, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin)

Andrew Crespo (First Latino elected President of the Harvard Law Review)