Morsch Award Recipients
2012 – Marta C. Bukata
Marta C. Bukata, a professor in her native Argentina before coming to Chicago in 1972, has dedicated nearly her entire legal career to tirelessly advocating for some of the most vulnerable people in our community: children and victims of domestic violence. Since 1986, Marta has played an integral role at the Chicago Legal Clinic, where she has served as Deputy Director since 1989…
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2011 – Richard T. Cozzola
Richard Cozzola is Supervising Attorney of the Children’s Law Project at Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago where he has worked for more than 14 years. Prior to LAF he helped develop the curriculum for the CIVITAS ChildLaw Center at Loyola University Chicago School of Law as its first Program Director, served as Director of Training…
read more ...2010 – Benjamin S. Wolf, Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois, Inc.
2009 – Margaret Stapleton, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
2008 – Alan A. Alop, LAF
2007 – Ann Hilton Fisher, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
2006 – Eugene C. Edwards, LAF
2005 – Alan Mills, Uptown People’s Law Center
2005 – Andrew J. Cohen, LAF (Special Award)
2004 – Susan Kaplan, Community Economic Development Law Project
2003 – Frances Corwin, Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services
2002 – Marshall J. Hartman, Office of the Illinois Appellate Defender
2001 – Margaret C. Benson, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
2000 – William P. Wilen, National Center on Poverty Law
1999 – Edward I. Grossman, Chicago Legal Clinic
1998 – Laurene M. Heybach, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
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