Diversity

The CLEO EDGE Award Nominees for

DIVERSITY
Kate Adams – Apple, Inc.
Reyes Aguilar Jr. – University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Carolyn Benton Aiman – Shell Oil
Carla Anderson – University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Mari Carmen Aponte
Dennis Archer – Dickinson Wright
Ruthe Ashley – California LAW, Inc.
Jay Austin – UC Irvine School of Law
Leonard M. Baynes – University of Houston Law Center
*Derrick Bell – New York University School of Law
Hon. Sanford Bishop – United States House of Representatives
Hon. Jeff Bohm – Southern District of Texas
John C. Brittain – University of the District of Columbia – David A. Clarke School of Law
Yannick Brookes – University of Connecticut School of Law
Paulette Brown – Locke Lord LLP
Stephen G. Brown – New York University
Krystal J. Brumfield – Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC)
Margaret Burnham – Northeastern University School of Law
Devon W. Carbado – UCLA School of Law
Jennifer Carpenter – Duke University School of Law
Gilbert Casellas – Omnitru Technologies
Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr. – Civil Rights Lawyer
Hon. Denny Chin – United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Aubrey Coleman – T-Mobile
Hon. Laura A. Cordero – DC Superior Court
Theresa Cropper – Perkins Coie LLP
John Crump – NBA Crump Law Camp
Alba Cruz-Hacker – Hispanic National Bar Association
Lindsey D.G. Dates – Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jeremiah DeBerry – Mayer Brown
Hon. David Delgado – Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois (ret.)
Hon. Bernice B. Donald – United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
John E. Echohawk – Native American Rights Fund
Nathaniel E. Gozansky – Emory University School of Law
Fred D. Gray – Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray, Gray & Nathanson
Hon. Roger L. Gregory – United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Robert J. Grey, Jr. – Hunton & Williams LLP
Vanita Gupta – Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Cheryl I. Harris – UCLA School of Law
John Harris – Ford of Europe, Middle East and Africa
Wade Henderson – Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Tanya Holcomb – Honeywell International Inc.
Dora L. Irizarry – United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Shirley Jefferson – Vermont Law School
Wallace B. Jefferson – Supreme Court of Texas
E. Chris Johnson – Center for Justice, Rights & Dignity
Broderick Johnson, Esq. – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, LLP
Lloyd M. Johnson – Minority Corporate Council Association
Shontavia Johnson – Clemson University
Elaine R. Jones – NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Christopher Kang – National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)
Lisa Parlato LeDonne – Honeywell
Bill Lann Lee – Civil Rights Lawyer
Patricia D. Lee
*Walter J. Leonard, Esq. – Harvard University
Don Liu – Xerox Corporation
Kent Lollis – Law School Admission Council
Hilton Lucas
Sandra Madrid – University of Washington
Policarpio Marmolejos – United States Department of Energy’s Office of Hearings and Appeals
Shauntrice Martin – Bay Area Urban Debate League
Tina Matsuoka – Asian American Bar Association
Michele Coleman Mayes – New York Public Library
Evangeline Mitchell – National Pre-Law Diversity Initiatives, Inc.
Vernā Myers – The Vernā Myers Company
Peggy Nagae – Center for Asian Pacific American Women
John Nausbummer – Thomas M. Cooley Law School
William Neukom – World Justice Project
Kim Norwood – Washington University
Rose Matsui Ochi, Esq.
Roderick A. Palmore – Dentons
Hon. Ed Pastor – Former Member United States House of Representatives, 7th District of Arizona
Deval L. Patrick, Esq. – Bain Capital
Rachel Patrick, Esq.
Rachel Patterson – AccessLex Institute
William G. Paul – Crowe & Dunlevy
Thomas Perez – Democratic National Committee
Hon. Hiram E. Puig-Lugo – Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Erin N. Reeves – Nextions LLC
Donald Remy – National Collegiate Athletic Association
Veta Richardson – Association of Corporate Counsel
William Robinson – University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law
Bruce J. Ruzinsky – Jackson Walker, LLP
Tom Sager – Ballard Spahr
Pauline Schneider, Esq. – Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission
Scott Seifert – United States Department of Justice
Dayrel Sewell – Law Firm of Dayrel Sewell
Peter Shane – The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Theodore Shaw – University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill
Wendy C. Shiba
Elisa Shieh – UC Davis Audit & Management Advisory Services
Dennis Shields – The University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Brad Smith – Microsoft
Brandy Smith – Lincoln Financial Group
*Charles Z. Smith
Dexter Smith – Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
Mary L. Smith – American Bar Association
Michael States – Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Rennard Strickland – University of Oklahoma College of Law
Walter Sutton – Sutton Consulting Services
Yasmine Taeb – The Center for Victims of Torture
Charlotte Taylor – Touro Law Center
Leigh Taylor – Southwestern Law School
Sondra Tennessee – University of Houston Law Center
Hon. Ricardo M. Urbina – United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Retired
Moises (Moe) Vela, Jr. – Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner
Mauricio Videla – U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
H. Thomas Wells, Jr. – Maynard Cooper Gale
Joseph K. West – Duane Morris
Hon. Ann C. Williams – Jones Day
Sidney Williams – Central State University
Benjamin F. Wilson – Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Frank Wu – UC Hastings College of the Law
Sandra Yamate – The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession
Ruqaiijah Yearby – Saint Louis University School of Law
Yolanda Young – Lawyers of Color
Stephen Zack – Boies Schiller Flexner
*Posthumously