2025 Annual Reception
May 1, 2026 at the Madison Beach Hotel
Keynote Address: Chief Justice Raheem L. Mullins
Special Recognition: Isabel Chenoweth
Anthony M. Fitzgerald Award for Excellence: Amy Eppler-Epstein, New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Photo Credit: Tricia Rose, Tricia Rose Photography
2024 Annual Reception:
May 30, 2024 at Saint Clements Castle & Marina
Keynote Address: Director Rachel Rossi, Office for Access to Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
Anthony M. Fitzgerald Award for Excellence: Center for Children's Advocacy, accepted by Martha Stone, Executive Director
Photo credit: Tricia Rose, Tricia Rose Photography
2023 Annual Reception:
May 18, 2023 at Saint Clements Castle & Marina
Keynote Address: Emily Bazelon, Yale Law School
Anthony M. Fitzgerald Award for Excellence: Deborah R. Witkin, Executive Director, Connecticut Legal Services
Photo credit: Tricia Rose, Tricia Rose Photography
2021 Virtual Annual Reception:
October 5, 2021
Keynote Address: Dr. Jamila Michener, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University
Co-Director, Cornell Center for Health Equity and author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
Followed by Q&A with Anika Singh Lemar, Clinical Professor, Yale Law School
Anthony M. Fitzgerald Award for Excellence: New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Distinguished Service Award: Staff and Judges of the Connecticut Judicial Branch
Special Recognition Award: Ralph Monaco
2020 Virtual Annual Reception:
September 23, 2020
Welcome: Timothy A. Diemand, President, CBF Board of Directors
Thank you and Acknowledgements: Natalie S. Wagner, Executive Director, CBF
Anthony M. Fitzgerald Award for Excellence: Connecticut Veterans Legal Center (watch the video)
Distinguished Service Award: Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson (watch the video)
Legal Services Leadership Award: David A. Pels (in memoriam) (watch the video)
