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)
James W. Cooper Fellows 25th Anniversary Celebration Video
2019 Annual Reception:
May 6, 2019 at the Aqua Turf Club, Plantsville, CT
Keynote Address: Reginald Dwayne Betts, Writer, Poet, Memoirist, Teacher, Lawyer
Clerk for Judge Theodore McKee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Distinguished Service Award: Hon. Anne C. Dranginis, Pullman & Comley LLC
Legal Services Leadership Award: Jean Koh Peters, Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Special Recognition Award: Quinnipiac School of Law
Special Recognition Award: Dean Jennifer Gerarda Brown, Quinnipiac School of Law
Photo credit: Tricia Rose, Tricia Rose Photography
