2025 Pro Bono Trust Fund Breakfast Sponsors
Previous award recipients
2024
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| Individual Attorney | Gail Groy |
| Law Student | Evan Sadlon, Jodi Klagos, Julie Kim |
| Law Firm | Quarles & Brady LLP; Alliant Energy |
| Community Partner | Vera Court Neighborhood Association |
| Lifetime Achievement | Josh Kindkleppel |
| 2023 |
| Individual Attorney | Cheryl Furstace Daniels |
| Law Student | Amber Heidenreich and Autumn Ruleau |
| Law Firm | Schuster Family Law |
| Community Partner | Urban League of Greater Madison |
| Lifetime Achievement | Norma Kropp |
| Service to Justice | Judge Juan B. Colas |
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| 2022 |
| Individual Attorney | Amanda Gennerman |
| Law Student | Riley Palmer and Maddison Stallman |
| Law Firm | Krekeler Strother S.C. |
| Community Partner | Norma Kropp and Madison College |
| Lifetime Achievement | Kristina J. Rasmussen |
| 2021 |
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| Independent Attorney | William (Woody) Stanley |
| Law Student | Claire Schaible, Emma Woods, Elizabeth Fuller |
| Law Firm | Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. |
| Community Partner | Attorneys Katie Harrell (Stafford Rosenbaum LLP), Breanne Snapp (Habush Habush & Rottier) and Ray Feliz (Oasis Legal Group) were recognized for their work with Centro Hispano of Dane County’s monthly legal clinics. |
| 2020 |
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| Independent Attorney | Carousel Bayrd |
| Law Student | Angela O’Brien |
| Law Firm | West & Dunn |
| Lifetime | John Mitby |
| Special Service | Iris Christenson |
| 2019 |
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| Independent Attorney | Kathryn Pfefferle |
| Law Student | William Grau |
| Law Firm | Foley & Lardner, LLP and Husch Blackwell, LLP |
| Lifetime | Dan LaRoque |
| Special Service | Veronica Vega |
| Other | Eviction Defense Project - Legal Action of Wisconsin |
| 2018 |
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| Independent Attorney | Talita Bornholdt |
| Law Student | Niabi Schmaltz |
| Lifetime | Marilyn Townsend |
| Special Service | Chris Jarosh |
| Other | CUNA Mutual Group |
| Community Partner | Dane County |
| 2017 |
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| Independent Attorney | Jason Knutson |
| Law Student | Emmiline Lee |
| Law Firm | Hawks Quindel, SC |
| Lifetime | Tenant Resource Center & Ed Garvey (posthumous) |
| 2016 |
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| Independent Attorney | Charles Ver Hoeve |
| Law Student | Tiffany Woelfel & Brandon Tillman |
| Law Firm | Merchant & Gould |
| Other | Jeff Brown, State Bar of WI |
| 2015 |
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| Independent Attorney | Dera Johnsen-Tracy |
| Law Student | Amanda Meyers |
| Law Firm | Quarles & Brady, LLP |
| Other | ACLU Mass Defense |
| 2014 |
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| Independent Attorney | Andrew DeClercq |
| Law Student | Liz Bradley |
| Law Firm | Boardman & Clark |
| Special Service | Lori Lubinsky |
| 2013 |
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| Independent Attorney | Margaret Maroney |
| Law Student | Lia Ocasio |
| Law Firm | Foley & Lardner, LLP |
| 2012 |
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| Independent Attorney | H. Wes Taylor |
| Law Student | Jennifer Cunha |
| Lifetime | Mary Beth Keppel |
| Organization Award | Community Immigration Law Center |
| 2011 |
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| Independent Attorney | Dan O'Callaghan |
| Law Student | Christine Heywood |
| Lifetime | William White |
| Retired Attorney | Michael Gengler & Edith Sullivan |
| 2010 |
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| Independent Attorney | Paul Schwarz |
| Law Firm | Gennerman Mazzie Briscoe Law Group, LLC |
| Lifetime | David J. Harth |
| 2009 |
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| Independent Attorney | Hannah Renfro |
| Law Student | Anne Applebaum |
| Law Firm | Foley & Lardner, LLP |
| 2008 |
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| Independent Attorney | Christopher Krimmer |
| Law Student | Emily Long |
| Law Firm | Quarles & Brady, LLP |
| Lifetime | Rhea Myers |
| Organization Award | UW Madison Pro Bono Project |
| 2007 |
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| Independent Attorney | Earl Munson |
| Law Student | Katie Holms |
| Law Firm | Foley & Lardner, LLP and Heller Ehrman, LLP |
| 2006 |
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| Independent Attorney | Timothy Radelet |
| Law Student | Regal Qick-Severin |
| Special Service | Allan Koritzinsky |
| 2005 |
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| Independent Attorney | Ramona Nater and Rhonda Hazen |
| Lifetime | John Skilton |
| 2004 |
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| Independent Attorney | Irene Wren |
| Distinguished Service | Roy Froemming |
| Community Professional | Paula Seeger |
| 2003 |
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| Independent Attorney | John Robinson |
| Law Student | Claire Starling |
| Lifetime | Larry Hanson |
| 2002 |
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| Independent Attorney | Sara Buscher |
| Law Firm | Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP |
| Distinguished Service | Troy Mayne |
| 2001 |
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| Independent Attorney | Lawrie Kobza |
| Special Service | Ed Baker |
| Distinguished Service | Mark Borns |
| Government Agency | Mary Beth Keppel |
| Organization Award | Family Law Assistance Center |
OVER 100 GUESTS ATTENDED THE 2025 BREAKFAST, WHICH WAS HELD ON MAY 1 AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. 
UW LAW SCHOOL DEAN DANIEL TOKAJI PRESENTED THE LAW STUDENT AWARD TO SHRUTI PANDEY.
Judge Jacob Frost presented the individual attorney award to mai chao chang of boardman & clark. (Accepted on her behalf by her colleague, Dan Gratzke)
judge ryan nilsestuen presented the law firm award to hawks quindel.
judge frank j. remington presented the community partner award to the tenant resource center.
jennifer binkley presented the lifetime achievement award to judge frank j. remington.
attorney carousel bayrd, of the dane county executive's office, gave keynote remarks.