2026 Pro Bono Trust Fund Breakfast Sponsors
Previous award recipients
| 2025 |
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| Individual Attorney | Mai Chao Chang |
| Law Student | Shruti Pandey |
| Law Firm | Hawks Quindel S.C. |
| Community Partner | Tenant Resource Center |
| Lifetime Achievement | Judge Frank J. Remington |
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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| Individual 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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| Individual Attorney | Carousel Bayrd |
| Law Student | Angela O’Brien |
| Law Firm | West & Dunn |
| Lifetime | John Mitby |
| Special Service | Iris Christenson |
| 2019 |
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| Individual 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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| Individual 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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| Individual Attorney | Jason Knutson |
| Law Student | Emmiline Lee |
| Law Firm | Hawks Quindel, SC |
| Lifetime | Tenant Resource Center & Ed Garvey (posthumous) |
| 2016 |
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| Individual 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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| Individual Attorney | Dera Johnsen-Tracy |
| Law Student | Amanda Meyers |
| Law Firm | Quarles & Brady, LLP |
| Other | ACLU Mass Defense |
| 2014 |
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| Individual Attorney | Andrew DeClercq |
| Law Student | Liz Bradley |
| Law Firm | Boardman & Clark |
| Special Service | Lori Lubinsky |
| 2013 |
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| Individual Attorney | Margaret Maroney |
| Law Student | Lia Ocasio |
| Law Firm | Foley & Lardner, LLP |
| 2012 |
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| Individual Attorney | H. Wes Taylor |
| Law Student | Jennifer Cunha |
| Lifetime | Mary Beth Keppel |
| Organization Award | Community Immigration Law Center |
| 2011 |
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| Individual Attorney | Dan O'Callaghan |
| Law Student | Christine Heywood |
| Lifetime | William White |
| Retired Attorney | Michael Gengler & Edith Sullivan |
| 2010 |
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| Individual Attorney | Paul Schwarz |
| Law Firm | Gennerman Mazzie Briscoe Law Group, LLC |
| Lifetime | David J. Harth |
| 2009 |
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| Individual Attorney | Hannah Renfro |
| Law Student | Anne Applebaum |
| Law Firm | Foley & Lardner, LLP |
| 2008 |
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| Individual 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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| Individual Attorney | Earl Munson |
| Law Student | Katie Holms |
| Law Firm | Foley & Lardner, LLP and Heller Ehrman, LLP |
| 2006 |
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| Individual Attorney | Timothy Radelet |
| Law Student | Regal Qick-Severin |
| Special Service | Allan Koritzinsky |
| 2005 |
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| Individual Attorney | Ramona Nater and Rhonda Hazen |
| Lifetime | John Skilton |
| 2004 |
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| Individual Attorney | Irene Wren |
| Distinguished Service | Roy Froemming |
| Community Professional | Paula Seeger |
| 2003 |
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| Individual Attorney | John Robinson |
| Law Student | Claire Starling |
| Lifetime | Larry Hanson |
| 2002 |
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| Individual 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 |
GUESTS AT THE 2026 BREAKFAST, WHICH WAS HELD ON APRIL 30 AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. 
UW LAW SCHOOL DEAN DANIEL TOKAJI PRESENTED THE LAW STUDENT AWARD TO LAUREN XIONG.
Judge Jacob Frost presented the individual attorney award to NAOMI SWAIN of HAWKS QUINDEL. 
Judge brian blanchard announced the recipient of the law firm award: kowalski, Wilson and Vang
Judge Stephanie Hilton presented the Community Partner award to community immigration law center, with special recognition of krystel cumbajin and diana benitez (pictured).
state bar president dan gartzke gave keynote remarks.