[blindlaw] FW: Re: 2008 ABA Paul G. Hearne Award (Call for nominations!)

[Nightingale, Noel]

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[mailto:CMPDL-MENTORPROGRAM at MAIL.ABANET.ORG] On Behalf Of Phelan,
William
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:08 AM
To: CMPDL-MENTORPROGRAM at MAIL.ABANET.ORG
Subject: FW: Re: 2008 ABA Paul G. Hearne Award (Call for nominations!)

All:

 

Please see below. The Commission takes great pride in giving out this
award.

 

Best,

Bill 

 

________________________________

From: Stratton, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:05 PM
To: cmpdl at mail.abanet.org
Subject: Re: 2008 ABA Paul G. Hearne Award (Call for nominations!)

 

Dear Disability Community:

 

Below you will find information about the American Bar Association
Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law's 2008 Paul G. Hearne
Award for Disability Rights.  The Commission is proud to present this
distinctive and prestigious honor to a deserving individual or
organization each year who advances the cause of the disabled. You can
learn more about the Award at
http://www.abanet.org/disability/award/home.shtml. 

 

Thank you and we look forward to receiving your nomination.

 

Sincerely, 

 

 

Alex J. Hurder, Chair

Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law

 

&

 

Lori D. Ecker, Chair 

Paul G. Hearne Award Subcommittee

Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law

 

 

________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________

THE PAUL G. HEARNE AWARD FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS

 

The American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical
Disability Law is pleased to announce that nominations for the eighth
annual Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights are now being
accepted. Each year, the Award is presented to an individual or an
organization that has performed exemplary service in furthering the
rights, dignity, and access to justice for people with disabilities.

 

The 2007 Award went to Laura Cooper Fenimore, a private practitioner who
specializes in long-term planning and insurance matters for people with
chronic illnesses. Past Award recipients include:  Louise A. McKown
(disability rights advocate), The Honorable Judge Rhonda J. Brown (a
disability rights advocate and Review Judge,) Anil Lewis (a blind
advocate and assistant program counselor), Disability Rights Advocates
(DRA), Robert Perske (disability rights advocate), Stanley S. Herr
(professor, lawyer, and advocate), Marylou Breslin and the Disability
Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), and James W. Ellis
(professor, lawyer, and advocate).

 

Please join us in recognizing outstanding public service to some of the
54 million Americans with disabilities. Paul G. Hearne was a
distinguished advocate for those Americans, so please help us to make
the Award recipient a truly distinguished individual or organization.
The recipient will be honored at the 2008 ABA Annual Meeting in New
York, NY in early August. Starbucks Coffee Company, the sponsor of the
Hearne Award, will give the recipient a $1,000 honorarium and pay for
the recipient's travel expenses to New York City. 

 

Further information about the Award, selection criteria, and an online
nomination form can be found at: 
http://www.abanet.org/disability/award/form.shtml. Alternatively, you
can complete the attached nomination form and e-mail it to William
Phelan at phelanw at staff.abanet.org. If you are not able to complete the
form electronically you can send the attached version to William via
regular mail at the address below. If you have any questions, please
contact William at the information below.

 

William J. Phelan, IV, Esq.
American Bar Association
Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law 740 15th St. N.W., 9th
Floor Washington, DC 20005-1022 phelanw at staff.abanet.org
202-662-1576
202-662-1032 fax 

 

-All nomination forms must be postmarked or received electronically by
April 1, 2008-

 


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