The Professionalism Award is annually awarded to a lawyer or judge who has significantly contributed to the enhancement of professionalism in the Greater Cleveland legal community by exemplifying the goals of the Ohio Supreme Court's "A Lawyer's Creed" and "A Lawyer's Aspirational Ideals" and by furthering the ideals expressed in the mission of the CMBA.  

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
 

Distinguished Honorees

	Justice Melody J. Stewart  Supreme Court of Ohio 2019		Hazel Gutierrez Remesch Legal Aid Society of Cleveland 2020
	Mario Ciano  Reminger Co., LPA 2018		Susan J. Becker  Cleveland-Marshall College of Law 2018
	Avery S. Friedman  Founder, Avery Friedman & Associates 2017		David A. Kutik  Partner, Jones Day 2016
	Hon. Michael P. Donnelly  Judge, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas 2015		Jacqueline Johnson  Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Ohio  2014
	Hugh Stanley, Jr.  Partner, Tucker Ellis 2014		John H. Lawson  Private practice 2013
	Ann C. Rowland  Assistant United States Attorney 2012		Michael M. Hughes, Sr. (posthumously)  Of counsel, Frantz Ward LLP 2012
	Thomas S. Kilbane (posthumously)  Partner, Squire Sanders Dempsey LLP 2011		Ian N. Friedman  Founder, Ian N. Friedman Associates LLC 2010
	Frank R. DeSantis  Partner, Thompson Hine 2009		Hugh E. McKay   Partner-in-charge, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP 2008
	Deborah A. Coleman   Partner, Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP 2007		C. Lyonel Jones (posthumously)  Director, The Legal Aid Society of Clevealnd 2006
	Charles F. Clarke  Partner, Squire Sanders Dempsey LLP 2005		Niki Z. Schwartz  Partner, Schwartz, Kushner, Rendon Co., LPA 2004
	Mark O'Neill  Of counsel, Weston Hurd 2003		Hon. Patricia A. Hemann   Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio 2002
	Marvin L. Karp  Partner, Ulmer & Berne LLP 2001