Aug 29, 2007News: Former Lambda Legal Lawyer To Be Awarded NLGLA's Highest Honor
By vanrozenheim
(USA) - Patricia M. Logue will receive NLGLA's Dan Bradley Award on 6 September. The Dan Bradley Award recognizes efforts by a member of the LGBT legal community who has led the way for equality under the law. "Pat's contributions to upholding the civil rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and HIV-positive people are immense," said Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal. "We are extremely proud of Pat and all she has done for LGBT civil rights and excited that she has been honored with this award."
The Dan Bradley Award is NLGLA's highest honor. Dan Bradley was the first chair of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities Committee on the Rights of Gay People, now known as the Committee for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Bradley saw the law as a powerful instrument of social justice, and he believed that lawyers had an obligation to place their skills as advocates at the service of the least powerful among us.
Logue spent 14 years as an attorney with Lambda Legal. She began her career by opening Lambda Legal's Midwest Regional Office in Chicago in 1993 as Managing Attorney. She also served as Interim Legal Director and Senior Counsel, as well as Director of Constitutional Litigation. Logue left Lambda Legal earlier this year to become an associate judge for the Circuit Court of Cook County.
"NLGLA is proud to bestow a lifetime achievement award to Pat Logue in recognition of her many years of legal work contributing to the rights, safety and respect our community gained during that time," said D'Arcy Kemnitz, Executive Director of NLGLA. "NLGLA wishes her all the best in her continuing career in public service as a judge in Chicago and this award expresses the LGBT legal community's sincere appreciation for all of her past achievements while at Lambda Legal."
Jon Davidson, Legal Director of Lambda Legal, will present the award to Logue at the NLGLA's annual Lavender Law Conference in Chicago on 6 September. The conference is a 4 day event that kicks off on 5 September. NLGLA has organized extensive workshops and panel discussions that touch on a variety of topics such as the benefit of domestic partnerships, job search strategies for law students and ethics in immigration law to name a few.
"I am honored to receive the Dan Bradley Award from NLGLA for my work while at Lambda Legal. Dan Bradley set a great example for lawyers to give back to the community at large through bar associations and other work," said Pat Logue. " I am proud to have followed in that tradition and thank NLGLA for this special award."
Before joining the bench, Logue worked on a wide variety of state and federal matters including extensive constitutional and family law litigation. Logue's work included many high profile U.S Supreme Court cases including as one of the lead attorneys in the Lawrence v. Texas case, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down all remaining state sodomy laws across the country. Logue shaped legal arguments in Lambda Legal's friend-of-the-court brief in Troxel v. Granville, a U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning the rights of those who parent children to decide who may have contact with their children and the authority of the courts to intervene. Logue also helped win, for Wisconsin teenager Jamie Nabozny, the first federal appellate case guaranteeing lesbian and Gay students equal protection from harassment and violence in public schools, and guided numerous precedent-setting family and adoption law matters across USA.
