IndyBar: Nominations Now Accepted for Antoinette Dakin Leach Award

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To recognize the accomplishments of female attorneys in central Indiana, the IndyBar’s Women & the Law Division presents the Antoinette Dakin Leach Award, an honor named for the first woman who gained admittance to the Indiana Bar.

Antoinette Dakin Leach (1859-1922) gained admittance to the Indiana Bar only after the Indiana Supreme Court overruled a lower court ruling which stated that a woman was “not a citizen in the sense that she could hold office and practice law.” Ms. Leach went on to a successful career as an attorney and was a state and national leader in the suffragist movement.

Please take a moment to nominate a female attorney who has demonstrated some of the attributes of Antoinette Dakin Leach by encouraging other women in the pursuit of this honorable profession or blazing a path not taken by others. Visit indybar.org for the nomination form. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015. The recipient of the award will be honored at an event this fall.•

Past Recipients

1990 – Hon. V. Sue Shields

1992 – Virginia Dill McCarty

1993 – Hon. Sarah Evans Barker

1995 – Shirley A. Shideler

1996 – Hon. Pamela Carter

1997 – Hon. Myra C. Selby

1998 – Francina A. Dlouhy

1999 – Mary Y. Marsh

2000 – Kristin G. Fruehwald

2001 – Ann DeLaney

2002 – Hon. Jane Magnus-Stinson

2003 – Joan Fullam Irick

2004 – Hon. Betty Barteau

2005 – Deborah J. Daniels

2006 – Hon. Patricia Gifford

2007 – Denise Larue

2008 – Abby Kuzma

2009 – Monica Foster

2010 – Deborah Hepler and Julia Blackwell Gelinas

2011 – Hon. Margret Robb

2012 – Kathleen Lucas

2013 – Hon. Tanya Walton Pratt

2014 – Kerry Hyatt Blomquist

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