Minnesota Lawyer is proud to announce this year’s honorees for both the Up & Coming Attorneys and the Unsung Legal Heroes.
The Up & Coming Attorney recognition highlights those lawyers within their first 10 years of practice who have already distinguished themselves by their achievements. The criteria for selection are: professional accomplishment, leadership service to the community and the profession or achievement as in house counsel.
The Unsung Legal Heroes award honors the law firm employees who have consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty often behind the scenes. This award is reserved for the state’s most talented and dedicated legal support professionals.
The honorees were chosen from eight different categories: Firm Administrator, Law Librarian, Legal Marketer, Legal Secretary, IT, Accounting, Paralegal and Legal Education.
Both groups were nominated by colleagues, supervisors and their peers. This year both groups will be recognized together at a lunch event Sept. 18, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis. Minnesota Lawyer will publish a special section at that time profiling those who were selected Sept. 23.
UNSUNG LEGAL HEROES
Monica Anderson
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Cathy Bailey
Faegre Baker Daniels
Diane Baxter
Bowman and Brooke
Alison Born
Faegre Baker Daniels
Angela Champagne-From
Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum & Carey
Sarah Collette
Gray Plant Mooty
Louise Currey
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Liz Dunlap Hersey
Foley & Mansfield
Lisl Fuhrken
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Christy Johnson
Children’s Law Center of Minnesota
Susan Ledray
4th Judicial District, State of Minnesota
Todd Piltingsrud
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Pamela Roemer
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand
Barb Skarboe
Fish & Richardson
Constance White
Winthrop & Weinstine
Jeanie Williams
Gray Plant Mooty
Kurt Williams
Gray Plant Mooty
Judy Witzel
Fish & Richardson
UP & COMING ATTORNEYS
Gerardo Alcazar
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Andrew Brehm
Dorsey & Whitney
Amber Brown
Fredrikson & Byron
Robert Fenlon
Target Corporation
Michael Hawkins
Fish & Richardson
Paul Hemming
Briggs and Morgan
Inchan Hwang
Gray Plant Mooty
Brendan Kenny
Blackwell Burke
Heather Kliebenstein
Merchant & Gould
Elizabeth Kniffen
Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason
Archana Nath
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly
Kerri Nelson
Bassford Remele
Kate Nilan
Gray Plant Mooty
Elizabeth Odette
Lockridge Grindal Nauen
Alissa Raddatz
Faegre Baker Daniels
Jennifer Robbins
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Jennifer Santini
Sykora & Santini
Joe Van Thomme
Randall, Goodrich and Haag
Karla Vehrs
Lindquist & Vennum
Kevin Velasquez
Blethen Gage & Krause
Jonathan Wilson
Best & Flanagan