Lifetime Achievement Award
Brenda has served on the AAJ Board of Governors for over a decade and held various leadership positions, including on the Executive Committee, Evergreen Fund Committee, PAC Board, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Litigation Group Leaders Council. She is a graduate of AAJ’s Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Academy which she now supports through a generous contribution from the Fulmer Family Foundation. Brenda serves on her firm’s executive committee and leads the firm’s dedicated mass tort unit. Over the past 26 years she has represented thousands of people in claims and individual actions filed in state and federal courts involving defective drugs, medical devices, and consumer products.
About the Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an AAJ member of at least 20 years standing whose courtroom advocacy has, during a distinguished career, significantly advanced the rights of the wrongfully injured, and who by substantial service to AAJ and the trial bar, has significantly furthered the cause of justice and the mission of the Association.
Past Recipients
2021: Jayne Conroy and Paul Hanly, Jr.*
2020: Robert A. Clifford
2019: Michael P. Koskoff
2018: Richard Hailey
2017: Wayne Hogan
2016: Mark P. Robinson
2015: W. Mark Lanier
2014: Howard L. Nations
2013: Gerry L. Spence
2012: Elizabeth Cabraser
2011: O. Fayrell Furr, Jr.
2010: Ronald L. Motley
2009: Todd Smith
2008: Fred Baron
2007: Philip H. Corboy Sr.
2006: Ralph Cloar
2005: Phil Maher
2004: Kenneth Feinberg
2003: Roxanne B. Conlin
2002: Jim Kitchens
2001: Gregory Cusimano
2000: Russ Herman
1999: Kathleen Flynn Peterson
1998: Bob Gibbins
* honored posthumously
