2024年佛罗里达州公益服务奖

The Florida Pro Bono Service Awards are an annual event honoring the exceptional efforts of Florida lawyers, 法官, 律师事务所, and bar associations to provide free legal services to those in need. 在项目开始时，首席大法官卡洛斯. 穆尼斯指出, “在最近的报告所述期间, 佛罗里达州的律师总共提供了超过1.5 million hours of free legal service and contributed seven and a half million dollars to legal aid groups. Those figures capture the hard work and generosity of tens of thousands of members of The Florida Bar.”

The awards fall into three categories: awards presented by the chief justice, 由佛罗里达律师协会主席颁发的证书, and the award presented by the president of The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division.

首席大法官Muñiz说, “The Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award is the Florida legal profession’s highest honor for recognizing public service.” He then announced Jamie Billotte Moses as the recipient of this year’s award. Moses has served as a Guardian ad Litem volunteer through the 法律援助 Society of the Orange County Bar Association for 25 years. She thanked the selection committee and the Court for deeming her worthy of the award. 她还感谢了她的公司Holland & Knight, for its unwavering commitment to pro bono service. 首席大法官Muñiz指出 that Moses has joined a great legacy of service.

The Distinguished Judicial Service Award was presented to Judge Bertila Soto from the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. Judge Soto was honored for her dedication to public access to the courts, 退伍军人法庭和G.R.A.C.E. 为人口贩卖的未成年受害者服务的法庭, 以及她在招聘中扮演的角色,000 attorneys to serve indigent clients of the Dade 法律援助 Put Something Back pro bono project.

The Distinguished Federal Judicial Service Award went to two former Florida state court 法官 who now serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Beth Bloom and Judge Robin L. 罗森博格. 评委们开发了一个名为CD3的教育项目, 民间话语和困难决策计划. After starting in south Florida, CD3 has now expanded nationwide. Thousands of high school and college students have already participated in the program, which instills both civility and positive decision-making skills.

律师事务所表彰奖颁给了Gedeon & 莫拉莱斯律师事务所. The award was accepted by Nadine Gedeon and Cristina Morales who contributed more than a thousand hours of pro bono service in the last year alone. The firm also works to improve the legal profession by helping to train other lawyers to confidently take on pro bono cases.

Chief Justice Muñiz also presented The Voluntary Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award to the Lake County Bar Association. The association has actively developed many partnerships in the county to provide pro bono legal assistance including an innovative and successful Sealing & Expungement诊所. Mona Rosey 佩恩 is the president of the Lake County Bar Association and accepted the award.

The next category of awards is The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Awards. These awards recognize pro bono legal services provided by individual lawyers in each judicial circuit and one Bar member who practices outside of Florida. 佛罗里达律师协会会长. Scott Westheimer called the people who receive these awards “true champions of justice.获奖人包括:

肯德拉·拉娜塔·康登，第一巡回法院
瑞兰德·特里·瑞斯比，第二巡回法院
Elika Otoya Stimpson，第三巡回法院
F. 苏珊娜·柯林斯，第四巡回法院
M. 泰勒·特雷梅尔，第五巡回法院
基特·范佩尔，第六巡回法院
Donato J. 里纳尔迪，第七巡回法院
艾米·米尔福德·阿伯内西，第八巡回法院
多萝西J. McMichen，第九巡回法院
格兰特·莱昂斯，第十巡回法院
阿尔文·D. 洛迪什，第11巡回法院
尼尔·T. 里昂，第十二巡回法院
吉尔伯特米. 辛格，第十三巡回法院
托德·克利福德·布里斯特，第十四巡回法院法官
马修·齐默尔曼，第15巡回法院
汤姆·伍兹，16巡回法院
乔纳森·W. 泰勒，第十七巡回法院
埃里克·C. 鲍曼，第18巡回法院
杰西卡·米. 19巡回法院的VanValkenburgh
安德里亚·史密斯，第二十巡回法院
布莱克·林恩·布鲁斯，州外

The final award category is The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Award. Division President Anisha Patel was excited to recognize Michaèl’s Déborah Saint-Vil from Miami with the Young Lawyers Division Pro Bono Service Award. Saint-Vil is a tireless advocate for immigrants and those seeking citizenship and is the manager of Immigration Legal 服务 in the Office of New Americans of Miami-Dade. Jamie Billotte Moses, who received the Tobias Simon award, said that she was lucky Ms. Saint-Vil was in the young lawyers category, or she would likely have received her award.

After an afternoon of recognizing the significant contributions that Florida lawyers make to their communities through pro bono service, 首席大法官Muñiz指出, “There are as many ways to serve as there are members of our profession. Each of us has something to offer for the betterment of our fellow man.”