KCBA AWARDS – Nominations due by April 1, 2025 

Three outstanding awards are presented annually and we need your nominees! Please click the title of each award to access further information and the nomination forms.

  • 2025 Community Service Award
    The Community Service Award is presented to a member of the Kane County Bar Association who has demonstrated a broad based involvement in the community, and who is an active member of the legal profession.  The honorees have shown a firm commitment for working toward a better government and fostering civic improvements. They have impeccable character, a strong sense of family, and are held in high regard by their peers.  The Kane County Bar Association Community Service Award is presented to a well-rounded individual who, through actions, has shown a true understanding of and a caring attitude toward the community in which they reside.
  • 2025 Liberty Bell Award
    This nationally recognized award is bestowed on a non-attorney individual or community organization who has promoted a better understanding of the law, encouraged a greater respect for the law and the courts, who stimulates a sense of civic responsibility, and who contributes to good government within the community.
  • 2025 Outstanding New Lawyer
    The Outstanding New Lawyer Award is presented to someone who is in their first eight years of practice and who has shown commitment to the Kane County Bar Association through committee involvement and other contributions to the association and/or legal profession.  The honoree has also exhibited a commitment to their community and has promoted a positive view of the legal profession through their integrity and professional responsibility.  This award is presented to a well-rounded individual who, in addition to meeting other criteria, has demonstrated a high level of professional development for this early stage of their career.

Email completed forms to director@kanecountybar.org or send to Attn: Gina Armstrong 555 S. Randall Rd., Ste. 203, St. Charles, IL 60174

NOMINATION FORMS ARE DUE TO THE KCBA OFFICE BY APRIL 1, 2025.

 

2024 Award Winners:
           Ryan Theriault- Community Service Award
           Linda Hagemann – Liberty Bell Award
           Lauren Edmunds – Outstanding New Lawyer Award

2024 | Ryan P. Theriault

2023 | Kevin Drendel

2022 | Kelly Bennett

2021 | Hon. René Cruz

2020 | Monica Patankar

2019 | Douglas B. Warlick

2018 | Richard C. Irvin

2017 | Patrick J. Crimmins

2016 | Richard L. Turner, Jr.

2015 | Vincent C. Mancini

2014 | Patrick M. Flaherty

2013 | Susan D. Shivers

2012 | Thomas D. Chase

2011 | Hon. T. Clint Hull

2010 | James F. Cooke

2009 | Richard S. Scheflow

2008 | Ronald M. Hem

2007 | Elizabeth Lovig

2006 | Loren S. Golden

2005 | Hon. Judith Brawka

2004 | Timothy J. Reuland

2003 | Thomas A. McClow

2002 | Clarence F. Wittenstrom

2001 | Thomas G. McCracken

2000 | Patrick M. Kinnally

1999 | Hon. Richard J. Larson

1998 | Allen L. Landmeier

1997 | Alfred Y. Kirkland, Jr.

1996 | Frederick J. Steffen

1995 | Gilbert X. Drendel

1994 | L. Lee Perington \

1993 | Sam Alschuler

1992 | Francis Youssi

1991 | Zalmon Goldsmith

1990 | Leonard J. Seraphin

1989 | Charles J. Myler

1988 | G. William Richards

1987 | William Brady

2024 | Linda Hagemann

2023 | Lori Hertel

2022 | Vicki Maurer

2021 | Jenny Maxwell

2020 | Sherry Lenz

2019 | John O’Neill

2018 | Marty Page

2017 | The Staff at the Kane County Law Library (Hallē Cox, Cynthia Lorenzo, and Ellen Schmid)

2016 | Lynn O’Shea and the Association for Individual Development

2015 | Roger Fahnestock

2014 | Nancy Browne

2013 | Jan Wade, Debra Cook, Carolyn Jones, and Sandra Bottoms

2012 | John Munn and Darrell Moore

2011 | Gloria Bunce

2010 | Sue Norris

2009 | Marcy R. Heston

2008 | Mary C. Heinrich

2007 | Chief William Powell

2006 | Warren J. Eggers and James R. Flahaven

2005 | Hallē Cox

2004 | Sister RoseMarie Lorentzen, B.V.M.

2003 | Sandy Bockman, David Burk and William Kettering

2002 | Peg Halladay

2024 | Lauren Edmunds

2023 | Margie Komes Putzler

2022 | Thomas Connelly

2021 | Ryan Lee

2020 | Emily J. Rapp

2019 | Mollie Peskind

2018 | Amanda J. Hamilton

2017 | Marissa R. Hanson

2016 | Lindsay A. Hatzis

2015 | Michael W. Lenert

2014 | Catherine D. Battista

2013 | Joshua B. Rosenzweig

2012 | Daniel R. Whiston

2011 | Lawrence W. Lobb

2010 | Roman J. Seckel

2009 | Jennifer L. Sellers Wong

2008 | Gregory Makismuk & Brian J. O’Connor

2007 | Dean M. Frieders & Diana M. Law

2006 | Carolyn D. Jansons