Past Recipients of the Public Interest Achievement Award
2009–2010
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
2008–2009
David Vladeck, Director of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection
2007–2008
Diane Houk, Executive Director of the Fair Housing Justice Center
2006–2007
Maria Foscarinis, Founder and Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
2005–2006
Julie Dinnerstein, Deputy Director for Immigration Policy, New York Immigration Coalition
2004–2005
Nina Perales, Regional Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
2003–2004
Lou Lowenstein, Simon H. Rifkind Professor Emeritus of Finance and Law at Columbia University
2002–2003
Lee Gelernt, Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU
2001–2002
Nancy Northup, Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
2000–2001
Jeffrey Fagan, Professor, Columbia Law School Jim Liebman, Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
1999–2000
Lynn Hecht Schafran, NOW Legal Defense and Educational Fund
1998–1999
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
1997–1998
Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
1996–1997
Kristin Booth Glen, Dean of CUNY Law School
1995–1996
Alumni working at Legal Aid Society/Legal Services Organizations
1994–1995
Clive Stafford-Smith, Southern Prisoners Defense Committee
1993–1994
Julius Chambers, Director-Counsel of NAACP LDF
1992–1993
Harriet Rabb, Founder of Employment Rights Project
1991–1992
Arthur Kinoy, Civil Rights Activist and Author