Every autumn the University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association holds an awards dinner to honor some of our most admirable alumni for their service to the law school, the legal profession and the community.
Cheryl Chase is co-president, general counsel and a principal of Chase Enterprises. She serves as a trustee of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, a member of the Connecticut Science Center Board of Trustees and serves and as vice chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Eric D. Coleman served in the Connecticut State Senate for 22 years and in the Connecticut House of Representatives for 11 years until his retirement in January 2017. He was the first African American chair of the legislature’s Judiciary Committee, and he held a variety of leadership positions, including deputy speaker of the House.
Steven M. Greenspan is vice president and chief litigation counsel for United Technologies. He is a trustee of The Bushnell; a former director and past president of the Hartford County Bar Association; a member of the Connecticut Bar Association House of Delegates and former president of the board of the UConn School of Law's foundation.
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- Brown Rudnick LLP
- Carlton Fields
- Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP
- Day Pitney LLP
- Hinckley Allen
- Jackson Lewis P.C.
- Keegan Werlin LLP
- Locke Lord LLP
- McCarter & English LLP
- Otis Elevator
- Pratt & Whitney
- Robinson & Cole LLP
- Rogin Nassau LLC
- Shipman & Goodwin LLP
- United Technologies Corporation Legal Department
- UTAS
- Wiggin and Dana LLP
2016 Kathleen A. Murphy ’87
2015 Andrew J. McDonald '91
2014 James T. Shearin '86
2013 Michael L. Aresco '76
2012 Evan D. Flaschen ’82
2011 James K. Robertson, Jr. ’74
2010 James Sicilian ’81
2009 Christine S. Vertefeuille ’75
2008 Kevin J. O'Connor ’92
2007 Christopher F. Droney ’79
2006 Hope C. Seeley ’89
2005 Alphonso E. Tindall, Jr. ’81
2004 John H. Durham ’75
2003 Thomas J. Groark, Jr. ’65
2002 Dona D. Young ’80
2001 William H. Trachsel ’71
2000 Joette Katz ’77
1999 Daniel F. Flynn ’62
1998 Rosemary E. Giuliano ’78
1997 Richard N. Palmer ’77
1996 Randall Pinkston ’80
1995 Members of the Judiciary
1994 Thomas D. Ritter ’77
1993 Hubert J. Santos ’69
1992 Robert R. Googins ’61
1991 Thomas H. Dooley ’64
1990 Francisco L. Borges ’78
1989 John F. Droney ’73
1988 Dale P. Faulkner ’63
1987 Richard D. Tulisano ’69
1986 James J. Kennelly ’59
1985 Hugh F. Keefe ’67
1984 William R. Davis ’55
1982 James F. English, Jr. ’56
1981 Lewis B. Rome ’57
1980 Robert N. Giaimo ’44
1979 Joseph W. Bogdanski ’40
1978 T. Emmet Clarie ’38
1977 Carmine R. Lavieri ’48
1976 Anthony V. DeMayo ’51
1975 Carl W. Nielsen ’52
1974 Alva P. Loiselle ’43
1973 Louis Shapiro ’32
1972 Douglass B. Wright ’37
1971 Thomas J. Meskill ’56
2016 Lewis S. Kurlantzick
2015 Martha Stone
2014 Barbara J. Collins '78
2013 Willajeanne F. McLean
2012 Jeremy Paul
2011 Alexandra Davis DiPentima ’79
2010 William R. Breetz
2009 Laurie S. Werling
2009 Alan E. Green ’74
2008 Rafael A. Santiago ’83
2007 Kurt A. Strasser
2006 Nell Jessup Newton
2005 Alfred V. Covello ’60
2004 James D. Bartolini ’75
2003 Donna F. Martinez ’78
2002 Barbara B. Kennelly
2001 Dr. Henry C. Lee
2000 Hugh C. Macgill
1999 John C. Brittain
1998 Robert J. Callahan
1997 David W. Collins ’58
1994 Robert C. Zampano
1993 Ellen Ash Peters
1992 Cornelius J. Scanlon
1991 Peter A. Lane ’67
1990 George Schatzki
1989 Ethel S. Sorokin ’53
1988 Thomas C. McKone ’49
1987 Howard R. Sacks
1986 Phillip I. Blumberg
1975 George F. Sherwood ’66
1974 Aaron Nassau
2015 Robert M. Langer '73
2012 The Honorable Ellen Ash Peters
2010 Anthony V. DeMayo ’51
2008 William F. Gallagher ’63
2004 Ralph Gregory Elliot
1990 William B. Rush ’59
1989 Wesley W. Horton ’70
1988 William S. Zeman ’41
1987 Robert W. Fiondella ’68
1975 William R. Davis ’55
1974 George F. Muir ’39
2016 Linda J. Kelly ’76
2015 Susan B. Handy '80
2014 Harry D.Weller '79
2013 John A. Danaher, III '80
2012 Pedro E. Segarra ’85
2009 Nora R. Dannehy
2007 Michael R. Sheldon
2006 Joan Glazer Margolis ’78
1990 Thomas P. Smith ’72
1989 Robert I. Berdon ’57
1988 Eunice S. Groark ’65
1987 Anne M. Hamilton ’73 and Rosalind S. Katz ’78
1975 William D. Graham ’49
1974 Robert C. Leuba ’60
