Past Award Recipients
2011
Individual: Richard J. Lazarus, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Organization: IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Academy of Environmental Law
2010
Individual: Nicholas C. Yost, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, San Francisco, CA
Organization: Environmental Law Section – Los Angeles County Bar Association
2009
Individual: Dinah Bear, Washington, DC
Organization: Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
(Chairman of the Board: Cecily Hines, Minneapolis, MN; Advocacy Director, and then Interim Executive Director: Paul Aasen, St. Paul, MN)
2008
Individual: Daniel Barstow Magraw, Jr., President, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Washington, DC
Organization: Alliance for the Great Lakes
(Chairman of the Board: Gary Ballesteros; President and Chief Executive Officer: Cameron Davis)
2007
Individual: Ken Alex, Environment Section, California Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, CA; and James R. Milkey, Environmental Protection Division Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General, Boston, MA
Organization: University of Denver Sturm College of Law - Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program
2006
Individual: Professor Oliver A. Houck, Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LA
Organization: University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law – Environmental Law Program
2005
Individual: John R. Quarles, Morgan Lewis, Washington, DC
Organization: Pace University School of Law
2004
Individual: J. William Futrell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Development Law Associates, Arlington, VA
Organization: New Mexico Environmental Law Center
2003
Individual: Professor Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Organization: Environmental Circuit Prosecutor Project of the California District Attorneys Association
2002
Individual: Daniel C. Esty, Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law
and Policy, New Haven, CT
Organization: Vermont Law School Environmental Law Center
2001
Individual: Barry E. Hill, Director, U.S. EPA Office of Environmental Justice, Washington, DC
Organization: Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College
2000
Individual: Professor Louis B. Sohn, George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, DC
Organization: Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
