The Liberty Achievement Award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, was established to recognize attorneys and judges who take leadership roles in promoting diversity in the profession of law. Attorneys or judges who have demonstrated, by choices made in their careers and work done in private and/or public sector positions, that they have actively promoted diversity. This would include their own career, leadership positions or work done to advance diverse attorneys in the profession. Other considerations include significant substantive legal work in areas of diversity as well as community service and/or pro bono work in diversity.
Liberty Achievement Award
2024 Liberty Achievement Award Recipient,
Jessner is a founding member of the Association of African American California Judicial Officers, a member of the National Association of Women Judges and a member of the Trusteeship, the Southern California chapter of the International Women’s Forum. She received her J.D. from the University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. Read more below:
Honorees:
2024 - Hon. Samantha P. Jessner
2023 - Ellie Jurado-Nieves
2022 - Hon. Pamila J. Brown
2020 - Hon. Bernice B. Donald
2019 - Hon. Lourdes Ventura
2018 - Kathleen Dillon Narko
2017 - Hon. Lorna G. Schofield