How do I nominate someone for this award?
Please visit ambar.org/SEERawards to submit a nomination. Nominations are due by May 31.
Stewardship Award
This award recognizes and honors the accomplishments of a person, organization, or group that has distinguished itself in environmental, energy, and resources stewardship.
Who is eligible for this award?
Eligible individuals who may be nominated include academics, policymakers, legislators, practitioners, members of the judiciary or journalists within the United States. Nominated practitioners must also be in good standing with the attorney licensing authority in the jurisdiction in which they practice.
Eligible organizations include law-related entities or organizations such as non-profits, bar associations, law school clinical programs, legal services programs, tribal nations, law firms, private, public, or corporate entities within the United States.
Individuals who have been Section Council members, officers, or ABA staff within two years of the year of nomination and their immediate families and household members, are not eligible to receive the Award. Self-nominations are not accepted. Individuals must be at least 18 years old at the time of nomination.
What is the award process?
Nominations will be made through an online survey system. You will provide brief information about your nominee. The Section's awards committee will review your nomination and let you know if they need additinal information. Once the nomination period closes, the Awards Committee will review all nominations and make a recommendation to the Section's Council for its final approval. You will be notified either way if your nominee was selected.
When are the awards bestowed?
This award is bestowed in the fall each year.
2024
Individual: Vickie Patton, General Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, CO
Organization: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Olympia, WA
2023
Environmental Law & Policy Center
2022
Earthjustice
2021
Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
2020
Savonala "Savi" Horne, Executive Director, Land Loss Prevention Project
2019
Zygmunt Plater, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
2018
Riverkeeper, Ossining, New York
2017
The award was not bestowed in 2017
2016
Organization: Scenic Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY
2015
Individual: Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D., Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
Organization: Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, Bishop, CA
2014
Individual: Richard L. Erdmann, The Conservation Fund, Arlington, VA
Organization: Freshwater Land Trust of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
2013
Individual: Dr. Daniel Walsh, Founding Director, New York City Office of Environmental Remediation (NYCOER)
2012
Individual: Mindy S. Lubber, President, Ceres
2011
Individual: James M. Redwine, Motors Liquidation Company
Individual: David R. Berz, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
2010
Individual: Frederick R. Anderson, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington, D.C., Former Executive Director and President, Environmental Law Institute
2009
Individual: Luke W. Cole, Co-founder, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE)
Individual: Richard B. Stewart, University Professor, John E. Sexton Professor of Law, and Director of the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law, New York University
2008
Individual: Richard Roos-Collins, Director of Legal Services, Natural Heritage Institute, San Francisco, CA
Individual: Stephen D. Ramsey, Vice President, Corporate Environmental Programs, General Electric Co. (GE), Fairfield, CT
2006
Organization: Legacy, Inc.
2005
Individual: Charles H. Chisolm, Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Jackson, MS
2004
Individual: Douglas I. Foy, Secretary of Commonwealth Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2003
Individual: John A. Delaney, Former Mayor, Jacksonville, FL
2002
Individual: C. Thomas Wyche, Greenville, SC