- 2024 New York City's Asylum Application Help Center
- 2023 Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas
- 2022 The 21st Theater Sustainment Command Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Department of the U.S. Army
- 2021 The Access to Justice Department of the Maryland Administrative Office of the Court and the Maryland Office of the Attorney General
- 2020 The Toledo Legal Aid Society
Hodson Award Recipients
Recognizing outstanding performance or a specific and extraordinary service by a government or public sector law office.
- 2019 County of Santa Clara (California) Office of the County Counsel
- 2018 Military Commissions Defense Organization, Washington, DC
- 2017 The Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney
- 2016 U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of General Counsel
- 2015 San Francisco Public Defender's Office
- 2014 Georgia Legal Services Program
- 2013 Pima County Attorney's Office, Victim Services Division, Tucson, AZ
- 2012 Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
- 2011 The Bronx Defenders and the Offices of the Staff Judge Advocate for United States Southern Command and Joint Task Force - Haiti
- 2010 Legal Services Support Section, Combat Logistics Regiment-17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, and U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of General Counsel
- 2009 Children's Law Center of Los Angeles
- 2008 Lawyers For Children, Inc., New York, NY
- 2007 Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
- 2006 Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office Juvenile Offender Intervention Network (J.O.I.N.)
- 2005 Legal Aid of the Bluegrass, Covington, KY
- 2004 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Law Department2003 California's Administrative Office of the Courts' Center for Families, Children and the Courts, San Francisco, CA
2002 Center for Disability and Elder Law, Chicago, IL
- 2001 San Diego Public Defender's Office
- 2000 First Infantry Division and Seventh Army Training Command’s Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, and Office of Criminal Enforcement, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice
- 1999 Office of the County Attorney, Montgomery County, MD
- 1998 Naval Legal Service Office Pacific and Office of the New York State Attorney General
- 1997 Domestic Abuse Service Center of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, Minneapolis, MN
- 1996 Office of the County Attorney, Broward County, FL
- 1995 International and Operational Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Army
- 1994 American Law Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, and Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Inc.
- 1993 Public Protection Division of the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office