Election News
Hello WCBA members! We’re getting closer to our Annual Meeting so please keep the evening of April 25, 2024, available! The location is soon to be determined. One of the duties as outgoing president is to head the nominating groups for both the opening Board positions and awards for: service to our indigent community; professionalism; and lifelong recognition in the law. Here are the awards we need nominations for:
a. Andrew Borg Award –honors an attorney or organization for outstanding contributions to the representation and availability of legal services to indigent persons.
b. Frank Henderson Award this award honors an attorney for a life and practice that displays sterling character and unquestioned integrity, and ongoing dedication to the highest standards of the legal profession.
c. Walker Miller Lifetime Achievement Award– this award honors an attorney for a lifelong dedication to excellence and inspiration to others in the legal profession.
The open Board position that needs a nomination is at least one At-Large Director position to keep us at 12 full members. Regina Walsh Adams has accepted a nomination for President Elect and Rhonda Cordova has agreed to continue in her position as Secretary/Treasurer.
If you can please send an email no later than 3/15/24 to one of the nomination members for any position or award, we would greatly appreciate it! Those members are as follows:
Joseph Bodine 3riversmustang@gmail.com
Amy Antommaria amy@arcoloradolaw.com
Mark Gonzales mark.gonzales@greeleygov.com
Sincerely,
Mark C. Gonzales
Outgoing President.
Quick history on the honorees named in the awards above.
Hon. Andrew Bord was a Weld County Court Judge who was appointed after founding the Colorado Rural Legal Services office in Greeley and serving in that office for many years.
Hon. Frank Henderson was a longtime member of the Public Defender’s office serving in the District Court. Frank had an outstanding reputation among the DA’s office and the members of the Weld County bench. He was a Magistrate and later appointed as a Weld County Court Judge.
Hon. Walker Miller was a second-generation Weld County lawyer in private practice and later taught at the Nebraska Law School. He was truly a scholar of the law and was acknowledged as such with an appointment as a Federal District Court Judge for the District of Colorado.