The 2010 Dan Bradley Award
The National LGBT Bar Association is proud to announce Jon W. Davidson as the recipient of the 2010 Dan Bradley Award, the organization’s highest honor. Jon Davidson is the Legal Director for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT individuals and individuals with HIV. Mr. Davidson has been working full-time as an LGBT rights lawyer for more than 22 years.
“Jon Davidson’s hard work and vision have delivered some of the most important victories in the legal struggle for LGBT equality,” said D’Arcy Kemnitz, Executive Director of the National LGBT Bar Association. “On behalf of our members, we would like to offer our congratulations and gratitude for all he has done on behalf of the LGBT community.”
Each year, the LGBT Bar recognizes the efforts of a member of the LGBT legal community whose work, like Attorney Dan Bradley, has led the way in our struggle for equality under the law. Dan Bradley was the founder of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibility's Committee on the Rights of Gay People (now known as the ABA’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity).
“Like Dan Bradley, Jon Davidson sees the law as a powerful instrument of social justice” said Kemnitz. “Every day, Jon and his team at Lambda Legal place their skills as advocates at the service of a vulnerable community. He is long overdue for this honor.”
The 2010 Dan Bradley Award will be presented on August 26, 2010 as part of the Lavender Law Conference in Miami Beach, Florida.
About the Dan Bradley Award:
The Dan Bradley Award is LGBT Bar's highest honor. It recognizes the efforts of a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal community whose 
work, like Attorney Dan Bradley, has led the way in our struggle for equality under the law. Dan Bradley was the first chair of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibility's Committee on the Rights of Gay People, now known as the Committee for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Bradley saw the law as a powerful instrument of social justice, and he believed that lawyers had an obligation to place their skills as advocates at the service of the least powerful among us.
Previous Winners:
2009 | Lavender Law 2009—Brooklyn, NY
Dr. Frank Kameny, one of the nation's first and foremost gay activists
2008 | Lavender Law 2008—San Francisco, CA
Shannon Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Therese Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, City of San Francisco
2007 | Lavender Law 2007—San Francisco, CA
Patricia M. Logue, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
2006 | Lavender Law 2006—Washington, DC
Urvashi Vaid, Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation
2005 | Lavender Law 2005—San Diego, CA
Arthur S. Leonard, Professor of Law at New York Law School and author of Law Notes
2004 | Lavender Law 2004—Minneapolis, MN
Ruth E. Harlow, former Legal Director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; Lead Counsel in the landmark case, Lawrence v. Texas
2003 | Lavender Law 2003—New York, NY
Matthew Coles, Director, ACLU National Lesbian and Gay Rights Project
Leslie Cooper, Staff Attorney, ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project
2002 | Lavender Law 2002—Philadelphia, PA
Kate Kendell, Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA
2001 | Lavender Law 2001—Dallas, TX
Phyllis Randolph Frye, Transgender Activist and Civil Rights Leader, Houston, TX
2000 | Lavender Law 2000—Washington, D.C.
Mark D. Agrast, Legislative Director & Counsel to Rep. William H. Delahunt, Former NLGLA Co-Chair
1999 | Lavender Law 1999—Seattle, WA
Hon. Stephen M. Lachs, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
1998 | Lavender Law 1998—Boston, MA
John Ward, Founder & Former Executive Director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
1997 | Lavender Law 1997—West Hollywood, CA
Abby Rubenfeld, Rubenfeld & Associates, Nashville, Tennessee; Former Legal Director of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund
1996 | Lavender Law V— New Orleans, LA
Suzanne Goldberg, Attorney for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund
Tom Stoddard, Former Executive Director of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund
Jeanne Winer, Trial Counsel for Plaintiffs in Evans v. Romer
1994 | Lavender Law IV—Portland, OR
William E. Adams, Jr.
Nova University School of Law, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1992 | Lavender Law III—Chicago, IL
Sue Wilson, Attorney for Sharon Kowalski
1990 | Lavender Law II—Atlanta, GA
Nan Hunter, Professor, Brooklyn Law School; Former Head of Gay & Lesbian Rights Project, ACLU