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Winter Luncheon
The Medal for Excellence
The Medal for Excellence, Columbia Law School’s most prestigious award, is presented annually to alumni and past or present faculty who exemplify the qualities of character, intellect, and social and professional responsibility that the Law School seeks to instill in its students.
Read about the Honorees
Friday, February 3, 2012 | Noon–2 p.m.
The Waldorf=Astoria | New York City
Honoring
Hon. Jeh Charles Johnson ’82
General Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense
As General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, Jeh Charles Johnson ’82 is the senior legal officer of the largest government agency in the world. He oversees the legal work of more than 10,000 civilian and military lawyers, and is responsible for reviewing the legality of ongoing military operations. He is also responsible for reviewing the legal issues associated with the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the military’s interrogation and detention practices in general, defense acquisition, cyberspace, intelligence collection, religious accommodation, environmental law, standards of conduct, and numerous other issues. Johnson was influential in the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and also played a major role in the development and passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2009, which provided major reforms to military commissions law and procedure.
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Richard Paul Richman ’72 J.D., ’73 M.B.A.
Chairman and Founder,The Richman Group, Inc.
Richard Paul Richman is the chairman and founder of The Richman Group, Inc. and its affiliates.The company is one of the largest owners and developers of rental housing in the nation. Nationally active in the fields of housing and urban development, Richman is the founder of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, one of the country’s leading advocacy groups for affordable housing. He has received numerous honors and was named a developer of the year by the National Housing Conference for his contributions to the development of and investment in affordable housing. Richman is a member of the Columbia Law School Dean’s Council and on the Board of Overseers for Columbia Business School and the University of Pennsylvania’s Urban Research Institute. He is also a member of the World Presidents’ Organization, a global network of business leaders who combine corporate responsibility with personal public service.
This event is by invitation only.
Past Recipients
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1964 *Hon. Joseph M. Proskauer, 1899
1965 *Hon. Harold R. Medina, ’12 1966 *Hon. Thomas E. Dewey, ’25 1967 *Hon. Stanley H. Fuld, ’26 1968 *Whitney North Seymour, ’23 1969 *Dean William C. Warren 1970 *Hon. Frank S. Hogan, ’28 1971 *Professor Walter Gellhorn, ’31 1971 *Professor Herbert Wechsler, ’31 1972 *Hon. Stanley Reed, ’09 1973 *Hon. William O. Douglas, ’25 1973 *Hon. Simon H. Rifkind, ’25 1974 *Hon. Clifford P. Case, ’28 1974 *Hon. William T. Gossett, ’28 1975 *Hon. Charles D. Breitel, ’32 1976 *Professor Milton Handler, ’26 1976 *Professor Richard R.B. Powell, ’14 1977 *Hon. Philip C. Jessup, ’24 1978 *Hon. Paul R. Hays, ’33 1978 *Hon. Leonard P. Moore, ’22 1979 *Hon. Harold Leventhal, ’36 1979 *Hon. Carl McGowan, ’36 1980 *Harriet F. Pilpel, ’36 1981 Hon. Lawrence E. Walsh, ’35 1982 *Professor Louis Henkin 1983 *Wilbur H. Friedman, ’30 1984 *Hon. Oscar H. Davis, ’37 1984 *Justin A. Stanley, ’37 1985 *Professor Willis L.M. Reese 1986 *Hon. James D. Hopkins, ’33 1986 *Hon. Benjamin Kaplan, ’33 1987 *Hon. Marvin E. Frankel, ’48 1987 *Hon. Constance Baker Motley, ’46 1988 *Edith I. Spivack, ’32 1988 *Morton Stavis, ’36 1989 *Professor Harry W. Jones, ’39 1989 *Professor Albert J. Rosenthal 1990 Hon. Wilfred Feinberg, ’43 1990 Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, ’48 *deceased
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1991 *Hon. Frank C. Newman, ’47, ’53
1991 *Professor Oscar Schachter, ’39 1992 Hon. Vilma S. Martinez, ’67 1993 Hon. Hong-Choo Hyun, ’69 1993 *Hon. Eugene Nickerson, ’43 1994 *Hon. Giles Sutherland Rich, ’29 1994 *Professor Maurice Rosenberg, ’47 1995 Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ’59 1996 *Hon. Kathryn Austin McDonald, ’63 1996 Professor Arthur W. Murphy, ’48 1997 Hon. Marie L. Garibaldi, ’59 1997 Professor Michael I. Sovern, ’55 1998 Sidney J. Sheinberg, ’58 1998 Mary Jo White, ’74 1999 Professor Jack Greenberg, ’48 1999 Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., ’54 2000 *Professor John M. Kernochan, ’48 2000 Hon. Felice K. Shea, ’50 2001 Hon. Dickinson R. Debevoise, ’51 2001 Harvey R. Miller, ’59 2001 Ken Tsunematsu, ’63 2002 President Lee C. Bollinger Jr., ’71 2003 Susan B. Lindenauer, ’64 2003 Judith R. Thoyer, ’65 2003 *Judith P. Vladeck, ’47 2004 *Professor E. Allan Farnsworth, ’52 2004 *Stanley L. Temko, ’43 2005 *Professor Louis Lowenstein, ’53 2005 Michael D. Ratner, ’69 2006 Wei Sun Christianson, ’89 2006 Professor R. Randle Edwards 2007 Michael E. Patterson, ’67 2007 Esta Eiger Stecher, ’82 2008 H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, ’58 2009 Steven Epstein, ’68 2009 *Jerome L. Greene, ’28 2010 Eric H. Holder, Jr. ’76 2010 Henry Paul Monaghan 2011 Max W. Berger, ’71
2011 Stephen H. Case, ’68
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