Honoraria

Chicago attorney Geoffrey L. Gifford received the Leonard M. Ring Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association during its annual dinner June 8 in Oak Brook.

A partner in Pavalon, Gifford & Laatsch, he was president of ITLA in 1996-97, when his law partner, Eugene I. Pavalon, received the Ring Award. Gifford chaired the ISBA Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution before it became a section council.

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Mary Robinson, former administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the John Marshall Law School Corporate Law Association. Craig S. Donohue, chief executive officer of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, received a Career Achievement Award.

The awards were presented during the association's third annual Francis D. Morrissey Corporate Ethics Awards reception on May 22.

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Retired Supreme Court justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow is one of four members of the legal profession who were honored May 31 by the Chicago Lawyer chapter of the American Constitution Society as Chicago Legal Legends.

Also honored were Ronald S. Miller and James D. Montgomery, both Laureates of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers, and Judge Milton I. Shadur of U.S. District Court.

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Presiding Judge William D. Maddux of the Cook County Law Division has been inducted into the Boys Town Hall of Fame. He attended the Nebraska school in the 1950s and was a star athlete in football, basketball and baseball.

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Edwardsville attorney Elizabeth Levine Levy received a Women of Distinction Award in April from the YWCA of Alton. A member of the 3rd Circuit Family Violence Coordinating Council, she helped establish Kid's Korner, a visitation exchange facility in Madison County.

A fund raiser for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Levy is past president of the Edwardsville Business and Professional Women's Club.

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A residential complex in Cairo for disabled people was named the Ralph T. Stenger Apartments in April in memory of the late corporate counsel for the builder, Delta Center.

Stenger, a Belleville attorney who died in May 2006, also was legal counsel for St. Clair Associated Vocational Enterprises, a supporter of Mid America Behavioral Health Care and a fund raiser for the SAVE Foundation.

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Retired appellate justice Frederick Green was honored May 3 by the Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation as a Distinguished Alumnus. A graduate of Urbana High School, he led the basketball team to second place in the state tournament.

Green also played on the University of Illinois basketball team that made the Final Four in 1949, and received his law degree there in 1951.

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Associate Judge Daniel Shanes of the 19th Circuit received a Justice Award from the Lake County State's Attorney's Office in April during a National Crime Victims Week luncheon.

Ruth Rosengarden Awards were presented to Associate Judge George Strickland and Matthew Chancey, former chief of the state's attorney's Criminal Division.

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Prairie State Legal Services recently honored Peoria attorney Andrew A. Honegger and Kankakee attorney Doris White Delaney as Pro Bono Volunteers of the Year at separate events on May 1.

Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen was named Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year during the Peoria County Bar Association's Law Day luncheon.