The Foundation administers the prestigious Jerrold Scoutt Prize, established by the firm of Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger (now KMA Zuckert LLC), in honor of the public interest commitment of one of its founding partners, Jerrold Scoutt, Jr. Please click here to read a full biography of Mr. Scoutt. 

 

Given annually, the Scoutt Prize recognizes a full-time legal services lawyer who has demonstrated a career-long compassionate concern for his or her clients while exhibiting a high degree of skill in representing them.

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The 2024 Scoutt Prize will be presented during the DC Bar Foundation’s Fall Reception, tentatively planned for November 20, 2024.

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A nominee must meet the following criteria:

• He or she must be an attorney who is currently working full-time, or who has been employed full-time for a significant portion of his or her legal career, by an organization that provides direct, hands-on legal services to poor or disadvantaged persons in the District of Columbia.

• The organization itself must be one which has received or is eligible for a grant from the District of Columbia Bar Foundation.

• The nominee must have demonstrated a compassionate concern for his or her clients while exhibiting a high degree of skill as an
  attorney on their behalf.

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LIST OF RECIPIENTS:

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2023

Tracy Goodman, Children's Law Center

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2022

Jonathan Smith, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

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2021

Rebecca Lindhurst, Bread for the City

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2020

Beth Mellen, The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

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2019

Daniel M. Clark, Rising for Justice

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2018

Philip Fornaci, DC Prisoners’ Project with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

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2017

Rochanda Hiligh-Thomas, Advocates for Justice and Education

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2016

Jennifer L. Berger, Legal Counsel for the Elderly

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2015

Kathryn M. Doan, Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition

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2014

James D. Bishop, Catholic Charities Legal Network of the Archdiocese of Washington

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2013

Su Sie Ju, Bread for the City

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2012

Mark E. Herzog, DC Bar Pro Bono Program
Dorene Haney, DC Law Students in Court

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2011

Erin M. Loubier, Whitman-Walker Clinic Legal Services

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2010

Eric S. Angel, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Vytas V. Vergeer, Bread for the City Legal Clinic

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2009

Shirley M. Williams, Legal Counsel for the Elderly

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2008

Sandra J. Bernstein, University Legal Services

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2007

Diane Weinroth, The Children’s Law Center and American University Washington College of Law

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2006

Prof. Edward Allen, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

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2005

Jeannine C. Sanford, Bread for the City

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2004

R. Scott McNeilly, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

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2003

Anya Sykes, Ayuda

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2002

Rhonda Dahlman, Legal Counsel for the Elderly

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2001

Joe Tulman, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

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2000

Jan May, Legal Counsel for the Elderly

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1999

Ellen Scully, Columbus Community Legal Clinic

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1998

Patricia Mullahy Fugere, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

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1997

Joan Strand, GWU Law School, Civil Litigation Clinic

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1996

Ann Marie Hay, DC Law Students in Court

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1995

Jean Constantine-Davis and Nina F. Simon, AARP Foundation Litigation

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1994

Lynn Cunningham, Neighborhood Legal Services Program

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1993

Paula Scott, Neighborhood Legal Services Program 

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