The nomination period for CBWLA'S 2025 Lawyer of the Year Award is now closed.
The award recipient was announced at our 2025 Annual Spring Luncheon on March 25, 2025.
The award recipient was announced at our 2025 Annual Spring Luncheon on March 25, 2025.
About the Award
The CBWLA Board of Directors established this award in 2022 in recognition of the variety of contributions our members have made in the legal profession and general Coastal Bend Community. Each year, any current CBWLA regular member or board member is invited to submit a nominee to the President and/or Secretary of the CBWLA Board of Directors (deadline to be set each year by the Spring Luncheon Committee) whom they feel exemplifies a positive influence to women in our legal community and in society.
A plaque designed by the Board of Directors will be presented to the recipient at the annual Spring Luncheon; the Spring Luncheon committee shall decide, each year based on programming, whether the recipient may provide a short acceptance speech (at either the private reception or during the main programing, or not at all).
A plaque designed by the Board of Directors will be presented to the recipient at the annual Spring Luncheon; the Spring Luncheon committee shall decide, each year based on programming, whether the recipient may provide a short acceptance speech (at either the private reception or during the main programing, or not at all).
Criteria for the Award
A lawyer who is a paid member of the CBWLA. Nominee must be actively engaged in the practice of law and/or a current sitting Judge (serving at any level of government) or recently retired from the bench/bar, within the current membership year. The primary area of practice/service must be in the Coastal Bend Region.
The Nominee must exemplify one or more of the following criteria:
The Nominee must exemplify one or more of the following criteria:
- Provides positive influence to women in the law and in society
- Promotes and/or advances diversity in the legal profession
- Achieved a high degree of professional success
- Committed to exemplary public service and social responsibility
- Promotes issues and concerns of women in the legal profession
- Contributes to the programming and/or events of CBWLA
- Advances CBWLA’s purpose of networking, socializing, and/or professional support
- Advances CBWLA’s purpose of providing continuing education
- Provides exemplary contributions to CBWLA
| CBWLA Lawyer of the Year Award Criteria.pdf |
Past Award Recipients
Dori Contreras (2025)
Danice Obregon (2024)
Myra Morris (2023)
Hon. Sandra Watts (2022)
Danice Obregon (2024)
Myra Morris (2023)
Hon. Sandra Watts (2022)
