Spokane County Bar Association – Smithmoore P. Myers Professionalism Award
In 1994, a number of county and specialty bar associations in the State of Washington designated March as Legal Professionalism Month. As a result, the Spokane County Bar Association held the first “Evening Celebrating Professionalism” Dinner. That year the recipient of the SCBA Professionalism Award was Smithmoore P. Myers. The award was then designated “The Smithmoore P. Myers Professionalism Award.”
Each year the Professionalism Award Committee seeks nominations of a person who exemplifies the high ethical and professional standards of the legal profession and who currently practices law in the Spokane area. Nominations should not include sitting members of the bench, current members of the SCBA Board of Trustees nor deceased members of the bar. The recipient must be a current member of the Spokane County Bar Association. Below is a history of award recipients.
2023: William J. Schroeder
2022: Kevin J. Curtis
2021: W. Scott Mason
2020: Daniel E. Huntington
2019: Richard L. Mount
2018: Pamela J. DeRusha
2017: William C. Maxey
2016: Paul A. Bastine
2015: Richard J. Schroeder and Beverly L. Anderson
2014: Steven L. Hughes and Francis A. Adewale
2013: John T. Rodgers
2012: Paul B. Mack
2011: William F. Etter
2010: John R. Clark
2009: Michael J. Pontarolo
2008: William D. Hyslop
2007: Carl E. Hueber
2006: Rosanna M. Peterson and Phillip J. “Dutch” Wetzel
2005: Joseph P. delay
2004: Nancy L. Isserlis
2003: Leo J. Driscoll
2002: Eugene L. Annis
2001: Philip J. Thompson
2000: Richard D. McWilliams
1999: Harold D. Clarke
1998 : Richard L. Cease
1997: James J. Gillespie
1996: Kathleen M. Taft
1995: J. Donald Curran
1994: Smithmoore P. Myers