Distinguished Service Awards
2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994
2010 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship | Pro Bono Legal Service |
Virginia M. May, QC
| Solomon J. Rolingher, QC
| Professor Gerald Gall, OC
| The late John A. Weir, QC
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2009 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship | Pro Bono Legal Service |
Anne S. de Villars, QC
(Edmonton) | J. Alan Bryan, QC
(Edmonton) | John B. Ballem, QC
(Calgary) | Douglas H. McCallum
(Lethbridge) |
Four outstanding Alberta lawyers were recognized for excellence at the 2009 Distinguished Service Awards ceremony held on January 30, 2009 in Edmonton. The Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association - Alberta presented the awards. 
Programme
The recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Service awards and their presenters are, from left to right: Diane Young, Past President of the CBA - Alberta; John B. Ballem, QC, Distinguished Service in Legal Scholarship; Anne S. de Villars, QC, Distinguished Service to the Profession; J. Alan Bryan, QC, Distinguished Service to the Community; Douglas H. McCallum, Distinguished Service in Pro Bono Legal Service; and Perry Mack, QC, Past President, Law Society of Alberta. The 2009 Distinguished Service Awards were presented at the 2009 Alberta Law Conference held January 30, 2009 in Edmonton.
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2008 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship | Pro Bono Legal Service |
Allan G. Shewchuk, QC
(Calgary) | B.A.R. (Quincy) Smith, QC
(Calgary) | Gerald B. Robertson, QC
(Edmonton) | Shirzad S. Ahmed
(Calgary) |
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2007 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship | Pro Bono Legal Service |
Sandra L. Schulz, QC
(Edmonton) | Brian P. O'Leary, QC
(Calgary) | Nicholas Rafferty
(Calgary) | Ronald G. Hopp
(Edmonton) |
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2006 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship | Pro Bono Legal Service |
Donald G. Bishop, QC
(Edmonton) | Robert J. Campbell, QC
(Ft. McMurray) | John M. Law | John T. Henderson, QC
(Edmonton) |
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2005 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
Hugh A. Robertson, QC
(Edmonton) | Cathy Lane Goodfellow | Lewis N. Klar, QC |
| John J. Mahony, QC | |
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2004 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
| Peter L. Freeman, QC | Audrey Dean
(Edmonton) | Nigel Bankes
(Calgary) |
| Douglas H. Mitchell, QC
(Calgary) | |
| Donna M. Hallett
(Strathmore) | |
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2003 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
Lorne E. Goddard, QC
(Red Deer) | Paul Drager
(Calgary) | Dr. Richard Bauman |
H.J. Lyndon Irwin, QC
(Edmonton) | Margaret A. Shone
(Edmonton) | |
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2002 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
Stephen Hart Wood, QC
(Calgary) | Jack N. Agrios, QC
(Edmonton) | Frederick A. Laux, QC
(Edmonton) |
James D. Ross
Duncan A. Stewart, QC
(Edmonton) | T. Catherine Christopher
(Calgary) | |
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2001 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
| Joseph P. Brumlik, QC | W.C. Richard Davidson, QC
(Lethbridge) | Peter J.M. Lown, QC
(Edmonton) |
| Ronald W. Odynski, QC
(Edmonton) | |
| Gerald W. Pittman, QC
(Calgary) | |
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2000 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
R. Philip M. North, QC
(Lethbridge) | Susan P. Hendricks | C. Richard B. Dunlop
(Edmonton) |
| Gordon J. Hoffman, QC
(St. Paul) | |
| Robert E. Schnell, QC
(Red Deer) | |
| Special award recognizing service to the community, the legal profession and in legal scholarship |
| Hon. Chief Justice W. Kenneth Moore (Calgary) |
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1999 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
Phyllis A.L. Smith, QC
(Edmonton) | John H. Cuthbertson
(Calgary) | Alastair R. Lucas
(Calgary) |
| James S. Palmer, QC
(Calgary) | |
| Joseph H. Shoctor, OC, QC | |
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1998 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
Emmanuel Sonny Mirth, QC
(Edmonton) | Brian A. Felesky, QC
(Calgary) | D. Christine Davies, QC |
| J. Wilton Littlechild, QC
(Hobbema) | |
| Thomas J. Walsh, QC
(Calgary) | |
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1997 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
James C. Robb, QC
(Edmonton) | Hon. Justice Tevie H. Miller, QC
1928-1996 | Kathleen E. Mahoney
(Calgary) |
| Lewis A. Desrochers, O.C, QC | |
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1996 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
William H. Hurlburt, QC
(Edmonton) | Hon. Peter Lougheed, P.C., C.C., QC
(Calgary) | Dr. Sheilah L. Martin, QC
(Calgary) |
| John R. Perraton, QC
(Calgary) | |
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1995 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
| Cecilia I. Johnstone, QC | Alan D. Hunter, QC
(Calgary) | Hon. William A. Stevenson |
| | Hon. Jean E. Leon Cote |
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1994 Recipients
| Service to the Profession | Service to the Community | Legal Scholarship |
Hon. James H. Laycraft
(Calgary) | Sheldon M. Chumir | Wilbur F. Bowker, OC, QC |
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