THE CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Chief Justice John Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award is the Judge Advocate Foundation’s highest award. The Foundation established the award commemorating Chief Justice Marshall to principally recognize achievements outside military service by an individual who once served as a judge advocate, left active-duty military service, and subsequently made great contributions and achievements outside the military legal system.
2021 – Dr. John S. Baxter, Col, USAF, Ret
2020 – No dinner/No award
2019 – Harry Pearce, USAFA Grad, USAF JA, Executive VP, GC, and Vice-Chairman of General Motors
2018 – Major General (Ret.) Kenneth Gray, Retired U. S. Army DJAG and VP for Student Affairs at WVU
2017 – Ambassador Richard Verma (USAF)
2016 – Judge Coral Wong Pietsch, U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and BG, JA, USAR (Ret.)
2015 – Professor Frederic I. Lederer, William & Mary School of Law(USA/USAR)
2014 – Hon. Carl E. Stewart, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (USA)
2013 – No Award/No Dinner due to sequestration and construction of new AN Club
2012 – Dean Blake Morant, Wake Forest School of Law (USA)
2011 – John T. (“Til”) Hazel, Jr., Esq. (USA)
2010 – Patrick E. Higginbotham, Senior Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (USAF)
2009 – Royce C. Lamberth, Chief Judge, US District Court for the District of Columbia (USA)
2008 – William P. Greene, Jr., Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (USA)
2007 – Congressman Roger F. Wicker (USAF)
2006 – H.F. “Sparky” Gierke, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (USA)
2005 – Major General William K. Suter, USA (Ret.), Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States
2004 – Senator Lindsey O. Graham (USAF)
2003 – Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (USN)
2002 – H. Robert Mayer, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (USA)