Sharon A. Fullmer Legal Aid Attorney of the Year Award
Established in February 1997, this award recognizes that legal services lawyer in Arizona whose service to low-income people encompasses both aggressive advocacy on behalf of individuals in extreme need as well as impact advocacy designed to address systemic issues affecting significant numbers of low-income people.
2024 Recipient
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David J. Newstone is the Interim Executive Director and General Counsel of Defenders of Children, which has been providing free trauma-informed and healing-focused legal services to vulnerable low-income children and their families since 2007. Since moving to Arizona in 2012 to learn from and work with the faculty in the Throughout his legal career, David has successfully represented hundreds of low-income clients in counties and tribal nations across Arizona; contributed accessible legal content to numerous statewide programs and resources for self-represented litigants; and trained countless other attorneys, lay legal advocates, case managers, law enforcement officers, and others in crime victims’ rights and in family law, with a focus on child custody issues David holds graduate degrees in law and political science from McGill University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
Previous Recipients
The award has been presented to:
| 1997 | Sharon A. Fullmer (posthumously) |
| 1998 | Lois T. Kermott (posthumously) |
| 1999 | William E. Morris |
| 2000 | Dolores H. Milkie |
| 2001 | Thomas J. Berning Edwad E. Coghlan |
| 2002 | Sylvia J. Struss |
| 2003 | Veronika Fabian Denise I. Young |
| 2004 | Lydia A. Glasson |
| 2005 | George H. McKay |
| 2006 | Patricia J. Gerrich |
| 2007 | Anthony L. Young |
| 2008 | Valerie C. Hink |
| 2009 | Rachel Wilson |
| 2010 | Prof. Andrew Silverman |
| 2011 | Pamela M. Bridge |
| 2012 | Mary V. Day |
| 2013 | Beverly B. Parker |
| 2014 | Ellen Sue Katz |
| 2015 | Laura Belous |
| 2016 | Stanley Silas |
| 2017 | Golden E. McCarthy |
| 2018 | Anne M. Ryan |
| 2019 | Deonissa Cañez-Anderson |
| 2020 | January F. E. Contreras Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project |
| 2021 | Jamie Balson |
| 2022 | Nina Targovnik |
| 2023 | Habib A. Pierce-Byrd |
| 2024 | David J. Newstone |
State Bar Annual Awards
- Award of Appreciation
- Award of Special Merit
- Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Award
- Hon. John R. Sticht Disability Achievement Award
- James A. Walsh Outstanding Jurist Award
- Mark I. Harrison Excellence in Mentorship Award
- Member of the Year Award
- Michael C. Cudahy Criminal Justice Award
- Outstanding In-House Counsel of the Year Award
- President's Award
- Sharon A. Fullmer Legal Aid Attorney of the Year Award
- Tom Karas Criminal Justice Award