Law Day Held in Tyler

TYLER — The Smith County Bar Association and the Smith County Bar Foundation celebrated Law Day with a luncheon Friday at the Tyler Rose Garden Center. Awards presented at this year’s event include:

Justinian Award – Tom Henson
Award of Excellence – Jim Huggler
Young Lawyer of the Year – Greg Kimmel
Liberty Bell Award – Donna Ashby

New to the event this year was the establishment of a Law Day Endowment by the Smith County Bar Foundation. Contributions to the fund, made in honor of current and past recipients of the awards, will go to fund community projects such as the Courthouse model currently on display at the Discovery Science Place Children’s Museum.

Another example of community service that the Association does is sponsoring an essay contest for high school students and a poster contest for grades K through 5, celebrating this year’s national theme of No Courts, No Justice, No Freedom. The Essay contest winners are:

1st Place – Madison Behm (who also placed third in the State Bar of Texas Law Day contest)
2nd Place – Brandon Lackner
3rd Place – Max S. McKinley

The poster contest winners in K-2 were:
Brianna Tovar
Jade Castro
Cameron Ames

The poster contest winners in 3-5 were:
Elliot Davidson
Haley Minton
Jared McLean

You can go to http://www.smithcountybar.com to learn more about the Bar Association and its activities.