TYLER \u2014 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\u2019s event include:<\/p>\n
Justinian Award \u2013 Tom Henson
\nAward of Excellence \u2013 Jim Huggler
\nYoung Lawyer of the Year \u2013 Greg Kimmel
\nLiberty Bell Award \u2013 Donna Ashby<\/p>\n
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\u2019s Museum.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s national theme of No Courts, No Justice, No Freedom. The Essay contest winners are:<\/p>\n
1st Place – Madison Behm (who also placed third in the State Bar of Texas Law Day contest)
\n2nd Place – Brandon Lackner
\n3rd Place – Max S. McKinley<\/p>\n
The poster contest winners in K-2 were:
\nBrianna Tovar
\nJade Castro
\nCameron Ames <\/p>\n
The poster contest winners in 3-5 were:
\nElliot Davidson
\nHaley Minton
\nJared McLean<\/p>\n
You can go to http:\/\/www.smithcountybar.com<\/a> to learn more about the Bar Association and its activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TYLER \u2014 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\u2019s event include: Justinian Award \u2013 Tom Henson Award of Excellence \u2013 Jim Huggler Young Lawyer of the Year \u2013 Greg Kimmel Liberty Bell Award … Continue reading Law Day Held in Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 05:19:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186067"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186290,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186067\/revisions\/186290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}