DRI’s Annual Professional Achievement and Service Awards celebrate and honor outstanding performance by state, local, and national defense organizations (SLDOs/NDOs), DRI law firms, and individual members.
These awards identify peers who deserve recognition either for their professional contributions to, and achievements on behalf of, the defense bar and the civil justice system or their involvement in community and public service activities that have a positive impact on society at large. Recognition enhances members’ personal growth and accomplishments, provides us all with role models and strengthens members’ images in the legal and business communities and with the general public.
Winners will be recognized at the 2023 DRI Annual Meeting closing reception on Friday, October 27, in San Antonio.
The 2023 award recipients are as follows:
ALBERT H. PARNELL OUTSTANDING PROGRAM CHAIR AWARD
Atoyia Scott Harris, 2023 Diversity for Success Seminar
DAVIS CARR OUTSTANDING COMMITTEE CHAIR AWARD
Gretchen N. Miller, Product Liability Committee
DRI FOUNDATION COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
Matthew P. Keris, Pennsylvania
DRI LAW FIRM/CORPORATE LEGAL DEPARTMENT DIVERSITY AWARD
Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A.
DRI SLDO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AWARD
Jennifer W. Hayes, Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
FRED H. SIEVERT AWARD
Matthew G. Moffett, Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
G. DUFFIELD SMITH OUTSTANDING PUBLICATION AWARD
Susan E. Gunter, Thomas J. Hurney Jr., and Marta-Ann Schnabel
“Nonlawyer Investment in the Legal Economy”
JOHN R. KOURIS PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
Mark R. Beebe, IADC Past President
Evelyn Fletcher Davis, ADTA Past President
Howard A. Merten, FDCC Past President
KEVIN DRISKILL OUTSTANDING STATE REPRESENTATIVE AWARD
Allen C. Smith, North Carolina
LOUIS B. POTTER LIFETIME PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AWARD
Amy L. Miletich, Colorado
RICHARD H. KROCHOCK AWARD
J. Richard Moore, Indiana
RUDOLPH A. JANATA AWARD
South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association
SLDO DIVERSITY AWARD
Wisconsin Defense Counsel
TOM SEGALLA EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AWARD
Sergio E. Chavez, Texas
VETERANS NETWORK MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD
Lee C. Schmeer, Pennsylvania