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Past Recipients of the Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit

Name of Recipient	Year of Award

The Hon. Thurgood Marshall	1976
The Hon. Spottswood W. Robinson	1976
The Hon. Joseph C. Waddy, Jr	1976
Dr. James Madison Nabrit, Jr.	1976
Oliver W. Hill, Esquire	1976
The Hon. William J. Hastie*	1976
George E.C. Hayes, Esquire*	1976
The Hon. William Benson Bryant	1977
Wiley Austin Branton, Esquire	1978
Herbert Odre Reid, Esquire	1979
The Hon. Margare Austin Haywood	1980
The Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.	1981
The Hon. H. Carl Moultrie, I	1982
The Hon. William Sylvester Thompson	1983
The Hon. Ruth Hankins-Nesbitt	1984
Louis Rothschild Mehlinger, Esquire	1985
Fred D. Gray, Esquire	1986
The Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr.	1987
The Hon. Juanita Kidd Stout	1988
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.*	1988
The Hon. Aubrey E. Robinson	1989
The Hon. Julia Cooper Mack	1990
The Hon. Lawrence Douglas Wilder	1991
Dr. J. Clay Smith, Jr.	1992
Thomas Adams Duckenfield, Esquire*	1993
Elaine Ruth Jones, Esquire	1994
The Hon. Dennis W. Archer	1995
The Hon. John Garrett Penn	1996
Mabel D. Haden, Esquire	1997
The Hon. Eugene Hamilton	1998
The Hon. Annice Wagner	1999
The Hon. Norma Holloway Johnson	2000
Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.	2001
The Hon. Wilhelmina J. Rolark	2002
Joseph H. Hairston, Esquire	2003
The Hon. William T. Coleman, Jr.	2004
Jack H. Olender, Esquire	2005
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Esquire*	2005
Congressman John R. Lewis	2006
Dr. John Hope Franklin	2006
The Honorable Constance Baker Motley*	2007
Dr. Dorothy I Height	2007
The Honorable Robert L. Carter	2008
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.	2008
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.	2009

* Medallion conferred posthumously