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PRESISLDENT'S CORNER

THANK YOU, 2019 TRAILBLAZERS AWARD & SCHOLARSHIP DINNER
SPONSORS & ATTENDEES!

It was such a tremendous honor to host the sold out 26th
Annual Trailblazers Award and Scholarship Dinner, and to
accept the gavel, as incoming President of the D. Augustus
Straker Bar Association! Thank you for the overwhelming
support of the marquee event and the mission of the bar
association.

It was a joy to celebrate Trailblazer Honorees Greg
Conyers, Michelle Crockett and Ronda Tate Truvillion, and to
award scholarships to law school and high school students.
A very special thank you to our sponsors, General Motors,
Jackson Lewis, Honigman, Lewis & Munday, Dickinson
Wright, Oakland County Bar Association, and University of
Detroit Mercy School of Law, whose generous contributions
made the event possible. Thank you also to Hon. Terrance
Keith, Hon. Adrian Spinks, special guest Hon. Eric Clay and our supporters, Association
of Black Judges of Michigan, Wolverine Bar Association, Vanzetti Hamilton Bar
Association, Black Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, Miller Canfield, Dykema,
Collins Einhorn Farrell, Foster Swift, Professor Dana Thompson and the University of
Michigan Law School's Entrepreneurship Clinic and Zell Program, Second Ebenezer
Church, Earlene Baggett-Hayes and Antoinette Raheem of The Law & Mediation Center
and Offices, Justice Kurtis Wilder, Butzel Long, Plunkett Cooney, Legal Aid and
Defender Association, State Bar of Michigan, Henry Ford Health System and all of the
attendees who joined us in making the 2019 Trailblazers Dinner such a great success!
Yours in service, Kimberley Ann Ward, Esq. President 2019-2020