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On Friday, August 24, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation COMMITTEE
72 Annual Public Servants hosted its 72nd Annual Franklin A. Polk Public Servants Merit Awards Lynn E. Lazzaro (Chair), Christopher P. Thorman (Vice Chair), Katherine
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Public Servants Franklin A. Polk Merit Awards Luncheon at the Westin Hotel in downtown Cleveland. A crowd of Brandt, Mike Cavanaugh, Pamela A. Daiker-Middaugh, David M. Paris, Mike
Merit Awards 400 family members, colleagues, and friends gathered to celebrate the Riley, Meredith Shoop, Carter Strang, and Stephanie Dutchess Trudeau
outstanding accomplishments of 12 exceptional individuals who have
dedicated their professional lives to public service. 2018 HOnOrEES
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Together we laughed and shared heartwarming sentiments while honoring Phyllis Burks, Cleveland Municipal Court, Clerk’s Office
the chosen nominees for their unfailing patience, commitment, and Melissa M. Cummings, Cuyahoga County Probate Court
Public Servants devotion to duty. We could not have been more proud to highlight this Charles E. Fleming, Federal Public Defender’s Office

Franklin A. Polk Merit Awards group during our best — and most favorite! — award show of the year. Maureen Gregory, Office of the Chapter 13 Trustee
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72 Courthouse. The additional wall, funded by the Foundation, will match Steve Kunsman, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Clerk’s Office
72 Annual nd The honorees’ names will be permanently inscribed in black granite Elizabeth Heraghty, Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court
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Kathleen Kilbane, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
on a new Public Servants Memorial Wall inside the Cuyahoga County
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the original wall which reached capacity in 2016 and has enough space
Analee Leibowitz, Shaker Heights Municipal Court
to inscribe the names of honorees for another 46 years starting with
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Jolan Vagi, Cleveland Municipal Court
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Damon Wright, Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals, Eighth Appellate District
Thank you to the Committee chairs and members, as well as Jacob
PUBLIC SERVANT Kronenberg, event emcee. Etoi Shaquila Young, Cleveland Municipal Court, Housing Court Division

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