Kathleen Blatz Child Advocate and Service Award

The Section’s Governing Council established this award in 2010 as a way of recognizing one attorney and one law student annually who have made an outstanding contribution to the area of child law through pro bono or legal aid in Minnesota.

Award Recipients

2012
Attorney - Jody M. Alholinna, El-Ghazzawy Law Offices LLC

2011
Attorney - Monica Bogucki, Mid-Minnesota Legal Services - Legal Aid Society

2010 
First awardee - Former Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz
Attorney - Anne Taylor Gueinzius, Childrens Law Center of Minnesota
Law Student - Karen Hazel, William Mitchell College of Law