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The Association Medal
In May 1951, the Executive Committee resolved that the Association establish an award to be designated as the “Award of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York,” to be presented from time to time to a member of the New York Bar who has made exceptional contributions to the honor and standing of the bar in this community. A special committee was appointed to supervise the preparation of a design of a medal embodying such award, to recommend a method of presentation and also to recommend at what intervals the presentation of such awards should be reviewed.
The obverse of the medal bears an adaption of the Association’s Seal: A full-length figure of Athene in her special—and to the Greeks favorite—character of Polias, the guardian of the city, bearing a scroll in her right hand and a winged Victory in her left. The figure is a slightly idealized reproduction of the statue now in the Villa Albani, near Rome. On either side of the main figure is a legend from the fourth book of Aristotle’s Politics, concluding a sentence which reads, “Where the laws are not enforced there can be no free state, for it is essential that the law be supreme.” At the foot of the figure is inscribed the characteristic title “Polias,” and around the seal is the corporate name of the Association, with the date of its organization, 1870. The medal is the work of the American sculptor, C.L. Schmitz.
The Association Medal has been awarded to:
Zachary W. Carter
Mary Jo White
Awarded March 10, 2022
Hon. Sonia Sotomayor
Awarded March 7, 2019
Alan Rothstein
Awarded July 28, 2015
Hon. Leonard B. Sand
Awarded April 3, 2014
Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Awarded February 13, 2013
Hon. Judith S. Kaye
Awarded December 9, 2008
Robert B. Fiske
Awarded March 15, 2007
Hon. Robert M. Morgenthau
Awarded March 15, 2007
John D. Feerick
Awarded March 6, 2006
Robert B. McKay
Awarded Posthumously, October 24, 1990
Archibald R. Murray
Awarded Posthumously November 27, 2001
Arthur Liman
Awarded Posthumously May 18, 1999
Fern Schair
Awarded November 18, 1997
Robert M. Kaufman
Awarded May 23, 1995
Herbert Wechsler
Awarded March 19, 1985
Cyrus R. Vance
Awarded March 19, 1985
Oscar M. Ruebhausen
Awarded March 19, 1985
Hon. John J. McCloy
Awarded March 16, 1982
Hon. Francis T.P. Plimpton
Awarded March 18, 1980
Paul B. De Witt
Awarded November 17, 1970
Louis M. Loeb
Awarded March 17, 1970
Orison S. Marden
Awarded May 21, 1968
Hon. Bernard Botein
Awarded October 29, 1963
Whitney North Seymour
Awarded December 8, 1959
Harrison Tweed
Awarded May 10, 1955
Charles C. Burlingham
Awarded June 29, 1953
Hon. Robert P. Patterson
Awarded Posthumously, March 11, 1952
