2023 Amram Award

Given in the spirit of the conference, the Philip Werner Amram Award recognizes those who personify professional excellence and who have demonstrated substantial commitment to the ideals of the Allegheny County Bar Association and to the betterment of the greater community.

Award recipients from the last 10 years are the Hon. Kim Berkeley Clark, Craig E. Simpson, Mary Sue Ramsden, Vincent J. Grogan, John F. Becker, the Hon. Kim D. Eaton, Barry M. Simpson, the Hon. Eugene Strassburger, the Hon. Christine Ward and the Hon. Lisa Pupo Lenihan.

The 2024 Bench-Bar Conference will be held June 13-15 at Seven Springs Mountain Resort. For more information, click here.

Amram Award Winners

• 2023 – Hon. Lisa Pupo Lenihan
• 2022 – Hon. Christine A. Ward
• 2019 – Hon. Eugene B. Strassburger III
• 2018 – Barry M. Simpson
• 2017 – Hon. Kim D. Eaton
• 2016 – John F. Becker
• 2015 – Vincent J. Grogan
• 2014 – Mary Sue Ramsden
• 2013 – Craig E. Simpson
• 2012 – Hon. Kim Berkeley Clark
• 2011 – Shelly R. Pagac
• 2010 – Hon. Debra Todd
• 2009 – William A. Goyette
• 2008 – Robert Raphael
• 2007 – Hon. Livingstone M. Johnson
• 2006 – John M. Feeney
• 2005 – Carol S. Mills McCarthy
• 2004 – Donald P. Minahan
• 2003 – Ruth A. Zittrain
• 2002 – Hon. Jeffrey A. Manning
• 2001 – G. Daniel Carney
• 2000 – John L. Doherty
• 1999 – Hon. Lawrence W. Kaplan
• 1998 – Lester E. Zittrain
• 1997 – Hon. Robert E. Dauer
• 1996 – June S. Schulberg
• 1995 – Donald W. Bebenek
• 1994 – Hon. I Martin Wekselman
• 1993 – Seymour A. Sikov
• 1992 – Michael Louik
• 1991 – Hon. Joseph A. Weis, Jr.
• 1990 – Dennis C. Harrington