Honorary Champion Award Recipients
Each year at the Champions Breakfast (formerly known as the Fellows Breakfast), the Illinois Bar Foundation selects at least one individual to be acknowledged as an Honorary Champion. Recipients are attorneys of distinction whose professional and public careers set an example to which others aspire.
Honorary Champion Award Past Recipients
| 2019 | Allen N. Schwartz |
| 2018 | Richard R. Winter |
| 2017 | Justice Mary Anne Mason |
| 2016 | Patrick Fitzgerald |
| 2015 | Jennifer Rosato Perea |
| 2014 | Hon. Grace Dickler |
| 2013 | Hon. Ruben Castillo |
| 2012 | Justice Rita B. Garman |
| 2011 | Hon. Diane Wood |
| 2010 | James Montgomery |
| 2009 | Hon. James Holderman |
| 2008 | Dawn Clark Netsch |
| 2007 | Thomas P. Sullivan |
| 2006 | Terrence Hake |
| 2004 | Hon. Abner Mikva |
| 1999 | Joel Daly |
| 1997 | Justice William D. Stiehl |
| 1994 | Hon. Thomas E. Hornsby |
| 1994 | Hon. Harry G. Comerford |
| 1993 | Hon. Robert E. Wiss |
| 1992 | Justice William G. Clark |
| 1990 | Justice Daniel P. Ward |
| 1989 | Richard J. Phelan |
| 1988 | Hon. Warren D. Wolfson |
| 1987 | William H. Webster |
| 1986 | John E. Cribbet |
| 1985 | Robert C. Underwood |
| 1985 | President Gerald R. Ford |
| 1984 | Arthur Goldberg |
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