Annual Awards and Luncheon

The Distinguished Alumni Award, the Public Service Award, and the Young Alumni Award are given annually by the Alumni Association to recognize highly distinguished alumni for extraordinary achievements and contributions to their professions, local communities, and South Texas College of Law Houston. The award recipients are selected in the summer by the Awards Committees of the Alumni Association Board of Directors and are honored at the Alumni Association Annual Meeting and Luncheon each fall.

The 2025 Alumni Recipients are:
Distinguished Alumni Award: Juan Garcia ’04
Public Service Award: Thai-Anh Nguyen ’09
Young Alumni Award: Sean Berwald ’18

Distinguished Alumni Award

The highest award presented by the Alumni Association, the Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes outstanding civic contribution to the community in which he or she lives. Each recipient must demonstrate significant leadership to South Texas College of Law Houston as well as significant contributions to the legal profession.

1967 William A. Miller Jr. ’36
1971 Joe M. Green Jr. ’38
1972 The Honorable E. J. Salcines ’63
1973 The Honorable Philip G. Warner ’65
1974 Harry P. Hutchens Jr. ’56
1976 F. Jane Yount ’58
1977 Philip L. Burleson Sr. ’58
1978 Eugene Jones ’68
1979 Charles R. (Bob) Dunn ’65
1980 Don D. Jordan ’69
1981 Robert Casey ’40
1982 Mayo J. Thompson ’49
1983 Durell M. Carothers ’34
1984 Phillip B. Baldwin ’52
1985 Foster T. Bean ’28
1986 Fred A. Lange ’29
1987 Joseph M. Guarino ’49
1988 Elliott A. Johnson ’37
1989 Abraham Ramirez Jr. ’65
1990 John W. Turner ’70
1991 Richard P. Hogan ’61
1992 M. Lynne Liberato ’81
1993 The Honorable Charles F. Baird ’80
1994 Lizabeth P. Matthews ’85
1995 Miron A. Love ’51
1996 Gene Locke ’81
1997 The Honorable Samuel Nuchia ’83
1998 The Honorable Janis Graham Jack ’81
1999 Fred Parks ’37
2000 Jeffrey E. Rusk ’83
2001 Amy Dunn Taylor ’82
2002 Joel M. Androphy ’78
2003 Imogen “Immy” Papadopoulos ’84
2004 Lisa A. Blue ’80
2005 Michael S. Hays ’74
2006 Roland Garcia, Jr. ’86
2007 David W. Holman ’85
2008 Professor Elaine A. Carlson ’79
2009 Randy R. Howry ’85
2010 Richard H. Anderson ’82
2011 Dale Jefferson ’86
2012 Rick Laminack ’87
2013 The Honorable Jay W. Burnett ’73
2014 The Honorable Robert K. Schaffer ’84
2015 E. Chris Kaitson ’81
2016 Gordon J. Quan ’77
2017 The Honorable Kim Ogg ’86
2018 Randall O. Sorrels ’87
2019 J. Ken Johnson II ’86
2020 Chris Hanslik ’95
2021 Mary-Olga Lovett ’93
2022 Rick Morris ’91
2023 Benny Agosto, Jr. ’95
2024 The Honorable Eva Guzman ’89
2025 Juan Garcia ’04

Public Service Award

This award recognizes an alumnus who has made significant and sustained work in a public service position.

2006 Lynn Kamin ’88 & Randy Sorrels ’87
2007 Veronica Jacobs ’94
2008 Stewart Gagnon ’74
2009 Peggy Montgomery ’80
2010 Paul Waldner ’75
2011 The Honorable Kim Ogg ’86
2012 Justice David M. Medina ’89
2013 Julianne M. Holt ’80
2014 The Honorable Debra E. Ibarra Mayfield ’99
2015 Benny Agosto, Jr. ’95
2016 Chastiti N. Horne ’98
2017 Marc Eichenbaum ’08
2018 The Honorable Jay T. Karahan ’83
2019 Aimee Maldonado ’04
2020 The Honorable Denise Bradley ’86
2021 The Honorable Kyle Carter ’00
2022 Carl Shaw ’90
2023 José S. Lopez ‘03
2024 Jen Falk ’06
2025 Thai-Anh Nguyen ’09

Young Alumni Award

New in 2016, this award is presented to an alumnus who has graduated in the past 10 years and has made significant leadership and service contributions to South Texas College of Law Houston and the legal profession.

2016 Brant J. Stogner ’06
2017 Courtney T. Carlson ’08
2018 Adam P. Curley ’08
2019 Lindsey Moorhead ’11
2020 Christine Herron ’10
2021 Derek Pershing ’13
2022 Alex Gonzalez ’12
2023 Samantha Torres ’13
2024 Dominique Hinson ’14
2025 Sean Berwald ’18

Alumni Association Awards

Distinguished Alumni Award

Public Service Award

Young Alumni Award