Monica Márquez Receives 2009 Davis Award

On Wednesday, Jan. 13, the 2009 Richard Marden Davis Award was presented to Monica M. Márquez of the Colorado Attorney General’s office at a dinner in her honor at The Brown Palace. The award is presented annually by Davis Graham & Stubbs, the Denver Bar Foundation and the Davis family to a young Denver lawyer under 40 who has combined excellence as a lawyer with civic, cultural, educational and charitable leadership in the tradition of Dick Davis early in his career.

During law school and the 12 years that Márquez has practiced law, she has distinguished herself. While earning her law degree at Yale Law School, she worked summers at the National Center for Youth Law (San Francisco); at Davis, Graham & Stubbs (Denver); at the U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.) and at the Equal Justice Initiative (Montgomery, Ala.), where she handled death penalty post-conviction defense work for Alabama death row inmates.

Márquez’s acceptance speech gave an inside look into her battles in the courtroom and in her personal life as an openly-gay female.	DBA President John Baker presents the 2009 Davis Award to Monica Márquez on Jan. 13 at the Brown Palace.
Baker and DBA Second Vice President Aaron Bradford catch up during the Davis Award cocktail hour.	Márquez receives a much deserved congratulations from DBA Executive Director Chuck Turner.

Former DBA President Wins Hispanic Bar award

Keynote Speaker Carlos Sandoval, a lawyer and producer/director of the documentary film "A Class Apart," congratulates the award winners.

Elsa Martinez-Tenreiro, DBA President 2007-2008, was chosen to receive the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association’s Annual Chris Miranda Outstanding Hispanic Lawyer Award. The award was presented at the CHBA’s banquet, Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Stonebrook Manor Event Center & Gardens in Thornton. The keynote speaker was Carlos Sandoval, director of "A Class Apart," a film that chronicles the story of Pedro Hernandez, whose murder conviction was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he received the right to a new trial by his peers. The other award recipients were: Michelle Martinez (Outstanding New Hispanic Lawyer); Arnold & Porter (Outstanding Corporate Commitment Award) and Legal Nights (Community Service Award).

Smiles radiate from CHBA award recipients (from left) Jerome DeHerrera of Arnold & Porter; Elsa Martinez Tenreiro; Michelle Martinez, Tim Macdonald of Arnold & Porter and Connie Talmage of Colorado Lawyers Committee/Legal Night Program.

Winter Festival gives hope and toys

On Jan. 23, more than 100 kids and their families enjoyed pizza, soda, cake, balloon artistry by Handy Andy and a magic show by Dennis Michael at the DBA YLD Winter Festival. Former Nuggets player Ervin Johnson also stopped by to see the kids. Each child received a large and small toy, a sporting good, book, stuffed animal and candy. Special thanks to the DBA YLD Winter Festival Co-Chairs, Gillian McKean Bidgood, Sarah Oviatt and Lucia Padilla for their tireless work on the project. Congrats to the following law firms and businesses that donated to Winter Festival this year: Aronowitz & Mecklenburg; Beatty & Wozniak; Terry Bernuth; Blackjack Pizza; CASA of Jefferson & Gilpin Counties; Colorado Attorney General’s Office; Denver Broncos; Enstrom Candies; Grund, Dagner & Nelson; Hensley Kim & Holzer; Holme Roberts and Owen; Inman Flynn Biesterfeld & Brentlinger; Ervin Johnson; Kamlet Reichert; Kennedy Childs & Fogg; Kroenke Sports Enterprise; McKenna Long & Aldridge; Kathleen McKean; Merchant & Gould; Messner & Reeves; Montgomery Little & Soran; Mountain States Employers Council, Inc.; Pogue Corbetta & O’Leary; Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons; Senter Goldfarb & Rice; Starrs Mihm; Gerald Quiat; Timbuk Toys; and White, Bear & Ankele.