Y L D
P R E S I D E N T ’ S
M E S S A G E
Ja s o n Wh i t t e mo re – Wa g n e r Mc La u g h l i n
Yld recognizes Two outstanding
Members of the legal Community
with annual awards
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Congratulations to the Honorable Marva Crenshaw, winner of
the robert w. patton outstanding Jurist award, and Maja lacevic,
winner of the outstanding Young lawyer award.
very year, the YLD President has the
distinct honor of presenting the YLD’s two
premier awards — The Robert W. Patton
Outstanding Jurist
Award and the Out -
standing Young Lawyer Award.
It was a privilege to present
the awards to the Honorable
Marva Crenshaw and Maja
Lacevic at the HCBA Diversity
Luncheon in January.
on the Second District Court of Appeals. In each of
these positions, her dedication to mentoring young
lawyers has always been one of her top priorities.
During her career, she has
tirelessly served our state bar,
local bar, and our community.
She is a past recipient of the
HAWL Achievement Award,
the George Edgecomb Bar
Association Achievement Award,
and the Florida Association of
Women Lawyers’ Leaders in the
Law Award.
The YLD is honored to
recognize Judge Crenshaw for her
dedication to our legal com munity
and to young lawyers.
The Robert W. Patton
Outstanding Jurist Award
The Robert W. Patton Out -
standing Jurist Award recognizes
a jurist who has an excellent
reputation, has an unblemished
Jason Whittemore with the
record for integrity as a lawyer and
The Outstanding Young
Honorable
Marva Crenshaw
judge, is recognized by Bar
Lawyer Award
members as highly qualified,
The
Outstanding
Young
is active in bar-related activities,
Lawyer Award recognizes an
demonstrates concern or willingness
attorney who is a YLD member,
to assist young lawyers, and
is recognized as exemplary in the
demonstrates respect for young
area of professionalism and in the
lawyers’ abilities.
practice of law in her field of
Not only is Judge Crenshaw
practice, actively performs service
recognized in our legal com munity
to the community on a personal
as an outstanding jurist and
level, and has been actively
trailblazer, her record of public
involved in the HCBA’s YLD.
service is second to none. Judge
Maja Lacevic, assistant general
Crenshaw has spent her entire
counsel of clinical affairs for
career, spanning over four decades,
Moffitt Cancer Center, has
Jason Whittemore and Maja Lacevic
in public service. In that time, she
tirelessly dedicated her time to
has served as deputy director for
supporting the mission of the
Bay Area Legal Services, county judge for the Thirteenth
YLD. From 2014 to 2017, she served as chair of the
Judicial Circuit, circuit judge for the Thirteenth Judicial
Circuit, and, for the past ten years, as an appellate judge
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