Emmet Bondurant, Life Fellow, was announced as the 2024 recipient of the ABA Medal. Mr. Bondurant will be presented with the medal at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago in August.
The ABA Medal is the highest honor presented by the American Bar Association and is awarded to a lawyer for “exceptionally distinguished service … to the cause of American jurisprudence.” Past recipients include Hillary Rodham Clinton, Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Lewis F. Powell Jr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sandra Day O’Connor, Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Mr. Bondurant is the founder of the Atlanta-based litigation boutique firm Bondurant, Mixson and Elmore. He has litigated many challenges to state voter identification requirements in cases such as Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc. v. Perdue and Common Cause/Georgia v. Billups. He also represented Elizabeth Hishon in Hishon v. King & Spalding, a groundbreaking gender equality case where the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that law firms are subject to Title VII and prohibited from discriminating against women in partner selection.
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