Judge Peter M. Reyes, Jr., ABF Board Member and Life Fellow, was announced as one of the 2024 Honorable William D. Missouri Civility Award recipients. ABA President and Life Fellow Mary Smith will present the award to Judge Reyes at the ABA Annual Meeting on July 31.
The Missouri Award is awarded annual to a lawyer or judge who exhibits exceptional qualities of civility, courtesy and professionalism toward colleagues, litigants and the public. It is named in honor of the late Judge William D. Missouri of Maryland, who embodied courtesy in the courtroom and was a Life Fellow of the ABF.
In addition to serving on the ABF Board, he is the chair of the Fellows Research Advisory Committee. Reyes has served on the Minnesota Court of Appeals since 2014. He is a member of the ABA House of Delegates and chairs the Judicial Division’s Ethics and Professionalism Committee. He is a former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association and the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association.
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