Two ABF Fellows were named to the LGBTQIA+ Bar Association 40 Under 40 list. Judge Angelo Mathay and M. Boulette, both Fellows, were recognized by The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association for distinguishing themselves in their field and having demonstrated a profound commitment to LGBTQ+ equality.
All awardees will be recognized at the Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair in August of this year in Washington, D.C. The LGBTQ+ Bar was founded over thirty years ago, by a group of family law practitioners during the height of the AIDS epidemic and in 1987, the idea of creating a gay and lesbian bar association was formally introduced at the Lesbian & Gay March on Washington. It was in 1992 that the LGBTQ+ Bar became an official affiliate of the American Bar Association and now works closely with the ABA’s Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities and its Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
Judge Mathay currently serves as an Administrative Judge at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission based in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he adjudicates employment discrimination claims filed by federal employees in three southeastern states. He was named as a Blume Public Interest Leader in Residence at Georgetown University Law Center and was selected as a Filipino Young Leaders Program delegate.
Boulette is at Taft as a partner and chair of the firm’s national Domestic Relations practice. Boulette was recently inducted as a Fellow in the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). Both have won the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division award and the On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers Award, Boulette winning in 2019 and Mathay in 2023.
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