2010 Carle Whitehead Memorial Award Dinner

Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Join us for the Carle Whitehead Dinner & Silent Auction. This annual event celebrates those individuals who stand on principle to defend out civil liberties. This year we honor ten Colorado attorneys who forced our government to confront its utter failure to live up to the Constitution, by defending those men detained indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

 

Our honorees are: Scott Barker, Trip Mackintosh, Bill Murane & Jon Bender; John Holland, Anna Holland-Edwards & Erica Grossman of the Law Offices of John Holland; Darold Killmer, Mari Newman & David Lane of Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP.

 

Reception and Silent Auction at 5:30 p.m. Dinner and Awards - 7:00 p.m.

City Center Marriott, 1801 California St, Denver

 

One CLE credit available for attending the event. Forms will be available at the dinner.
 
Tickets are $200 per person. Group table purchases also available. Click here to purchase your tickets today!

 

Featured Speaker:

 

Denise "Denny" LeBoeuf, Director of the John Adams Project

Denny LeBoeuf is a capital defender with a private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana; she was the founding Director of the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana and is currently of counsel to that defender organization. She represents persons facing death at trial and in post-conviction in state and federal courts, teaches and consults with capital defense teams nationally. She is particularly interested in the litigation of mental health cases and in the ways in which race and poverty increase the traumatic burden carried by many clients. She was a member of the 2003 Committee that formulated the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, and Chair of the post-Katrina Orleans Parish Indigent Defender Board 2006-2007. She holds a B.A. from Hunter College and a J.D. from Tulane University.

 
She is past President and past General Counsel of the Louisiana American Civil Liberties Union, and was a Member of the Board of the ACLU for a number of years. She was the Chair of the Orleans Parish Public Defenders Board post-Katrina, a member of the Executive Board of the Moratorium Campaign, a member of the Board of the People’s Institute for Survival, an Undoing Racism Organization, and the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In 2006 she was of counsel to the ACLU Capital Punishment Project in Durham, North Carolina.