The Dan Bradley AwardThe Dan Bradley Award is NLGLA's highest honor. It recognizes the efforts of a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal community whose 2008 | Lavender Law 2007—San Francisco, CA Shannon Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights Therese Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, City of San Francisco This year’s honorees are being singled out for their remarkable achievements in the fight for marriage equality. Thanks in no small part to the efforts of Minter and Stewart, the nation's most populous state has begun offering State-level legal recognition to same-sex civil marriages and is the first to allow out-of-state couples to wed. 2007 | Lavender Law 2007—San Francisco, CA 2006 | Lavender Law 2006—Washington, DC 2005 | Lavender Law 2005—San Diego, CA 2004 | Lavender Law 2004—Minneapolis, MN 2003 | Lavender Law 2003—New York, NY 2002 | Lavender Law 2002—Philadelphia, PA 2001 | Lavender Law 2001—Dallas, TX 2000 | Lavender Law 2000—Washington, D.C. 1999 | Lavender Law 1999—Seattle, WA 1998 | Lavender Law 1998—Boston, MA 1997 | Lavender Law 1997—West Hollywood, CA 1996 | Lavender Law V— New Orleans,
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work, like Attorney Dan Bradley's, has led the way in our struggle for equality under the law. Dan Bradley was the first chair of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibility's Committee on the Rights of Gay People, now known as the Committee for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Bradley saw the law as a powerful instrument of social justice, and he believed that lawyers had an obligation to place their skills as advocates at the service of the least powerful among us.