Judges and Judiciary
Sep. 19, 2022
Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson will receive Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday
“Well, frankly, when I was first offered this, I turned it down because it’s really as a result of my founding of the Western Justice Center, and I consider the founding to be due to collaboration among a whole lot of wonderful people,” Nelson said.
The Western Justice Center will honor federal appeals court Senior Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.
The event will be Thursday at the Jonathan Club in downtown Los Angeles. Judge Richard A. Paez, Nelson’s colleague on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will present the award.
Nelson, who helped found the legal nonprofit organization, said she turned down the offer o...
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