2009 OGALLA Annual Dinner at the Hotel Monaco
Saturday, October 24, 2009, 6 p.m.
Annual Dinner and Silent Auction

The Oregon LGBT Bar Association hosted its annual dinner on October 24, 2009 at the Hotel Monaco, featuring catering by Red Star Tavern & Roast House. A silent auction benefiting the Bill & Ann Shepherd Scholarship was held. And, we were delighted to announce that Shannon Price Minter was the keynote speaker.

Shannon Price Minter is the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), one of the nation's leading advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Shannon was lead counsel for same-sex couples in the landmark California marriage equality case which held that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry and that laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation are inherently discriminatory and subject to the highest level of constitutional scrutiny. He was also lead counsel in the subsequent legal challenge to Proposition 8. Shannon was NCLR's lead attorney on Sharon Smith's groundbreaking wrongful death suit, and has litigated many other impact cases in California and across the country.

In 2009, Shannon was named California Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer. In 2008, he was named among six Lawyers of the Year by Lawyers USA and among California’s Top 100 Lawyers by the legal publication The Daily Journal. He also received the 2008 Dan Bradley Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Bar Association for outstanding work in marriage cases and was the recipient of the Cornell Law School Exemplary Public Service Award. In 2005, Shannon was one of 18 people to receive the Ford Foundation's "Leadership for a Changing World" award.

Sponsors:

We thank our sponsors, who went above and beyond to benefit the Bill and Ann Shepherd Scholarship Fund.

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