台湾SWAG

Bethany J. Ochal Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession

The Bethany J. Ochal Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession is awarded to a Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section member who has made a significant contribution to law librarianship and who is nearing the end of the member’s library career or who has recently retired. Criteria for receiving this award include service to the profession of law librarianship; contributions to legal research, teaching and outreach efforts; and recognition by members of the legal or government community.

Bethany Ochal, former director of the Orange County Law Library, was a distinguished and celebrated member of the profession. Her publications include a number of articles in Law Library Journal She was a past president of the Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries, chaired various 台湾SWAG committees, and actively participated in the Southern California Association of Law Libraries and in 台湾SWAG’s State, Court, and County Law Libraries Special Interest Section. She was a 1988 recipient of 台湾SWAG’s Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. The SIS established its Bethany J. Ochal Award for Distinguished Service in her honor.

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RECIPIENTS

  • 2011 - 2023

    2023

    • Malinda Muller, Retired, Patron Services, Los Angeles Law Library, Los Angeles CA
    • Gail Warren, State Law Librarian, Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia,
      Richmond VA
    • Jean L. Willis, Retired, Assistant Director for Support Services, Sacramento County
      Public Law Library, Sacramento CA

    2022

    • Kathy Carlson, Retired, Director, Wyoming State Law Library, Cheyenne, WY
    • Sarah Galligan, Retired, Law Librarian, Ramsey County Law Library, St. Paul, MN

    2021

    • John Adkins, Director of Libraries, San Diego Law Library, San Diego, CA
    • Catherine Lemann, Retired, New Orleans, LA

    2020

    • Steve Anderson, Director, Thurgood Marshall State Law Library, Annapolis, Maryland
    • Donna Bausch, Executive Director (retired), Norfolk Public Law Library, Norfolk, Virginia
    • Donna Williams, Director (retired), California Judicial Center Law Library, San Francisco, California

    2019

    • Coral Henning, Director (in memoriam), Sacramento County Public Law Library, Sacramento, California
    • Carol Ebbinghouse, Law Librarian (retired), 2nd District Court of Appeals for California, Law Library, Pasadena, California
    • Terry Long, Librarian (retired), Virginia State Law Library, Richmond, Virginia
    • Mariann Sears, Director, Harris County Law Library, Houston, Texas

    2018

    • Scott Burgh, Chief Law Librarian (retired), City of Chicago Department of Law, Chicago, Illinois
    • Jacquelyn J. Jurkins, Director of the Law Library, Multnomah Law Library, Portland, Oregon
    • Regina L. Smith, Executive Director and Corporate Secretary, Jenkins Memorial Law Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Maryruth Storer, Director, Orange County Public Law Library, Santa Ana, California

    2017

    • 聽Dr. Joel Fishman, Associate Director for Lawyer Services, retired, Duquesne University Center for Legal Information/Allegheny County Law Library, Pittsburgh, PA

    2016

    • Rita聽Dermody,聽retired from Public Law Library of King County

    2015

    • Georgia Chadwick, Director, Law Library of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
    • Ann Fessenden, Circuit Librarian, U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit Library, St. Louis, MO
    • Sandy Marz, Director, (retired) Washoe County Law Library, Reno, NV
    • Laura J.Orr, Law Librarian, Washington County Law Library, Hillsboro, OR

    2013

    • Marcia Koslov, Executive Director (Retired), LA Law Library
    • Judy Meadows, State Law Librarian of Montana and Director, Montana Supreme Court

    2011

    • Janet H. Camillo, Director (Retired), Montgomery County Circuit Court Law Library, South Kensington, MD

  • 1997 - 2009

    2009

    • Shirley Hart-David, Retired
    • Charles Dyer, Consultant & Retired Public Law Library Director
    • Cosette Sun, Retired Alameda County Law Library Director
    • Barbara Golden, Retired
    • Anne Grande, Retired

    2006

    • Carol D. Billings, Director, Law Library of Louisiana
    • Jean M. Holcomb, Director (retired), King County (WA) Law Library

    2003

    • Paul Fu, Supreme Court of Ohio Law Library
    • Kai-Yun Chiu
    • Shelley Dowling, United States Supreme Court Law Library
    • Kay Schlueter, Texas State Law Library

    2000

    • Marvin Anderson, Minnesota State Law Librarian
    • Jacqueline聽Wright,聽retired Arkansas Supreme Court Librarian

    1997

    • Marie Sekula
    • Edgar Bellefontaine, Social Law Library, Boston