Legal Legends of Color Award Honorees – 2026 - North Carolina Bar Association

The eleventh annual Legal Legends of Color Awards Celebration will take place Thursday, June 25. The Legal Legends of Color Awards Celebration demonstrates the NCBA’s commitment to embracing diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. The celebration is a time to recognize and honor attorneys and other legal professionals of color whose legacies represent ceilings broken for all attorneys who follow in their footsteps and whose impacts on the legal profession are undeniable.

2026 Legal Legends of Color Award Honorees

The Honorable Rickye McKoy-Mitchell
Sharon Bey-Christopher
Andrea Leslie-Fite
Eric Pristell
William T. Wilson, Jr. (posthumously)