Criminal Justice Presents Awards
Howard Neumann, right, accepts award from Doug Henderson.
The North Carolina Bar Association Criminal Justice Section presented the 11th Annual Peter S. Gilchrist III & Wade M. Smith Awards on Jan. 31 at the Embassy Suites in Cary.
The recipients were Howard P. Neumann, former Guilford County chief assistant district attorney, who received the Gilchrist Award, and Claire J. Rauscher of Womble Bond Dickinson in Charlotte, who received the Smith Award.
The Criminal Justice Section presents its awards to an outstanding prosecutor (Gilchrist Award) and defense attorney (Smith Award). The awards are named for their initial recipients, former Mecklenburg County District Attorney Peter Gilchrist and renowned defense attorney Wade Smith of Raleigh.
Patrick Weede, section chair, presided.
The Gilchrist Award was presented by retired Guilford County District Attorney Doug Henderson, with whom Neumann worked for much of his more than 30 years as an assistant district attorney.
For more on Howard Neumann, access this article from the News & Record.
Claire Rauscher accepts award from Jim Cooney.
The Smith Award was presented by Jim Cooney, a previous recipient and current law partner of Rauscher, who previously served as the first Federal Defender in the Western District of North Carolina.
For more on Claire Rauscher, access this article from the Womble Bond Dickinson website.
Photos from the event are accessible on Facebook via this link.
Here is a list of previous recipients:
Gilchrist Award Recipients
2017 W. Clark Everett, Greenville
2016 Howard J. Cummings, Raleigh
2015 Barton Menser, Charlotte
2014 Sandra J. Hairston, Greensboro
2013 James J. Coman, Raleigh
2012 Calvin W. Colyer, Fayetteville
2011 C. Colon Willoughby Jr., Raleigh
2010 William D. Kenerly, Salisbury
2009 Edward W. Grannis Jr., Fayetteville
2008 Peter S. Gilchrist III, Charlotte
Smith Award Recipients
2017 Michael A. Grace, Winston-Salem
2016 Sean P. Devereux, Asheville
2015 Thomas C. Manning, Raleigh
2014 Mark W. Owens Jr., Greenville
2013 Fredrick G. Lind, Greensboro
2012 James E. Ferguson, Charlotte
2011 Joseph B. Cheshire V, Raleigh
2010 James P. Cooney III, Charlotte
2009 Locke T. Clifford, Greensboro
2008 Wade M. Smith, Raleigh