Philadelphia Bar Association Gives Awards At Luncheon

AT PHILA. BAR ASSOCIATION annual meeting and luncheon, Judge Abbe Fletman joins with, among others, former Congressman Patrick Murphy, Marcus Allen of Big Brothers Big Sisters, Nikki Johnson-Huston, Esq., and Julie Swain, who was just elected to Bar Association Board of Governors. All photos by Bonnie Squires

MARK ARONCHICK, center, is flanked by State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams and Superintendent William Hite, after Aronchick received PNC Achievement Award.

NANCY BARON-BAER, ESQ., regional director of Anti-Defamation League, is among first to welcome Chancellor-Elect Albert S. Dandridge III, partner with Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, who outlined his plans for 2015 at Association’s annual meeting luncheon on Tuesday, Dec. 9.

IRA LEFTON, of Reed Smith, who was just elected to Board of Governors, and Kathleen Wilkinson, past Chancellor of Phila. Bar Association, who has just been named to board of Penna. Bar Association.

PENNA. Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille chats with Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky before formal program begins.

FROM LEFT, Carlton Johnson, of Archer & Greiner; Judge Wendy Beetlestone; and Edward Chacker, of Gay Chacker & Mittin are among more than 500 people who attended luncheon.

SURROUNDED by his family, Judge Benjamin Lerner basks in glow of having just received William S. Brennan Distinguished Jurist Award.