The Robert E. Juceam Founders Award

6/20/23 AILA Doc. No. 99900682.

To the person or entity who has had the most substantial impact on the field of immigration law or policy in the preceding period (established 1950). This award was renamed the Robert E. Juceam Founders Award in 2021.

  • Ira Kurzban (2023)
  • Charles Oppenheim (2022)
  • Bob Juceam (2021)
  • H. Ronald Klasko, Philadelphia, PA (2019)
  • Laura Lichter and Stephen Manning (2015)
  • Kathleen Campbell Walker, El Paso, TX (2014)
  • Josie Gonzalez (2008)
  • Jeanne A. Butterfield (2003)
  • H. Ronald Klasko (1999)
  • Daryl R. Buffenstein (1997)
  • National Association of Manufacturers (1996)
  • National Immigration Forum (1996)
  • Women’s Refugee Project of the Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services and the Harvard Law School (1994)
  • Hon. Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Chairman, House Judiciary Committee (1986)
  • Office of Special Investigations, Department of Justice (1985)
  • The Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (1984)
  • Louisa Wilson, Board of Immigration Appeals (1978)
  • Hon. Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman, Senate Immigration Subcommittee (1977)
  • Hon. Emmanual Cellar, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee (1976)
  • Maurice A. Roberts, Chairman, Board of Immigration Appeals (1975)
  • Hon. William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1974)
  • George H. Owen, Department of State (1973)
  • Hon. Raymond F. Farrell, Immigration & Naturalization Service (1968)
  • Joshua S. Koenigsberg, Founding AILA President (1967)
  • Hon. Michael A. Feighan, Chairman, House Immigration & Naturalization Subcommittee (1966)
  • Board of Immigration Appeals (1965)
  • His Excellency Edward E. Swanstrom, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1962)
  • August R. Lindt, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (1960)
  • President Harry S. Truman (1952)
  • U.S. Displaced Persons Commission (1950)