AWARDS PRESENTED AT 1990 ANNUAL MEETING
The 1990 Awards Luncheon was held during the Annual Meeting in JUlie. Willners
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presentations made by Arkansas Bar Association President, David M. Glover and Arkansas Bar Foundation President, H. Murray Claycomb. Nominatiolls for the awards are snbmitted by a/lorneys statewide each year and are thw reviewed by the Association's Awards Commi/lee.
in community activities and CIVIC work, including chairing the board of Ouachita Baptist University and the Billy Graham Crusade in Arkansas. He has served the Bar in Arkansas and on the national level with the International Association of Defense Counsel. Sutton has been defense counsel in many significant and well known cases.
Arkansas Bar Association House of Delegates, to name a few. He was the recipient of the Arkansas Bar Foundation Award of Merit in 1982.
Steplwnie Flowers 'lccepts the LawyerHumanitarian Award for Irer father, W. Harold Flowers.
Senator David R. Malone accepts ti,e Outstanding Lawyer-Citizen Award from H. Murray Claycomb.
William H. "Buddy" Sutton accepts tire Outstanding Lawyer Award from H. Murray Claycomb.
William H. Sutton was named Outstanding Lawyer for 1990. Sutton is widely known for his trial work. He has a co-leadership role in running one of the largest firms in Arkansas, Friday, Eldredge & Clark, where he is an inspiration and role model for younger lawyers. He has been extensively involved 3 8
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Senator David R. Malone of Fayetteville was named Outstanding Lawyer-Citizen. The list of his civic activities is immense, including being a former mayor, former city attorney, a director of the Municipal League, a
member of the Board of Directors of the City Chamber of Commerce, a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives and a current member of the Arkansas Senate. In the legal field, Malone has been a member of the AICLE Board, a Board member of the Arkansas Law Review and a tenured member of the LAWYER
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W. Harold Flowers was posthumously awarded the LawyerHumanitarian Award for 1990. The award is rarely given and recognizes extraordinary efforts by an . attorney to improve the lot of humankind. Flowers was recognized for furthering equal opportunities for everyone, being a powerful voice of reconciliation and for his lifelong example inspiring all those around him to strive to be better people. Flowers was an attomey, an ordained.
minister since 1971 and a highly respected civic leader in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was a Past President of the National Bar Association, the founder of the Black Lawyers' Association of Arkansas, renamed the
W. Harold Flowers Law Society and a Fellow of the Arkansas Bar Foundation.