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June 1, 2012
BAR LEADERS FROM ACROSS the state gathered recently in Tampa for the National Bar Association’s Gertrude E. Rush Awards Dinner, including, from the left, Pedro Bajo, Jr., president of the Hillsborough County Bar Association; Florida Bar President Scott Hawkins; C. Sha’Ron James, president of the Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association; Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy A. Quince; Daryl Parks, president of the National Bar Association; and Henry Gyden, president of the George Edgecomb Bar Association. Founded in 1925, the National Bar Association is the nation’s oldest and largest national network of minority attorneys and judges. It represents approximately 20,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students and has over 80 affiliate chapters throughout the United States and around the world. [Revised: 05-22-2013]
