Awarded annually since 1994 to an outstanding College member based on achievement or contribution to professionalism. A plaque is given to the recipient and a cash award of $1,000 is given to the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation, or the law school of their choice, in the name of the award recipient. The award is named in honor of Jim D. Bowmer, of Temple, Texas, the originator of the idea of the State Bar College and a co-founder of the College.
The Jim Bowmer Professionalism Award
2017 Recipient – Mickey R. Davis
Mickey R. Davis
Davis & Willms, PLLC., Houston
Mickey is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is a Fellow and Regent of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a licensed CPA (retired), and served for thirty years as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Mickey received his Bachelor of Business Administration (with high honors) in Accounting from the University of Arizona and his Juris Doctorate (with high honors) from the University of Texas School of Law.
Past Recipients
2016
Coyt Randal (Randy) Johnston
2015
Richard L. Spencer, Houston
2014
Hon. Patricia Alvarez, San Antonio
2013
John G. Browning, Dallas
2012
Robert Pelton, Houston
2011
James Cooper, Houston
2010
Paul N. Gold, Houston
2009
Al Ellis, Dallas
2008
Charles M. Wilson, III, Dallas
2007
Hon. David E. Keltner, Fort Worth
2006
Edward Lindsay, Houston
2005
Mark W. Laney, Plainview
2004
Dana D. Jacobson, San Antonio
2003
Robert L. Meyers, Dallas
2002
Robert H. Dawson, Midland
2001
Claude E. Ducloux, Austin
2000
Andrew S. Hanen, Houston
1999
James H. (Blackie) Holmes III, Dallas
1999
James E. Brill, Dallas
1998
Broadus A. Spivey, Austin
1997
Thomas H. Watkins, Austin
1996
Eugene P. McGreal, Plano
1995
Rosa J. Pace, Borger
1994
Steven C. Laird, Dallas
1993
Bernard O. Dow
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