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The Steven G. Condos Award for Outstanding New Member to the College

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Home Awards The Steven G. Condos Award for Outstanding New Member to the College

The award has been presented annually since 2016 to an outstanding first-year member of the College. The Texas Bar College created the award in memory of Steve Condos, one of the original Charter members of the College who served as an influential and hardworking member of the first College Board shortly before his untimely death.

2023 Recipient – Jillian L. Schumacher

Jill is an appellate lawyer who is Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.  She has served as counsel of record in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Texas, and intermediate courts of appeals throughout Texas. She has won local and state-wide awards for her advocacy. Jill was recently named the 2021-2022 Outstanding Young Lawyer of Houston by the Houston Young Lawyers Association and the 2021-2022 Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas by the Texas Young Lawyers Association.

Before joining Daniels & Tredennick, Jill spent more than half a decade in public service as a judicial law clerk on two different appellate courts. She is involved in numerous community and bar activities. Notably, Jill currently serves as Chair of the Houston Bar Association’s Appellate Section. In addition to serving on the Appellate Council, Jill is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Appellate Lawyer. Jill contributes to the continuing legal education of appellate lawyers by speaking and writing about a variety of different appellate topics. Her work has been presented to other lawyers, including at the Texas State Bar’s Advanced Civil Appellate Practice Course.

Jill earned her law degree cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where she served as the Research Editor for the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. Before law school, she graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned the Helen Stenner Memorial Prize for her writing in philosophy.

Past Recipients

2022

J. Collin Spring

2021

Shelly Joyner

2020

Carra Miller

2019

Geeta R. Dammanna

2018

Christine S. Wakeman

2017

Constance Filley Johnson

2016

Russell Blair Ross, Houston

2015

Rachael K. Jones, Austin

2014

Kirsten L. Ruehman, Houston

2013

Jessica L. Mikell, Houston

2012

Ms. Umeka Lewis, Houston

2011

Abraham Michael Khaleghi, Houston

2010

Allen L. Stidger, Fort Worth

2009

Edward Frank Penak, Austin

2008

Elizabeth Ann Gilday, Dallas

2007

Maxine Aaronson, Dallas

2006

Mary E. Ramos, Houston

2005

Leo A. Luebbehusen, Hurst

2004

Rebecca Denise McCrum Renfro, Deer Park

2003

Kristyn Swen Helge, Fort Worth

2002

Douglas F. Ocker, Houston

2001

Ben B. Fiedler, Houston

2000

Georgia L. Fenton, Sugar Land

1999

Teresa C. Trowers, Lubbock

1998

Lloyd D. Ronin, Houston

1997

Robert L. Cole, Jr., Quitman

1996

Andrew L. Fono, Jacksonville, NC

1995

John C. Juravich, Houston

1994

Gloria P. Martinez Senftner, Auburn, CA

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