Recipient of the 2023 Fannie Lou Hamer Award
HONORING THE VISIONARY FOUNDERS
of the Mississippi Center for Justice
with the 2023 Champion of Justice Award
Martha Bergmark, President /CEO, ex officio
Fred L. Banks, Jr., Chair
Rob McDuff, Vice Chair
Isaac K. Byrd, Jr., Treasurer
Suzanne G. Keys, Secretary
Carol Burnett
L. C. Dorsey (posthumously)
Brad Pigott
Warren Yoder
RECOGNIZING THE FOUNDING DONORS
of the Mississippi Center for Justice
with the 2023 Pathfinder Award
Dr. R. Edward Bergmark
Barbara and Ed Blackmon, Jr.
Isaac K. Byrd, Jr.
Dorothy and Wilbur Colom
Stacy L. Ferraro
John Jones
Deborah McDonald
Barbara and David Lipman
Michael J. Miller (posthumously)
Jay L. Wiener
THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS
Anonymous
Dr. R. Edward Bergmark
Kazan McClain Partners’ Foundation
Barbara and David Lipman
Ivy and Stephen Snider
Social Media Victims Law Center
Don B. Verrilli, Jr.
Vangela M. and Thandi Wade
BankPlus
Donna Barksdale
Jennifer and Walter H. Boone
Jonathan Lee
Emily Maw and Rob McDuff
Peter J. McLaughlin
Miller Firm PLLC
Michael Cameron Moore Family Foundation
Nissan North America, Inc.
Tatum and Wade PLLC
Martha Bergmark and Elliott Andalman
Celia Goodman Leventhal
Mercidees and Victor McTeer
United Way of the Capital Area
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation
Children’s Defense Fund and Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative
Cosmich Simmons & Brown
Marcie Fyke Baria and David Baria
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Kimberly Jones Merchant, PA.
Christina and Reilly Morse
Beth and Steve Orlansky
Alison Steiner and David Reynolds
University of Mississippi Foundation – Law School
Fair Count
J Riley Collins Consulting, LLC and Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable
Mary F. and Sam Miller
Joe N. Tatum, Esq.
Central Mississippi Health Services Incorporated
Laurie Davis and Joseph Sellers
Ann Myers and Dr. George Schimmel
David Orlansky
Carol and George Penick
Wiley Charles Prewitt Jr.
Bill and Sara Ray
Judge Betty Sanders
Constance Slaughter-Harvey
