Public Interest Excellence Award

Each year, PILF recognizes an individual or organization that has contributed significantly to the struggle for equality, peace, and justice with the PILF Award for Public Interest Excellence.

Past USF PILF Award for Public Interest Excellence  recipients include:

• 2004: Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco
• 2005: Maria Blanco, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
• 2006: Kate Kendell, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Cupcake Brown, Author, Attorney, and Advocate, honored with the PILF Award for Public Interest Awareness
• 2007: Elizabeth Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
• 2008: Shannon Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Therese Stewart, San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney
• 2009: Hon. Carlos R. Moreno, Supreme Court of California
• 2010: Eva Paterson, President of the Equal Justice Society
• 2011: Victor Hwang, Assistant District Attorney, San Francisco
• 2012: David Boies, Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
• 2013: Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye, Supreme Court of California
• 2015: Julia Wilson, Executive Director of OneJustice
• 2016: Linda Kim, Director of External Affairs, Bay Area Legal Aid