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Southern Center for Human Rights recognizes Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP with Luminary Award
The Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) honored Bondurant Mixson & Elmore with the Luminary Award at the 2021 Justice Taking Root ceremony.
SCHR recognized the firm for its “extraordinary contributions to justice and fairness, especially your longtime leadership in upholding the right to counsel and pushing back against the cruelty of the death penalty,” according to Sara Tontonchi, SCHR's executive director.
Tontonchi also praised “the firm’s work challenging Georgia’s Lethal Injection Secrecy Act, your powerful and effective efforts as amicus counsel for former prosecutors who protested the conviction of our client Johnnie Gates, and your longtime advocacy to strengthen the provision of public defense in Georgia.”
Firm partner Ronan Doherty, who serves on the SCHR Board, expressed gratitude, saying, “We are grateful and honored to receive this award, and we treasure the opportunity to work alongside the talented, dedicated, and inspiring people at the Southern Center for Human Rights.”