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News Release
Texas Access to Justice Foundation Receives ABA Lifetime Achievement Award
AUSTIN, Texas––The American Bar
Association (ABA) recently honored Senator John Cornyn for his
longtime commitment and work on access to justice efforts with a Lifetime
Achievement Award. The senator and his colleague,
Sen. Dick Durbin, received Lifetime Achievement Awards from ABA President
Reginald Turner at the
2022 Annual Meeting in Chicago on Aug. 6. The awards marked the 25th anniversary
of ABA Day, the association’s annual grassroots advocacy event.
Texas Supreme Court
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, who served on the Texas Supreme Court with Sen.
Cornyn, congratulated his colleague on this well-deserved honor. “Through
Sen. Cornyn’s leadership in the Senate on this bipartisan issue, he has
made a significant impact in helping provide access to justice to those in
need of basic civil legal services, not only in Texas but throughout the
country.” “The Texas Access to Justice Foundation joins in congratulating Sen. Cornyn on this honor and thanks him for recognizing the critical role of legal aid in access to justice,” said Hon. Deborah Hankinson, chair of the Foundation. “Throughout his career of public service, Sen. Cornyn’s work has helped countless low-income Texans resolve family, housing and employment issues, as well as recover from natural disasters like hurricanes, wildfirs and the pandemic.”
While legal aid
currently helps more than 100,000 Texas families each year, only about 10%
of the essential legal needs of disadvantaged Texans are being met due to a
lack of resources.
Legal aid helps spouses and
children of domestic abuse; elderly wrongly denied life-sustaining
prescriptions; veterans denied critical medical care, disability and other
benefits; survivors of sexual assault and families who have lost their homes
during recent economic struggles.
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About the Texas
Access to Justice Foundation
The Texas Access to Justice Foundation (www.tajf.org),
created by the Supreme Court of Texas in 1984, is the primary state-based
funding source for the provision of civil legal aid in Texas. The
organization is committed to the vision that all Texans will have equal
access to justice, regardless of their income. The Foundation administers a
variety of funding sources, which are earmarked to assist nonprofit
organizations in providing legal aid to more than 100,000 Texas families
each year.
Kimberly Schmitt
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