BB&K Attorney Bestowed With Riverside County Bar Association’s Highest Honor
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Jack B. Clarke, Jr. Noted for His Service to the Community
For Immediate Release: Sept. 21, 2010
Media Contact: Jennifer Bowles • 951.826.8480 • jennifer.bowles@BBKlaw.com
The bar association is presenting Clarke with the James Krieger Meritorious Service Award, which recognizes those lawyers or judges who have, over their lifetimes, accumulated outstanding records of community service and community achievement.
“To be recognized by one’s colleagues is a high honor,” said Clarke, 53. “I am very humbled.”
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips will introduce Clarke during the dinner ceremony at the Mission Inn in downtown Riverside.
Riverside Superior Court Commissioner John Vineyard, who chairs the bar committee that selects recipients for the Krieger award, said the committee looks at contributions to the legal profession but leans more heavily toward contributions to the community when weighing recipients.
The Krieger award is not presented every year. According to the bar, it is given only when the extraordinary accomplishments of a particularly deserving individual come to the attention of the selection committee.
Raised in Riverside, Clarke specializes in education law and public agency litigation as a partner at BB&K.
Clarke is perhaps best known in the community for being the first African-American to chair the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and for chairing the Mayor’s Use-of-Force Review Panel in 1999 following the police shooting death of Tyisha Miller in Riverside. More recently, he began volunteering on the executive board of the Highlander Athletics Association, which is aimed at reviving UC Riverside athletics through community support.
Last year, Clarke received the Golden “Legal Eagle” Award from the Riverside Opportunity Center, a nonprofit dedicated to feeding, sheltering and helping the region’s poor, for his “outstanding work down through the years in helping and elevating the citizens of our community,” according to the Center.
The bar association’s award, established in 1974, was later named for BB&K attorney James Krieger who died in a mid-air commuter airplane accident in 1975 and whose name remains part of the law firm. Krieger was on his way to meet the Wyoming governor to discuss an extensive project to meet the growing energy needs of the West when the plane crashed.
The Krieger award, through the years, has been given to other BB&K attorneys, including Eugene Best, Arthur Littleworth and retired Justice John G. Gabbert.
Also at the Sept. 30 dinner, BB&K attorney Kira L. Klatchko will be installed as a director-at-large for the bar association and begin her two-year term.
Media Contact: Jennifer Bowles • 951.826.8480 • jennifer.bowles@BBKlaw.com
The bar association is presenting Clarke with the James Krieger Meritorious Service Award, which recognizes those lawyers or judges who have, over their lifetimes, accumulated outstanding records of community service and community achievement.
“To be recognized by one’s colleagues is a high honor,” said Clarke, 53. “I am very humbled.”
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips will introduce Clarke during the dinner ceremony at the Mission Inn in downtown Riverside.
Riverside Superior Court Commissioner John Vineyard, who chairs the bar committee that selects recipients for the Krieger award, said the committee looks at contributions to the legal profession but leans more heavily toward contributions to the community when weighing recipients.
The Krieger award is not presented every year. According to the bar, it is given only when the extraordinary accomplishments of a particularly deserving individual come to the attention of the selection committee.
Raised in Riverside, Clarke specializes in education law and public agency litigation as a partner at BB&K.
Clarke is perhaps best known in the community for being the first African-American to chair the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and for chairing the Mayor’s Use-of-Force Review Panel in 1999 following the police shooting death of Tyisha Miller in Riverside. More recently, he began volunteering on the executive board of the Highlander Athletics Association, which is aimed at reviving UC Riverside athletics through community support.
Last year, Clarke received the Golden “Legal Eagle” Award from the Riverside Opportunity Center, a nonprofit dedicated to feeding, sheltering and helping the region’s poor, for his “outstanding work down through the years in helping and elevating the citizens of our community,” according to the Center.
The bar association’s award, established in 1974, was later named for BB&K attorney James Krieger who died in a mid-air commuter airplane accident in 1975 and whose name remains part of the law firm. Krieger was on his way to meet the Wyoming governor to discuss an extensive project to meet the growing energy needs of the West when the plane crashed.
The Krieger award, through the years, has been given to other BB&K attorneys, including Eugene Best, Arthur Littleworth and retired Justice John G. Gabbert.
Also at the Sept. 30 dinner, BB&K attorney Kira L. Klatchko will be installed as a director-at-large for the bar association and begin her two-year term.
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