Please join us as

Miami Law's Center for Ethics and Public Service

honors
Friends of the Everglades
as its
16th Annual William M. Hoeveler Award Recipient

The prestigious prize celebrates extraordinary members of the bar and bench, as

well as leading nonprofit organizations, distinguished by their long-standing

dedication to ethics and public service.

Luncheon and Ceremony

Thursday, April 5th
12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
University of Miami School of Law
Law Library, 4th Floor Faculty Meeting Room

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Miami Law's Center for Ethics and Public Service has selected Friends of the
Everglades to receive the 16th annual William M. Hoeveler Award. The prestigious
prize celebrates extraordinary members of the bar and bench, as well as leading
nonprofit organizations, distinguished by their long-standing dedication to ethics and
public service.

To honor Friends of the Everglades, the law school will host a luncheon and ceremony
on Thursday, April 5th from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the 4th floor Faculty Meeting
Room of the Law Library.

Friends of the Everglades was founded in 1969 by renowned journalist, author, and
environmental activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas. The mission of Friends of the
Everglades is to preserve, protect, and restore the only Everglades in the world.

As stated by Alan Farago, Vice President of Conservation:

“Friends of the Everglades is about leveraging to the maximum extent possible
limited resources on behalf of an effort that is emblematic of environmental
challenges civilization will face in coming generations. Restoring the
Everglades is about more than returning the remarkable diversity of birds and
species connecting through a unique evolutionary process many thousands of
years in the making. Of course, we want all the miraculous gifts of creation to
be restored to their proper place, as living testaments to the glory of life.

Friends of the Everglades believes in educating the general public—including

our Young Friends of the Everglades program—and we are dedicated to the
difficult tasks of holding accountable government agencies charged with the
responsibility to fix what is wrong with the Everglades; too little water, too
polluted, and unavailable in the right quality and quantity to mimic the
natural function of the rain cycle.

Although Friends is a small organization, we play a role disproportionate to

our size. We are plaintiffs in some of the most important litigation for the
Everglades, engaging government at the very highest levels. Through our legal
initiatives—involving cases that have and will continue to make their way to
the US Supreme Court—we are helping to create great opportunities.”

The Hoeveler Award was created in honor of the Honorable William M. Hoeveler,
senior U.S. District Court judge, as a lifetime achievement award for a lawyer or an
organization of outstanding ethics and public service. This is the first time the award
has gone to an organization. Previous recipients include Daniel S. Pearson, Walter
H. Beckham Jr., Judge Rosemary Barkett, Janet Reno, Judge Peter Fay, Judge Mario
Goderich, Judge Donald Graham, Judge Joseph Hatchett, Katherine Fernandez
Rundle, Judge R. Fred Lewis, Judge Jay Cristol, Judge Barbara J Pariente, George
Knox, and Judge Marcia G. Cooke.

Please contact Senior Program Manager, Lauren Madigan for more information at
lmadigan@law.miami.edu; 305-284-9185.