Annual Banquet and Guest SpeakersEach June, the Earl Warren Inn has its end of the year dinner. A guest speaker is invited to lecture or present a program on a topic of his or her choice.
In 2013, we were immensely pleased and honored to have attorney Dale Minami as our guest banquet speaker. Dale spoke of his experiences in the 1970s as one of the few asian and minority attorneys practicing in Alameda County, and key figures from the bench and bar of that era. He then tied it into the 1982 lawsuit he was involved in seeking to overturn convictions from WWII of Japanese-Americans (U.S. Citizens) who were convicted for resisting the curfews and mass imprisonment of Japanese-American in relocation camps. See feature immediately to the right. -> For 2012, the guest speaker was California Associate Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu, who shared his seemingly random path to the state's highest court, after rebelling against his parents wishes that he become a doctor. For 2011, Earl Warren Inn member Catherine Ongiri shared her experience visiting England as one of two Pegasus Scholars from the USA. The banquet evening includes a silent auction of donated items which have included unique jewelry, wine, box tickets to the San Francisco Giants, and a Louis Vuitton briefcase. Proceeds go to scholarships and other good causes. Finally, the high school recipients of our D. Lowell Jensen scholarships are announced, and awarded to the students. |
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EARL WARREN INN OF COURT ANNUAL BANQUET AND STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS The Bellevue Club 525 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland June 19, 2019 This year our annual banquet falls on June 19th also referred to by many Americans as Juneteenth. Juneteenth is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Due to this wonderful coincidence, our Keynote Speaker will be the Honorable Charles Smiley who will give a presentation on the history of early African American legal advocacy in California. Please send inquiries to earlwarrenamericaninnofcourt@gmail.com 2019 Banquet
ANNUAL BANQUET AND AUCTION! June 19, 2019 at The Bellevue Club, 525 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA 
Hon. D. Lowell Jensen
past speakers1997 Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin
1998 Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George 1999 California Attorney General Bill Lockyer 2000 Joint Dinner with Contra Costa County - program given by EWAIC 2001 City of Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown 2002 Honorable La Doris Cordell, Stanford University 2003 Jeffrey Bleich, Esq. 2004 A professor from Boalt School of Law. 2005 No speaker 2006 No speaker 2007 Supreme Court Justice Carol Corrigan 2008 Professor Jesse Choper, Boalt Hall 2009 Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman 2010 Professor Kirk Boyd, director - 2048 Project. 2011 Catherine Ongiri, Esq. - Pegasus Scholar 2012 Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu 2013 Dale Minami, Esq. 2014 Prof. Gerald Uelman 2015 Hon. D. Lowell Jensen 2016 Hon. Carl E. Stuart - President of the American Inns of Court 2017 No speaker 2018 No speaker |