The first recipient of the Virginia Bar Association’s award for excellence in advocacy for children is a Charlottesville-based lawyer.
The association will honor Andrew K. Block Jr. with the first Robert E. Shepherd Jr. Award on July 24 during the association’s annual summer meeting.
Block is the legal director of the Legal Aid Justice Center’s JustChildren Program, which he founded in 1998 with the Soros Justice Fellowship. Accor-ding to the association, Shepherd helped Block get the fellowship to start JustChildren and acted as a mentor over the years.
Shepherd, who passed away in December, was a chairman of the association’s Commission on the Needs of Children and a founder of the University of Richmond School of Law’s National Center for Family Law. Shepherd helped to create standards for guardians ad litem in Virginia and also was the first person inducted into the Virginia Juvenile Court Hall of Fame.
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