Not more than five Champion of Justice Awards will be given to practicing lawyers and judges each year by the State Bar of Michigan. Criteria to be considered in making the award are:
| Previous Winners |
| 2012 |
Kathleen L. Bogas
Hon. Karen Fort Hood
Frederick W. Lauck
L. R. “Bud” Roegge
Thomas K. Thornburg |
| 2011 |
Jacqueline Doig
Barry L. Howard & Edward H. Pappas
Kary L. Moss
Hon. M.T. Thompson Jr. & Monica Nuckolls
Rebecca Shiemke |
| 2010 |
Charles W. Borgsdorf
John J. Conway
Gerard Mantese
John R. Nussbaumer
James M. Olson
Hon. Wendy L. Potts |
| 2009 |
Hon. Robert A. Benson
E. Christopher Johnson
Hon. Leonia J. Lloyd
Paul D. Reingold |
| 2008 |
David A. Hoort
Michael Lavoie
Mary DuFour Morrow
Joan Vestrand
Lorraine H. Weber |
| 2007 |
Sue Ellen Eisenberg
Hon. Amy Krause
Hon. Denise Langford Morris
Jeffrey G. Nutt |
| 2006 |
Jon T. Ferrier
Elliott S. Hall
Daniel Malone
Hon. Fred
M. Mester
Gail Pamukov |
| 2005 |
Janet E. Findlater
Jean Ledwith King
Hon. William Schma
Hon. Craig S. Strong
Eugene G. Wanger |
| 2004 |
Hon. Terrance K. Boyle
Sandra L. Bailiff Girard
Michael V. Morgan
Richard C. Kupferschmidt
Richard S. Victor |
| 2003 |
Stephen R. Drew
Robert E. Gilbert
William M. Saxton |
| 2002 |
Henry Baskin
Hon. Robert Holmes Bell
Ann M. Cooper
James R. Neuhard
Theodore J. St. Antoine |
| 2001 |
Godfrey J. Dillard
Martin M. Doctoroff
Elizabeth Gleicher;
Daniel M. Morley |
| 2000 |
Harold D. Pope
Justin C. Ravitz |
| 1999 |
Hon. Victoria A. Roberts
Linda D. Bernard
Albert R. Dilley
Saul Green
Deborah A. LaBelle |
| 1998 |
Hon. Patricia J. Boyle
Hon. David F. Breck
Rev. Milton R. Henry
Nancy A. Wonch
Hon. Kenneth N. Sanborn
Charles C. Lockwood |
| 1997 |
Raymond T. MacNeil
Stuart D. Hubbell
J. Bruce Donaldson
Myzell Sowell
Donald L. Reisig
Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley |
| 1996 |
Hon. Claudia House Morcom
Richard B. Baxter
Theodore Sachs
George W. Crockett Jr.
James T. Corden |
| 1995 |
Ben Marcus
Prof. Edward Littlejohn |
| 1994 |
Hon. Julian Abele Cook
Hon. Cornelia Kennedy
Hon. Edward Sosnick
Dean James Robb |
| 1993 |
Hon. William Peterson
Hon. Stuart Hoffius
Hon. Benjamin Gibson
Hon. Marcy Coleman
Leon Cohan |
| 1992 |
Stuart Dunnings
Ernest Goodman
William Gossett
Hon. James Lincoln
Hon. Otis Smith |
| 1991 |
Jason Honigman
Emelia Schaub
Hon. Damon J. Keith
Richard Van Dusen
Prof. Harold Norris |
| 1990 |
Doug Hillman
Hon. Harold Hood
Thomas McNamara (posthumously) |
| 1989 |
Hon. Fred J. Borchard
Anne Davidow
Frank Kelley |
| 1988 |
G. Mennen Williams (posthumously) |
| 1987 |
Carole Chiamp
Charlene Snow |