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Chief Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin  received the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Award at the annual dinner of the Benchers Society on Friday, November 6, 2009.

Judge Crabb is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School's Class of 1962.

The Distinguished Service Award is the UW Law School’s  highest recognition for alumni and faculty. It honors outstanding service to the legal profession in private practice, government service, or legal education.

Judge Crabb was appointed as a district judge in November 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, then served as the court’s chief from 1980 to 1996 and again from 2001 to the present. She announced in March 2009 that she will take senior status from the court, continuing to try cases but on a reduced basis.

Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Judge Crabb received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before  her service on the bench, she was in private law practice with the Madison firm of Roberts, Boardman, Suhr, & Curry.  Her numerous professional activities have included co-chairing the American Bar Association Joint Committee on Judicial Discipline Procedures and the Seventh Circuit Judicial Council Committee on Gender Bias and serving on the three-judge international team teaching Principles of Judicial Independence to judges in Shanghai.

The Benchers Society, whose annual dinner was the occasion for the presentation, is a group of the Law School’s most committed donors, established in 1963.  

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