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ABA Center for Innovation

Frank E.A. Sander Award Past Winners

2023 Award Recipient

In 2023, the Frank Sander Award Committee honored the House Select Committee on Modernization of Congress and shared the honor with Committee Co-Chairs Rep. Tom Graves, Rep. Derek Kilmer, and Rep. William Timmons. The featured vignette shares their Rep. Kilmer and Rep. Timmons acceptance remarks from Bruce Patton, cofounder and Distinguished Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project.

2022 Award Recipient

Andrew Thomas

The ABA Center for Innovation, in conjunction with the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, was pleased to award the 2nd Frank E.A. Sander Innovation in ADR Award to Andrew Thomas on April 20, 2022 at the ABA Section for Dispute Resolution Annual Meeting.  Read more

2019 Award Recipients

2019 Frank E.A. Sander Award Winners

2019 Frank E.A. Sander Award Winners

The ABA Center for Innovation, in conjunction with the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, was pleased to award the inaugural Frank E.A. Sander Innovation in ADR Award to Edith Primm and Colin Rule on August 9, 2019 at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Ms. Primm was honored for her work at the Justice Center of Atlanta which both provides mediation services as well as trains mediators.  Mr. Rule was honored for his work in Online Dispute Resolution at Modria (now part of Tyler Technologies) and eBay.