DCLY's Fall Ball Honors Toni Bush

DC Lawyers for Youth honored NewsCorp EVP and Global Head of Government Affairs Toni Cook Bush with its inaugural Champion for Youth Award at its third annual Fall Ball. Here's Toni, center, surrounded by DCLY founder and executive director R. Daniel Okonkwo; DCLY board member and Corporate Advisory Board Assistant GC Pete MacLeod; DC College Access Program President and CEO Argelia Rodriguez; and DCLY board chair and attorney Sterling Ashby. Toni's a board member of the nonprofit My Brother's Keeper Alliance, which promotes educational opportunities, workforce training and criminal justice reforms that help the development of young men of color.  

Attendees celebrated in Arent Fox's DC office. Here's Georgetown Law prof Kristin Henning with L&L Consulting president Marie Johns. DCLY was founded in '07 by Georgetown Law Juvenile Justice Clinic alums who wanted to improve the DC juvenile justice system. It has championed reforms, such as limiting the number of minors held in adult jails, and represents youths charged with delinquency matters in DC Superior Court.

Smiths Interconnect Deputy GC Nicole Jenkins, DCLY board member and Venable business development manager Julia Bennett, Primatics Financial senior corporate counsel Erin Hatton, and BP America counsel and former WilmerHale counsel Reginald McKnight.

See photographs from last year's DCLY Fall Ball.

Here's Toni with DCLY Board Member Patrice Sulton, Georgetown Law prof Wallace Mlyniec, 21st Century Fox SVP and Associate GC Jared Sher, and GW University Sr. Associate Director of Development Kimberly Bowers.