California Women Lawyers has announced that RBGG’s Jane E. Kahn, is the recipient of the 2012 Fay Stender Award. The award will be presented at CWL’s 38th Annual Dinner on October 11, 2012 in Monterey, CA. 

California Women Lawyers, the only statewide bar association dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in the profession of law and society, established the award in 1982 in honor of Fay Stender, a San Francisco Bay Area attorney who spent much of her professional life fighting for prisoners’ rights.  RBGG’s Gay Grunfeld is a previous recipient of the award.

For more information about Jane’s remarkable accomplishments, read here