Mark Rosenbaum, Judge Alan B. Honeycutt, and Judge Elizabeth L. Bradley to Be Celebrated for Legal Excellence and Community Impact at June Installation and Awards Dinner

The Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) is proud to announce 2026 recipients of its highly coveted annual awards. LACBA will celebrate the following three exceptional individuals for their outstanding achievements and remarkable contributions to the legal community at its Installation and Awards Dinner, June 18, 2026, at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

 

Shattuck-Price Outstanding Lawyer Award

Mark Rosenbaum serves as Senior Special Counsel for Strategic Litigation at Public Counsel, where he leads complex, high-impact cases aimed at dismantling systemic inequality and advancing civil rights. He previously served as director of Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law, focusing on the elimination of economic injustice. Over a distinguished five-decade career, including forty years at the ACLU of Southern California, Rosenbaum has been principal counsel in landmark litigation involving public education, voting rights, homelessness, racial and gender discrimination, immigrants’ rights, foster care, health care, national security, and the rights of criminal defendants.

Rosenbaum has argued four times before the United States Supreme Court, more than thirty times before federal courts of appeal, and multiple times before the California Supreme Court. His cases have reshaped the legal landscape nationwide, including securing over $1 billion for underserved public schools lacking books, qualified teachers, and decent facilities in Williams v. California, $6 billion for evidence-based remediation for students lacking internet access to access remote learning during the pandemic in Cayla J v. State of California, achieving a historic ruling recognizing a federal constitutional right to literacy and providing $93 million in literacy coaches and related services to Detroit students in Gary B. v. Whitmer  and a similar state constitutional right and relief in Ella T v. State of California, blocking the termination of DACA in DHS v. Regents of the University of California, and redistricting  the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor districts to end decades of discrimination against Latino voters in Garza v. Board of Supervisors. His advocacy has also brought justice to immigrant individuals and families in the case thar ended the family separation program by reuniting families and providing mental health services, wrongfully convicted individuals like Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, and invalidated Proposition 187 that denied health care, education, and social services to immigrants in California, to unhoused veterans by establishing a right to permanent supportive housing and provision of such housing to thousands of unhoused disabled veterans, and students in schools without AP courses and lacking trauma-informed policies and practices. He is currently part of the team challenging ICE practices in Los Angeles and adjacent communities.

Beyond the courtroom, Rosenbaum is a devoted educator and mentor. He taught 21 years at the University of Michigan Law School as a chaired professor, eleven years at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and has taught also at UCLA, USC, Loyola Law School, and for a decade at Peking University of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China. Rosenbaum is a multi-time California Lawyer of the Year in Civil Rights and was named to the Daily Journal’s “Top Lawyers of the Decade.”

Rosenbaum earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan. He is the father of two children: Samara, a Phd candidate at the University of Toronto in Arts, Education, and Social Justice, and Jonah, a Federal Public Defender in the Los Angeles Capital Habeas Unit.

 

Outstanding Jurist Award 

Judge Alan B. Honeycutt serves on the Los Angeles County Superior Court in an unlimited jurisdiction independent civil court and is one of the longest-serving Supervising Judges of the Southwest District, a role he held for over a decade under six different Presiding Judges. Widely respected throughout California, Hon. Honeycutt recently completed service on the Executive Board of the California Judges Association and is frequently called upon to provide guidance on matters affecting the Court as a whole, including judicial administration, education, diversity outreach, facilities, data initiatives, and government relations. He also served on the Court’s Budget and Personnel Committee, overseeing an annual budget exceeding $1 billion.

Hon. Honeycutt is best known as the architect of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s award-winning “Homeless Court,” an innovative outdoor court model designed to serve the Southwest District’s unhoused population. Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic in collaboration with local government, public works, faith-based organizations, healthcare providers, housing officials, and attorneys, the program brought court services directly to vulnerable individuals while also connecting them with food, shelter, and medical care. Its success led to expansion into Hermosa Beach and Long Beach and has served as a statewide model for proposed legislation establishing outdoor homeless courts across California.

Throughout his career, Hon. Honeycutt has been a dedicated public servant, having served as a government attorney, reserve police officer, judge, and Major in the United States Army Reserve. He is currently assigned to the Civil Affairs Airborne Command for the Indo-Pacific region, where his multicultural background and leadership experience are particularly impactful. As an FBI trained Crisis Negotiator, he also teaches crisis negotiation in the U.S. Army. Deeply committed to mentorship and community engagement, Hon. Honeycutt has guided dozens of high school and college students and played a key role in launching the Los Angeles Superior Court’s partnership with Good City Mentors, supporting at-risk students across Los Angeles.

 

Philip H. Lam Diversity Impact Award

Judge Elizabeth L. Bradley serves on the Los Angeles County Superior Court, where she presides over unlimited civil matters in the Compton Courthouse. Prior to her appointment to the bench in September 2024, Judge Bradley built an exceptional litigation career, specializing in plaintiff-side legal malpractice, professional responsibility, and employment law representing individuals subjected to discrimination based on protected characteristics, as well as civil appeals. She was certified by the State Bar of California as a legal malpractice specialist and is a Past Chair of LACBA's Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee.  She rose to managing partner of a certified minority- and woman-owned law firm she owned with her late mother/mentor, later serving as partner and General Counsel at Rosen Saba, LLP.

A recognized leader in advancing diversity and inclusion, Judge Bradley has had a lasting impact through her service with the Los Angeles County Bar Association. As LACBA’s Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion & Outreach, she spearheaded required implicit bias training for LACBA's three judicial evaluation committees and produced free training to county and affiliate bar associations statewide that are engaged in judicial evaluations in an effort to eliminate bias in the judicial evaluation process.  She produced a first-of-its-kind best practices summit for county bar judicial evaluation committee leaders, featuring Judicial Appointments Secretary, Luis Céspedes, and JSAC Chair Justice Helen Zukin. She has served for several years on LACBA's Diversity in the Profession Section Executive Committee, chairing its MCLE and Bench-Bar Committees.  She is a co-founder of LACBA PAC Women's Judicial Pipeline Committee and founded the Mexican American Bar Associations’ Judicial Pipeline Program. She serves as Judicial Advisor to the Los Angeles County Unity Bar, which supports diverse judicial candidates, and was its first Chair of Judicial Endorsements.

Throughout her career, Judge Bradley has been deeply committed to mentoring and elevating attorneys and students of all ages from historically underrepresented communities, strengthening both the judiciary and the legal profession as a whole.  Judge Bradley earned her Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of San Diego.