Dana Latham Memorial Award

Dana Latham Memorial Award

In 1976, the Los Angeles County Bar Taxation Section decided to honor the memory of Dana Latham by establishing the Dana Latham Memorial Award. The first recipient of the award was Arthur B. Willis, an outstanding member of the Los Angeles tax bar.

The award is given only in those years when the Executive Committee of the Taxation Section concludes that there is a then-living leader of the Los Angeles tax bar who has made an outstanding contribution to the community and to the legal profession in the field of taxation. Generally, such service involves a broad participation in community and public service coupled with achievement as a leader on the Bench, in legal education, tax literature, or in practice as a lawyer, and may involve a combination of these factors.

Dana Latham epitomized those characteristics. He served as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and made many other significant contributions during his lifetime.

The recipients of the award have been:

2020-2022
Alexander Lee

2019
Charles P. Retting and James D.C. Barrall

2017
Marcy Jo Mandel
Speaker:  John Chiang, California State Treasurer

2016
C. David Anderson
Joseph Bankman, Stanford Law School

2015
John J. Clair
Speaker: Kirk J. Stark, Barrall Family Professor of Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law

2014
Thomas W. Henning
Speaker: William E. Simon, Jr., Co-Chairman of William E. Simon & Sons

2013
Nancy L. Iredale
Speaker: Dr. Tom Campbell, Dean and Donald P. Chair in Law and Professor of Economics for Chapman University School of Law

2012
David Wheeler-Newman
Speaker: Rachel Moran, Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.

2011
Edwin G. Schuck, Jr.
Speaker: Edward D. Kleinbard, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law

2010
Terry L. Polley
Speaker: Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law.

2009
Ellen P. Aprill
Speaker: Clarissa C. Potter, Acting Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service

2008
William K. "Bill" Norman
Speaker: Arthur Dellinger, C.P.A., Kallman and Co. LLP

2007
Terence F. Cuff
Presented by: John S. Warren
Speaker: Stephen D. Rose, a partner at Munger, Tolles and Olson LLP in Los Angeles

2006
Sanford Holo
Presented by: Ellen P. Aprill, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, John E. Anderson Professor of Tax Law, Loyola Law School
Speaker: George K. Yin, Howard W. Smith Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

2005
Joel Rabinovitz
Presented by: William A. Klein, Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA Law School
Speaker: Professor Joseph Bankman, Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School

2004
Sidney J. Machtinger
Presented by: Arthur Greenberg, Partner, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella LLP
Speaker: Coach John Wooden

2003
Avram Salkin
Presented by Charles P. Rettig, Esq., Partner, Hochman, Salkin, Rettig,
Toscher & Perez, P.C.
Speaker: Edward J. McCaffery, Professor of Law and Political Science, USC

2002
Philip D. Irwin
Presented by: David E. Gordon
Speaker: David Cay Johnson, New York Times

2001
Bruce M. Stiglitz
Presented by: Judith Krantz
Speaker: Schuyler Moore, Partner, Stroock & Lavan LLP; Adjunct Professor, U.C.L.A. School of Law

2000
Albert S. Golbert
Presented by: Miriam J. Golbert and Rufus v. Rhoades
Speaker: Edward J. McCaffery, Maurice Jones, Jr. Professor of Law, USC Law School

1999
Robert K. Johnson
Presented by: Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer and Tim Zagat
Speaker: Honorable Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of California

1998
J. Patrick Whaley
Presented by: Honorable Cynthia H. Hall
Speaker: Harold M. Williams

1997
Honorable Mary Ann Cohen, Chief Judge, U.S. Tax Court
Presented by: Helen Buckley
Speaker: Honorable Mary Ann Cohen

1996
Theodore E. Calleton
Presented by: Valerie J. Merritt
Speaker: Charles Adams

1995
Lawrence M. Stone
Presented by: John R. Cohan
Speaker: Boris I. Bittker, Sterling Professor of Law Yale School of Law

1994
Robert C. Boffa
Presented by: Allen E. Susman
Speaker: James A. Nelson, IRS District Counsel, Los Angeles

1993
Rufus V. Rhoades
Presented by: Judge Pamela Rymer
Speaker: Judge Pamela Rymer, U.S. Circuit Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

1992
Norman B. Barker
Presented by: Robert D. Burch
Speaker: None

1991;
John E. Scheifly
Presented by: Dudley M. Lang
Speaker: Thomas F. Field, Tax Analysts

1990
Bruce I. Hochman
Presented by: George DeRoy
Speaker: Michael Asimow, Professor, UCLA School of Law

1989
Honorable Cynthia Holcomb Hall
Presented by: F. Daniel Frost
Speaker: Dana Trier, Tax Legislative Counsel

1988
John S. Warren
Presented by: Ernest Dronenburg,
State Board of Equalization
Speaker: Congressman Robert Matsui, Ways & Means Committee Member, U.S. House of Representatives

1987
John R. Cohan
Presented by: Louis M. Brown
Speaker: David H. Brockway, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation

1986
F. Daniel Frost
Presented by: Norman B. Barker
Speaker: Judge Cynthia Hall, U.S. Circuit Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

1985
Dudley M. Lang
Presented by: John E. Scheifly
Speaker: Gerald H. Goldberg, Executive Office, Franchise Tax Board

1984
Clyde E. Tritt
Presented by: Charles M. Walker
Speaker: Michael J. Graetz, Professor of Law, Yale School of Law

1983
James H. Kindel, Jr.
Presented by: Judge William P. Gray
Speaker: Fred T. Goldberg (later IRS Chief Counsel and Commissioner of Internal Revenue)

1982
John W. Ervin
Presented by: Orrin Evans, Past Dean of USC Law School
Speaker: Kenneth W. Gideon, IRS Chief Counsel

1981
John H. Hall
Presented by: Austin H. Peck, Jr.
Speaker: John E. Chapoton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policies

1980
Arthur Manella
Presented by: Carl A. Stutsman, Jr.
Speaker: Arthur B. Laffer, Economist

1979
Carl A. Stutsman, Jr.
Presented by: Arthur Manella
Speaker: Edwin S. Cohen, Commissioner of Internal Revenue

1978
No award presented

1977
Charles M. Walker
Presented by: Arthur B. Willis
Speaker: Arthur B. Willis

1976
Arthur B. Willis
Presented by: Charles M. Walker
Speaker: Charles M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury