Retired Magistrate Judge Waugh Crigler will receive a Leadership
in Education award from the Virginia State Bar. The award
recognizes individuals for leadership in improving and enhancing
legal education and professionalism among the academy, bench and
bar.
The Virginia State Bar's announcement explains:
"Crigler has a long and distinguished career as a lawyer,
judge, and teacher. He has served as a faculty member for the
VSB's Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course since 1995. In
1998, he was appointed to the bar's Standing Committee on
Professionalism, and later became its vice chair. He helped to
develop a curriculum for a professionalism program that was
instituted in all law schools in the commonwealth in 2000. He
served as chair or co-chair of the Law School Professionalism
program until 2003, and remains an active faculty member for the
program.
Crigler has served on the board of governors of the State
Bar's Litigation Section since 2009. In 2006, he was
elected to the board of governors of the State Bar's Section on
the Education of Lawyers in Virginia, and has served as vice chair
since 2010. While serving on these boards, Judge Crigler has
written numerous articles advancing trial skills and professional
and ethical practice."
Judge Crigler is currently an alternative dispute resolution facilitator at the McCammon Group.
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