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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