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Bar Association honors Kim Tran with Apex Award for Excellence in Diversity
Summary
Colleagues praised Kim Tran's decades-long leadership expanding diversity in the legal profession and community service during remarks recognizing her receipt of the Apex Award for Excellence in Diversity; speakers recounted her role in diversifying law firms and service with multiple bar and community organizations.
The Bar Association presented the Apex Award for Excellence in Diversity to Kim Tran, colleagues said during remarks that recounted her decades of work to expand opportunities for women and attorneys of color.
Speakers said Tran pushed for representation inside law firms and across local and national bar groups, served on multiple nonprofit boards, taught citizenship classes for immigrants and mentored legal professionals across the Seattle area and beyond.
"I want to thank the Bar Association for giving Kim Tran the Apex Award for Excellence in Diversity. It is really acknowledging and recognizing accomplishments of somebody who really devoted her professional career to making sure that everyone had the same opportunities regardless of their *** or their color," Speaker 1, a commenter, said. Speaker 2, a commenter, added, "Anyone who knows Kim knows that she's always been a champion for diversity, for justice, and felt so passionately about in everything that she did."
Speakers described Tran's early career and the changes she helped bring about at Stafford Fry…
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