Senior Partner and Co-Founder Marna Tucker Receives Prestigious 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award

Senior Partner and Co-Founder Marna Tucker recently received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer magazine for her work in divorce law. The magazine selected Tucker along with eight other honorees for the prestigious award based on their life-long careers in the legal profession and public service.

Attorneys and staff from Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP congratulate Co-Founder Marna Tucker on receiving this esteemed honor.

“In the 31 years that we’ve worked together, Marna has fostered in me – and the other Family Law attorneys in the firm – a commitment to the highest standards of the practice of law together with the skills to respond to the very human problems of clients in crisis,” said Mary Pence, a senior partner in the firm’s Family Law practice.  “She has been a wonderful mentor, colleague and friend.”

Throughout her career, Marna received many honors for her work in the domestic relations field and is a national expert on complex divorces, domestic violence and prenuptial matters. In 1984, Tucker became the first woman president of the District of Columbia Bar. Earlier, she helped launch the National Women’s Law Center while advocating for women through litigation and policy initiatives. Chief Justice William Rehnquist appointed her to chair the Federal Judicial Center Foundation. She chaired the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, and she was the first woman to chair the National Conference of Bar Presidents.  She has chaired a number of prestigious ABA Commissions and Committees. Read Marna Tucker’s full biography.

The September issue of The American Lawyer features this year’s Lifetime Achievement Honorees. In October, each recipient will be honored in person in New York City.

Marna Tucker’s Lifetime Achievement Award profile can be found on The American Lawyer website.