Judge Thomas “Tiger” Patrick Thornton Memorial Award
Our first President and Founding Member.
This Memorial Award is dedicated to those who have upheld the ideals and principles of our founding president and our Irish legal heritage. “For one thousand years Ireland’s Brehon Laws, and their books, the Senchus Mor., were the most highly developed system of justice in Western Europe.” “It rested on the sanctity of the verbal contract.” “If you would destroy a people, destroy first their language, their religion, their law.”
Charles R. Rutherford Jr. Award
The Charles R. Rutherford Jr. Award is given in honor of the late Charles R. Rutherford Jr. to that ISIAL member who is committed to community service.
