HARRISBURG The Pennsylvania Bar Association has presented awards that recognize outstanding leadership in the legal profession and extraordinary service and long-standing membership in the association.

PBA Special Achievement Awards recognize those lawyers and people who have provided time and resources to improve the association and the legal profession. The President's Awards, bestowed at the discretion of 2014-15 PBA President Francis X. O'Connor, recognize extraordinary commitment to the association. PBA Fifty-Year Member Awards recognize lawyers who have been association members for five decades.The awards were presented on May 8 during the association's annual meeting at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel.Carbon CountyJames A. Wimmer, Law Offices of Philip & Wimmer, Palmerton: Fifty-Year Member AwardLehigh CountyWilliam H. Eckensberger Jr., Norris McLaughlin & Marcus PA, Allentown: Fifty-Year Member AwardJudge James Knoll Gardner, U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania: Fifty-Year Member AwardMonroe CountyPresident Judge Margherita P. Worthington, Monroe County Court of Common Pleas, Stroudsburg: PBA President's Award, for the outstanding commitment to and leadership of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges and exceptional efforts to modernize the courtNorthampton CountyDonald B. Corriere, Corriere & Andres LLC, Bethlehem: Fifty-Year Member AwardFrank J. Danyi Jr., Maloney Danyi O'Donnell & Tranter, Easton: Fifty-Year Member AwardJerome B. Frank, King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul LLC, Bethlehem: Fifty-Year Member AwardAllan B. Goodman, Goodman & Shaw, PC, Bethlehem: Fifty-Year Member AwardRichard J. Haber, Law Offices of Richard J. Haber, Bethlehem: Fifty-Year Member AwardJoseph J. O'Keefe Jr., O'Keefe & Wilkinson, Bethlehem: Fifty-Year Member AwardSchuylkill CountyStanley J. Burke, Port Carbon: Fifty-Year Member Award