Today, at the Mississippi Bar Association’s Annual Meeting
and Summer School, Treasurer Lynn Fitch was presented the 2017 Susie Blue
Buchanan Award.
“I am humbled by the distinguished and accomplished awardees
who have come before me,” said Treasurer Lynn Fitch. “It is an honor to
join that list and to be a part of a tradition that celebrates the
contributions of women to the profession of law in Mississippi.”
The Award, presented since 1999 by the Women in the
Profession Committee, is named for Susie Blue Buchanan, the first woman
admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1918. The Award marks the
accomplishments of a woman attorney who has helped to promote women in law in
our State.
Treasurer Fitch is a graduate of the University of
Mississippi School of Law. She has practiced in both the public and
private sectors. She was a founding member of the Bar’s Gandy Lecture
Series and will chair the event in February 2018. Fitch is also the 2012
recipient of the Mississippi Women Lawyers Association’s Outstanding Lawyer of
the Year, one of the Mississippi Bar’s Woman Trailblazers in 2012, and a 2010
Leader in Law for the Mississippi Business Journal.
Tomorrow, Fitch will present a continuing legal education
(CLE) ethics session on professionalism at the meeting.