page_title: G. Flint Taylor
section_title: Honors and awards
hierarchical_section_title: G. Flint Taylor / Career / Historic reparations award / Honors and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: National Lawyers Guild’s Ernie Goodman Award given to G. Flint Taylor “in recognition of extraordinary achievement by a National Lawyers Guild lawyer.”
context_page_description: G. Flint Taylor is an American human rights and civil rights attorney based in Chicago, Illinois, who has litigated many high-profile police brutality, government misconduct and death penalty cases. Taylor has pursued public interest law to take on allegations of corrupt police tactics and wrongful convictions in the city of Chicago and elsewhere. Taylor was part of a team of negotiators in the 2015 landmark decision by the City of Chicago to award reparations to the survivors of police torture, becoming the first municipal government to do so.
context_section_description: In March 2002, Chicago magazine named Taylor to its list of the city's "30 Tough Lawyers".
  Other awards include:
  2014
  IVI-IPO Legal Eagle Award, given annually to lawyers who have advanced the cause of justice. 
  2011 – Northwestern Law School's SFPIF (Student Funded Public Interest Fellowship Program) Distinguished Alumnus Award for "outstanding commitment to public service."
  2010 – National Lawyers Guild Chicago Chapter's Arthur Kinoy People's Law Award for his "commitment to the struggle for justice for the survivors of torture."
  2009 – First Defense Legal Aid's First Defender Award for a "tireless commitment to protecting the civil rights of Chicago citizens."
  
  Rainbow PUSH Coalition Father of the Community Award for "service and dedication to family and community."
  National Lawyers Guild's Ernie Goodman Award "in recognition of extraordinary achievement by a National Lawyers Guild lawyer."
  2008 – Cook County Bar Association's William R. Ming Jr. Award for "outstanding and substantial contribution to the causes of civil rights and individual liberties."
  1977 – Operation PUSH Letter of Commendation "Advocate For Our Freedom"
caption: 2009: National Lawyers Guild's Ernie Goodman Award given to G. Flint Taylor at its convention in Seattle "in recognition of extraordinary achievement by a National Lawyers Guild lawyer."
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