Oregon Supreme Court Justice Martha Walters and longtime legal aid attorney John Van Landingham have been named recipients of this year's Frohnmayer Award for Public Service in the University of Oregon School of Law.

The award recognizes graduates, faculty members or friends of the law school whose public service brings honor to the school.

This year's award ceremony was originally scheduled for Friday, April 12, but has been deferred until next year. Walters and Van Landingham will be the honorees at the 2014 event.

Walters earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from the University of Oregon School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif in 1977.

Prior to joining the Oregon Supreme Court, Walters was a lawyer in private practice. She worked with the firm of Harrang Swanson Long & Wilkinson P.C., from 1977 to 1985, and then co-founded the Eugene firm Walters Romm Chanti & Dickins (now Walters Chanti & Zennaché).

She received the Public Justice Award of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association in 1998. She served as a delegate to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and was its president from 2007 to 2009 – the first woman to hold that office.

Walters was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by then-Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and in October 2006, and was elected to a full six-year term in 2008.

Van Landingham is one of the longest-serving lawyers for Lane County Legal Aid & Advocacy Center. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon and his law degree from the school of law in 1977.

Van Landingham received the 2011 Lane County Bar Association Distinguished Service Award and recently finished a term as a member of the Land Conservation and Development Commission.

After serving as a staff attorney with Lane County Legal Aid Service, he chaired the Housing Policy Board for Lane County and the cities of Eugene and Springfield. He is active with the Oregon Housing Lobby Coalition, the Network for Oregon Affordable Housing, Lane ShelterCare, the Fair Housing Council of Oregon, the Oregon Affordable Housing Preservation Work Group and Looking Glass, a nonprofit that serves at-risk youth.

- from the UO School of Law