Noteworthy > VSB NEWS Freddie Mac Receives 2020 Frankie Muse Freeman Pro Bono Award The Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award for 2020 has been awarded to the Freddie Mac Legal Department by the VSB Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services. Freddie Mac is a leader in the secondary mortgage market, assisting home buyers and renters across the country obtain residences. In his nomination letter, James A. Ferguson, executive director of Legal Services of Northern Virginia (LSNV) said, “Freddie Mac and Legal Services of Northern Virginia have a pro bono partnership going back almost 30 years. In fact, no firm or company has been a more important supporter and partner to LSNV.” Ferguson went on to explain that the Freddie Mac legal department now hosts six legal clinics per year at its head-quarters in McLean, and in the midst of the pandemic, “Freddie Mac rose to the occasion, donating invaluable time, 125 hours, and expertise, 8 volunteers, to this endeavor. The result was not just a successful remote clinic on June 11, and on July 21, but the establishment of replicable procedures for conducting remote clinics.” Freddie Mac’s pro bono endeav-ors are expansive and ongoing. Darcy Cunningham, executive director of Fairfax CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for children) noted in her nomination letter that Freddie Mac took on an extensive and time-consum-ing overhaul of the nonprofit’s records retention practices. Said Cunningham, “The reality is that their efforts will impact far beyond our program. What came out of their hard work is a stream-lined, sensible system that I have shared with the network of 27 CASA programs across Virginia—programs that run on a shoestring budget and simply don’t have access to the resources our program has such as the pro bono donation of time and brilliance that we have been so for-tunate to have from Freddie Mac. The annual Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award recog-nizes Virginia organizations that provide exemplary pro bono legal services to under-served Virginians. The award is named for civil rights icon Frankie Muse Freeman, who was born in Danville in 1916, and who served as co-counsel on the NAACP’s successful racial discrimi-nation suit against the St. Louis Board of Education in 1949 and was lead attorney on the NAACP’s landmark housing lawsuit, Davis et al vs. St. Louis Housing Authority, which ended legalized racial discrimination in public housing in 1952. Bary Hausrath and Chip Clapp Co-recipients of the 2020 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Pro Bono Award Clifford “Chip” Clapp and Bary W. Hausrath have been awarded the 2020 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Pro Bono Award, given by the Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services of the Virginia State Bar to honor attorneys who have made outstanding pro bono contribu-tions in the Commonwealth. Clapp and Hausrath were nominated by the Virginia Equality Bar Association (VEBA) for their ongoing dedication to the Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic sponsored by VEBA since 2014. Since its inception, the Clinic has assisted hundreds of transgender and non-binary individuals to navigate the process of legally changing their name and gender marker on official identification docu-ments. Hausrath was a found-ing member of the Clinic, while Clapp has volunteered with the organization since 2017. In their nomination, Mayme Donohue of Hunton Andrews Kurth Clapp Hausrath LLP and Marc Purintun of Williams Mullen said, “Bary and Chip are fiercely 42 VIRGINIA LAWYER | OCTOBER 2020 | VOL. 69 www.vsb.org