Bennett Awards designed and produced a new custom awards design for the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA). This custom awards design was created for the HNBA’s Commission Annual Awards, recognition awards that are presented each year to honor Latina pioneering attorneys who have made significant contributions to the legal profession and/or the Latino community.

Bennett Awards created a custom awards design based on the HNBA’s representative symbol – a blossoming flower forging its way through concrete. This unique award design features three pewter flowers – two semi-open and one fully blossoming – emerging from a green marble base. The flowers are painted in red and orange.

This custom awards design is an artistic representation of the journey that Latina lawyers of all ages, ethnicities and experience levels must undertake in order to achieve success. Latina lawyers are under-represented in the legal profession, and must overcome a multi-layered ceiling based on the intersection of gender, ethnicity and race. The marble base used in the unique awards design is representative of these barriers, and the flower represents the determination required to succeed.

This custom awards design was initially used for the Commission Second Annual Award in 2010. That year’s recognition award was presented to Norma Ramos, Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, and a long-standing public interest attorney, eco-feminist, and social justice activist. A Bennett recognition award (prior to the creation of this custom awards design) was also used for the first annual awards presentation in 2009, and the recipient of that recognition award was Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.