The 2007 Hogan Award was presented to Geoff Evans, Fellow with the animal protection law firm of Evans & Page in San Francisco, California. Geoff's work includes advancing legal protections for companion animals, protecting farmed animals, and representing animal advocates. As a Lewis & Clark Law student, he was Editor in Chief of the
Animal Law Review, Co-Director of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, and interned with the Humane Society of the United States.
The 2006 Hogan Award honored Peter Brandt, Staff Attorney with the Animal Protection Litigation section of
The Humane Society of the United States. Peter is a 2004 graduate who was involved in the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, was an Associate Editor with the
Animal Law Review, and earned a summer stipend to work on factory farm issues with the Sierra Club. At HSUS, Peter has been instrumental in influencing the USDA to reverse their decades old policy on
farm animal transport; challenged California's
tax breaks for battery cages; and was instrumental in
saving hundreds of chickens in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
