The Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board is encouraging all Michiganders to go to gatherings and marches hosted by Michigan's federally recognized tribes.
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LANSING — Sunday, May 5 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Awareness Day and serves as an opportunity to raise awareness, honor the countless lives that have been lost
The Honorable Melissa L. Pope, chief judge for the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP) Tribal Court, received the 2023 Judith S. Kaye Award for Judicial Excellence during a ceremony at the American Bar Association in Denver. This award recognizes dedicated service by judicial officers who demonstrate knowledge of domestic and sexual violence and exemplary leadership developing courtroom responses to these issues. “I am incredibly honored and humbled to have been selected by the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence to receive the Judith S. Kaye Judicial Excellence Award,” Judge Pope said.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has tapped several attorneys to statewide boards, including the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, and the Workers’ Compensation Board of Magistrates.