John Holdridge ’77 was awarded the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award John Holdridge is the director of the American Civil Liberty Union's Capital Punishment Project in Durham, North Carolina. Throughout his career Holdridge has been a powerful advocate for ending the death penalty in the United States. He has uncovered numerous incidents of racial bias and other disparities in capital punishment cases, and exposed a flawed system of justice that has sent innocent men to their deaths. In 2001 he was the recipient of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association's Life in the Balance Achievement Award.
Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2008
