The American Bar Association will honor three longtime LGBT legal activists with the eighth annual Stonewall Award at a Feb. 15 ceremony in Austin, Texas.

The ABA Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity will make the presentation at the ABA Midyear Meeting. The awards recognize lawyers who have advanced lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the legal profession and who have championed LGBT legal causes.

The recipients will be:

• James J.S. Holmes, a partner at Clyde & Co. in Los Angeles, who helped create the ABA Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. He gave the first Stonewall Award in 2012 and oversaw passage of ABA policy to ban conversion therapy for minors. He currently holds the first at-large LGBT seat on the ABA Board of Governors.

• Carmelyn P. Malalis, chair of the New York City Human Rights Commission, who worked for 11 years at Outten & Golden, where she co-founded the firm’s LGBT Workplace Rights Practice Group. In her current role, she has instituted regulations to root out discrimination based on gender identity, including pronoun usage, access to single-sex facilities and programs, and compliance with single-sex grooming standards.

• Chase Strangio, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project in New York, who was a legal team member on Supreme Court cases Obergefell v. Hodges that recognized same-sex marriage and G.G. v. Gloucester City School Board that challenged transgender restroom policies. He also served as lead counsel for Chelsea Manning in Manning v. Hagel, a suit against Department of Defense officials for their failure to provide treatment for her gender dysphoria, and as a member of the legal teams in challenges to the North Carolina “bathroom bill” and President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban.

Find more information on the award at bit.ly/37eRcgC.