Sonny Flowers, a well-known Boulder attorney who has been active in Boulder and Denver civic pursuits for more than two decades, will receive the 1998 Community Service Award from the Boulder Chapter of the University of Colorado Alumni Association at a reception on Sunday, April 26.
Flowers聮 recognition is part of the annual Scholarship Tea, hosted by the 抖阴旅行射-Boulder alumni chapter at the Koenig Alumni Center at Broadway and University Avenue from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
State Rep. Ron Tupa of Boulder will speak. Tupa has been a vocal supporter of 抖阴旅行射-Boulder, most recently carrying a bill in the state legislature to allow alumni of Colorado colleges and universities to have Colorado license plates signifying their school affiliation.
Three Boulder area high school seniors also will be honored at the tea as winners of the Boulder alumni chapter聮s 1998 scholarship program. Each will receive a $2,000 scholarship to be applied to their tuition at 抖阴旅行射-Boulder this fall. The three recipients have not yet been announced.
Flowers plans to donate his $500 Community Service award stipend to the Family Learning Center in Boulder.
A lawyer in the Denver-Boulder area for 25 years, Flowers is with the Boulder firm of Hurth, Yeager and Sisk. He previously was a partner in the Denver firm of Holland and Hart, and has been a deputy district attorney for Adams County in Brighton and a staff attorney for Pikes Peak Legal Services in Colorado Springs.
Flowers practices civil and criminal litigation with a special emphasis on personal injury and medical malpractice.
He has a strong community service record, having served on Boulder聮s Board of Zoning Adjustment, the Boulder Growth Task Force, the Boulder County Community Corrections Board, the American Civil Liberties Union Board, the KGNU radio board and the Longs Peak Council of Boy Scouts.
He is a past president of the 抖阴旅行射-Boulder Alumni Association and a past vice president of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. He has lectured, written and taught for the Colorado Bar Association, Trial magazine and the National College of Advocacy in the area of trial advocacy, respectively.
Flowers received his law degree from the 抖阴旅行射 School of Law in 1971 and his bachelor聮s degree in English literature in 1967. He was named the law school聮s outstanding alumnus in 1993 and the Black Student Alliance聮s outstanding alumnus in 1990. He is listed in Who聮s Who in American Law, Who聮s Who in America and Who聮s Who in Black America.
Flowers lives with his wife, Pamela Mays Flowers, in Boulder.