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2025 Honorees

Bishop Mariann
Edgar Budde

Spiritual Leader

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

Mariann Edgar Budde is the bishop and spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and Washington National Cathedral, the first woman to hold that position. Bishop Mariann relies on her faith to guide her in striving for peace and justice, as a fierce advocate and leader in support of racial equity, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons, and the care of creation. At the recent post-inauguration prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, she pleaded from the pulpit directly to the president to “have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared right now.”

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Prior to her election in 2011, she served for 18 years as rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. She earned both a Master in Divinity (1989) and a Doctor of Ministry (2008) from Virginia Theological Seminary. Bishop Budde has appeared on PBS News Hour, Meet the Press, among other platforms and is the author of several books, the most recent, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith (2023).

Through prayer and engagement with community, Bishop Mariann constantly seeks to learn more deeply how we can respond to decisive moments and uncertain times with clarity and grace. And how to model and share that wisdom with others.

David
Goldman

FASPE Founder and Chair

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

David Goldman, FASPE Founder and Chair, will be honored with the Ethical Leadership Award for his extraordinary vision of creating FASPE and using history, specifically the role of professionals in designing and executing the policies of Nazi Germany, to educate professionals on the importance of ethical responsibility. His vision demonstrates the transformative power of character development and moral formation in shaping ethical leaders for generations to come.

Rev. Dr. Michael
Woolf

2013 Clergy Fellow

2025 DISTINGUISHED FELLOW

Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf is a pastor, scholar, and activist committed to building communities of justice and solidarity. A leader in both the American Baptist Churches USA and the Alliance of Baptists, he serves as Senior Minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston and as Associate Regional Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago.

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Michael frequently writes on reparations, immigration, and interfaith solidarity in leading Christian publications such as The Christian Century and Sojourners, and he has appeared on CNN as a faith-based voice for immigrant justice. He is also the co-founder of Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland, an action network mobilizing congregations to confront Islamophobia in public life. 

CORPORATE HONOREES

Ethical lawyering is founded on a fundamental principle of the Rule of Law: that clients have the right to counsel of their choice, that lawyers have the right to select clients that they will represent, and that lawyers will represent their clients without artificial restrictions within the bounds of ethical behavior. That ethical principle was challenged in 2025 by attacks that sought to place barriers on American law firms. We honor those law firms that were the subject of those restrictions and chose neither to concede nor negotiate, but instead to stand in opposition as a matter of ethical principle and in defense of the Rule of Law. We also honor those additional law firms that chose at their own peril to defend them. Ethical lawyering must take precedence over partisanship and political favor.

Goldman Legacy Sponsor
Anonymous
Fred and Peggy Marino
David and Judy Marwell

Chairman's Circle
BCG
Ronald Casty and Susan Mendik
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Bruce Ratner
Sylvia and Avi Safer
Jeff and Ellyn Stone

Visionary
Anonymous
Bill and Carol Goldman
Ryan and Casey Harris
Jenner & Block
Johnson & Johnson
Arthur and Kathy Marlin Langhaus
Amy and Andrew Leder and Holland & Knight
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Keith M. Pattiz and Jill Scheuer
Alicia and BJ Pittman

Advocate
Anonymous
Simon and Stefany Bergson
Covington
Andrew and Eileen Eder
Karen Freedman and Roger Weisberg
Amos Friedland, Phoebe Ryder, and Freedman Normand Friedland LLP
Robert Jaeger and Kaaren Janssen
Stuart and Victoria Marwell
Microsoft
Paul and Joyce Mucci
Williams & Connolly LLP
WilmerHale
Winston & Strawn and David and MaryEllen Rogers

Partner
Tom and Stephanie Conaghan
Beth and Stephen Dannhauser
Ginny Mason
McDermott Will & Emery
John and Dorothy Remondi
Wealthspire Advisors

Friends of FASPE
Drs. Nancy and Ronald Angoff
Ivy Barsky and Susan Weiss
Richard and Catherine d'Albert
Barbara Chesler and Karen Dahl
Nan and Richard Davis
Sarah Grant*
Jack and Pat Hughes
Richard Kravitz
Stephen Latham and Fiona Morton Scott
Emily Mann and Gary Mailman
Mark and Anna Mercurio
Ken and Kim Raisler
Daniel Weisberg* and Jannine Versi

List in formation as of 10/21/2025
*Alumna/us

Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) is a global nonprofit that challenges future leaders to recognize and confront their ethical responsibilities by examining the roles and behaviors of individual professionals in Germany and elsewhere between 1933 and 1945 as an initial framework for approaching ethical responsibility in the professions today. 

At our annual Awards Dinner, we honor individuals, corporations, and FASPE alumni who have demonstrated the highest ethical standards in their fields.  

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