NAFUSA Immediate Past President Rick Deane has been chosen by the State Bar of Georgia’s Bench and Bar Committee as the attorney recipient of the 12th Annual Chief Justice Thomas O. Marshall Professionalism Award. The awards honoring “one lawyer and one judge who have demonstrated the highest professional conduct and paramount reputation for professionalism” will be presented at the Bar’s annual meeting in June.

Deane, a partner in the Atlanta office of Jones Day, heads the litigation group for the Atlanta Office and is co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Criminal Investigations Practice. A member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Deane served as a Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, from 1994 to 1998, when he was appointed United States Attorney.