Publish Date:  Nov 29, 2018

Anne Secker, former president of the Hartnell College Foundation (HCF) board of directors and a longtime board member, on Nov. 29 received the Lady Justice Lifetime Achievement Award for Legal Advocacy and Community Service from the Monterey County Women Lawyers Association (MCWLA). She is an attorney with the Monterey firm of Noland, Hamerly, Etienne & Hoss.

In addition her involvement with the MCWLA and HCF, Secker is on the board of the Elkhorn Slough Foundation and a member of local wine groups. She has served on the Monterey County Historical Resources Review Board, the Ag Against Hunger Board and the Board of the Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association (CHISPA), a local non-profit agency developing housing for low income families, and the Planned Giving Advisory Committee for California State University Monterey Bay.

In presenting its award, the board of the MCWLA said she “exemplifies the type of lifetime achievement the award is intended to honor. She has practiced law in Monterey County since 1980, contributing significantly to an office that has been a mainstay in law practice in the area for over 90 years.”