Sonny Flowers, a well-known Â鶹¹ÙÍø attorney who has been active in Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Denver civic pursuits for more than two decades, will receive the 1998 Community Service Award from the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Chapter of the University of Colorado Alumni Association at a reception on Sunday, April 26.
FlowersÂ’ recognition is part of the annual Scholarship Tea, hosted by the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø will speak. Tupa has been a vocal supporter of CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø, 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø area high school seniors also will be honored at the tea as winners of the Â鶹¹ÙÍø alumni chapterÂ’s 1998 scholarship program. Each will receive a $2,000 scholarship to be applied to their tuition at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø.
A lawyer in the Denver-Â鶹¹ÙÍø area for 25 years, Flowers is with the Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍøÂ’s Board of Zoning Adjustment, the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Growth Task Force, the Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 CU School of Law in 1971 and his bachelorÂ’s degree in English literature in 1967. He was named the law schoolÂ’s outstanding alumnus in 1993 and the Black Student AllianceÂ’s outstanding alumnus in 1990. He is listed in WhoÂ’s Who in American Law, WhoÂ’s Who in America and WhoÂ’s Who in Black America.
Flowers lives with his wife, Pamela Mays Flowers, in Â鶹¹ÙÍø.