FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 16, 2018-Meridian native, Catherine “Catie” Freeman, will receive the Idaho State Bar Outstanding Young Lawyer Award in Sun Valley on July 19 during the Idaho State Bar Annual Meeting. Freeman is a deputy prosecutor for the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office Civil Division. A former chairperson of the Idaho State Bar’s Young Lawyers Section, Freeman is also active with the Bar’s Professionalism & Ethics Section and serves on its Ethical Happy Hour CLE committee. She chaired the Fourth District Bar Association’s Law Day Committee for two years and organized their annual “Ask-a-Lawyer” Day. Freeman is a member of Idaho Women Lawyers, Inc. and the Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association. She is a director for the University of Idaho Alumni Association representing the West Idaho Region/Ada County. In her free time she volunteers for Recreation Unlimited as a ski instructor at Bogus Basin.

The Outstanding Young Lawyer Award recognizes young lawyers who have provided service to the profession, the Idaho State Bar, the Idaho Law Foundation, and to the community, and who exhibits professional excellence.

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