The legal and nonprofit community honors a dear friend and great leader through the Jim Pfeiffer Legal Heritage Memorial Fund. As its founding executive director, Jim Pfeiffer ably led the Foundation in its effort to build a better justice system for all Californians. Pfeiffer was a man who chose to make a difference and whose vision, commitment, and service will continue to benefit so many for years to come.

The 2006 Legal Heritage Institute is dedicated to Jim Pfeiffer's memory. Gifts to the Jim Pfeiffer Legal Heritage Memorial Fund are supporting this year's program.

An avid hiker and outdoorsman, Pfeiffer died on January 14 in a hiking accident in the Marin Headlands. He was 60.

Pfeiffer served as the Foundation's founding executive director for 13 years until his retirement in 2003, due to Parkinson's disease. In addition to the Legal Heritage Institute, which Pfeiffer established in 2001, among the programs he helped create were Peer Courts for first-time youthful offenders who commit a misdemeanor, the Kids in the Law and When You Become 18 publication series; and the Foundation's Law School Scholarship Program.

Pfeiffer had a long and distinguished career in fundraising for other non-profit organizations including YMCAs throughout the country and the Diocese of San Jose. In addition, he was executive director of the California Supreme Court Historical Society from 1997 to 2000.

The Foundation extends a sincere THANK YOU to the following individuals and organizations who generously contributed to the Jim Pfeiffer Legal Heritage Memorial Fund:

Ronald E. Albers
Eva S. Auchincloss
Bank of America
Wendy H. Borcherdt
California Law Advocates
California Supreme Court Historical Society
Jean N. Case
Michael W. Case
Nanci G. Clinch
John J. Collins
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
Victoria J. De Goff
Maurice L. Evans
Family Law Facilitator's Association
Five Bridges Foundation
Pauline Gee
Judith Gilbert & Joel Schiff
Robert A. Goodin
Arthur & Doreen Gray
Michael & Hiroko Green
Mickey Gwin
Margaret Hampton
Paul S. Hokokian
Edward B. Huntington
Edward E. & Joyce K. Kallgren
Gail Kaplan
John F. .Fritz. Kraetzer
Raymond C. Marshall
McPeters McAlearney Shimoff & Hatt, A Professional Corporation
Robert H. Oliver
Public Interest Clearinghouse
Plotkin Marutani & Kaufman, P.C.
Tina Rasnow
Barry Rosen
Herbert & Margarita Rosenthal
Santa Clara County Law Advocates
Lucy & Timothy Smallsread
Ed & Darla Sowash
Catherine C. Sprinkles
Margaret Stevenson & David S. Flamm
Tom Surh
Jeffrey A. Tidus
Mary Van Zomeren
VIP Mentors
Richard W. Walker
Pauline Weaver
Borden D. Webb
Rebecca L. Wightman
R. Scott Wylie
Laurie Zelon
Michael A. Zimmerman