Jack Young of Rehoboth honored at ABA annual meeting

At its annual meeting in San Francisco, the American Bar Association awarded John Hardin “Jack” Young of Rehoboth Beach the prestigious Robert W. Meserve Award, which honors a lawyer who has made a significant contribution to the legal profession.

Young was honored for his work on responses to the opioid crisis, including promoting ethical and medicine-assisted treatment. He has spoken throughout the country on the effects of opioids on families, and the need for legal reforms surrounding the direct and indirect impacts of long-term, treatable opioid use disease.

Young is a retired attorney whose practice focused on administrative law, litigation and election dispute resolution. He has been a consultant in over a dozen elections overseas, including in Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Nigeria, and the Philippines. He was also involved in 2000 in Bush v. Gore and is portrayed in the movie “Recount.”

He has been a member of the ABA Board of Governors and chair of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section and the Senior Lawyers Division, and in 2009 received the Administrative Law Chair’s Award for Outstanding Service.

Young was also recently awarded a second Coast Guard Auxiliary Commendation Medal by the commandant of the Coast Guard.