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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—The Old Hickory Council of the Boy Scouts of America has honored Womble Carlyle attorney Elizabeth L. “Betty” Quick with its 2011 Distinguished Citizen Award.
 

Quick was recognized for her extensive record of service to the Triad community, as well as her outstanding professional career as a trust and estates attorney. Past recipients of the Distinguished Citizen Award include Womble Carlyle attorney Murray Greason, legendary Winston-Salem State University basketball coach Clarence “Big House” Gaines”, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines.
 

Quick’s record of community service includes serving on the Boards of Directors of The Cannon Foundation, the Charles E. Hayworth, Jr. Foundation, Reynolda House, Senior Services Foundation of Winston-Salem, NC, UNC Law Foundation, and  Creative Corridors Coalition. She also is on the Winston-Salem Board of Visitors for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and on the Advisory Board of the Kenan Institute on Ethics at Duke University. Quick served as Chair of the Winston-Salem Foundation Committee 1999 and 2000.

 

Quick also has been committed to serving the legal profession. In 1997-98, she served as President of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is a past President of the Winston-Salem Estate Planning Council as well as a Fellow and past state chairman of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. In 2007, Quick received the North Carolina Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism Award for her contributions to the betterment of the legal profession.

 

For the past 23 years, she has been selected to the Best Lawyers in America, and is ranked among North Carolina Super Lawyers and North Carolina Legal Elite. Quick is the Managing Member of Womble Carlyle’s Winston-Salem office.

Quick received the Distinguished Citizen Award at a May 11^th ceremony at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem. North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Sarah Parker was the keynote speaker for the event.