prized personal possession was a book inscribed to him by Martin Luther King Jr. In 2006 he received the American Bar Association Medal, that organization's highest honor. The announcement said, "Where individuals have suffered, Jerry has helped them. His tireless efforts have served not just American jurisprudence, but truly have served the world." In 2008 he was awarded the Gruber Prize for Justice, and in 2009 the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights' Lloyd N. Cutler Lifetime Achievement Award. Summing up his own career, Shestack once said, "There is no end of just causes to pursue." Shestack died August 18, 2011, of kidney failure at his home in Center City. In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Shestack "a committed public servant and a dogged defender of human rights," adding, "as president of the American Bar Association, and in the years following, he set the standard for how civil society leaders can promote human rights." Articles References External links American Bar Association 20th-century American Jews United States Navy personnel of World War II United States Navy officers Harvard Law School alumni Representatives of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council Pennsylvania lawyers University of Pennsylvania alumni Presidents of the American Bar Association University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty People from Atlantic City, New Jersey Lawyers from Philadelphia American human rights activists 1923 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American Jews Military personnel from New Jersey