Jordan its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction. 2001, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for lifetime achievement. 2001 – his memoir won the Best Nonfiction Book for 2001 from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2002 it won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a Trailblazer Award from the Metropolitan Black Bar Association. Jordan was honored as The New Jewish Home's Eight over Eighty Gala 2017 honoree. Howard University School of Law's library was named in his honor after his death in March 2021. References External links Ubben Lecture/Presidential Inauguration Address at DePauw University; October 29, 2016 Oral History Interview with Vernon E. Jordan, March 17, 1964. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries 1935 births 2021 deaths Lawyers from Atlanta Writers from Atlanta African-American lawyers American Express people American civil rights activists American shooting survivors Georgia (U.S. state) lawyers Clinton administration personnel Clinton–Lewinsky scandal Members of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group Spingarn Medal winners John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign DePauw University alumni Howard University School of Law alumni 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American lawyers 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American people