The Atlanta Bar Association recognized two bar leaders for very different contributions at a luncheon Thursday at the Piedmont Driving Club.

The bar gave leadership awards to newly retired Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Herbert Phipps for his civil rights and judicial leadership and to King & Spalding partner Catherine O’Neil for creating the Bard show. For almost 20 years, the all-lawyer musical comedies have fostered camaraderie among the dozens of bar members in the cast, and serve as the Atlanta Bar Foundation’s biggest fundraiser.