Siblings Barrett Reasoner and Macey Reasoner Stokes to Receive 2025 Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award

Gibbs & Bruns’s Barrett Reasoner and his sister Macey Reasoner Stokes will receive the 2025 Anti-Defamation League’s Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award.  They are the first siblings to receive this prestigious award which the ADL Southwest presents annually “to an outstanding member of the legal community who exhibits a commitment to equality, justice, fairness and community service.” 

The Reasoner siblings have followed in the community service footsteps of their father, former Jurisprudence Award Recipient Harry Reasoner, and their mother Macey Hodges Reasoner, both of whom received the Torch of Liberty Award from ADL.

Throughout his entire career, Barrett has been actively involved in efforts to support those in need throughout the Houston community.  Barrett connected Gibbs & Bruns with a Communities in Schools initiative in the early 1990s involving a summer legal internship program for at-risk, graduating high school seniors.  As President of Houston Bar Association in 2009, Barrett created a partnership between CIS and the HBA to strengthen and continue the internship program. His efforts raised awareness of the program in the Houston legal community and participation by other law firms dramatically increased, breathing new life into the program and ultimately allowing more students to experience this unique internship opportunity. The program continues to thrive today.

Barrett also serves on the Board of Directors and Finance and Administration and Nominating Committees of BakerRipley (formerly Neighborhood Centers) and is a past chair of the Houston Bar Foundation and former Chairman of the Board of Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program.

Barrett’s sister Macey Reasoner Stokes, appellate partner at Baker Botts, has served on muliple boards including, the Society for the Performing Arts, Phi Beta Kappa of Greater Houston, and the Houston Zoo.  She is a Guardian Member of the Champions of Justice Society of the Texas Access to Justice Foundation, and has represented the Foundation pro bono in litigation. Macey and her husband are chairing the Galveston Bay Foundation gala this year.

Event Information
The Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award Luncheon will be held April 1, 2025 at the Hilton Americas Houston, 1600 Lamar St, Houston, TX 77010. For luncheon and sponsorship information, please contact Mary Gentry-Roberts – [email protected].

We are thrilled to be able to present our 2025 Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award to Macey Reasoner Stokes and Barrett Reasoner, the first siblings ever to receive the award. Their stellar contributions to the legal profession and the community exemplify the values instilled in them by their parents. It’s an honor to recognize both of these outstanding attorneys.
– Mark B. Toubin, ADL Southwest Regional Director