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Congratulations to our Thurgood Marshall Award of Excellence Recipient for 2025
The “Thurgood Marshall Award of Excellence” honors those who serve as role models through their significant achievement in the legal profession, civic excellence and/or their contributions to promoting education, community service and justice.
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody, a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League Crony or a few nuns bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
- Thurgood Marshall
HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION
Health Care Service Corporation SM (HCSC), a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, is the largest customer-owned health insurer in the U.S. Headquartered in Chicago, HCSC provides health plans and administers health benefits for employers, individuals, and families through our licensed Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, as well as through Medicaid offerings in several states and Medicare plans across the country.
In pursuit of their mission to “stand by our members in sickness and in health,” HCSC is firmly committed to positively impacting the communities they serve – in Chicago and across the country – to support access to care and address social and economic factors impacting health.
In 2024, HCSC contributed more than $37 million in grants and sponsorships to various community organizations and partners focused on access to care. Their volunteer program saw HCSC employees devote over 141,000 volunteer hours at more than 3,000 organizations. Here in Illinois, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois provided grant funding to numerous hunger organizations to reduce hunger and improve access to nutritional food and announced a commitment to invest $12 million over five years in organizations addressing homelessness throughout the state.
Last year, HCSC’s Care Vans® program mobilized to serve more than 116,000 clients and provide more than 175,000 health care services in communities throughout Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
And, in 2024, the company celebrated the five-year anniversary of its Blue Door Neighborhood CentersSM program, providing local community members with free classes, workshops, and resources tailored to local health needs. Here in Chicago, their three BDNC’s - in Pullman, Morgan Park, and South Lawndale - hosted more than 8,400 visitors and put on over 1,700 events.
HCSC’s legal team is committed to serving the needs of their members and communities, with a focus on children’s rights as human rights, equity and opportunity for vulnerable populations, and strengthening justice systems and communities.
In addition to The Chicago Street Law Program with ACC Chicago, some examples of the Division’s recent pro bono and community involvement include support for veterans, coaching a high school mock trial team and numerous virtual community action days in support of legal rights.
Congratulations to Amy Keenan!
ACC Chicago's 2025 Member of the Year
Amy Keenan is Senior Counsel at Camping World and Good Sam (CWGS). She specializes in marketing, IP, commercial contracts and compliance. Before joining the CWGS team, she spent 17 years as counsel for Elevance Health (formerly known as Anthem, Inc.), the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Amy has been an active member of the Chicago Chapter of ACC and served as Chapter President in 2021 and has also been active on the Programs, Membership, Street Law and Celebration Event committees. Additionally she has served on several committees with the International Trademark Association (INTA), most recently the Commercialization of Brands committee. Amy attended Butler University for her undergraduate degree and Indiana University Mauer School of Law and is licensed to practice in Illinois.
