Senior U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman and Judge Michelle Friedman Appel of the 45B District Court are among those to be honored by the Jewish Bar Association of Michigan at its annual awards banquet at the Westin Southfield on Monday, May 23. Judge Friedman, a senior judge with the Eastern District of Michigan, will receive the 2022 Avern Cohn Lifetime Achievement Award. Judge Appel will accept JBAM’s 2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Champion of Justice Award. JBAM’s Volunteer of the Year is its first president, Huntington Woods-based attorney Rachel Loebl Serman, who founded the organization in 2014. Louis Magidson, a...