The Texas Access to Justice Commission and its co-sponsor, the State Bar of Texas, will honor veterans throughout the state at the 2022 Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans at 6 p.m. CDT on April 27 at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center in Austin.

This year’s keynote speaker is retired Gen. Nadja West, 44th Army surgeon general and former commanding general of U.S. Army Medical Command. West oversaw the most comprehensive transformation in military medicine in more than three decades while ensuring medical force readiness and support of care remained paramount to more than 4 million people. She has 20 years of experience in executive leadership, crisis management, and disaster response. West was also the first female African American three-star general in the Army’s history and is the highest-ranking woman to ever graduate from West Point.