ATLANTA – Attorney William E. “Bill” Cassara of Evans was honored with the 2025 Marshall-Tuttle Award, during the Annual Meeting of the State Bar of Georgia on June 6.
The Marshall-Tuttle Award is presented annually to a lawyer who provides outstanding legal assistance to military service members and veterans, according to a news release.



Cassara is a former Army prosecutor, defense counsel and appellate counsel, and he has more than 30 years of military law experience. His firm represents service members at courts-martial and in courts-martial appeals, corrections of military records, discharge upgrades, security clearance revocations, proceedings before Board of Inquiry and Administrative Separation Boards and other military legal matters.
The award is named in honor and memory of Army Cpl. Evan Andrew Marshall, a soldier from Athens, Georgia, who was killed in action in Iraq in 2008, and in honor and memory of U.S. Circuit Judge Elbert Parr Tuttle, who served in the Army for 30 years.

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