On April 13, 2016, Dr. Walter Wright received an award recognizing his role as one of the founders of the Central Texas Dispute Resolution Center (CTDRC), a nonprofit corporation that provides low-cost mediation services for the residents of Hays, Comal, Guadalupe and Caldwell Counties. On the same day, the CTDRC honored its two other founders: Anna Bartkowski, a 2007 graduate of the master’s degree program in Legal Studies and one of Dr. Wright’s former students, and Walt Krudop, a mediator and community leader who lives in Dripping Springs.