The Metropolitan Black Bar Association celebrated “Building the Legal Diversity Pipeline” at its 33rd anniversary awards gala Friday night at Chelsea Piers.

Bar president Paula Edgar, center, joined award winners, from left, Cooley partner Joseph Drayton, private practitioner of the year; Eastern District Judge William Kuntz, jurist of the year; governor’s counsel Alphonso David, public servant of the year; and Morgan Stanley’s legal and compliance division executive director, Nate Saint-Victor, trailblazer of the year.