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Seattle University School of Law is proud of its distinguished students and their exceptional work on their way to becoming outstanding lawyers. Here is a sampling of some of the honors our students have received. This list will be updated as news warrants. If you would like to submit a student news item, e-mail hedlandk@seattleu.edu.
2L Greta Smith won the 2008 Fredric C. Tausend Moot Court Competition and was the first recipient of a $5,000 scholarship, awarded through the Fred H. and Mary S. Dore Charitable Foundation Scholarship. 2L Janna Oswald was the runner-up. Other finalists were 2Ls Kadi Davis, third place; Missy Mordy, fourth place; Stephanie Michels, fifth place, and Celia Lee, sixth place.
Jacob Humphreys, 2L, wrote the winning entry for the law school’s 2007 Cheney/Metzger Legal Writing Competition and will receive a $2,000 legal writing scholarship. 2Ls Alison Milner, Matt Fox, and Jennifer Addis, each will receive a $1,000 legal writing scholarship. The Cheney/Metzger is an endowed writing competition open to students who performed at the top of their respective sections of Legal Writing I. The finalists take a legal question, analyze a related packet of materials and write a legal opinion that is judged for both accuracy and clarity.
Dana C. Chenevert, 3L, received a $2,000 scholarship from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. The award was based on her recent experience in the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorneys Office (Domestic Violence Unit), her volunteer efforts as a Court Appointed Special Advocate with Family Law CASA of King County and her outstanding academic achievement in her family law class.
Sabrina Andrus, 3L, has been selected as a member of the National Advisory Committee to Equal Justice Works. She was chosen over many applicants because of her achievements and commitment to public interest work. The committee provides advice, support and action to advance the Equal Justice Works mission to mobilize the next generation of public interest attorneys.
Kevin DeLiban of Bellingham and Celeste Miller of Portland, Oregon, are the recipients of this year’s full-tuition award for students committed to working in the public interest...(Scholars for Justice Recipients)
Hyeran Lee, 2L, was awarded the Asian Bar Association of Washington Scholarship.
Kathryn Naegeli '07 received The American Bankruptcy Law Journal Student Prize upon the recommendation of Professor Rafael Pardo.
Keith Jang-Hoon Seo, 2L, was awarded the Northwest Minority Job Fair Scholarship.
Chris Wong, 3L, received the prestigious Yamashita Scholarship.
Jonathan Sprouffske, 2L, was named to the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board. He is the first private college student to ever be appointed to the student position of the 10-member citizen board. HECB members administer Washington State’s student financial aid programs and provide planning, coordination, monitoring and policy analysis for higher education.
Rajeev Majumdar, 3L, won third place in the National Native American Law Student Association Writing Competition. He received $500.
Keith Jang-Hoon Seo, 1L, received the $5,000 Labor and Employment Summer Clerkship Award. The award provides the opportunity to have hands-on experience doing public interest work in a labor and employment law setting in a nonprofit or governmental setting that serves the public. He will work in the Wage Claim Project at Casa Latina.
Salimah Karmali, 2L, received a $2,500 scholarship from the Asian Bar Association of Washington.
Maureen Kyin, 3L, received the Northwest Minority Job Fair Scholarship.
Jeffrey Liang, 3L, received a $2,500 scholarships from the Asian Bar Association of Washington.
Luke Oh, 1L, received the $1,000 Korean American Bar Association Student Scholarship.
Amy Pritchard, 1L, was named a Laurel Rubin Farmworker Justice Fellow for summer 2007.
Meghan Collins, 2L, received the Goldmark Equal Access to Justice Internship to work for the Pierce County Bar Association Volunteer Legal Services in summer 2007. This is the fifth year in a row a Seattle University law student won the Goldmark Internship. Previous Goldmark Interns Erin Glass, 3L, Ernest Radillo, 3L, Michelle Raiford ’05, who works for the Northwest Justice Project, and Rognia Beckwith ’04, who is in-house counsel for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.
2L Tina Marie Mares received the Seattle Jaycees Community Service Scholarship Award in recognition of her 11 years of community service work, particularly her work with Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center for the past five years. Mares was Miss Washington for 2005-06.
Amy Pritchard and Persis Yu, both ILs, are the first recipients of the full-tuition Scholars for Justice Award, given to outstanding students committed to social justice. Read more about the awards and the recipients at www.law.seattleu.edu/news/archive/2006/scholarsforjustice.
2Ls Eula Garrison and Michael Khalili were named Laurel Rubin Farmworker Justice Fellows for summer 2006.
Joanna Plichta ’06 won the Washington State Bar Association’s Presidential Scholar Essay Contest and received the first Women’s Law Caucus Kellye Testy Scholarship.
Julianne Loveless ’06 was the law school’s nominee for the Jan Jancin Award, given to an outstanding third-year law student who has demonstrated excellence in the area of intellectual property law.
Tilewa Folami, 3L, received the SEED IP Law Group Founders Scholarship, a $5,000 scholarship awarded annually to a top student with strong interest in the field of intellectual property law.
Lara Banjanin ’06 was awarded a $5,000 WSBA Tax Section scholarship. This is an annual scholarship awarded to a JD graduate who plans to get a tax LLM, and who appears likely to return to the Pacific Northwest to practice. She is at NYU this year earning her LLM.
Chad Kirby, 3L, won the 2006 Alia Herrera Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $3,000 with his winning essay on the topic “Do you believe victims of defective products that meet federal standards should be limited from recovering damages from the manufacturers of the defective products?”
Jake Bernstein, 3L, was named an ABA Janet D. Steiger Fellow – one of only 15 chosen throughout the country. He worked at the Attorney General’s Office’s Antitrust Division.
Charity Atchison, 3L, won the $5,000 Labor and Employment Law Summer Clerkship. She spent the summer working in the whistleblower division of the state Occupational Health and Safety Office. She also was awarded the Mary Ellen Krug Labor and Employment Law Scholarship from the King County Bar Association for this fall.