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    Student Leadership Award

    The National LGBT Bar Association’s Student Leadership Award is the organization’s highest honor for law students. The award recognizes a law student(s) who has demonstrated leadership within their school and in the surrounding community, especially in the area of LGBTQ+ equality.

    The 2021 winner and first runner-up will be awarded a year’s membership with the LGBT Bar as well as free registration for the annual Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair where they will be officially recognized and presented with a congratulatory award certificate.

    The winner will also receive:

    1. Free hotel stay at our Conference venue
    2. Travel assistance for the Conference

    To nominate someone for the Student Leadership Award, please send their resume and a 250-500 word statement of support indicating why the nominee deserves recognition, to nominations@lgbtbar.org. Nominations may be submitted by anyone, including nominees themselves. Up to two additional letters of support may be submitted with the nomination, but are not required. The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2021.

    Previous Awardees:

    • 2020

      Winner – Ian F. Tapu, University of Hawai’i
      First Runner-Up – AK Shee, University of California, Los Angeles

    • 2019

      Winners – Chan Tov McNamarah, Cornell Law School, and Candelario Saldana, University of Miami School of Law

    • 2018

      Winners – Nicole Schladt and Faris Mohammed, Emory University School of Law
      First Runner Up – Ashley Fasano, University of San Diego School of Law

    • 2017

      Winner – Christopher “Tripp” Zanetis, Stanford Law School
      First Runner-up – Andy Blevins, Willamette University
      Second Runner-up – Beck Zucker, The George Washington University Law School

    • 2016

      Winner – Joshua Treybig, Seattle University School of Law
      Winner – Kathleen Cullum, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

    • 2015

      Winner – Adam Grogan, Albany Law School
      Winner –Paul Sautter-Walker, Albany Law School

    • 2014

      Winner – Deborah Lolai, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
      Runner-up – Brenna Ragghianti, Elon University School of Law

    • 2013

      Winner – Mieko Failey, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
      Runner-up – Elizabeth Dooley, Stanford Law School

    • 2012

      Winner – Michelle Garcia, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
      Runner-up – Adam Chang, University of Hawaii, Manoa

    • 2011

      Winner – Jason C. Beekman, Cornell Law School
      Runner-up – Ashland Johnson, University of Georgia School of Law

    • 2010

      Winner – C. Hays Burchfield, University of Mississippi
      Runner-up – Danielle Hawkes, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

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