Law Student Congress
The National LGBT Bar’s Law Student Congress is the only national LGBT law student organization in the nation. It is involved in organizing the National LGBT Bar Association’s Annual Conference & Career Fair (Lavender Law®) and administering the annual Michael Greenberg Writing Competition and Student Leadership Award. The Law Student Congress promotes regional and national interaction between LGBT law students and lawyers and helps LGBT students build contacts within the profession. It also engages in activism of concern to law students.
Administration
The Division is divided into 12 Regions, each headed by a Regional Chair. The Division is run on a monthly basis by a Steering Committee, consisting of 2 National Chairs, 2 Regional Chairs, and 3 At-Large Directors of the Board of the National LGBT Bar Association. General policy is set by the Law Student Congress which consists of the Steering Committee and the remaining Regional Chairs.
The Law Student Congress meets several times a year, including at least one in-person meeting at the annual LGBT Bar Lavender Law Conference in the summer and at least two additional phone meetings over the course of the year. Regional Chairs are expected to attend these meetings; all other student members of the National LGBT Bar Association are members of the Law Student Congress and may participate in these meetings.
For more information about the Student Congress, please contact Tyler Wolfe and Toni Moran.
National Co-Chairs:
Regional Co-Chairs:
- Law Student Congress Chairs
Law Student Congress
The National LGBT Bar’s Law Student Congress is the only national LGBT law student organization in the nation. It is involved in organizing the National LGBT Bar Association’s Annual Conference & Career Fair (Lavender Law®) and administering the annual Michael Greenberg Writing Competition and Student Leadership Award. The Law Student Congress promotes regional and national interaction between LGBT law students and lawyers and helps LGBT students build contacts within the profession. It also engages in activism of concern to law students.
Administration
The Division is divided into 12 Regions, each headed by a Regional Chair. The Division is run on a monthly basis by a Steering Committee, consisting of 2 National Chairs, 2 Regional Chairs, and 3 At-Large Directors of the Board of the National LGBT Bar Association. General policy is set by the Law Student Congress which consists of the Steering Committee and the remaining Regional Chairs.
The Law Student Congress meets several times a year, including at least one in-person meeting at the annual LGBT Bar Lavender Law Conference in the summer and at least two additional phone meetings over the course of the year. Regional Chairs are expected to attend these meetings; all other student members of the National LGBT Bar Association are members of the Law Student Congress and may participate in these meetings.
For more information about the Student Congress, please contact Tyler Wolfe and Toni Moran.
National Co-Chairs:
Regional Co-Chairs:
Northwest & Northern California Region
Regional Chair: Jasmine Maddox
Regional Vice Chair: Bridget Lawson
Geographic Area: Montana, Washington, Oregon, Northern California
Schools:
- Gonzaga University School of Law
- Lewis & Clark Law School
- Seattle University School of Law
- University of Idaho College of Law
- University of Montana School of Law
- University of Oregon School of Law
- University of Washington School of Law
- Willamette University College of Law
- Golden Gate University School of Law
- Santa Clara University Law School
- Stanford Law School
- UC Davis School of Law
- UC Hastings College of Law
- UC Berkeley School of Law
- University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law
- University of San Francisco School of Law
- University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Southwest & Southern California Region
Regional Chair: Israel Chavez
Regional Vice Chair: Matthew French
Geographic Area: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Southern California
Schools:
- California Western School of Law
- Chapman University School of Law
- Loyola Law School Los Angeles
- Pepperdine University School of Law
- Southwestern Law School
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law
- UCLA School of Law
- University of Nevada — Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
- University of San Diego School of Law
- USC Gould School of Law
- Whittier Law School
- Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
- Arizona Summit Law School
- University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
- University of New Mexico School of Law
- Brigham Young University Law School
- University of Colorado Law School
- University of California, Irvine School of Law
South-Central Region
Regional Chair: Benjamin Jimenez
Regional Vice Chair: Robert DeSoto
Geographic Area: Texas, Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming
Schools:
- Baylor Law School
- Oklahoma City University School of Law
- South Texas College of Law
- Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
- St Mary’s University School of Law
- Texas A&M University School of Law
- Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
- Texas Tech University School of Law
- University of Arkansas School of Law
- University of Arkansas, William H. Bowen School of Law
- University of Houston Law Center
- University of Oklahoma College of Law
- University of Texas School of Law
- University of Tulsa College of Law
- University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- University of Wyoming College of Law
Southern Region I
Regional Chair: Sean King
Regional Vice Chair: Michael Lambert
Geographic Area: Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
Schools:
- Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
- Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
- Mississippi College School of Law
- Southern University Law Center
- Tulane University Law School
- University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
- University of Mississippi School of Law
- Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School
- Emory University School of Law
- Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
- Georgia State University College of Law
- Mercer University School of Law
- Samford University Cumberland School of Law
- University of Alabama School of Law
- University of Georgia Law School
- University of Tennessee College of Law
- Vanderbilt University Law School
Southern Region II
Regional Chair: Chandler Walpole
Geographic Area: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
Schools:
- Appalachian School of Law
- Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
- Charleston School of Law
- Duke University School of Law
- Elon University School of Law
- Liberty University School of Law
- North Carolina Central University School of Law
- Regent University School of Law
- UNC School of Law
- University of Richmond School of Law
- University of South Carolina School of Law
- University of Virginia School of Law
- Wake Forest University School of Law
- Washington and Lee University School of Law
- William and Mary Law School
Florida & Puerto Rico Region
Regional Chair: Jessica Reed
Regional Vice Chair: Candelario Saldana
Geographic Area: Florida, Puerto Rico
Schools:
- Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
- Florida A&M University College of Law
- Florida Coastal School of Law
- Florida International University College of Law
- Florida State University College of Law
- Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
- Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico
- St. Thomas University School of Law
- Stetson University College of Law
- Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico
- University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law
- University of Miami School of Law
Mid-Atlantic Region
Regional Chair: Eric Novak
Geographic Area: Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia
Schools:
- American University Washington College of Law
- The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
- Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- George Mason University School of Law
- George Washington University Law School
- Georgetown University Law Center
- Howard University School of Law
- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law
- Rutgers University School of Law – Camden
- Temple University Beasley School of Law
- University of Baltimore School of Law
- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
- University of Pennsylvania Law School
- University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
- Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
- Widener University School of Law
Northeastern Region
Regional Chair: Shayla Ramos
Regional Vice Chair: Jessie Boas
Geographic Area: New York City, Connecticut
Schools:
- Brooklyn Law School
- Columbia Law School
- CUNY School of Law
- Fordham University School of Law
- Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law
- New York Law School
- New York University School of Law
- Pace University School of Law
- Quinnipiac University School of Law
- Rutgers University School of Law – Newark
- Seton Hall University School of Law
- St. John’s University School of Law
- Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
- University of Connecticut School of Law
- Yale Law School
- Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Northern Region
Regional Chair: Chanan Brown
Geographic Area: Northern New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont
Schools:
- Albany Law School
- University of New Hampshire School of Law
- Syracuse University College of Law
- University at Buffalo – SUNY – Law School
- University of Maine School of Law
- Vermont Law School
- Harvard Law School
- New England School of Law
- Cornell Law School
- Boston College Law School
- Boston University School of Law
- Northeastern University School of Law
- Suffolk University Law School
- Western New England College School of Law
- Roger Williams University School of Law
Midwest Region I
Regional Chair: James Hampton
Regional Chair: Gregg Byrne
Geographic Area: Ohio, West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, Michigan
Schools:
- Ave Maria School of Law
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
- Duquesne University School of Law
- Michigan State University College of Law
- Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
- University of Akron School of Law
- University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
- University of Michigan Law School
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- University of Toledo College of Law
- Wayne State University Law School
- West Virginia University College of Law
- Capital University Law School
- Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law
- Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- University of Cincinnati College of Law
- University of Dayton School of Law
Midwest Region II
Regional Chair: Vacant
Geographic Area: Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky
Schools:
- Chicago-Kent College of Law
- DePaul University College of Law
- John Marshall Law School
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Marquette University Law School
- Northern Illinois University College of Law
- Northwestern University School of Law
- Notre Dame Law School
- University of Chicago Law School
- University of Wisconsin Law School
- Valparaiso University School of Law
- Indiana School of Law – Bloomington
- Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis
- Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law
- University of Illinois College of Law
- University of Kentucky College of Law
- University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Midwest Region III
Regional Chair: Mary Hirsch
Geographic Area: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
Schools:
- Creighton University School of Law
- Drake University Law School
- Southern Illinois University School of Law
- St. Louis University School of Law
- University of Iowa College of Law
- University of Kansas School of Law
- University of Missouri School of Law
- University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law
- Washburn University School of Law
- Washington University in St. Louis Law School
- Hamline University School of Law
- University of Minnesota Law School
- University of North Dakota School of Law
- University of St. Thomas School of Law
- William Mitchell College of Law
- University of South Dakota School of Law
