University of Washington Law alumnus to receive Odegaard Award
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW– The Honorable Ricardo S. Martinez ’80, Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of Washington, is the 2018 recipient of the University of Washington Charles E. Odegaard Award. Martinez is the first Latino judge to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — UVA Law alumnus Campbell Sode has already done much to distinguish himself through the language of the law. As an accomplished legal writer and researcher, Sode will be among a relative handful of deaf or hard-of-hearing lawyers who practice in the United States.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — UVA Law student Joe Charlet is set to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law on May 20. Charlet is African-American, gay and was orphaned as a child. After graduation, Charlet will join the law firm Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.
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UVA LAWYER — UVA Law alumnus Robert F. Kennedy ’51 helped convince University of Virginia’s leadership to desegregate a major speaking event for Nobel Prize winner Ralph Bunche. Kennedy was serving in his third year as president of the Student Legal Forum, a venerated organization that invites speakers to comment on topics of the day.…
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UVA LAWYER — UVA Law alumna Linda Gordon Howard ’73 was the first black student and the first female student to become the law school’s student council president. After establishing her career in public service and academia, she went on to write a book on how to prevent another #MeToo — before the movement even…
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UVA LAWYER — UVA Law alumnus Ted Small ’92 started a student group in 1989 to bridge racial divides. Small looks back on founding Students United to Promote Racial Awareness, which started conversations about race at the law school.
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UVA LAWYER — UVA Law alumnus and now-retired corporate counsel Alfonso Carney Jr. ’74 views his successful career and subsequent public service as stemming from debts of gratitude he owes — to friends, family members, mentors and institutions who helped him along the way.
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UVA LAYWER — UVA Law alumni Errol and Kim Phipps ’91 have enjoyed successful careers as lawyers. Errol has risen to vice president and associate general counsel at AT&T. Kim serves as a litigator at Liberty Mutual. They became the multigenerational black family with both parents to have attended UVA Law.
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UVA LAWYER — These alumni are a rarity for UVA Law: African-American judges who are husband and wife. Judge Raymond Jackson ’73 sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Gwendolyn Jones Jackson ’72 is retired from the Norfolk General District Court, but still hears cases as a substitute judge.…
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UVA LAWYER — Gregory Hayes Swanson ‘ was the first black man to integrate the University of Virginia. Having obtained his law degree from Howard University, Swanson needed a master’s in law to be eligible for a prospective teaching job. Swanson sued UVA Law for his right to a graduate education and won.
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