This award is given annually to one or more graduating students who have demonstrated leadership within the animal law program and who have earned the respect of peers and faculty for her/his/their commitment to advancing the field.
Madison Steffey
Irene Au-Young
Bernard F. O’Rourke Award
The O’Rourke Award is presented each year to a graduating student or students who have written the best original research paper or papers on an environmental or natural resources topic during law school.
Rachel Jennings
Lucas Williams
Evening Student Award
The Evening Student Award is conferred upon the graduating student who has the highest grade point average among those who have attended the evening program for four full years.
Cornelius Society
Members are selected by the faculty based on distinguished scholarship, leadership, and contribution to the law community.
Michael Adler
Sara Densmore
Diego Plaza
Silvia Badea
Jason Frank
Carley Pouland
Elizabeth Barankin
Nicholas Greenfield
Tania Predovic
Anders Byrnes
Chloe Johnson
Alyssa Sander
Jesse Caldwell
Cole Killion
Ethan Snyder
Mathias Chau
Cristina Kladis
Madison Steffey
Hannah Clements
Audrey Leonard
Anna Tadio
Anne Cox
Jie Lian
Theresa Turner
Audrey Davis
Bruce Myers
Reed West,
Rebeka Dawit
Carlisle Pearson
Amy Youngman
Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Leadership Award
This award is presented each year to a graduating student or students who, over the course of their studies at Lewis & Clark Law School, have made significant contributions to the school’s environmental, natural resources, and energy law program.
Amy Youngman
Sam Schnarch
Audrey Leonard
Jesse Caldwell
Hannah Clements
Williamson Public Interest Environmental Law Award
The Williamson Award is given by the Lewis & Clark Law School Environmental Alumni Association to recognize a graduate who has demonstrated commitment, vision, leadership, and creativity in the field of public interest environmental law and who plans to continue in this work after law school.
Hannah Clements
Summa Cum Laude
Honoring those graduates with a cumulative GPA of a 3.85 and above.
Meg Barankin
Jie Lian
Brittaney Bones
Declan McGarry
Hannah Clements
Sophie Shaddy-Farnsworth
Audrey Davis
Aly Sneider
Anna Fugate
Sophie von Bergen
Alison Kavanagh
Magna Cum Laude
Honoring those graduates with a cumulative GPA between 3.65 to 3.84.
Bridgett Buss
Cole Killion
Conor Butkus
Dustin Luettgen
Caroline Desmond
Shaun Pehl
Jason Frank
Carley Pouland
Nick Greenfield
Sean Tipton
Cum Laude
Honoring those graduates with a cumulative GPA between 3.30 to 3.64.
Vanessa Aaron
Tess Jacobsen
Jesse Miles
Katie Sharpless
Michael Adler
Rachel Jennings
Marc Mohan
Rachel Shinville
Robert Beaver
Rob Jones
James Molyneux-Elliot
James Smart
Ryan Bird
Maya Joslow
Colleen Munoz
Aaron Trukositz
Ollie Caron-Noble
Cristina Kladis
Steve Murphy
Michael Vafa
Kaitlynn Danlovich
Jordan Lennox
Elizabeth O’Connell
Felesha Valdez
Alex Delorenzo-Lawley
Audrey Leonard
Carlisle Pearson
Dustin Vergason
Samantha Erwin
Trinity Madrid
Lee Pierce
Annie White
Marc Gimbel
Cyd Maurer
Caroline Reed
Lucas Williams
Enya Hornbel
Shanna McCormack
Kyle Sharp
Peter Yaghmaie
Upper Division Awards
Mock Trial participant.
Justice Robert E. Jones Award
For distinction in the trial advocacy class, the Justice Robert E. Jones Award is presented each year to those students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and promise in courtroom performance.
Law Review Excellence Award
The Law Review Excellence Award is awarded to a senior member of Environmental Law who has made a positive contribution to the Law Review as demonstrated by hard work, and superior writing or editing abilities.
Lawrence (Lee) Pierce
Community Service Honors Awards Student volunteers at NCVLI
The program recognizes law students who complete at least 30 hours of volunteer, non-for-credit and not-for compensation work during the year with a public interest or nonprofit organization or a government office.
