2024 Awards and Honors

At the Law School’s 136th commencement exercises, Interim Dean William McGeveran and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Oren Gross presented Law School faculty members with Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Awards. The award was established by family and friends in honor of the late Professor Stanley V. Kinyon ’33, a recognized commercial law scholar and member of the Law School faculty for 40 years.

• Jill Hasday, Tenure Track
• Elizabeth Bentley, Clinical
• Andrew Martineau, Skills
   

• Class of 2024 Excellence in Public Service
  • Selma El-Badawi
• Class of 2024 Most Outstanding Contribution
  • Job Okeri
• William B. Lockhart Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Leadership and Service
  • Amy Cohen
• Minnesota Law Equity & Diversity Award
  • Louica Alexandre
  • Seeta Goyal
• Steven M. Block Prize
  • Carlisle Ghirardini
• Dorothy O. Lareau Award
  • Kayla Haeg
• Federal Bar Association Foundation’s Judge Edward J. Devitt Award
  • Tyler Blackmon
• Human Rights Center Outstanding Contribution Award
  • Nicole Carter
  • Elena Macomber
  • Suzanne Mead
  • Sierra Paulsen
• Sidney J. Kaplan Legal Scholarship Fund
  • Evan Dale
• Target Corporation Diversity in Law Scholar
  • Gemma (Yoon Jeung) Jo
• Mondale Hall Engagement Award
  • Dominic Detwiler
  • Samuel Ferguson
  • Sierra Grandy
• National Association of Women Lawyers Award
  • Dahlia Wilson
• Charles Nauen and Pati Jo Pofahl Environmental and Energy Law Student Award
  • John Stack
• University of Minnesota President’s Student Leadership and Service Award
  • Chad Nowlan
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• Business Law
  • Austin Lommen
• Civil Litigation
  • Diana Kawka
• Criminal Justice
  • Amy Cohen
• Environmental & Energy Law
  • John Stack
• Health Law & Bioethics
  • Katie Ocampo
• Human Rights Law
  • Nicole Carter
• Immigration Law
  • Nicole Carter
  • Jeremy Ruppert
• Intellectual Property and Technology Law
  • Nina Elder
  • Maxwell Terry
• Labor & Employment Law
  • Selma El-Badawi
  • Abby Frerick

• Cooper Fellowship
  • Louica Fedine Alexandre
  • Joel Bransky
  • Selma El-Badawi
• Dean Carl Auerbach Public Interest Summer Fellowship
  • Sean Rattigan
• Dr. Matthew Stark Civil Liberties Internship in Law Fund
  • Julia Imperatore
• Mooty Fellowship
  • Mollie Clark Ahsan
  • Adam Kolb
• Robina Public Interest Scholars
  • Dominic Detwiler
  • Kayla Haeg
  • Britane Hubbard
  • Eva Moline
  • John Noble
  • Sierra Paulsen
  • Marie Siliciano
  • Poojan Thakrar
  • Giuseppe Tumminello
  • Dahlia Wilson
  • Emma Wittmer
• Robina Public Interest Summer Fellowships
  • Evan Dale 
  • Jasmin Hernandez Du Bois
  • Emma Ehrlich 
  • Selma El-Badawi 
  • Rachel Emendorfer 
  • Jocelyn Germaine
  • Julia Imperatore 
  • Alexa Johnson-Gomez 
  • Ian Mallery
  • Michaela McNichol
  • Suzanne Mead
  • Ryan Murray
  • Job Okeri
  • Matthew Connor Smith
  • Patrick John Snabes 
  • Taylor Lee-Ann Steele
  • Adrienne Tosaris
• Robins Kaplan Public Service Fellowship
  • Fionna Ek
  • Maria Pfister
• Saeks Public Interest Residency
  • Alan Tellez Berkowitz (St. Paul City Attorney’s Office)
  • Zachary Fisher (WI Public Defenders)
  • Britane Hubbard (Housing Justice Center)
  • Molly Kleist (MN Attorney General’s Office)
  • Mark Maier (WI Public Defenders)
  • Phillip Mellon (HOME Line)
  • Samuel Rahn (Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services)
  • Jamie B. Smith (Gender Justice)
• Saeks Summer Fellowships
  • Ian Mallery
  • Gordon Unzen
• Justice John Paul Stevens Fellowship
  • Lauren Butler
  • Amy Cohen
  • Emma Ehrlich
  • Julia Gagnon
  • Chad Nowlan
  • Sergi Torres
• Warren Spannaus Public Interest Fellowship
  • Taylor Lee-Ann Steele 
  • Giuseppe Tumminello
  • Grace Worcester
• Fredrikson & Byron Fellowship
  • Eva Moline
  • John Noble
  • Lee Owen
  • Ambika Patpatia
  • Sierra Paulsen
• Alexander Davis Fellowship
  • Maxwell Blosser
  • Lucy Chin
• Equal Justice Works Fellowship
  • Lucy Chin
• Gauck Fellowship
  • Mallorie R. Sckerl
• Kommerstad Public Interest Fellowship
  • Zhuohaodi Li
  • Owen Palmer
  • Hong Yao

• Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Student Award
  • Luke Srodulski
• Kent Wennerstrom Award
  • Chad Nowlan

Minnesota Law Journal of Law & Inequality

• Outstanding Editor Award
  • Luke Srodulski
• Spirit Award 
  • Nicole Carter
  • Selma El-Badawi
  • Rachel Emendorfer
  • Jacquelyn I. Randolph

Minnesota Journal of International Law

• Outstanding Editor Award
  • Suzanne Mead
• Spirit Award
  • Laura Phillipp Tucker
     

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

• Outstanding Editor Award
  • Gordon Unzen

Minnesota Law Review

• Minnesota Law Review Volume 39 & 40 Memorial Award: Excellence in Writing
  • Amy Cohen
  • Evan Dale
  • Maxwell H. Terry
• Stinson LLP Writing Award
  • Randa Larsen
  • Earl Yohance Pei Wei Lin
  • Ryan Liston

• Harold Will Cox Award, Best Oralist, Maynard Pirsig Honors Tournament
  • Simon Earle
• Clary Cup, Best Oralist
  • Marie Siliciano
• Dorothy O. Lareau Award, Best Brief, Maynard Pirsig Honors Tournament
  • Kayla Haeg
• 2023 ABA Regional Competition- San Francisco - First-Place Brief 
  • Written by Dahlia Wilson ’24, An Duong ’24, and Sarah Cohen ’23
• 2023 Michigan State University Gender + Sexuality Competition - First-Place Brief
  •  Written by Vanessa Hird ’23 and Philip de Sa e Silva ’24
• 2023 McGee Civil Rights Competition - Best Respondent's Brief 
  • Written by Steven Vincent ’23, Molly Kleist ’24, and Michael Kinane ’23
• 2024 McGee Civil Rights Competition - Best Appellants Brief
  • Written by Lauren Butler ’24, Ryan Collins ’24, and Robin Willis ’25

The Law School Public Service Program (LSPSP) promotes an ethic of public service in Minnesota law students and increases the availability of legal services to clients with limited access to justice. A collaborative effort of the Minnesota Justice Foundation (MJF), the Minnesota law schools, the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), and legal service providers throughout Minnesota, LSPSP encourages all Minnesota law students to complete 50 hours of law-related volunteer service during their law school careers. With thanks to MJF for matching students to placements that best fit their interests and goals, we are pleased to congratulate those members of the University of Minnesota’s Class of 2024 who enthusiastically have met the Law School Public Service Program challenge.

Juris Doctor Graduates

• Alex Barkley
• Christopher Beach
• Joel Bransky*
• Lauren Butler
• Nicole Carter
• Lucy Chin
• Amy Cohen
• Fionna Ek
• Selma El-Badawi*
• Nina Elder
• Rachel Emendorfer
• Zachary Fisher*
• Abby Frerick*
• Katheryn Furlong*
• Carlisle Ghirardini
• Eve Grabau*
• Olivia Gulley*
• Catlin Hedeman
• Britane Hubbard*
• Cierra M. Dinsmore Johnson
• Alexa Johnson-Gomez*
• Jungyoun Jay Kim*
• Molly Kleist
• Adam Kolb
• Margaret Stafford Kovach
• David Lamb*
• Austin Lommen
• Sarah Lynam*
• Elena Macomber*
• Lindsay R. Maher
• Ian Mallery*
• Esther Mathew*
• Suzanne Mead*
• Anna Grace Mitchell
• Eva Moline*
• John Noble
• Samuel Rahn
• Caroline Marie Rice
• Anthony Rodriguez
• Anna Schendl
• Alexa Schirber
• Elise Skarda
• Patrick John Snabes
• Luke Srodulski
• John Stack
• Kyle Steinberg*
• Natalie Wendland*
• Dahlia Wilson*
• Emma Wittmer*
• Sophia (Hong) Yao
• Mohammad Saeed Ziny*

* Performed 100 or more hours of law-related public service

• Louica Fedine Alexandre
• Saqer Fadala Al-Sulaiti
• Alexandra Diwik
• Evelyn Doran
• Sierra Grandy
• Wills Layton
• Amelia J. Lizarraga
• Mariia Melnyk
• Nam Nguyen
• Job Okeri
• William C. Reimer-Myers

Includes all students who served at least one year

• Louica Fedine Alexandre
• Petra Asani
• Tyler Blackmon
• Erik H. Breitenbach
• Evan Dale
• Alexandra Diwik
• Rachel Emendorfer
• Mary Fleming
• Michael Fritz
• Carlisle Ghirardini
• Sierra Grandy
• Kayla Haeg
• AnnaLisa Brown Hamann
• Kyra Honkanen
• Alexa Johnson-Gomez
• Adam Kolb
• Wills Layton
• Nicholas Lewis
• Amelia J. Lizarraga
• Austin Lommen
• Esther Mathew
• Suzanne Mead
• Katie Ocampo
• Sean Rattigan
• Caroline Marie Rice
• Anthony Rodriguez
• Maxwell H. Terry
• Sergi Torres
• Laura Phillipp Tucker
• Giuseppe Tumminello
• Abigail Ward
• Natalie Wendland
• Dahlia Wilson
• Emma Wittmer
• Alexis Brooke Yribarren
• Jiayi Yu