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Marking the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, former head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Elaine Jones, a 1970 graduate of the Law School , told the members of the Class of 2004 that they have a special reason to be proud of the school’s contribution to the ruling, and a high moral example to uphold as well. “What is it about Brown?” asked Jones. “In four of the five cases brought before the Court the law had got it wrong and upheld the separate but equal law. But there was one Court below where the judge got it right and it was a brave, brave thing he did.… In a 1952 Delaware case, Collins J. Seitz, a University of Virginia Law School graduate, Class of 1940, got it right. Everybody else missed it.” More |
2004 GRADUATION AWARDS
Margaret G. Hyde Award
Allison Maria Orr
James C. Slaughter Honor Award
Kevin Gafford
Ritz
Thomas Marshall Miller Prize
Jeffrey Paul
Yarbro
Z Society Shannon Award
Allison Maria Orr
Law School Alumni Association Best Note
Award
David Walker Glazier
Robert E. Goldsten Award for Distinction
in the Classroom
Theodore Allan Kiem
Roger and Madeleine Traynor Prize
Michael
Stephen Passaportis
William David Sarratt
Herbert Kramer/Herbert
Bangel Community Service Award
Carmen Lynn Elliott
Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award
James
Reyes Whitehead
Robert F. Kennedy Award for Public Service
Erin Cathleen Quay
Edwin S. Cohen Tax Prize
Andrew Falevich
Earle K. Shawe Labor Relations Award
Scott
Brian Luftglass
John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics
Michael Stephen Passaportis
Eppa Hunton IV Memorial Book Award
John
Lee Newby II
Virginia Trial Lawyers Trial Advocacy Award
Ford Scott Pippin
Virginia State Bar Family Law Book Award
Nuala Ellen Droney
