First-year student Raiden Washington was elected vice chair of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy's Board of Directors. The SSDP has approximately 5,000 active members from schools around the globe. Its members “advocate for a more sensible approach to drug laws.”
The Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic was awarded the 2022 Georgia Crime Victim Service Collaboration and Innovation Award from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. The honor "recognizes those whose work has been particularly noteworthy, and who exemplify the long-term commitment that characterizes many victim service providers, some of whom are also victims of crime."
Thirty University of Georgia students, faculty and staff members who have died since April 2021 - including the law school's Davis Bergsagel - will be honored at the university’s annual candlelight memorial service on May 3 at 7 p.m. on the steps of the UGA Chapel. President Jere W. Morehead will lead the service, called “Georgia Remembers … a Candlelight Memorial.” Names of each of the 14 students and 16 faculty and staff members will be read aloud, followed by a toll of the Chapel bell and the lighting of a candle.
U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia Lisa Godbey Wood, a 1990 graduate of the School of Law, will present the keynote address at the Class of 2022 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 21.
With the help of two School of Law clinics and seven-plus years of advocacy, an immigrant grandmother has gained lawful presence in the United States. The Jane W. Wilson Family Justice Clinic's and the Community Health Law Partnership Clinic's collaborative work was performed by then students Pedro Dorado (J.D.'17), Elizabeth N. Rawlings (J.D.'18) and Mary S. Honeychurch (J.D.'18) under the direction of Associate Dean Jason A. Cade, Clinical Assistant Professor Christine M. Scartz and Community HeLP Clinic Staff Attorney Kristen Shepherd. Administrative Associate Sarah Ehlers provided key support to both clinics.