Congratulations to Brandi Saunders, winner of the 2019 Emma Terrell Distinguished Employee Award. Presented annually by the Law School Staff Representative Group, the award recognizes staff members who have demonstrated "a strong work ethic, commitment to service, and exceptional job performance as well as the cooperation needed ... to ensure the School of Law meets and exceeds its goals."
Justice Robert Benham, the longest serving and first African American member of the Supreme Court of Georgia, will present the 2020 UGA Holmes-Hunter Lecture Feb. 3 in the Chapel. Named in honor of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes, the first African American students to attend the University of Georgia, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, civil rights and education.
Congratulations to third-year students John Lex Kenerly IV, Jonathan Kaufman and Joseph H. "Joe" Stuhrenberg who swept a regional round of the National Moot Court Competition to secure the right to compete in the national tier of the tournament in New York City during February 2020. The trio was selected as regional champions and won the best brief award, while Stuhrenberg was named best oralist. Second-year student Jason N. Sigalos served as the team's bailiff.
Congratulations to third-year students Adeline Kenerly Lambert and Thomas H. Paris IV for being inducted into the Blue Key Honor Society. The society recognizes students of "outstanding character and ability who have achieved distinction for scholarship and recognition for service and leadership."
Four UGA alumni will be honored at the university's annual Tucker Dorsey Blue Key Awards Banquet. The Blue Key Service Award will be presented to two School of Law alumni - J. Griffin Doyle (J.D.'79), who served as vice president for government relations at UGA from 2011 to 2019, and Regent Don L. Waters (J.D.'78), the chair of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Libby V. Morris, the Zell B. Miller Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and director of UGA's Institute of Higher Education, will receive the Faculty Blue Key Service Award, and Chloe R. Kelley, a former member of the Terry College Young Alumni Board and past UGA Alumni Association 40 Under 40 honoree, will receive the Blue Key Young Alumnus Award.