Section News and Information
May 20, 2014
2013-2014 Law Student Book Awards
This award is given to the top graduating student from each of the eight Virginia law schools. In conjunction with the Dean of each law school the Family Law professor chooses the graduate who has demonstrated the most promise and potential for the practice of family law to be the recipient of this award.
Thomson Reuters, West Group provides complimentary inscribed copies of their publication Virginia Practice Series – Family Law: Theory, Practice, and Forms by Swisher, Diehl, and Cottrell. The Board of Governors is appreciative of Principal Attorney Editor John S. Bloomquist and Directors Daniel S. Eckert and Richard Brown for making this book award possible. We provide a beautifully framed certificate to accompany the book, and the award is presented to the student at the law school’s graduation ceremonies.
The awards for the law students who demonstrated great promise and potential in the practice of Family Law, are as follows for 2013-2014:
Washington & Lee, School of Law – Recipient: Jan M. Fox
University of Virginia - Recipient: Megan Loftus
University of Richmond T. C. Williams - Recipient: Danielle Chaḗ Wingfield
Regent University School of Law - Recipient: Elizabeth Oklevitch
College of William & Mary - Recipient: Kathryn Ellen Leary
Appalachian School of Law - Recipient: Corie Rife
George Mason University, School of Law – Recipient: Lynn Thompson
Liberty University, School of Law - Recipient: Lindsay Horne