36 Honored with 25th Annual Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
May 14, 2020
UNC School of Law congratulates 36 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award in April. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing and Learning Resources Center, recognize outstanding oral advocacy in the first-year Research, Reasoning, Writing, and Advocacy (RRWA) Program. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the awards. The RRWA program, now in its ninth year as a full-year, six-credit program, ranks No. 7 in legal writing by U.S. News & World Report.
The awards honor Eugene Gressman, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus, and Daniel H. Pollitt, Graham Kenan Professor of Law Emeritus, who both passed away in 2010.
The RRWA professors and their award recipients are:
Kevin Bennardo – Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Section 1
- Joseph M. Geenen
- Noel Fox Hudson
- Aaron Love
Section 10
- Thomas J. Boulger
- Caroline Pierce Christman
- Lexi Levine
Alexa Chew – Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Section 2
- Le Gia Ho
- Zachary D. Osborne
- Parker M. Williams
Section 7
- Rowan E. Conybeare
- Nathan Nelmes-Pinnell
- Sabrina Ali Shah
Luke Everett – Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Section 3
- Shauna Baker-Karl
- Hannah Caison
- Laura Johnson
Section 11
- James Brennan
- Danielle Dobosz
- Nicholas Williams
Rachel Gurvich – Clinical Associate Professor
Section 5
- George Dylan Boan
- Adhitya “Deets” Mahesh
- Nicholas A. Verderame
Pete Nemerovski – Clinical Associate Professor
Section 6
- Imani Johnson
- Samantha LeJune
- Peter Newman
Section 12
- Anna-Nicole Cooke
- Elise Jamison
- Alexander Krause
Craig T. Smith – Assistant Dean for the Writing and Learning Resources Center and Clinical Professor of Law
Section 8
- Alexandra Farquhar
- Krista S. Peace
- Olivia C. Perez
Sara Warf – Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Section 4
- Nolon Blaylock
- Marissa Flack
- Dakota Lipscombe
Section 9
- Evan Harrell
- Hanna Kathrine Long
- Daniel Mccrorie