36 Honored with 26th Annual Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards

May 11, 2021

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. The RRWA program, now in its tenth year as a full-year, six-credit program, ranks No. 9 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 6

  • Matthew J. DeWitte
  • William Robertson Dorsett
  • Taylor D. Osborne

Section 10

  • Austin T. Futrell
  • Sterling Leigh Logan
  • Elizabeth A. Nelson

Alexa Chew – Clinical Associate Professor of Law

Section 2

  • Andrew Draper
  • Rachel Holtzman
  • Claudia Perez

Section 3

  • Logan Fairbourn
  • Brianne Megahan
  • Noelle Wilson

Luke Everett – Clinical Associate Professor of Law

Section 8

  • Margaret Hay
  • Samantha Tidwell
  • Leighton Whitehead

Rachel Gurvich – Clinical Associate Professor of law

Section 1

  • Mercedes Arianna Miles
  • Ashley Treible
  • Mary Stewart Wilson

Pete Nemerovski – Clinical Associate Professor OF LAW

Section 4

  • Aaron Finkel
  • Daniel Sifredo
  • Reaghan Wooster

Section 5

  • Brooke Baledge
  • Catherine Goodman
  • Sonam Shah

Annie Scardulla – Clinical Associate Professor of Law

Section 11

  • Hannah Daigle
  • Jonathan A. Hewett
  • Pooja Ramchandani

Section 12

  • Madison Gladwell
  • Keegan Pace
  • Sydney D. Welch

Craig T. Smith – Assistant Dean for the Writing and Learning Resources Center and Clinical Professor of Law

Section 7

  • Steven Mahlon Constantin
  • Fiona G. Craig
  • Sam White

Sara Warf – Clinical Associate Professor of Law

Section 9

  • Sydney Anderson
  • Dylan Blackburn
  • Isabel Rose