36 Honored with 26th Annual Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
May 11, 2021UNC 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