USC School of Law recognizes its students, faculty and staff for their outstanding achievements and accomplishments by naming recipients of awards for scholarship, professional accomplishment and exemplary service each year.
We are proud to announce the 2022-2023 recipients of the following named awards:
| Award Name | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| Albert C. Todd, III Estate Planning Award | Michael Chalmers Middleton |
| Arthur B. Custy Award | Mallory Anna Clamp |
| Claud N. Sapp Award | Melissa Campbell Byars & Michael Grant Lindsay |
| Compleat Lawyer Bronze Medal | Christel Purvis & Emma Higgins |
| Cy Young Award | Grace E. Driggers |
| Dean's Medallion Award | Grace E. Driggers |
| G.G. Dowling Student Award | Michael Grant Lindsay & Oscar Collinbrook Locklear |
| Irving Steinberg Award | Michael Austin Coward |
| I.M. Goldberg South Carolina Bar Foundation Scholarship | Morgan Reilly Boes |
| John R. Holland Award | Morgan Reilly Boes & Samantha Jordan Dorward |
| John O. McDougall Family Law Award | Grace E. Driggers |
| Kim Technology Award | Marianna Casimir McDevitt & Edmund Jackson Scott, Jr. |
| Luther M. Lee Award | Briana Richie |
| Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism Award | Halee Marie Smith |
| Robert W. Foster, Sr. Alternative Dispute Resolution Award | Nicholas Joseph Quatraro |
| Roberts Senior Class Writing Award | William Brendan Koontz |
| Sherod H. Eadon Award | Paige Luvenia Brown |
| South Carolina Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel Award | Grace E. Driggers |
| Stanley H. Kohn Award | Brent Carlton Adams |
| Robert T. Bockman Award | Isabel Jane Sink |
| Senator Burnet R. Maybank Award | Grace E. Driggers; W. Christopher Schwartz; & Ethan Spencer Strickland |
| Student Bar Association Service Award | Melissa Campbell Byars |
| Student Bar Association Committed Student Award | Brent Carlton Adams |
| Student Diversity Leadership Award | DeKiah NiKole Baxter & Elem Andrea Ibiam |
| Tanya A. Gee Warriors for Justice Award | Lauren Allison Hoyns |
| Barney O. Smith National Trial Competition Award | Arden Elise Boore & Hunter Zane Dunn |
| Children’s Law Concentration Distinguished Student Award | Danielle Marie Darrow |
| Hugh L. Willcox Pro Bono Award | Morgan Reilly Boes & Lillian Reid Lawrence |
| Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award | Reilly Holland Lerner; Michael Grant Lindsay; Gabrielle Louise Sharp; & Benjamin Stevens |
| D. Reece Williams, III Trial Advocacy Award | Gabrielle Martin Rife |
| Robert McCormick Figg Jr. Trial Advocacy Award | Melissa Campbell Byars |
| Award Name | Award Recipient |
|---|---|
| Karen M. Lee Memorial Scholarship | Ashley Jones |
| Susan McCrary Scholarship | Lynnise Brown |
| Joseph P. McNulty Scholarship | Alexandria Jenkins |
| Joseph O. Rogers, Jr. Bicentennial Scholarship | Raquelle Cannon & Quinn Mann |
| Capers Bouton Memorial Scholarship | Paul Clowes & Bubba Philpot |
| Jackson Lewis Employment & Labor Law Endowed Award | Hollis Burnett |
| Student Diversity Leadership Award | Raquelle Cannon |
| Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award (Rising 3Ls) | Torrey Benjamin; Alyssa Markheim; & Michelle Pappas |
| Coleman Karesh Award (Highest 2L GPA) | Allison Robertson |
| Richard J. Foster Award (Highest 1L GPA) | Samuel Boyd; Cameron Cox; & Brooke Schmitt |
| D. Reece Williams III Trial Advocacy Award | Tanner Wise & Luke Rankin |
| Victor Michalewitz Award | Mason J. Rajaee |
| Award Name | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| Faculty Writing Award – Book The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy: Risk. Recovery, and Redevelopment |
Dean Susan Kuo |
| Faculty Writing Award – Book Intellectual Property and Immorality: Against Protecting Harmful Creations of the Mind |
Dean Ned Snow |
| Faculty Writing Award – Article The Racialized Violence of Police Canine Force (forthcoming 2023 in Georgetown Law Journal) |
Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk |
| Faculty Writing Award – Article The Abolition of Food Oppression (forthcoming 2023 in Georgetown Law Journal) |
Professor Etienne Toussaint |
| Best Classroom Teacher Award | Professor Scott Bauries & Professor Kevin Brown |
| Outstanding Faculty Member Award | Dean Susan Kuo |
| Faculty Service Award | Professor Clint Wallace & Professor Benjamin Means |
| Faculty G.G. Dowling Award | Professor Seth Stoughton |
| Faculty Diversity Leadership Award | Professor Etienne Toussaint |
| Award Name | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| Staff Diversity Leadership Award | George Hamilton, Syretta Rhodes & Samantha White |