2024 winner BIOGRAPHIES
| Marisa hopes to graduate Spring 2026. Before going to law school, she earned her MS in Education in School Counseling and spent 7.5 years working with students in sixth through twelfth grades in both private and public schools in Racine and Kenosha. Currently, Marisa works part-time at a law firm in Racine. She’s interested in family law, educational law, or assisted reproductive technology and the law. |
Marisa AndersonMay serves as an articles editor for the Marquette Law Review. Her commitment to public service is evident through her extensive volunteer work with the Milwaukee Justice Center and Legal Action of Wisconsin. This fall, May will intern at the Ozaukee County District Attorney's Office, further expanding her practical experience in public service. She has gained valuable experience as a summer associate at Godfrey & Kahn, where she worked on complex legal matters alongside experienced attorneys. May will return to the firm next year as an associate within the Environmental Practice Group, bringing her passion for law and public service into her professional career. |
May Arinze |
Ana Avendano | As a Mexican immigrant, Ana is personally committed to increasing accessibility in the legal system and advancing collective advocacy in marginalized communities. This summer, Ana worked as a Peggy Browning Fellow at the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project, providing free legal aid to low-income workers in rural areas. This fall, she will work at her school’s Immigrant Justice Clinic and serve as the Hispanic Bar Association liaison for La Alianza (Latino Law Student Association). During undergrad, Ana served in AmeriCorps and interned for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. Before law school, she worked as a legal assistant supporting detained asylum seekers in El Paso, TX and Juarez, MX. She also served on the first steering committee of her nonprofit’s union, helping lead the union from initial formation to contract bargaining. Ana has volunteered in various capacities, including helping migrant families affected by the family separation policy, translating for counsel investigating inhumane treatment of migrant youth, and participating in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. |
Abby is secretary of the RBG Society and Vice President of Communications of the Antitrust Law Society. In March, she began working as a traffic law clerk at the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office. Additionally, she spent this past summer as a Public Interest Law Society fellow at the DA’s Office. Abby had the privilege and opportunity to go on the record under the Student Practice Rule in misdemeanor and out-of-custody court. Abby graduated from UW-Madison in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and criminal justice. |
Abby Cornehls |
Jasmine Fields | This past summer, Jasmine interned with Judge Mark McGinnis at the Outagamie County Courthouse, where she was able to sit in on court hearings and further her research and writing skills. This fall, she will work as a clinical student in the Family Court Clinic as well as an article editor for the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society. Jasmine also serves as the Westlaw student representative, secretary for the Black Law Student Association and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and a member of the First-Generation Lawyers Association. During her first year of law school, Jasmine was on a BLSA mock trial team that took third place at regionals in Detroit and advanced to nationals in Houston. |
PAST Scholarship winners
2023 2022 Sarah Bondar ^Dusty Gross 2021 Sebrina Dixon 2020 *Mckenna Rae Kohlenberg *Liz Simonis 2019 Erin Bartenstein 2018 *Taylor Brisco | 2017 Alisha Esselstein 2016 Alexandra AbernethyHannah Dockendorff *Whitney Ederer *Courtney Roelandts 2015 Alixandra Jacobson 2014 Liz Bradley 2013 Chelsey Metcalf 2012 *Kelliann Blazek | 2011 *Susan Barranco 2010 Lora Chupita 2009 Erin Page Fitzgerald 2008 *Melanie Black 2007 Rachel Abhold 2006 Krisstine Ebner | 2005 2004 2003 Jessica Shoemaker 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 |
*Virginia A. Pomeroy Scholarship ^Shirley S. Abrahamson Scholarship |