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MASSACHUSETTS
BLACK JUDGES CONFERENCE PRESENTS AWARDS
TO OUTSTANDING LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS
Boston --- The Massachusetts
Black Judges Conference presented its eighteenth annual
book awards to nine Massachusetts law school students on
Thursday, April 28 in the John Adams Courthouse on Pemberton
Square. Supreme Judicial Court Justice Roderick L. Ireland
addressed the gathering of judges, students, families,
and friends.
Massachusetts
Black Judges Conference President and Southeast Housing
Court Judge Wilbur P. Edwards, Jr. served as Master of
Ceremonies and Juvenile Court Judge Leslie E. Harris provided
welcoming remarks. Juvenile Court Judge Marjory A. German
honored Judge Marie O. Jackson, former President of the
Massachusetts Black Judges Conference and First Justice
of Woburn District Court, for her service as President
from 1999 to 2004.
Each
year, the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference awards
a stipend to deserving second-year law school students
to assist them in covering the costs of their law books
for the following year. Their law schools nominate the
students based upon academic achievement, leadership qualities,
potential trial skills, and need. The Book Award Committee
selects the winners from the list of nominees.
The
Massachusetts Black Judges Conference is dedicated to the
support of African-American judges, and serves as a vehicle
for discussion and action on a variety of issues of interest
to them.
Pictured
in the photo are (from left to right): Fetchner Jadotte,
Southern New England School of Law; Kevin Prussia, Boston
University School of Law; Amanda Ward, Northeastern University
School of Law; Christine D. Medvec, New England School
of Law; Tara L. Curtis, Harvard Law School; Former Massachusetts
Black Judges Conference President and First Justice of
the Woburn District Court Marie O. Jackson; Former Chief
Justice of the Boston Municipal Court Harry J. Elam; Alicia
A. Whilby, Massachusetts School of Law; Ijeoma A. Ugeozi,
Western New England College School of Law; Emmanuel T.
Ebot (in rear), Suffolk University Law School; and Melania
Frances Page, Boston College Law School.
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