Dear Class of 2014:

am humbled by the opportunity to serve Howard University School of Law as Interim Dean and grateful to you for providing me with support.

Howard University School of Law remains the center for progressive legal education, discourse, and activism, and the 2013-2014 academic year was no different. The law school hosted many speakers and programs including Mr. Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights whose speech Race, Torture and Detention: A View of the U.S. Death Penalty Through a Human Rights Lens is particularly relevant today. We welcomed back Ms. Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, to talk about why the fight for justice for Trayvon must continue. We hosted a full-day Wiley A. Branton/Howard Law Journal Symposium on “Civil Rights at a Critical Juncture: Confronting Old Conflicts and New Challenges.” Our student organizations and leaders sponsored programs that brought in attorneys, authors, judges, activists, and scholars, who, in some way, paved the way for justice for all citizens of America. We also hosted our annual James Nabrit Jr. lecture series, with the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Ms. Edith Ramirez discussing your rights as a consumer, and with the President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Ms. Sherrillyn Ifill, who discussed your civil rights and Brown v. Board of Education at 60. It is because of your support of these programs and your willingness to serve, that we had an impactful year at HUSL.

We continue to offer an academically challenging and innovative program because of the talented faculty at the law school. We also continue to be recognized nationally as the “Go-To-Law School” for placing law students in large firms and as one of the law schools with the highest placement rate in government and public interest jobs. All of this is great news for Howard University School of Law, even though nationally, these are difficult times for law schools. If we are to continue to build on our unique tradition and our reputation as the ‘go-to-law school’ that educates, trains, and develops current and future generations of social engineers for the global community who lead the fight for social justice, it will be because of you and your commitment to the Howard legacy.

So, I congratulate you on your stellar accomplishments and look forward to continuing our work with you, now an alumnus of this institution. Thank you for all you’ve done. Congratulations Class of 2014!

Sincerely Yours,

Okianer Christian DarkInterim DeanHoward University School of Law

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Howard University School of Law • Volume 23, Number 1 Special Commencement 2014 Issue

On the cover: Cherry blossoms in full bloom at Holy Cross Hall.

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2 FROM THE DEANSpecial message to the Class of 2014

4 #MOOTCOURTMADNESSHoward Law moot court teams excel

6 ON THE CAMPUS OF HOWARD LAWSybrina Fulton returns to campus

7 RON DELLUMS VISITS HOWARD LAW SCHOOLThe former U.S. Congressman delivers the inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration Lecture

8 HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW CLASS OF 2014 MURAL

10 C. CLYDE FERGUSON JR. LECTUREVince Warren delivers the annual lecture

JAMES M. NABRIT JR. LECTURE SERIESGuest lecturers discuss consumer rights and civil rights

11 WILEY A. BRANTON/HOWARD LAW JOURNAL SYMPOSIUMTenth annual Symposium confronts civil rights challenges

12 HOODING CEREMONY KEYNOTE SPEAKERKim Michele Keenan to address Class of 2014

13 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2014Another class of social engineers leaves Houston Hall

15 STAY CONNECTED WITH HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

16 CLASS NOTESNews and notes about the Class of 2014

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rom Best Oralist to Best Ad-vocate to Best Brief, How-ard’s moot court teams best-

ed the competition across the country and around the world! True to the legacy of their name-sakes, the moot court teams dem-onstrated leadership, excellence, commitment skill, and confidence by competing successfully in more than a dozen competitions. Howard University School of Law is proud of the accomplish-ments of the moot court teams.

HUVER I. BROWN TRIAL ADVOCACY MOOT

COURT TEAM

shley C. Sawyer was presi-dent of the Huver I. Brown

Trial Advocacy Moot Court Team and Durriyya M. Rose was vice president. Nicole E. George was captain and Ashlee N. Lewis was co-captain. The team competed in several competitions. Members Lauren Atwater, Eddie Langford, Andrew Mor-ris, and Brandon T. Taylor rep-

#MootcourtmadnessHoward Law moot court teams excel in competitions

F resented Howard University School of Law in the regional round of the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Com-petition sponsored by the National Black Law Students Association. Members Anilu Chadwick, Carm-el Henry, and Latisha Spence-Rivera competed in the Academy of Trial Lawyers Mock Trial Competition. Ashley Foote, Fay Hunter, Casey Payton, and Sierra M. Wallace ad-vanced to the quarter-finals of the Capitol City Challenge.

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COURT TEAM

hina Dickerson was president and Meaghan Lynch was the captain

of the Goler Teal Butcher Internation-al Moot Court Team. Meaghan B. Lynch and Chris Se-rano were the runners-up for Best Team Argument. Ms. Lynch was also named Third Place Best Oralist at the Niagara International Moot Court Competition. George Harris, Binta Nunnery, Peter Hertzog, and Devon Cox of the

International Moot Court Team brought home the Susan J. Fer-rell trophy from the Susan J. Fer-rell Intercultural Human Rights Moot Court Competition. Devon Cox won Best Oralist and the team won Runner-Up Best Brief! Team members Heran Med-hin, Jada Cain, Lena Halasa, Shannon McNeal, and Melissa Lovell supported the Goler Teal Butcher International Moot Court Team throughout their successful year.

CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON MOOT

COURT TEAM

mber L. Jordan served as the captain of the Charles Ham-

ilton Houston Moot Court Team. Adrienne J. Ferrell was the co-captain. Tiana Marie Towns and Ash-ley Futrell were quarter-finalists at Seton Hall Law School’s John J. Gibbons Moot Court Competi-tion. George L. Davis and Johnny

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Reid advanced to the semi-finals of Elon University School of Law’s Billings Exum Frye Moot Court Competition. Amber L. Jordan and Whitnee Goins advanced to the quarter-fi-nals of Buffalo University School of Law’s Herbert J. Wechsler Na-tional Moot Court Competition. Briana Tyson and Monique Cobb advanced to the quarter-finals of the University of Min-nesota Law’s McGee Moot Court Competition and earned Fourth Best Brief overall. Ms. Tyson was also the Ninth Best Oral Advo-cate out of over 70 competitors. Amanda Butler-Jones and Mi-chele Joo won Best Brief at the George Washington Religious Freedom Competition. Their brief will be published in the Rut-ger’s Law Journal next year. Elizabeth W. Fletcher and Bry-ant Chambliss received Best Pe-titioner’s Brief and the Highest Overall Brief score at William & Mary’s Spong Invitational Tour-nament. They also advanced to the quarter-final round of oral ar-guments. Members Breanna L. Bledsoe, Michael S. Goode, Keith O. Gilm-

ore, and Carlos M. Segarra along with their teammates hosted the annual William B. Bryant-Luke C. Moore Competition, which was co-chaired by Courtney N. Malden and Tiana Towns. The team also hosted the 2014 CHH Intramural Competition at the law school. Amanda Butler-Jones and Zorba Leslie won the First Annual D.C. Cup Moot Court Competition. The competition was between the six D.C. area law schools, including Georgetown University Law Center,

American University Washing-ton College of Law, Catholic Uni-versity Columbus School of Law, George Washington University Law School and the University of DC David A. Clarke School of Law. “Howard Law School win-ning this competition was a great conclusion to a wonderful moot court season,” said CHH team captain Amber L. Jordan.

Follow us on Twitter @howard-lawschool #mootcourtmadness!

CHH Members Johnny Reid (left) and George L. Davis were semifinalists in the 2014 national moot court competition at Elon Law School.

Members of the Goler Teal Butcher International Moot Court Team.

CHH Members Zorba Leslie (left) and Amanda Butler-Jones took home the trophy for the first ever D.C. Cup Moot Court Competition.

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A Return to Howard LawSybrina Fulton Returns to Campus

ybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin returned to Howard University School of Law on September 23, 2013, two months after a jury acquitted George Zim-

merman of the second-degree murder of her son Trayvon. Fulton, accompanied by Attorney Benjamin Crump, briefly discussed the Zimmerman trial and verdict but also spoke about their efforts to repeal stand your ground laws across America. “The laws don’t work and should be amended,” Fulton said to the packed auditorium. “The fight for justice must continue. There are other families out there that are hurting just like ours, families who are suffering. We are do-ing this for them,” she said. Fulton said she is scheduled to testify before Congress to bring her message of repeal and that she would continue to speak publicly about chang-ing stand your ground laws. “What we are really doing is helping America to live up to its creed that she owes all of us, white, black, red, or brown,” said Attorney Benjamin Crump. Fulton and Crump first visited Howard Law School in March of 2013 when they thanked Howard students for bringing attention to Trayvon’s death. They again credited Howard students for keeping up the vigilance in the fight for justice for Trayvon. The program was sponsored by Howard University School of Law and students in the Criminal Law Society.

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Students from the Criminal Law Society, Howard Law Journal, Student Bar Association, Charles Hamilton Houston Moot Court Team, and the Human Rights & Globalization Law Reivew stand in support of

Sybrina Fulton and Attorney Benjamin Crump.

Howard Law Professor Lenese Herbert, Ms. Sybrina Fulton, Interim Dean Okianer Christian Dark, Attor-ney Benjamin Crump, and special guest Michael Eric Dyson take time for a photo-op before the program. Professor Herbert, a former assistant U.S. attorney, participated in the forum and offered her reflections and insights on the prosecutors role in the criminal jus-tice system.

Sybrina Fulton with a Howard law student and alumna Tiffany Lindsay (left) of the Class of 2011. During the program, Ms. Lindsay recited “Stand,” a poem she wrote in Trayvon Martin’s memory.

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Remember! Celebrate! Act!King’s Legacy of Peace for Our World

n Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Ron Dellums, former Con-gressman and Visiting Fellow

of the Ronald D. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center, delivered the inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration Lecture at Howard University School of Law. The title was Remember! Celebrate! Act! King’s Legacy of Peace For Our World. “We celebrate Martin Luther King Jr., his brilliance, his energy,” Del-lums said. “We all need to pick up the pieces of Martin Luther King’s lega-cy,” he said. “We must continue to act as King acted.” Dellums said that constant chang-es and challenges to voting laws that “make it harder” for Americans to exercise their constitutional right to vote should be considered as a call for action. “King gave us the power to assert our citizenship,” Dellums said. “And one way that we can as-sert our citizenship is by developing a new Voting Rights Act.” “The Voting Rights Act is 49 years old,” he quipped. “We need a new one,” he emphasized. “Really, think about it. What would your gerry-mandered districts look like?” He implored Howard law students to

think about the possibility of creating a new Voting Rights Act that would protect all Americans. Dellums also spoke about the im-portance of working together to find common ground. “We are in a uni-versal struggle,” he said. “It is urgent that we begin to address issues that will solve problems for everyone.” He said that we must all become change agents for the world. “The challenge for us is how. How do we bring this universal family together?” Dellums said one of his goals as a Visiting Fellow at the Ronald D. Walters Leadership and Public Policy

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Dellums signed copies of his book Lying Down with the Lions. Professor Alice Thomas (left) and Deans Dark, Crooms-Robinson, Fax, and McGahee with Ron Dellums.

Center is to establish a consistent dia-logue with students. “I hope to impart and communicate passion about the victories we won in freedom, peace, justice, and equality. Young people need to occupy that turf and declare that we are not going backward,” he said.The inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration Lecture was cosponsored by Howard Univer-sity School of Law and the Ronald D. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center. Students, faculty, staff, and guests Tweeted along during Dellums’s lecture using the hashtag #dellum-satHUSL. Some Tweets captured his call to action: • akasha.@FindAkasha Feb 19 It’s the dreamers, the opportunists, the idealists that move us. #dellumsatH-USL• Lisa Crooms-Robinson@dean_lacr Feb 19 #dellumsathusl Chal-lenged HUSL students not to lament Shelby County but rather to write a new Voting Rights Act.• Antoine Dumas@AADumas Feb 19 Peace is more than the absence of war, it is the presence of justice and the absence of conditions that give rise to war. #DellumsatHUSL• Midnite Storm@JackieColeman-Yo Feb 19 We can take MLK’s legacy to a higher level by writing a new voting rights act said #Dellumsat HUSL.

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James M. Nabrit Jr. Lecture SeriesGuest Lecturers Discuss Consumer Rights and Civil Rights

HRG members B. Nicole Triplett (l), Louia McDonald (second from right), and Amanda Butler-Jones (r) with Vince Warren of the CCR and Dean Okianer Christian Dark.

C. Clyde Ferguson Jr. Annual LectureRace, Torture and Detention: A View of the U.S. Death Penalty Through a Human Rights Lens

ince Warren, the executive director of the Cen-ter for Constitutional Rights (CCR), keynoted the 2013 lecture and shared the findings of

CCR’s recent report on how the death penalty is im-plemented in California and Louisiana. Warren said the findings of their report showed that the United States’ “ambivalence to international human rights is stark and disturbing in the context of the death penalty.” He said that public officials in California and Louisiana do not apply an international human rights framework to their analysis of the death pen-alty and that both states are in breach of internation-ally recognized standards. “The average lawyer might hear this information and feel despair or hopeless or helpless,” Warren said. “However the social justice lawyer looks not just at what is there, but for ways to move the facts and the law towards justice. That’s where you come in,” he said to the law students. “You must give your-self the authority to take the difficult steps to change that system from oppression to justice.”

C. Clyde Ferguson Jr. was a former dean of How-ard University School of Law. His dedication to hu-man rights issues has been recognized through an an-nual lecture at the law school since 1989. The Human Rights and Globalization Law Review (HRG) cospon-sored the 2013 program. Video of the full lecture by Vince Warren can be found on the Web site at www.law.howard.edu/1730.

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he law school held the tenth installment of the James M. Nabrit Jr. Lecture Series on April 9, 2014. The guest lecturers were Edith Ramirez,

Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (left) and Sherrilyn Ifill, President and General Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (right). Chairwoman Ramirez was appointed to the FTC by President Barack Obama in 2013. She spoke to the law school about how the FTC serves the pub-lic interest. President and Director Counsel Ifill is the

seventh president to serve the NAACP LDF, a posi-tion also held by Thurgood Marshall and Elaine Jones (pictured with Bill Robinson and Patricia Worthy). Ifill’s speech on the sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, addressed the need for continued education reform and progress. To learn more about the James M. Nabrit Jr. Lecture Series and to view video and photos from the event, please visit our Web site at www.law.howard.edu/1806.

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Tenth Annual Wiley A. Branton/Howard Law Journal SymposiumCivil Rights at a Critical Juncture: Confronting Old Conflicts and New Challenges

“Let me say this: Civil rights is at a critical juncture,” said keynote speaker Michael Eric Dyson. “Why? Because rights we thought were in-violable (and some elements of our rights certainly are), we also know they are vulnerable to rebuff because a Supreme Court can make a deci-sion about the application of that law in ways that we find problematic—consternating to be exact.”

he images and words of the civil rights era of the past are firmly ingrained in our

national conscience yet the fight for civil rights is far from over,” declared planners of the Tenth Annual Wiley A. Branton/How-ard Law Journal Symposium. “Civ-il rights has evolved from a focus solely on racial discrimination to encompass broader struggles and we must confront the old and the new challenges,” they said. The Symposium planners invited panels of experts and scholars to discuss immigrant rights, envi-ronmental justice, and affirmation action. They also invited in ex-perts to analyze the U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in rulings

T on relevant cases. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Un-der Law joined with Howard Law and other cosponsors for the tenth annual program. The Lawyers’ Committee’s history and record of fighting for civil rights and justice for 50 years brought valu-able insight and planning to the Symposium. Michael Eric Dyson, noted political analyst and pro-fessor of sociology, was keynote speaker. His speech and the pro-ceedings from the Symposium will be published in the Howard Law Journal’s spring 2014 edition. The complete video is available on the law school’s Web site at www.law.howard.edu/1748.

(Left to right) Daria E. Neal, Diane Glauber, Sheila Foster, and Patrice Simms participated on Defending the Right to Healthy Communities: Address-ing Environmental Justice as a Civil Rights Issue.

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON

(Left to right) Robert Kengle, Suzette Malveaux,

(unidentified guest), Nan Hunter, and John Brit-

tain participated on The Supreme Court panel Cert

Granted: Affirming Our Progress or Vacating Our

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IM M. KEENAN is the ninth General Counsel and Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People (NAACP). She serves as the chief advocacy and corporate counsel for the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the world. Prior to joining the NAACP, she was the principal of the Keenan Firm in Washington, DC, where her practice has focused on complex civil litigation, medical malpractice, mediation and arbitration, consulting, and public speaking. Prior to that, she served in the litigation practices of two nationally recognized law firms for more than eighteen years. Ms. Keenan is on the Lawyers of Color 2014 Power List as one of the nation’s most influential minority attorneys. The National Association of Women Lawyers will award her the M. Ashley Dickerson Diversity Award in July 2014. In November 2013, she received the Legacy Builder Award at the National Black Pre-Law Conference. She has been honored as a Washington, DC Super Lawyer and is recognized as a Top Lawyer by Washingtonian Magazine. She is a recognized national speaker on a variety of legal topics and has provided commentary for various networks. She is a Past President of the District of Columbia Bar, the second largest jurisdictional bar in the nation and a Past President of the National Bar Association (NBA), the nation’s oldest and largest association of lawyers of color in the world. Ms. Keenan is the 2012 recipient of the Diana P. Scott

Integrity in Action Award presented by the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig. In May 2011, she

received the Wiley A. Branton Award from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for her lifetime commitment to pro bono and civil rights. In 2010, the ABA Journal designated her “Legal Rebel” for her efforts to reshape the legal landscape. In May 2007, the Women’s Bar Association named her

“Woman Lawyer of the Year” for her contributions to the profession.

Her career demonstrates a strong commitment to important

issues affecting women and people of color,

public service, and improving the legal profession. Ms. Keenan served as the sixty-second President of the NBA. She is the first woman of the District of Columbia to be elected to this position and only the eighth woman in the organization’s eighty-nine year history to serve in the NBA’s highest elected office. During her tenure as President, the NBA deployed thousands of lawyers throughout the nation to educate voters regarding new voting laws. The Maryland Bar Foundation awarded her their Professional Legal Excellence Award for her national effort to provide nonpartisan voter education. She is also a Past President of the Washington Bar Association. Ms. Keenan uses teaching as an opportunity to mentor young professionals.

For over two decades she has served on the Senior Adjunct Faculty of George Washington University Law Center where she co-teaches Pretrial Advocacy and Trial Advocacy. For the past thirteen years, she has been the Civil Procedure Lecturer for the Charles Hamilton Houston Law Preparatory Course at Georgetown University Law Center. She is a nationally recognized lecturer on various legal topics and has spoken to numerous organizations including the NAACP, the National Urban League, AARP, and the National Education Association. She has spoken by invitation to the National ALA board and provided diversity training to its national staff as well as a national law firm. Ms. Keenan was a regularly featured “attorney” on the first season of Fox’s “Power of Attorney” television show. She has also appeared on “News One Now” on TV One, CNN, C-SPAN, Court TV, Fox News and numerous radio programs. Ms. Keenan’s commitment to the community extends beyond the legal profession. She is a member of the Capitol City Chapter of the Links, Inc. and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and is a member of the International Women’s Forum of Washington, DC and the Barristers. Kim M. Keenan is a native of Buffalo, New York. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia School of Law and a former member of the University of Virginia Law Alumni Council. After law school, she served as the law clerk to the Honorable John Garrett Penn in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Hooding Ceremony Keynote Speaker

Kim Michele KeenanGeneral Counsel and SecretaryNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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JURIS DOCTOR/MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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Alexis Parks Anderson

Liliane Bianca Bedford

Justin Bell

Breanna L. Bledsoe

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Kyle Alexander Brett

Crinesha T. Brooks

Saudiee M. Brown

Blair B. Burnett

Andrew B. Butler

Amanda Amelia Butler-Jones

Richard Taylor Carlton III

Anilu Chadwick

Sara Betti Chandler

Janelle Nicole Christian

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Sescily Reneé Coney

Simone C. Cope

Ashley C. Cross

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Darra Danielle Demps

China Dickerson

Dwight John Draughon, Jr.

Mario Michael Ecung II

Karen Agom Egbuna

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Nkechinyere Ogechi Ezekwe

Adrienne Janelle Ferrell

Tabitha Ferrer

Elizabeth Ward Fletcher

David R. Frazer

Joseph Allen Garmon

Nicole Elise George

Keith Omar Gilmore

Christen B’anca Glenn

Michael Steven Goode

Bianca Plair Goodman

Leslie I. Graham

Marita B. Grant

Trisha M. Grant

Noelle Sadé Green

Lena N. Halasa

Tamika Denise Hawkins

Carmel Henry

Ryan Maurice Hicks

Edward W. Hill, Jr.

Felecia Dora Hunter

David Huynh

Samir Mohammed Islam

Taylor Leigh Jackson

Douglas Jackson-Quzack

Erika A. James

Kenneth Neill Jefferson

Dayne R. Johnson

Amber Loraine Jordan

Parand Kashani

Christopher Ralph La Motte

Ashlee Nicole Lewis

Janeese Lewis

Benjamin M. Litchfield

Melissa Denice Nicole Lovell

Dierra Kashay Luckett

Meaghan B. Lynch

Christian Joy Maiden

Michael A. Makinde

Courtney N. Malden

Bianca Manns

Tiffany McClease

Louia Alexander Mcdonald II

Shannon L. McNeal

Heran Birnesh Medhin

Quinshala S. Melonson

Elliott Oneal Moody

Sasan Jonathan Najmi

Hannah Justine Newkirk

Obianuju Urewunwa Okasi

Diego Alfonso Ortega

Douglas A. Parks, Jr.

Casey Payton

Antonette Priscilla Price

Brian Neil Quarles II

Devin Justin Roberts

Nadia Nicole Roper

Durriyyah M. Rose

Hanim L. Samara

Ashley Cheree Sawyer

Carlos Michael Segarra

Sean Alexander Segears

Alana Danielle Sisnett

Candice Lolitta Smith

Saschane M. Stephenson

Fatimah J. Stokley

Vanessa Suzanne Tabler

Brandon T. Taylor

Jeremy D. Tinsley

Tiana Marie Towns

B. Nicole Triplett

Jaqueline N. Tucker

Cindy C. Unegbu

Sierra Monique Wallace

Irnise Fennell Williams

Geoffrey Thomas Witherspoon II

Lauren Alexandria Woodson

Lauren Lyndsie Wyatt

Howard University School of LawCongratulates the Class of 2014!

Note: Appearance of a name in this program is presumptive evidence of graduation, but it shall not be regarded as conclusive. The diploma of the University, signed and sealed by its proper officers, remains the official testimony of the possession of the degree.

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Howard Law Journal editors (l to r) Cadene Russell, Erika James, Brandon Mullings, and Richard Carlton hosted a re-ception for participants in the Tenth Annual Wiley A. Branton/Howard Law Journal Symposium last October. Alejandro T. Reyes and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia were participants on the immigration panel “Hidden Borders: Opportunities and Obstacles for Immigrants’ Rights.” Daria Neal (far right), an adjunct professor at the School of Law, served on the environmental justice panel and discussed defending the rights to healthy communities as a civil rights issue. The reception was held in the law library in honor of the tenth anniversary of the lecture series named for Wiley A. Branton, who served as dean of Howard Law School from 1978 to 1983.

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2014CRINESHA BROOKS will be clerking with Judge Jeanette Clark in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Ms. Brooks was a member of the Howard Law Journal and served as the executive publications editor for 2013-2014.

AMANDA BUTLER-JONES was the recipient of the Howard University School of Law Student of the Year award. She served as president of the Class of 2014 for two years. Ms. Butler-Jones was also editor-in-chief of the Human Rights & Globalization Law Review.

RICHARD T. CARLTON III published his Comment entitled “The Constitu-tion Versus Congress: Why Deference to Legislative Intent is Never an Exception to Double Jeopardy Protection,” in the Spring 2014 issue of the Howard Law Journal. Mr. Carlton served as executive solicitations and submissions editor of the Howard Law Journal for 2013-2014.

JANELLE N. CHRISTIAN served as the Howard Public Interest Law Society Benefit Auction Chair and helped the organization raise thousands of dollars toward its goal. She also received the Public Interest Student of the Year award and was a solicitations editor on the How-ard Law Journal.

MONIQUE SIMONE O.L. COBB was selected as finalists in the competitive and prestigious Presidential Management Fellows program.

DWIGHT J. DRAUGHON JR. pub-lished “The Need for a Parental Training Mandate in D.C.’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program to Close the Educational Achievement Gap,” in the Howard Law Journal’s Spring 2014 issue.

ADRIENNE J. FERRELL will be clerking at the Montgomery County Circuit Court.

TABITHA FERRER will be clerking with Judge George Daniels in the South-ern District of New York. Ms. Ferrer was a member of the Howard Law Journal and received the Wiley A. Branton Scholarship Award in 2012.

JOSEPH A. GARMON published his Comment “The Laws of the Past Versus the Medicine of Today: Eradicating the Criminalization of HIV/AIDS,” in the Spring 2014 issue of the Howard Law Journal.

CHRISTEN B’ANCA GLENN was the managing editor of the Howard Law Journal for the 2013-2014 term.

TRISHA M. GRANT, a member of the Howard Law Journal, was honored with the White & Case LLP Award for her Comment, “EPA’s Remedies for Federal Agency Compliance Under CERCLA: A Look at Judicial Enforcement,” which was published in the fall of 2013.

NOELLE S. GREEN will be clerking with Chief Judge Eric Washington of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Ms. Green also published an article in the Howard Law Journal entitled “A Tale of Three EULAs: Why Some End User Li-cense Agreements Should be Preempted by the Anticircumvention Provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.”

EDWARD W. HILL JR. served as presi-dent of the Student Bar Association for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years.

ERIKA A. JAMES served as the editor-in-chief of the Howard Law Journal for Volume 57. She also received a service award from the Office of Student Affairs.

DAYNE R. JOHNSON will be clerk-ing with Judge Ellen Koblitz in the New Jersey State Appellate Division, Jersey City. Mr. Johnson was a member of the Howard Law Journal from 2012 to 2014.

CHRISTIAN J. MAIDEN will be clerking with Judge Anita Laster Mays in the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District.

MICHAEL A. MAKINDE was the managing editor of the Human Rights & Globalization Law Review.

ELLIOT O. MOODY will be clerk-ing for various judges in the Portsmouth Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit of Virginia.

HANNAH J. NEWKIRK will be clerking with Judge Roger T. Benitez in the United States District Court in the Southern District of California. Ms. Newkirk was an articles editor on the Howard Law Journal.

DURRIYYAH M. ROSE will be clerking with Judge Herman Dawson in the Prince George’s County Circuit Court.

HANIM SAMARA received the L. Douglas Wilder Award for Academic Achievement.

ALANA D. SISNETT will be clerk-ing with Judge Gerald Council of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Mercer Vicinage.

SASCHANE M. STEPHENSON was selected as a finalist in the competitive and prestigious Presidential Management Fellows program.

B. NICOLE TRIPLETT will be clerking with Judge Bernice Donald of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for the 2015-2016 term.

CINDY UNEGBU published “National Security Surveillance on the Basis of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion: A Consti-tutional Misstep,” in the Fall 2013 issue of the Howard Law Journal.

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