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2022 awards honor students, faculty, staff
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Each year, USC Gould academic programs and the Student Bar Association bestow distinguished awards to students and faculty for their exceptional abilities both in and out of the classroom. Congratulations to this year’s honorees.
William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award
- Rebecca Brown, The Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law
Class of 2022 JD Awards
C. David Molina First Generation Professionals Program Student of the Year
- Ravneet Purewal
Dean Dorothy Nelson Commemorative Prize
- Sophia Maline
Mason C. Brown Award
- Matthew Palmquist
Miller-Johnson Equal Justice Prize
- Danielle Wilkins
Edward & Eleanor Shattuck Awards
- Harrison Park
- Rebecca “Beckie” Alch
- Tomi Johnson
- Steven Perkins
- Brooke Kopel
- Christopher Pineda
DEI Fellowship Awards
- Dimiana Saad
- Leilani Stacy
- Jonathan “Chief” Coleman
- Christopher Pineda
Class of 2022 Graduate & International Programs Awards
- Amanda Guimarães
- Lorenzo Rovini
2021-2022 Student Bar Association Faculty and Staff of the Year Awards
Congratulations to the Student Bar Association Awards winners!
Staff Member of the Year
- Dave Dinh, Assistant Director, Project Management
- Rachel Kronick Rothbart, Director, Career Services
- Linda Richardson, Associate Director, Career Services
Adjunct Professor of the Year
- Natalie Kouyoumdjian, Lecturer in Law
Faculty Member of the Year
- Michael Chasalow, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Small Business Clinic
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