2010-11 Student Awards & Prizes Order of the Coif David Ballew Daniel Buller Drew Cummings Alexander Fehr Lindsay Grise Brian Jansen Milos Jekic Kristen Koenen Chad Kyle Daniel Luppino Nathan Michel Evan North Heidi Nowotny Melissa Plunkett Jeffrey Pope Kurt Schaefer Carrie Skahan Erin Slinker Tomasic Zachery Wiggins
Mary Anne Chambers Service Award Danielle Muir
Walter Hiersteiner Outstanding Service Award Katie Bray Barnett
Robert C. Foulston and George Siefkin Prizes for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy Best Advocate: Rachel Sherck Finalists: Jared Holloway, Jill Moenius & Eddie Penner Best Brief: Evan Jarrold & Sean Foley Second-Place Brief: Rachel Sherck & Jared Holloway
Justice Lloyd Kagey Leadership Award Amanda Payton Samuel Mellinger Scholarship, Leadership, and Service Award Evan North Melissa Plunkett C.C. Stewart Award in Law Evan North Melissa Plunkett Robert F. Bennett Student Award Jay Kramer William L. Burdick Prize Trent Byquist Matthew O’Neill Jennifer Vogel
George Gary Duncan Scholastic Improvement Prize Alberto Gonzalez Faculty Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement Daniel Buller Erin Slinker Tomasic Alex Aguilera and Nithin Chillal
Family Fund Award Nathan Dayani Evan North
Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Roth Energy Law Award Daniel Buller Hinkle Elkouri Law Firm LLC Tax Procedure Award Drew Cummings Courtney Sipe W. Ross Hutton Legal Aid Award Timothy Olson Christina Perroni
Kansas Trial Lawyers Association Paul E. Wilson Advocacy Award Sam Schirer Larry R. O’Neal/Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP Law School Award Milos Jekic
Spring 2011: Brooke Brestel Joshua Carpenter Kimberly Condon Andrew Gross Steve Hengeli Jonathan Hines Douglas Keane Matthew O’Neill
Law Class of 1949 Award for Leadership Ellen O’Leary
Shapiro Award for Best Paper on Law & Public Policy Erik Rome
Janean Meigs Memorial Award in Law Nelson Slade Bond
Susman Godfrey Trial Advocacy Award Barbara Daymude
James P. Mize Trial Advocacy Award Bree Gorynski Samuel Schirer
UMB Bank Excellence in Trust Planning Award Zachery K. Wiggins
Payne & Jones Awards Fall 2010: Steven Hengeli Kyle Kitson Rachel Nelson Phillip Pemberton Jeffrey Pyle Katharine Sangha Daniel Shaw Kaitlin Smith
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