Rachel Dunaway and Ashleigh Mazerac, third-year students at Southern University Law Center, and Briana Leigh Drescher, a third-year student at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have been selected to receive the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation Scholarship.
This scholarship, which is jointly sponsored by the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Inc., and the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation, is awarded to an upper-class student on the basis of financial need, academic achievement, community service and exemplary character. Professor Gail S. Stephenson, past president of the Baton Rouge Bar Association, will present the scholarship checks to the SULC recipients Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, during the SULC Convocation.
Dunaway, who is from Pensacola, Fla., is the editor-in-chief of the Southern University Law Review. She is also Secretary for the 2015-2016 Moot Court Board and Chair of the Student Bar Association Bar Prep Committee with a focus on Common Law Bar Prep. She received B.A.s in psychology and legal studies from the University of West Florida. She interned for Judge James Brady in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana and for Chief Judge M. Casey Rodgers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Mazerac, who is from Hammond, is editor-in-chief of SULC's Journal of Race, Gender, & Poverty. She received a B.A. in political science from LSU. She has worked as a legal intern at the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.
Drescher, who is from Prairieville, La., has served as both the development editor and a junior associate of the Louisiana Law Review, and she serves as vice president of administrative affairs of the Moot Court Board. Drescher received B.A.s in political science and sociology from Louisiana State University.She currently is a law clerk for Johnson, Rahman, Thomas in Baton Rouge, and is a research assistant to Raymond Diamond at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center.