ND Law Students Honored at 2017 Commencement Activities
Notre Dame Law School honored graduating students from the Class of 2017 this past weekend during Commencement activities.
Three women from the Class of 2017 earned the Law School’s most-prestigious awards, which were announced during the Law School’s Commencement Ceremony on Saturday at the Joyce Center.
Margaret Mary Adema received the Col. William J. Hoynes Award – the Law School’s highest honor. The award is named after Notre Dame Law School’s first dean and is given to a member of the graduating class for outstanding scholarship, application, deportment, and achievement.
Audrey A. Beck is this year’s Dean Joseph O’Meara Award recipient. The award, established by the Class of 1964, is presented annually to a member of the graduating class for outstanding academic achievement.
Alexa Rae Baltes was given the Farabaugh Prize for high scholarship in law. The award was established by Gallitzin A. Farabaugh, a South Bend attorney.
On Friday afternoon, more than 150 students were recognized during the Law School’s annual Awards Ceremony at Washington Hall. Students received awards for academic performance and service to Notre Dame and the community.
The honorees and their awards are:
Kaitlin Abrams
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- American Bar Association and Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law
Anthony Acciaioli
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Advanced Legal Research – State, County, Municipal
Kyle Adams
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Constitutional Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: International Organizations
Margaret Adema
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Criminal Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Torts
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Property
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research and Writing II
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Constitutional Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
- Faculty Award for Excellence: EU Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Freedom of Speech
- Col. William J. Hoynes Award
Kathleen Allare
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Torts
Lojain Almouallimi
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Mediation Training Certificate
Jonathan Altstadter
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Krystal Alvarez
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Steven Baldwin
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Business Basics for Attorneys
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Advanced Legal Research
- American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education Scholarship & Leadership Award
Samuel Ballingrud
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Mutual Fund Regulation
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Jurisprudence
Katherine Ballou
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- Edward F. Barrett Award for Trial Advocacy
- American Association for Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition Best Advocate
Alexa Baltes
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Federal Courts
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Appellate Advocacy Seminar
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Statutory Interpretation
- American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education Scholarship & Leadership Award
- Farabaugh Prize
Miguel Barboza Lopez
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Audrey Beck
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Contracts
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Environmental Law
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Public Law
- Dean Joseph O’Meara Award
Joseph Beglane
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Adriano Bordone Consentino
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Payment Systems
Michael Bosco
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Seth Bostrom
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Maria Bourdeau
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Not-for-Profit Organizations
Sean Brady
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Human Trafficking
- Faculty Award for Excellence: The Freedom of Speech
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Jurisprudence
Ariell Bratton
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- American Bar Association and Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law
Daniel Bross
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Constitutional Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Business Associations
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Early American Constitutional History
Stephanie Bruns
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Avery Burns
- Mediation Training Certificate
Patrick Button
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Law & Morality – Contemporary Jurisprudence
Elizabeth Carney
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Business Associations
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- Mediation Training Certificate
Robert Cave
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Sports Law Seminar
Jason Chrestionson
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Advanced Legal Research
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Information Technology Law
- Jessup International Moot Court Award
Grace Chung
- Faculty Award for Excellence: The Social, Political, and Legal Thought of Aquinas
Carlos Cisneros Vilchis
- Peter Lardy Memorial Fellowship
Matthew Ciulla
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Torts
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Criminal Adjudication
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Information Technology
Sara Cloon
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Federal Indian Law
Gaelle Colas
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Bankruptcy
David Coppola
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Stephen Cord
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Ruth Cormican
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: International Environmental Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
Leigha Crout
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Charles Davis
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Professional Responsibility
- Mediation Training Certificate
Megan Davis
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Criminal and Forensic Evidence
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Energy Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Evidence
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Trial Advocacy
- Mediation Training Certificate
Ciara Dineen
- Jessup International Moot Court Award
Christina Dines
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legislation and Regulation
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Advanced Legal Research – State, County, Municipal
- American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education Scholarship & Leadership Award
- Mediation Training Certificate
John Drosick
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Trial Advocacy
James Eckhart
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research
Brittany Ehardt
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research and Writing II
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Civil Rights Law
- A. Harold Weber Moot Court Awards
Mayra Estrada
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Personal Injury Litigation
- Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Student Award
Ryan Evans
- Faculty Award for Excellence: National Security Law
Timothy Farina
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Bankruptcy
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Business Law
Young Fei
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Jurisprudence
John Felker
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Eliott Fitch
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Katherine Fitzgerald
- Faculty Award for Excellence: International Criminal Law
Kevin Foltmer
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Katherine Forbes
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- Jon E. Krupnick Award for Trial Advocacy
Leah Fuessel
- Jon E. Krupnick Award for Trial Advocacy
Liam Gallagher
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Bankruptcy
Michael Gallagher
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Negotiations
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Advanced Legal Research
Raul Garcia
- Jon E. Krupnick Award for Trial Advocacy
Michael Gardella
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Real Estate Transactions
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Federal Income Tax
Katherine Garland
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Christopher George
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
Farris Gillman
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Natural Resources Law
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Land Use, Energy, and Environmental Law
Rasheed Gilmer
- David T. Link Award
Elizabeth Glowacki
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Taxation of Business Enterprises
Sara Gordon
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Jessup International Moot Court Award
Nicholas Grace
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Warren Griffin
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research and Writing II
- Faculty Award for Excellence: National Security Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Courtroom Evidence
- Arthur A. May Award for Trial Advocacy
Alan Grigorian
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Personal Injury Litigation
- Faculty Award for Excellence: English Legal Systems
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Transnational Civil Litigation
Patrick Grimmer
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
Laura Habein
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Property
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Judicial Process Seminar
Andrew Hagler
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Steven Harrison
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Antitrust Law
Charles Harting
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research and Writing II
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Analytical Methods
Miracle Haynes
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dwight King Service Award
- Mediation Training Certificate
Alyssa Hughes
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Federal Criminal Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Plea Bargaining
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Criminal Law
Chase Hundman
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Alexandra Iorio
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Law of Education
- Mediation Training Certificate
Jasmine Johnson
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Esha Kamboj
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Ena Kaur
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Hans Kessler
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
Samantha Kingman
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Secured Transactions
Kelly Krapf
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Mediation Training Certificate
Anthony Kroese
- Capt. William O. McLean Law School Community Citizenship Award
- H. King Williams Memorial Award
Eric Krupa
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Lauren Kuehn
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Jessup International Moot Court Award
Yvonne Kupfermann
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
Kelly LaForge
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Lea Lemay Langlois
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Gender Issues and International Law
Vincenzo Leone
- Mediation Training Certificate
Henry Lifton
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
Emily Logue
- Jessup International Moot Court Award
Holly Lucas
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Alexis Maguina
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Dean Konop Legal Aid Award
Conor Maloney
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Civil Rights Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Freedom of Religion
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy
Brian Mauldin
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Mediation Training Certificate
Kyle Maury
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
- William T. Kirby Award for Legal Writing
Sean McAuliffe
- Faculty Award for Excellence: International Law
- A. Harold Weber Moot Court Awards
Thomas McHugh
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Lauren Mendoza
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Lawyers in Film
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
Michael Mercurio
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Advanced Legal Research – State, County, Municipal
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Global Law
- American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education Scholarship & Leadership Award
Christina Milanese
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- Faculty Award for Excellence: English Legal System
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Public International Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Judicial Process
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Design Law
- American Bar Association and Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law
- A. Harold Weber Moot Court Awards
Carlene Miller
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Evidence
Steven Miller
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Federal Criminal Practice
Anna Mitros
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Carlos Morrow
- Mediation Training Certificate
Caroline Nelson
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
Rebekah Newman
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Trusts and Estates
Ashley Nicholas
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Antitrust Law
David Norton
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Lauren Nottoli
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Administrative Law
- Capt. William O. McLean Law School Community Citizenship Award
- Judge Joseph E. Mahoney Award
Johanna Oh
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Social, Political & Legal Thought of Shakespeare
- Mediation Training Certificate
Edgar Ortega Franco
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Comparative Constitutional Law
Joseph Patterson
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
Matthew Perez
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Alyssa Phillips
- Conrad Kellenberg Award
Gabriel Phillips
- American Bar Association and Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor and Employment Law
Brandon Polcik
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Telecommunication Law
Tommy Postek
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Diana Rabbani
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Lauren Rafter
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Kevin Regan
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Corporate Governance
Robert Reilly
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Contracts
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Civil Procedure
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Antitrust Law
Lowell Ritter
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Property
- American Bar Association and Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor and Employment Law
Alexandra Roberts
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Corporate Governance
Thomas Roman
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research
Elizabeth Rowe
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
Toufic Saati
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Research and Writing II
Angelica Sanchez Vega
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Business Associations
Nicholas Schilling
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Freedom of Religion
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Information Privacy
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Election Law
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Bioethics & the Law
- American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education Scholarship & Leadership Award
- A. Harold Weber Moot Court Awards
Jeffrey Schmidt
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: International Intellectual Property
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Water Law
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Study in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
- A. Harold Weber Moot Court Awards
Allison Schten
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Protection of Cultural Heritage
James Schwabe
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Swathi Shankar
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: International Tax
Lauren Shumate
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- A. Harold Weber Moot Court Awards
Mollie Slinker
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
Dehmeh Smith
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Mediation Training Certificate
Riley Smith
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: English Legal History
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Business Associations
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Jurisprudence
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
Theodore Stevenson
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Legal Writing I
- A. Harold Weber Award for Legal Writing
John Swinney
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intensive Trial Advocacy
- Whitton Prizefor Excellence in Labor Law
Curtis Tate
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Ian Thresher
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Mediation Training Certificate
David Toner
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Christopher Vasquez
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Guillermo Villa Trueba
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Marissa Wahl
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
Matthew Wesley
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Deposition Skills
- Joseph Ciraolo Memorial Award
- American Bar Association and Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor and Employment Law
Allison Whip
- Dean’s Honor Roll
Kate Whiteman
- Mediation Training Certificate
David Wilhelmsen
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Land Use Planning
Michael Wyszkowski
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Intellectual Property Law Survey
Michael Xavier
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Patent Litigation
Seth Yarkony
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Advanced Legal Research
Jennifer Ybarra
- Dean’s Honor Roll
- Dean’s Circle Fellow
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Trusts and Estates
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Securities Regulation
Deyan Zeng
- Faculty Award for Excellence: Introduction to the American Legal System