School of Law Alumni Awards
Previous Award Recipients
Commitment to Justice Award
Bobby E. Shepherd (J.D. '76) - 2026
James Wyly (J.D. ’90) – 2024
Rodney Slater (J.D.’80) and Christy Jones (J.D.’77) – 2023
Lonnie Powers (J.D. ’70) – 2022
Morris Arnold (J.D. ’68) – 2021
Alex Guynn (J.D. ’05) – 2020
Early Career Award
Chris Hussein (J.D. '17) - 2026
Kevin Flores (J.D. ’19) – 2024
Dequeshia Prude-Wheeler (J.D.’17) – 2023
KenDrell Collins (J.D. ’18) – 2022
Dalton Person (J.D. ’16) – 2022
Alayna Farris (J.D. ’16) -2021
Nathan Bogart (J.D. 10) – 2020
Veterans Award
Col. (Ret.) Jane Ellen Paschall (J.D. '90) - 2026
Commander Ellis Lamar Pettus (J.D. '74) – 2024
Melissa Lee (J.D.’99) – 2023
Col. Conley Meredith (J.D. ’70) – 2022
Public Service Award
Jason Bailey (J.D. '15) - 2026
Keri Spencer (J.D. '04) – 2024
Hope Goins (J.D.’06) – 2023
Autumn Tolbert (J.D. ’06) - 2022
Kandice Bell (J.D. ’97) - 2021
Career Champion Large Firm Award
Friday Eldredge & Clark, LLP
Wright Lindsey Jennings, LLP – 2024
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, LLC – 2023
Rose Law Firm – 2022
Kutak Rock LLP – 2021
Walmart Legal Team – 2020
Career Champion Small Firm Award
Mostyn Prettyman, PLLC – 2024
Odom Law Firm – 2023
The Law Group of Northwest Arkansas – 2022
Smith Hurst PLC - 2021
Gayle Pettus Pontz Award
2024: Antoinette Barksdale (J.D. '89)2023: Magistrate Judge Christy Comstock (J.D. '92)
2022: Leana Houston (J.D. '93)
2021: Amy Tu (J.D. '96)
2020: Christy Jones (J.D. ‘77)
2019: Karen Roberts (J.D. ’95)
2018: Regina Hopper (J.D. ’85)
2017: Dina Wood (J.D. ’88)
2016: Connie Lewis Lensing (J.D. ’77)
2015: Teresa Fette (J.D. ’05)
2014: Courtney Hudson Goodson (J.D. ’97)
2013: Susan Webber Wright (J.D. ’75)
2012: Cynthia Nance
2011: Debbie Dudley Branson (J.D. ’80)
2010: Donna Pettus (J.D. ’83)
2002: Mary Beth Matthews (J.D. ’78)
1996: Andree Roaf
1995: Carolyn Witherspoon
1994: Paula Casey (J.D. ’77)
1993: Annabelle Clinton Imber (’77)
1992: Sharon Bernard
1990: Kathlyn Graves
1989: Hillary Rodham Clinton
1988: Mary Davies Scott
1987: Judith Rogers
1986: Elsijane Trimble Roy (J.D. ’78)
1985: Gayle Pettus Pontz (LL.B. ’37)