School of Law Alumni Awards
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Law Alumni Society Awards.
Recipients will be recognized at the Awards Dinner during Alumni Reunion Weekend on April 15th at 6:30 p.m. Individual tickets and Corporate tables are available for purchase. We hope you will join us in recognizing this year’s outstanding group of recipients.
View previous Law Alumni Society Award Winners →
Nominations
Commitment to Justice Award
Awarded to an alumnus/a who, through personal achievement and service to the law school, their community, and the legal profession, have brought honor and distinction to both themselves and the School of Law.
To be eligible*, nominee must:- be a University of Arkansas School of Law alumnus/a
- be 10 or more years post-graduation
* Current faculty/staff and Law Alumni Society Board Members are ineligible. Alumni currently in a position of elected or appointed government office or known to be launching a campaign are ineligible.
Commitment to Justice Early Career Award
Awarded to an alumnus/a who, through personal achievement and service to the law school, their community, and the legal profession, have brought honor and distinction to both themselves and the School of Law.
To be eligible*, nominee must
- be a University of Arkansas School of Law alumnus/a
- have graduated in the last nine years
* Current faculty/staff and Law Alumni Society Board Members are ineligible. Alumni currently in a position of elected or appointed government office or known to be launching a campaign are ineligible.
Career Champion Award
Awarded to a firm** or organization that has provided significant, consistent contributions toward the advancement of career services and student programming in one or more of the following ways:
- participates in career programming
- posts jobs or internships
- participates in on-campus interviewing
- regularly attends networking events
- hosts a networking event, sponsors academic programming or law school events
** Small and Large firms will be considered in separate categories:
Small firms (10 members or less)
Large firms (11 members or more)
Public Service Award
Awarded to an alumnus/a who has brought honor and distinction to both themselves and the School of Law through a career or role in public service.
To be eligible*, nominee must:
- be a University of Arkansas School of Law alumnus/a
* Current faculty/staff and Law Alumni Society Board Members are ineligible.
Alumni currently known to be launching an election campaign are ineligible.
Veterans Award
Awarded to an alumnus/a who has served in the United States Armed Forces and who has made a positive impact on his/her local, national, international community; fellow veterans or veteran organizations; the legal profession; or the University of Arkansas School of Law.
To be eligible*, nominee must:
- be a University of Arkansas School of Law alumnus/a
- must be a person who served in the military, and who received an honorable discharge. Please reference the military service that qualifies the nominee for the Veteran’s Award for Distinguished Service.
* Current faculty/staff and Law Alumni Society Board Members are ineligible. Alumni currently known to be launching a campaign are ineligible.
Gayle Pettus Pontz Award
Women's Law Student Association chooses an annual honoree based the following criteria: a female graduate or a woman with connections to the local legal community who best represents the accomplishments of women and the legal community as a whole and who promotes WLSA's objectives of helping women thrive in law school, creating a community that will raise awareness of women's issues and advancing women in the legal profession.