The University of Arkansas School of Law, in conjunction with the Women's Law Student Association, hosts a reception each spring for the winner of the Gayle Pettus Pontz Award. WLSA 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.

Previous winners include:

• 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
• 1991: Sandra Wilson Cherry (J.D. ’75)
• 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)