REGULARS

SERVICE AWARDS

Since 1991, the foundation has distributed more than $1 million in grants and scholarships, aiding both law school students and community legal programs in California.

Dorothy Tucker, chair of the foundation's scholarship committee, called the recipients "future lawyers who are interested in public service."

This year's scholarship winners are:

Northern California

Kathleen Boyle: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Hastings College of Law; graduate of Univers-ity of California, Santa Barbara. Credentials include, law clerk for California Indian Legal Services; volunteer advocate for General Assistance Advocacy Clinic advising clients on their rights to general assistance, food stamps and Social Security programs; Peace Corps, hillside agricultural extensionist, Yamaranguila, Intibuca, Honduras; researched health, social and economic conditions for Direct Relief International, a disaster relief agency.

Amy Cheung: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Hastings College of Law; graduate of University of California, Berkeley. Credentials include, law clerk for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, and Asian Law Caucus; created and implemented curriculum for educational program for inner-city children for the Oakland Urban Program; volunteered with Chinese for Affirmative Action, San Francisco, and Asian Community Immigration Clinic, Berkeley.

Anita Chorney: Candidate for JD degree, Monterey College of Law; graduate of University of West Los Angeles. Credentials include being a member of the District Attorney Sexual Assault Team, County of Monterey; certified sexual assault counselor, volunteer, Monterey Rape Crisis Center; volunteered free monthly educational outreach for low to moderate income families seeking home ownership.

Elizabeth V. Coleman: Candidate for JD degree, San Francisco Law School; graduate of Golden Gate University, San Francisco. Credentials include, Sunday school teacher, McGee Avenue Baptist Church, Berkeley; president, Black Law Students' Association; editor-in-chief, San Francisco Law Review; Regional Moot Court Coordinator, National Black Law Students Association; authored "Congress v. Supreme Court: The Battle for Religious Liberty," 1997.

Janine Heiner: Candidate for JD degree, New College of California School of Law; graduate of Shasta College, Redding. Credentials include, founder and editor-in-chief of New College of California Journal of Public Interest Law; tutor, Legal Skills Resource Center; concessions coordinator for the Gulf Coast Women's Festival staged to raise funds for the purchase of land which became known as Camp Sister Spirit; Registration Center Manager, North East Women's Musical Retreat; volunteer contributing writer, Amazon Times.

Tamiza Hockenhull: Candidate for JD degree, Golden Gate University School of Law; graduate of University of California, Berkeley. Credentials include, team member for the ABA's National Moot Court Competition 1998; with the San Francisco District Attorney's office, mediated disputes between unsatisfied consumers and businesses; tutored students with special needs in the New Haven Unified School District; mentor to African-American youth and work with the elderly.

Ina Holman: Candidate for JD degree, New College of California School of Law; graduate of California State University, Hayward. Credentials include serving as president of Creative Educational Consultants, a nonprofit organization that provides supplemental hands-on curriculum emphasizing math and science to minority students; volunteer tutor, Back on Track Afterschool Tutorial Program, San Francisco; volunteer board member, Berkeley Art Center; volunteer board member, World Affairs Council, Oakland Steering Committee.

Jinny Kim: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Davis School of Law; graduate of University of California, Berkeley. Credentials include, intern at U.C. Davis Immigration Clinic; volunteer for The Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center, Woodland Hills; volunteer, The Asian Law Caucas; legal assistant, Disability Rights Advocates, Oakland; research editor, Journal of International Law and Policy.

Katrina McIntosh: Candidate for JD degree, Stanford Law School; graduate, Wesleyan University. Credentials include her service as a legal intern for Legal Services for Children; volunteer teacher to detained youth at Santa Clara County Juvenile Detention Center; "Senior Friend" to a 10-year-old boy through Friends for Youth, Redwood City; advocate at East Palo Alto Community Law Project working with displaced tenants resulting from a city redevelopment project.

Naomi Meyer: Candidate for JD degree, Boalt School of Law; graduate of Harvard University. Credentials include, law clerk with Berkeley Community Law Center providing free legal services to welfare recipients, and serves as co-director of the Center's HIV & Homeless Outreach Project; public policy intern, Corporation for Supportive Housing; volunteer tutor, Rockville Jewish Community Center.

Laurie Mitchell: Candidate for JD degree, San Joaquin College of Law; graduate of California State University, Fresno (master's degree in criminology). Credentials include, vice-chairperson, Death Penalty Focus, coordinating public education programs opposing the death penalty; mediator, Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, facilitating meetings between crime victims and juvenile offenders.

Sue Park: Candidate for JD degree, Boalt School of Law; graduate of University of California, San Diego. Credentials include, law clerk for Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights preparing legal memoranda on issues such as race, immigration, affirmative action and poverty; law clerk, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund; bilingual teacher, Teach for America at Holmes Avenue Elementary School, Los Angeles; delegate, United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, NGO Forum, China.

Suma Peesapati: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Hastings College of Law; graduate of University of California, Berkeley; and University Michel de Montaigne, France. Credentials include, articles editor with the Hastings Women's Law Journal; legal intern with Communities for a Better Environment; while with the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment, worked with MAC, a Latino community to oppose the storage of toxics adjacent to an elementary school, and met with the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe to assist in its struggle to preserve its ancient burial sites near Death Valley; volunteer for hate crime hotline.

Selena Ong Poon: Candidate for JD degree, Santa Clara University Law School; graduate of University of Cali-fornia, Santa Cruz. Credentials include, intern with Asian Law Alliance, San Jose, providing direct legal services to low-income Asian immigrants; counselor with South Bay Workers Rights Clinic, San Jose; volunteer, Personal Management Association of Aztlan, promoting the organization's mentorship program, services and fund-raisers; victim advocate, Women's Crisis Support & Shelter Services, Santa Cruz.

Anthony Prince: Candidate for JD degree, New College of California School of Law; graduate of Roosevelt University, Chicago. Credentials include serving on Community Relations Commission, Education Sub-Committee and Homeless Issues Task Force in Illinois; chaired the Plant Safety Committee, United States Steelworkers Local #65, Chicago; chaired the South Chicago/South Shore Neighborhood Forum; current member of "Voices for a New America," sponsored by People's Tribune Speakers Bureau, speaking in prisons, radio, and schools on criminal justice and police accountability.

Melissa Scanlan: Candidate for JD degree, Boalt School of Law; graduate of University of California, Berkeley. Credentials include, pro bono legal researcher, Sierra Club; volunteer tutor, Quest, Washington, D.C.; authored "The End of Welfare and Constitutional Protections for the Poor," 13 Berkeley Women's Law Journal; legal extern, National Resources Defense Council, San Francisco.

Gail Silverstein: Candidate for JD degree, Boalt School of Law; graduate of University of Michigan. Credentials include, Prosser Prize recipient, International Human Rights 1997; board member, Berkeley Community Law Center; law clerk, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago; law clerk and co-director of Law Student Volunteer Opportunities, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant; volunteer, National Organiza-tion for Women, Washington, D.C.

Lena Kae Sims: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Davis School of Law; graduate of California State University, Sacramento. Credentials include, copy editor, Environs Journal of Environmental Law and Policy; reading and writing instructor, Sacramento Job Corps; GED instructor, California Conservation Corps; negotiator/organizer, California Federation of Teachers, Local #4986.

Pamela Vincent: Candidate for JD degree, San Francisco Law School; graduate of California State University, Hayward. Credentials include, volunteer computer teacher at Clarendon Elementary School; volunteer at Nihonmachi Little Friends Day Care Center; organized benefit concert for World Hunger Campaign and managed petition drive for CalPIRG; through Crestline Community Mental Health Association, created an independent school program for troubled teenagers as an alternative to locked facilities.

Nicole Wesley: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Hastings College of Law; graduate of Grinnell College. Credentials include work with the National Economic Development and Law Center; Chinatown Community Development Center; American Civil Liberties Union; Iowa Civil Rights Commission; and Project Los Amigos in Atandajua, Ecuador as a public health worker.

Wendi Wrinkle: Candidate for JD degree, San Francisco Law School; graduate of Saint Mary's College of California. Credentials include, lay volunteer for Missionaries of Charity, Lima, Peru, caring for mentally and physically handicapped children at an orphanage established by Mother Teresa; educated immigrants and delivered meals to homeless drug users and HIV-infected prostitutes through Domestic Peace Corps at Highbridge Community Life Center, South Bronx, New York; homeless advocate, People's Park, Berkeley.

Southern California

Elizabeth M. Brown: Candidate for JD degree, California Western School of Law, San Diego; graduate of University of California, Berkeley. Credentials include, president, Public Interest Law Foundation; volunteer, Domestic Violence Clinic, San Diego; San Francisco court-appointed special advocate, working with children taken from their homes and placed in foster care; volunteer, Meals on Wheels (for AIDS patients).

Victoria Donovan: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law; graduate of University of Washington and San Diego State University. Credentials include, volunteer, Los Angeles County Public Defender; volunteer, The Children's Alliance; crisis intervention and counseling for homeless teens, University District Youth Center, Seattle; volunteer, Buddy Program, AIDS Foundation of San Diego.

Mark T. Gardner: Candidate for JD degree, California Western School of Law, San Diego; graduate of University of Maryland. Credentials include, former law enforcement officer, City of Takoma Park, Md. (sergeant, DARE officer, youth officer, patrol officer); nominated Officer of the Year 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994; Maryland's Governor's Award for Annual Adult/Youth Retreat, for the education and reduction of kids in criminal activities; organized annual "COPS v. KIDS" sports events and talent shows.

Kimberly Leone: Candidate for JD degree, University of Southern California Law School; graduate of University of Southern California. Credentials include, chairman, Project Pears, developed nonprofit organization to assist economically disadvantaged high school juniors; Le Boeuf Scholar, taught Constitutional law and legal concepts to seniors at Manual Arts High School; board member, Pat McCormick Educational Foundation, tutoring high school students.

Nicole Quintana: Candidate for JD degree, University of Southern Califor-nia Law School; graduate of University of California, Davis. Credentials include, law clerk, Consumer Law Project for Public Counsel Law Center, Los Angeles; volunteer advocate, Homeless Veterans and Homeless Legal Clinics; president, Public Interest Law Foundation; La Raza Student Organization member; volunteer teacher, street law, Public Interest High School Education Program.

Devon Reed: Candidate for JD degree, California Western School of Law, San Diego; graduate of San Diego State University. Credentials include, law clerk, California Indian Legal Services; family advocate, Ahmium Education Inc., assisting in coordinating youth group events, education, mentoring and tutoring; coordinator, American Indian Recruitment Program; teachers assistant, Barona Culture Camp, teaching Indian youth.

Claudia Ramirez: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law; graduate of Cornell University. Credentials include, law clerk, Central American Resource Center; law clerk, Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice; associate editor, The Chicano/Latino Law Review; co-founder of Local Chapter, Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Senoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority.

Nicole Reyes: Candidate for JD degree, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law; graduate of Brown University. Credentials include, youth and Latino outreach, Democratic National Committee; program administrator and teacher, Summerbridge Fort Worth and Summerbridge Kansas City; Women's Group Sponsor, Barrios Unidos, a nonprofit organization that promotes gang redirection in the Latino communities; policy intern, Rhode Island Campaign to Eliminate Childhood Poverty.

Desiree Sagray: Candidate for JD degree, University of Southern Califor-nia Law School; graduate of University of Southern California. Credentials include, scribe, Antelope Valley College, taking and typing notes for deaf students; volunteer, Mental Health Advocacy Services, Barristers Domes-tic Violence Project.

Joel Spence: Candidate for JD degree, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa; graduate of University of Kansas. Credentials include, volunteer, Human Resources Council of Orange County; law clerk, Legal Aid Society of Orange County; president, Mercies Unlimited, Inc.; rehabilitation officer, Community Development Programs.

Cindy Stoneberg: Candidate for JD degree, University of San Diego School of Law; graduate of Indiana University. Credentials include missionary work in Africa; chairperson of the board of directors, Pro Bono Legal Advocates; agency intern, Environmental Health Coalition; mentor, working with youth on the fringe, Garfield High School, San Diego.