Each spring the Mithoff Program recognizes students who excel in their commitment to pro bono service. The Mithoff Program’s Pro Bono Awards include:
- Pro Bono Beacons: Recognizes the students in each Texas Law class who have donated the most hours of pro bono service.
- Pro Bono Torchbearers: Recognizes graduating students who have donated 100 or more hours of pro bono service.
- Pro Bono Honors: Recognizes graduating students who have fulfilled their Pro Bono Pledge.
1L and 2L students who’ve met their pro bono benchmarks also are recognized at the annual pro bono awards event. For a full list of Honorees click on the link below.
2024 Pro Bono Award Honorees
Beacons
Students in each Texas Law Class who have donated the most hours of pro bono service.
LLM
Alma Blücher
Kensuke Oki
1L
Shelby Alexander
MaKenna McGraw
Sean Steck
2L
Lizeth Badillo Garcia
Laura Cox
Rohit Pappu
3L
Aiden Berdahl
Makenzie Grace Stuard
Courtney Weber
Pro Bono Honors
3Ls who have fulfilled the 50-hour pro bono pledge
(Torchbearers with 100 or more hours of service are starred)
Alex Alberty*
Priyanka Alexander
Meredith Anderson
Hana Arriaga
Justin Atkinson
Amelia Austern*
Jamie Bang
Eliza Batty
Hope Bauman
Natalie Bayer
Anna Benedict
Aiden Berdahl*
Aiden Bertrand
Kristal Bird
Alma Bluecher
Maddy Bolger*
Monica Brown
Emani Brown*
Helena Burns*
Alexa Bussmann*
Andrew Cahalan*
Karolyne Carloss
Erin Ceballos
Sarah Chavey
Ale Chavira
Jean Choi
Nina Colombotos*
Cassie Cox
Catherine Cozzolino
Tyler Crews
Mark Csoros
Alexandra Curren
Megan Day
Julie De La Rosa
Thomasina Deering*
Madison DeLuca*
Amaris Diaz
Zoe Dobkin
Julia Draper
Arielle Dutton
Emily Eagle*
Emma Edmund
Derek Ficenec*
Yael Fisher*
Montgomery Flores*
Savannah Francis
Will Gaines*
Danielle Garcia
Araceli Garcia*
Sarah Gaucher
Sherin George
Charles Gibson*
Erika Gonzalez
Julia Greer*
Thomas Grist
Emily Gustafson
Chaudhry Hameed*
Timothy Harris*
Elizabeth Hartzell
Nicholas Heflin
Klara Henry
Abby Hermes*
Skylar Holland
Caleb Horn
Kelly Katherine Howe
Jordan Hyden
Fatima Jamal*
Matthew Jeon
Saheel Junaghare*
Pooja Kanabur
Brighten Kaufman
Mary Kellam
Urub Khawaja*
Ian Koster*
Ritika Kumar*
Fon Kunanusorn
Tran Le*
Ian Lee*
Katherine Lewis
Candice Liang*
Caroline Livingston
Sarah Luckey Clifford
Molly Mahowald
Nikola Marcich
Ken Markert
Jessica Martinez
Michelle Martinez
Hannah Masraff
Sara McCann*
Zack McConnell*
Alexandra McIntosh*
Nikita Mhatre
Elizabeth Mims
Kalyn Mizelle
Emily Morris
Ryan Murray
Michelle Nguyen*
Luke Norrell
Hiromi Oka
Kensuke Oki
Liv Pacheco*
Gabin Park
Caroline Peck
Rachel Perry
Mitchell Petersen*
Julia Pfau
Sarah Prentice*
Yuyan Pu*
Zhizhen Qin
Ellie Ratliff
Nina Reed*
Scott Riegel
Jordee Rodriguez*
Kyler Rose*
Samantha Rosen*
Kate Rosenow*
Yusra Salama*
Mark Scheldberg*
Kiersten Schneider
Lauren Schoen
Taylor Scott
Stephen See*
Tyler Sekunda
Tessa Slagle
Kyle Sledge
Ainsley Slusher
Carson Smith
Choa Song
Katlyn Stockslager
Makenzie Stuard*
Priya Subramanian
Vannevar Taylor
Allison Taylor*
Queen Thomas
Crystal Tran
Liam Underwood*
Elise Unger
Kiara Vaughters*
Courtney Weber*
Hannah Wei
Alison Welch
Tori Weston
Taryn Willett
Eleanor Withers
Michelle Wolff
Allison Yang
Jay Yoon
Andy Yuan
Past Honorees